Reverse jump through gate [3038]

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### E.22.12: Reverse jump through gate [3038]

      Usage:  USE 3038 <gate> [key]
      Time to learn: 28 days.
      Time to use: 1 day.
      Required aura: variable

Gates were long thought to be one way portals through space. Most mages believed that returning to the starting location required a second gate or a conventional journey.

However, it is possible to jump back to a gate from the gate's destination. Reversing the direction of teleportation is difficult, so the jump requires twice as much aura as a forward jump.

As with a conventional jump, the mage must know the gate's entity number as well as the key, if necessary.