[x][Something Else] GIVE HER A HUG!
[x][Prison] Visit during the night. I'll control a summoned being to act as my mouthpiece. Mana is so cleverly useful when it comes to slipping through solid material, after all.
for the thread:
Any ideas for a material that can make a mana that can affect other manas?
Any ideas for a material that can make an inverting mana?
I'm mostly thinking of what could be done if there was a way to reverse the effects of something like the Cobold Gleam, making it highlight the important rather than obscure it.
[X][Something Else] (Offer support. Maybe don't let on to hard that we can just GIVE our power to others, and DEFINETLY do not imply we want to use our power to mutate her, but "I mean, if you ever did want to do something else, I could always make you some tools or something?" would work. If we kickstart a mana engine and some tools for her, she could do all kinds of things.)
[x][Something Else] Bring up all the useful applications of the scanning of organisms and how she could use that part of her power to help with research in all manner of biological studies, like advancing the field of genetic modification by helping provide deeper insight to effects of said modification.
[X][Something Else] Pharmaceutics, duh. If she's so hellbent on being most efficient as a hero, like some Halbeard fangirl, she should've know that inventors of penicillin saved far more lives than any practicing doctor can ever dream.
[X][Something Else] Is there something else you want to be able to do? I am kinda a tinker and I wouldn't mind making something for a friend. I could probably figure out how to make something to synergize with your healing ability too...
[X][Prison] Visit during the night. I'll control a summoned being to act as my mouthpiece. Mana is so cleverly useful when it comes to slipping through solid material, after all.
[X][Prison] Visit during the night. I'll control a summoned being to act as my mouthpiece. Mana is so cleverly useful when it comes to slipping through solid material, after all.
-[X][Prison] Rather than just build a body from parts manually this time, since you're making a duplicate use Zirconium chains which is perfectly made for that. "False Idol" is good, and "Mimic". You might also want to involve eye and glass manas if you want it to be just a hologram rather than solid, or cast iron if not. You should probably also use eye manas in it's eyes so you can actually see what's going on better, and Eldrich Relay so that you don't *have* to strain your willpower as much to keep control. Another trick you can try is to use the True Set mana of your suit with it's full Set Bonus and the way it can make a duplicate of itself, pull that out and atune it to Thaum *after* that, and then add it to the avatar to use as blueprint data. Also, use some vibrato stone mana on the voicebox of the avatar to better disguise your voice, and test this beforehand.
--[X][Prison] The above should give you the most faithful copy of yourself, but if you're instead going for interrogation impact it might help to add a sort of aura or internal reservoir that can be released into the environment of "Heavy Thoughts", "Forgotten Memories", "Ambient Noise", "Soulshaking Dirge", "Deja Vu", "Spirit Pressure", "Remembered Days", "Northern Wind", "Rethink", "Blurt", "Spirit Fog", "Verdant", and simply raw Arcane.
--[X][Prison] you might also want to see how "Giggling Shade" interacts with this.
[X][Prison] Visit during the night. I'll control a summoned being to act as my mouthpiece. Mana is so cleverly useful when it comes to slipping through solid material, after all.
-[X][Prison] Take your time to cover your trail. Use Arcane spells as necessary (see Invisibility below). Load up the mana construct with various mana types you might need (e.g. Brain, Eye, Zirconium, Copper, Silicon, Aluminum to absorb/void leaking mana if necessary) or an Eldritch Relay (if it allows more mana to be added to the construct). If the prisoner(s) are uncooperative, bringing something of Emma's might help in magically reading the relevant memories.
[X][Author's Note] My favorite tests I'd say are the True Paper and Paper set bonus ones. Recovery Gel and Psychocite are also pretty huge, and Uncanny is also highly intriguing, if it doesn't come up in the way of my Prison suggestion. Realy like Emerald Cultivation and Avian Mutandis Creation and as well but in a less "absolutely need their own scenes" way.
"Night Taylor, don't stay up too late, alright?" dad asks, waving as he climbs the stairs with a yawn, closing the door and leaving me in the sun-lamp lit laboratory.
