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I agree to an extent. We have seen that concepts always embody something, even air, so we should be careful with what we might just toss out next to us.
Combinatorial Explosion (Worm/Original)
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[X][Project] The Merchants practically wrecked your shop in broad daylight in the middle of the boardwalk. You won't let them do it again.
-[X][Project] Guardian. A biomantic beast should provide adequate protection while you're away. You'll construct a true horror worthy of protecting your property, within legal bounds.
--[X][Project] Plan Boss Monster. People already know we can biotinker. Might as well make something as obviously threatening as possible to discourage intruders from even trying. And give it the power to back up the threat if needed, while also having nonlethal options. See how many of the following we can stuff in.
---[X][Project] Use plants and insects for a base, maybe a nice crab if we can catch one. Plants and insects lack souls of their own, making them more malleable and easy to manipulate, while a crab would be a good base creature for armor, legs, and claws.
----[X][Project] Really look for that crab, maybe buy one, and make sure it's a BIG one. Even if we somehow can't find it, still make the guardian crab-shaped.
---[X][Project] Make it out of mostly Woodsmith Armor, and give it some branches with leaves that it can use to recharge itself and keep itself healthy using sunlight while hibernating, and maybe disguise itself as a normal topiary when not in use.
---[X][Project] Make the core primarily out of Wardstone (for [Safety of Home]), with smaller amounts of phsycocite, crystal flesh, iron, and chloride. It's programmed using arcane rhyme that simultaneously gives it needed abilities.
---[X][Project] Reinforced armor plating made from woodsmith armor grown in Ironwood Soil, steel, and Pandore alloyed alchemical. Further transmuted and enchanted with skin (and maybe scar tissue) and cast iron mana, and an arcane intonation.
----[X][Project] "Egg > Egg > Plant > Graphite > Titanium" might also help make the armor denser. Maybe combine that with Thaum > Keratin > Graphite ('Shell').
---[X][Project] Bioelectric vines! Grab enemies, and then taze them into submission! Slap on like six of them for handling gangs of thugs.
---[X][Project] Gravity-manipulating organs! Let our horror inexplicably be able to float! Or pin enemies down under their own amplified weight!
----[X][Project] This uses "Riftgecko Mutation" obviously
---[X][Project] Give it a voice that uses "Soulshaking Dirge" and "Spirit Pressure" to intimidate and demoralize enemies.
---[X][Project] Spider spinnerets! Lay traps and tie up captured opponents for the police!
---[X][Project] Bizarre and nonsensical biology! It's actually held together with magic, so why should it need a normal circulatory or digestive system? Operation 'Make Panacea Fall Over' is GO!
---[X][Project] Big pincers! We want it able to wrangle those hunks of junk the Merchants call vehicles. If we're feeling mean, make the claws out of Hellforged material or Voidmetal or something else nasty.
----[X][Project] Hmm, yea, we ARE feeling mean. Alchemical add Thunderbolt Iron and Pandora's Iron to the claws, and give it "Fractal Blade", "Supermass", "Massless Detonation", "Precise Cut", "Vital Shock", etc. based mutations. And sharpen them using Arcane > Crystal Quartz
---[X][Project] Give it a bigass cannon on it's back, Genesect style! Fires a huge disintegration lazor beam of Sand+Chrome+Chloride+calcium mana.
---[X][Project] Uses traits from carnivorous plants, to make up for not having roots and symbolically increase aggression.
---[X][Project] Use value transfer (techsteal or normal, whichever seems most appropriate) alchemy: A smartphone (so we can remote control and monitor it), some steel armor plating, some heavy hydraulic equipment (for crushing strength), a fully grown tree from our forest acre, a high-quality sculpture of a crab, a megaphone, headlights (from a broke down junk car, bought from a scrapyard probably), large gardening shears, mundane metal weapons, high quality mechanical bearings and joints, a pile of chains, a large red OFF switch, and a large extremely durable and solid bolder.
---[X][Project] Integrate internal chamber full of (synth-)healant and some misc. liquid manas, such that it can keep itself alive and regenerate even if grievously injured, and maybe spray it on us if we're unconscious and dying.
---[X][Project] and a bazillion other mutations mostly related to generally making an organism better and more powerful and giving it a swiz army knife of abilities.
---[X][Project] Name it The Dread Eternal Topiary of Greater Doom.
[X][Project] Dig out a large secret cavern (reinforced with Hardcrete Creation) underneath our Forest Acre, and make a similar garden we have in the basement but much larger and higher quality, structured in a way to allow for large scale farming as well as full-sized trees. A large tree that connects both the surface (looking like just a normal very large tree there) and the cavern provides artificial sunlight via a gold-based bioluminescence mutation, and given natural-rain-like irrigation using tin-based magic.
[X][Advanced] Something Else (Write-In)
-[x][Advanced] Given how powerful this thinker memory is... Acquire an external hard drive, the kind that's basically a very large USB stick for making backups but with a separate power cable, and power it with Brain > 'Zap' + Eldritch Relay > 'Zap' + Lightning Vision > 'Zap', then while doing that continuously plug it into a computer and download an offline copy of the entirety of wikipedia onto it so all of it passes through the mana. Let's make that thinker power EARN it's S rank.
[X][Advanced] Do an experiment on how long a tree that is just a sphere of wood can survive without those things and in darkness but supplied with liquid plant mana injected into it via symbiont, and how healthy it can stay that way and any issues being kept like that long term would cause. This is kind of important if we want to make much of our equipment out of living wood, and not carry around gant pots of dirt or have big leaves we have to make sure get enough sunlight.
