Thats fair. I mostly feel the same, but you know how it goes. HE DA MAIN KARACTER.
Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
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Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
There have honestly been many animes where the main character ruined the story for me just simply by EXISTING and being such an irritating character that I can't simply look past them to enjoy the story as it is. so I feel the thread's author's pain on that one.
Animes that I couldn't get into because of annoying MCs:
Re:Zero-- Just because you literally have a save point power doesn't give you the right to be so fucking stupid all the time. especially when one doesn't seem to learn from the mistakes they made. He's just such a doofus, you guys. The anime would be way better if they removed the guy and gave his save point powers to somebody like Rem, or even Emila.
Diaolk Lovers-- A reverse harem with abusive and sadistic vampires. The female MC Yui Komori is so fucking annoying and she pretty much sets back the female movement back decades. her overly submissive behavior is way over the top old-fashioned even in a conservative country like Japan. The funny thing is, this was supposed to be marketed to Japanese girls who were a big fan of vampires, etc... but from what I heard it didn't do so well in that demographic.
Zero no Tsukaima-- Louise and Saito. I mean... how could anybody fuck this up? This was basically Harry Potter in an anime setting, with some iskesai thrown in. this should have been a winning formula. but no, we're saddled with two of the most annoying MCs ever. Louise makes all tsunderes out there look bad, and Saito is just your typical clueless harem MC who has no friggin' clue about anything.
Just to name a few.
Animes that I couldn't get into because of annoying MCs:
Re:Zero-- Just because you literally have a save point power doesn't give you the right to be so fucking stupid all the time. especially when one doesn't seem to learn from the mistakes they made. He's just such a doofus, you guys. The anime would be way better if they removed the guy and gave his save point powers to somebody like Rem, or even Emila.
Diaolk Lovers-- A reverse harem with abusive and sadistic vampires. The female MC Yui Komori is so fucking annoying and she pretty much sets back the female movement back decades. her overly submissive behavior is way over the top old-fashioned even in a conservative country like Japan. The funny thing is, this was supposed to be marketed to Japanese girls who were a big fan of vampires, etc... but from what I heard it didn't do so well in that demographic.
Zero no Tsukaima-- Louise and Saito. I mean... how could anybody fuck this up? This was basically Harry Potter in an anime setting, with some iskesai thrown in. this should have been a winning formula. but no, we're saddled with two of the most annoying MCs ever. Louise makes all tsunderes out there look bad, and Saito is just your typical clueless harem MC who has no friggin' clue about anything.
Just to name a few.
- Location
- Canada
Thank God! So many stories have the Si Mc somehow LIKE him even though there's nothing good about him. Like i dont get it, hes a horrible character thats doesn't improve and I had to drop the series because he was so unlikable!
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Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
Well duh, it's Japan. I don't mean to be offensive (but will be) but they're not the suavest people on the planet.
There's a reason why Netori is so popular, why a huge chunk of the demographic is NEET and/or Hikikomori and why they're suffering from lowering population.
And the overly stressful school and work environment don't help at all.
Heck, it's why Isekai is so popular - they just want to leave it all behind and have fun.
You have to remember that popular media is influenced heavily by the mindset of the creators.
It's why everybody in the "West" is scratching their heads at the cluelessness of the MC's while in Japan people would just nod and say something like "as expected". Sasuga Japan desu!
PS. I love Japan nevertheless. <3
There's a reason why Netori is so popular, why a huge chunk of the demographic is NEET and/or Hikikomori and why they're suffering from lowering population.
And the overly stressful school and work environment don't help at all.
Heck, it's why Isekai is so popular - they just want to leave it all behind and have fun.
You have to remember that popular media is influenced heavily by the mindset of the creators.
It's why everybody in the "West" is scratching their heads at the cluelessness of the MC's while in Japan people would just nod and say something like "as expected". Sasuga Japan desu!
PS. I love Japan nevertheless. <3
- Location
- Canada
O... K... Guess I'm too much a SW fan to appreciate such a short series of chapters. Glad you visited, also wish for more. But, if your muse went this way, then I guess it's for the best you followed "Always leave them wanting more."
for your next editing pass:
Looking forward to more.
for your next editing pass:
sensors attached to
Looking forward to more.
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I just woke up from a dream where a grey Baku that had white stripes all across it like a zebra, visited me. wonder if there's meaning behind this, or if I simply read too much fanfiction... 
- Location
- UnderGround
How do you feel about the protagonist of trinity seven he has a decent level of perversion and isn't an absolute retard like Issei.
Magpy
Very Curious
- Location
- Australia, but actually USA (or is it?)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I was sad that Adam didn't bring Bakus into Star Wars, but now that I thought about it again, it was probably a good idea that he didn't.
After all, who knows what would be left of the Dark Side of the Force afterwards?
After all, who knows what would be left of the Dark Side of the Force afterwards?
A Bit of Rest.
- Location
- Here
The 'film' Simmy selected for the evening was apparently a home movie created of Adam's trip.
Tastefully edited, more scenes of a certain sexy blue angel tinkering than Adam remembered, but basically well done.
It was thirty minutes or so into the film however that the odd feeling in the background really began to stand out.
Narwhal frowned. "You've been... uh. No. The whole film has been losing color I think. It is now nearly black and white."
CD, nestled on his right side, nodded. "He's been spending more and more time in the library tinkering too. Look at the runes on his skull."
'Conveniently', the film zoomed in on Adam's skull, and subtitles appeared.
"Magic... never before forced to exist separately as Chaos and Order."
His black runes were... fracturing. The black marks decayed, gaps and spaces slowly opening as midnight sand fell out of the designs.
His blue runes were drying out, becoming whiter bone that was slowly losing all shadows, turning nearly cartoonish.
The camera shifted to Adam's focused face, the skull going unnaturally still as soft music played. The music was stuttering, a bit out of focus, and crackling.
