Board Thread:The Spiral/@comment-1674153-20140915033501/@comment-1674153-20140915080451

Thank you.

However, as I ruminate more and more on artifact creation, the movement of energy, karma, and other metaphysical thoughts, I realize that the downsides of artifact effects are really only the equal and opposite reaction of the universe. The energy of the user pushes, the universe pulls, with the artifact as the conduit or nexus of the two forces.

Entropy is the idea that atoms are continually breaking apart, energy is forever being released. It actually takes more energy to cool something, to bond the atoms, than it takes to heat them up and make the atoms separate from each other. When an artifact has an "upside," it typically means the artifact must reverse entropy. It's like pulling on an elastic band - the change will occur, but eventually the energy will snap back. The "downside" is the snapback on the energy the user put into the conduit, the artifact.

Artifacts that have no "upside" but are destructive in nature have no snapback because the energy the person puts into them is a catalyst for a reaction that entropy was looking for. The only downside to these artifacts, if anything, is the power play people get when they use them.

There are also transitional artifacts, which move the energy the user has from one source to another. These will not have downsides unless the energy movement goes against the gradient of entropy.

My point is, however, that I'm tired and I wanted to talk about artifact creation, and that as it stands the second option has very little equality in energy give-and-take.