[X][Advanced] make a large runic array of pure lithium dust and lithium-gemerald dust mix consisting of 9 golden spirals (thaumic collapse) going into a 8-Simplex ('declare perfection') with a single spherical rock placed in the center and a small emerald at each corner of the simplex, and on a flat ground of only rock so no non-rock-aligned concepts are anywhere nearby for it to be mixed up with.
[X][Advanced] Test this arcane spell, for some added shop protection:
[X][Simple] Attunement chain: Chlorine > Fulgurite > Tektite
[X][Business] Make use of Lisa.
- [X][Business] She wasn't too keen on looking like a cape, but we make an outfit for her for true attunement and set bonus reasons, what should it look like, and should it try to hide her identity at all or try to look like mundane civilian clothes or something else?
-[X][Project] Guardian. A biomantic beast should provide adequate protection while you're away. You'll construct a true horror worthy of protecting your property, within legal bounds.
--[X][Project] Plan Boss Monster. People already know we can biotinker. Might as well make something as obviously threatening as possible to discourage intruders from even trying. And give it the power to back up the threat if needed, while also having nonlethal options. See how many of the following we can stuff in.
---[X][Project] Use plants and insects for a base, maybe a nice crab if we can catch one. Plants and insects lack souls of their own, making them more malleable and easy to manipulate, while a crab would be a good base creature for armor, legs, and claws.
----[X][Project] Really look for that crab, maybe buy one, and make sure it's a BIG one. Even if we somehow can't find it, still make the guardian crab-shaped.
---[X][Project] Make it out of mostly Woodsmith Armor, and give it some branches with leaves that it can use to recharge itself and keep itself healthy using sunlight while hibernating, and maybe disguise itself as a normal topiary when not in use.
---[X][Project] Make the core primarily out of Wardstone (for [Safety of Home]), with smaller amounts of phsycocite, crystal flesh, iron, and chloride. It's programmed using arcane rhyme that simultaneously gives it needed abilities.
---[X][Project] Reinforced armor plating made from woodsmith armor grown in Ironwood Soil, steel, and Pandore alloyed alchemical. Further transmuted and enchanted with skin (and maybe scar tissue) and cast iron mana, and an arcane intonation.
----[X][Project] "Egg > Egg > Plant > Graphite > Titanium" might also help make the armor denser. Maybe combine that with Thaum > Keratin > Graphite ('Shell').
---[X][Project] Bioelectric vines! Grab enemies, and then taze them into submission! Slap on like six of them for handling gangs of thugs.
---[X][Project] Gravity-manipulating organs! Let our horror inexplicably be able to float! Or pin enemies down under their own amplified weight!
----[X][Project] This uses "Riftgecko Mutation" obviously
---[X][Project] Give it a voice that uses "Soulshaking Dirge" and "Spirit Pressure" to intimidate and demoralize enemies.
---[X][Project] Spider spinnerets! Lay traps and tie up captured opponents for the police!
---[X][Project] Bizarre and nonsensical biology! It's actually held together with magic, so why should it need a normal circulatory or digestive system? Operation 'Make Panacea Fall Over' is GO!
---[X][Project] Big pincers! We want it able to wrangle those hunks of junk the Merchants call vehicles. If we're feeling mean, make the claws out of Hellforged material or Voidmetal or something else nasty.
----[X][Project] Hmm, yea, we ARE feeling mean. Alchemical add Thunderbolt Iron and Pandora's Iron to the claws, and give it "Fractal Blade", "Supermass", "Massless Detonation", "Precise Cut", "Vital Shock", etc. based mutations. And sharpen them using Arcane > Crystal Quartz
---[X][Project] Give it a bigass cannon on it's back, Genesect style! Fires a huge disintegration lazor beam of Sand+Chrome+Chloride+calcium mana.
---[X][Project] Uses traits from carnivorous plants, to make up for not having roots and symbolically increase aggression.
---[X][Project] Use value transfer (techsteal or normal, whichever seems most appropriate) alchemy: A smartphone (so we can remote control and monitor it), some steel armor plating, some heavy hydraulic equipment (for crushing strength), a fully grown tree from our forest acre, a high-quality sculpture of a crab, a megaphone, headlights (from a broke down junk car, bought from a scrapyard probably), large gardening shears, mundane metal weapons, high quality mechanical bearings and joints, a pile of chains, a large red OFF switch, and a large extremely durable and solid bolder.
---[X][Project] Integrate internal chamber full of (synth-)healant and some misc. liquid manas, such that it can keep itself alive and regenerate even if grievously injured, and maybe spray it on us if we're unconscious and dying.
---[X][Project] and a bazillion other mutations mostly related to generally making an organism better and more powerful and giving it a swiz army knife of abilities.
---[X][Project] Name it The Dread Eternal Topiary of Greater Doom.
[X][Project] Dig out a large secret cavern (reinforced with Hardcrete Creation) underneath our Forest Acre, and make a similar garden we have in the basement but much larger and higher quality, structured in a way to allow for large scale farming as well as full-sized trees. A large tree that connects both the surface (looking like just a normal very large tree there) and the cavern provides artificial sunlight via a gold-based bioluminescence mutation, and given natural-rain-like irrigation using tin-based magic.
