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Summoner Quest (Celestial Menagerie)

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Time to be a dragon and learn how to fly!

And see if we can cool down the underside of our wing while maintaining heat on the upside... Balloon surveillance form... Airjet is the goal!

Honestly, this is the plasma edition of why isekai as slime get op, complete morphology of the body is just a top tire changer power.

Sadly not the slime absorption to go with it, but meh. This is strong and fun, and we can be our animal forms.
 
Hey @zagan you said it was okay to munchkin so I got a few questions and ideas. As we are turning are body into plasma does that include spit? If it does that would increase as we grow bigger meaning we would reach a point where we could spit out fire balls. Since spit is a part of the body so could we increase its size with Big before it leaves the body?Can we change are body so only part of it would be an animal and the rest human? Something like a changing our hands to bear hands and the rest of the body be human? Also for something like a scorpion tail can we make more than one? Finally if we copy something from a Porcupine can we change the width and length of the spines in the middle of a fight?
 
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More questions. I like questions.
Thrawn's hand said:
Hey @zagan you said it was okay to munchkin so I got a few questions and ideas. As we are turning are body into plasma does that include spit? If it does that would increase as we grow bigger meaning we would reach a point where we could spit out fire balls. Since spit is a part of the body so could we increase its size with Big before it leaves the body?Can we change are body so only part of it would be an animal and the rest human? Something like a changing our hands to bear hands and the rest of the body be human? Also for something like a scorpion tail can we make more than one? Finally if we copy something from a Porcupine can we change the width and length of the spines in the middle of a fight?
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First keep in mind that it's not really plasma, it only looks like plasma. The shard is a cheating cheater who cheated to give that impression. Real plasma has a temperature much higher than 1500°C. (as a side note I didn't pick 1500 randomly, it's the fusion point of iron.)
So when transformed our body is made of undifferentiated matter and you cannot spit at all.
As for changing shape, everything can be customized, we would become a complete chimera. We're not limit to being a cat one moment, a scorpion the next and a falcon after that. We can have cat legs, three scorpion tails, falcon wings, and a human head. Limited by our mass of course. (without The Big)
 
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Oh, so it's a bit like hypothetical strangelet? In that it looks like thing stars are made of, but the fundamental physics involve mean it acts unlike actual star.
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Yes, sort of. But it's not strangelet either, I won't even try to define exactly what it is. It possess X properties as define by the shard and that's the end of it.
 
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So with The Big Alex gets more mass to play with rather than being the same mass but precieved to be larger?
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Yes, The Big is a magical effect, unlike Fenja and Menja whose shards warp space around their body to make them appear larger. The Big really creates mass out of nothing to make you grow and also tweak physic so you don't collapse under your own new weight. But of course the bigger you go the more magic it cost.
 
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Chapter 89: Patrol and Shard
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    • [X] Creature

    Creature Roll: (660 points)
    Roll D50=17 Marvel/DC/Worm, Roll D65=63
    800 Tohu, 600 Custom Shard, 200 Personal AI
    Roll D50=14 Monster Hunter/Dauntless, Roll D354=159
    100 Moofah, 50 Mosswine, 400 Najarala
    Sub vote result: Custom Shard: Plasma Body
    Banked 60 Points

    Courtesy of @Varja we gained an SCP and surprisingly it's not the Editor Beetle. Say hello to Miss J.
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    When I returned to my body, the Mind I left behind was in the process of finishing the report.

    Finally, I can't take it anymore. Goodbye.

    That mind disappeared in the Mental Realm without another word. Looking at the size of the report, I could clearly understand. I wasn't looking forward to gaining those memories.

    I spent a little while finishing the report, rereading, adding a few details, and removing a few others. But thankfully it didn't take long.

    I followed that up with an email to Deputy Director Rennick, asking if it would be possible to organize some power testing with a hospital for a number of new healing partners. I mentioned, Lightbringer healing aura and the Light Beacons linked to it, Merle's ability to grant regeneration, my Doctor Fishs ability to enter a body and eat tumors, Hug effect on depression, and Clover ability to remove various afflictions.

    That was way too much variety to be able to bring them here, much easier to go find the patient in a hospital and to have Panacea be present. I hope it could be organized soon but it will certainly take a little time.

    On a related subject, I mentioned the possibility to use Anchored and Relay Summoning. I proposed to attach Scalpa to a PRT Captain so he could remain in the HQ and eventually attach Lightbringer to a hospital to provide free healing.

    Once I was finished with that I left my computer, happy to stretch my legs. I return to my temporary lab and call on Clank. As we discussed before in the Mental Realm, I instructed him to create a magnetic harness that would go under my costume for him to cling to in the field. I made the presentation with Olky and the two seem to get along well. When I left he appeared delighted to get to work.

    When I looked at the hour, I realized that it was already 10 PM, my next patrol was at 3 AM. Even with my reduced need to sleep and the time spent in the Mental realm halfway counting as sleep, catching a few hours of shut-eye might be a good idea. With that decision taken, I opt to take a quick shower to wash away the grime of the day and then to go to bed.

    I let my feet guide me toward the gym, so I could use the adjacent shower. Even at this hour, I encountered a few people walking purposely in the corridor. The PRT building never truly sleeps.

    While I was under the water I felt the Menagerie triggering again. I focused on my soul and discovered another being from the SCP Foundation. A very peculiar one at that, a sort of sentient program, that could teach nearly anything. The Menagerie informed me that I would be summoning her directly with an old-school computer allowing her to function directly. This Miss J was really promising and I couldn't wait to meet her. Learning from her myself would be tricky, even the simplest skill would probably require a full day or two. I simply didn't have that sort of uninterrupted time. Perhaps the lesson could be split across a longer period. It was a shame that I couldn't just have a Mind take the lessons…in…the… Mental realm. My brain screeched to a halt at that though.

    It can't possibly work, right? It sounds like an exploit in a video game. Things don't just line up that perfectly./Well, hum, I don't see why it wouldn't work./Yeah, pretty sure it will work. We'll need to check with Miss J just to be certain./I think that if we really want to optimize it we could have her give lessons to people during the day, two or three-person per week. And have our own lesson at night./Don't put the cart before the horse, we don't want to exploit her./Right, sorry. Still, the perspective is promising./I wonder what would be the most useful thing to learn first?

    I was still asking myself that question when I made my way to my bed.

    It was around two and a half in the morning when I was woken up by Olky. Despite it being the middle of the night and having only slept around four hours, I still felt pretty good. I did sleep for real for the most part but I also visited the Mental Realm. I met Miss J and she was just as nice as I expected. She was more than eager to start teaching.

    Before going to the garage I made a detour by my lab to grab Clank, he managed to finish the harness and even installed a force field emitter to the front. I thanked him profusely for that, I honestly didn't expect him to be able to work that fast. After equipping the harness under my costume he jumped on my back. We quickly checked that he was comfortable and solidly attached before departing.

    Once I was ready I joined Assault and Triumph and we departed on our patrol. I presented Clank to them both and we got on our way.

    We didn't talk much but both took the time to ask me how I was doing after the attempted murder. I responded that I did my best to not think about it but that It would be one more topic to talk about with my therapist.

    After an awkward silence, Assault unsubtly changed the subject and congratulated me on my capture of Victor. He joked that at the speed I was going I would have eliminated the Empire within the week.

    I respond semi-seriously that if they continue to attack me at this pace I would be finished in three days. Assault laughed but it was a little forced and Triumph shot me a look that I couldn't decipher.

    It was more than a little arrogant of me to say that, but it had the ring of truth. I was smart enough to recognize that I was without much doubt the strongest cape in the city and certainly in the top ten of the country, even if I was still very much lacking experience. I need to be aware of my own strength to use it well, underestimating yourself could be nearly as dangerous as underestimating your enemies.

    I was also more than a little fed up with the Empire, they were targeting me simply because I didn't bend the knee to them. Well they could come and we'll see who got the bigger stick, and mine was a hundred feet tall radioactive iguana.

    After that awkward moment, we concentrated on our patrol. For my part I was riding Hercules, I unsummoned Red to allow him some rest. Assault and Triumph were both on foot. With my giant beetle's dark coloration, few people could spot me flying above the street. Only the persistent buzzing of his wings really gave away our position.

    At this hour few people were outside, and they belong to two categories. Those that rejoice upon seeing heroes, waving in their direction, glad to see protectors close by. And of course, those that avoid us like the plague.

    It was the second one that interested us the most. But unless we caught them doing something clearly illegal we let them go. Mostly we saw prostitutes, drunk guys, street artists, and a few dealers. I eyed the street artist with distaste, the sight of a gruesome mural still burning in my mind.

    At some point, we passed pretty close to the drug house that was discovered yesterday by Swarm. I sent my air-themed spy drone to have a quick look, we'll analyze the footage later.

    Halfway through the patrol, I felt the Menagerie triggering again. I waited a few seconds for the feeling to pass, but it persisted for far longer than usual and no knowledge about the creature flowed into my mind. Just as I was about to ask questions to my Minds, I was assaulted by an enormous burst of information from my Veterinary and Trainer powers. I grabbed my head in pain and barely managed to hold on to Hercule's back. Clank noticed something because he started to panic but I was in no state to respond.

    When I regained my senses I just stared straight ahead not seeing anything. Clank was still frantic behind me. "I'm fine Clank, just an unusual new partner. I"m sorry if I worried you. I'll tell you later, I promise." Once he calmed down I focussed on my new partner.

    I've gained a Shard. A crystalline being that at minimum was the size of a continent and at the upper end could cover the surface of a planet the size of the Earth. The funny thing was that one Shard was only one component of a multidimensional colonial organism that could be composed of trillions of Shards. I couldn't even comprehend that number.

    Obviously summoning it was out of the question but thankfully the Menagerie took care of that for me. It was already summoned in another dimension, covering half the surface of an empty Earth, and would remain permanently summoned, with no impact on my summoning limit.

    One could wonder what was the use for such a gigantic being if it was stranded in another dimension. But a Shard wasn't without resources; it was a sort of organic supercomputer able to produce with extreme precision numerous physical phenomena. Each Shard being specialized in various ways.

    But the most important point was that Shards are symbiotic, or parasitic, creatures. Creating a link directly to the brain of a sapient being and granting it the use of one or more specific effects. In other words, superpowers. This drew a parallel to parahumanism that I refuse to think about for the moment.

    And it was in that way that my new Shard would prove its use. I raised my right hand in front of my face and with an act of will that passed through a new organ in my brain, it transformed into a mass plasma.

    "Hello, Solar. Nice to meet you."

    [GREETINGS.]

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    I hope you like the arrival of Solar, the next chapter will cover more about it and how Alex will interact with it.

    So what will Alex learn from Miss J first? You can vote for anything: a language, an art form, a scientific field, etc… But it cannot be a physical skill, not martial arts, not swordsmanship, not a sport, or anything similar. Miss J is also limited to 20th-century earth human knowledge; she cannot teach you tinkertech or give the knowledge of a D&D wizard. Also, the broader a field of study is, the longer it will take to learn. Learning Physics as a whole would take longer to learn than just Thermodynamics.

    [] Write-In

    For the roll, 180 points.

    [] Creature

    [] Power

    Voting will be closed Friday at 3 PM GMT

    Note 1: A few miscellaneous info about Miss J before I'm assaulted with questions:
    -Cannot be Swarmed Summoned. (The computer she's summoned with is too big.)
    -Can only teach one person at a time. (Anyone else listening won't get any real benefit.)
    -Teaching can be interrupted for a maximum of two days before benefit is lost and you need to start from scratch.

    Note 2: For those that are curious here's the list of gains for Saturday, April 2nd, 2011, covering chapters 69 to 89.
    -The Big
    -One of Each (41 creatures and power)
    -Squirrel
    -Accelerated Training
    -Speed Boost
    -Insect Theme
    -Relay Summoning
    -Trainer
    -Anchored Summoning
    -Aerbunny
    -Zodiark
    -Size Reduction
    -Grant Movement
    -Scp-1316
    -Clank
    -Ruff
    -Friendly Fire Immunity
    -Mental Realm
    -Lightning Theme
    -Lemon Pektite
    -Clover
    -Scp-5094
     
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    And so ends the longest day for Compendium...so far. Lots of gains to be had. And yeah I can get behind learning Mechanical Engineering so we can start Tinkering better gives us a solid foundation, I'm really glad Miss J got in she will be super helpful in the long run.
     
    Damn. If only 200 more points were available... Tohu would have been insane!

    ...also. Suddenly getting a Shard is hilarious too.

    I can't wait for the report on THAT to go into the file. HA!
     
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