Endlessblaze

--------- Leo -------- Leo opens his mouth to respond, before freezing when the shaking hits. After a few moments of looking around following the sudden quake and seeing nothing collapsing, Leo resumes his answer. "Nothing smell related comes to mind. I could try, but it's not really something I've messed with." Leo looks around the alleyway, noticing scattered trash and looks back at the wall with its sure to be ruined yet again cable. The mouse and cat in question likely live in this area and given how proficient with tools they seemed to be he was sure any casual attempt at protecting the wire was doomed to fail and only stall the inevitable. 'Attempts at protecting it'. Leo smirks as the thought crosses his mind, amused by his idea. "I think I know what to do. If the wire needs to be repaired all the time, why not just keep someone around to repair it? Give me a minute." Leo grabs some of the scattered trash around them, and starts pulling out samples of various materials. Mana is moved from material to material, metal is formed into being and altered, mushrooms are made to weep, screaming hellish faces bend the energy around them, starlight imparts electricity and light and dark foam and churn, liquid crystals drip from one of his rings, along with other effects as Leo does a number of tests, looking for something, or rather multiple somethings. It takes several minutes rather than one, but in the end, he seems to have found something that works. For the wires he settles for one of the first results. Old nails and some other trash are transformed into a glowing, soft clay like metal using the power of a synthetic metal. The other thing he needed was a bit more elusive, prompting him to break away from his work for a moment to check if Ena had any silicone, which was a no go. But by combining the mealy grain of synthetic metal with sap tears drawn from a mushrooms contorted face, he managed to get a pliable teal colored resin. He still didn't look quite happy with it, and poked at it a bit suspiciously, but eventually settled for good enough. Protective covering for the wires. Transmuted Lunar-Storm Wires which could be made from scrap metal, and perhaps other trash, And an easily produced resin made from a mix of Lunar-Storm Castoff and Blue Mushroom sap. Both of which a single golem could create internally with relative ease. With the materials the golem would need to make and repair the electrical wiring now complete, Leo creates a pair of special eyes for it, hollow glass lenses filled with a blue water like liquid. And the rest is child's play. materials are reshaped, spells are cast, and enchantments are woven. In Leo’s hands stands a small metal mouse on two legs, clearly inspired by their observing ‘friend’ in the window. Its small core glowing softly, as does its sparking tail tip and the soulless eyes gazing back up at its creator, awaiting instruction. Leo frowns at it, before reaching up with his other hand and tapping it in the side of the head repeatedly. It twitches and seems scrambled for a moment as the vibrations ripple through its liquid filled eyes like stones tossed into a pond, all too clear and visible for what should be a filled container. Fizzy silvery static showup in the crests before the ripples shift and align to flow upwards like static lines on an old tv, and oval shaped pupils appear in its eyes. The lines sometimes shift and curve, or receive more distorting bouncing ripples as it moves, but always seem to return to its ‘Retro Static’ appearance giving it a bit of character. Now making at least a minor effort to not LOOK like a soulless machine marching mechanically to its defined goals Leo sets his little art project down, where it begins its work. As soon as the cat, now regaining consciousness, sees the little worker, it runs right for it, instantly validating Leo's decision to put a negative kelvin eternal ice spike on its tail. Even if he didn't intend the sparking electrical tip to be dedicated self defense equipment. As soon as the cat gets up and chases after its other target, Leo sees fit to comment on its apparent toughness. “Resilient fellow isn't he?” Snow ignores the question to instead bring up a number of concerns. “Are you sure this is a good idea? Even if you used glass for its main directives, letting it experiment with soft programming is going to make it go feral all the faster.” “It's pretty small, so its thinking and memory is bound to hit a cap soon, I wouldn't worry about it expanding too much. It needs all the freedom and creative thinking it can get to find wire material and route power. Besides, given that everyone around here probably wants the electricity to keep flowing, it's bound to keep working on keeping things running. So it's less going feral and more going native.” “And the synthetics? What if it starts self modifying or leaving hazardous junk around.” “I set it not to do too much synthesis and focus on transmuting and mixing material, and I forbade modifying itself in the glass regions. It will take a while for that to decay. Even if something happens it's not all that big, and it should still want to do its job. We can come check up on it later if we need to. For now, this should keep everyone from having to worry about the power. It's just one mouse.” Job now complete, Leo stretches and relaxes, seeming pleased with himself, before turning to his companion. “That quake doesn't seem likely to start up again. Maybe it's about time to take a break and enjoy the town. What about you Ena?” ------------------------------------------------ Takumi (Edit in a min) ------------------------------------------------