As soon as the door closes, I fish out a cell phone from my junk pile, as well as several broken 'gundam' toys and some screws. I had to distract myself from the truly embarrassing thing I had done earlier.
Why on earth did I think hugging Amy was a good idea!? Vicky just kept laughing, and it was the most awkward thing I had ever done.
I tried to play it off, muttering something about how she could come to my lab and play with my plants, but that just made things even worse!
I resolved to never think about that ever again, and prayed that Vicky would eventually stop cracking horrible plant jokes to remind us about it.
Thus, to serve my goal of forgetting that that ever happened, I turned to my... Well, I couldn't pretend that it wasn't illegal.
I turned my attention to my "Illegal, but good-intentioned plan".
The plan I had was fairly simple. I would disguise my power as a tinkertech device, shaping an illusion made of pure mana to look like a heavily modified, scrapped together phone.
To do that, it would help to have a model to go off of, for creating it. To that end, I gutted the phone, using superglue, bread-ties, and screws to cobble together something that looked vaguely like a tinkertech robotic bug, with circuit boards and toy-legs for its limbs, and the phone's casing for its body.
Feeling enlightened by this little art project, I also dug up an LED and superglued it to the front to make something like an "eye" for it.
Setting the model on the table, I began weaving together magic, attempting to create a summon in its image.
False Idol and Mimic Magic came together, tapping the image of the phonebug and shifting around, while Eye, Ear, and Brain Magic were deftly woven in as well. A mass of Eldritch Relay Mana plugged into the center of the construct allowed me to begin emitting some mana from within the construct, helping to solidify the illusion.
Finally, I attempted to take control of it like Thoth had taken control of my earlier summon. I felt a prod, and accepted my own call.
I felt tired, and then, utterly asleep.
I woke up seeing through my creation, one big eye staring out across the seemingly massive lab.
"That's... Not right?" I wondered, the entire experience feeling surreal and dreamlike.
A little plastic arm thrust itself in front of my 'face', inarticulate fingers twitching a bit as if to demonstrate the change in form.
When I tried to make the summon walk, it didn't feel like walking, the various legs moving of their own accord to propel me wherever I wanted it to be, and when I spoke, my voice came out in a reedy, high pitched tone that had undertones of whistling distorting it.
I hadn't realized that this method I had come up with, this method of bringing a person's will into mana to inhabit, would require that the individual be unconscious to do it.
I suppose it made some sense. The human mind wasn't meant to inhabit two bodies at once, I'm pretty sure, and I had intentionally pushed my desire to inhabit the magic into it, rather than merely forcing it to obey my orders.
I was like a ghost, or some kind of specter, and I could tell that the only reason I was touching the table and held down by gravity was because I wanted the summon to look and act like a physical object.
With a thought, the legs folded into the Illusion Phonebug, and floated up through the roof, Liquid Mana and Ray Mana slowly and laboriously slipping between the material of the roof to avoid attuning to it and decaying more rapidly.
With one last look at my sleeping form, I bid my summon to fly up into the air on a jet of magic shunted from the Eldritch Relay Mana, and push forwards towards the Bay State Correctional Center.
The BSCC was one of the largest prisons in Massechusits, talks had been in the works to try building other prisons to handle the overpopulated center, but after the Boston Games, the place was instead expanded, and furthermore, upgraded to temporarily detain some parahumans as well.
The internet searches I had done helped to clarify that this place's main advantages were its sheer size, and the high security it boasted. It was also located all the way in Norfolk, which even with my tiny flying magic phone, still took precious hours that had the summon decaying over time, held pristine only by influxes of pure thaumic mana that I had forced to bolster the decaying illusion.
I looked around the facility, even as late as it was, the place was still all barbed-wire and roving spotlights, making the place look more like what Hollywood would think a prison looks like.
Noticing the cameras, I had my summon emit more thaumic mana from the Eldritch Relay inside of it, infusing it into a puddle of water nearby and casting a spell that I hoped wouldn't be affected by the heavy voice modulation on my summoned form.
