Board flight

Fluxboard

The freight plates in the Yards never had their levitation permission revoked.

What it is

In the workshop The tree exists as a preview. The line is not issued, and nothing here is promised.

Kind
Gear. You build it and wear it, so a Cleanskin can run it.
Terrain
Long descending lines: the Coil apron, the expressway deck, the Market Row spiral.
Opens at
Not issued yet.
Cost to master
22 points.

Somebody welded handles onto one, and nobody at the Registry has a form for what you are doing on it.

The cost

It cannot climb. Every metre of altitude is borrowed from an updraft, a ramp, or speed you already had, and the glide spends it on the way to wherever you are going. It is no use indoors, from a standing start or over open water, and a wall at speed takes you off the deck.

The tree

In the workshop The Operator 30 node also asks for this line's story, which is designed.

Seven tiers, from Operator 10 to Operator 50. The choices come at Operator 15 (Wide Deck or Short Deck) and Operator 40 (Trickline or Freight), and taking one closes the other.

  1. Operator 10

    Wake

    The Plate. The board exists: a quick deploy, a cruise and full carve authority. There is no glide yet, so off an edge you simply fall.

  2. Operator 15

    Form fork

    Take one. Wide Deck. You survive contact that used to dismount you. Short Deck. A longer kickflip and a tighter turn.

  3. Operator 20

    Reach

    The Glide. A faster cruise, and a long glide off any edge.

  4. Operator 25

    Cadence

    Thermal Ride. Grind marked rails. An updraft is the only thing that lifts you.

  5. Operator 30

    Questline node

    Delivery Spec. A faster cruise, a longer glide, and one ollie that finally gains height.

  6. Operator 40

    Apex fork

    Take one. Trickline. Chained kickflips pay a style stack, and the stack pays Sync. Freight. An ally rides pillion through the whole line, glide included.

  7. Operator 50

    Capstone

    Ride The Field Lines. A carve through an updraft turns the whole column into forward speed instead of height.

The Coil apron drops four hundred metres over two kilometres. That is a road.

The Glide

Thirty vent columns in this city, and you have all thirty memorised in a week.

Thermal Ride

You do not fly. You ride what the city forgot it was still holding up.

Ride The Field Lines

Where it shines

Culture

Exemplar. The Yards freight crews, and one very good welder.

See also