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Broken Adventure
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You say powerless, I see strongest being in that universe.
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
He would snap and fabricate a first contact scenario between humans and Asari.
Imagine it:
Human: We come in peace!
Asari (Narwhal): And we come in the bedroom, so?
Imagine it:
Human: We come in peace!
Asari (Narwhal): And we come in the bedroom, so?
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This would have a Mass-ive Effect.
Construction Consternation.
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Uh.
When one thinks 'Desert', one thinks 'Lots of sand' usually.
It wasn't always true, in fact the Sahara desert is only 25% covered with sand for example. And some areas have thicker and thinner layers of the stuff, which changes with the wind and so forth.
But usually, when one begins construction in a sandy desert one does not expect to run out of sand.
Adam was currently at the bottom of a WIDE bowl, sand walls getting more and more annoying to access and the floor some sort of super compressed sand stone substance. His poor roads dangled like sad strings off the edges.
He stomped on the sandstone. This overly dense layer he had only vaguely heard of before, supposedly the water table was under this thing? Annoying anyway.
Either way, sand converted into super strong rock-foam requires WAY more sand as fodder. He wasn't even 10% done building the foundation of his future creation and well... yeah.
Unless he wanted to make lots of strolls around the rim of the growing hole in the sand, he would need more material.
Thankfully, this Realm gave him access to Dust, and the strange way it grew when exposed to pure faith. That said, all the Dust samples he had found were basically the Planet's anti-Grimm attack method.
It was more than a bit aggressive, and explosive. Making a mound of it under his future city/park/zoo thing seemed very unwise.
But to do better, he would need his abilities back.
With a sigh, Adam held out his palm.
"Summon:Leviathan."
A circle of blue metal Glyphs formed as Levy fell onto the sandstone, cracks spreading over the surface.
Adam sighed. "Sorry Levy, but I need your abilities. Did you have fun?"
The massive aquatic god nodded, even as he began to mist apart as the Summon was canceled. The feeling of his 'spirit' socket returning was... very nice. Warm.
He flexed his massive shoulders, then pushed his wand into staff form and tapped the sandstone. "Bind."
The floor and falling sand walls flashed briefly with black ropes... then stilled, as if perfectly leveled. That should keep the area clear.
Absently he formed a single reinforced, enhanced Dust Crystal. Using Fire dust, because why not. It was five feet tall due to his current height, but it would work well enough.
His massive hand began to glow. "Purification."
Layer by layer, slow yet visible, Adam examined the crystal and replaced the emotions, the belief, the rage, the depression... the conceptual concept of Dust itself.
White 'Purification' slowly etched itself into reality, creeping up the crystal at a crawl. The thing didn't turn clear, or bright white exactly, but more like a combination. A clear crystal with exotic bright white threads woven throughout, not quite Glyphs and not quite scribbles.
The tiniest fragment had the pattern, and the pattern only grew in stability and strength as it consumed the Fire Dust. Even as it spread, Adam continued to use Purification on not only the Dust itself, but on the air in contact with the thing.
No contamination was allowed, no desecration would be permitted.
When the last of the former flames had been purged, Adam walked to the center of the massive pit and gently placed the Dust Crystal into the stone.
If this had gone well, it should be... stable. Not explosive at least.
But if he was going to test it, why not do something a bit stupid?
The drone filming Adam had a few seconds to film his goofy smile before a mound of white peanuts fell from the sky onto the Dust.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Headmaster Ozpin flinched on the Bullhead flying home, something resonating with a part of his sensing that no mortal Hunter could feel. It wasn't the usual black corruption he always felt, or the spike of rage or joy that Salem would send into the darkness... but it was a massive wave in the Planet's Aura.
Something... big had happened.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Betty and the girls paused as a thin wave of... white? Some sort of field passed over the group, sending Sienna and the other 'on the clock' Hunters and Huntresses into battle assessment mode.
Narwhal watched everyone just... leap into 'Chicken with head cut off' mode. "Uh... is everything alright?"
Betty was frantically sending messages on her Scroll. "I DON'T KNOW!"
She blinked. "Well alright then. Call me back when everything settles down."
Betty had already ran towards the nearest bus, still frantically operating her scroll.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Well.
Adam cleared enough crystal to change his sitting position. It was trying to grow back constantly, forcing his Gather beams to just work full time.
Not sure what he expected, honestly.
Dust plus kami equals growth. Modified, super-refined Purification Dust plus Kami equals 'I really should have done this from farther away'.
With effort, Adam gathered material in a stair shaped pattern, even as the tunnel he slowly cut grew full again after every movement.
Thank goodness he didn't need to breathe, it was going to take a while to get back up to the surface.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Betty just... stared.
The girls had watched Adam preparing for his new 'whatever you call it' for several hours, even set up a network poll and so forth while debating new features this 'Automated Fun Facility' would have.
It had been relaxing, and a chance for her to bond with Narwhal, a woman who seemed fun and interested in all kinds of neat things. And perverted as all git out, as most cool women and men were.
Then Adam had Summoned his sea monster, created some sort of Dust no one had heard of before, and blew everything up. On camera.
By the time Betty had arrived on the site, many hours had passed (It was WAY out in the desert), but finding the place was easy.
Head towards the massive glimmering Crystal.
It had filled in the enormous pit, reached far into the sky, then slowly spread outwards in the sand. They had to pause attempts getting closer until some could be analyzed, as if this mass was explosive a good chunk of EVERYTHING would blow.
It was... odd.
There was no explosions or random effects being set off, all the crystals were just... emitting a field. Like an Aura field, but weaker.
Anything that got inside that field was slowly cleaned.
Sand was evaporated from weapon hinges, clothing was sweat free, hair was almost freshly shampooed, even her sinuses felt free and clear.
It was terrible ammunition, but several Hunters had reported Grimm turning away from the effect. Didn't react well to their bodies, as it tried to 'clean them' away.
Ghira wasn't answering his Scroll right now, something about being asleep, but Kali Belladonna had already started scientific teams to research the stuff and engineering teams to discover any possible alloys or methods to embed the new effects into the walls.
