Delver Apk Free Download
Mavis Mcclory
There's an interesting interaction between Mishra's Bauble and Delver of Secrets. If you play delver and Bauble on turn 1, you can wait until your opponent's turn to crack targeting yourself. Then with stacking triggers you can draw off Bauble first or reveal to delver first, giving you a free scry.
Although, it does present some problems. It would mean that Reckoners would have to take place in the Cytoverse, which also involves Earth. And you'd think that they would mention extraterrestrial life or cytonic abilities in Reckoners if that were the case, or the event of Calamity and people with superpowers in Skyward. Also, of course, why doesn't Calamity appear in traditional delver form.
The delvers, sometimes called the eyes, are ancient, extra-dimensional beings that live in the nowhere, the space beyond the world utilized by numerous cytonic abilities.[1][2][3] They can occasionally emerge into the physical space, where they pose major threat to all living beings.[3]
The appearance of delver eyes is preceded and accompanied by a pleasant sound, akin to a thousand musical notes playing together in harmony; similar to the sound of FTL communications to cytonics. It grows louder the closer one is to seeing them.[8][4]
When sufficiently antagonized by cytonics, delvers can appear in the real space. The emergence begins as a distortion in reality from which everything manifests. First is the appearance of the core, or the heart, which takes the form of a sphere of pure black. Afterwards the delver maze grows around it -- a confusing, seemingly-random array of dark, hollow spires jutting out in various directions, connecting together to form a network of traversible tunnels. Finally, the delver maze is enveloped by a dense cloud of particulate dust, filled with raging storms and many-colored lightning.[9]
A fully manifested delver is titanic in scale, enough so to have its own gravitational pull. The one summoned by Brade is somewhere between a massive moon and a small planet, while the one called over Detritus in ancient past was capable of enveloping the entirety of the planet.[9][3]
The inside of a delver is extremely chaotic, with the particulate cloud in a state of perpetual storm, crippling both vision and communications. Any person that enters the maze will start to hallucinate, seeing passages and objects that aren't there. The hallucinations are different for every person -- as such, they are generally ineffective against groups capable of coordination, or dione drafts.[10]
At the center of the maze lies the heart, protected by an illusory membrane. Unlike the rest of the delver, the area immediately surrounding it has atmosphere breathable to air-using species, like humans or diones. A hole leads into the heart proper, which is black on the outside, and utterly white on the inside.[10] The heart is a place of perfect serenity, free of any disturbance, although cytonic and radio activity forms small holes in its walls, which when seen by cytonics outside the delver form the eyes. The holes are inherently unpleasant to all who perceive them and make distressing sounds.[11]
Delvers are incapable of most emotions; rather, they reflect all that they sense outside.[11] This being said, they can hear and perceive any intrusion into the nowhere. It appears to cause them immense pain; as such, they utterly despise cytonics, and grow more hateful the longer one holds their attention.[13][14] Extreme and prolonged cytonic "screaming" can and will cause them to transition to the physical world in an attempt to quiet it down.[15] Superiority scholars speculate that a species needs to develop particularly skilled or powerful cytonics for delvers to pay attention.[16]
Once delvers leave the nowhere, they can also hear radio communications, which causes the same hateful reaction in them. They perceive both types of signals as noise, making them grow aggressive and go after the strongest source in vicinity.[10] When they are done, or otherwise run out of targets, delvers will roam outer space for anywhere between several years to several decades before fading back to nowhere.[16]
It's heavily implied that delvers do not understand that the noises are caused by living, sapient creatures; the revelation of it seems to cause at least one of them considerable distress and make it depart back into the nowhere of its own volition mid-attack.[11]
Delvers have a strange relationship with tangibility -- while the delver maze has discernible, unpassable walls and floors, the delver itself can seemingly pass through physical matter, allowing it to envelop entire planets.[3][10] However, standard shields, such as ones mounted on starfighters, can stop the delver from passing through, at least for a time.[17]