The eye sockets had jagged scars, raw edges of pain and emptiness, radiating like lightning into the bone.
Blue crystal eye flames were now burning points of ember rather than the glow the girls were used to.
The lower jaw still existed, but teeth were sharper. Black fog oozed to the floor, white fog drifted upwards like cigar smoke through the openings in the skull.
Bone limbs with tools and sensors mutated the longer Adam worked, becoming thinner. Longer. Sharper. Edges decayed from sleek lines to jagged edges hungry for something or someone.
The limbs NOT in use no longer patiently waited for their turn but seemed unnaturally still, jittering far too fast from one stone like position to another, like a camera effect gone wrong.
Narwhal and CD both gasped when Padawan Bene entered the room from the back door.
The extreme close camera angle showing one of Adam's void eye socket slowly burning with rage while the woman behind him ever approached closer, her awkward movements not distracting Adams vengeful assault on technology. A harsh spark of power flashed a white light over his limbs as he worked.
Then the girl made too much noise.
The snap of his bones twisting to face the intruder was almost as jarring as his physical changes. Bone sealed shut, runes reformed, eyes flooded with curiosity... if it wasn't for his skull unnaturally twisting around and the many bony limbs that twisted like snakes to stare at the new meat, one could pretend everything was back to normal.
The girls watched as the skeleton tolerated a small chat before standing... or at least, he was now vertical.
Adam blinked... that time period was a bit mentally fuzzy, but he had recalled Shirley opening a passage for him to head to the surface.
According to the film however... he just walked into the wall and ignored it. Ash fell behind his steps as he burned ever deeper into the Dark.
And with each skeletal step into the shadows, soft sounds began to follow.
On the surface of the strange planet, Variance suddenly twitched as purification runes burned into his soul bindings.
The film grew full of color again, and for a moment everything went still.
With a glowing cane and a sense of purpose, Variance began to pace into the night while runes burned into the soil behind him.
And the magic sang a song that resonated with his bones.
Adam watched the skeletal man construct the runic boundary on film as Narwhal gulped. "What... What was that?"
He frowned. "The Force energies and Magical essences tend to interact with each other a bit too much for comfort. The changes I made there, once I arrived at the surface of the planet, fully prevented the massive waves of Force influence I had to struggle through from affecting my powers... probably."
Adam sighed as he glanced down at his fingers, flesh again. "It is why I didn't move much while there. The Force was heavy, and even when not directed in my path it was easier to bear in the Temple where the stuff was pulled off my body and into the walls."
He hugged the girls a bit closer, Simmy sitting on the floor between his legs and Nightmare Moon to her left. "It was far more apparent when I left, but ever since that energy grasped me from between worlds and slammed my soul into a doorway I had been... oppressed. Not fully, and I could have fought it off... but that field was everywhere. Just... leaning a bit too much into my space."
He nudged the girls back to the film, showing some of the robotic things he had designed. "Don't worry, Squishy is adding power charges to my 'Transfer' ability so I can send and receive Boro and Robo's data packets without being forced to go back. It means time will pass there, and I won't risk showing up before a message arrives, but I feel safer this way. I don't really want to head back there, at least not to that version of Star Wars anyway."
As the last scene faded to black, an image showed his corpse in meditation.
The blue flames flickering and slowly shifting into black and white fire.
The embers in each eye burning so blue that they seemed close to solid.
The runes in the bones slowly shifting into ever more complicated patterns.
Force forgive anyone who managed to intrude into this Temple, because Adam had no clue what would happen when that corpse woke up to defend her.
Adam nodded. "Yeah, not going back there." He clapped. "But Simmy, you are GREAT as a producer! Feel free to make many more films, you have real talent here."
Maybe that distracted the girls enough? Based on the concern on their faces though, probably not.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sonia Lagarde looked up from the long list of patents Variance had passed her. "And you want me to just license these designs out for others to use for cheap? Why! Even the lowest tools and materials you display here could make massive profits WITHOUT us having to fleece anyone. It is almost raw profit!"
Adam chuckled. "Because THOSE are simplified and lower quality versions of the stuff in THIS binder." He passed her the thick block of paper, which she accepted like a newborn baby made of diamonds and gold. "The really advanced stuff needs these crappy designs and early steps before anyone can even try to copy or duplicate anything. I want these tools out there for people more engineering focused than I to really play with."
She looked at the three binders. "So... this for everyone, this for us and the Guild only, what is in the third binder?"
He smirked. "Schematics that require earning low levels of my powers through System to even try to learn. You can mostly ignore them, as they will be distributed through System itself when certain classes reach the required education levels."
Well, she was smart enough to accept a pile of gold and a larger pile of potential gold even if she had to let go of impossible gold. Or something. "I can work with this."
He nodded. "I expected nothing less. Oh, and we won't sell the schematics for this but I have a whole new market for you to handle."
Sonia watched the holograms show various robots doing jobs. "Droid platforms controllable remotely by customers with VR connections, to handle dangerous work like clearing burning buildings, repair work underwater, and so forth. No AI involved either, so we won't have to worry about electronic slavery or rebellions or whatever."
He frowned as he pulled up some other images. "I have a few AI that are very interested in pushing the future of cuisine, but they didn't feel it was right to just make more of themselves or introduce essentially a new species on Earth, so this was considered a good compromise. Cheap remote controlled tools that the user can feel things through."
More images, these painted as police. "These models on the other hand are much more expensive and need Dragon's approval before being sold or distributed, but are meant to be low level Brute platforms for police use. The range is good enough that the controllers can work from the station while supporting teams in the field where required. There are other models for paramedics and firefighters and so forth as well."
She hummed. "Profit margin will be small, don't want cops to get hurt due to profit. That's TERRIBLE for long term business. Still, better law enforcement should be good for us over all." She nodded. "I assume since you mentioned Dragon that she will be able to work with me on this?"
