Combinatorial Explosion (Worm/Original)
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[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Mana>Tin>Cast Iron)
[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Mana> Pink Glass> Red Glass)
[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Mana > Ice> Wardstone)
[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Mana> Pink Glass> Red Glass)
[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Mana > Ice> Wardstone)
I like the way EndlessBlaze thinks.
[X][Stipend] No, I won't reveal my powers or accept any 'restrictions'.
[X][Money] Write-In (Our powers offer a wide range of possibility for tinkering and creating both unconventional materials and objects. We should act in a way that will not only improve our own lives, but the city as well. By producing armor, weapons, and miscellaneous equipment we can sell to heros and the PRT, we can both make money, and provide sideline assistance.)
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Something Else (Preform indepth testing of Lumic Condensite, its products, and how it acts in relation to other forms of light. Such as Serene light, Kenetic light, Warm glow, or Cobold Gleam. Does the solid light persist? Is it durable? What structures and shapes are most effective at producing the liquid light?)
[X][Stipend] No, I won't reveal my powers or accept any 'restrictions'.
[X][Money] Write-In (Our powers offer a wide range of possibility for tinkering and creating both unconventional materials and objects. We should act in a way that will not only improve our own lives, but the city as well. By producing armor, weapons, and miscellaneous equipment we can sell to heros and the PRT, we can both make money, and provide sideline assistance.)
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Something Else (Preform indepth testing of Lumic Condensite, its products, and how it acts in relation to other forms of light. Such as Serene light, Kenetic light, Warm glow, or Cobold Gleam. Does the solid light persist? Is it durable? What structures and shapes are most effective at producing the liquid light?)
For something else, find out offensive uses for it.
[X][Money] One of my powers lets me heal. I'd like to try doing that for money. (High Risk, High Reward)
[X][Money] One of my powers lets me create obscure materials. I'd like to try doing that for money. (Medium Risk, Medium Reward)
[X][Money] One of my powers lets me grow plants. I'd like to try doing that for money (Low Risk, Low Reward)
[X][Stipend] No, I won't reveal my powers or accept any 'restrictions'.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[X][Mana] expose Thaumic Mana/Chilling Arcane Mana/Burning Thaumic Mana to sounds/words/music
[X][Money] One of my powers lets me create obscure materials. I'd like to try doing that for money. (Medium Risk, Medium Reward)
[X][Money] One of my powers lets me grow plants. I'd like to try doing that for money (Low Risk, Low Reward)
[X][Stipend] No, I won't reveal my powers or accept any 'restrictions'.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[X][Mana] expose Thaumic Mana/Chilling Arcane Mana/Burning Thaumic Mana to sounds/words/music
Quite frankly, we're not that good at healing and I would rather try to avoid malpractice lawsuits if we can? Why do we need all the monies anyway?
I can see the draw of making and selling materials as that is nice and simple, but offering our services of healing to people opens a whoooole can of worms I don't think we're ready for. Better to just offer that option to family and friends pro bono
I can see the draw of making and selling materials as that is nice and simple, but offering our services of healing to people opens a whoooole can of worms I don't think we're ready for. Better to just offer that option to family and friends pro bono
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The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Counterpoint, most of our materials turn into silicon once we stop doing magic at them, and if you look at the mana sheet, one of the things we tested this turn might let us regrow limbs as dope ass tree arms.
Although, selling silicon might be something. Depends on how expensive it is to make since it only goes for a dollar a pound or thereabouts.
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Voting is now closed! Beginning update
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The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Projects seem tied, are we doing both/all three?
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I'm going to re-tally by block and see if a specific plan has the most votes.
Edit: Nevermind, that didn't work. I'll figure something out.
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Fluffy serpent's project vote is just broken. (Because they copied my votes in the ~1 min before I noticed the problem and fixed it. Whoopsies) If I had noticed earlier would have mentioned it to them.
Chapter 7
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Dad quietly opens the door to the basement while I stand in the middle of it, my hands outstretched.
He really came through for me when I told him about my power to grow plants, and within a day, I had tons of seed packets, sprouts, and even an apple-sapling in the corner of the room, as well as some sun-lamps and big bags of soil, which I tore up and spread all over the floor to give me plenty of room.
I decided to spend this week mostly staying at home, and Dad took a week off to help me. I couldn't help but wonder where he got together the money for all this stuff, but I wasn't complaining.
I shuddered with a bit of disgust at some of the results of my tests. No big shocker, when dad found out about the various Blood and Plant Mana types during my earlier testing, he asked me to destroy the products, and I had no problem doing so.
Some of the other results, though, were far more interesting, and at least slightly less gut-churningly horrific.
I held out a hand to the glassy bulb that had sprouted from the Aloe Vera plant I had been cultivating. Plucking the bulb free, I held it up and looked into it.
The result of Eye > Plant mana, this little bulb had a tiny picture of the inside of the basement. The magic had somehow made the plant grow eyes all over it. A gentle squeeze erased the image inside the plant, and it slowly started to make a new one.
Honestly, it was worse than a cheap dime-store camera, but still interesting. I moved on to the other plants, examining their progress.
The pepper plants, wheat plants, and regular, non-vampiric tomatoes were all growing nicely, my power allowing me to rapidly speed up their growth from seeds into mature plants.
I had also discovered that by applying magic to soil, I could duplicate it slowly. This synthetic soil, however, was like all my other synthetic materials, slowly turning into pure silica if I left it alone for too long without a mana source.
Thankfully, though, I discovered something incredibly useful with all of this plant testing.
"How are you holding up?" Dad asks, interrupting my thought with a cup of tea in hand.
I sit down at the living-wood chair I had grown as part of experiments. "It's been going good. With all the magically charged plants in here, I should only need to top everything off once a day. The plants are acting like a buffer somehow, so I don't need to be here to supply everything with energy constantly."
He didn't look like he understood, but that's alright.
"Thanks for the tea," I say awkwardly, sipping at the drink. It was still challenging to talk to dad. Things didn't stop being awkward after our heart-to-heart a week ago, but things had settled down into something comfortable.
"Anytime. So, have you given any thought to how you plan to make money like you were hoping?" he asks.
