So, two ideas for discussion:
1) After Big Book of Yomi Wan is finished, I think Molly should continue to write books a lot of people would kill for. So far I have two ideas:
a) "Soulgazing the Abyss: the safety guide to close encounters with beings beyond mortal ken". Take what we learned from the Crown to allow Harry to safely soulgaze us, consult with Bob and Usum, probably use some more questions to study the human soul (maybe?) and write the general safety guide.
b) "The Origin of Life" - take what we learned of evolution, add notes on mystical evolution (ie where the various demons come from), add both scientific and mystical knowledge. We should also study (perhaps even spend a Crown question) the nature / origins of techbane, the general origin of mortal sorcery (I mean, OOC it's not salinan working at all, and we haven't heard anything about gorilla wizards, so it's human-exclusive) and include that into the book. The results of beating up Red King like a pinata for aztec lore too.
2) Murphy's armor we should be making. So, barring magical materials, the strongest and lightest material we are likely to use is carbon based (carbon nanotubes, diamonds, etc). The strongest mystical carbon we are likely to get would be willingly sacrificed human ashes. We should aim for ones with the strongest resonance to Murphy. What does this mean in practice? If I was disregarding social issues, I would aim for Murphy's father's ashes (with Lydia talking to his ghost to get his agreement). However, that's basically impossible. Plus he's a suicide victim, so his ghost might be in hell (rescue him as a favor to Murphy? Something to think about).
So, my proposed plan would be:
a) Find a honest female cop who's terminally ill in the latest stages / dying of old age. Ideally Buddhist of Hindu faith (those are the ones that have cremation as religious practice). Cyberdevils would need to be used for this.
b) Talk to them. Reveal magic to them (ideally, find one that is already aware of magic)
c) Ask them thrice to donate their ashes after their death to protect their fellow cop
d) Cremate them with full military honors, with mystic fire, the monk who's teaching us helping (if the cop is of appropriate faith). Ideally burn them with legendary grade equipment we make for them.
e) Get Lydia to ask their ghost before they pass completely if they still agree that their body's ashes are used to protect their fellow cop. Ask three times, ritualistically
f) With Lydia's help forge the ashes into a nanotube armor. Add your own blood into it for power, and maybe some of Mouse's fur (arguable, might want to throw this out). Go for broke with exalted shenanigans in crafting.
g) Ideally do points d-f on Halloween
h) Using the obtained (probably already beyond-legendary) underarmor, get together with Harry and enchant it for further protection.
This is basically "as overkill as I can think of, without involving base magical materials". It also might give some investigation bonuses to the armor. Ideally, we would find a literal
bodhisattva who would agree for their soul to be bound to the armor and postpone their ascension to guide and protect Murphy.
And yes, this is one of
those plans of mine.