Betty on the other hand was stuck... watching. Even now, thousands of drones were trying to harvest the enormous mountain of crystal away, even as Adam's network stream showed him slowly tunneling his way to the surface.
No one was willing to fly too close to this new, untested Dust. Not if Adam was just inconvenienced instead of trapped in a crystal tomb as originally expected.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The Soul of Remnant sang an old song.
And within the tunes of lost voices, a new note... a path not followed.
A soul harbored, a being of unknown origin and unknown future, had taken her attempts at self defense and created structure. Order.
Purity.
This new pattern was more stable, required less resources, and harmed her foes while benefiting her children.
Under the soil and in clusters of potential, white Purification Dust began to form.
The Soul of Remnant sang an old song... with new hope.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Well crap baskets, all his work was now stuck under a mountain.
Like... two days of walking, of designing, of building sand into usable resources... and it was thousands of meters under this junk.
This was BEYOND frustrating.
Adam sighed, and waved a hand.
"Summon:Simurgh."
He ignored her grin. "Yeah, yeah. Could you please get some drones to clear this mountain down to a mostly level surface to the sand? Maybe a bit higher I guess."
She nodded, before floating to his shoulders and sat in Betty's spot, smirking towards the desert for some reason.
Adam watched the thousands of silver specks drop from the heavens. "I still want to do the whole 'floating structure' scenario. We'll just pretend the top of the crystal cliffs is the floor and construct the foundation up there I guess."
It was going to be a while, the stupid mountain was still growing even as more drones came down to help harvest the damn thing.
He glanced up at the nude blue angel. "Any use for this stuff?"
She passed him some blue paper. Hmm.
Not strong structurally, not normally, but she did design a stone-Dust-foam pattern that was fairly durable, could handle shocks well, and wouldn't cause issues with the wiring. This stuff was safe enough to grind up into powder and dump it into drinking water with no issue, although you could still choke on the stuff if you just ate the rocks like a moron.
He would use the original sandstone dust-foam as an outer layer, for appearances if nothing else, then use this new 'Purification Foam' structure for the actual insides of the place. The radiation like field Simmy had analyzed had only positive reactions to living creatures, so there was no reason NOT to when he had this much material to work with. Even better than most Dust when it came to stuff like crop growth, so maybe another small farm? Farms were fun.
Adam nodded. "Pass Betty the details on the structures and stuff you came up with, I'm sure her people would love to test this Dust out later." He glanced at the still spreading mountain. "And we got enough of it to share."
Watching the slow progress of digesting the new mountain, Adam reluctantly went back to design work, slender legs dangling around his neck.
Huh... When had he shrunk back down so much? Oh well.
The bottom most floor would be for structural support, with repulsorlifts overly distributed into two separate networks of anti-gravity structure so one could be down for maintenance without landing the zoo. These would be the maintenance levels, with vertical lifts through hidden paths so worker droid platforms could reach all the floors of the building and materials could be moved around without using the customer reachable levels. Some tubes would only be large enough for maintenance droids or drones, but that was fine.
Speaking of droids, he was not going to force hundreds of thousands of living artificial beings to be stuck in one city. Down here, in the core of the facility, he would be building one hell of a massive droid server platform. Layers and layers of electronics that supported a supersized and optimized General Purpose Cognitive Module, one designed to be enhanced as much as possible using Dust doped materials. A single entity with astounding self repair abilities and the potential for growth.
One AI would control everything. The droid platforms, the weapons, the defenses, and so forth. Like Shirley Temple back in the Star Wars Realm, the new AI would rule here as Goddess to the Town.
Simmy was already 'raising' the AI destined to take over. Considering that her name was already chosen to be 'Ada Lovelace', the woman considered to be the FIRST computer programmer, it was probably too late for him to have any input. At least the new 'owner' would be qualified, based on the massive amount of learning material Simmy was forcing on her growing AI. Not just stuff from this Realm either, Simmy was creating a genius with outside knowledge to run the hospitals, libraries, restaurants, bowling centers, etc and etc.
He still made sure Simmy knew to let him know any requests the new woman would have. IF she was going to be born as a massive city/zoo/theme park, she deserved an opinion on the subject.
Anyway, the power center and AI core would be down here, away from people and defended. Then came layers of armor and structure, then the many civilian layers, some more armor, then the zoo, then a transparent dome covered in defenses.
It would look like a massive crystal ball on a sandstone pillar at the end, at least until someone submitted designs the internet liked better.
To be honest, Adam didn't find it crazy that so many people were working together online with this project. He DID find it crazy that so many people were already willing to MOVE to this continent, just to get free internet access and to try out this new park he was building.
Hmm. He wouldn't get in trouble for attracting other countries populations, right? Bah, he wouldn't stay long enough to find out. Though if he got transporting people down safely, he may bring them over here to try out the new facilities.
Poke.
Adam blinked. Oh, Squishy was growing 'Purification' Dust Crystals around the base of the Shinto Gate in his soul. It apparently helped simplify his use of 'Purification' and made the effects more powerful.
Neat! Wonder if he could make Dust from his other abilities. Although Dust based on 'Consume', 'Conversion', or 'Transfer' may be very dangerous.
He refocused on the crystal harvesting. Which was... barely progressing.
Yeah, better just start the drones building the foundation above the mountain, it could float down once finished and it would provide a stable floor for Adam to work from.
Otherwise he would have to wait hours for this stupid mountain to get low enough to climb up safely.
When one thinks 'Desert', one thinks 'Lots of sand' usually.
It wasn't always true, in fact the Sahara desert is only 25% covered with sand for example. And some areas have thicker and thinner layers of the stuff, which changes with the wind and so forth.
But usually, when one begins construction in a sandy desert one does not expect to run out of sand.
Adam was currently at the bottom of a WIDE bowl, sand walls getting more and more annoying to access and the floor some sort of super compressed sand stone substance. His poor roads dangled like sad strings off the edges.
He stomped on the sandstone. This overly dense layer he had only vaguely heard of before, supposedly the water table was under this thing? Annoying anyway.
Either way, sand converted into super strong rock-foam requires WAY more sand as fodder. He wasn't even 10% done building the foundation of his future creation and well... yeah.
Unless he wanted to make lots of strolls around the rim of the growing hole in the sand, he would need more material.
