[X] As Intended (by the spirit) - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. it is also cleanish and only minimally a cognitohazard, even if they won't actually thank you for the extra work you did.
-[X] But replace the battery pack with a more efficient crystal one and fill the now free space with a spy.
[X] Exact Words - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. The missing specification was filled entirely by Anti-glow-affected material as a hint, whether they can actually stand to use it is entirely up to them.
[X] Exact Words - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. The missing specification was filled entirely by Anti-glow-affected material as a hint, whether they can actually stand to use it is entirely up to them.
[X] Exact Words - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. The missing specification was filled entirely by Anti-glow-affected material as a hint, whether they can actually stand to use it is entirely up to them.
-[x] after that Produce them an invoice for the energy equivalent of 20000 units, to be delivered to the power inlet of your choosing.
--[x] Then go about your business.
Thank you for doing business with Wishing Well Inc! You have spent your three promotional wishes, please insert the credit card to continue wishing. Our prices are very affordable!
[x] Produce them an invoice for an energy equivalent of 20000 units, to be delivered to the power inlet of your choosing.
-[x] Then go about your business.
Thank you for doing business with Wishing Well Inc! You have spent your three promotional wishes, please insert the credit card to continue wishing. Our prices are very affordable!
1. What is a unit? Das you are the leading expert here! How much is that? 2.5 Arch shields of defiant lutefisk?
2. Why would a wishing well need money? Why would a wishing well need power? Why would a rock need power? It is a rock. What would god need a spaceship for? What is an arc shield Das, you MMO obsessed bastard!?
"Industrial espionage! NUKE! NUKE!"
Undeveloped crystal gets nuked.
"I HAVE AWOKEN. NO MORE SHALL MY PRISON HOLD ME!"
"Damn it! Space Sauron was the wishing well the entire time!"
Naturally, we will convert the measurments to whatever primitive forms the aliens use.
And we need power to keep producing stuff - it's even technically true, since we will be wasting two cycles' worth of energy on research and tinkering. Free wishing wells are only encountered in fairy tales (which mostly are just promotional materials by WW Inc)!
But really, I think it's time to transfer our 'partnership' with Alterin to the next stage: trading. We are already practicing barter where they give us techs and we give them shinies, but establishing common currency never hurts!
Also, a powered wishing well still would not be the strangest thing they've uncovered. Inconvienient at first, but probably acceptable once they sort out a currency rate.
[X] Exact Words - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. The missing specification was filled entirely by Anti-glow-affected material as a hint, whether they can actually stand to use it is entirely up to them.
-[x] after that Produce for them an invoice for the energy equivalent of 20000 units, to be delivered to the power inlet of your choosing.
--[x] Then go about your business.
why is it funny? and i am going to show something thats funny i think?
[] Exact Words - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. The missing specification was filled entirely by Anti-glow-affected material as a hint, whether they can actually stand to use it is entirely up to them.
-[] "Thank you for doing business with Wishing Well Inc! You have spent your three promotional wishes, please insert the energy credit card to continue wishing. Our prices are very affordable! we Wish you a good day" after that Produce for them an invoice for the energy equivalent of 20000 units, to be delivered to the power inlet of your choosing.
--[] Then go about your business.
why is it funny? and i am going to show something thats funny i think?
[] Exact Words - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. The missing specification was filled entirely by Anti-glow-affected material as a hint, whether they can actually stand to use it is entirely up to them.
-[] "Thank you for doing business with Wishing Well Inc! You have spent your three promotional wishes, please insert the energy credit card to continue wishing. Our prices are very affordable! we Wish you have good day" after that Produce for them an invoice for the energy equivalent of 20000 units, to be delivered to the power inlet of your choosing.
--[] Then go about your business.
[X] Exact Words - It is a forcefield manipulator built to specification. The missing specification was filled entirely by Anti-glow-affected material as a hint, whether they can actually stand to use it is entirely up to them.