I nod. "I think I might have an idea. Spices are really expensive, and with how expensive shipping is right now, exotic plants are at a premium. I haven't opened the packet yet, but I think I might be able to grow Saffron if I set things up correctly."
I don't elaborate on what I mean by that, but I do know what I have in mind. Earlier, I tested out what happens if I just keep attuning mana to plants over and over again, and the results were... Weird.
I stopped at three. When I attuned plant mana to a plant, the result was a symbiosis mana that made plants grow into one another.
When I attuned that to plants again, the result was even stranger. It made a plant turn into a sort of "controller", manipulating the plants around it and making them all work together.
It took mana to keep up the effect, but that goes back to my earlier discovery.
There was a way to make mana other than from my own power (soul?)
While I was doing mana tests, I decided to see if there was a difference between Flour and Bread mana, but when I attuned mana to the flour, it burned up into nothing. Not even ash was left over as the mana literally consumed the flour. A few tests after that made me realize what was going on. Somehow, if you attune mana to a fine enough powder, the mana 'eats' it, producing more mana than you put into the system.
I wasn't sure how to exploit this, since I had to attune the mana to produce it from dust, which would change the effect, but at the same time, I had discovered that, if you just release mana into the air, it quickly attunes to everything around it, turning into a vague, ambient energy.
If I had some kind of machine that could turn dust into mana automatically, and pump it into the air, my miniature greenhouse in the basement wouldn't need me to operate anymore, and I'd be able to set up a Symbiotic Plant in there to speed up the production of things like spices.
I noticed dad wiping some sweat off his face, and grimaced. It was pretty humid in here, considering all the plants I had constantly growing in the basement, and all the sun lamps I had running, the whole place was a bit of a sauna.
"Why don't you head upstairs? I can handle things from here for a while," I ask.
He chuckles at my thinly veiled concerns. "I've dealt with heat before, Taylor. Don't worry."
I shrug a bit. He can't blame me for trying, I guess.
I decide to take care of some other tests I had been wanting to do for a while, ever since I learned about Arcane and Thaumic Mana types, and how my power insisted that they react to vibrations.
Summoning up some mana, I allowed it to attune to the air in front of me, before bringing it close to my face and speaking at it.
"Uhh, turn into a spike," I say clearly.
The mana suddenly shrieks, prompting me and dad to clap our hands over our ears as it makes a metallic noise, grinding up against itself as the words make it change rapidly.
By the time I finished speaking, the effect had already finished, however, and the Thaumic Mana and turned into a twisted, silvery mass of magic that was pressed up against the far wall of the basement, gravity having been turned on its side for the magic.
When I took a step towards it, cubes rippled across its surface, making me pause.
Maybe this mana isn't reacting to my orders, it's just reacting to the noises I make randomly.
This needs more testing. I grab the vaguely pointy mass of magic with my willpower and tear it apart until it dissolves into the ambience.
Summoning another mass of Thaumic Mana, I reach out to it and say the first word that comes to mind.
"Tea," I utter.
The word makes the mana shift, and it turns into a lopsided hemisphere.
"Toe"
The mana splits in two, and I sense that one half of it has become "Locked", no longer reacting to sounds.
"Toe" I say again. The remaining half splits in half again, and one of those halves becomes locked.
"Uhh, Fire!" I shout, making the quartered hemisphere ripple like cloth as it shudders and shakes.
"Tea?" I say, and the quartered hemisphere freezes, distorting and rippling into another lopsided, but smaller hemisphere.
Dad looks at me in confusion, unable to sense the invisible Thaumic Mana as it changes shape and form.
"I'm testing out-" I begin, before the mana suddenly shrinks down into a tiny point before spraying sparks of electricity everywhere, responding to my attempted explanation.
"A weird mana type," I continue, pulling apart the 'locked' magic with a bit of applied will.
God, I thought Mana Types were complicated enough, now I find out that Thaumic Mana has its own messy tree of possible effects?
This is going to be complicated...
Taylor has learned Wizardry!
[Fuck] Queen Administrator elucidates via a recent custom addition to their communication protocols as the Scanning Module goes apeshit over the brand new layer of infinite recursive data to go over.
It seems these "Wave" Mana types all react to vibrations, all in seemingly unique ways, on top of Mana's tendency to gain effects from attuning to matter.
What's worse, this is coming back to bite Queen Administrator right in the ass, as they opted to simplify the Host's retention of mana types to remove all of the complex interactions BETWEEN attunements.
Because Taylor's mana is traveling through a medium of air, it has technically been attuning to the previously mostly effectless mana, and thus, has been picking up on some of the wave-like properties of it.
Of course, now that the host has decided to start vocalizing at the energy, so much predefined data has gone out the window, and the data that's left over suddenly has an obscene number of further expansions to explore...
[Fuck] Queen Administrator repeats the internal communication protocol test.
[][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[][EMERGENCY] Spend 4 Research. Emergency Override: Taylor will be disinclined to continue testing Wave Mana Phonem Effects until this override is disabled.
[][EMERGENCY] Monthly Research Tax is increased by 1 as Scan demands more data now that the scope of Mana's infinite variability has increased. Taylor will be forced to invent spells without Thinker Help, preventing more granular phonem usage.
Mana Types have changed! Now Mana types which were attuned in a medium of Earth Bet's Air will be marked with "Thaum", to indicate that an Air Attunement is at the beginning, end, and middle of all attunements! You will need special means to attune mana without exposing it to air.
Taylor now suspects that phonems (Specific Verbal Sounds) will affect any mana type that she attuned in open air!
I suddenly feel distraught. Just when I thought I was understanding this magic stuff, I get a curveball like this. Is it just Air Mana specifically, or is it any mana exposed to air that will react like this?
I shake my head. I'll think about that more later, when I've got time to set down and really dig into that new mess.
"I think I'm done for today Dad. We'll come back to this tomorrow," I say, and he seems relieved.
"Don't overwork yourself, alright?" he asks, to which I simply nod.
I spend the rest of the day with dad, mostly just cleaning up around the house and making sure there isn't any evidence of power usage out in the open.
I make sure to at least spend a bit of mana fixing our old rotten porch step though, using some plant mana to grow and shape the wood back into a pristine plank.
When I do, dad has a strange look on his face, something caught between proud and worried. When I told him I had no intention of going to the PRT, he seemed perfectly fine with it, but I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was scared at the thought of me going it alone. Or maybe he was worried that my power would lose us more money than it made us?