Adam nodded. "Yeah, she and Boro have been designing a whole catalog of 'platforms' for human use, even some bizarre stuff like the ones for hair dressers and the one for exotic basket weaving. Should have anything you need once you talk to her a bit."
Sonia nodded. "I'll get right on it boss." She snapped her fingers and another supermodel level woman sauntered into the room. "Rose, show Variance out and call Dragon for me, it will be a long afternoon."
Adam blinked, somehow standing on the street with a basket of various fruits and a pamphlet about how awesome his businesses were. Huh.
Well, his companies were in good hands.
And this pineapple was delicious!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Dirty and twitching, Saint flinched when he received an email. His email server terminal only had power for twelve minutes a day as a recent security measure, and the ones allowed to even send him a message was a very tightly guarded list at this point.
The debate on opening the message or not took two hours, most of it concern that it was a vicious trap from the no longer controlled electronic demon, Dragon. And no, just because he had increased security measures a few dozen times does NOT mean he was being unhinged.
He shifted under the security blanket. His team mates had risked going out for supplies a few times, but the chance of being followed by uncontrolled electronic eyes had kept Saint secure in the backup bunker just in case for months now. Not like those fools so easily tricked into complacency.
But for one of his friends to send him an email of all things meant this was a VERY severe emergency.
His eyes grew wider and wider as sentence after sentence blew his worse case scenario out of the water.
The AI overlords were here, and were trying to conquer the cooking world! Seasoning and sauces were at risk, dressing and baked goods were in danger! Eventually only oil based products and lubricants would be served anywhere! Taste-bud slavery could not stand!
Righteous fury bled in his veins as he forced himself to log online despite protocols and warn the sheeple of the planet.
"ROBOTIC FOOD IS LITERALLY SATAN'S SEDUCTION!"
He never expected to be a cyber warrior of justice, but he was the Hero the world needed.
Tastefully edited, more scenes of a certain sexy blue angel tinkering than Adam remembered, but basically well done.
It was thirty minutes or so into the film however that the odd feeling in the background really began to stand out.
Narwhal frowned. "You've been... uh. No. The whole film has been losing color I think. It is now nearly black and white."
CD, nestled on his right side, nodded. "He's been spending more and more time in the library tinkering too. Look at the runes on his skull."
'Conveniently', the film zoomed in on Adam's skull, and subtitles appeared.
"Magic... never before forced to exist separately as Chaos and Order."
His black runes were... fracturing. The black marks decayed, gaps and spaces slowly opening as midnight sand fell out of the designs.
His blue runes were drying out, becoming whiter bone that was slowly losing all shadows, turning nearly cartoonish.
The camera shifted to Adam's focused face, the skull going unnaturally still as soft music played. The music was stuttering, a bit out of focus, and crackling.
The eye sockets had jagged scars, raw edges of pain and emptiness, radiating like lightning into the bone.
Blue crystal eye flames were now burning points of ember rather than the glow the girls were used to.
The lower jaw still existed, but teeth were sharper. Black fog oozed to the floor, white fog drifted upwards like cigar smoke through the openings in the skull.
Bone limbs with tools and sensors mutated the longer Adam worked, becoming thinner. Longer. Sharper. Edges decayed from sleek lines to jagged edges hungry for something or someone.
The limbs NOT in use no longer patiently waited for their turn but seemed unnaturally still, jittering far too fast from one stone like position to another, like a camera effect gone wrong.
Narwhal and CD both gasped when Padawan Bene entered the room from the back door.
The extreme close camera angle showing one of Adam's void eye socket slowly burning with rage while the woman behind him ever approached closer, her awkward movements not distracting Adams vengeful assault on technology. A harsh spark of power flashed a white light over his limbs as he worked.
Then the girl made too much noise.
The snap of his bones twisting to face the intruder was almost as jarring as his physical changes. Bone sealed shut, runes reformed, eyes flooded with curiosity... if it wasn't for his skull unnaturally twisting around and the many bony limbs that twisted like snakes to stare at the new meat, one could pretend everything was back to normal.
The girls watched as the skeleton tolerated a small chat before standing... or at least, he was now vertical.
Adam blinked... that time period was a bit mentally fuzzy, but he had recalled Shirley opening a passage for him to head to the surface.
According to the film however... he just walked into the wall and ignored it. Ash fell behind his steps as he burned ever deeper into the Dark.
And with each skeletal step into the shadows, soft sounds began to follow.
On the surface of the strange planet, Variance suddenly twitched as purification runes burned into his soul bindings.
The film grew full of color again, and for a moment everything went still.
With a glowing cane and a sense of purpose, Variance began to pace into the night while runes burned into the soil behind him.
And the magic sang a song that resonated with his bones.
Adam watched the skeletal man construct the runic boundary on film as Narwhal gulped. "What... What was that?"
He frowned. "The Force energies and Magical essences tend to interact with each other a bit too much for comfort. The changes I made there, once I arrived at the surface of the planet, fully prevented the massive waves of Force influence I had to struggle through from affecting my powers... probably."
Adam sighed as he glanced down at his fingers, flesh again. "It is why I didn't move much while there. The Force was heavy, and even when not directed in my path it was easier to bear in the Temple where the stuff was pulled off my body and into the walls."
He hugged the girls a bit closer, Simmy sitting on the floor between his legs and Nightmare Moon to her left. "It was far more apparent when I left, but ever since that energy grasped me from between worlds and slammed my soul into a doorway I had been... oppressed. Not fully, and I could have fought it off... but that field was everywhere. Just... leaning a bit too much into my space."