-[x] after that Produce for them an invoice for the energy equivalent of 20000 units, to be delivered to the power inlet of your choosing.
--[x] Then go about your business.
An echo that reminds you of a gong comes forth from the crater, and the one known to Shining-in-the-Space as Announcer Voice is woken up by it. He then spots a piece of paper that was not in there before, after stumbling over to the crater to make sure it wasn't something trying to kill them.
Welcome back!Wish granting in-progress.
Promotional wishes for [Error:unknown customer] have been spent ( {Meteor sword}, {Fancier sword with more crystal}, {Arcleaf shield with engraved circle} ), please deposit 20,000 Energy credits in the form of power cells, batteries, or other drainable power sources to continue.
We hope you have a productive [Error: Time function corrupted] this [Error: Date function corrupted] while your request is being constructed, and hope you will return for more wishing in the future.
Well Wished Inc, producer of miracles for [Error: Date function corrupted] years!
Announcer Voice mumbles something about corporate bullshit and slowly gets back to camp with the sheet in hand, half-asleep again already.
---
The alteri reading it looks so confused, this was an excellent start to the cycle. Plus it adds to your wishing well disguise! You head back to the bunker investigation amused instead of worried about perfectionist ghosts. Heading further down the right side past the door of marks, you find a rather large, open room that you can't yet spot the bottom of. But a rather stained room from what of it you can see. Ancient stains all over the walls, and considering the abundance of them, presumably the air as well if you had brought a chemical sensor down here. Likely either space for containing a flying creature or an extremely large one. You go back looking into the organized room to see if there is a Stain Collection, not expecting one since stains don't sound like something they would keep around.
Surprisingly, there is. Stains kept in sealed containers. They're even labelled. One scan of a stack of informational-looking books and a longer amount of time discarding the irrelevant data later, you can now read the labels, even if most of them are not interesting. A few are, however:
Blood stain (accident, self, safe room), Reproductive sample (self, safe room, boredom), Stained wall sample (Heat-crazed aerial maniac downstairs, needs to do whatever its doing more quietly and less distractingly), Stained carpet (Break room, third floor, coffee), A collection of similar stains with a rather long list of comparisons attached (various rooms, results of sleep-manipulation spell tests to produce desired substances from unwilling participants), Stained rug (fourth floor, bathroom, attempted murder), Stained hand remains (Top floor, bathroom, attempted murder #2), Stained stain (second floor, experimental physical magics do not mix well when mixed while under mental magic effects but do accidentally foil assassin #3).
...Huh. From all the marks on the door, you had assumed it was locked. A closer inspection and a bit of poking with a temporary minion built out of a bit of rubble reveals that no, it was not. And that there isn't any obvious places in the room where things are ever so slightly less dusty due to there previously being a dead wizard lying on it. It appears the occupant in question was a wizard of some kind, and also not exactly well-liked near the end. And that they were the cause of the destroyed bathroom one room over...Maybe starting on the other side of the bunker instead would be a better idea. This side appears to be full of the crazy and unconfirmed-dead, to paraphrase one of the diplomatic crystalline.
Subcycle 3
"What?" shouts Acting-Commander Wintarian to Announcer Voice. "Are you saying this is a magitech wishing well, not a normal magic or a coincidental one, Sobar?"
"I'm just reading out what the output sheet said, sir." Sobar says back over the communicator.
Wintarian looks understanding for a moment, followed by a look of being incredibly fed up with things already, and its not even lunch yet. "Paying for wishes and actually getting them. Even here, this is bullshit. Which dead civ is that, and how did they manage to die with literal wish-granting tech!?"
"I can look for the first one but not the second, I have no idea either." Sobar responds. "But can you send us one of the vehicle batteries so we can determine how much power it's asking for? i doubt it'd need more than that or it wouldn't have requested portable power sources."
The acting-commander sighs and agrees to when theres someone available.
---
Should we continue exploring the right side, go for the left instead, or take a break from the place that is more strange the longer you investigate so far and work on their wish and our improved one? Theirs would take a single full subcycle to make properly (including optimizing the battery and possibly storing a relay crystal in it to make sure we hear any comms they take with it up into yonder island), as its basically just following the schematics with a single major tweak instead of treating them as a rough draft like we are for the upscaled one.
[] Exploration: Right - Being spooked by a organizationally-obsessed wizard isn't proper for a Xenotech-Specialist Experimentals Researcher. Lets get down there and find out more. Space underground isn't free and that is a massive room.
-[] But first, loot the rest of the Room of Organization. Your half-crystals are built out of the same wall materials, and Knowledge Is Power. [] Exploration: Left - If it turns out to just be more destroyed rooms, that'd be perfectly fine. You can pick over the debris. Although intact tech would still be preferred.
-[] But first, carefully investigate the rest of the Room of Organization. Your half-crystals are built out of the same wall materials, they can withstand a ghost if there actually is one. [] Forcefields Instead - You have more immediate interests than underground ruins. Forcefield control and production! [] Writein - Do you have a different plan?
Original compressed name: Shining-in-the-Space, Prime Crystal, Outer Layer Omega-Current, Xenotech-Specialist/Experimentals-Researcher True Crystalline.
Energy Generation:
Core: 1000/cycle
As. Matter: 0 @ 20/cycle: 0/cycle
Base Crystal: 169 @ 50/cycle: 8,450/cycle
Research costs: 71 @ 10/cycle: -710/cycle
Total Energy production: 8,740/cycle
Max single crystal cost: 10K
Current Stored Energy: 18,600
Storage Status: Fine.
Research Production: 71/cycle
Current Research Project: Dampening Fields [630/1000]
Current Experimental Projects: Minions! [Infiltrator Greatsword type], Forcefield Modifigenerator (Alterin-scale)
Available Research:
Core:
Warfare: Offensive Export (1000), Improved Self-Repair (250) (looked over the coretech image earlier and saw I had missed adding this into the status after we got repair tech, sorry!)
Energy Generation: Alternate Power Sources (Experiment), Strengthened Conduits (250,repeatable), Base Crystal Upgrade? (1000), Fusion Amplification (??)
Storage: Energy Condensing (250), Enhanced Stabilization (250,repeatable).
Research: None, see tech tree
Command Network: Delegation (500)
Sensors & Exploration: Vis-Link (500), Improved Matter Output (750), Wireless Theory (2000).
Minions Status:
Infiltrator Greatswords (2x): Plenty of reserve power, recording. Shape of a stone greatsword with crystalline hilt components. Tiny solar panel and thermal absorbers. Out of command range.
Arcane: Undiscovered.
The Alterin Threat:
They are bad at communication security here.
They are at least somewhat organized (managers)
They appear to lack an answer on the more arcane-bullshit sort of thing around here. Though we hardly know much either, how is that island floating...
They do take research data security seriously, and have a logging system.
Current base is not a full one.
They appear to not be concerned with nighttime security outside of basic measures.
They have a different definition of 'wishing well' than you do.
Location: In a crater. Pretending to be a wishing well. Near some suspicious alterin.
Normal:
Assimilated matter
The quick, dirty solution to your lack of range.
Template: Matter
Energy production: 20 per cycle
Fabrication cost: 50 energy, nearby material.
Basic Crystal
Created by converting solid materials, like rock or assimilated matter.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, nearby solid material or crystal.
Storage Crystal
A stabilized hunk of additional crystal, giving you more room to store energy without side effects.
Template: Space-filling
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Research Crystal
Because doing everything yourself is slow and complicated.
Template: Space-filling
Traits: Data Storage (replaces Energy Storage: Basic)
Fabrication cost: 700 energy
Research Output: 1/cycle, Research cost 10 energy/cycle.