Thankfully, this Realm gave him access to Dust, and the strange way it grew when exposed to pure faith. That said, all the Dust samples he had found were basically the Planet's anti-Grimm attack method.
It was more than a bit aggressive, and explosive. Making a mound of it under his future city/park/zoo thing seemed very unwise.
But to do better, he would need his abilities back.
With a sigh, Adam held out his palm.
"Summon:Leviathan."
A circle of blue metal Glyphs formed as Levy fell onto the sandstone, cracks spreading over the surface.
Adam sighed. "Sorry Levy, but I need your abilities. Did you have fun?"
The massive aquatic god nodded, even as he began to mist apart as the Summon was canceled. The feeling of his 'spirit' socket returning was... very nice. Warm.
He flexed his massive shoulders, then pushed his wand into staff form and tapped the sandstone. "Bind."
The floor and falling sand walls flashed briefly with black ropes... then stilled, as if perfectly leveled. That should keep the area clear.
Absently he formed a single reinforced, enhanced Dust Crystal. Using Fire dust, because why not. It was five feet tall due to his current height, but it would work well enough.
His massive hand began to glow. "Purification."
Layer by layer, slow yet visible, Adam examined the crystal and replaced the emotions, the belief, the rage, the depression... the conceptual concept of Dust itself.
White 'Purification' slowly etched itself into reality, creeping up the crystal at a crawl. The thing didn't turn clear, or bright white exactly, but more like a combination. A clear crystal with exotic bright white threads woven throughout, not quite Glyphs and not quite scribbles.
The tiniest fragment had the pattern, and the pattern only grew in stability and strength as it consumed the Fire Dust. Even as it spread, Adam continued to use Purification on not only the Dust itself, but on the air in contact with the thing.
No contamination was allowed, no desecration would be permitted.
When the last of the former flames had been purged, Adam walked to the center of the massive pit and gently placed the Dust Crystal into the stone.
If this had gone well, it should be... stable. Not explosive at least.
But if he was going to test it, why not do something a bit stupid?
The drone filming Adam had a few seconds to film his goofy smile before a mound of white peanuts fell from the sky onto the Dust.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Headmaster Ozpin flinched on the Bullhead flying home, something resonating with a part of his sensing that no mortal Hunter could feel. It wasn't the usual black corruption he always felt, or the spike of rage or joy that Salem would send into the darkness... but it was a massive wave in the Planet's Aura.
Something... big had happened.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Betty and the girls paused as a thin wave of... white? Some sort of field passed over the group, sending Sienna and the other 'on the clock' Hunters and Huntresses into battle assessment mode.
Narwhal watched everyone just... leap into 'Chicken with head cut off' mode. "Uh... is everything alright?"
Betty was frantically sending messages on her Scroll. "I DON'T KNOW!"
She blinked. "Well alright then. Call me back when everything settles down."
Betty had already ran towards the nearest bus, still frantically operating her scroll.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Well.
Adam cleared enough crystal to change his sitting position. It was trying to grow back constantly, forcing his Gather beams to just work full time.
Not sure what he expected, honestly.
Dust plus kami equals growth. Modified, super-refined Purification Dust plus Kami equals 'I really should have done this from farther away'.
With effort, Adam gathered material in a stair shaped pattern, even as the tunnel he slowly cut grew full again after every movement.
Thank goodness he didn't need to breathe, it was going to take a while to get back up to the surface.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Betty just... stared.
The girls had watched Adam preparing for his new 'whatever you call it' for several hours, even set up a network poll and so forth while debating new features this 'Automated Fun Facility' would have.
It had been relaxing, and a chance for her to bond with Narwhal, a woman who seemed fun and interested in all kinds of neat things. And perverted as all git out, as most cool women and men were.
Then Adam had Summoned his sea monster, created some sort of Dust no one had heard of before, and blew everything up. On camera.
By the time Betty had arrived on the site, many hours had passed (It was WAY out in the desert), but finding the place was easy.
Head towards the massive glimmering Crystal.
It had filled in the enormous pit, reached far into the sky, then slowly spread outwards in the sand. They had to pause attempts getting closer until some could be analyzed, as if this mass was explosive a good chunk of EVERYTHING would blow.
It was... odd.
There was no explosions or random effects being set off, all the crystals were just... emitting a field. Like an Aura field, but weaker.
Anything that got inside that field was slowly cleaned.
Sand was evaporated from weapon hinges, clothing was sweat free, hair was almost freshly shampooed, even her sinuses felt free and clear.
It was terrible ammunition, but several Hunters had reported Grimm turning away from the effect. Didn't react well to their bodies, as it tried to 'clean them' away.
Ghira wasn't answering his Scroll right now, something about being asleep, but Kali Belladonna had already started scientific teams to research the stuff and engineering teams to discover any possible alloys or methods to embed the new effects into the walls.
Betty on the other hand was stuck... watching. Even now, thousands of drones were trying to harvest the enormous mountain of crystal away, even as Adam's network stream showed him slowly tunneling his way to the surface.
No one was willing to fly too close to this new, untested Dust. Not if Adam was just inconvenienced instead of trapped in a crystal tomb as originally expected.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The Soul of Remnant sang an old song.
And within the tunes of lost voices, a new note... a path not followed.
A soul harbored, a being of unknown origin and unknown future, had taken her attempts at self defense and created structure. Order.
Purity.
This new pattern was more stable, required less resources, and harmed her foes while benefiting her children.
Under the soil and in clusters of potential, white Purification Dust began to form.
The Soul of Remnant sang an old song... with new hope.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Well crap baskets, all his work was now stuck under a mountain.
Like... two days of walking, of designing, of building sand into usable resources... and it was thousands of meters under this junk.
This was BEYOND frustrating.
Adam sighed, and waved a hand.
"Summon:Simurgh."
He ignored her grin. "Yeah, yeah. Could you please get some drones to clear this mountain down to a mostly level surface to the sand? Maybe a bit higher I guess."
She nodded, before floating to his shoulders and sat in Betty's spot, smirking towards the desert for some reason.
Adam watched the thousands of silver specks drop from the heavens. "I still want to do the whole 'floating structure' scenario. We'll just pretend the top of the crystal cliffs is the floor and construct the foundation up there I guess."