[X][Advanced] Something Else (Write-In)
-[x][Advanced] Given how powerful this thinker memory is... Acquire an external hard drive, the kind that's basically a very large USB stick for making backups but with a separate power cable, and power it with Brain > 'Zap' + Eldritch Relay > 'Zap' + Lightning Vision > 'Zap', then while doing that continuously plug it into a computer and download an offline copy of the entirety of wikipedia onto it so all of it passes through the mana. Let's make that thinker power EARN it's S rank.
[X][Advanced] Do an experiment on how long a tree that is just a sphere of wood can survive without those things and in darkness but supplied with liquid plant mana injected into it via symbiont, and how healthy it can stay that way and any issues being kept like that long term would cause. This is kind of important if we want to make much of our equipment out of living wood, and not carry around gant pots of dirt or have big leaves we have to make sure get enough sunlight.
[X][Advanced] make a large runic array of pure lithium dust and lithium-gemerald dust mix consisting of 9 golden spirals (thaumic collapse) going into a 8-Simplex ('declare perfection') with a single spherical rock placed in the center and a small emerald at each corner of the simplex, and on a flat ground of only rock so no non-rock-aligned concepts are anywhere nearby for it to be mixed up with.
[X][Advanced] Test this arcane spell, for some added shop protection:
I speak to place an arcane ward
Make it lasting, make it hard
I impose by eldritch shard
Holding you in low regard
In rhyme spun as a master bard
Those who threaten hereby barred
It will hostile advance retard
Unless dissuaded by cannard
May that all their thoughts be bared
And unwelcome bodies marred
With flame and heat it will bombard
Against all who enter may it guard
Unless you present the correct card
Anointed with an great sow's lard
And it was not since unpaired
Those who present that will be spared
But all others they will be snared
As zinc's and ruby's curse transferred
Protective magic will leave you scarred
Into a crisp you will be charred
Once only ashes will discard
Ignited as if soaking tarred
By firewall around my yard
Make it lasting, make it hard
I impose by eldritch shard
Holding you in low regard
In rhyme spun as a master bard
Those who threaten hereby barred
It will hostile advance retard
Unless dissuaded by cannard
May that all their thoughts be bared
And unwelcome bodies marred
With flame and heat it will bombard
Against all who enter may it guard
Unless you present the correct card
Anointed with an great sow's lard
And it was not since unpaired
Those who present that will be spared
But all others they will be snared
As zinc's and ruby's curse transferred
Protective magic will leave you scarred
Into a crisp you will be charred
Once only ashes will discard
Ignited as if soaking tarred
By firewall around my yard
[X][Simple] Attunement chain: Chlorine > Fulgurite > Tektite
[X][Business] Make use of Lisa.
- [X][Business] She wasn't too keen on looking like a cape, but we make an outfit for her for true attunement and set bonus reasons, what should it look like, and should it try to hide her identity at all or try to look like mundane civilian clothes or something else?
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[X][Project] Dig out a large secret cavern (reinforced with Hardcrete Creation) underneath our Forest Acre, and make a similar garden we have in the basement but much larger and higher quality, structured in a way to allow for large scale farming as well as full-sized trees. A large tree that connects both the surface (looking like just a normal very large tree there) and the cavern provides artificial sunlight via a gold-based bioluminescence mutation, and given natural-rain-like irrigation using tin-based magic.
[X][Advanced] Test this arcane spell, for some added shop protection:
[X][Business] Make use of Lisa.
- [X][Business] She wasn't too keen on looking like a cape, but we make an outfit for her for true attunement and set bonus reasons, what should it look like, and should it try to hide her identity at all or try to look like mundane civilian clothes or something else?
[X][Advanced] Test this arcane spell, for some added shop protection:
I speak to place an arcane ward
Make it lasting, make it hard
I impose by eldritch shard
Holding you in low regard
In rhyme spun as a master bard
Those who threaten hereby barred
It will hostile advance retard
Unless dissuaded by cannard
May that all their thoughts be bared
And unwelcome bodies marred
With flame and heat it will bombard
Against all who enter may it guard
Unless you present the correct card
Anointed with an great sow's lard
And it was not since unpaired
Those who present that will be spared
But all others they will be snared
As zinc's and ruby's curse transferred
Protective magic will leave you scarred
Into a crisp you will be charred
Once only ashes will discard
Ignited as if soaking tarred
By firewall around my yard
Make it lasting, make it hard
I impose by eldritch shard
Holding you in low regard
In rhyme spun as a master bard
Those who threaten hereby barred
It will hostile advance retard
Unless dissuaded by cannard
May that all their thoughts be bared
And unwelcome bodies marred
With flame and heat it will bombard
Against all who enter may it guard
Unless you present the correct card
Anointed with an great sow's lard
And it was not since unpaired
Those who present that will be spared
But all others they will be snared
As zinc's and ruby's curse transferred
Protective magic will leave you scarred
Into a crisp you will be charred
Once only ashes will discard
Ignited as if soaking tarred
By firewall around my yard
[X][Business] Make use of Lisa.
- [X][Business] She wasn't too keen on looking like a cape, but we make an outfit for her for true attunement and set bonus reasons, what should it look like, and should it try to hide her identity at all or try to look like mundane civilian clothes or something else?
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Im pretty sure an automatic wall of flames would cross over a few legal lines as a security mechanism.
Though being able to make a really good wall of fire is good, I'm not sure it suits our shop.
Though being able to make a really good wall of fire is good, I'm not sure it suits our shop.
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Good point, we really just need a scanning mana of sorts, a way to record who were are banning through that scanning system, and then an Arcane > Sisyphium("Dark Bind") Turret.