When a delver does pass through a living being, it causes the latter incredible physical pain. The person affected appears to shrink and fold in on themselves, as though under enormous force, before vanishing into thin air. This apparently doesn't require any effort or attention from a delver; as such, the being can cause utter devastation simply by passing through an inhabited area.[3]
Additionally, delvers possess strong telekinetic abilties. They can somehow create and control embers, large rocks akin to asteroids, and shoot them outside of themselves at targets.[10] Close by, as well as within themselves, they have much greater control, and can use embers to chase down and destroy ships.[19]
When a delver and a non-delver's minds meet, there's a level of mental "pollution"; the other person will begin to perceive the noise of the world at large as unpleasant, and feel hatred towards other living beings, along with a distinct sense of megalomania. The person's mind also appears to expand, as though they can perceive the entire universe all at once. Such thoughts vanish within several moments.[12] The effect is amplified when the person touches the delver's mind directly.[11]
On the other hand, at least within the heart, a cytonic can push their own thoughts onto a delver, bringing their mind down in scale to see from a living beings' perspective. This correlates with increase in empathy in the delver, and sudden ability to feel more emotions, including regret and horror.[11]
The danger posed by the delvers has made it necessary to take measures to avoid catching their attention. Such measures were known even to the ancient humans, who prescribed radio silence and shielding all fast processors.[20]
The chief safeguard, maintained both by the people of Detritus and by the Superiority, is to abandon all but the most crucial cytonic abilities and technologies, and surrounding inhabited spaces with cytoshields, which clamp down on and limit cytonic activity. Cytonic communications have likewise been abandoned, and radio usage is greatly limited, with cables replacing it where possible.[16][21] Artificial intelligence has been banned, and in the present times, AIs are regarded with fear by the people of the Superiority.[22] However, it seems that, much like few scattered cytonics don't pose a threat, lone AIs are capable of functioning without drawing the delvers' ire.[23]
The one cytonic technology still widely in use is FTL travel; to maintain it without delvers coming through, the Superiority uses taynix, a non-sapient species of cytonic slugs, as a distraction.[24] However, in the years since the last delver had vanished, places such as Starsight have come to once more rely on wireless communications, posing a major risk when one reemerges and targets them.[18]
It is unclear how effective many of the safeguards are against delvers. FTL travel and reckless use of AI are known to summon a delver; however, cytonic and wireless communication may only attract a delvers presence once it has entered the physical universe.
According to Spensa's second vision on the Path of Elders[25], an alien species with access to advanced technology created a "beast" which wiped out the majority of the pre-Write cytonics before being defeated, causing a long period of isolation that cut off most races from each other and causing humanity to forget about the existence of cytonics until their rediscovery by Jason Write. In the vision, this "beast" appeared similar to a delver (shining white eyes in a featureless blackness), but it is unknown how similar it was to modern delvers.
The first known appearance of a delver occurred during the second of the human wars. During that time, mankind built facilities on obscure planets as part of a weapons program hoping to summon and control a delver, with Detritus being one such base.[27] They have also built stations to train people in handling the delvers.[28] Though their attempts were successful, the beings proved impossible to control, and in some cases, the cytoshields proved insufficient, leading to delvers destroying the very people who sought them out.[3]
In total, thirteen delvers emerged into the physical world. They rampaged throughout the galaxy for the next few decades, destroying world after world, before eventually fading away one by one. From then on out, however, they were a constant presence in the nowhere, observing all visitors. For this reason, Superiority, as well as human enclaves, drastically cut down on the use of cytonics and wireless communication, so as to avoid drawing them in again.[16]
A century after the Third Human War, the delver threat remained in the public consciousness, although the protective standards grew far more lax. At this time, Winzik, head of Superiority's Department of Protective Services, conceived of a plan to once more deliberately summon a delver and control it, and to use it as a weapon against those who'd go against the Superiority. The lynchpin of his plan was Brade, a powerful human cytonic under his command.[13]
f448fe82f3