He nudged the girls back to the film, showing some of the robotic things he had designed. "Don't worry, Squishy is adding power charges to my 'Transfer' ability so I can send and receive Boro and Robo's data packets without being forced to go back. It means time will pass there, and I won't risk showing up before a message arrives, but I feel safer this way. I don't really want to head back there, at least not to that version of Star Wars anyway."
As the last scene faded to black, an image showed his corpse in meditation.
The blue flames flickering and slowly shifting into black and white fire.
The embers in each eye burning so blue that they seemed close to solid.
The runes in the bones slowly shifting into ever more complicated patterns.
Force forgive anyone who managed to intrude into this Temple, because Adam had no clue what would happen when that corpse woke up to defend her.
Adam nodded. "Yeah, not going back there." He clapped. "But Simmy, you are GREAT as a producer! Feel free to make many more films, you have real talent here."
Maybe that distracted the girls enough? Based on the concern on their faces though, probably not.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sonia Lagarde looked up from the long list of patents Variance had passed her. "And you want me to just license these designs out for others to use for cheap? Why! Even the lowest tools and materials you display here could make massive profits WITHOUT us having to fleece anyone. It is almost raw profit!"
Adam chuckled. "Because THOSE are simplified and lower quality versions of the stuff in THIS binder." He passed her the thick block of paper, which she accepted like a newborn baby made of diamonds and gold. "The really advanced stuff needs these crappy designs and early steps before anyone can even try to copy or duplicate anything. I want these tools out there for people more engineering focused than I to really play with."
She looked at the three binders. "So... this for everyone, this for us and the Guild only, what is in the third binder?"
He smirked. "Schematics that require earning low levels of my powers through System to even try to learn. You can mostly ignore them, as they will be distributed through System itself when certain classes reach the required education levels."
Well, she was smart enough to accept a pile of gold and a larger pile of potential gold even if she had to let go of impossible gold. Or something. "I can work with this."
He nodded. "I expected nothing less. Oh, and we won't sell the schematics for this but I have a whole new market for you to handle."
Sonia watched the holograms show various robots doing jobs. "Droid platforms controllable remotely by customers with VR connections, to handle dangerous work like clearing burning buildings, repair work underwater, and so forth. No AI involved either, so we won't have to worry about electronic slavery or rebellions or whatever."
He frowned as he pulled up some other images. "I have a few AI that are very interested in pushing the future of cuisine, but they didn't feel it was right to just make more of themselves or introduce essentially a new species on Earth, so this was considered a good compromise. Cheap remote controlled tools that the user can feel things through."
More images, these painted as police. "These models on the other hand are much more expensive and need Dragon's approval before being sold or distributed, but are meant to be low level Brute platforms for police use. The range is good enough that the controllers can work from the station while supporting teams in the field where required. There are other models for paramedics and firefighters and so forth as well."
She hummed. "Profit margin will be small, don't want cops to get hurt due to profit. That's TERRIBLE for long term business. Still, better law enforcement should be good for us over all." She nodded. "I assume since you mentioned Dragon that she will be able to work with me on this?"
Adam nodded. "Yeah, she and Boro have been designing a whole catalog of 'platforms' for human use, even some bizarre stuff like the ones for hair dressers and the one for exotic basket weaving. Should have anything you need once you talk to her a bit."
Sonia nodded. "I'll get right on it boss." She snapped her fingers and another supermodel level woman sauntered into the room. "Rose, show Variance out and call Dragon for me, it will be a long afternoon."
Adam blinked, somehow standing on the street with a basket of various fruits and a pamphlet about how awesome his businesses were. Huh.
Well, his companies were in good hands.
And this pineapple was delicious!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Dirty and twitching, Saint flinched when he received an email. His email server terminal only had power for twelve minutes a day as a recent security measure, and the ones allowed to even send him a message was a very tightly guarded list at this point.
The debate on opening the message or not took two hours, most of it concern that it was a vicious trap from the no longer controlled electronic demon, Dragon. And no, just because he had increased security measures a few dozen times does NOT mean he was being unhinged.
He shifted under the security blanket. His team mates had risked going out for supplies a few times, but the chance of being followed by uncontrolled electronic eyes had kept Saint secure in the backup bunker just in case for months now. Not like those fools so easily tricked into complacency.
But for one of his friends to send him an email of all things meant this was a VERY severe emergency.
His eyes grew wider and wider as sentence after sentence blew his worse case scenario out of the water.
The AI overlords were here, and were trying to conquer the cooking world! Seasoning and sauces were at risk, dressing and baked goods were in danger! Eventually only oil based products and lubricants would be served anywhere! Taste-bud slavery could not stand!
Righteous fury bled in his veins as he forced himself to log online despite protocols and warn the sheeple of the planet.
"ROBOTIC FOOD IS LITERALLY SATAN'S SEDUCTION!"
He never expected to be a cyber warrior of justice, but he was the Hero the world needed.
"The camera shifted to Adam's focused face, the skull going unnaturally still as soft music played. The music was stuttering, a bit out of focus, and crackling."
~Supernatural O Death - Jen Titus, Clip from the Show.
"And with each skeletal step into the shadows, soft sounds began to follow."
~Music Disc - 11 (Minecraft C418), Audio from the game.
"And the magic sang a song that resonated with his bones."
~Jen Titus - O' Death Full song - Supernatural, Audio partially used in the Show.
~Supernatural O Death - Jen Titus, Clip from the Show.
"And with each skeletal step into the shadows, soft sounds began to follow."
~Music Disc - 11 (Minecraft C418), Audio from the game.
"And the magic sang a song that resonated with his bones."
~Jen Titus - O' Death Full song - Supernatural, Audio partially used in the Show.
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LostArchivist
Sane, unfortunately.
- Location
- The State of Confusion
...What. Seriously, what.
I'm not sure if Simmy was trolling there, or if that happened, and I have no idea where to start with Saint.
In the words of King Arthur, "It's a silly place."