It was going to be a while, the stupid mountain was still growing even as more drones came down to help harvest the damn thing.
He glanced up at the nude blue angel. "Any use for this stuff?"
She passed him some blue paper. Hmm.
Not strong structurally, not normally, but she did design a stone-Dust-foam pattern that was fairly durable, could handle shocks well, and wouldn't cause issues with the wiring. This stuff was safe enough to grind up into powder and dump it into drinking water with no issue, although you could still choke on the stuff if you just ate the rocks like a moron.
He would use the original sandstone dust-foam as an outer layer, for appearances if nothing else, then use this new 'Purification Foam' structure for the actual insides of the place. The radiation like field Simmy had analyzed had only positive reactions to living creatures, so there was no reason NOT to when he had this much material to work with. Even better than most Dust when it came to stuff like crop growth, so maybe another small farm? Farms were fun.
Adam nodded. "Pass Betty the details on the structures and stuff you came up with, I'm sure her people would love to test this Dust out later." He glanced at the still spreading mountain. "And we got enough of it to share."
Watching the slow progress of digesting the new mountain, Adam reluctantly went back to design work, slender legs dangling around his neck.
Huh... When had he shrunk back down so much? Oh well.
The bottom most floor would be for structural support, with repulsorlifts overly distributed into two separate networks of anti-gravity structure so one could be down for maintenance without landing the zoo. These would be the maintenance levels, with vertical lifts through hidden paths so worker droid platforms could reach all the floors of the building and materials could be moved around without using the customer reachable levels. Some tubes would only be large enough for maintenance droids or drones, but that was fine.
Speaking of droids, he was not going to force hundreds of thousands of living artificial beings to be stuck in one city. Down here, in the core of the facility, he would be building one hell of a massive droid server platform. Layers and layers of electronics that supported a supersized and optimized General Purpose Cognitive Module, one designed to be enhanced as much as possible using Dust doped materials. A single entity with astounding self repair abilities and the potential for growth.
One AI would control everything. The droid platforms, the weapons, the defenses, and so forth. Like Shirley Temple back in the Star Wars Realm, the new AI would rule here as Goddess to the Town.
Simmy was already 'raising' the AI destined to take over. Considering that her name was already chosen to be 'Ada Lovelace', the woman considered to be the FIRST computer programmer, it was probably too late for him to have any input. At least the new 'owner' would be qualified, based on the massive amount of learning material Simmy was forcing on her growing AI. Not just stuff from this Realm either, Simmy was creating a genius with outside knowledge to run the hospitals, libraries, restaurants, bowling centers, etc and etc.
He still made sure Simmy knew to let him know any requests the new woman would have. IF she was going to be born as a massive city/zoo/theme park, she deserved an opinion on the subject.
Anyway, the power center and AI core would be down here, away from people and defended. Then came layers of armor and structure, then the many civilian layers, some more armor, then the zoo, then a transparent dome covered in defenses.
It would look like a massive crystal ball on a sandstone pillar at the end, at least until someone submitted designs the internet liked better.
To be honest, Adam didn't find it crazy that so many people were working together online with this project. He DID find it crazy that so many people were already willing to MOVE to this continent, just to get free internet access and to try out this new park he was building.
Hmm. He wouldn't get in trouble for attracting other countries populations, right? Bah, he wouldn't stay long enough to find out. Though if he got transporting people down safely, he may bring them over here to try out the new facilities.
Poke.
Adam blinked. Oh, Squishy was growing 'Purification' Dust Crystals around the base of the Shinto Gate in his soul. It apparently helped simplify his use of 'Purification' and made the effects more powerful.
Neat! Wonder if he could make Dust from his other abilities. Although Dust based on 'Consume', 'Conversion', or 'Transfer' may be very dangerous.
He refocused on the crystal harvesting. Which was... barely progressing.
Yeah, better just start the drones building the foundation above the mountain, it could float down once finished and it would provide a stable floor for Adam to work from.
Otherwise he would have to wait hours for this stupid mountain to get low enough to climb up safely.
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- Location
- Sol;Terra;EU;D;NRW
Betty: That's MY place to sit! Bad Simmy! No saltlick for you!
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
So... he accidentally Crystal Peak? 🤣🤪😁
We Just Write
Blatantly Plural
- Location
- New England
- Pronouns
- Plural
Pssst, make Recovery Dust.
Recovery Dust?
- Location
- Here
Thought about it, and no. In fact, HELL no.
Not while on Remnant.
First of all, 'Purification' is about returning to a more basic or refined form. About getting rid of spoilage or corruption. About cleansing.
'Recovery' however is about evolution, adaption, improvement, and healing. It allows optimization and the ability for incompatible things to become one.
If the Grimm somehow gained the ability to wield 'Purification' Dust or Dust effects, it would harm other Grimm, make it harder or impossible to be controlled by Salem, and possibly change their nature into something the world would accept. After all, the Planet is fine with animals eating people or whatever, just not this alien invader bull.
On the other hand, if the Grimm could access 'Recovery'? The possibility of them merging with dust, stealing the Aura's of the hunters they consume, combing together by pushing wounds into contact, or worse... yeah.
No.
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
I think Adam should forge five rings with different elemental dust abilities and these in turn combined would summon the avatar of the planet (Remnant-chan!)
They could be wielded by a group of kindhearted hunters who would have a ton of adventures while promoting an enviromentalist agenda!
Sounds familiar?
They could be wielded by a group of kindhearted hunters who would have a ton of adventures while promoting an enviromentalist agenda!
Sounds familiar?
(*cough*Captain Planet*cough*)
- Location
- RS,brasil
I don't want to seem like in nitpicking but the story is kinda becoming a bit repetitive, what with there being no Salem or main cast and every chapter being Just the list of things Adam has done
Btw can we have an interlude about the Schnee or team STRQ? You only show us kali and ghira, and admittedly seeing Jaques having a mental breakdown would be amusing
Btw can we have an interlude about the Schnee or team STRQ? You only show us kali and ghira, and admittedly seeing Jaques having a mental breakdown would be amusing
- Location
- Namek;Digital World
If he is going to make rings he should also make the one ring to rule them all.
