Editing Labyrinth (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Labyrinth is an incredibly powerful Shaker, the ability to alter her surroundings at will gains her a [[Protectorate]] [[Power classifications|rating]] of 12.<ref name="9.1"/>However, her power comes with several limitations. While moving beyond the boundaries of her power, her range decreases to only a few feet around her; she must remain still for it to extend to its full reach.<ref name="Cast2"/> Further, her power's scope changes in response to her lucidity. The less lucid she becomes, the faster she is able to affect the world around her. This limits her ability to communicate with her teammates and reduces their overall effectiveness.<ref name="5.x e1"/><ref name="11.c"/> She was not always in full control of her power.<ref name="11.c"/><ref name="RL 3"/><ref name="21.4 c1">Yes. The mental state affects the creep of her power over the surrounding area, and the speed with which objects can be brought through, as well as her ability to search for objects in question.<br/><br/>In the Merchant fight, they were on the roof for a little while before they attacked. In the fight against Lung/Oni Lee, she wasn’t very lucid at all. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/imago-21-4/#comment-18967 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Imago 21.4]]</ref>

She describes them as pocket worlds, realities that could be influenced by her mental state to take differing forms. She was not restricted by any concrete number but the effort involved in creating a new world was prohibitive next to the cost of building on what was already created. Some of her worlds reflected her self loathing while others were for successes.<ref name="11.c e4">Pocket worlds, as she interpreted them. Realities that were a blank canvas to be altered according to her thoughts, both conscious and unconscious. They were lucid dreams that were big enough, detailed enough, intricate enough to swallow her up, as they so often did. She could make new ones at a whim, but she found it better to build on what she already had.<br/><br/>There was the high temple. Faultline and the hypnotist they’d hired had talked her through it, building a place that wasn’t so influenced by Elle’s negative thoughts and ideas. It was a place she associated with personal triumphs, with her inner strengths. At the opposite end of the coin was also the bad place. Of the worlds, it was the biggest by far. Nothing she could use there, she knew. She was intimately familiar with every aspect of it. She had spent a long time there. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/interlude-11c/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11c]]</ref>

When her power is operating well she could cover an entire mall with her effect.<ref name="11.7 e4">She pointed at one corner of the mall.  It looked like any other section, heavily altered by Labyrinth’s powers.  The shops had been almost entirely consumed by Labyrinth’s powers, and were further shrouded by the floor-to-ceiling statues of human figures that stuck out of the walls.  In the corner Lisa was pointing at, there were male and female figures, expressions solemn, hands reaching, moving so slowly I might have thought it was my imagination.  The shop below was nearly gone, the entrance nearly covered up.<br/><br/>“Not seeing it,” I said.<br/><br/>“Look at how they’re standing.  The male figure is sticking out of the left wall, reaching with his right hand, the female figure is doing the opposite.  Look past them, at the corner.”<br/><br/>I did.  Between the figures was the point where the two exterior walls of the shopping center joined… nothing jumped out at me.  The walls were bare.<br/><br/>“I don’t see it,” I repeated, as she tugged on my arm and started running forward.  As a group we started moving toward the corner.  “What am I looking for?”<br/><br/>“Nothing!  There’s nothing there because her power isn’t extending to that corner.  She’s too far away, on the roof at the other side of the mall. Which means the interior of that shop isn’t affected by her power!”<br/><br/>However ominous the giant statues were, they didn’t react to our passing.  The exit was small, barely three feet across.  If Lisa hadn’t given me her reasoning, I wasn’t sure I would have had the guts to go through.  It was spooky to think about putting myself in a smaller space like the store interior and having it close tight behind me.<br/><br/>The bodyguards had to go through the doorway in a crouch, and Minor dropped Bryce to let the others drag him inside, just so he could fit.<br/><br/>As Lisa had suggested, the shop interior was largely unaffected by Labyrinth’s abilities, though it had been trashed by looters and the effects of Leviathan’s attack.  We found the back rooms, and Jaw kicked the door open.  From there, we made our way to the emergency exit, cleared rubble away and escaped into the parking lot. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/infestation-11-7/ Excerpt] from [[Infestation 11.7]]</ref> Further,<ref name="RL 2">If her power's working really well, then she can reach out, touch you, and pull/push you a little bit away from [things she creates], and now as far as you're concerned it's only 10% there, or .0025% there. - [https://redd.it/63yzds/ Worm Spoilers Labrynth Explained]  Wildbow on Reddit</ref> she can "anchor" people<ref name="5.7">She didn’t reply.  Instead, she reached out and touched the side of my chin.<br/><br/>The images of arches, pillars and checkerboard patterns fell away like a house of cards.<br/><br/>“Hallucinations,” I spoke, as Labyrinth made a waving gesture towards Bitch’s head.  She looked at me and shook her head slowly.<br/><br/>“They’re not hallucinations?” I asked.  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/hive-5-7/ Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.7]]</ref> to be excluded from the worlds she brings in, letting them see and pass through any obstacle she has created and rendering them oblivious to her power.<ref name="11.c">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/interlude-11c/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11c]]</ref><ref name="11.7">[[Infestation 11.7]]</ref> Items she created with her power were sometimes more fragile, as a result of partly existing in two worlds at the same time.<ref name="RL 3">If we're in world 1 and she taps into world 2 to bring a fountain into being, then what she's doing is positioning the fountain at 1.5 (or 1.25 or 1.75).<br/><br/>Said fountain may be more fragile as a consequence of not being wholly here.<br/><br/>If her power's working really well, then she can reach out, touch you, and pull/push you a little bit away from where the fountain is in the interspace, and now as far as you're concerned it's only 10% there, or .0025% there.<br/><br/>Now, in reality it's a little more complicated and coordinates vary on a whole two other axes, as she pulls stuff from multiple worlds and sets them at different positions. Depending on where she's at in the wax/wane of her power, she's not always deciding what gets pulled in or where stuff gets positioned, but the analogy should serve to help wrap your head around it. - [https://redd.it/63yzds/ Worm Spoilers Labrynth Explained]  Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

As a required secondary power, Labyrinth has the ability to sense and manipulate the interaction of various dimensions.<ref name="30.5">I could sense it, using the Clairvoyant and Doormaker both, using Labyrinth and Scrub.  The solid space between worlds.  A space that Scion had altered somehow, blocking off.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>Through the Clairvoyant, through Labyrinth and Doormaker, I could sense the machine reaching through every available world.  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref><ref name="19.7">[[Scourge 19.7]]</ref><ref name="list">Elle	Labyrinth	'''Can massively manipulate surroundings by tapping into alternate universes, selectively phasing whole sections or items into her environment.'''	Faultline	Shaker 12 -[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Parahuman List], bolded edit by [[Wildbow]].</ref>