I'm not sure if Simmy was trolling there, or if that happened, and I have no idea where to start with Saint.
In the words of King Arthur, "It's a silly place."
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Started Dark, then got Hilarious.
The Issues with the Unreliable Narrator.
- Location
- Here
Similar POV issues occurred when Adam went to Pony land, stuff being subconsciously accepted or whatever. Sometimes being in a Realm can distract you from the oddness. More examples likely would have happened in Inuyasha's world, but he slept through most of it. I personally believe this is why some very illogical things are never questioned by people in a particular fictional world, because something about their world just FEELS right.
Small side note everyone, I realized links or embedded items may vanish because I don't control them, so I went back in my fic and ensured that they will always be properly sourced at the end of my chapters when included so they can be looked up or at least understood if they vanish or whatever. Only Simmy seems to do the whole reference thing though, so it wasn't a huge issue.
- Location
- Australia
That makes a whole lot of sense.
Good guy theaceoffire doing more then we ever deserved. This has been a pet peeve of mine for awhile especially when older stories update and I read through them again. Thanks a lot.
Using something like the internet archive can really help is situations like that.
Is the system self-improving or just self-sustaining?
- Location
- Somewhere in Space
No, it looks worse than that. It seems Saint is becoming their worlds version of Twitter unfortunately.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
Burn Baby Burn.
- Location
- Here
It was a bit depressing to realize that powers did not just make one amazing at everything.
Adam looked at the rough work the Dragon sisters had done using only his attempts at mechanical science from his adventure.
Yeah, 'Technomancy' let him understand stuff, 'Research' helped make testing easy, but actual creation, extrapolation, etc? He had to brute force it. Try all kinds of stuff, or make guesses and hope it works out.
The two cybernetic beings had accomplished more in the half day he had been distracted than he had managed during the almost month of solid effort on another world.
This was something like, give a crowd of people the same paints and canvas... but only a few could turn random scribbles into emotional fueled art. And when it came to electronics, Dragon and CD were artists. Inspired, once in a lifetime genus artists.
So, new personal rule. Twilight gets all magic stuff, Nightmare Moon still loves to look over the spiritual advancements, and electronics go to the cyber sisters.
Simmy patting his back did make him feel better. At least 'Recovery' and biological manipulation was still something he personally excelled at. The only reason Simmy could compete with him in that field was because of her ability to predict outcomes, which allowed her brute force methods to be very exhaustive and comprehensive.
With a sigh, he looked over the data. Back to the results.
The girls solved his 'mid-stage matter' problem when using the Gather beam for storage until the Constructor beam was needed.
In like... an hour.
Unlike HIM, who spent forever trying any combination possible, they split the problem up first. Which felt really obvious in retrospect.
So now Gather would create three substances: Potential-Energy Goo, Biological slurry, and Crystalline Metallic Powder. Without trying to combine sausage parts with diamonds and battery juice, all the math got simpler.
Internally though, he was going to be calling it 'Energy, Biomass, and Metal', as they were similar to substances already stored in his soul for 'Recovery' to make new bodies out of or create stuff with.
The fact that he ALREADY HAD some simplified forms of these substances... Well, it made it sting EVEN MORE that he hadn't been the one to figure it out first. But again, Dragon and CD were artists and he was just a stumbling fool bumbling along when it came to electronics in general.
With that advancement though, the two girls were able to refine the Molecular Furnace to an EXTREME level, to the point where it could be included in a droid the size of a large sports player rather than one the size of a small house. Not that they would, the introduction of 'Anything into Anything' would blast the economy into nothingness. It was more efficient, it used way less power, and the complexity of materials needed for construction dropped as well.
So they decided to call the improved design a 'Matter Furnace', rebuilt the underground factory levels to handle the new devices better, and left it alone for now. They also modified the Storage Units to handle the three new substance states (Energy, Biomass, Metal) which, due to the reduced number of elements expected to be handled, allowed the thing to increase storage ability by unrealistic proportions.
For the initial energy supply Adam just used some Shard Crystal Dimensional Shenanigans to connect an energy corridor from one of the other Worm dimension's stars into an array of Conversion Generators and called it a day. It needed some input limiters to prevent explosions and stuff, but it worked for now until he could come up with some bullshit alien tech as a better fuel source.
The rest of the advancements were more component combination and function simplification. The Ember Generators around his customized droid core got turned into a single generator connected to a collector shell around the device. They also made both emitters, Gather and Constructor, much cheaper to build without increasing their volume, so the enhanced ones built into the core's shielding were much smaller and had duplicates for emergencies.
As for the inner components of the device, whole sections of the GPC Module itself got redesigned from the ground up and became even smaller. Also, entire subsections of sensors were integrated into a single unit that used software to change what was being detected. The new sensor was just small enough to add to the droid core, so the whole device stayed roughly the same size in the end.
A good chunk of the droid chassis now empty, they then modified the formation of the parts to allow the core components to more easily fit inside without bulges. A droid with bare bone components now looked like a tall thin child, leaving lots of space for thick defensive armor and optional components to be included.
Basically... well. After the two engineering girls got done, the Droid platforms used by CD and Nightmare Moon last night apparently used very little of his own design work, other than to act as guidelines for aesthetic beauty.
Which was appreciated, but again, the improvements they created made him feel a bit worthless.
It was hard to feel proud of his own tinker work when one was shown that your master product was similar to a child scribbling with crayons.
After a bit of a sulk, he found that it helped to focus on the biological advancements he had contributed to the developing technology base. The four or five dozen materials and techniques he had created to generate the different types of biological replacements not only were used but had impressed the girls as a group! Not just thanks to the appearance and sensitivity of the materials, but the low cost and self repair functions as well.
True, they took his advancements in artificial flesh, organs, skin, nerves, and so forth and replaced his Lego house designs with a multi-leveled mansion, but at least he had built the blocks used in the construction.