Either way, I couldn't help but think about how much those lamps and seeds and saplings and dirt all cost. He paid for it with cash, so maybe it wasn't as bad as I thought? He didn't use a credit card or anything like that.
I shake my head to banish the thoughts. My power is only going to get better and better with each passing day. I'll find one that will do something amazing. Something good enough to wipe that worry off of his face.
One good enough to dismiss the worries in my own mind.
At school, I try to look casual as I send out a pip of Eye Mana around the building, low enough as to be almost invisible, before bringing it back to me and absorbing it into my own eye.
The large warped vision I get is confusing, but I manage to push through it. Nobody is nearby or rounding the corner, and I don't see any witnesses.
I pull a sack of flour out of my backpack, digging out a handful of the stuff and transforming the powder into pure wheat magic, the liquid mana taking the form of rapidly expanding stalks of grain-shaped magic that I grab onto as they drag me up to the second floor window.
I haven't told my dad about the bullies yet, but I think he might suspect something is wrong, now that I've got these powers. Either way, it doesn't matter. I silently creep in through the window, before dismissing the wheat magic into the air to erase the evidence.
More eye mana goes under the door to capture an image of the hall outside. Nobody out there but...
I see Madison in the hall, or at least, the still image of her hastily walking past. She's probably long gone now. She seems worried about something, and is looking at her phone. I don't see what is on it though, due to the low angle of the image I captured with my magic.
Listening at the door, I don't hear any footsteps, and slip out of the unused classroom that I've been using as an entrance for the past week or so. I think Sophia has been getting suspicious, but nobody has seen me climbing up here or leaving from here, so there's no evidence, and more importantly, no way for them to catch me out as I go to classes.
A bit of sensory magic here and there has proven to be more than enough to keep away from those assholes, and when I infuse my own body with magic, there's no outward signs of it, so I've been able to use muscle and skin magic to outpace them and ignore Sophia's more physical taunts.
As I walk to class, dusting the flour off of my hands, I hear a faint conversation.
"Something's fucked, alright? I don't care how she's doing it, nobody is that good at staying out of my way," a familiar voice says.
"Do you think-" another voice begins, before Sophia interrupts them.
"No. Don't even joke about it. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. If you want to risk dying, keep it up. This isn't a game anymore."
"This isn't a game, you're right, but-"
"Shut up. I'll take care of it. Just cool it until then, alright?"
Listening to their conversation coming to a close, I feel a spike of bitterness shoot through me.
They don't have any proof, even if this is what I think it is.
'One thing is for certain,' I think as a brief petty urge has me walking around the corner, straight past Sophia, Maddison, and Emma.
Rather than their usual taunting words and messing with me, the trio just glare uncharacteristically as I pass them by and mine and Emma's gazes lock briefly.
'They are in no position to "Take care of me" now,' I finish viciously.
Second week of April Plans:
[][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Write-In Where you go and What you do there)
-[][Daily Activities] Continue your physical training.
-[][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
-[][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[][Cape Activities] Visit a location (Write-In Where you go and What you do there)
-[][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
-[][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (Write-In a potential method or plan)
-[][Project] You'll try to grow a particular plant for profit (Write-In)
-[][Project] You'll try to invent a spell. (Write-In) (Cannot be done with [EMERGENCY] Option B)
-[][Project] Something Else (Write-In)
[][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
[][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Write-In)
[][Mana] Test a Phonem's effect (Write-In) (Requires [EMERGENCY] Option A
[][Mana] Something Else (Write-In)
Research Obtained: 8
He really came through for me when I told him about my power to grow plants, and within a day, I had tons of seed packets, sprouts, and even an apple-sapling in the corner of the room, as well as some sun-lamps and big bags of soil, which I tore up and spread all over the floor to give me plenty of room.
I decided to spend this week mostly staying at home, and Dad took a week off to help me. I couldn't help but wonder where he got together the money for all this stuff, but I wasn't complaining.
| School | Attunement Chain | Type | Shorthand | Effects | Other | |
| Blood | Mana > Plant > Blood | Liquid | Vampire Plant | This mana is capable of growing plants empowered with the user's willpower and a bloody vitality | Plants grown with this mana are turned a bright crimson and require a supply of mana or blood to survive if no greenery remain. | |
| Eye | Mana > Plant > Eye | Liquid | Illusion Plant | Images of plants grow within this mana, and are applied to images infused with the magic. | ||
| Flour | Mana > Flour | Liquid | New Life (Wheat) | This mana grows and changes like living wheat, based on the amount. Material infused with it will grow temporarily, and shrink as the mana fades. | Powdered Materials are consumed during mana attunement, creating more mana than was applied. | |
| Hybrid | (Mana > Plant) + (Mana > Blood) | Liquid | Lifeblood Plant | This mana is capable of healing wounds and growing plants, bearing both the will of its user and the vital force of both plant and animal. | Plants grown with this mana are tinted a vivid red and both feed on and produce blood. Wounds healed with this mana are rapidly covered with a woody growth of hardened blood vessels that prevent further bleeding. | |
| Plant | Mana > Plant > Plant > Plant | Liquid | Nature Diplomat | This mana encourages a plant to grow into a form which manipulates plants near it, making them grow into more symbiotic forms with one another. | ||
| Plant | Mana > Plant > Plant | Liquid | Peace Between Plants | This mana encourages a plant to grow into another plant, assisting and aiding it symbiotically. | ||
| Plant | Mana > Blood > Plant | Liquid | Vital Plant | This mana is capable of healing and energizing a target, sprouting several plants from the target which refresh the target with oxygen and nutrients. | Wounds healed with this mana transform into living plants. | |
| Plant | Mana > Eye > Plant | Liquid | Eyeplant Fruit | Plants will grow and change to gain eyes when this mana is applied to them, absorbing images they see. | Eyes produced by this mana lose the ability to see when starved of magic. | |
| Seeds | Mana > Seeds | Liquid | New Life | This mana grows and changes like a living plant, based on the amount. Material infused with it will grow temporarily, and shrink as the mana fades. | ||
| Sugar | Mana > Sugar | Liquid | Rapid Energy | This mana increases the energy and instability of what it is applied to. |
I shuddered with a bit of disgust at some of the results of my tests. No big shocker, when dad found out about the various Blood and Plant Mana types during my earlier testing, he asked me to destroy the products, and I had no problem doing so.