Leo looks at the mouse, then shrugs. He keeps on eye on the cat, waiting for them to get done, or run off, while he casually preforms the shape solid spell, moving it through the cable and bringing the torn and frayed insulation back together. Maybe he could ask the mouse to show him how or where they got such a small gasmask if the cat ran off. It was clearly intelligent enough to use one. Not that that was conclusive. "If it's not at least passed out by now, I don't think thats going to work." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takumi is surprised by how easy it is, the process feeling incredibly natural, with the water moving and bending in response to him. But whats more surprising is when he somehow manages to call a ball of water into being, he drops control by mistake when it appears, but even after dropping it, the bath seems a bit more full. Trying again, he forms a ball between his hands and drops control, when it collapses it starts running through his fingers just as he would expect actual water to. To both his own senses, and the senses the cufflinks are giving him they feel exactly the same. But there was no way he could be creating water right? He was likely to concentrating existing moisture. So he tries it more, but aside from the feeling of becoming increasingly exerted, there is no change in the air around him, nor does the water created disappear. He decides to go back and investigate the fountain and mural further. There were few explanations he could think of for this, and in the absence of time and space to do proper testing and research, investigating the area would have to do. So he gets dressed, and heads back outside, paying close attention to the things he senses as he moves.

------------- Leo ------------- Leo watches the cat pump more and more toxins into the crack, as the smoke begins to pour out from the building seems. How much were they putting in? May as well ask. If he knew what kind of pest it was, maybe he could proof the wires against it. "Pest Trouble? Whats in there that needs that much?" -------------- Takumi ------------- Takumi heads into the bathroom and prepares to cleanup, removing his armor and sitting it by the bath for rinsing, and laying his clothes haphazardly on the counter. He takes the the cufflinks into the bath with him, and while relaxing tries to examine them, and get a feel for using them. What do they really even do? He also cleans himself and his armor as best as he is able, washing the metallic surface and quickly drying it off.

Stella drifted about the cramped space of the Hyperion ship with some sort of mixed intrest and distaste. Small, Cramped, Plain. Living out of this would be a horrible idea, yet she couldent imagine the pirate's ship would be any better. The benefits of the extra size would no doubt be offset by its crude occupants and rowdy thugs. Then again. Space was important to fit in improvements. Though at the moment she dident have much with her to make such improvements. Maybe she should call something in? ....No, she would leave it be for now. This trip would be more intresting if she explored more first before deciding how she wanted to change things. More immediately, she needed something to do, and she was not immediately getting ideas for anything to make, nothing all that motivating anyways. And there was no space to move in here either. She was to used to large rooms, open temples, and the void of space. So after a moment of thought, without any warning to anyone else, she takes off like a rocket for the airlock....and teleports to the other side, leaping freely into the starless emptiness. Its not space exactly, but at least she has room to stretch her legs and fly around..... Maybe she could find something out here? She loops around the ship a few times, following along, looking it over from the outside, before looking out into the expanse, the mist of stardust, and energy around her, and the glittering of her godly attire standing out in the blackness.

Stats Perks Actions Punch laughs, putting her hands on her hips for a moment before looking around at the battlefield "Really? This is your master plan?" Punch leaps into the air spinning like a tornado as she practically flies at the factory, building up kinetic energy, and a swirling flow of power inside and around her body. "The weakness is all to obvious!" Before her foot collides with the factory and imparts all that energy into it, swirling magic races through the structure, spreading over everything while the force of the kick lances through it. Vortex kick on the Factory : Deals STR+1d6 and Inflicts Dizzy for two rounds. This move has a three-round cooldown. Dizzy causes the afflicted target to have a 50% miss chance. Whatever that means in this case.

