I've been curious about this since it was introduced... but why can't you tesseract into the Aetherways?

It can't be to prevent manses becoming too useful, because you can tesseract out to any plane... and it can't be to prevent security problems, because you can just teleport/summon/moonbeam from another manse anyway if the owner doesn't put down monoliths.

So... can someone tell me why this wonderfully useful application has been removed?

Not sure, but you could have your manse be extremely useful, such as getting from prime to astral, since the aetherways are adjacent to everything.

Last I knew it still worked. Guess I'm behind the times.

Yeah, you can tesseract out, but you can't tesseract IN, so no getting back from Astral to Prime.
It was originally about security, as a couple people got raided there, but it is a bit of a dodgy point.

Incidentally, being able to ferry through manses/create rifts from manses would help Serens and knights get to Astral. *hum*

Although the rifts would have to be able to be destroyed from one end only, I suppose. To avoid giving the manse owner an unfair advantage.

Don't see how it'd be an advantage to have the rift destroyable from in the Manse too.

Well, not much of one, but the manse owner can restrict all entry/exit to the area except through the rift... so if you catch someone destroying on your side you could distort the rift and have them locked in an area you have absolute control over.

If someone managed to sneak into your Manse and you caught them, you could do the exact same thing anyway.

Wait, we can make rifts in our manses?

Nope.

Or, I mean, you CAN (or I did once), but as soon as you finish it it doesn't exist anymore.

Man, that sucks. I'd love rifts to all the planes in mine.

Same here.

You cant tess into manses because then a large attacking force could tess to a manse connected to the opposing city, then leave into that cities portal room.

Though I DO think that rifts should be permitted in manses since they technically do border on all the planes. It would give a real reason to have them, if only for simpler planar travel.

If we wanted to attack a city's portal room, which should really have guards anyway, we would just have to follow a Moondancer and moonbeam in, or hell, teleport if you're a city. If you can tess, you can port. *shrug*

Sorry, but rifts ain't ever going to be available to manses.

What about alembics and pentagrams? *beg*

MANSE POOLS! SO THAT I CAN TAKE A BATH! I DON'T ALWAYS WANT TO BATHE IN PUBLIC I AM SHY AND MORRIGANA IS A PEEPING UNDEFINED FURRIKIN!

Zomg, she's elfen now.

And, Ialie's been possessed by Kethuru!!!

Bah Ialie is too cute to be possessed. She would just flutter he little wings and smile and Ketheru would be like "AWwwwww look at the cute little faeling! Come here little faeling, thats right, I'm your da da.. yes yes.. .. come here stupid faeling........ DIE!! YOU DIE YOU FOU FAESPAWN! YES DIE I SHALL DRINK OF YOUR CUTENESS YES YES .. Whats.. this.. what is this taste.. Oh my.. OH My gods! I.. I.. I have tasted the rainbow!"


Suddenly all the taint would go away and be replaced by rainbows, and all of Lusternia would like a world of Lisa Frank.

Everyone flipped out cause my daughter was furrikin.

It was cause I made the character, played on it for a sec, and gave it away. *shrug* I had never intended it to be played as anything other than a cute furrikin.

And Lisa Frank sounds familiar. Who's that? I wish the world was like the world of Richard Scary.

You are a FREAK.