I'd need to check to be sure, but I think becoming an Animagus takes more time than this story has already encompassed. Maybe Joe could tinker around with it to speed it up, but I doubt he'd consider it worth his time to focus on at the moment. I guess a clone could figure it out and gift wrap the process for him.
Remember Joe has Unnatural Skill: Transmutation, WOG is that the level of skill is based around what monsters could do. In PJO The Titans Curse Thorn could transform between a human form and a manticorn form.
Since Student of Daedalus can work at range, can he upgrade the QCom's bandwidth enough to fit Survey's... generous figure? Could they set up the rituals needed to transmute Cybertronium or set up spiritronics operating on Fleet and Matrix's souls?
The Mist will cover concealment pretty well and he's got the chops for proper shapeshifting too.
Titan's Blood said:
I remember hearing of one movie director who also analysed his own movies on Youtube, and in one seen people were trying to pick apart the meaning of the colour of the curtains. When he got to that scene, he admitted they were that colour because that was all that was in stock.
Eurgh, please no. That'd completely interrupt the flow of reading and kill any momentum.
I assumed this only applied to Legendary weapons made using Borderlands tech.
Shards where designed/ iterated on by evolutionary pressures rather than intelligent design, this makes them a wonderful combination of elegant hyperoptimized mechanisms and stupid crap that has been hastily made to work, and given their complexity, that description applies recursively on their inner components. I guarantee that if Joe ever reaches the level of making shard or shard like technology, he's going to want to throw out or redesign half of what he cribs from study of shardspace.
I have only a general familiarity with Ward from summaries so how likely is creating a weapon-city in shardspace likely to preemptively trigger Gold Morning or other crazy Ward shit like Titans?
Yeah, because telling the author to intentionally have the story shoot itself in the foot out of spite is such a helpful and constructive idea.
image?
forge, just nitpicking no need to change it
don't know why but this made me laugh, with all of Aperion power, he still sometimes fail
forcing Aperion to either reveal his identity or get better mentally
Well, the titans are a result of gold morning busting up shardspace, and Zion probably won't notice anything unless things get particularly gratuitous. Zion didn't do anything other than sealing the actual breach into shardspace when he originally encountered it, whether that's because he doesn't care about "contamination" by March's zombie and the motoroid because he doesn't consider them a threat or because he litteraly doesn't care if stuff starts interfering with shardspace is kinda up in the air. He might investigate if he detects the "wound" that he sealed up getting "infected" but whether that would lead to Zion going ballistic is unknown. Really, how badly Apeiron's adventures in shardspace can go depends on whether or not Zion notices or not, not on what he himself does. He'd have to be very specifically trying to break things if he himself wanted to cause broken triggers or the like.
I'd hope that Joe included some magical stealth/defense systems before the Motoroid became a massive "look over here" landmark.
As a former programmer...
Never played with a self evolving AI sandbox? Any self optimising system is under evolutionary pressures. It being biological or inorganic is irrelevant. It will slowly accumulate weirdness, just like Joe's AI did before he helped them prune their codes.
Hahahaha... You poor fool, they've gone beyond the level of spaghetti code. They've reached entire hierarchies of spaghetti languages.
... When did I imply that inorganic evolving systems didn't produce whacky adaptations?
