A Conjuror's journey
- Location
- St. Petersburg
Ah, I missed the man.
Do you think we can assign him to Cattleya to make her feel better? Now he, too, has experience of drinking kids, surely that's something to bond over.
[X] Why not, it might be interesting.
Edifier
Trusted within thoughts.
- Location
- Court of Moon Wizards
I wonder if it's that radiation is converted into magic rather than radiation being magic.
I mean, nuclear reactors emmissions are hot air and radioactive materials. Now, if those materials could be used for magic rituals or the craft of magic items. They could essentially be recycled, removing waste altogether. Cause really, if the radiation from the materials can be removed and than that leaves those materials being able to be used again, possibly, and just steam... which well... steam. 100% eco friendly.
I mean, nuclear reactors emmissions are hot air and radioactive materials. Now, if those materials could be used for magic rituals or the craft of magic items. They could essentially be recycled, removing waste altogether. Cause really, if the radiation from the materials can be removed and than that leaves those materials being able to be used again, possibly, and just steam... which well... steam. 100% eco friendly.
To Emulate Seht
PieceThruWar
Not an eldritch abomination
- Location
- The Server Farm
Since you have nothing better to do and it might prove interesting, you agree to assist the man. Following him into the private workshop attached to his office much like Vahlen's lab. Smaller and lesser equipped than the general assembly rooms on this floor, Shen's workshop is nevertheless packed with all manner of objects; from laser rifles mid-deconstruction to what appears to be a set of circuitry connected to a soul gem, the place is a testament to the man's unceasing need to keep himself busy.
Stepping over to a table that holds a cloth covered lump, Raymond hesitates a moment before pulling back the sheet.
Immediately you are confronted with the sight of a skeletal upper body of metal, not dissimilar to the destroyed synths that have been discovered throughout X-com's time in this world. The key differences that you notice are the childlike proportions, the capless skull, and how much more sturdy it's alien alloy construction appears compared to the thin steel twigs of the synths. What is readily visible to you is that the circuited soul gem would fit perfectly into the head of the machine.
Not looking toward the man as you eye the machine, you admit, "This is... not exactly what I have come to expect from you, Raymond. Moira, sure, but in the brief time we've known each other, you always came off as the more... conservative of the three of us."
"I still am. It's pretty easy to be more conservative than the good doctor and a necromancer, but even I planned to have our troops sacrifice eighty percent of their bodies for cybernetics if our powered armor plans hadn't worked." He replies in an almost amused tone before becoming much somber. "I wouldn't have asked for your help with this if I could do it myself."
The two of you hadn't spoken much on your personal lives, neither wanting to broach the topic for whatever reason, but his goal is rather obvious even then. The demi-fabricant skeleton's size and the personal nature could only really mean that the man had a daughter that hadn't escaped the death of his world. What you aren't sure on is why he waited so long to mention this project to you or even ask for you to bring back her spirit other than some misguided sense of pride or shame.
Regardless of his reasons, helping him might give you an alternative fallback in the event of imminent death rather than the unsatisfactory undeath of lichdom. It still wouldn't be your ideal immortality, but anything other than true death would be better than trapping yourself in a slowly rotting corpse.
To that end, you tell him, "Well then, we should get to work. I assume you want to place her soul in that gem and still allow it to perceive the world through the machine?"
"Yes, I was hoping that the gem could power the body so that she wouldn't need to be stuck on a charging station or dependent of fuel." He answers with a relieved smile, making it clear that he wasn't sure if you would still help after learning what it was he wanted. "Lily never did like sitting idle... Out of curiosity, what did you think I needed your help with?"
Ignoring the obvious change in subject, you reply, "The submarine that the Commander mentioned a while ago... certainly not a Sotha Sil-esque experiment."
"I'm not sure what that means, but we're keeping an eye on the sub until we have a working Skyranger for rapid insertion. We don't know if whoever has been using it's periscope is capable of piloting it away and it would be a waste to have our Zodiacs go out there only to scare it off."