Some of the other results, though, were far more interesting, and at least slightly less gut-churningly horrific.
I held out a hand to the glassy bulb that had sprouted from the Aloe Vera plant I had been cultivating. Plucking the bulb free, I held it up and looked into it.
The result of Eye > Plant mana, this little bulb had a tiny picture of the inside of the basement. The magic had somehow made the plant grow eyes all over it. A gentle squeeze erased the image inside the plant, and it slowly started to make a new one.
Honestly, it was worse than a cheap dime-store camera, but still interesting. I moved on to the other plants, examining their progress.
The pepper plants, wheat plants, and regular, non-vampiric tomatoes were all growing nicely, my power allowing me to rapidly speed up their growth from seeds into mature plants.
I had also discovered that by applying magic to soil, I could duplicate it slowly. This synthetic soil, however, was like all my other synthetic materials, slowly turning into pure silica if I left it alone for too long without a mana source.
Thankfully, though, I discovered something incredibly useful with all of this plant testing.
"How are you holding up?" Dad asks, interrupting my thought with a cup of tea in hand.
I sit down at the living-wood chair I had grown as part of experiments. "It's been going good. With all the magically charged plants in here, I should only need to top everything off once a day. The plants are acting like a buffer somehow, so I don't need to be here to supply everything with energy constantly."
He didn't look like he understood, but that's alright.
"Thanks for the tea," I say awkwardly, sipping at the drink. It was still challenging to talk to dad. Things didn't stop being awkward after our heart-to-heart a week ago, but things had settled down into something comfortable.
"Anytime. So, have you given any thought to how you plan to make money like you were hoping?" he asks.
I nod. "I think I might have an idea. Spices are really expensive, and with how expensive shipping is right now, exotic plants are at a premium. I haven't opened the packet yet, but I think I might be able to grow Saffron if I set things up correctly."
I don't elaborate on what I mean by that, but I do know what I have in mind. Earlier, I tested out what happens if I just keep attuning mana to plants over and over again, and the results were... Weird.
I stopped at three. When I attuned plant mana to a plant, the result was a symbiosis mana that made plants grow into one another.
When I attuned that to plants again, the result was even stranger. It made a plant turn into a sort of "controller", manipulating the plants around it and making them all work together.
It took mana to keep up the effect, but that goes back to my earlier discovery.
There was a way to make mana other than from my own power (soul?)
While I was doing mana tests, I decided to see if there was a difference between Flour and Bread mana, but when I attuned mana to the flour, it burned up into nothing. Not even ash was left over as the mana literally consumed the flour. A few tests after that made me realize what was going on. Somehow, if you attune mana to a fine enough powder, the mana 'eats' it, producing more mana than you put into the system.
I wasn't sure how to exploit this, since I had to attune the mana to produce it from dust, which would change the effect, but at the same time, I had discovered that, if you just release mana into the air, it quickly attunes to everything around it, turning into a vague, ambient energy.
If I had some kind of machine that could turn dust into mana automatically, and pump it into the air, my miniature greenhouse in the basement wouldn't need me to operate anymore, and I'd be able to set up a Symbiotic Plant in there to speed up the production of things like spices.
I noticed dad wiping some sweat off his face, and grimaced. It was pretty humid in here, considering all the plants I had constantly growing in the basement, and all the sun lamps I had running, the whole place was a bit of a sauna.
"Why don't you head upstairs? I can handle things from here for a while," I ask.
He chuckles at my thinly veiled concerns. "I've dealt with heat before, Taylor. Don't worry."
I shrug a bit. He can't blame me for trying, I guess.
I decide to take care of some other tests I had been wanting to do for a while, ever since I learned about Arcane and Thaumic Mana types, and how my power insisted that they react to vibrations.
Summoning up some mana, I allowed it to attune to the air in front of me, before bringing it close to my face and speaking at it.
1d20 vs 1d20 = 17, 17
"Uhh, turn into a spike," I say clearly.
The mana suddenly shrieks, prompting me and dad to clap our hands over our ears as it makes a metallic noise, grinding up against itself as the words make it change rapidly.
By the time I finished speaking, the effect had already finished, however, and the Thaumic Mana and turned into a twisted, silvery mass of magic that was pressed up against the far wall of the basement, gravity having been turned on its side for the magic.
When I took a step towards it, cubes rippled across its surface, making me pause.
Maybe this mana isn't reacting to my orders, it's just reacting to the noises I make randomly.
This needs more testing. I grab the vaguely pointy mass of magic with my willpower and tear it apart until it dissolves into the ambience.
Summoning another mass of Thaumic Mana, I reach out to it and say the first word that comes to mind.
"Tea," I utter.
The word makes the mana shift, and it turns into a lopsided hemisphere.
"Toe"
The mana splits in two, and I sense that one half of it has become "Locked", no longer reacting to sounds.
"Toe" I say again. The remaining half splits in half again, and one of those halves becomes locked.
"Uhh, Fire!" I shout, making the quartered hemisphere ripple like cloth as it shudders and shakes.
"Tea?" I say, and the quartered hemisphere freezes, distorting and rippling into another lopsided, but smaller hemisphere.
Dad looks at me in confusion, unable to sense the invisible Thaumic Mana as it changes shape and form.
"I'm testing out-" I begin, before the mana suddenly shrinks down into a tiny point before spraying sparks of electricity everywhere, responding to my attempted explanation.
"A weird mana type," I continue, pulling apart the 'locked' magic with a bit of applied will.
God, I thought Mana Types were complicated enough, now I find out that Thaumic Mana has its own messy tree of possible effects?
This is going to be complicated...
Taylor has learned Wizardry!
[Fuck] Queen Administrator elucidates via a recent custom addition to their communication protocols as the Scanning Module goes apeshit over the brand new layer of infinite recursive data to go over.
It seems these "Wave" Mana types all react to vibrations, all in seemingly unique ways, on top of Mana's tendency to gain effects from attuning to matter.