"I cannot be heard, I cannot be seen
I am but a shadow, I am but a dream
Darkness surround me, cloak me in night
Cover me, hide me, protect me from sight."
The arcane mana began to darken, and then, disappeared entirely, a trait it shared with my summon when I wrapped the cloak of mana around myself. I noticed that, while it made the top of my summon look like it was nothing but ground below, it also made the bottom of the summon look like the night sky.
If someone saw my summon fly over them, it might still catch me out, if they saw a hole of night sky passing across the ceiling...
I crawled past the various cameras and around sensors, occasionally risking the summon being attuned further to slip through some of the concrete walls or mesh fences, until finally, I was in the prison properly.
I knew who I was looking for, and, looking through prison records, I had an idea of where they were as well. It didn't take long for me to find my first victim. Miguel Chen, born to Isabella Perez and Chen Zu (Zu Chen?). Twenty five years old, arrested for assault, sentenced to fifteen years in prison, but might get out in ten on parole.
My bug slipped into the room silently, watching the man flip through a car magazine.
"Miguel Chen, I'm here to ask you some questions. It would serve you well to answer them," I say, startling the prisoner out of his reading.
He shoots upwards, feet lifting onto the ground and onto his cot. "What the hell? Fuck, Who the fuck is this," he hisses, staring at the illusory phone like it's about to blow up or something.
He says something in Chinese that I don't understand, so I ignore it and press on.
"I'm... An interested party. I want you to tell me everything about the crime you committed Summer of two-thousand and nine. The one that got you put in here."
I try to lower the reedy voice of my summon to something more threatening, but I'm not sure if it comes across correctly. "The more you tell me, the better off you will be."
1d20 vs 1d20 = 10, 2
His face turns pale. "Fuck! Alright, don't hurt me, I'll tell you everything," he says.
"It was just an initiation. We had this bitch, some two-bit whore who wanted to get promoted to full membership," he begins.
"So we set some stuff up, trapped a guy's car and took his kid out, we'd get her to do some fucked up shit to the kid to make sure she was fucked up enough to do real jobs," he starts, and I press him.
"That's not good enough. I need to know exactly what happened. What did you tell the kid? What was the woman's name, and what would she have done?"
He somehow goes even paler. "Look, why do you want to know this shit? It was just an initiation gone wrong, alright? A cape showed up, Shadow Stalker or something, the cape's name was Shadow Stalker!" he exclaims.
A guard walks past, rapping on the bars with a baton. "What the fuck are you shouting about?" he demands.
Miguel holds his hands up, looking down to where my summon had turned utterly invisible. "Sorry, just pissed about something. Letting off steam?" he says hastily.
The guard glares. "Shut the fuck up, go to sleep or something," he responds, walking off.
Miguel lets out a sigh of relief, which catches in his throat when he realizes that my summon uncloaked on his shoulder. I whisper more quietly now, frustrated with his little diversion.
"I already know who the fucking cape was. Tell me what I want to know, and do it now," I whisper. "Quietly," I insist after a moment's thought.
"I didn't say shit, alright? The guy's name was Lao. Real piece of work. He pinned the kid down and told her to pick between an eye, her nose, her mouth, or both of her ears, said he'd have Yan go to town on em with a knife," he whispers, shaking with fright that I can't quite place the source of.
I pause at this, and he takes the opportunity to speak. "You, you're that tinker that Lung's been investigating, aren't you? Is this some kind of job for him?" he mutters quietly.
I don't answer, hopping off of Miguel's shoulder and crawling out of the cell.
Before I leave, I let him notice me wrapping the invisibility around my summon once again. "Keep this between us. If you don't, you won't have time to worry about Lung," I threaten, disappearing and moving on to the other prisoners, just to make sure their retelling matches.
They did, and I had my summon sink directly into the ground before dispersing, the raw magic synthesizing a variety of exotic materials in the dirt that would turn into pure silica before the sun rose.