------------------- Leo ------------------- "Alright. Next on the list is those powerlines. That shouldn't take long to fix at all." Assuming no objections Leo starts to head down towards the location of the frayed powerlines. ------------------- Takumi ------------------- Takumi looks up at the shark and nods "Thank you, sorry for interrupting." And makes to close the door and check out the yellow room.

--------------------- Leo --------------------- Leo moves over to examine the machine, and speaks his analyze spell over it, examining and its functions carefully... "Oh man, look at this, manipulation of time using completely mundane construction. Anomalous miniaturization, Structures....I can't even begin to understand what half of these parts do! Its been a while since I had a product of an Extremis to pour over. It seems a little overkill to use something like this to skip Intervals on a clock but it could be useful, not to mention great research material." Its easy to hear the mix of rampant eagerness , slight befuddlement (Probably at the aforementioned overkill) and genuine respect in his voice. This was the product of someone who had mastered their craft to such an amazing degree time could be touched with plain machinery. Manipulate time with magic? Leo could DO that with the right materials. The simple things mostly, but he could do more with some time, spellwork, and work building the right golems. But this was a product of pure engineering and machining. He couldn't find any enchantments ANYWHERE in this. Even the materials where, as far as he could tell, completely mundane, except perhaps some anomalous forging? He would have to look closer later. "Here, help me get this off, CAREFULLY." --------------------- Takumi --------------------- Takumi looked at the sharks. He recognized them as sharks instantly. They had been extinct on Ar Ciel since the Grathnode Infertia, up until the recent restoration, where they started to turn up again, but its not like he had never seen pictures or read about them. He shouldn't really be surprised. If other worlds could give birth to humans, they could surely give rise to other familiar animals as well. Granted. These were talking and playing poker which was not at all a trait he expected sharks ANYWHERE to have. He stared for a moment as he tried to figure out how to react, before he decided to just not question it anymore. "Sorry to interrupt, but do you know where vacant rooms a bath is? Im exhausted"

--------------------- Leo --------------------- Leo pulls the potion out of the chest and stores it away "I see no reason not just to keep going up. I don't think we missed anything in that last room..." Onwards! --------------------- Takumi --------------------- That felt kinda weird. Not bad, but...weird? Maybe it had some kind of parameno component that could pick up on the world's feelings that created the water, and translate them into perception of it? Did that make sense? It vaugely felt like wearing a parameno ring. Curious. Maybe he could pull some equipment together and study these to figure out how they worked, though by this point most of his patience and ability to ask questions had been worn away. Getting pulled around like this and thrown out of your depth was, perhaps obviously, pretty taxing. Either way Takumi puts them on and closes the fountain, then makes sure to finish cleaning up, returning the key to where he had found it. He then decides to look around the hotel and its rooms a bit, to see if there's a bath he can use. Maybe behind the blue door?

----------------- Leo ---------------- Leo after his comical stumbling footwork tried to crush his casual confidence and failed, took a look around the area he now stood. The platforms didn't look that bad and there was ample space to not get killed by machinery if they missed a jump. He would have to mess up pretty badly to get caught, and at worst could likely redirect himself away from the gears...Or have Stoneheart slow his fall... He briefly considered trying to have Stoneheart carry him up, but if this was a dungeon it would be a shame to skip loot. No, this would be good exercise. Nothing to do but go for it. He took a moment to observe the gears, and then jumped for the next platform. Leo moves across the platforms, stopping at each one to observe the turning and listen to the clock, getting a rhythm for his movements, a rhythm for time. Tick Tick Tick Of course, he stays ready to use emit force, or force mana, or really any other tool he has to avert a splat or painful crushing if need be. But this didn't seem that bad. It really was much the same as being in a dungeon. possibly dangerous, but almost relaxing in its familiarity. ----------------- Takumi ----------------- Takumi looked at the box for a few moments before pulling it out. Was this some way of paying for repair work on the fountain that only worked when someone fixed it and flipped the switch? No, that was stupid. How would you get it in there if things were broken? And its not like it was hard to find, so you couldn't put it in there when it was working without someone taking it. For that matter, its not a very good secret compartment if the switch is just visible in the public fountain, so it cant just be a hiding place. Takumi proceeds to open the box, and finding the bauble inside, holds it up above him for a better look