What's worse, this is coming back to bite Queen Administrator right in the ass, as they opted to simplify the Host's retention of mana types to remove all of the complex interactions BETWEEN attunements.
Because Taylor's mana is traveling through a medium of air, it has technically been attuning to the previously mostly effectless mana, and thus, has been picking up on some of the wave-like properties of it.
Of course, now that the host has decided to start vocalizing at the energy, so much predefined data has gone out the window, and the data that's left over suddenly has an obscene number of further expansions to explore...
[Fuck] Queen Administrator repeats the internal communication protocol test.
[][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[][EMERGENCY] Spend 4 Research. Emergency Override: Taylor will be disinclined to continue testing Wave Mana Phonem Effects until this override is disabled.
[][EMERGENCY] Monthly Research Tax is increased by 1 as Scan demands more data now that the scope of Mana's infinite variability has increased. Taylor will be forced to invent spells without Thinker Help, preventing more granular phonem usage.
Mana Types have changed! Now Mana types which were attuned in a medium of Earth Bet's Air will be marked with "Thaum", to indicate that an Air Attunement is at the beginning, end, and middle of all attunements! You will need special means to attune mana without exposing it to air.
Taylor now suspects that phonems (Specific Verbal Sounds) will affect any mana type that she attuned in open air!
I suddenly feel distraught. Just when I thought I was understanding this magic stuff, I get a curveball like this. Is it just Air Mana specifically, or is it any mana exposed to air that will react like this?
I shake my head. I'll think about that more later, when I've got time to set down and really dig into that new mess.
"I think I'm done for today Dad. We'll come back to this tomorrow," I say, and he seems relieved.
"Don't overwork yourself, alright?" he asks, to which I simply nod.
I spend the rest of the day with dad, mostly just cleaning up around the house and making sure there isn't any evidence of power usage out in the open.
I make sure to at least spend a bit of mana fixing our old rotten porch step though, using some plant mana to grow and shape the wood back into a pristine plank.
When I do, dad has a strange look on his face, something caught between proud and worried. When I told him I had no intention of going to the PRT, he seemed perfectly fine with it, but I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was scared at the thought of me going it alone. Or maybe he was worried that my power would lose us more money than it made us?
Either way, I couldn't help but think about how much those lamps and seeds and saplings and dirt all cost. He paid for it with cash, so maybe it wasn't as bad as I thought? He didn't use a credit card or anything like that.
I shake my head to banish the thoughts. My power is only going to get better and better with each passing day. I'll find one that will do something amazing. Something good enough to wipe that worry off of his face.
One good enough to dismiss the worries in my own mind.
At school, I try to look casual as I send out a pip of Eye Mana around the building, low enough as to be almost invisible, before bringing it back to me and absorbing it into my own eye.
The large warped vision I get is confusing, but I manage to push through it. Nobody is nearby or rounding the corner, and I don't see any witnesses.
I pull a sack of flour out of my backpack, digging out a handful of the stuff and transforming the powder into pure wheat magic, the liquid mana taking the form of rapidly expanding stalks of grain-shaped magic that I grab onto as they drag me up to the second floor window.
I haven't told my dad about the bullies yet, but I think he might suspect something is wrong, now that I've got these powers. Either way, it doesn't matter. I silently creep in through the window, before dismissing the wheat magic into the air to erase the evidence.
4, 4
More eye mana goes under the door to capture an image of the hall outside. Nobody out there but...
I see Madison in the hall, or at least, the still image of her hastily walking past. She's probably long gone now. She seems worried about something, and is looking at her phone. I don't see what is on it though, due to the low angle of the image I captured with my magic.
Listening at the door, I don't hear any footsteps, and slip out of the unused classroom that I've been using as an entrance for the past week or so. I think Sophia has been getting suspicious, but nobody has seen me climbing up here or leaving from here, so there's no evidence, and more importantly, no way for them to catch me out as I go to classes.
A bit of sensory magic here and there has proven to be more than enough to keep away from those assholes, and when I infuse my own body with magic, there's no outward signs of it, so I've been able to use muscle and skin magic to outpace them and ignore Sophia's more physical taunts.
As I walk to class, dusting the flour off of my hands, I hear a faint conversation.
"Something's fucked, alright? I don't care how she's doing it, nobody is that good at staying out of my way," a familiar voice says.
"Do you think-" another voice begins, before Sophia interrupts them.
"No. Don't even joke about it. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. If you want to risk dying, keep it up. This isn't a game anymore."
"This isn't a game, you're right, but-"
"Shut up. I'll take care of it. Just cool it until then, alright?"
Listening to their conversation coming to a close, I feel a spike of bitterness shoot through me.
They don't have any proof, even if this is what I think it is.
'One thing is for certain,' I think as a brief petty urge has me walking around the corner, straight past Sophia, Maddison, and Emma.
Rather than their usual taunting words and messing with me, the trio just glare uncharacteristically as I pass them by and mine and Emma's gazes lock briefly.
'They are in no position to "Take care of me" now,' I finish viciously.
Second week of April Plans:
[][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Write-In Where you go and What you do there)
-[][Daily Activities] Continue your physical training.