I woke up with a gasp, jerking away and grasping at the things I had said and done while inhabiting my summon before the memories could fade.
I had my suspicions, but now I knew as much as someone could know without having been there personally.
While I was at Summer Camp, Emma had been threatened with mutilation by a bunch of ABB goons, who were only stopped by the appearance of Shadow Stalker, the same person who attacked me on the night that I was investigating Emma's house.
After that summer, she regressed into complete sociopathy, hanging out with Sophia and Maddison, and being hell bent on ruining my life and destroying our friendship.
I knew the what now, but not the why. Why did Shadow Stalker help Emma? Why did her traumatic experience make her hate me? And the how. How was Sophia involved in all of this? Just a random bitch who Emma befriended over the summer? Someone who shared her newfound psychotic behavior?
How did she avoid getting put into counseling, or therapy?
New questions, but the same way of getting them. I would have to find the right people, and ask the right questions.
Emma avoided her face being harmed, but now I see that something about that night had damaged her mind, broke it in a way that contributed to what she is today.
Do I feel sorry for her now? Pity?
As I pull myself up and slump down against a wall, sitting down on the grassy ground, I can't tell what this makes me feel. Only one emotion registers properly out of the revelations.
Resolve.
When I wake up the next day, I decide to complete a few final tests, mostly dealing with the Corona Pollentia. The mana I attuned to it seemed to deal with powers, and the thoughts that that part of the brain had.
Attuning mana from the rest of my brain to it seemed to do nothing I couldn't already do. It simply turned the thoughts in my mind into orders for my power. Mana could come out in particular shapes or with certain properties based on what I was thinking, but it wasn't anything I couldn't already do with mana.
Attuning Eye Mana to it, however...
[Destination]
[Agreement]
For Queen Administrator, it was a tale as old as time.
The beauty of geometry, of vector calculation across noneuclidian spaces.
Yes, even as a shard not specialized for it, Queen Administrator knew her way around beautiful, wonderful physical and mathematical patterns.
And, at long last, her host had managed to find something using this stupid magic shit that finally soured even that, with their discovery of runes.
Sure enough, their Mass-and-Energy Scanner threw a bitchfit, demanding more resources be put into investigating this new interaction of magic, since now it could apparently move its way into anomalous behaviors, because of course, it could.
Another emergency choice had to be made.
[][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[][EMERGENCY] The Research Tax is increased to 15 per month. Taylor will be left to her own devices for the study of Mana Movement Patterns and runes, and will do so of her own accord.
[][EMERGENCY] 5 Research is spent. Taylor will be discouraged from testing further runes and mana patterns until the end of this month, and the other two options will be added to the Research Shop.
Decision made, Queen Administrator noticed their host trying and failing to take a peek at their thoughts.
It was so tempting, oh so tempting, to send the host a packet detailing their exact feelings on their dumb little human's problem-solving-and-causing. That temptation was only held at bay by the fact that proper communication required sending enough energy in the process to scour away most life in a several mile radius.
Carefully, gently, Queen Administrator wove together a novel data packet, forging it from all their feelings on their host's continued broadening of magic's annoying infinite-ness.
They sent it to themselves, lacking a cohort to vent to, but sending was still cathartic, billions upon billions of megajoules of energy, all pumped into one simplistic multidimensional concept.
[Fuck You Host]
I couldn't bear to stare at it for longer than a few moments, the shining image of shifting crystals crashing into one another like two stormfronts of diamonds and flesh colliding left blurry imprints on my vision as I blinked them away, dismissing the magic.
I noticed, among the endless storm of light and energy, a little envelope fluttering around in the maelstrom, the conceptual form of magic that I recognized as a summoning request from my own experiences with the magic.
I didn't understand. I didn't understand what I saw, or why I was completely confident that the little magical note was made of mana that was neither mine nor my power's.
Why was a vision born of my power's thoughts like that? Was it like an error? The result of trying to plug a sound cable into a TV's video input? Trying to visualize something that wasn't physically there?