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Ashkari
(Verified Ink-slinger)
- Location
- United States
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's how you get Zerg.
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
Betty, phrasing!
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
Building a Zoo!
- Location
- Here
Fun Fact: Exposing Purification Dust Crystals as a pool surface cleans the water.
Also Fun Fact: By default, it converts salt water into a clean layer of salt and fresh water.
It took HOURS to get it to stop. For a while, Adam was sure he would have to scrap all salt water features from the park, and was having similar issues with other liquids and such.
'Oh, your water has all this junk in it! Don`t worry, I`ll fix it!' BAM, your alcohol is purified, joy to everyone.
It took some testing, but Adam found a method to 'align' Purification Dust to not just convert everything into water. A LOT of testing.
It basically involved exposing the crystals to the desired liquid while infusing the Dust with Aura AND intent. Just Aura would do nothing, thank goodness, or someone using their power in the pool could mess up the whole thing again.
Just in case, he had Simmy figure out how to encode an 'Approval' pattern for Auras to match before the Purification Dust could realign to a new base state. It was a bit complicated and who knew when others could pull it off, but he uploaded the trick (But not the pattern) to the network anyway. Have fun with it.
As for the rides and attractions, he had passed it off to the network and Simmy. The internet would use a custom voting site to choose which ideas or themes would be represented at the Zoo, Simmy would go through and make the rides less lethal (Hunters and Huntresses could handle EXTREME speed), and the drones were off building away.
He had enough issues with basic park structure.
Adam had tried to go for robustness on this build. A layer of armor, retractable Gather and Constructor emitters on remote controlled limbs, maintenance level, another layer of armor, AI level (The droid 'brain' was... massive. The empty space was filled with modules focused on data storage or processing, extra stuff that would be useful at some point), another layer of armor and reinforcement, the power supply level, more armor, the various factories, more armor, and...
Point was, this Zoo had defenses. Structural ones alone that were WAY too thick.
To make it level with the desert, he would have to have the whole dang mountain harvested AND the hole reopened.
So instead, he just had the roads hang in the air to reach the place. The bonds between road segments was strong enough even without the repulsorlifts extra support, so it should be fine.
Point was, by the time he had begun building the pools and facilities, his 'Underground Paradise' was pretty damn high off the damn ground.
Meh.
He left the pools to slowly fill with Constructed water. Part of the big reason to duplicate all the attractions with salt water alternatives were for those Faunus that needed such to feel at ease. The fact that the treated Purification Crystals would keep things clean without needing harsh chemicals was a massive bonus!
Still, Adam was trying to be smart.
All water rides, pools, wave pools, swimming lanes, age restricted swim areas, and deep water diving sections were on the lowest public floor. Did it need to be? No. Did he feel it was smart to have pools over the tourists? No.
That said, there was an aquarium over several sections of the pool areas and the 'open air' restaurants, thick floors of 'glass' allowing the people below to feel as if they were under water while watching various fish swim. That vote had been a popular one online.
In an effort to NOT cause a tragedy later, Adam had been forced to take another research break and design some Glyphs that were nearly invisible but would convert Aura, Heat, Cold, Pressure, and Vibrations into energy. Theoretically it would be VERY hard to damage the facilities at this point unless you were keyed into the defences themselves.
Unlike his other publicly published research (Purification Dust and YOU!) those Glyphs were embedded into the substances to keep people from discovering them and misusing them. Thankfully they were best on structures, using that rune on anything touching you would suck your Aura dry for conversion. And it REALLY didn't like vehicles that ran on Dust.
So a drunk Hunter was less likely to drop an ocean on a crowd of eating people. Not without a lot of warning and a large amount of effort.
With a sigh, Adam asked Simmy for more help.
Water parks? All kinds of stuff was needed. Sure, the maintenance droids would allow many issues to be handled, like paint touch ups, ride upgrade and verification, emergency handling if someone accidentally or DELIBERATELY got out of the ride during operation, yadda yadda yadda.
Bathrooms had to be available across the whole level, and rest areas, and snack areas, and location maps, and transportation to/from the hotels and the various entertainment areas, and background music (Makes it easier for some people to handle crowds, makes conversations less annoying as others are droned out by the sounds, etc), and cleaning systems, and... and... sigh.
Honestly, Adam was more a big idea man. The actual nitty gritty stuff? Thank goodness he had a competent sexy blue angel to get stuff together. Even if she insisted on riding his shoulders while he wandered around setting stuff up.
The pool level had mostly turned out well, he felt.
Each one had a different color theme, with warm colors for fresh water and cool ones for salt water. Hot colors for the ones that were kept heated, near black for the ones kept cool, if not freezing. All the pools were temperature controlled of course, although most were just given a 'comfortable temperature range' rather than 'hot' or 'cold' like the novelty pools.
The plant life was actually artificially made convincing fakes down here, designed to fit different parts of Remnant's flora while helping to divide the various features and pools from sight. Make it feel less crowded in general, really, without having to set robots to water them all the time or worry about a specific tree getting sick.
The next level (Woo! More defensive layers!) was for the more dry entertainment. Hotels, restaurants, museums, libraries, shops (Vending Machines!), roller coasters, golf courses, bowling alleys, laser gun arenas, sparing arenas, event coliseums, the list was long.
It was mostly based on technology though. That was the floor 'theme'.
Adam felt it was a bit clever. Above his Foundation, he had the Water level, Tech level, Nature level, Animal level, then the Zoo at the very top.
He was still building the technology level at the moment, but the plans for the next levels followed the 'Theme' idea.
Nature level included plant gardens and farms with vegetarian restaurants, exotic plants rarely seen, and so such. The shops sold plant related products, the Hotels featured jungles, mountain tops, and other such natural wonders as guidelines. The internet was also designing all kinds of picturesque scenes for people to visit, which would be fun.
Animal level was going to have the farms, petting zoo, animal nursery, restaurants serving some amazing meat dishes, and even museums showing various creatures through history that survived despite the Grimm.
True, it meant if you wanted seafood you needed to take a lift down to the Water level, and if your friend wanted some cultural dish the group would have to wander up to the Tech level, but part of the fun was being slightly inconvenienced while trying something new.