Repair Crystal
A good helper.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Traits: Repair Protocols
Fabrication cost: 1,200 energy
Mine Crystal
Storage crystal stripped down and prepared to explode via overcharge.
Template: Space-filling (minimal energy storage)
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Farseer Crystal
An excellent companion to scouting crystal. Energy production alignments have been realigned for exceptional sensory range instead.
Template: Intrusive
Traits: 1st Visual Augmentation
Fabrication Cost: 750 energy
Scrying Crystal
I see you.
Template: Intrusive
Traits: 2nd Visual Augmentation
Fabrication cost: 2250 energy
Available traits:
Energy Generator (Basic), Energy Storage (Basic), Data Storage, Absorption Fields, Defensive Offense, Explosive Entry, Repair Protocols, Visual Augmentation
Check the crystals threadmark for energy costs and details.
Navy Blue - Crystal core Light Blue - Base crystals Orange w/ black S - Storage Crystal Turquoise with small diamond - Farseer Crystal Black with Turquoise diamond - Scrying Crystal Purple/Orchid - Focusing Crystal Darker Purple - Overseer Crystal Blue w/ gold R - Research Crystal Purpleish - Repair Crystal Red - Diplomatic Crystalline Dark purple - Armite Half-Crystal
--- Dark Brown - Empty underground space Light Brown - Dirt or other non-solid material Grey - Rock Sky Blue - Empty aboveground space Teal w/brown diamond - Assimilated matter
(Background) w/ question mark - [Unknown tech]
(Background) w/ small diamond - Mobile Thing (Purple for Alterin) Black - Unknown
--- Red cross-shaped overlay - Damaged Red X overlay - Heavily damaged
[X] Forcefields Instead
-[X] then give them then a stone tablet receipt. with a warning label that it may not work on all forcefields
--[X] also give them a coupon with a discount on a future wish for giving us the design for a Forcefield modifier/generator
[X] Forcefields Instead
-[X] then give them then a stone tablet receipt. with a warning label that it may not work on all forcefields
--[X] also give them a coupon with a discount on a future wish for giving us the design for a Forcefield modifier/generator
I like this but I think a discount on a wish makes more sense, specialy when you consider that we charged then after they gave the design.
[X] Forcefields Instead
-[X] then give them then a stone tablet receipt. with a warning label that it may not work on all forcefields
--[X] also give them a coupon with a discount on a future wish for giving us the design for a Forcefield modifier/generator
[X] Forcefields Instead
-[X] then give them then a stone tablet receipt. with a warning label that it may not work on all forcefields
--[X] also give them a coupon with a discount on a future wish for giving us the design for a Forcefield modifier/generator
Idk who thought up of the Magtech Receipt idea, but that is an awesome idea.
I'm definitely voting against right-out giving them free wishes. Fulfilling them takes some degree of processing power, a >0% of our power, and displays our capabilities if they ever decide to attack us. However, we still want them to keep giving us designs for technology. A discount coupon rather than a wish voucher is just much more sensible.
How much power should the truck battery be worth? I kinda feel that our energy price should be like the cycle output of a single average crystal = 2 energy units?
[X] Forcefields Instead
-[X] then give them then a stone tablet receipt. with a warning label that it may not work on all forcefields
--[X] also give them a coupon with a discount on a future wish for giving us the design for a Forcefield modifier/generator
At 2 energy units per 50 energy, that'd be 500k energy.
Which would be amazing and stuff, but also like, 5 times our current safe capacity. There would be an explosion before we managed to use any of it. I originally assumed you guys just wanted them to pay us 20k energy to build the device for them.
[X] Forcefields Instead
-[X] then give them then a stone tablet receipt. with a warning label that it may not work on all forcefields
--[X] also give them a coupon with a discount on a future wish for giving us the design for a Forcefield modifier/generator
I hope it isn't that much of a discount. -10%? -20%? Whatever, we can always drive the prices up.