You nod in acceptance before poking at the machine torso. "A human soul can easily power this sort of construct, but she won't be capable of learning magic if we do that. She would need to have specially made spell emitters enchanted for each effect she needed and would be limited to remaining stationary while casting."
"If you hadn't shown up on our world, we wouldn't even know magic was a real concept, so that's fine. Honestly, I don't think that would help anyway, she'll have a hard enough time blending in with kids her age."
Gesturing to the gleaming metal, you raise a brow. "Really? I can hardly imagine why."
Shaking his head, Raymond beckons you to look at his computer and presses a series of buttons. A video of a completed skeleton being coated in a spider web of black lines while slowly being submerged in a meld tank. "I'll need to speak with Moira about the details, but I plan on making sure she at least looks like herself. It's her weight and lack of signs of aging that will cause problems. Melded on tissue can help with surface details like bleeding when cut or growing hair, but height? Weight? I'll need to upgrade her 'bones' as time goes by and even with alien alloy's light weight-to-strength ratios, she'll still be roughly thirty percent heavier than her peers."
"Well the weight problem could be easily solved with a Feather enchantment on her skeleton before the... dipping process. There is not much I could do about the size change though, since any magical solutions would be experimental and far too magicka intensive to risk when her soul is powering the machinery." You inform the man, turning from the screen to inspect the intended soul gem. "This is all theoretical of course, because we might not be able to trap her soul in this soul gem. Not to be pessimistic, of course since until we try, we will not know whether or not Arkay is meddling with the souls of your world. The odds are slim that he has any influence on those born outside of my realm."
Status: Healthy
Magicka: (75/650)
[] Begin immediately, better to have the child's soul on hand for when the body is finished.
[] Help him finish the body and delay summoning her soul until later
[] Tell him you will help by summoning her soul when he is finished with the construction.
[] Write in.
Stepping over to a table that holds a cloth covered lump, Raymond hesitates a moment before pulling back the sheet.
Immediately you are confronted with the sight of a skeletal upper body of metal, not dissimilar to the destroyed synths that have been discovered throughout X-com's time in this world. The key differences that you notice are the childlike proportions, the capless skull, and how much more sturdy it's alien alloy construction appears compared to the thin steel twigs of the synths. What is readily visible to you is that the circuited soul gem would fit perfectly into the head of the machine.
Not looking toward the man as you eye the machine, you admit, "This is... not exactly what I have come to expect from you, Raymond. Moira, sure, but in the brief time we've known each other, you always came off as the more... conservative of the three of us."
"I still am. It's pretty easy to be more conservative than the good doctor and a necromancer, but even I planned to have our troops sacrifice eighty percent of their bodies for cybernetics if our powered armor plans hadn't worked." He replies in an almost amused tone before becoming much somber. "I wouldn't have asked for your help with this if I could do it myself."
The two of you hadn't spoken much on your personal lives, neither wanting to broach the topic for whatever reason, but his goal is rather obvious even then. The demi-fabricant skeleton's size and the personal nature could only really mean that the man had a daughter that hadn't escaped the death of his world. What you aren't sure on is why he waited so long to mention this project to you or even ask for you to bring back her spirit other than some misguided sense of pride or shame.
Regardless of his reasons, helping him might give you an alternative fallback in the event of imminent death rather than the unsatisfactory undeath of lichdom. It still wouldn't be your ideal immortality, but anything other than true death would be better than trapping yourself in a slowly rotting corpse.
To that end, you tell him, "Well then, we should get to work. I assume you want to place her soul in that gem and still allow it to perceive the world through the machine?"
"Yes, I was hoping that the gem could power the body so that she wouldn't need to be stuck on a charging station or dependent of fuel." He answers with a relieved smile, making it clear that he wasn't sure if you would still help after learning what it was he wanted. "Lily never did like sitting idle... Out of curiosity, what did you think I needed your help with?"