That said, he may be stuck on the Tech level for a while. Aside from the rides and Dust exhibits and stuff, the online polls were requesting small village recreations to show off the various cultures around Remnant with historic museums telling their many histories or selling reproduced local products.
...Yeah, the schematics for this Zoo were being modified pretty heavily and actively.
With the other levels, well, people were happy enough. But the Tech level? There was a whole section just offering public Labs, Workshops, and Furnaces! As a vacation location! 'Oh I can`t wait to go on holiday and rebuild some weapons!' That had to be a Remnant thing.
Point was, the Tech level kept expanding in focus and requests. It had already doubled from the original plans.
With a sigh, Adam began trekking back downstairs. Down-lift? Meh.
If the Zoo was going to be expanding again, he could fit some sort of slow moving water current 'river' path around the edge down there, maybe with some 'glass' windows to show the desert while people drifted in circles. Ooh, and he could build in a river side bar as well!
Who didn't like relaxing in a river while drinking? It should be popular.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Betty finally got approval to approach the 'Whatever the hell Adam is making' structure hours after that blue winged bitch took her spot.
Oh she knew the egg-heads had to prove the new Purification Dust crystals (which were EVERYWHERE near this area of the desert now) were safe enough to use other Dust nearby. And wouldn't evaporate their nation if someone sneezed on it.
That said, she had seen one moronic Hunter accidentally smash an entire crystal cluster with his sledge hammer when trying to 'relax' earlier, and the fact that anyone was still alive was a good indication that this stuff wasn't unstable. Probably.
She tapped her hand on the bus seat as they followed the strange road Adam had built, the lack of wind or sand making it far easier to use than simply flying through the air directly.
Yeah, Sienna had called Narwhal back a few hours ago. And yes, Betty had wanted to make a good impression on the woman, even if the long conversations earlier had been enjoyable on their own anyway.
But the urge to make SURE that Adam was alright had left her unwilling to just relax and chat like earlier. That pulse of power, probably caused by this Dust expansion, had felt VERY powerful. And he had been in the center of the damn thing when it went off.
Her eyes drifted, the white inscribed clear crystals beautifully strewn over the landscape, the glittering mountain in the distance refusing to get closer fast enough.
Once she made sure he was actually alright, she would love to see what progress he had made... these things were beautiful. And hopefully non-explosive.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam blinked. "Uh... what?"
The droid, shaped like a deer Faunus with beautiful antlers, nodded. "Master Burns, a miss Betty has reached visitor center one and is requesting your presence."
He glanced over her form, her water themed clothing matching well with the floor's theme. "Did... Did I activate you already Ada?"
She shook her head and waved up at the nude woman ridding his shoulders. "No, Master. Mistress Simurgh felt that having me assist in construction and allocating some 'Gather' and 'Construction' drones would help speed things along. So I was brought into service."
Adam frowned, glancing up at Simmy's nodding face, her legs squeezing his neck. "But... I'm not ready! I wanted to surprise you a little... it's not a gift if you have to make it yourself!"
Seriously, he had this whole reveal plan and there was going to be virtual cake and... sigh.
Ada had a soft smile and gave his shoulder a pat, ignoring Simmy's pout. "Mistress Simmy said you would likely need to return home before our projected completion time due to some... concerns she has."
He blinked... then focused on his angel's expression. "Hmm." If it wasn't urgent enough to demand him go home now, it was unlikely that the Space Whale Entity was the issue.
He waved the gynoid forward. "Lead on Ada, I'll admit I've missed Betty's company. How many platforms have you allocated towards construction?"
They moved towards the nearest lifts, her robotic form moving fluidly. "A few hundred drones are operational. As for other positions, I've only moved a hundred platforms per level for now, generic security droids. I am still designing the forms I plan to use for public interaction, most of which will be Faunus by design due to the nation we operate within."
The conversation wandered a bit as they traveled, and a few people online started some polls to ask her some questions as well, so it was an enjoyable way to pass time.
Even if his fun projects were being taken over by a sexy alien war machine crystalline woman.
He smiled as they traveled down towards the security checkpoints. At least he knew it was almost time to head home! He missed his girls.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Salem's black cocoon twitched, the ooze surface twinging even as the healing process continued.
Something was wrong, she just... knew it. But the recovery process was already proceeding faster than was optimal, and she risked deformity or weakness if she didn't allow these wounds time to recover.
The structure prevented her from giving orders or connecting to her pawns, but even with this disconnect she could feel something in the air itself shifting.
No clue what it was, all she knew was that she HATED it. Something was WRONG.
Still, those fools could probably wait. The information she had collected during the last fight against that infuriating Ozpin was enough to advance her plans by many folds! And her plans took place over decades or longer, some short term gain or minor victory wouldn't even make her blink or cause long term problems.
No matter what that optimistic failure of a man had accomplished during her brief recovery, it would be nothing once her armies rose up for the final conflict! Her plans were detailed, long termed, and unstoppable!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Qrow Branwen frowned at his unhappy team. "Well, well... yeah. But it's true damn it! Watch!"
He slug back one of his personal jugs and took a deep draft of his drink.
With a loud crackle, a small transparent crystal Dust with glowing white patterns formed at his feet.
Everyone looked down at it in shock. Well, almost everyone.
Qrow blinked. "Crud, I grabbed the wrong bottle."
Also Fun Fact: By default, it converts salt water into a clean layer of salt and fresh water.
It took HOURS to get it to stop. For a while, Adam was sure he would have to scrap all salt water features from the park, and was having similar issues with other liquids and such.
'Oh, your water has all this junk in it! Don`t worry, I`ll fix it!' BAM, your alcohol is purified, joy to everyone.
It took some testing, but Adam found a method to 'align' Purification Dust to not just convert everything into water. A LOT of testing.
It basically involved exposing the crystals to the desired liquid while infusing the Dust with Aura AND intent. Just Aura would do nothing, thank goodness, or someone using their power in the pool could mess up the whole thing again.
Just in case, he had Simmy figure out how to encode an 'Approval' pattern for Auras to match before the Purification Dust could realign to a new base state. It was a bit complicated and who knew when others could pull it off, but he uploaded the trick (But not the pattern) to the network anyway. Have fun with it.
