Entry 050
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Anime Adjacent Entry: 050
Disclaimer Me Do: I own nothing you recognize. And most of what you don't recognize, I still don't own.
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4/7/1993
So...
This has not been a great week for me.
Sales are good. Switched to fishing instead of hunting to let the game repopulate. Reis seems to like the fish. Especially the bones.
Found an old washing machine out in a scrap pile and got the motor in that Repaired and rewired. Found something weird while I was hunting for old car batteries, though. White sportscar, red circle with the number five on the doors, two seater, custom everything. It's just a pile of rust at this point but it's easy enough to see that the old girl was a racecar once upon a time.
Crazy thing is, when I went to go digging through it for parts? I just kept finding more, and more, and more. Saw blades in the front, an extendable suspension between the body and the tires, there was a dome that covered the seats and even a periscope. Even had some kind of rusted clockwork bird thing buried behind the engine compartment.
...And the skeleton of a monkey in the trunk. There's, uh, no metaphor here. Literally just the bones of a monkey in the trunk. Initially thought it might have been a kid, actually. Was about ready to call the cops before I noticed the tail.
Some asshole out there really thought it'd be a funny prank to dress up a dead monkey in children's clothes and stuff it in the trunk of an old car. At least, I hope that's what happened. The car was from the sixties and there wasn't any way to open the trunk from the inside...
You know what? I'm just going to move on.
So. I tried talking to one of the magic associations I know of in Japan. Figured I'd try and get a feel for why they weren't doing jack, diddly or shit about the Youma in Minato.
They tried jack and diddly but the results were shit. I don't know the details but apparently the guys they sent to try and do something died. And the assholes from the west sent twice as many to get the same results.
I knew people were dying out there. Cops are probably trying to keep people from panicking which, y'know, I get that. Scared people are stupid people.
The guy in charge, Konoe? He was doing a decent enough job of talking me around to trying to convince the Sailor Senshi to go and sign up for lessons on the basics of magic. Fully believe they would benefit from that, personally.
Problem came when the guy joked about memory erasure as their solution to people leaking the secret about magic.
'But muh masquerade!'
Hahah, no. I remember the year 2010. I remember how prolific cameras were on every corner of the street. How many people had phones that were recording audio and video at every second of the day.
Erasing memories to keep magic a secret always had a shelf life. Not the reason I walked out the second the old pervert joked about it, but it's a good one.
I don't know what kinds of magical protections the Sailor Senshi have. Most people don't actually plan to protect against mind magics. Which, I mean, I get it. There's a strong 'It'll never happen to me!' vibe going on there.
Rich people think the same thing about getting shot in the alley out behind a cinema, too.
Erasing memories isn't even a step away from editing minds, though, and that's a big issue here. Because the Sailors are all Persons of Mass Destruction. Just handing them over to people that have the tools to literally reprogram them into targeted weapons is...
Look. The Sailor Scouts here in Japan go nuts? I'm not sure what would be able to stop them. Not if their defenses match up to their offenses. I've got spells that could do the job but I don't know if Tokyo would still be standing if they get deployed.
It'd be the magical edition of 'Japan gets to greet the sun!' Unfortunately, the last two didn't go over so well.
...Writing in the journal is supposed to help make me feel better. This isn't.
Okay. You know what? How about the moon. Let's talk about the moon. I went up there to cool off after leaving Mahora Academy.
Can you guess what I found?
If the answer is 'moon tunnels' you can take a dummy prize. I already knew about those.
I found a ruined crystal castle. On the dark side of the moon. Place was beat to hell and full of moon dust but everything up there was full of moon dust. That stuff is like asbestos and sand having a syphilitic hate-child together.
Thankfully? I have a multitude of repair spells! And one cleaning spell.
The palace, once the walls were back up? Place was a work of art. The crystalline walls collected starlight and sort of focused it, really gave the place this eerie glow. Now, I couldn't get through the whole castle. It's a giant castle!
But I did finish exploring a few rooms. The entryway, a gallery filled with weapons like a sword hilt, a mirror, a key-shaped staff and a scythe. The exhibit was called 'Those Who Watch the Darkness'.
Don't ask me what language it was in, alright? I cheated with a spell.