-[][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
-[][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[][Cape Activities] Visit a location (Write-In Where you go and What you do there)
-[][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
-[][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (Write-In a potential method or plan)
-[][Project] You'll try to grow a particular plant for profit (Write-In)
-[][Project] You'll try to invent a spell. (Write-In) (Cannot be done with [EMERGENCY] Option B)
-[][Project] Something Else (Write-In)
[][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
[][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Write-In)
[][Mana] Test a Phonem's effect (Write-In) (Requires [EMERGENCY] Option A
[][Mana] Something Else (Write-In)
| School | Attunement Chain | Type | Shorthand | Effects | Other | |
| Aluminum | Thaum > Aluminum > Aluminum > Aluminum | Ray | Absorb?? | This mana draws other forms of mana to itself and absorbs them. | ||
| Aluminum | Thaum > Aluminum > Aluminum | Ray | Absorb? | This mana draws other forms of mana to itself and absorbs them. | ||
| Aluminum | Thaum > Eye > Aluminum | Ray | Manasight | This mana absorbs nearby forms of Ray Mana, transforming them into an image. | ||
| Aluminum | Thaum > Tin > Aluminum | Ray | Stormbringer | This mana only draws magic towards itself capable of manipulating weather, or producing rain. | ||
| Bone | Thaum > Bone | Liquid | Undeath | This mana makes a target harder, and slightly more brittle. Capable of reanimating dead material. Capable of damaging living flesh. Sustains bacteria, but transforms them into calcium-based organisms over time. | This mana in its pure form destroys both itself and Life Energy that it comes in contact with. | |
| Bread | Thaum > Bread | Liquid | Merciful Sandwich | This mana appears to dull harmful effects of what it is infused into. | ||
| Calcium Carbonate | Thaum > Calcium Carbonate | Liquid | Slime | This mana takes the form of an inert lavender slime. It doesn't seem to react to much. | ||
| Cast Iron | Thaum > Cast Iron > Cast Iron > Cast Iron | Ray (Solid) | Construct Gel | This mana imbues itself into a target, allowing it to absorb liquids or gasses until a saturated solid is created using mana constructs. | ||
| Cast Iron | Thaum > Tin > Cast Iron | Ray (Solid) | Sponge Construct | This mana takes the form of a porous solid that traps moisture. Over time, it will begin to drip water from itself once saturated. | ||
| Cast Iron | Thaum > Cast Iron > Cast Iron | Ray | Construct Inclusion | This mana imbues itself into a target, making it solid with internal mana constructs. | ||
| Clay | Thaum > Clay | Elemental Ray | Dust Creation | This mana creates Clay Dust when applied to Clay. | Mana infused into Clay will cause it to break as material grows. It will turn to silicon if starved of magic. | |
| Coffee | Thaum > Coffee | Liquid | Vivid Arcane Mana | This mana responds to vibrations passing through it, both its effects and behaviors can be changed by them. | The effects and behaviors of this mana are Mysterious, yet Crystal Clear | |
| Cooked Meat | Thaum > Cooked Meat | Liquid | Meat Power | This mana appears to strengthen the empowering effects of what it is applied to. | ||
| Copper | Thaum > Copper | Ray | Time | This mana draws dust to itself and can physically impact a target. | ||
| Egg | Thaum > Egg | Liquid | Growth | This mana forces cells to divide and grow. | Nonliving Organic Matter cannot survive longer than twelve hours without a supply of magic or healing. | |
| Eye | Thaum > Aluminum > Eye | Liquid | See the Unseen | A sensory mana, this liquid magic is capable of controlling light and housing images. This mana ignores any light not made by magic. | ||
| Fat | Thaum > Fat | Liquid | Juggernaut | This mana increases the momentum of living beings, making it more difficult to change their vector. | ||
| Fire | Thaum > Ice > Fire | Wave | Barely Restrained Thaumic Mana | This mana responds to vibrations passing through it, both its effects and behaviors can be changed by them. | The effects and behaviors of this mana are Overt and Hasty, but twist themselves in such a way as to obscure their purpose behind cold clarity. | |
| Glass | (Construct + Barrier + Shell) > Glass | Elemental Ray | Lightsmith Armor | This mana creates a solid form of enchanted light, resistant to harm. | This mana will slowly transform into normal solidified light if starved of magic. | |
| Lead | Thaum > Lead | Ray | Supermass | This mana imbues a target with added heft temporarily. | ||
| Marrow | Thaum > Marrow | Liquid | Marrow | This mana appears to transform noncritical organic material into blood. | ||
| Meat | Thaum > Meat | Liquid | Flesh | This mana strengthens what it is applied to. | ||
| Mild Steel | Thaum > Vinyl > Mild Steel | Ray | Magnet Warp | This mana is drawn to the Mild Steel it was attuned to, stretching and warping it. | ||
| Offal | Thaum > Offal | Liquid | Mess | This mana is a mess of life-affecting magics. Whatever it is applied to may react unpredictably. | ||
| Porcelain | Thaum > Porcelain | Elemental Ray | Flake Creation | This mana creates Porcelain Flakes when applied to Porcelain. | Mana infused into Porcelain will cause it to break as material grows. It will turn to silicon if starved of magic. | |
| Red Glass | Thaum > Pink Glass > Red Glass | Elemental Ray | Lunar Sunglow | This mana produces a calm red light that turns warmer when mixed with the light of the moon. | ||
| Spicy Powder | Thaum > Spicy Powder | Liquid | Birdsong | This liquid mana is especially appealing to birds, having a faintly sweet odor and flavor that appears to draw them closer. | ||
| Spit | Thaum > Spit | Liquid | Enzyme Melt | This mana is mildly acidic. | ||
| Sweat | Thaum > Sweat | Liquid | Power Spark | This mana amplifies nearby energy present in living material. Sweat begins to spark and glow in the presence of this mana. | ||
| Tears | Thaum > Tears | Wave | Desperate Arcane Mana | This mana responds to vibrations passing through it, both its effects and behaviors can be changed by them. | The effects and behaviors of this mana are Mysterious and unpredictable. Emotions nearby empower it. | |
| Tin | Thaum > Aluminum > Tin | Ray | Magician's Fog | This mana draws together moisture in the air into a magic-absorbing cloud. | ||
| Tungsten | Thaum > Tungsten | Ray | Recycle | Tungsten Mana seems to make an object reabsorb waste energy that it expels. | ||
| Wardstone | Thaum > Ice > Wardstone | Elemental Ray | Grout of Caution | This mana grows a small amount of wet magical paste when applied to Wardstone. Over time, its magic fades, and it turns into a crystaline magical concrete. | Stillnite: This glittering stone can only be sensed by one sense at a time. If you hear it, you cannot see it. If you see it, you cannot feel it. It responds to noises with similar, but incoherent noises of its own. Wordless melodies, muddled conversations, and seemingly meaningless codes can be discerned from it | |
| Wardstone | Thaum > Aluminum > Wardstone | Elemental Ray | Grout of the Enchanter | This mana grows a small amount of wet magical paste when applied to Wardstone. If starved of magic, it hardens into a dry concrete, but when magic is given to it, it returns to a wet paste once again. | Faded Stone: This enchanted stone turns into a dry concrete if starved of magic, but returns to a wet paste when given it. | |
| Wardstone | Thaum > Ice > Tin > Wardstone | Elemental Ray | Stone of the Coast | This mana creates a dry powder that draws moisture towards itself when applied to Wardstone. The fog it creates hides things within itself. | Seance Powder: This dry powder draws moisture towards itself, creating fogs, storms, and other weather phenomena. Within this weather, strange things begin to occur, depending on how much Seance Powder is in one place. | |
| Water | Thaum > Water | Wave | Arcane Mana | This mana responds to vibrations passing through it, both its effects and behaviors can be changed by them. | The effects and behaviors of this mana are Mysterious and Mystical. | |
| Stone | Thaum > Stone | Elemental Ray | Stone Creation | This mana creates stone when applied to stone. | Mana infused into Stone will cause it to break as material grows. It will turn to silicon if starved of magic. | |
| Sand | Thaum > Sand | Elemental Ray | Erode | This mana reduces a target to powder | Powdered Materials are consumed during mana attunement, creating more mana than was applied. |
Research Obtained: 8
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[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Library, research Rogue laws, NEPEA-5, Uppermost/The Elite and MIRIS)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
As a Rogue, either we go alone and get beaten up and recruited or killed unless we also practice combat, or we join The Elite, or we join the MIRIS government initiative: I vote Elite.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Library, research Rogue laws, NEPEA-5, Uppermost/The Elite and MIRIS)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
As a Rogue, either we go alone and get beaten up and recruited or killed unless we also practice combat, or we join The Elite, or we join the MIRIS government initiative: I vote Elite.
