Endlessblaze

"Im not certain what your referring to, but I assume the black beast is a really dangerous creature" Leo takes a moment away from what ever It is hes doing, and looks back towards kusuke. "I have a lot of plans, and goals. If I can learn something about a type of magic I'm unfamiliar with, and then I can apply that knowlage to help myself or others in any way, shape, or form, why wouldent I? Knowlage is power. And I'm going to need a lot of it to tear dysto out of the sky."

Leo watches her go for a moment, Then when shes out of earshot turns to glance at snow's projection "She seems pissed." Snow sighs reclines in the air. "Well considering shes apparently spent what I can only suppose is most of her life dealing with some sort of corruptive monster infested area, It makes sense. Even if its not as extreme as what shes used to, Its similar enough to get much the same reaction." "Hmmmm...." Leo tilts his head thinking about something, mumbling under his breath. "Most of her life huh?" He glances up at the sky for a moment, before returning to work. …Maybe she wasent all that diffrent from him.

"Some dragon showed up, took an item we were in the middle of making, SAFELY and with precautions in place Ill add, And snapped his fingers. Boom, the area turned blue, and the grass caused pain on contact. Thankfully he was kind enough to contain it on request with the dryads flowers, so if we can find him we might be able to convince him to do a bit more to make absolutely sure its not a threat." Snow starts projecting her avatar and points off in the direction of The Agony, she looks almost as disinterested as Leo. Probbly because of the aforementioned flowers. "Its that way, the dryad and Lucile are already there. There dont seem to be any monsters there right now, so you should be ok to check it out."

Satomi reaches leo just as he returns to the ground. As he turns to face her, his only response is an exasperated "Why do you immediately assume this is MY fault?"

Following the battle meeting, leo decides to get more work in. He starts with toshiro's swords, in hopes of bringing it up to par with jun's new rapier. The Ambiance draw was a little much, but it should be ok. Next leo moves on to the saber. Some odd stuff happens, but it goes well enough. The blade length dial works fine, the air intake is fully functional, as is the Force Heatpush function. He then ends up helping jun and toshrio with some project, corrupting silver with ebonstone mana for them Neat Kinda freaky, but neat. Having the ability to acid just about anything would be handy. The inability to mix with shiverthorn mana does give him the idea to try mixing proper demonite mana with the mana of the flower. Leo promptly resolves not to use that again until he has something to protect him from fumes. The intensity of the Acid effect was worth considering as a weapon though. Next leo goes to upgrade the constructor golems he gave to satomi for use as laborers and assistance during the siege. ….Only for them to fall to pieces. "What did she DO to you guys?" Not one to let them go to waste, leo takes the useless rubble and broken programing, and quickly assembles a crude golem cloud of lightning from it, altering his spell work with granite mana The granite mana providing lightning worked more or less as he expected. He had not considered the rise in territorial behavior, but it made sense in hind sight. Welp, guess he will have to make new ones for the walls No big deal Returning to his "Proto-demonite" Leo get some testing in. Jun comes to leo asking for help on the incomplete dark power core thing Agian. So leo makes a suggestion. Why not use something that naturally creates dark electricty, The tainted alloy ingot. The plan is simple, create a sphere out of the alloy, and enchant it as a golem core, set to process equations and meaningless data repeatedly. That will agitate the metal, and cause it to discharge its signature black lightning. And the core could also be programed to direct it in specific ways, such as away from damaged sections. The plan seemed sound. And this is when things got....Intresting.....

Lilly raises a hand. "My range is limited, But if we get close enough I might be able to establish contact"

After returning from the expedition with plenty of the meteoric ore Leo had some smelted and did some testing, finding thats its mana had very intresting effects when paired with gemstones. Then he ran into Lucile. Learning about her ability to create life and encode various concepts into them, He decides there is only one thing to do. Use one of the attunements he had found to make a flower turrent! The energy was a bit harder to keep a handle on then leo had expected, but it still came out well enough. Following that, leo made a few more golems before going to bed As the sun started to peak over the horizon, he climbed out of bed and headed downstairs. So, today would be the day, but they still had a little bit of time. They needed to finalize there plans.