Then there was the throne room. One big throne, one little throne next to it. Really old furniture to the side. Great big painting behind the throne. Which was pretty confusing once I got it Repaired.
It was Sailor Moon. In a ballgown instead of an athletic leotard with a skirt. With a slightly taller woman that looked just about identical except with silver hair.
Next time I go up? I'm a take a polaroid with me and snap a few photos.
Back here on Earth? I've just been keeping apace. I've got my minting operation started. Just had to make a few different components. Out of Tungsten.
Look, heavy as that stuff is? It's got the highest melting point out of all the materials I have available. Which wouldn't have been necessary if I was working strictly with gold. But platinum doesn't melt until it's nearly at the same temperature as titanium.
Not that I can get titanium to melt. That stuff oxidizes at a lower temperature. And titanium oxide has an ignition point well below titanium's melting point.
The operation has been pretty simple, other than some... initial teething issues.
The process is pretty simple, thankfully. I go and get some scrap metal, maybe some rocks and I Convert it into either gold or platinum, whichever one I'm working with, which is initially unsuitable for reuse as a magical material.
I miss that about my old reality. The rules were more openly flexible there.
Then I melt that down with my own fire spell, Cremation, and pour it into my coin mold. Given the size of the coins, I can get about a hundred per pour. I decided to go with a more traditional shape, here. Round coins with square holes in them.
Makes them incredibly easy to stack.
Once they've cooled down enough to solidify, that's when I run 'em over to the press. It's just a simple lever press but it does a good enough job, breaks off the flashing so I can recast the metal and in the end I've got a small coin with a couple of symbols stamped on it that mean 'The Dragon's Treasure'.
Once I get done with gold and platinum, I was thinking of doing copper and silver. Making replica Wadōkaichin. I've actually got a handful of both that I pulled off the corpse of that Tengu I unsealed, the one from the book I bought in Nerima.
Probably need to do something with its corpse. The thing claimed it was Sōjōbō.
Might make for a good showpiece when I have to deal with the Kansai? I've got a feeling they'd recognize the old monster.
Anime Adjacent Entry: 050
Disclaimer Me Do: I own nothing you recognize. And most of what you don't recognize, I still don't own.
_________________________________________________________________________
4/7/1993
So...
This has not been a great week for me.
Sales are good. Switched to fishing instead of hunting to let the game repopulate. Reis seems to like the fish. Especially the bones.
Found an old washing machine out in a scrap pile and got the motor in that Repaired and rewired. Found something weird while I was hunting for old car batteries, though. White sportscar, red circle with the number five on the doors, two seater, custom everything. It's just a pile of rust at this point but it's easy enough to see that the old girl was a racecar once upon a time.
Crazy thing is, when I went to go digging through it for parts? I just kept finding more, and more, and more. Saw blades in the front, an extendable suspension between the body and the tires, there was a dome that covered the seats and even a periscope. Even had some kind of rusted clockwork bird thing buried behind the engine compartment.
...And the skeleton of a monkey in the trunk. There's, uh, no metaphor here. Literally just the bones of a monkey in the trunk. Initially thought it might have been a kid, actually. Was about ready to call the cops before I noticed the tail.
Some asshole out there really thought it'd be a funny prank to dress up a dead monkey in children's clothes and stuff it in the trunk of an old car. At least, I hope that's what happened. The car was from the sixties and there wasn't any way to open the trunk from the inside...
You know what? I'm just going to move on.
So. I tried talking to one of the magic associations I know of in Japan. Figured I'd try and get a feel for why they weren't doing jack, diddly or shit about the Youma in Minato.
They tried jack and diddly but the results were shit. I don't know the details but apparently the guys they sent to try and do something died. And the assholes from the west sent twice as many to get the same results.
I knew people were dying out there. Cops are probably trying to keep people from panicking which, y'know, I get that. Scared people are stupid people.
The guy in charge, Konoe? He was doing a decent enough job of talking me around to trying to convince the Sailor Senshi to go and sign up for lessons on the basics of magic. Fully believe they would benefit from that, personally.
Problem came when the guy joked about memory erasure as their solution to people leaking the secret about magic.
'But muh masquerade!'
Hahah, no. I remember the year 2010. I remember how prolific cameras were on every corner of the street. How many people had phones that were recording audio and video at every second of the day.
Erasing memories to keep magic a secret always had a shelf life. Not the reason I walked out the second the old pervert joked about it, but it's a good one.
I don't know what kinds of magical protections the Sailor Senshi have. Most people don't actually plan to protect against mind magics. Which, I mean, I get it. There's a strong 'It'll never happen to me!' vibe going on there.
Rich people think the same thing about getting shot in the alley out behind a cinema, too.
Erasing memories isn't even a step away from editing minds, though, and that's a big issue here. Because the Sailors are all Persons of Mass Destruction. Just handing them over to people that have the tools to literally reprogram them into targeted weapons is...
Look. The Sailor Scouts here in Japan go nuts? I'm not sure what would be able to stop them. Not if their defenses match up to their offenses. I've got spells that could do the job but I don't know if Tokyo would still be standing if they get deployed.
It'd be the magical edition of 'Japan gets to greet the sun!' Unfortunately, the last two didn't go over so well.
...Writing in the journal is supposed to help make me feel better. This isn't.
Okay. You know what? How about the moon. Let's talk about the moon. I went up there to cool off after leaving Mahora Academy.
Can you guess what I found?
If the answer is 'moon tunnels' you can take a dummy prize. I already knew about those.
I found a ruined crystal castle. On the dark side of the moon. Place was beat to hell and full of moon dust but everything up there was full of moon dust. That stuff is like asbestos and sand having a syphilitic hate-child together.
Thankfully? I have a multitude of repair spells! And one cleaning spell.
The palace, once the walls were back up? Place was a work of art. The crystalline walls collected starlight and sort of focused it, really gave the place this eerie glow. Now, I couldn't get through the whole castle. It's a giant castle!
But I did finish exploring a few rooms. The entryway, a gallery filled with weapons like a sword hilt, a mirror, a key-shaped staff and a scythe. The exhibit was called 'Those Who Watch the Darkness'.
Don't ask me what language it was in, alright? I cheated with a spell.
Then there was the throne room. One big throne, one little throne next to it. Really old furniture to the side. Great big painting behind the throne. Which was pretty confusing once I got it Repaired.
It was Sailor Moon. In a ballgown instead of an athletic leotard with a skirt. With a slightly taller woman that looked just about identical except with silver hair.
Next time I go up? I'm a take a polaroid with me and snap a few photos.
Back here on Earth? I've just been keeping apace. I've got my minting operation started. Just had to make a few different components. Out of Tungsten.
Look, heavy as that stuff is? It's got the highest melting point out of all the materials I have available. Which wouldn't have been necessary if I was working strictly with gold. But platinum doesn't melt until it's nearly at the same temperature as titanium.
Not that I can get titanium to melt. That stuff oxidizes at a lower temperature. And titanium oxide has an ignition point well below titanium's melting point.
The operation has been pretty simple, other than some... initial teething issues.
The process is pretty simple, thankfully. I go and get some scrap metal, maybe some rocks and I Convert it into either gold or platinum, whichever one I'm working with, which is initially unsuitable for reuse as a magical material.
I miss that about my old reality. The rules were more openly flexible there.
Then I melt that down with my own fire spell, Cremation, and pour it into my coin mold. Given the size of the coins, I can get about a hundred per pour. I decided to go with a more traditional shape, here. Round coins with square holes in them.
Makes them incredibly easy to stack.
Once they've cooled down enough to solidify, that's when I run 'em over to the press. It's just a simple lever press but it does a good enough job, breaks off the flashing so I can recast the metal and in the end I've got a small coin with a couple of symbols stamped on it that mean 'The Dragon's Treasure'.
Once I get done with gold and platinum, I was thinking of doing copper and silver. Making replica Wadōkaichin. I've actually got a handful of both that I pulled off the corpse of that Tengu I unsealed, the one from the book I bought in Nerima.
Probably need to do something with its corpse. The thing claimed it was Sōjōbō.
Might make for a good showpiece when I have to deal with the Kansai? I've got a feeling they'd recognize the old monster.
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