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- Pronouns
- He
[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (We have a wide array of mana types for dissolving, disintegrating, pulverizing, and other such physical and chemically process, and a wide array of plant based mana types. We should attempt to derive a mana type, or combination of mana types and processes, which will allow us to grow a plant which "eats" solids, reducees them to dust, and creates mana. An organic mana engine.)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Lumic Condensite)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Blood > Lumic Condensite)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Blood > Wardstone)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Calcium Carbonate > Dirt)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Egg > Plant)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Plant > Egg)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Plant > Egg > Plant)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Egg > Dirt)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Battery > Plant)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Battery > Egg)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Battery >Dirt)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Tungsten > Plant)
[X][Mana] Test a Phonem's effect (Frizz) (Requires [EMERGENCY] Option A
[X][Mana] Test a Phonem's effect (Sizzle) (Requires [EMERGENCY] Option A
Ok so.
I was going to go for Lumic Condensite project again since in addition to the other things, I want to see what solid light can do for plants. But a dust engine is to good to pass up. Since we are already going plants and wet tinkering, we should make a biological one with what we have.
We should take a break and hang out with dad some. Maybe we will think of something new, maybe we will just have a good time. We can't work ALL the time. We will eventualy have to start going places as sage, but for now, we should just continue practicing and improving, until we are confident in building a cool getup.
Spells are also to good to pass up, so we can take the research hit. It will help research in the long run.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (We have a wide array of mana types for dissolving, disintegrating, pulverizing, and other such physical and chemically process, and a wide array of plant based mana types. We should attempt to derive a mana type, or combination of mana types and processes, which will allow us to grow a plant which "eats" solids, reducees them to dust, and creates mana. An organic mana engine.)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Lumic Condensite)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Blood > Lumic Condensite)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Blood > Wardstone)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Calcium Carbonate > Dirt)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Egg > Plant)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Plant > Egg)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Plant > Egg > Plant)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Egg > Dirt)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Battery > Plant)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Battery > Egg)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Battery >Dirt)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Tungsten > Plant)
[X][Mana] Test a Phonem's effect (Frizz) (Requires [EMERGENCY] Option A
[X][Mana] Test a Phonem's effect (Sizzle) (Requires [EMERGENCY] Option A
Ok so.
I was going to go for Lumic Condensite project again since in addition to the other things, I want to see what solid light can do for plants. But a dust engine is to good to pass up. Since we are already going plants and wet tinkering, we should make a biological one with what we have.
We should take a break and hang out with dad some. Maybe we will think of something new, maybe we will just have a good time. We can't work ALL the time. We will eventualy have to start going places as sage, but for now, we should just continue practicing and improving, until we are confident in building a cool getup.
Spells are also to good to pass up, so we can take the research hit. It will help research in the long run.
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[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
Spending 8 now when we are earning about that every week isn't too high of a price to pay for further QA support. I wonder if we need a vacuum chamber or something to attune without Thaum. Probably a bit to pricy for now.
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Base materials (i.e. Thaum> material): medical supplies (antiseptics- ethyl/isopropyl alcohol, Latex/Nitrile gloves, antibiotic ointment, Band-Aids), tape/adhesives. Precious metals/gems (mother's jewelry? old coins?) to test gold, silver, and ideally a diamond. Zinc (from a penny), nickel (from a nickel or quarter), ash/coal, graphite (from a pencil, should be close to pure carbon), salt, living animal (insect and/or mouse)
[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Air > single Metals (Cast Iron/Mild Steel/Tin/Copper/Aluminium); Thaum > Sand > Copper*; Thaum > Vinyl > Copper*; Thaum > Bone > Plant*; Thaum > Stone > Copper/Aluminum/Tin* (* means invert the materials as well, i.e. test thaum>material2>material1 too)
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
Edit: I see on the google doc a lot of what I wanted tested was done offscreen, changing the materials I want to have tested. I kinda want to mess with bone now to see how undeath works with our current crimes against nature. Also mixing ice with things makes really weird effects. Good to know. I'm thinking we are unlikely to get healing out of plant or blood attunement without side effects, so I want to try to get our hands on another diamond and other precious metals. Finding a way to use an elemental ray creation effect to produce (temporary due to mana dependence) materials would be very helpful with that as well, so I'm hoping stone>metal or metal>stone might work.
Spending 8 now when we are earning about that every week isn't too high of a price to pay for further QA support. I wonder if we need a vacuum chamber or something to attune without Thaum. Probably a bit to pricy for now.