As for the rides and attractions, he had passed it off to the network and Simmy. The internet would use a custom voting site to choose which ideas or themes would be represented at the Zoo, Simmy would go through and make the rides less lethal (Hunters and Huntresses could handle EXTREME speed), and the drones were off building away.
He had enough issues with basic park structure.
Adam had tried to go for robustness on this build. A layer of armor, retractable Gather and Constructor emitters on remote controlled limbs, maintenance level, another layer of armor, AI level (The droid 'brain' was... massive. The empty space was filled with modules focused on data storage or processing, extra stuff that would be useful at some point), another layer of armor and reinforcement, the power supply level, more armor, the various factories, more armor, and...
Point was, this Zoo had defenses. Structural ones alone that were WAY too thick.
To make it level with the desert, he would have to have the whole dang mountain harvested AND the hole reopened.
So instead, he just had the roads hang in the air to reach the place. The bonds between road segments was strong enough even without the repulsorlifts extra support, so it should be fine.
Point was, by the time he had begun building the pools and facilities, his 'Underground Paradise' was pretty damn high off the damn ground.
Meh.
He left the pools to slowly fill with Constructed water. Part of the big reason to duplicate all the attractions with salt water alternatives were for those Faunus that needed such to feel at ease. The fact that the treated Purification Crystals would keep things clean without needing harsh chemicals was a massive bonus!
Still, Adam was trying to be smart.
All water rides, pools, wave pools, swimming lanes, age restricted swim areas, and deep water diving sections were on the lowest public floor. Did it need to be? No. Did he feel it was smart to have pools over the tourists? No.
That said, there was an aquarium over several sections of the pool areas and the 'open air' restaurants, thick floors of 'glass' allowing the people below to feel as if they were under water while watching various fish swim. That vote had been a popular one online.
In an effort to NOT cause a tragedy later, Adam had been forced to take another research break and design some Glyphs that were nearly invisible but would convert Aura, Heat, Cold, Pressure, and Vibrations into energy. Theoretically it would be VERY hard to damage the facilities at this point unless you were keyed into the defences themselves.
Unlike his other publicly published research (Purification Dust and YOU!) those Glyphs were embedded into the substances to keep people from discovering them and misusing them. Thankfully they were best on structures, using that rune on anything touching you would suck your Aura dry for conversion. And it REALLY didn't like vehicles that ran on Dust.
So a drunk Hunter was less likely to drop an ocean on a crowd of eating people. Not without a lot of warning and a large amount of effort.
With a sigh, Adam asked Simmy for more help.
Water parks? All kinds of stuff was needed. Sure, the maintenance droids would allow many issues to be handled, like paint touch ups, ride upgrade and verification, emergency handling if someone accidentally or DELIBERATELY got out of the ride during operation, yadda yadda yadda.
Bathrooms had to be available across the whole level, and rest areas, and snack areas, and location maps, and transportation to/from the hotels and the various entertainment areas, and background music (Makes it easier for some people to handle crowds, makes conversations less annoying as others are droned out by the sounds, etc), and cleaning systems, and... and... sigh.
Honestly, Adam was more a big idea man. The actual nitty gritty stuff? Thank goodness he had a competent sexy blue angel to get stuff together. Even if she insisted on riding his shoulders while he wandered around setting stuff up.
The pool level had mostly turned out well, he felt.
Each one had a different color theme, with warm colors for fresh water and cool ones for salt water. Hot colors for the ones that were kept heated, near black for the ones kept cool, if not freezing. All the pools were temperature controlled of course, although most were just given a 'comfortable temperature range' rather than 'hot' or 'cold' like the novelty pools.
The plant life was actually artificially made convincing fakes down here, designed to fit different parts of Remnant's flora while helping to divide the various features and pools from sight. Make it feel less crowded in general, really, without having to set robots to water them all the time or worry about a specific tree getting sick.
The next level (Woo! More defensive layers!) was for the more dry entertainment. Hotels, restaurants, museums, libraries, shops (Vending Machines!), roller coasters, golf courses, bowling alleys, laser gun arenas, sparing arenas, event coliseums, the list was long.
It was mostly based on technology though. That was the floor 'theme'.
Adam felt it was a bit clever. Above his Foundation, he had the Water level, Tech level, Nature level, Animal level, then the Zoo at the very top.
He was still building the technology level at the moment, but the plans for the next levels followed the 'Theme' idea.
Nature level included plant gardens and farms with vegetarian restaurants, exotic plants rarely seen, and so such. The shops sold plant related products, the Hotels featured jungles, mountain tops, and other such natural wonders as guidelines. The internet was also designing all kinds of picturesque scenes for people to visit, which would be fun.
Animal level was going to have the farms, petting zoo, animal nursery, restaurants serving some amazing meat dishes, and even museums showing various creatures through history that survived despite the Grimm.
True, it meant if you wanted seafood you needed to take a lift down to the Water level, and if your friend wanted some cultural dish the group would have to wander up to the Tech level, but part of the fun was being slightly inconvenienced while trying something new.
That said, he may be stuck on the Tech level for a while. Aside from the rides and Dust exhibits and stuff, the online polls were requesting small village recreations to show off the various cultures around Remnant with historic museums telling their many histories or selling reproduced local products.
...Yeah, the schematics for this Zoo were being modified pretty heavily and actively.
With the other levels, well, people were happy enough. But the Tech level? There was a whole section just offering public Labs, Workshops, and Furnaces! As a vacation location! 'Oh I can`t wait to go on holiday and rebuild some weapons!' That had to be a Remnant thing.
Point was, the Tech level kept expanding in focus and requests. It had already doubled from the original plans.
With a sigh, Adam began trekking back downstairs. Down-lift? Meh.
If the Zoo was going to be expanding again, he could fit some sort of slow moving water current 'river' path around the edge down there, maybe with some 'glass' windows to show the desert while people drifted in circles. Ooh, and he could build in a river side bar as well!
Who didn't like relaxing in a river while drinking? It should be popular.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Betty finally got approval to approach the 'Whatever the hell Adam is making' structure hours after that blue winged bitch took her spot.