------------ Leo ------------ Leo looks around at the massive clockwork with interest, it looked well put together and everything seemed to be turning nicely. "I don't know, Ive seen more esoteric setups before, some of the machine dungeons iv'e been in have had pretty nuts movement and puzzles, Especially the one that had gone haywire." Leo rubs his shoulder thoughtfully "Just....don't fall into any machinery if you can help it, if you do, remember that its better to have to fix the gearwork and reset the system, then it is to fix you." "It does seem a little odd there aren't stairs though, it might be a security measure, but its not out of the question this place is undergoing dungeonification. Stay alert." Leo admires the clockwork around him as he starts to channel some safety measures, the way the turning gears continued to move and measure time. What was that piece there for? ...Perhaps? Tick....Tick....Tick.... he listened to the sounds, the ticking, the rattling, the turning, as ideas started to form in his head and dots started to connect. Leo creates two balls of pink gel mana wrapped up in force mana shells to prevent them from dripping gel everywhere, and has them follow him. If they do fall, throwing these down should let him break a fall. (Essence 5, Synergy 4, Channel, Pink gel and Iron mana) Leo then takes his turn, spending two effort, as he focuses on not falling, even as he holds on with one hand, the other hanging near snow's hilt in case he has sudden need of her or convenient iron (3 Dex, Two effort) Snow keeps an eye out with her eye and her scanners keeping on eye on the possible dungeon tower Frostbrute waits at the bottom floor in massive weight and 0 dex prison. While Stoneheart just kinda flys up to follow Leo --------------------------------------------- Takumi --------------------------------------------- Takumi waits for the water to clear up a bit more, then flips the switch

---------------- Leo ---------------- To Satomi Leo nods to Ena and follows along, heading into the building "These caught my eyes right away, and they offer some great effects and mana types. Releasing latent power, better energy control, protective mana, the works. Ill take some time later and see about some proper testing. Im really looking forward to messing with some of these. Alternate casting with green tourmaline sounds like it would give good results, and the aquamarine can make liquid. Tourmaline to aquamarine might be really good actually." --------------- Takumi --------------- Takumi finally finishes getting the pipes in place and flicks the drain clog away with a momentarily disgusted face, only to be followed shortly after by a dismayed one as the pump literally crumbles to pieces in his hands. Hopefully no one was going to try and make him pay for that, Its not like it could have been made any better. He could scarcely fathom why this system was in such disrepair, everything else looked rather nice in the area....even if this place was freaking him out, what with its empty hotel, eternal darkness, and sparse activity. It was like the opening to a mystery novel or a horror story where- Wait no don't think about that while in the dark underground unfamiliar pumphouse alone. He didn't have much money on him. Did they even take Leaf here? With little option for fixing the pump, Takumi heads back to the area they came in from for a bit, and gets brought up to speed on the ships, the unwanted items piled aboard, and an apparently new super printer. Looking around Takumi begins to help himself to the metal supply and more minor items left laying around unwanted, starting by building himself an actual set of tools If he can just figure out how this works Takumi just kind of does his best to shrug off the strange behavior of the equally strange and out of context super tech, and after holding one of the tools for a few moments decides its good enough. Looking over the alien alloy, Takumi tries to scratch it, and upon failing strikes the metal and listens to its sound as he feels the vibrations travel up through his wrench and his arms. Noding to himself he takes two alien alloy Ingots, the remaining Biotic Field Generator, and some extra two gold ingots for conversion and uses them to construct a new pump. He uses his tools for this as much as he can, but will use the printer for making the casing and such. The intended result is a durable, long lasting water pump with a distinct look. Being made of Alien alloy, brass (Converted from the gold) and glowy tech bits and such. Ok so maybe this was a LITTLE stupid. Well...At least it wouldn't really clog? Returning to the pump house to find it just as he left, Takumi begins to install the pump bolting things down, connecting pipes, ensuring everything fits, and at last turns it on, and breaths a sigh of relief at the sound of it starting up as he begins to pack everything back up.

