Chapter 30: Pen and Paper (1)
Jack dropped the last back of second-hand clothes on the kitchen table. They had stopped at two second-hand stores after leaving the mall and had managed to find enough clothes for Madison to put together a fat-suit. It, plus the platform shoes they found, would hopefully be a sufficient disguise for Jack when he went to buy the lottery ticket.
"Do you need any help with this?" he asked as he waved his hand at the pile of clothes sitting on the kitchen table.
"No, I think I'm good for now. I'll let you know if I need to try it on."
"Okay, I'll be in my bedroom if you need me. I'm going to do some more linked template tests."
"Okay, have fun."
He turned and walked towards his bedroom. He could tell that the only reason she wasn't complaining about not being involved in the tests was because her parallel self in his soul space could still be involved while her physical self wrangled second-hand clothes.
Entering his bedroom, he sat at his deck and pulled out some notepaper and a pen. He wanted to know when happened if you combined two linked items. Would the exported changes remain separate, or would they combine in the physical world as well?
He templatized one piece of notepaper and the pen, then in his soul space, he enabled Linked Templates for both. When he enabled linked Template for the second item, he felt a mental prompt asking him if he wanted to synchronize the linked items. When he probed the prompt, he learned that doing this would force the two linked items to be treated as a single object for the purposes of update and export. Since this was what he wanted, he synchronized the two linked templates. Then he instantiated each and then drew a quick sketch of Madison, topless. He was no Escher, but he could at least draw a passable pair of tits. Once the sketch was complete, he updated the notepaper and pen templates from instantiations. Then he pushed the template changes out to their physical originals using the linked template ability.
As soon as he triggered the export, the piece of notepaper sitting on his desk changed to show the sketch of Madison. It happened instantly, silently, with no special effects. One moment the paper was blank, the next, the sketch appeared.
Nice! He thought, having hoped this was possible. He still needed to test combining chemicals, but this looked promising. He had some ideas for how this would be useful, but didn't want to get his hopes up just yet.
Next, he deleted the note paper template, and then created a new template using a new blank piece of notepaper. Then he repeated his previous sketch, but instead of exporting both pen and paper, he only exported the paper changes. He wanted to know if it would still export the ink in the sketch.