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An automatic binding security system could be really good. And we dont really need an exhaustive scanning system or blacklist.
If no employee is there, and the shop is closed, bind any entrants.
And a basic method to detect us and employees.
Like a card or something.
Also in regards to our forest property.
What if we included a house, yard, and fence in it?
Clear out some trees, fence in the area, and put in a nice, living house.
The house could obfuscate where we live by implying we live in this heavily forested area where lots of material can be found. When we have portals/space tunneling, we can further this ruse by leaving and returning to this location when we are done with cape stuff, before warping home.
And if large enough could include some basic surface labs and equipment
And then we could have underground chambers under the whole property.
A house would also be a better place to interact with friendly summoned guests, and serve as a backup in the event of the worst.
When we start doing non plants, the front yard could also be a decent place for the less scary looking beasts.
Plus it would help cultivate our "Nice magic plant lady shopkeeper healer" persona and give us some good practice in larger scale plantmagic and construction.
Not sure if I want to do that YET though. Maybe wait on actualy having the portals/tunnels.
If no employee is there, and the shop is closed, bind any entrants.
And a basic method to detect us and employees.
Like a card or something.
Also in regards to our forest property.
What if we included a house, yard, and fence in it?
Clear out some trees, fence in the area, and put in a nice, living house.
The house could obfuscate where we live by implying we live in this heavily forested area where lots of material can be found. When we have portals/space tunneling, we can further this ruse by leaving and returning to this location when we are done with cape stuff, before warping home.
And if large enough could include some basic surface labs and equipment
And then we could have underground chambers under the whole property.
A house would also be a better place to interact with friendly summoned guests, and serve as a backup in the event of the worst.
When we start doing non plants, the front yard could also be a decent place for the less scary looking beasts.
Plus it would help cultivate our "Nice magic plant lady shopkeeper healer" persona and give us some good practice in larger scale plantmagic and construction.
Not sure if I want to do that YET though. Maybe wait on actualy having the portals/tunnels.
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Honestly this. We may end up ruling BB, but we need a fortress incase shit hits the fan, esp now that we are talking Coil.
Might want to surround our little patch with a Smurfs-style illusion, surrounding it with just the imagine of repeating forest, if perhaps with a bear or something napping, as to seriously discourage anyone from trying to approach.
Or maybe just a "Notice me not" feild.
We should also remember that our identity is paperthin at the second, so Taylor & Co. not being at her house 90% of the time might be an issue. (We need to solve this, btw?)
| Void Spark > Stone | Riftsharpened Voidrock Creation | Synthesis Ray | This mana produces Riftsharpened Voidrock when applied to Stone | Riftsharpened Voidrock: This substance interacts with space physically. Objects made of it can tear holes into the void between worlds, or prop them open, among other possible uses. |
This may be our solution.
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Right, i was thinking about that. We might need to tweak it a bit so it dosent slip into the void to easily, but that should be doable.
Maybe that should be a set of advanced tests next week.
Maybe that should be a set of advanced tests next week.
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What we need is some way to make connection. Psychic Crystals never have worked because nothing in them allows for communication. If we could remotely connect two canvases of the right material to make a portal via connection, things could get a lot less riskier.
Spacial Warping for travel is bound to lead to issues.
Spacial Warping for travel is bound to lead to issues.
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TBH having Sage and Taylor have two different lives might help us a bit with our identity.
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Ok, so like, y'know how our identity is paper thin?
What if we pull a new wave once we are certain our allies can be protected?
Like, once we have a nice house out in the woods, let's just reveal our identity and move out there.
In fact, maybe design the new house to look like the old one, so it's not too much of a shock when moving?
Also, I wonder what the fuck we should do with Greg. He isn't a cape, so not very useful, but I can't help but think we should do something?
Should we move out into the woods, should he be part of our chosen few that may enter/live there?
Similar question for Emma, we need to wrap up the Barnes investigation and try to get closer with her again. (Also might help when it comes to getting a lawyer
)
As for the other-world, we've already summoned Seeker, but we should still work on a physical body so we can potentially go to Trinity and purchase magical materials? magical books? Grab the "Worm" book Seeker has? Talk to other channelers about things they can make? Ask hell's denizens about how we can properly refine our hellish materials, or cook Jewelmeat?
Also for summons, I can't help but think of Pact, which is canon in worm. (In Bet, the books follow Maggie Holt, but Aleph has regular Pact as a book series.)
What if we pull a new wave once we are certain our allies can be protected?
Like, once we have a nice house out in the woods, let's just reveal our identity and move out there.
In fact, maybe design the new house to look like the old one, so it's not too much of a shock when moving?
Also, I wonder what the fuck we should do with Greg. He isn't a cape, so not very useful, but I can't help but think we should do something?
Should we move out into the woods, should he be part of our chosen few that may enter/live there?
Similar question for Emma, we need to wrap up the Barnes investigation and try to get closer with her again. (Also might help when it comes to getting a lawyer
)As for the other-world, we've already summoned Seeker, but we should still work on a physical body so we can potentially go to Trinity and purchase magical materials? magical books? Grab the "Worm" book Seeker has? Talk to other channelers about things they can make? Ask hell's denizens about how we can properly refine our hellish materials, or cook Jewelmeat?
Also for summons, I can't help but think of Pact, which is canon in worm. (In Bet, the books follow Maggie Holt, but Aleph has regular Pact as a book series.)
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[X][Advanced] Try making a crude Pulse Jet engine. You basically only need steel and a spark plug, and all the hard parts should be trivial with our gallium magic and/or just looking up schematics and tutorials online.
[X][Simple] Apply Emerald Cultivation (Thaum > Lithium > Lithium) to aluminum to get an earth-aligned aluminum.
[X][Simple] Apply Lithium Transmutation (Thaum > Lithium > Silicon > Aluminum) to aluminum to get an earth-aligned aluminum.
[X][Simple] Test the basic thaum mana type of some (mostly iodide) salts: Silver iodide, Thyroxine, Potassium Dichromate, Calcium Hypochlorite, Potassium iodide, Caesium iodide, Aluminium iodide, Americium(III) iodide, Beryllium iodide, Bismuth(III) iodide, Calcium iodide, Cobalt(II) iodide, Copper(I) iodide, Gallium(III) iodide, Iodine oxide, Lithium iodide, Magnesium iodide, Manganese(II) iodide, Silicon tetraiodide.
[X][Advanced] Test an arcane spell:
[X][Simple] Apply Emerald Cultivation (Thaum > Lithium > Lithium) to aluminum to get an earth-aligned aluminum.
[X][Simple] Apply Lithium Transmutation (Thaum > Lithium > Silicon > Aluminum) to aluminum to get an earth-aligned aluminum.
[X][Simple] Test the basic thaum mana type of some (mostly iodide) salts: Silver iodide, Thyroxine, Potassium Dichromate, Calcium Hypochlorite, Potassium iodide, Caesium iodide, Aluminium iodide, Americium(III) iodide, Beryllium iodide, Bismuth(III) iodide, Calcium iodide, Cobalt(II) iodide, Copper(I) iodide, Gallium(III) iodide, Iodine oxide, Lithium iodide, Magnesium iodide, Manganese(II) iodide, Silicon tetraiodide.
[X][Advanced] Test an arcane spell:
May customers be put at ease
By a Potassium scented breeze
But if you take here crime's disease
Arcane waters your heart sees
So mind your manners would you please
With salt it measures your sins degrees
And if found wanting by the seas
Such that my power agrees
Security here guarantees
Platinum your muscles seize
Making you instantly freeze
With Lead and Zinc you are brought to your knees
And only I will have the keys
So you would better pay your fees
As you feel Thorium your heart squeeze
Like the sting of countless bees
For you see my rules are these
Mind the laws and mind the trees
Go not where it would displease
Follow cursive sign's decrees
And by Cadmium pay back any owed rupees
Magic things oft come in threes
So would be sinners hear my pleas
As we are this shop's trustees
At night it's bared on pain of bees
Unwritten rules don't try to cheese
Fate's not something you should tease
Spy not, steal not, mind the peace
Do not harm even the fleas
And if you break the shop, oh jeez
You will become detainees
As all hope form your heart flees
As easily as one can sneeze
I will you hang from a trapeze
But if your sin's just common sleaze
Put away now your unease
May you know law's A, B, C's
Just wear more than a chemise
As you browse our tasty teas
Now last I will add this diese
I am first of referees
I decide the licensees
This spell from worry my mind frees
By a Potassium scented breeze
But if you take here crime's disease
Arcane waters your heart sees
So mind your manners would you please
With salt it measures your sins degrees
And if found wanting by the seas
Such that my power agrees
Security here guarantees
Platinum your muscles seize
Making you instantly freeze
With Lead and Zinc you are brought to your knees
And only I will have the keys
So you would better pay your fees
As you feel Thorium your heart squeeze
Like the sting of countless bees
For you see my rules are these
Mind the laws and mind the trees
Go not where it would displease
Follow cursive sign's decrees
And by Cadmium pay back any owed rupees
Magic things oft come in threes
So would be sinners hear my pleas
As we are this shop's trustees
At night it's bared on pain of bees
Unwritten rules don't try to cheese
Fate's not something you should tease
Spy not, steal not, mind the peace
Do not harm even the fleas
And if you break the shop, oh jeez
You will become detainees
As all hope form your heart flees
As easily as one can sneeze
I will you hang from a trapeze
But if your sin's just common sleaze
Put away now your unease
May you know law's A, B, C's
Just wear more than a chemise
As you browse our tasty teas
Now last I will add this diese
I am first of referees
I decide the licensees
This spell from worry my mind frees
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Voting is now closed! Beginning update soonish.
Interlude 2: Danny
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"We'll have a storm now. And an earthquake, if you like," the mysterious stranger said in an authoritative tone.
"You must stand aside, out of danger."
Suddenly, the robed figure was replaced by a burning shape that stood in a loose, uneasy posture, blue flames rising up from its feet and radiating from its head.
The figure raised a hand, and their eyes opened, twin pits of darkness.
There was a flash of light, as if everything in the world had caught fire in an instant, and then...
Danny gasped, jerking awake. The television was all static, and the videotape had long since ended. He could hear bird song faintly from outside as the sun started to rise.
"That's the last time I watch that movie," he muttered to himself. Last night, him and Taylor had decided to watch movies, just the two of them. The Adventures of Mark Twain had been fun, and brought back memories of a very young Taylor begging Annette for the film, having already read most of Mark Twain's more popular work.
Of course, back then, Taylor was the one who had gotten bad dreams from it.
Danny stood up from the couch he had fallen asleep on, letting out a huff of air as he felt the aches and pains that seemed so far away, even just a few years ago.
Knowing how strong his little owl had become after gaining her powers, he was a bit surprised to still have aches like those. Well, not really surprised.
As he began to stretch, knowing that that usually banished the worst consequences of a poor sleeping spot, his sleepy mind ran through a few thoughts, before settling on one in particular.
'How did the saying go? Before enlightenment, pour water, after enlightenment, pour water?' he thought, but that didn't seem right.
'No, that wasn't it,' he concluded, raising his hands high up in the air and stretching as much as he could, the pleasant ache of exerted tendons pushing away the unpleasant ache of stiff joints.
Taking a deep breath, he let out another puff of air. He felt pretty good now. Work wouldn't be nearly as much trouble if he wasn't hurting. Sitting around doing paperwork might not have seemed like the kind of work to aggravate pains, but the people who thought that hadn't had to do it at the union building.
A cramped office and a cramped chair were what awaited him there, as he checked on Taylor, who was usually sleeping, eating, or doing something incomprehensible in the basement.
Today, it seemed to be option 'A', and he found her asleep in her bed. It was a comforting sight, especially after he had found out about her escapade as Sage last week.
He saw the news, as well. Most of the footage was choppy amateur work from people poking their phones out of their apartments nearby to catch a shot of the Rogue systematically plowing towards the guys with guns, weaving together shimmering barriers and grown plants to thwart the bullets that she didn't simply dodge outright.
He wondered how Taylor had made her armor undulate like it did, parts of it seeming to grow thicker moments before something would hit it. He still didn't know much about magic. Aside from the ever-present sensation of it in his core, and the curious feeling of it in the air, he hadn't done much with it, not seeing the need.
Though, it did seem to flare a bit when he was done stretching. Maybe there was something to that 'Yoga' junk. He certainly felt better than he usually did after stretching.
He started up his truck, making his way to Donut Oleg's, a place that got started up by a burly Russian by the same name, but was now owned by a Chinese family who bought it years back, keeping the name in an effort to keep some of the customers that the original benefitted from.
'Of course,' he thought, parking outside after a short drive there.
'They sure didn't seem to need the help,' he finished, walking inside the crowded building, breakfast in full swing for the people here.
"I'll have a dozen powdered and some coffee, please," Danny said once it was his turn, paying and receiving his order.
"Have a goodun'," the teen at the register said, already losing interest in the customer now that they had what they came for.
The coffee wasn't anything special, but the donuts were some of the best he could get his hands on. Either way, his order was practical. It was early, he hadn't quite slept right, and some sugar and caffeine would give him some short-term energy until he was awake properly.
As he parked outside of the union building, he decided he'd eat a few of the donuts before getting out of the car. A bit greedy, but Daniel Hebert was a man who knew how to make the most of his assets, and he knew they would disappear quickly once he actually started working, a consequence of him being a bit too nice to his coworkers when it came to pilfered donuts.
As he wiped his hands clean of the powdery sugar and took another drink of coffee, he felt properly revitalized, something his budding mana seemed to agree with, considering the second little flareup he had felt.
He glared at his coffee suspiciously. "Just what are they putting in this stuff nowadays?" he murmured, getting out of the car and closing the door with a click as he strode confidently into the building. It was a good thing he picked up coffee while he could. Quality coffee wasn't anywhere to be found in this particular building, so he'd be stuck with the usual swill once his current cup ran dry.
Carol was behind the front desk as usual, typing away at something, either important files or her blog, depending on how quiet today was.
"Morning," Danny said, walking past her, noticing a necklace on her desk. He had gained a bit of an eye for odd things, ever since he was the one helping get most of Taylor's 'cape' materials, and the rainbow colored gem set in the middle of the otherwise cheap-looking necklace.
"What's that?" he asked politely, and she looked away from the computer to see what he meant.
"Oh! It's Fordite. My husband works at the local automotive place, so they have quite a bit of it. It is quite nice, isn't it?" she asks, offering a smile.
He nods. "Yeah. Might have to get one for Taylor. She likes that sort of thing," he says, already preparing to leave for his office.
"Oh? Well, I'd be happy to tell my husband, heaven knows he still owes you for all your hard work," she responded, getting a nod from him.
Most everyone he knew 'owed him' for his work, considering most of the people he knew well were also members of the union. He never let it go to his head, but he also knew that you couldn't ignore that kind of sway if you wanted to help get people as many good jobs as you could manage. It helped out more than once, just having the ability to call up someone who was well-off thanks to him to see if they had an opening for the next poor guy to walk into his office.
'I appreciate that Carol. I'll be in my office if anyone needs me,' he says, offering a short wave.
He had been wanting to look over some papers lately that had been irking him. Ones that had been irking him since he got his new abilities.
Danny let the papers flop back down onto his table with a huff. It didn't make sense.
Or rather, it made sense to him, but something was obviously wrong.
A lot of the work he did involved hunches. He had to not only find jobs for hard-working men and women, but also find hard-working men and women for jobs. It was a fine balance, and he was usually one of the first people called if a new hire or a new job didn't turn out the way he figured it would.
He had learned a while ago that, if he was being honest, his hunches didn't mean spit. When it came down to pure guesswork, people were funny about defying what you thought about them after a short interview, something he usually made up for with a handy list of phone numbers and people he knew who could help when he needed to shuffle things around.
That wasn't the case here.
Or rather, it wasn't the same case.
He looked through the papers again, trying to decide if he was seeing connections where there wasn't any.
He assumed that older folks typically went for older jobs. A fourty-something man seemed like a good fit for work that had some history to it, where a fresh-out-of-school eighteen-year-old wasn't quite.
He was proven wrong enough times to make him doubt that this was strictly true, but lately, he had been doing what he usually did, trying to make connections and figure out how to do the best job he could as head of hiring.
And it had started working just a little bit more.
He was pretty sure that he wasn't getting better hunches. It seemed obvious that a guy who used to do a lot of skateboarding would be decent enough at changing wheels on cars. It was simple work that used the same kind of tools, and it was one of the only jobs he could offer the kid.
It seemed pretty clear that John Hammond, a vet down on his luck who just needed money for rent, would be better suited for hauling work, he knew well enough from his own father's half-remembered talking about the military that it involved a lot of moving things from point-a to point-b.
His usual cases where he had as much information as he could get, and it came down to simple guesswork on how to make the call.
But unlike before, this practice wasn't nearly as spotty as before. He got far fewer calls about people flaking out, fewer complaints from employee or employer, whenever he was forced to follow one of his theories that seemed to hold water.
After thoroughly looking through last week's logs, he was pretty sure of one thing. Magic was involved, even if it wasn't the direct cause. But, of course, to his knowledge, there was only really one person who could tell him if he was getting better ideas, or if something was making his terrible ideas work better.
Taylor, who had expressed a very keen interest in training him this week, once she had made time for it.
'Well, with any luck, I won't be totally empty-headed by the time that happens,' he thought to himself, yawning a bit as he stretched, waiting for the inevitable flow of bonus mana to give him a bit more pep for the hours of calls he'd be making today.
[] Interlude: Lisa
[] Interlude: Amy
[] Interlude: Armsmaster
[] Conclude Interludes
"You must stand aside, out of danger."
Suddenly, the robed figure was replaced by a burning shape that stood in a loose, uneasy posture, blue flames rising up from its feet and radiating from its head.
The figure raised a hand, and their eyes opened, twin pits of darkness.
There was a flash of light, as if everything in the world had caught fire in an instant, and then...
Danny gasped, jerking awake. The television was all static, and the videotape had long since ended. He could hear bird song faintly from outside as the sun started to rise.
"That's the last time I watch that movie," he muttered to himself. Last night, him and Taylor had decided to watch movies, just the two of them. The Adventures of Mark Twain had been fun, and brought back memories of a very young Taylor begging Annette for the film, having already read most of Mark Twain's more popular work.
Of course, back then, Taylor was the one who had gotten bad dreams from it.
Danny stood up from the couch he had fallen asleep on, letting out a huff of air as he felt the aches and pains that seemed so far away, even just a few years ago.
Knowing how strong his little owl had become after gaining her powers, he was a bit surprised to still have aches like those. Well, not really surprised.
As he began to stretch, knowing that that usually banished the worst consequences of a poor sleeping spot, his sleepy mind ran through a few thoughts, before settling on one in particular.
'How did the saying go? Before enlightenment, pour water, after enlightenment, pour water?' he thought, but that didn't seem right.
'No, that wasn't it,' he concluded, raising his hands high up in the air and stretching as much as he could, the pleasant ache of exerted tendons pushing away the unpleasant ache of stiff joints.
Taking a deep breath, he let out another puff of air. He felt pretty good now. Work wouldn't be nearly as much trouble if he wasn't hurting. Sitting around doing paperwork might not have seemed like the kind of work to aggravate pains, but the people who thought that hadn't had to do it at the union building.
A cramped office and a cramped chair were what awaited him there, as he checked on Taylor, who was usually sleeping, eating, or doing something incomprehensible in the basement.
Today, it seemed to be option 'A', and he found her asleep in her bed. It was a comforting sight, especially after he had found out about her escapade as Sage last week.
He saw the news, as well. Most of the footage was choppy amateur work from people poking their phones out of their apartments nearby to catch a shot of the Rogue systematically plowing towards the guys with guns, weaving together shimmering barriers and grown plants to thwart the bullets that she didn't simply dodge outright.
He wondered how Taylor had made her armor undulate like it did, parts of it seeming to grow thicker moments before something would hit it. He still didn't know much about magic. Aside from the ever-present sensation of it in his core, and the curious feeling of it in the air, he hadn't done much with it, not seeing the need.
Though, it did seem to flare a bit when he was done stretching. Maybe there was something to that 'Yoga' junk. He certainly felt better than he usually did after stretching.
He started up his truck, making his way to Donut Oleg's, a place that got started up by a burly Russian by the same name, but was now owned by a Chinese family who bought it years back, keeping the name in an effort to keep some of the customers that the original benefitted from.
'Of course,' he thought, parking outside after a short drive there.
'They sure didn't seem to need the help,' he finished, walking inside the crowded building, breakfast in full swing for the people here.
"I'll have a dozen powdered and some coffee, please," Danny said once it was his turn, paying and receiving his order.
"Have a goodun'," the teen at the register said, already losing interest in the customer now that they had what they came for.
The coffee wasn't anything special, but the donuts were some of the best he could get his hands on. Either way, his order was practical. It was early, he hadn't quite slept right, and some sugar and caffeine would give him some short-term energy until he was awake properly.
As he parked outside of the union building, he decided he'd eat a few of the donuts before getting out of the car. A bit greedy, but Daniel Hebert was a man who knew how to make the most of his assets, and he knew they would disappear quickly once he actually started working, a consequence of him being a bit too nice to his coworkers when it came to pilfered donuts.
As he wiped his hands clean of the powdery sugar and took another drink of coffee, he felt properly revitalized, something his budding mana seemed to agree with, considering the second little flareup he had felt.
He glared at his coffee suspiciously. "Just what are they putting in this stuff nowadays?" he murmured, getting out of the car and closing the door with a click as he strode confidently into the building. It was a good thing he picked up coffee while he could. Quality coffee wasn't anywhere to be found in this particular building, so he'd be stuck with the usual swill once his current cup ran dry.
Carol was behind the front desk as usual, typing away at something, either important files or her blog, depending on how quiet today was.
"Morning," Danny said, walking past her, noticing a necklace on her desk. He had gained a bit of an eye for odd things, ever since he was the one helping get most of Taylor's 'cape' materials, and the rainbow colored gem set in the middle of the otherwise cheap-looking necklace.
"What's that?" he asked politely, and she looked away from the computer to see what he meant.
"Oh! It's Fordite. My husband works at the local automotive place, so they have quite a bit of it. It is quite nice, isn't it?" she asks, offering a smile.
He nods. "Yeah. Might have to get one for Taylor. She likes that sort of thing," he says, already preparing to leave for his office.
"Oh? Well, I'd be happy to tell my husband, heaven knows he still owes you for all your hard work," she responded, getting a nod from him.
Most everyone he knew 'owed him' for his work, considering most of the people he knew well were also members of the union. He never let it go to his head, but he also knew that you couldn't ignore that kind of sway if you wanted to help get people as many good jobs as you could manage. It helped out more than once, just having the ability to call up someone who was well-off thanks to him to see if they had an opening for the next poor guy to walk into his office.
'I appreciate that Carol. I'll be in my office if anyone needs me,' he says, offering a short wave.
He had been wanting to look over some papers lately that had been irking him. Ones that had been irking him since he got his new abilities.
Danny let the papers flop back down onto his table with a huff. It didn't make sense.
Or rather, it made sense to him, but something was obviously wrong.
A lot of the work he did involved hunches. He had to not only find jobs for hard-working men and women, but also find hard-working men and women for jobs. It was a fine balance, and he was usually one of the first people called if a new hire or a new job didn't turn out the way he figured it would.
He had learned a while ago that, if he was being honest, his hunches didn't mean spit. When it came down to pure guesswork, people were funny about defying what you thought about them after a short interview, something he usually made up for with a handy list of phone numbers and people he knew who could help when he needed to shuffle things around.
That wasn't the case here.
Or rather, it wasn't the same case.
He looked through the papers again, trying to decide if he was seeing connections where there wasn't any.
He assumed that older folks typically went for older jobs. A fourty-something man seemed like a good fit for work that had some history to it, where a fresh-out-of-school eighteen-year-old wasn't quite.
He was proven wrong enough times to make him doubt that this was strictly true, but lately, he had been doing what he usually did, trying to make connections and figure out how to do the best job he could as head of hiring.
And it had started working just a little bit more.
He was pretty sure that he wasn't getting better hunches. It seemed obvious that a guy who used to do a lot of skateboarding would be decent enough at changing wheels on cars. It was simple work that used the same kind of tools, and it was one of the only jobs he could offer the kid.
It seemed pretty clear that John Hammond, a vet down on his luck who just needed money for rent, would be better suited for hauling work, he knew well enough from his own father's half-remembered talking about the military that it involved a lot of moving things from point-a to point-b.
His usual cases where he had as much information as he could get, and it came down to simple guesswork on how to make the call.
But unlike before, this practice wasn't nearly as spotty as before. He got far fewer calls about people flaking out, fewer complaints from employee or employer, whenever he was forced to follow one of his theories that seemed to hold water.
After thoroughly looking through last week's logs, he was pretty sure of one thing. Magic was involved, even if it wasn't the direct cause. But, of course, to his knowledge, there was only really one person who could tell him if he was getting better ideas, or if something was making his terrible ideas work better.
Taylor, who had expressed a very keen interest in training him this week, once she had made time for it.
'Well, with any luck, I won't be totally empty-headed by the time that happens,' he thought to himself, yawning a bit as he stretched, waiting for the inevitable flow of bonus mana to give him a bit more pep for the hours of calls he'd be making today.
[] Interlude: Lisa
[] Interlude: Amy
[] Interlude: Armsmaster
[] Conclude Interludes
The Shallow
Shallow, Yet Deep
- Location
- Your Universe
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X] Interlude: Armsmaster
We need to see what is happening with him, we know the least about him. Panpan and Lisa we see often, and both are pretty truthful with us.
This actually makes me realize/remember we should work on divination-type magic, which means we might have to research Espers.
We need to see what is happening with him, we know the least about him. Panpan and Lisa we see often, and both are pretty truthful with us.
This actually makes me realize/remember we should work on divination-type magic, which means we might have to research Espers.
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Anacromacia
"It's not gay, it's magecraft!"
- Pronouns
- He
[X] Interlude: Armsmaster
- Location
- Taken by the hand to a land that they understand
[X] Interlude: Armsmaster
[X] Interlude: Armsmaster
I was originally thinking maybe we should push Danny towards true attunements or body reinforcement, but this makes me think he has a talent for divination. We don't really have much for that, but might be worth showing him what we know so far.
I was originally thinking maybe we should push Danny towards true attunements or body reinforcement, but this makes me think he has a talent for divination. We don't really have much for that, but might be worth showing him what we know so far.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Seeker did mention that there were people who were just bizarrely good at things without detectable magic use.