Still, Boro had gotten his old platform replaced last night, for obvious reasons. At least the Chef kept the extra limbs. Adam was a firm believer that having an extra hand was a good thing.
Side note, the internet loved the many recorded 'How To' videos the droids were posting online. Apparently people found the multi-limbed beings fascinating to watch as they braised pork and julienne fries and so such.
The web server was very busy with traffic, especially since the droids not on shift in the kitchens were using the time accelerated simulation in the Garden servers to accept user submitted recipe requests. Each dish got its own film episodes where the droids would test the submitted dish, experiment with replacing various components of the meal while attempting to improve it, then release the results fully reviewed and edited online moments after the initial entry.
Several cooking related TV shows already contacted Sonia about having the robots guest star or re-host programs from the website. It sounded interesting, groundbreaking, and profitable... and full of paperwork.
Adam was avoiding getting involved at all costs.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Dragon drew a deep breath, then knocked. Hearing Adam call out, she entered his lab.
The man was still in a white suit, but thankfully was not skeletal at the moment. His smile was welcoming though. "Dragon! What can I do for you today?"
She gave a weak smile. "Right... so. I may or may not want to share a few of my projects with my... uh. With Armsmaster. But I don't really have any guidelines about who I am allowed to share data with that came from outside our Realm."
The man waved it off. "I'll have Simmy flag all the schematics that we think could destabilize society if exposed. Anything I gave to Sonia for public release you can share with no conditions, anything from our private stash or derived from our personal works he must only work on in either your lab or the lab we allocated to him here in Variance Villa."
Internally she sighed a bit with relief. "Are you still concerned with data leaks?"
He shook his head, limbs already working on some sort of glowing orb. "Not by Armsmaster himself, but even with the PRT basically filled with superheros I have no doubt serious issues could arise if someone suddenly gains abilities that allow them to broadcast data or whatever. Also, the whole superhero organization as a collective leaks data like a sieve. Almost built to do that by default, really."
His blue flames glanced at her. "Better he make stuff here instead. Any designs or products he wishes to export or have mass produced must be approved by you and Simmy first, just to ensure we don't accidentally destroy a section of the economy or somehow attract the attention of Scion. He isn't close enough to me emotionally to be 100% sure that my Stranger effect covers him."
Simple enough. She waved at the already distracted man as she nearly skipped to her lab to schedule a play date. Uh. A serious tinker session. Mmm.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Good. She handed the document to Denise. "Pass it for review, but I think it is great so far."
The woman nodded. "Yes boss!"
Narwhal felt her cyber self twitch. Denise had always been too enthusiastic when it came to authority, but she was talented. With her out of the way, she could focus on the last of the real world documentation (Done digitally and printed out, thank you again best boyfriend for giving her a sexy cyber duplicate!)
The pure profits that she gained just being associated with Adam's companies were being funneled into The Guild as fast as possible. The amount of issues fixable by having a large amount of liquid cash was astonishing really.
And thanks to having a step into the virtual realm, she had been able to spend weeks here with Variance rather than stuck in meeting after meeting, buried under paperwork an red tape. None of her people could mentally accelerate to thousands times faster than normal, so no matter the height of her work load she could still go cuddle with Adam and his sexy robo-girls. With ghost/AI controllers, which were ALSO sexy.
She didn't realize that she was humming happily as she swayed through the hallways, hips heavy with sexual promise and eyes glittering with evening plans. Her force field clothing may have been a tad more risque than usual, but her goal waited with that beefcake bod and literally magic fingers.
It was going to be a good day.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Deep inside Adam's soul, a dark square containing whatever Lung had been transforming into lit up.
Raw energy was slowly burning the restrictive formations, oozing closer to freedom.
It had no mind. It had no personality. Both had been burned with rage. It just... grew.
The raw fuel absorbed during creation barely a spark that was a catalyst, a self reinforcing power that would grow without end, until everything collapsed in despair.
An entire Entity Shard refined into a single desire: To Escalate, To Grow, To Destroy. To Burn.
It was a bit unfortunate that a blue angel was smirking from above the prison.
As layer after layer of faith based runes circled the square, 'Tithe' lit up as a new energy source began fueling the growth of kami, magical reserves, and the crystal castle. Even with 'Tithe' not explicitly equipped, the energy was being directed through runes to the correct areas of the Soul. Parts of the bound fish bowl began to light up with energy, and the Binding covered in purification runes softly glowed as the angry fuel was cleansed and radiated healing warmth.
It wasn't enough of course.
This level of ever escalating power would never be contained through such simple energy drains. Such basic power needs.
Simmy's smirk grew as the ever growing ocean of power was guided with the slightest touch towards Squishy. The core of Adam's power.
It was that female jellyfish who had prevented Adam's soul from gaining a new socket. Too soon, too unstable, too similar to the existing sockets.
It was her who spent his power charges as soon as they appeared.
And it was her tentacles that drew in the rapidly growing power fields with glee and relief.
For Adam's safety and protection, it was important for Power Manipulation, or at least the broken pieces of Eldritch Monstrosity that composed it, to heal more.
Because he was growing in power to the point where 'Transfer' was becoming a risk, as it assumed he was better protected from those above than he truly was. They may not get as lucky with the next Realm, where the powers that owned reality were both eager for assistance and happy with the result. So while she was technically 'fixing' Adam's ability to send messages between realms, realistically she was patching a much deeper issue at the moment. Several of them.
Simmy watched Squishy establish stabilized energy pathways, offering small changes to ensure the 'Dragon Battery' wouldn't overflow the absorption channels and that the repair work would proceed as carefully as possible.
Squishy may do great work on day to day operations, but it was really Simmy who understood long term planning.
Speaking of which, she began writing the notes that she would use for communication in the next week or so. Without her powers, each attempt was fun and difficult, sometimes requiring dozens of attempts to ensure the right effects and emotions conveyed to her husband. Flickering her power for moments, she would verify each note accomplished her wishes without spoiling too much of the future.
And when it came to seducing his women, she refused to cheat at all. Mmm. The skirt for Wednesday.
Adam looked at the rough work the Dragon sisters had done using only his attempts at mechanical science from his adventure.
Yeah, 'Technomancy' let him understand stuff, 'Research' helped make testing easy, but actual creation, extrapolation, etc? He had to brute force it. Try all kinds of stuff, or make guesses and hope it works out.
The two cybernetic beings had accomplished more in the half day he had been distracted than he had managed during the almost month of solid effort on another world.
This was something like, give a crowd of people the same paints and canvas... but only a few could turn random scribbles into emotional fueled art. And when it came to electronics, Dragon and CD were artists. Inspired, once in a lifetime genus artists.
So, new personal rule. Twilight gets all magic stuff, Nightmare Moon still loves to look over the spiritual advancements, and electronics go to the cyber sisters.
Simmy patting his back did make him feel better. At least 'Recovery' and biological manipulation was still something he personally excelled at. The only reason Simmy could compete with him in that field was because of her ability to predict outcomes, which allowed her brute force methods to be very exhaustive and comprehensive.
With a sigh, he looked over the data. Back to the results.
The girls solved his 'mid-stage matter' problem when using the Gather beam for storage until the Constructor beam was needed.
In like... an hour.
Unlike HIM, who spent forever trying any combination possible, they split the problem up first. Which felt really obvious in retrospect.
So now Gather would create three substances: Potential-Energy Goo, Biological slurry, and Crystalline Metallic Powder. Without trying to combine sausage parts with diamonds and battery juice, all the math got simpler.
Internally though, he was going to be calling it 'Energy, Biomass, and Metal', as they were similar to substances already stored in his soul for 'Recovery' to make new bodies out of or create stuff with.
The fact that he ALREADY HAD some simplified forms of these substances... Well, it made it sting EVEN MORE that he hadn't been the one to figure it out first. But again, Dragon and CD were artists and he was just a stumbling fool bumbling along when it came to electronics in general.
With that advancement though, the two girls were able to refine the Molecular Furnace to an EXTREME level, to the point where it could be included in a droid the size of a large sports player rather than one the size of a small house. Not that they would, the introduction of 'Anything into Anything' would blast the economy into nothingness. It was more efficient, it used way less power, and the complexity of materials needed for construction dropped as well.
So they decided to call the improved design a 'Matter Furnace', rebuilt the underground factory levels to handle the new devices better, and left it alone for now. They also modified the Storage Units to handle the three new substance states (Energy, Biomass, Metal) which, due to the reduced number of elements expected to be handled, allowed the thing to increase storage ability by unrealistic proportions.
For the initial energy supply Adam just used some Shard Crystal Dimensional Shenanigans to connect an energy corridor from one of the other Worm dimension's stars into an array of Conversion Generators and called it a day. It needed some input limiters to prevent explosions and stuff, but it worked for now until he could come up with some bullshit alien tech as a better fuel source.
The rest of the advancements were more component combination and function simplification. The Ember Generators around his customized droid core got turned into a single generator connected to a collector shell around the device. They also made both emitters, Gather and Constructor, much cheaper to build without increasing their volume, so the enhanced ones built into the core's shielding were much smaller and had duplicates for emergencies.
As for the inner components of the device, whole sections of the GPC Module itself got redesigned from the ground up and became even smaller. Also, entire subsections of sensors were integrated into a single unit that used software to change what was being detected. The new sensor was just small enough to add to the droid core, so the whole device stayed roughly the same size in the end.
A good chunk of the droid chassis now empty, they then modified the formation of the parts to allow the core components to more easily fit inside without bulges. A droid with bare bone components now looked like a tall thin child, leaving lots of space for thick defensive armor and optional components to be included.
Basically... well. After the two engineering girls got done, the Droid platforms used by CD and Nightmare Moon last night apparently used very little of his own design work, other than to act as guidelines for aesthetic beauty.
Which was appreciated, but again, the improvements they created made him feel a bit worthless.
It was hard to feel proud of his own tinker work when one was shown that your master product was similar to a child scribbling with crayons.
After a bit of a sulk, he found that it helped to focus on the biological advancements he had contributed to the developing technology base. The four or five dozen materials and techniques he had created to generate the different types of biological replacements not only were used but had impressed the girls as a group! Not just thanks to the appearance and sensitivity of the materials, but the low cost and self repair functions as well.
True, they took his advancements in artificial flesh, organs, skin, nerves, and so forth and replaced his Lego house designs with a multi-leveled mansion, but at least he had built the blocks used in the construction.
Still, Boro had gotten his old platform replaced last night, for obvious reasons. At least the Chef kept the extra limbs. Adam was a firm believer that having an extra hand was a good thing.
Side note, the internet loved the many recorded 'How To' videos the droids were posting online. Apparently people found the multi-limbed beings fascinating to watch as they braised pork and julienne fries and so such.
The web server was very busy with traffic, especially since the droids not on shift in the kitchens were using the time accelerated simulation in the Garden servers to accept user submitted recipe requests. Each dish got its own film episodes where the droids would test the submitted dish, experiment with replacing various components of the meal while attempting to improve it, then release the results fully reviewed and edited online moments after the initial entry.
Several cooking related TV shows already contacted Sonia about having the robots guest star or re-host programs from the website. It sounded interesting, groundbreaking, and profitable... and full of paperwork.
Adam was avoiding getting involved at all costs.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Dragon drew a deep breath, then knocked. Hearing Adam call out, she entered his lab.
The man was still in a white suit, but thankfully was not skeletal at the moment. His smile was welcoming though. "Dragon! What can I do for you today?"