Or was it something else? Was that a true vision of something, a vision of something in my Corona Pollentia?
And if it was, why did my power have that thought in it? That thought of a little white letter made of pure magical intentions, with the words "Come visit anytime!" written on it.
Why did my power have the thought of magic that wasn't mine? Wasn't I the only human being to have it?
First week of June Plans:
[][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[][Daily Activities] Hang out with Greg, instead of merely tolerating his presence.
-[][Daily Activities] You'll spend your time investigating.
--[][Daily Activities] Investigate the gang attack on the Barnes family last year. You now know everything that happened. Now it's time to confront Emma and find out why. Why did she do this to you? (Write-In Plan) (Taylor is not yet fully ready for this)
-[][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
-[][Daily Activities] Something Else (Write-In)
[][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[][Cape Activities] Go out healing with Panacea for the fourth straight week in a row.
-[][Cape Activities] You'll spend your time investigating.
--[][Cape Activities] Investigate the gang attack on the Barnes family last year. You now know everything that happened. Now it's time to start tracking down Shadow Stalker and find out the truth. Why did they do this to you?
-[][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (Write-In Plan)
-[][Cape Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
-[][Cape Activities] Something Else (Write-In)
[][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[][Project] Something Else (Write-In)
-[][Project] Alchemy consumes your mind. You'll discard a project this week. (If this vote wins, up to ten Write-in [][Alchemy] experiments will be processed this turn instead of one major project.)
[][Alchemy] You have (Three) Alchemy Tests Remaining.
-[][Alchemy] Write-In.
[][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Write-In)
-[][Mana] Test a piece of equipment's True Attunement (Write-In)
[][Mana] Test a Phonem's effect (Write-In)
-[][Mana] Study a target for Phomens (Write-In)
[][Mana] Test a Transmutation (Choose a Synthesis Mana and a Non-Silicate Target)
[][Mana] Something Else (Write-In)
Taylor's resolve has grown. Her proud soul has become stronger as she approaches the Truth.
Stats
Research: 57
A good start.
Overall Health: 14
You're as strong as a healthy child. If that child had the power of magic from birth, that is.
Overall Magical Power: 14
You are a skilled Channeler, using raw Willpower and attuned mana to plow your way through problems. You dabble in other magics that both enhance and detract from your raw mana channeling, such as Wizardry, Alchemy, and Runecraft.
Abilities
Magical Soul: C
Rating: Trump ???
Your soul emits magic. The stronger your soul, the more powerful your magic. Your resolve to discover the truth behind your best friend and worst enemy has strengthened your soul.
Magical Body: F
Rating: ???
Your body contains magic, your soul empowering your body without your direct intervention.
Magical Power: B
Rating: Trump ???
You are a parahuman with the power to create this anomalous energy known as "Mana", at will. Once per month, you may boost your Magical Power ranking to A for one scene.
Boosted for One Month.
Composition Detection: S
Rating: Thinker ???
You have a parahuman ability to detect the exact composition of materials. So long as you apply mana to them, that is. Fairly Niche.
Eidetic Memory: A
Rating: Thinker ???
You have a parahuman ability to never forget what mana attunements you have learned, their applications, and their nuances. You will also never forget any word or noise you test on mana, or the effects it has.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Taylor Hebert, first human to drive a Shard so far up the wall it's cussing them out with the force of an asteroid impact.
[X][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
Queen Admin just doesn't want to deal with this shit anymore, there now you can remember it all. Just figure it out before QA goes insane
[x][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[x][Daily Activities] Something Else (Maybe invite Amy to hangout outside of work?)
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (Can we please just get this done already? We need to pay our taxes before the IRS Capones us.)
[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Something Else (Using stone synthesis on metals causes them to become Defined Ores of said metal. Maybe we could use this ore to forge a weapon of magic, an Excalibur if you will? Attempt to learn metal working to make weapons, both for yourself and others. Your magic has it's offensive purposes, but it needs concentration to replicate without the items on hand. Best to have something more... direct on hand.)
[x][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Void Metal)
-[x][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Arcane>Corona Pollentia, Corona Pollentia>Arcane)
[x][Mana] Test a Transmutation (Stone>Void Metal, Stone>Iron, Stone>Gold, Stone>Silver)
Erm... This is Combinatorial Expansion. I don't think that QA is going to have fun. Besides, this is becoming like an DOS attack on our poor shard via resource exhaustion through a toxic payload/stream(the data).
[X][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
I am conflicted on Project, since I really want to write something long and complicated and think we should do SOME kind of crafting project like that, but I don't want to spend the effort to write all that out if everyone is going to vote against it so it doesn't get picked. But here's the rest:
[X][Daily Activities] Make contact with Lisa again: Explain why you are not prepared to become a villain or do anything illegal, but if she doesn't have a problem with that, you'd be willing to still be friends.
-[X][Daily Activities] Try to feel out what she thinks the PRT would think of some of your more horrific powers.
[X][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
--[X][Daily Activities] Look through the books you have.
--[X] Make a wheat outfit to help with harvests
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (We will go directly to the government, and out ourselves to the trustworthy officials in charge of this exact thing. Simply have them quietly link our Sage Identity to our Real Identity. It's not like we plan on outright breaking laws anyways. Skirting and pushing them a bit with technically legal biotinkering? Absolutely. But we shouldn't have any major crimes planned. We can set things up, run by the PRT to collect donations, and move on with our plans.)
-[x][Cape Activities] Set up your legal Second-Identity hire a specialist in parahuman law to help you possibly Carol Dallon (ask Amy on her opinion when you see her) or Quinn Calle (if Amy says her mom doesn't like rogues I guess)?
--[X][Cape Activities] Ask what the rules are for GIVING donations, or items and weapons that can be used in the next endbringer fight even if you aren't there.
--[X][Cape Activities] Aks if there's some kind of contact that'd be suitable to explain WHY you aren't prepared to be a Hero or officially affiliating with anyone, so they can know in case there are any situations they SHOULD contact you for, in some informal non-binding arrangement. Also, just having someone you can safely talk to.
[X][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] If it isn't done as Daily Activities: Talk to lisa about all those same things as in the daily activities variant of talking to Lisa
[X][Alchemy] You have (Seven) Alchemy Tests Remaining.
-[X][Alchemy] Write-In. List in spoiler:
- Try printing a high quality 2d image of a bird from the internet, and transfer its value to an unpainted wooden bird; with a bit of willpower, can this give high color and detail to the 3d shape using the precision quality the computer-controlled printer could have in a way only a masterful human sculptor could?
- See if you can make Cadmium Magic easier to use and require less willpower by first absorbing value (Try adding Aluminum/Lead to the pure Cadmium for extra suction, Salt to split it of the original object, and/or Sand to entirely break down an object and absorb *all* it's value), then attuning the value-containing mana with Salt and Boron and apply Salt and Kidney (and maybe Alcohol) to the mana to extract the value and dump it into an object.
- Try dumping value extracted with Cadmium magic into Silicon mana and using the "Poof" phonem to manifest an object.
- Create a Duplicate of our armor, and use Cadmium Magic to transfer the value of heavy steel plates and any other normal armor we can find, comfortable protective clothing for different weather conditions, an air filter, a headset, a backpack, a biking helmet, and anything else that seems relevant and dump this over and over again into the armor.
- Go outside in some forest, extract all the value from a large tree, and dump all of it into a small potted cactus.
- Use Indium magic to simplify "Cursed Burden"
- Create a Duplicate of our armor, and try using Cadmium and/or Beryllium to imbue your armor with the self-repair properties of timeshift rock.
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] list in *several* spoilers:
Hopefully will make a plant able to absorb and store sunlight, then release it to help other plants grow
Zinc
"Heavy Thoughts" > Corona Pollentia > "Curse"
Master power maybe?
Indum
Thaum > Beryllium > Indium
A different, maybe less lossy, way to simplify things
Brain
Ice+Water>Crystal Quartz>Ice+Water>Brain (our own brain to Enhance it)
This should hopefully make us more able to think clearly about mysterious things, like magic, specifically the parts the entity is least able to help with.
Brain
Thaum > Timeshift Crystal > Brain (our own brain to Enhance it)
To think faster.
[/TR]
- Blood
- Bone
- Iodine
- disgusting egg+graphite paste mix
- salt
- Quartz
- Ice
- An antenna from a radio, and the sound between the stations, and the sound the knobs make when you turn them
- Plugging things into and out of a power outlet and extension cords.
- Batteries and capacitors charging and discharging
- if Ch-ch-ch-ch is undo half, maybe just Ch is undo 1/8th?
(Thaum > Calcium Carbonate) + (Denature) > Plant > Bread > Silicon > Plant (transmute)
This should basically pre-digest plants making them more edible, and break us into the field of magical cooking
Test mutating a sage plant and an aloe plant using Thaum > Kidney > Liver and Thaum > Kidney > Liver > Silicon
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Make minimal suits and test the set bonuses of:
- Wheat
- Copper
- Aluminum
- Sage
- Lead
- Sweat
[X][Mana] Using an insect, test the ability of a large dose of Thaum > Graphite > Copper to revert extreme whole-body mortal wounds if applied fast enough. This could potentially be the basis of an "extra life" device if it works.
[X][Mana] test the result of using Skin Tone mana on a wound healed with blood mana.
[X][Mana] Use Arcane > Air and listen to the language which comes out of it. Try to speak it using no mana, Thaum mana, and Arcane mana. Use a linguistics book to see if you can decipher it.
-[X][Mana] Study it for Phonems
[x][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[x][Daily Activities] Something Else (Maybe invite Amy to hangout outside of work?)
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (Can we please just get this done already? We need to pay our taxes before the IRS Capones us.)
[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Something Else (Using stone synthesis on metals causes them to become Defined Ores of said metal. Maybe we could use this ore to forge a weapon of magic, an Excalibur if you will? Attempt to learn metal working to make weapons, both for yourself and others. Your magic has it's offensive purposes, but it needs concentration to replicate without the items on hand. Best to have something more... direct on hand.)
[x][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Void Metal)
-[x][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Arcane>Corona Pollentia, Corona Pollentia>Arcane)
[x][Mana] Test a Transmutation (Stone>Void Metal, Stone>Iron, Stone>Gold, Stone>Silver)
[X][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[X][Daily Activities] Stay at home (Enhances other actions)
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Go out healing with Panacea for the fourth straight week in a row.
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (We will go directly to the government, and out ourselves to the trustworthy officials in charge of this exact thing. Simply have them quietly link our Sage Identity to our Real Identity. It's not like we plan on outright breaking laws anyways. Skirting and pushing them a bit with technically legal biotinkering? Absolutely. But we shouldn't have any major crimes planned. We can set things up, run by the PRT to collect donations, and move on with our plans.)
(I'm new so I'm not sure if there's a max amount, so if I go overboard I'm sorry)
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Thaum > Eye > Copper > Brain; Something that will let us steal memories/thoughts without awakening people is what I'm aiming for, will still need to ask questions but still useful. Next; let's experiment with more Arcane Alchemy. Arcane > Beryllium. Arcane > Gallium. Arcane > Cadmium > Beryllium. Arcane > Mercury. Arcane > Antimony. Arcane > Cadmium. Arcane > Indium. Arcane > Beryllium > Indium.)
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Taylor Hebert, first human to drive a Shard so far up the wall it's cussing them out with the force of an asteroid impact.
[X][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[x][Daily Activities] Hang out with Greg, instead of merely tolerating his presence.
--[x][Daily Activities]Ask Greg about other fantasy games or media
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[x][Daily Activities] Go to the library, see if there are any fantasy novels that have spellcasters as heroes. See if any of them can inspire spells. Pick up Stasheff's Her Majesty's Wizard, and possibly sequels. Also a copy of the Slayers or Bastard animes as well.
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Cape Activities] You'll spend your time investigating.
--[x][Cape Activities] Investigate the gang attack on the Barnes family last year. You now know everything that happened. Now it's time to start tracking down Shadow Stalker and find out the truth. Why did they do this to you?
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (Can we please just get this done already? We need to pay our taxes before the IRS Capones us.)
[x][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[x][Daily Activities] Something Else (Maybe invite Amy to hangout outside of work?)
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (Can we please just get this done already? We need to pay our taxes before the IRS Capones us.)
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Alchemy consumes your mind. You'll discard a project this week. (If this vote wins, up to ten Write-in [][Alchemy] experiments will be processed this turn instead of one major project.)
[x][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[x][Daily Activities] Something Else (Maybe invite Amy to hangout outside of work?)
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (Can we please just get this done already? We need to pay our taxes before the IRS Capones us.)
Hmm, I've been ghosting this for a while, but now find myself actually wanting to participate. Probably sporadically. Possibly incompletely. Or maybe I'll disappear again forever. Just have to see. And honestly all I really have to contribute at this moment is a project idea.
[x][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Something Else (The Giant Bird summon was certainly interesting, but you could use a more permanent and durable means of transport. Still, why mess too much with a good idea? Craft a large Bird Golem Core, and then see if a Giant Bird Golem made out of scrap steel that has been de-rusted can fly with you on it. If steel is too heavy, use wood instead. Possibly incorporate some Gravity altering attuned materials to make it lighter, if that helps with flying. If this works out, it should work both as a useful form of cape transport, and potentially an ally in battle.)
I see people voting to set up the second identity, which I agree with, but only one person has included a plan as to how to do so. I think the easiest option is just to go back to the PRT and register as an affiliated rogue. Sure they might ask for some restrictions on biotinkering (not like we've really done much with that already), but they will likely provide a lot of support in exchange for regular access to another healer. Plus it might open up options to have materials testing conducted on some of our more exotic products (such as creating orichalcum/adamantium from Pandore), and would give us access to things like a vacuum chamber for pure mana tests.
[X][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[x][Daily Activities] What sort of things will you do during the day?
-[x][Daily Activities] Something Else (Maybe invite Amy to hangout outside of work?)
[x][Cape Activities] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Cape Activities] Set up your Legal Second-Identity (Can we please just get this done already? We need to pay our taxes before the IRS Capones us.)
-[X][Cape Activities] Perhaps its time to reconsider becoming a PRT affiliated rogue. They will probably offer a lot more support now that you have shown off your healing abilities.
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] The bird summon was able to fly just like a bird. Perhaps the same technique could be expanded to create your own wings? Try to create a mana technique that would give yourself temporary flight abilities and see if you can modify the spell to allow someone else to fly as well.
The Informational Post has been edited! Phonems are now in their own document with Runes and Recipes, leaving Mana Attunement in its own special document!
[X][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
[X][EMERGENCY] Expend 50 Research to create yet another mental library for the host. t this point, Queen Administrator is sick of new things cropping up in this library, and will just lump anything and Everything into it. (Taylor will gain Eidetic Memory: S. She can now remember anything perfectly, so long as she has tested its effects on mana. This includes movements, shapes, sounds, atomic attunement configurations, and alchemy recipes.)
She's contemplating a lot of things that aren't 100% relevant to someone who is in the middle of finding out things directly.
She could easily be suspicious and it wouldn't change much in terms of her actions or behavior, and I erred on the side of caution when it comes to Taylor "figuring things out" that we only know because of OOC knowledge.
She could easily be suspicious and it wouldn't change much in terms of her actions or behavior, and I erred on the side of caution when it comes to Taylor "figuring things out" that we only know because of OOC knowledge.
There really isn't much to figure out though? Emma was attacked, Shadow Stalker saved her, She starts hanging out with Sophia around this time, Sophia hasn't been to school since we told the PRT about Shadow Stalker threatening us. Unless Taylor is DEEP in denial Sophia=Shadow Stalker just makes sense.