Rosemary drops her doll as she turns her hand downward, threads of purple light forming, wrapped around her fingers, and hanging the doll from her hand like a puppet, she brings her other hand up and the doll becomes suspended between, and tied to, both. The doll squirms as the glow in its eyes burn brighter, and its power washes over one of the bear's minion flower things, Attempting to establish a symbolic connection for manipulation of its body.

"That sounds like EXACTLY what I need. Here, take a look at this." Leo pulls out the star fury and lays the red glassy sword flat in his hands. "I picked it up at the sky islands, and did some analysis on it, As far as I can tell the material is made from immense amounts of magic from the fallen stars, A metal I found up at the sky islands, And some third substance. I dident recognize it but I could tell it was a metal with some sort of relationship with stars, and fire. If you need this ore to make a star gun, It might be the same thing I need to make more of this stuff."

"Yeah, They have a bad habit of burning up during entry, But if its big enough some of it will survive, The really big ones can cause massive damage and-" He seems to realize something "You said this metal would let you build a star gun, right?"

After the golems come back, leo gets to work on more cannons. He has the smith make normal iron and steel, useing charcoal instead of gel, much to the smiths complaint. It takes a bit of time, and is quite uninteresting and repetitive, but he eventualy gets three more cannons, now packing a total of five. He also does some testing with the granite found previously. Useing the most basic method of programing a golem, useing T-granite mana (That is to say, the he threw mana at it and willed it to become a golem) He did succeed in making a golem that obeyed the one simple impulse he gave it. And now there is a little finger sized rock zapping insects in the area, instead of zapping leo. Its kind of cute. He notes this result down for later and after a bit of mana testing, finally decides what to make next. He creates two sets of eternal ice plasma mines. Just as he is finishing up with those arminuis shows up looking for him. "Oh hey, Its uhhh...the guy with the minions. What do you need"

Rosemary looks at her opponent, and tilts her head. For a moment she is silent, but then a wicked grin spreads across her face and she transforms. Her doll, now in her hand looks up at the target. Its eyes glow red, there light piercing through the darkness Its body is putting off like a candle puts off light. With a giggle rosemary raises her doll. "Iffff you sayyyy soooo" And Slams it into the ground. Throwing it down, and then catching it as it bounces back up in a very un-doll like manner. This was a fun means of attack. Dealing damage through symbolic connections to her precious doll. And he wouldn't even be hurt. She could get used to this. Damage hex+5

As yet unseen by the other girls in the park, Rosemary was standing behind them. Watching. Eerily silent. Her doll now laid on her head, Its limp resting position did nothing to betray its true nature. How long had she been standing there?

Leo woke up early. Grabbing his breakfast to go and eating as he speed walked down to the smiths shop. It was time to get to work. He quickly took stock of what had been gathered over the night, and told the golems to go back, but to try and get some flux stone. He was sure they would need more. He gets the smith to smelt some of the Iron, and make some steel without useing the gel. The outcome is a little crude, but plenty workable. Leo forms a stone sheath around a metal cannon, and on the inside, he attaches two steel rods which spin around a piece of Negative kelvin eternal ice in the center. On the back of the cannon a pair of fans with the help of a small topaz core draws in air. The rods are simple, specialized cores. enchanted to form and launch magnetic bubbles. As the air is drawn in, the eternal ice core uses its ice magic to, ironically enough, heat the air by passing electricty through it. Turning into plasma which is caught by the magnetic fields. The targeting and IFF systems go fine. The only problem, is that its not takeing in enough air. Nothing a few tweaks wont fix though. He increases the fan size and RPM, and redoes the topaz core. Moveing it to the outside, and between the fans. Adjusting its programming so it does its job more efficiently. He manages to make a second one, before he runs out of the needed metal. During the process he notices a jerk in his pockets, and after some quick testing, finds that demonite, and crimtane are magnetic. Having been pulled on during the enchanting process. And there was the seed. Just...absorbing mana. Still. That was a little concerning....it just would not stop. It might be worth doing something about before something unexpected or problematic happened. naturally however, he dident want to take measures that wernt needed, so he decided to analyze it first. "Its keeping some of it from comeing back, Could be usefull for disrupting spell work." "Hold on, Some of these lines look less like nonsense data and more like...." Snow brings up leo's computer, and puts some of the broken lines on display. Then she starts trying to interpret them, filling in and repairing the...broken sentences and words. Letters being filled in and changed until it starts to look right, after a few moments, snow has assembled what shes pretty sure is an accurate reconstruction. "Thats to many characters for it to all be a fucking coincidence." "Yeaaahhhh...thats a little freaky. What are you thinking? Some sort of corrupted core?" "I dont like the implications something might be conscious inside there. And I CERTIANLY dont like the idea that something conscious and corrupted and/or insane is in there, passively absorbing magic." "Yeah, that sounds like bad news. We need to look into it more, But we dont have time. For now, we need to stop its magic intake" He Decides to ask the smith to help him make a small box from thran metal shards, but sadly, it seems magic is not the only thing its good against. Though leo does find that if he holds plant mana to it long enough it grows....some stuff that is really good at reflecting force? Not what he was going for. At this point he just goes to the drayd, and after some talking, Gets a box made of plants around the seed. Which he promptly hands off to the SCP golems. At some point his miners also returned. Bringing back more ore, and some intresting fungal samples. And mud. After looking them over, he sends them back in for more stuff