She gave a weak smile. "Right... so. I may or may not want to share a few of my projects with my... uh. With Armsmaster. But I don't really have any guidelines about who I am allowed to share data with that came from outside our Realm."
The man waved it off. "I'll have Simmy flag all the schematics that we think could destabilize society if exposed. Anything I gave to Sonia for public release you can share with no conditions, anything from our private stash or derived from our personal works he must only work on in either your lab or the lab we allocated to him here in Variance Villa."
Internally she sighed a bit with relief. "Are you still concerned with data leaks?"
He shook his head, limbs already working on some sort of glowing orb. "Not by Armsmaster himself, but even with the PRT basically filled with superheros I have no doubt serious issues could arise if someone suddenly gains abilities that allow them to broadcast data or whatever. Also, the whole superhero organization as a collective leaks data like a sieve. Almost built to do that by default, really."
His blue flames glanced at her. "Better he make stuff here instead. Any designs or products he wishes to export or have mass produced must be approved by you and Simmy first, just to ensure we don't accidentally destroy a section of the economy or somehow attract the attention of Scion. He isn't close enough to me emotionally to be 100% sure that my Stranger effect covers him."
Simple enough. She waved at the already distracted man as she nearly skipped to her lab to schedule a play date. Uh. A serious tinker session. Mmm.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Good. She handed the document to Denise. "Pass it for review, but I think it is great so far."
The woman nodded. "Yes boss!"
Narwhal felt her cyber self twitch. Denise had always been too enthusiastic when it came to authority, but she was talented. With her out of the way, she could focus on the last of the real world documentation (Done digitally and printed out, thank you again best boyfriend for giving her a sexy cyber duplicate!)
The pure profits that she gained just being associated with Adam's companies were being funneled into The Guild as fast as possible. The amount of issues fixable by having a large amount of liquid cash was astonishing really.
And thanks to having a step into the virtual realm, she had been able to spend weeks here with Variance rather than stuck in meeting after meeting, buried under paperwork an red tape. None of her people could mentally accelerate to thousands times faster than normal, so no matter the height of her work load she could still go cuddle with Adam and his sexy robo-girls. With ghost/AI controllers, which were ALSO sexy.
She didn't realize that she was humming happily as she swayed through the hallways, hips heavy with sexual promise and eyes glittering with evening plans. Her force field clothing may have been a tad more risque than usual, but her goal waited with that beefcake bod and literally magic fingers.
It was going to be a good day.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Deep inside Adam's soul, a dark square containing whatever Lung had been transforming into lit up.
Raw energy was slowly burning the restrictive formations, oozing closer to freedom.
It had no mind. It had no personality. Both had been burned with rage. It just... grew.
The raw fuel absorbed during creation barely a spark that was a catalyst, a self reinforcing power that would grow without end, until everything collapsed in despair.
An entire Entity Shard refined into a single desire: To Escalate, To Grow, To Destroy. To Burn.
It was a bit unfortunate that a blue angel was smirking from above the prison.
As layer after layer of faith based runes circled the square, 'Tithe' lit up as a new energy source began fueling the growth of kami, magical reserves, and the crystal castle. Even with 'Tithe' not explicitly equipped, the energy was being directed through runes to the correct areas of the Soul. Parts of the bound fish bowl began to light up with energy, and the Binding covered in purification runes softly glowed as the angry fuel was cleansed and radiated healing warmth.
It wasn't enough of course.
This level of ever escalating power would never be contained through such simple energy drains. Such basic power needs.
Simmy's smirk grew as the ever growing ocean of power was guided with the slightest touch towards Squishy. The core of Adam's power.
It was that female jellyfish who had prevented Adam's soul from gaining a new socket. Too soon, too unstable, too similar to the existing sockets.
It was her who spent his power charges as soon as they appeared.
And it was her tentacles that drew in the rapidly growing power fields with glee and relief.
For Adam's safety and protection, it was important for Power Manipulation, or at least the broken pieces of Eldritch Monstrosity that composed it, to heal more.
Because he was growing in power to the point where 'Transfer' was becoming a risk, as it assumed he was better protected from those above than he truly was. They may not get as lucky with the next Realm, where the powers that owned reality were both eager for assistance and happy with the result. So while she was technically 'fixing' Adam's ability to send messages between realms, realistically she was patching a much deeper issue at the moment. Several of them.
Simmy watched Squishy establish stabilized energy pathways, offering small changes to ensure the 'Dragon Battery' wouldn't overflow the absorption channels and that the repair work would proceed as carefully as possible.
Squishy may do great work on day to day operations, but it was really Simmy who understood long term planning.
Speaking of which, she began writing the notes that she would use for communication in the next week or so. Without her powers, each attempt was fun and difficult, sometimes requiring dozens of attempts to ensure the right effects and emotions conveyed to her husband. Flickering her power for moments, she would verify each note accomplished her wishes without spoiling too much of the future.
And when it came to seducing his women, she refused to cheat at all. Mmm. The skirt for Wednesday.
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Prismatic Glaive
Friend to the Owl of Civilization
Variance doesn't breathe air, he breathes energy, and Lung just became a battery of energy.
Lung became Variance's lungs
Lung became Variance's lungs
DualEquinox
Verified Smartass
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Fuck that noise. If some gave me a perpetual motion generator in the form of a rage dragon you better believe I'd find a way to turn his draconic ass into a freaking everlasting battery. Little shit had it coming anyway with all the casual sexual slavery and forced prostitution he was pushing. Besides, mercilessly exploiting vanquished foes as a perpetually renewable resource isn't just a fun past time for all Sufficient Velocity members, nor just a time-honoured classic, it is practically our patriotic duty as the loose collective of casually sociopathic munchkins that we are!
We were always going to end up here eventually cause let's face it, SV isn't so much a place as a state of mind...
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