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Base materials (i.e. Thaum> material): medical supplies (antiseptics- ethyl/isopropyl alcohol, Latex/Nitrile gloves, antibiotic ointment, Band-Aids), tape/adhesives. Precious metals/gems (mother's jewelry? old coins?) to test gold, silver, and ideally a diamond. Zinc (from a penny), nickel (from a nickel or quarter), ash/coal, graphite (from a pencil, should be close to pure carbon), salt, living animal (insect and/or mouse)
[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Air > single Metals (Cast Iron/Mild Steel/Tin/Copper/Aluminium); Thaum > Sand > Copper*; Thaum > Vinyl > Copper*; Thaum > Bone > Plant*; Thaum > Stone > Copper/Aluminum/Tin* (* means invert the materials as well, i.e. test thaum>material2>material1 too)
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
Edit: I see on the google doc a lot of what I wanted tested was done offscreen, changing the materials I want to have tested. I kinda want to mess with bone now to see how undeath works with our current crimes against nature. Also mixing ice with things makes really weird effects. Good to know. I'm thinking we are unlikely to get healing out of plant or blood attunement without side effects, so I want to try to get our hands on another diamond and other precious metals. Finding a way to use an elemental ray creation effect to produce (temporary due to mana dependence) materials would be very helpful with that as well, so I'm hoping stone>metal or metal>stone might work.
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Fluffy_serpent
a snake pretending to be human
[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Library, research Rogue laws, NEPEA-5, Uppermost/The Elite and MIRIS)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Library, research Rogue laws, NEPEA-5, Uppermost/The Elite and MIRIS)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
- Location
- OK
Most of your mana tests have already been completed.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
--[X][Cape Activities] Try to feel out the theorized mana generating field to see if it helps with training.
[X][Mana] Test sawdust>aluminum, clay dust>aluminum and flour>aluminum.
[X][Mana] See if a mana flywheel is possible. (ie: will a ring of mana to start spinning and let go. Try it with thaumically locked mana.
[X][Mana] Keep periodically checking Manasight and See the Unseen to see if anything triggers it.
[X][Mana] See if generating clay dust and then igniting it is perpetual.
[X][Mana] What happens if you physically introduce a material (try with aluminum) to a mass of mana without actively trying to attune it?
[X][Mana] Try to find a Phonem that locks mana without the splitting side effect.
[X][Mana] More Eye tests. Try Calcium Carbonate, blood, bone, copper, glass and lead, backwards and forwards.
[X][Mana] Aluminum+Eye
Most of my mana tests are to lay the groundwork for the dust generator. Project wise I'm leaning towards either trying to find other materials that recurse neutrally like aluminum or trying to figure out souls, before moving on to dust generator next turn after said groundwork is established.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
--[X][Cape Activities] Try to feel out the theorized mana generating field to see if it helps with training.
[X][Mana] Test sawdust>aluminum, clay dust>aluminum and flour>aluminum.
[X][Mana] See if a mana flywheel is possible. (ie: will a ring of mana to start spinning and let go. Try it with thaumically locked mana.
[X][Mana] Keep periodically checking Manasight and See the Unseen to see if anything triggers it.
[X][Mana] See if generating clay dust and then igniting it is perpetual.
[X][Mana] What happens if you physically introduce a material (try with aluminum) to a mass of mana without actively trying to attune it?
[X][Mana] Try to find a Phonem that locks mana without the splitting side effect.
[X][Mana] More Eye tests. Try Calcium Carbonate, blood, bone, copper, glass and lead, backwards and forwards.
[X][Mana] Aluminum+Eye
Most of my mana tests are to lay the groundwork for the dust generator. Project wise I'm leaning towards either trying to find other materials that recurse neutrally like aluminum or trying to figure out souls, before moving on to dust generator next turn after said groundwork is established.
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[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (We have a wide array of mana types for dissolving, disintegrating, pulverizing, and other such physical and chemically process, and a wide array of plant based mana types. We should attempt to derive a mana type, or combination of mana types and processes, which will allow us to grow a plant which "eats" solids, reducees them to dust, and creates mana. An organic mana engine.)
[X][Mana] Test liver and kidney mana, in case we get poisoned
[X][Mana] Test brain mana, just in case it helps us be better at researching mana types.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (We have a wide array of mana types for dissolving, disintegrating, pulverizing, and other such physical and chemically process, and a wide array of plant based mana types. We should attempt to derive a mana type, or combination of mana types and processes, which will allow us to grow a plant which "eats" solids, reducees them to dust, and creates mana. An organic mana engine.)
[X][Mana] Test liver and kidney mana, in case we get poisoned
[X][Mana] Test brain mana, just in case it helps us be better at researching mana types.
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[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (We have a wide array of mana types for dissolving, disintegrating, pulverizing, and other such physical and chemically process, and a wide array of plant-based mana types. We should attempt to derive a mana type, or combination of mana types and processes, which will allow us to grow a plant which "eats" solids, reduces them to dust, and creates mana. An organic mana engine.)
--[X] Maybe you could use something that generates pollen, pollen is a type of dust right?
Y'all can figure out mana, that gets complex real fast.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] You'll find a way to automatically turn dust into mana without your direct intervention (We have a wide array of mana types for dissolving, disintegrating, pulverizing, and other such physical and chemically process, and a wide array of plant-based mana types. We should attempt to derive a mana type, or combination of mana types and processes, which will allow us to grow a plant which "eats" solids, reduces them to dust, and creates mana. An organic mana engine.)
--[X] Maybe you could use something that generates pollen, pollen is a type of dust right?
Y'all can figure out mana, that gets complex real fast.
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The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
I've edited an addendum into the training action that might let us gain soul awareness.
- Location
- Milky Way
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Tungsten > Stainless Steel
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Tungsten > Aluminum
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Stainless Steel > Tungsten
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Stainless Steel > Aluminum
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Aluminum > Tungsten
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Aluminum > Stainless Steel
-[X][Daily Activities] Spend time with dad.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Continue your magical training.
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Tungsten > Stainless Steel
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Tungsten > Aluminum
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Stainless Steel > Tungsten
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Stainless Steel > Aluminum
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Aluminum > Tungsten
[X][Mana] Combinations: Thaum > Aluminum > Stainless Steel
[X][EMERGENCY] Spend 8 Research. Taylor gains the ability to learn and recall all Wave Mana Phonem Effects after testing them as an addition to her existing Thinker Powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Library, research Rogue laws, NEPEA-5, Uppermost/The Elite and MIRIS)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Visit a location (Library, research Rogue laws, NEPEA-5, Uppermost/The Elite and MIRIS)
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions