Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)

Uncommon items Joe could find in the D&D shop, part 3


please remember that Joe could probably make all of these, even if they aren't in the store, and he simply sees it in a catalog and tries to copy it


besides a proper magical shop should have a dozen unusual items and one rare even on lower ends


circlet of human perfection (would most likely cure case 53s)


Dust of Dryness (with his powers it might legitimately be a useful tool against leviathan and the recovery effort post-fight)


elemental gems (can summon elemental, make a magical deal with them that they can have the oceans so long as they don't attack vessels and constantly harass leviathan, same goes for earth elemental and behemoth, they either refuse and die or accept and die)


Answerer (the magic sword that weakens opponents' defenses)


Immovable rod ( what would happen if you clockblocker this item?)


Mage's Friend (Helpful knowledge rings with magical and religious knowledge)


Oil of Slipperiness (best lubricant in fiction)


Pearl of power (useful when joe can repeat a spell that he could only do once)


Psi crystals (probably can use to boost his own powers,or simply absorb it)


Ring of mind shielding (useful device to give to others, as it doesnt give away anything from joes tech or abilities)


The staff of arcane blessing (probably doesn't work because its powered by mystra but it's a magical booster without an upper limit, plus mystra rewards those who advance the field of magic, which joe can and has done)


Stone of good luck (always useful especially with fortune energy, might be a one time boost, or might be like a nuclear battery, and produce a small but constant amount of energy)


rare items:


bag of beans (aside the fact that his name is joe and these are magical bean these are really useful items)


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possible results of magical beans in D&D


The known magical properties of the beans are listed below:


Spawn a treant, although there was a risk it would be evil.


Summon an aggressive bulette.


Create a patch of toadstool mushrooms.


Create a statue that resembled the individual who planted the bean. It was rooted in place but for a day it was animate, and was verbally aggressive towards the individual who planted the bean.


Create a tree bearing fruit. The fruit had the effect of various potions.


Create a large pyramid, which contains a mummy lord.


Sprout a patch of shriekers.


Create a campfire of blue flame that burns for a full day.


Summon a geyser of liquid. The liquid could be water, beer, juice, tea or even oil.


Sprout a gigantic beanstalk

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all of those are good and safe for the CFcrew to handle


Belt of Dwarvenkind (works with Joe, he can finally grow a beard)


Daggerford Blade (partial damage redirection, if it does comparable damage it might)


Dimensional shackles (i don't think i need an explanation on why shackles that prevent dimensional travel are a very powerful item to have in worm)


Quaal's feather token (joe can definitely make those if he is at all capable of making)


Potion of diminution (i remember the changing chopsticks from xiaolin showdown, you can shrink into machinery and build it there, imagine how small the machinery a 5 inch tall joe can make, it's going subatomic with the nanites)


Portable hole (i honestly just want to give this to joe to see aisha place it in front of capes as they walk inside, bugs bunny would be proud)


more expensive items available after upgrade


Goblin arrow (an arrow that summons angry goblins, please shoot one of these at coil)


Potion of fox's cunning (i can just see the smugness raising within tattletale)


Potion of invulnerability (might actually help joe as its only limited by time, something he can increase)


Potion of resistance (useful if you can make a type of non-dnd damage, i think scion's golden beams would be ice damage,or maybe radiant)


Udderfish venom (good at causing lots of pain without damage)


Violet potion (it would legit be a powerful enough potion to consider giving it to tybalt)


Bolts of power (effectively an anti-parahuman bullet)


Aquamarine (Orgonil's ritual could use aquamarines to make an exact copy of another gemstone, regardless of flaws, scratches, or carvings.)


Howling wolf charm (gift for bitch)


Pearl of wisdom (every.single.cape.needs.one)


Rabbit's foot (strangely a normal thing that anyone could carry and no one would bat an eye,excellent for fortune energy experiments)


Shortsword of First Blood (the spell in this weapon is worthy of reverse engineering,


"breaking the unbroken. It made the sword's attacks, aimed at creatures previously unscathed, more powerful"


that one makes it a prime target for reverse engineering, as it simply increases opening shots)



Gal-ralan (literal nails that keep your soul and body together, might temporarily slow down the faerie queen for a few seconds, despite her not being an actual ferie)


Potion of treasure finding (joe can always have help finding stuff)


Emeralds (could be used to detect hidden treachery, hatred, and deceit without the use of magic. The stones would crack or break in the immediate presence of perfidy. Kings were known to wear rings carved out of emerald when attending important meetings, parleys, and critical negotiations.)


(basically the anti-manipulation power but on just a rock)


Bowl of blood (an amazing gift for tetra, i especially want to see what happens when she drinks dragon blood, im imagining chinese lion dance but as a changer martial art)


Oil of etherealness (again may be useful in some situation)


Potion of absorption (may actually be a better anti-golden beam optithanhen the resistance potion)
 
One archive binge later...

OK, that's 1,600,000 words jammed into my skull. Not gonna lie, that's been a couple of weeks of finding at least an hour a day. And the funniest thing is that the story's still at the point where none of the major canon issues have been dealt with, and several issues have been made worse. :) I guess that when it comes to the Wormverse, not even multiuniversal Supreme Cosmic Power backed by ROB can easily prevail against the inherent crapsackery.
 
The new system wasn't actually any more powerful, but all the little workarounds that had been put in place were suddenly unnecessary. The system was automatically online thanks to the Workshop's Extranet upgrade. It had a dedicated Intranet set up and maintained by my power, connecting it to the systems in my new Office, as well as the desktops, laptops, and tablets that had been provided for each member of the team.

Those were of nebulous usefulness. I mean, they were technically good systems, the kind of thing I would have been happy to have when I was starting out, but now it wasn't even the fact that they were outdated that was the problem. Fleet, Survey, and the Matrix emphatically did not need a computer. Tetra could interface directly with systems and emulate any technology she needed. Aisha had a tendency to lean on her watch or armor for any computing needs, and at this point she could probably build better computers herself. Tybalt and Garment might have gotten use out of them, but they already had better systems available to them.

The main advantage of the smaller PCs was the fact that the same ease of upgrades applied to them as the computer core. I hadn't seriously considered using spiritron processors in a laptop, largely for the same reason I'd never considered using a fusion bomb for a cigarette lighter. It was so monstrously excessive that even I was having trouble justifying it, and I had previously built Garment a laptop that outstripped the world's entire civilian computational infrastructure. Seriously, unless we got into some fairly heavy magitech applications, it wasn't likely to be worth the effort.
Even if they had been completely intrusive, I probably would have been able to handle it. The philosophy towards cybernetics gained from Technical Training was far more robust. I wasn't quite onboard on the level of the Laboratorium's skulls, but I appreciated the sentiment behind it. The way the motive force existed independently of the medium it flowed through. How the transition from flesh to machine wasn't something to be feared.

Additionally, with my Scavenger power, integrating new technology was trivial. The entire ability was based around incorporating seemingly incompatible technology seamlessly. Normally that would have been used with the Robotic Armor that came with that power, but it worked just as well on my cybernetic body.

"Do you need a hand?" My duplicate asked, holding up the tiny Lambda Driver.

"No, I've got it." I said. Extensive cybernetics had taken this kind of thing from a medical procedure to a firmly mechanical process. It was both reasonable for me to handle it, and a good idea for me to understand any modifications to my own body.

With the number of repair, modification, and upgrade powers I possessed there wasn't even a need for special tools or facilities. The dropping of the effect that concealed my cybernetic form, a quick partial removal of a chest plate, and the integration of the driver into my primary energy circuit, and then I was done. Human concealment was back up, and you'd never guess that I had just opened my own chest.
Hey shouldn't Joe be integrating one of those personal computers, properly Ship-Of-Theseused and miniaturized like his boots, into his body to aid in interfacing with other things?

Also
The Mantra-based technology was integrated into my body on a spiritual level. It was as much a part of me as any organic component, something evident by how it was able to grow, develop, and change in a very organic way.
If Joe is going to be self-identifying based off of spirituality he should avoid being depicted as identifying based on things like identity or personality.
He doesn't want the people who aren't part of his team having free access though. He considers the place his home where he can relax, feel safe, and just be himself rather than playing a specific role. The family and friends that he has made in his team are welcome to share that, but he doesn't want to just give free access to people, even ones that he cares about as much as, whenever they want.

He especially and specifically doesn't want Taylor anywhere near some of the stuff he has in there.
He literally has enough land for a small city, or a one-to-one model of Lord Of The Rings lands, and a teleport prison to keep people out of where he doesn't want them; it's not a concern.
I just had a truly horrid thought, though since LordR has rejected he idea of Taylor and Emma both being there, I doubt it happens.

You don't think that Mrs. Durress, Jozef's mother, would be the type to flaunt her social connections by attending a prestigious, though last minute, fashion fundraiser, do you? I would think not, since she seems the type that might think non-PRT capes to be garish or undignified.
Hey if she thought that she could use it as a excuse to invade peoples lives.
It'd be nice if Garment placed Survey's old Scrying Mirror into the Trophy Room. Everyone in the Celestial Forge should have one or two keepsake mementos on display.

Apeiron doesn't need to recycle the scrying mirror for raw materials or toss it into the Hexagram Crucible (Chinese name???) to recover its enchantments.

Or, if not the Trophy Room, Apeiron could give everyone a bedroom in the Valkyria Hidden Hideaway mansion and order them to decorate it, with Survey saving her old Scrying Mirror. Yes, I stole the idea from "My Hero Academia" where students show off their dormrooms and argue over whose is best.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvR0WkG1fx8

Yeah Survey could start a commemorative museum or something.
 
The Great Creator (Knaka)
It's been a while since I posted an omake, let's correct that.

This was inspired by a similar omake on another story, and I realized it could work here too.

XXX

The Great Creator

"Alright, what happened?" I sighed as I looked over the devastation before me.

I had been in the middle of a sparring match with Tybalt when I received an urgent message from my duplicates to come to Survey's scrying room. Once I arrived, I found the room a mess, with both of my duplicates fixing the damage.

Fortunately, the room was so heavily warded, no one outside probably heard or felt anything.

"Well" one of my duplicates started. "We decided to upgrade Survey's mirror."

I looked at the dozens of new mirrors lining the walls of the room. "I understand that, but how does that explain the damage?" I asked.

"The new mirrors with Craftsmen of the Gods can give new properties." Explained the second duplicate. "We were building prototypes to see what was possible."

I motioned for him to continue.

"Alright, the mirrors have additional properties, but the ones here all have different properties. It seems that Master Craftsman, Daedalus' Student, and Craftsmen of the Gods all synergize pretty well. We were just starting to test the mirrors and used one that showed images of the past."

I blinked. "How does that cause this mess?"

"Well, it turns out that under the right circumstances, relatively small amounts of energy can pass through the mirror." the second duplicate continued.

"Now that we know that can happen, we can build the mirror so it doesn't happen" Added the first duplicate.

"OK, I think I get it, you observed something in the past and energy passed through the mirror to create this mess." I said. "What were you looking at?"

"Well, as the objective was to determine the limits of the mirror, I attempted to look as far into the past as I could." Survey said.

"Turns out the mirror can look as far into the past as possible." added my second duplicate.

I blinked at the implications. "Wait, you observed the big bang?" I asked.

"Seems like it." Replied my first duplicate, as he transferred the experience of the event.

I felt a headache coming on. "Alright, I guess that explains that. Anything else I should know?"

"Well, Survey might count as the creator deity of the multiverse." My second duplicate quipped.

"What?" I asked.

"Well, according to our calculations, the big bang extended through multiple, possibly all of the universes in existence." Said my first duplicate. "It seems that it would have generated enough matter and antimatter in the proper positions to cancel itself out, but the small amount of matter and antimatter that leaked through the mirror created a chain reaction that destabilized the equilibrium. That resulted in some universes having an abundance of matter and some having an abundance of antimatter, the pattern that we see continue to play out today."

I stared blankly at my duplicates and Survey as I reviewed the data provided. After a deep breath, I responded.

"Nope, this is going with the demigod genetics, Satan summoning, and soul use as shit I'm not going to deal with." I stated as I walked out the room, trying to put the encounter out of my mind.
 
"Well, according to our calculations, the big bang extended through multiple, possibly all of the universes in existence." Said my first duplicate. "It seems that it would have generated enough matter and antimatter in the proper positions to cancel itself out, but the small amount of matter and antimatter that leaked through the mirror created a chain reaction that destabilized the equilibrium. That resulted in some universes having an abundance of matter and some having an abundance of antimatter, the pattern that we see continue to play out today."
Honestly yeah a few Annihilator Effects used to dispose of anti-matter from some Hawking Radiation would constitute some Ex Nihilo generation.
That's actually so obvious in hindsight. Very good idea; I wonder if he'll do it. Maybe becoming one with the Workshop is a bit freaky to contemplate.
Speaking of becoming one with the Workshop though you know what would make for good medical facilities for the spare Key to teleport people into? A divine realm or whatever they were saying would happen if they pumped enough Fortune Energy into a enclosed space; if they're dying then their bodies are clearly not worth keeping anyway so the body destruction aspect of it shouldn't be detrimental.
 
If it seems like the the wrong response, you're just not trying hard enough.
Hmm... Necromart, or Prayers 'r Us.
(Divine magic would work just fine in the same scenario, all's I'm sayin')


As for the dieselpunk walker barely fit to be farm equipment; reminder that in the Mechanicus Laboratorium's native universe, the Leman Russ medium tank is rumoured to be adapted from a tractor blueprint from the Dark Age of Tech! It's a common connective tissue in real life as well. Mars the god of Farmers and Soldiers, still relevant!


Hm. Unique Chain of Yeeting variant. Can also be used the same way as a gravity gun, a grappling hook and a weapon tether line!

"I know." I said. "I can swing down to the Regency Center, help out with the prep." I smiled. "And give Garment her key." I paused as I was alerted to an incoming call. "Right after I speak with Alec."

-_- Your pun is bad and you should feel bad.
 
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-_- Your pun is bad and you should feel bad.
If this really is a pun, then Lord was playing the greatest long game yet, because Regency Center was introduced back in Sabah's interlude. It is not a thing to feel bad about, it's The Achievement to be proud of!

Or it can be that one boring thing - coincidence. But we all know - there are no coincidences. Not when puns are involved. ALL PUNS ARE INTENDED!
 
Survey, we need some cheese platters for the show... does the shop have any Stilton?
I'm afraid they're fresh out, it restocks in two days.
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What about Holy Roman War Cheese?
Yes! Oh no, sorry; the cat's eaten it.
At least Tybalt isn't trying his luck with mixing magical stimulants and super science ones.

And great, he's doing it right now. Well, better call Doom Slayer to direct his rampage against something that isn't very fragile.

Like East Coast itself.
 
Yeah, speaking of that telepathy… why is Joe still talking to himself like this? It's not even a comfort habit thing, because he's now in constant permanent connection. Rather than needing to be told this stuff in dialogue, it should all be internal thought- because he already knows everything they have to tell him and are thinking. And even if he doesn't because it might not be instant information transference, he still doesn't need them to be physically present to report.
Joe trying his best throughout his entire character arc to retain some semblance of his ability to relate to regular people despite the constant warping and changing of his mindset in sometimes fully alien ways due to his power VS this user's personal dislike of dialogue: who would win?
Hey shouldn't Joe be integrating one of those personal computers, properly Ship-Of-Theseused and miniaturized like his boots, into his body to aid in interfacing with other things?
It'd make sense for something like this to happen with the planned neural implant upgrade mentioned in this chapter.
 
He literally has enough land for a small city, or a one-to-one model of Lord Of The Rings lands, and a teleport prison to keep people out of where he doesn't want them; it's not a concern.
Where he doesn't want them is the whole place. It's his, and most of his team's, home, and he doesn't want them in there.

Joe: "Get off my lawn."
Taylor: "It's a whole volcano."
Joe: "You heard me."

Plus, starting with the clones, they've been making much more use of the place then a person might expect. It's somewhere that a team of demigods can spread out and be as passively extravagant as they want.
 
He could just build one from scratch, though. I think the only advantage the hoe would have would be a faster self-repair, which isn't all that valuable.
It's wood from a different universe with different metaphysics if that helps but even if it doesn't it's still wood which means that he can make it magical. It wouldn't have a ton of utility but he's definitely got enough land to do some farming if he wants to.

Hell he even got the dirt for it by Fiat as well.

That being said though he's also got a volcano; some farming terraces might also be rather nice.
Joe trying his best throughout his entire character arc to retain some semblance of his ability to relate to regular people despite the constant warping and changing of his mindset in sometimes fully alien ways due to his power VS this user's personal dislike of dialogue: who would win?
He should probably talk to more people for that.
Where he doesn't want them is the whole place. It's his, and most of his team's, home, and he doesn't want them in there.

Joe: "Get off my lawn."
Taylor: "It's a whole volcano."
Joe: "You heard me."

Plus, starting with the clones, they've been making much more use of the place then a person might expect. It's somewhere that a team of demigods can spread out and be as passively extravagant as they want.
He has a city-state in the valley in his pocket dimension; he can spare a few apartment buildings.

Hell he can send a few apartment buildings flying in the sky over his valleys build-limit if he's that troubled by it taking up space.
 
He has a city-state in the valley in his pocket dimension; he can spare a few apartment buildings.

Hell he can send a few apartment buildings flying in the sky over his valleys build-limit if he's that troubled by it taking up space.
It's the fact of the matter really - Joe just doesn't trust the Undersiders as a whole, Taylor included, as far as he could throw them. Heck, the only reason why he's sticking around for Taylor is because he cares for her and because of her role in the future, but care is not the same as trust.
 
It's the fact of the matter really - Joe just doesn't trust the Undersiders as a whole, Taylor included, as far as he could throw them. Heck, the only reason why he's sticking around for Taylor is because he cares for her and because of her role in the future, but care is not the same as trust.
He doesn't need to throw them anywhere because he can teleport them to the moon on a whim...Speaking of which he could probably also take a tour of Spheres moonbase at some point if he wanted to. Hell he could probably steal Spheres moonbase and keep it in his valley.
 
It's the fact of the matter really - Joe just doesn't trust the Undersiders as a whole, Taylor included, as far as he could throw them. Heck, the only reason why he's sticking around for Taylor is because he cares for her and because of her role in the future, but care is not the same as trust.
From what I have seen, the only two members of the Undersiders Joe can trust to the slightest degree is actually Rachel and Alec. Which is saying something that the two people that were pretty much the most messed up mentally due to so many factors are the ones that are most forward with him.

Lisa is constantly trying to get control over him for her own personal benefits even if just trusting Joe would probably be the smarter thing.

Brian constantly listens to Lisa and also puts to much focus on the idea of the "image" being so important for a group that started as smash and grab villains.

And Taylor has gone way to quickly to lethal force. Joe cares about her due to being his favorite professor's daughter who passed away along with his "powers" whole thing involving the future. Beyond that though, she has proven that she cannot be trusted to not push to far with anything he can give her. And that does include the expanded bag he gave her.

Heck, for all we know she might have been figuring out how to use socks made by Garment as part of her arsenal.
He doesn't need to throw them anywhere because he can teleport them to the moon on a whim...Speaking of which he could probably also take a tour of Spheres moonbase at some point if he wanted to. Hell he could probably steal Spheres moonbase and keep it in his valley.
Yet again, he could do that but he doesn't trust them not to do something foolish. Such as throwing one of their knives out and having it go through atmospheric reentry. Because I'm not sure that they would burn up quickly enough to not cause damage.

Plus there is still the Simurgh flying about that is only "weakened" due to not getting accurate information. A literal shift of a space craft leaving the Earth to reach the moonbase would be a red flag for it and cause it to begin to get personally involved.
 
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