Oh she knew the egg-heads had to prove the new Purification Dust crystals (which were EVERYWHERE near this area of the desert now) were safe enough to use other Dust nearby. And wouldn't evaporate their nation if someone sneezed on it.
That said, she had seen one moronic Hunter accidentally smash an entire crystal cluster with his sledge hammer when trying to 'relax' earlier, and the fact that anyone was still alive was a good indication that this stuff wasn't unstable. Probably.
She tapped her hand on the bus seat as they followed the strange road Adam had built, the lack of wind or sand making it far easier to use than simply flying through the air directly.
Yeah, Sienna had called Narwhal back a few hours ago. And yes, Betty had wanted to make a good impression on the woman, even if the long conversations earlier had been enjoyable on their own anyway.
But the urge to make SURE that Adam was alright had left her unwilling to just relax and chat like earlier. That pulse of power, probably caused by this Dust expansion, had felt VERY powerful. And he had been in the center of the damn thing when it went off.
Her eyes drifted, the white inscribed clear crystals beautifully strewn over the landscape, the glittering mountain in the distance refusing to get closer fast enough.
Once she made sure he was actually alright, she would love to see what progress he had made... these things were beautiful. And hopefully non-explosive.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam blinked. "Uh... what?"
The droid, shaped like a deer Faunus with beautiful antlers, nodded. "Master Burns, a miss Betty has reached visitor center one and is requesting your presence."
He glanced over her form, her water themed clothing matching well with the floor's theme. "Did... Did I activate you already Ada?"
She shook her head and waved up at the nude woman ridding his shoulders. "No, Master. Mistress Simurgh felt that having me assist in construction and allocating some 'Gather' and 'Construction' drones would help speed things along. So I was brought into service."
Adam frowned, glancing up at Simmy's nodding face, her legs squeezing his neck. "But... I'm not ready! I wanted to surprise you a little... it's not a gift if you have to make it yourself!"
Seriously, he had this whole reveal plan and there was going to be virtual cake and... sigh.
Ada had a soft smile and gave his shoulder a pat, ignoring Simmy's pout. "Mistress Simmy said you would likely need to return home before our projected completion time due to some... concerns she has."
He blinked... then focused on his angel's expression. "Hmm." If it wasn't urgent enough to demand him go home now, it was unlikely that the Space Whale Entity was the issue.
He waved the gynoid forward. "Lead on Ada, I'll admit I've missed Betty's company. How many platforms have you allocated towards construction?"
They moved towards the nearest lifts, her robotic form moving fluidly. "A few hundred drones are operational. As for other positions, I've only moved a hundred platforms per level for now, generic security droids. I am still designing the forms I plan to use for public interaction, most of which will be Faunus by design due to the nation we operate within."
The conversation wandered a bit as they traveled, and a few people online started some polls to ask her some questions as well, so it was an enjoyable way to pass time.
Even if his fun projects were being taken over by a sexy alien war machine crystalline woman.
He smiled as they traveled down towards the security checkpoints. At least he knew it was almost time to head home! He missed his girls.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Salem's black cocoon twitched, the ooze surface twinging even as the healing process continued.
Something was wrong, she just... knew it. But the recovery process was already proceeding faster than was optimal, and she risked deformity or weakness if she didn't allow these wounds time to recover.
The structure prevented her from giving orders or connecting to her pawns, but even with this disconnect she could feel something in the air itself shifting.
No clue what it was, all she knew was that she HATED it. Something was WRONG.
Still, those fools could probably wait. The information she had collected during the last fight against that infuriating Ozpin was enough to advance her plans by many folds! And her plans took place over decades or longer, some short term gain or minor victory wouldn't even make her blink or cause long term problems.
No matter what that optimistic failure of a man had accomplished during her brief recovery, it would be nothing once her armies rose up for the final conflict! Her plans were detailed, long termed, and unstoppable!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Qrow Branwen frowned at his unhappy team. "Well, well... yeah. But it's true damn it! Watch!"
He slug back one of his personal jugs and took a deep draft of his drink.
With a loud crackle, a small transparent crystal Dust with glowing white patterns formed at his feet.
Everyone looked down at it in shock. Well, almost everyone.
Qrow blinked. "Crud, I grabbed the wrong bottle."
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- Location
- Australia
I actually giggled a little at this.
A bumbling Adam is the best Adam.
ranting_pirate
(Verified Cat)
- Location
- Orebet
... Has the planet gotten tired of Qrow getting drunk?
Emits strangled noises
Has Adam ever heard of the proverb "Anyone can make a security system they can't crack?"
I wonder if his soul space counts as being 'on Remmnant' for the purpose of dust creation. If it does, then he should be able to put it there in an unstealable way.
You have also explicitly stated in the past that 'Purification' effects can also be used to create 'purer curses' or 'purer darkness', which seems comparably problematic.
dracklor
Beyond the Frontier
- Location
- Texas
Behemoth has been humoring him and nuking grim everytime he takes a sip. If Adam is leaving soon he will take Behemoth with him, I guess the planet soul wants to get in on the joke and keep it running?
Glyphs and Dust
- Location
- Here
This just in: Adam is a fallible MC.
Yeah, that Glyph design will likely become a problem, especially because, hidden or not, he forgot that he was being live streamed to the internet during its development. Ha!
That said, it really is mostly useful in a rare set of circumstances. If you place it too close to people, like on armor, it will convert your own attempts to walk into energy, keeping you stuck. Your body heat would vanish into it, along with attempts to breathe. Your Aura would drain away, and if it is active it won't even let you take it off (cause that is movement) unless you overpower it, which may cause it to cut off too soon and let the remaining forces squish you like a grape.
People will however likely research into each individual PART of the final product.
Not really, but he has been developing stuff IRL and then copying it soul side. Which is probably safer, cause you want stuff to go wrong OUTSIDE your soul.
Yep! Hopefully less problimatic than them getting a hold of 'Recovery' or 'Conversion' Dust, but yeah.
RageMage
Sir "Shitshow in the making"
- Location
- Vienna
no his luck semblance figured that the unluckiest thing to happen would be if he couldnt get drunk anymore. muahaha
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