Ignoring the obvious change in subject, you reply, "The submarine that the Commander mentioned a while ago... certainly not a Sotha Sil-esque experiment."
"I'm not sure what that means, but we're keeping an eye on the sub until we have a working Skyranger for rapid insertion. We don't know if whoever has been using it's periscope is capable of piloting it away and it would be a waste to have our Zodiacs go out there only to scare it off."
You nod in acceptance before poking at the machine torso. "A human soul can easily power this sort of construct, but she won't be capable of learning magic if we do that. She would need to have specially made spell emitters enchanted for each effect she needed and would be limited to remaining stationary while casting."
"If you hadn't shown up on our world, we wouldn't even know magic was a real concept, so that's fine. Honestly, I don't think that would help anyway, she'll have a hard enough time blending in with kids her age."
Gesturing to the gleaming metal, you raise a brow. "Really? I can hardly imagine why."
Shaking his head, Raymond beckons you to look at his computer and presses a series of buttons. A video of a completed skeleton being coated in a spider web of black lines while slowly being submerged in a meld tank. "I'll need to speak with Moira about the details, but I plan on making sure she at least looks like herself. It's her weight and lack of signs of aging that will cause problems. Melded on tissue can help with surface details like bleeding when cut or growing hair, but height? Weight? I'll need to upgrade her 'bones' as time goes by and even with alien alloy's light weight-to-strength ratios, she'll still be roughly thirty percent heavier than her peers."
"Well the weight problem could be easily solved with a Feather enchantment on her skeleton before the... dipping process. There is not much I could do about the size change though, since any magical solutions would be experimental and far too magicka intensive to risk when her soul is powering the machinery." You inform the man, turning from the screen to inspect the intended soul gem. "This is all theoretical of course, because we might not be able to trap her soul in this soul gem. Not to be pessimistic, of course since until we try, we will not know whether or not Arkay is meddling with the souls of your world. The odds are slim that he has any influence on those born outside of my realm."
Status: Healthy
Magicka: (75/650)
[] Begin immediately, better to have the child's soul on hand for when the body is finished.
-[] Have Kiba and Hinata observe.
-[] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
-[] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
[] Help him finish the body and delay summoning her soul until later
[] Tell him you will help by summoning her soul when he is finished with the construction.
-[] Go get Louise in case Granger decides to be vindictive and check on Espinoza's condition.
-[] Go speak with the Commander about assisting in the war effort.
-[] Take a team of zombies to take over that submarine.
-[] Go speak with the Commander about assisting in the war effort.
-[] Take a team of zombies to take over that submarine.
[] Write in.
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- Location
- canada
[X] Begin immediately, better to have the child's soul on hand for when the body is finished.
-[X] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
I'd prefer to both keep this more private due to it being a personal matter, and to reduce any potential accidental interference from the kids. This is delicate and important stuff after all.
-[X] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
I'd prefer to both keep this more private due to it being a personal matter, and to reduce any potential accidental interference from the kids. This is delicate and important stuff after all.
Unseelie
(Verified True Fae)
- Location
- Tír fo Thuinn
I'm not sure if this is a mistake or an implied "as opposed to floating, like a normal person".
PieceThruWar
Not an eldritch abomination
- Location
- The Server Farm
Did it not save my edit? It was supposed to be "stationary while casting."
Unseelie
(Verified True Fae)
- Location
- Tír fo Thuinn
Ah, sorry, not used to you editing before I point stuff out.
(Had this open since the notification and only now read it.)
- Location
- St. Petersburg
[X] Begin immediately, better to have the child's soul on hand for when the body is finished.
-[X] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
Damn it, work seems to be piling up. Resurrect Lily, unghost the ninja dog, set Espinoza on Cattleya to free Louise (is she still tending to her sister?), check on Trobdor's progress, and that's without considering the rest of the Worm side of things.
-[X] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
Damn it, work seems to be piling up. Resurrect Lily, unghost the ninja dog, set Espinoza on Cattleya to free Louise (is she still tending to her sister?), check on Trobdor's progress, and that's without considering the rest of the Worm side of things.
- Location
- Vancouver
It is but hopefully we can put off somethings, like Akamaru's potential resurrection till after the Brotherhood stuff, telling them we need to deal with the enemy at the gates before Cynric can devote the time and resources to bring him back (which will hopefully get them more invested in fighting our enemies as well. Part of it is we need to delegate better and get like a personal assistant/intern/lieutenant/something like that to help organize everyone else where they need to go/run the important but smaller errands for us while we focus on doing the things that only Cynric & Louise can do.
What do we have left to do in Worm again? I'd really like to move on to RWBY as soon as possible.
Barnes
Laughing on the outside, laughing on the inside
- Location
- Definetly not my parent's basement
Extracting Trobdor and picking up Vicky are the only things I can think of. If everything worked out well with Faultine's Crew, perhaps arrangements could be made to check back in on the Worm-verse at set intervals to fix Case 53's in exchange for resources, but that sounds like something that can be worked out without Cynric's personal attention.
- Location
- Vancouver
Alright that sounds good then.
[X] Begin immediately, better to have the child's soul on hand for when the body is finished.
-[X] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
-[X] Leave the ninjas out of it, Raymond might not appreciate their company.
To Emulate Seht Part Two: Obtaining An Animus
PieceThruWar
Not an eldritch abomination
- Location
- The Server Farm
Slathering on both magicka salves and drinking a regenerative potion as well as two bottles of milk, noting with a gag that you should throw out the rest and get a new stock soon, you allow Raymond to go back to work directing the other engineers after he donates a few ounces of blood. The healing potion should counteract the risk of overloading your body with too much magicka. Though you are certain that you can handle more than the last time, it never hurts to be cautious. Bodily preparations completed and a bowl formed from a scrap of metal, you slip into Raymond's office.
If this Lily still had a body or personal effects, summoning her would be as simple as calling her spirit back to something familiar. As it stands though, you will need to spend some time searching for her by using her father's things. Several of the man's hairs gathered from the cot in his office and a poorly done drawing that could only have been a gift from Lily are put into the bowl, followed by some water. Stirring it together, you simultaneously boil the water while forcing the liquid to reflect Raymond's past involving his daughter. Once you have a clear image, you create a pinhole sized portal to Aetherious and begin the long process of summoning the child's soul back to what should be a comforting memory.
Ordinarily you would be against wasting such an obscene amount of magicka, but you can accept it if it leads to even a singular step forward on the path to immortality.
A small, pale blue and transparent hand reaches out from within the burning star that is your Aetherial portal. The spirit that drags itself out is unfortunately not the one you are looking for and you quickly make use of it to enchant the mechanical simulacrum with Feather rather than banish it. Three more false starts lead to not only the remaining parts you can find being enchanted the same, but also all of it getting a Fire Resistance enchantment to make up for the physically durable metal's comparatively large weakness to heat.
It is as you are beginning to run low that the correct spirit emerges from the portal and you are free to close it. She stares at you in wide eyed confusion, which isn't surprising, since she was likely oblivious to her death and her world was unlikely to have either an Aetherial or Daedric realm to serve as an afterlife in which she could understand what had happened.
"Who are you?" The seven or eight year old ghost asks warily, not even noticing her new appearance.
"My name is Cynric, I'm a wizard that your father asked to bring you back from the dead." You tell her bluntly, chuckling lightly at her increased confusion as you retrieve the soul gem.
With a tilt of her head, she argues, "I'm not dead, I'm right here and wizards aren't real dummy. What did you do to Miss Susan? Where's my daddy?"
Not wanting to argue with a child, ghost or not, you simply hold out the gem and tell her, "You are, but your father can explain that. Goodbye for now."
With that, you cast Soul Trap on her. From what you know, the inside of a soul gem should be something akin to a dream, so the chances of waiting around inside it causing any long term damage to her mind are slim. Granted, you've never experienced it yourself and those you've trapped before were in black soul gems, but it should be fine... as long as you don't use the soul for any enchantments and risk sending it to the soul Cairn.
Leaving Lily in the lab as you set off in search of food, you look at a clock to find that it has been several hours and now the sun should be fading on the surface. Shen and his subordinates are still working on the Skyranger when you pass by, nodding to the man's questioning look as you go.
Status: Healthy
Magicka: (20/175)
After eating:
[] Find Louise and have her go take over the submarine. She can take whoever or whatever she thinks necessary.
[] Return to help assemble Lily's body.
[] Go to sleep. Tomorrow you can-
[] Write in.
If this Lily still had a body or personal effects, summoning her would be as simple as calling her spirit back to something familiar. As it stands though, you will need to spend some time searching for her by using her father's things. Several of the man's hairs gathered from the cot in his office and a poorly done drawing that could only have been a gift from Lily are put into the bowl, followed by some water. Stirring it together, you simultaneously boil the water while forcing the liquid to reflect Raymond's past involving his daughter. Once you have a clear image, you create a pinhole sized portal to Aetherious and begin the long process of summoning the child's soul back to what should be a comforting memory.
Ordinarily you would be against wasting such an obscene amount of magicka, but you can accept it if it leads to even a singular step forward on the path to immortality.
A small, pale blue and transparent hand reaches out from within the burning star that is your Aetherial portal. The spirit that drags itself out is unfortunately not the one you are looking for and you quickly make use of it to enchant the mechanical simulacrum with Feather rather than banish it. Three more false starts lead to not only the remaining parts you can find being enchanted the same, but also all of it getting a Fire Resistance enchantment to make up for the physically durable metal's comparatively large weakness to heat.
It is as you are beginning to run low that the correct spirit emerges from the portal and you are free to close it. She stares at you in wide eyed confusion, which isn't surprising, since she was likely oblivious to her death and her world was unlikely to have either an Aetherial or Daedric realm to serve as an afterlife in which she could understand what had happened.
"Who are you?" The seven or eight year old ghost asks warily, not even noticing her new appearance.
"My name is Cynric, I'm a wizard that your father asked to bring you back from the dead." You tell her bluntly, chuckling lightly at her increased confusion as you retrieve the soul gem.
With a tilt of her head, she argues, "I'm not dead, I'm right here and wizards aren't real dummy. What did you do to Miss Susan? Where's my daddy?"
Not wanting to argue with a child, ghost or not, you simply hold out the gem and tell her, "You are, but your father can explain that. Goodbye for now."
With that, you cast Soul Trap on her. From what you know, the inside of a soul gem should be something akin to a dream, so the chances of waiting around inside it causing any long term damage to her mind are slim. Granted, you've never experienced it yourself and those you've trapped before were in black soul gems, but it should be fine... as long as you don't use the soul for any enchantments and risk sending it to the soul Cairn.
Leaving Lily in the lab as you set off in search of food, you look at a clock to find that it has been several hours and now the sun should be fading on the surface. Shen and his subordinates are still working on the Skyranger when you pass by, nodding to the man's questioning look as you go.
Status: Healthy
Magicka: (20/175)
After eating:
[] Find Louise and have her go take over the submarine. She can take whoever or whatever she thinks necessary.
-[] Optional: Louise POV.
[] Return to help assemble Lily's body.
[] Go to sleep. Tomorrow you can-
-[] teach the ninjas some necromancy and work with Cattleya on controlling her beast.
-[] check in on Espinoza and Granger.
-[] check in on Espinoza and Granger.
[] Write in.
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- Location
- canada
[X] Go to sleep. Tomorrow you can-
-[X] check in on Espinoza and Granger.
I'd vote for completing the body today, but from seeing this:
-[X] check in on Espinoza and Granger.
I'd vote for completing the body today, but from seeing this:
as a result of using the milk, I think Cynric needs to rest to regain his Magicka cap to normal of 650 before doing more magical stuff. Besides the two test subjects should be checked on anyways.