------------- Takumi ------------- With no better options at the moment, Takumi makes sure all the valves are shut off, and disables or disconnects its powersource if one can be located With tools in hand he begins to dissemble the pump and clean it as best he can. As for the rust, the places that are rusted to the point of jamming will receive a light sanding in absence of proper rust remover. Of course, he also goes over the piping, the worst pipes will be replaced with the spares, and the others will have the insides checked and cleaned if need be. If the Pump was this bad they might need it.

------------ Takumi ----------- Takumi groans at the sight of the old, decaying equipment and piping. As both an engineer and lab technician it was like being slapped in the face, a feeling that was likely not helped by the times he had formerly worked on and maintained hydroponics equipment as an apprentice and then some. Thankfully this experience meant something as simple as a fountain, even one in such horrid condition should be no trouble. He just needed to grab....his.....tools....and... Well this was a problem. Takumi now realized he had gotten pretty far ahead of himself and cursed the untimely timing of his getting pulled into the multiverse. Couldn't they have waited till he was back at the hotel? Or better yet, grabbed him while he was still at work? Takumi starts looking around to see if someone left any tools here, but partly hopes he won't find them in such poor conditions.

------- Leo ------- Leo nods, both at the shopkeep, and Ena "Ill have to run back to the ship to grab more meteorite, But I can make Prisms and Pink Gel here. Might take a bit though......Or....Hang on, I know an Easier way." Leo trades in a portion of Meteorite bars with Tim to quickly generate some Prisms and Pink Gel, and trades a number of the three materials in exchange for 900 munny His eyes are caught by some of the gems they have, and most notably, the rings and that chain. He purchases the Protect Chain , Aquamarine Ring , Tourmaline Ring , And Sardonyx Ring, Along with an additional shard of tourmaline with his Credit "These are great. Damage reduction, release of latent power, better energy control, increased strength, enhanced control over various element based spells, a synthetic liquid? Oh Im going to have field day with this stuff. Pleasure doing business with you" Before continuing the quests though, he alerts the rest of the party he might be a few minuets and tells them to take a break or something, as he gets involved in one of Law's projects, and spends perhaps a bit more time then he intended in the ship, between helping with a super forge printer (Which he is quite impressed by and eager to try out later), making tea for a (copy?) eldritch god, and putting more planter boxes in the ship. He DOES notice the bug he brought from the agony is missing, and none of the golems seem to have seen it, but after a few moments of thinking, Leo shrugs. It was either somewhere it was going to get squished and killed, somewhere where it was going to get captured, somewhere where it couldn't hurt anyone, or running about on the ship somewhere. After all they spent a while on the ship after helping the village, what with how long it took to get exams done. At worst, there would be an infestation to deal with later in exchange for valuable research material. At best, it would wander into this room, lured by the presence of its associated biome. Leo briefly considers using a mana pulse to dominate it and lure it back, but decides that sending pulses over the whole ship for an hour to catch a bug that might not be here for an hour might be a waste of time. Especially given he had work to do. And so, he returns to the party "Alright, Sorry for taking so long, who's up for checking out the clock tower?"

------------ Leo ------------ "Sure, go right ahead." Leo prepares to follow them up the ladder. ------------ Takumi ------------ Takumi grabs a conveniently placed lantern and starts to slowly progress into the passage, noting and examining all the equipment as he passes, Still unnerved at this empty place that seemed a little to lifeless.