After running into the little creature once more, Rosemary had thanked the little guy for the wish. She had been going to carry on her way to eat, and worry about hide and seek later. But as they passed the park a certain someone noticed some odd behavior in the park. Rosemary felt her doll shift a little from where it dangled by its arm in her grip, A faint night imperceptible sign of movement as it focused in. A whisper spoken in odd tounges slipping into her mind. The girl gave a smile, and giggled. Adjusting course to enter the park, and pass by the pepole, After all. If the prey her and dolly were to hunt were so kind as to be on the way to her lunch, they may as well play some. It was good to work up an appetite.

After the meeting, Leo had about half of his ore smelted Into T-metals. He would have to wait until later to work on any major projects, and help get the forge hot enough to make normal platnuim. He gains 3 ignots of T-Platnuim and two ignots of T-iron, T-silver, And T-Lead. He test the T-platnuim and T-lead. Along with some scrap T-steel laying around. Finding intriguing results He would have to do some more testing, but T-platnuim mana seemed to be...easier to control? He wasent sure how it might differ when used to power something. naturally, he promptly instructed his golems to work through the night. Then he retreats to his room, and lays the red glassy sword out on the floor. Sitting down in front of it. He may as well figure out what he can from it. Useing his magical knowlage, some basic studying and his analysis spell he figures out quite a bit. The first thing that sticks out to him are the clues which suggest immense power was used to create this. He himself wouldent be able to muster that power on his own, but he might be able to rig up a set of equipment to do so. Though he felt it would be better to create a more efficient method. He certainly wouldent have production of this stuff before the siege. But it was something to take note of for the future. It was quite intresting. His study of the sword does give him some intresting ideas regarding the element of fire, and how it could be manipulated. Perhaps he could put that to use in the plasma cannons. Next he figures out what he needs to actualy MAKE it at least as far as ingredients go. He finds signs that it took large ammounts of what seemed to amount to a physical manifestation or form of magic, which lines up with the "Stars" that the dryad had previously spoken of. The use of skyplate is more obvious, He recognizes signs of its in the magic, molecular structure and arrangement, and it just logically makes sense. Finaly he needs...Something related to fire or the stars. It was SOME sort of metal. He could tell that much, and he was sure he would recognize it if he attempted to shape it. But he couldent put a name or appearance to it. All he knew was that it was a metal, with relation to fire and/or the stars. He would have to ask the guide later. And apparently you need solar energy to do the melting. He wanted to go over it a bit more, but that would have to wait. He was getting pretty tired. Hopefuly he could sleep with the threat of impending siege hanging over his head. Soon he finds that he can, as his golems work through the night.

"You can keep useing the ones I lent you, but please, send any spare metals to the blacksmith shop. Ill have mine searching for resources all night, and I advise you do the same"

Leo, having arrived at the meeting after he and toshrio talked to the smith and figured out what was going on with the metal. Looked...a little freaked out by the time estimates. Snow just kinda...let her projection hover there as she listened. "Wait what? Thats so little time! uhgggg...Ok, If I get the mineing golems to work through the night, And we can get some of the platnuim smelted before bed, I should be able to gather enough resources to construct some good plasma and lightning weapons. Railguns as well. The former should work for the mountings, and we can use the latter to arm everyone, and fire down from the wall. I might have to postpone my lessons with the dryad, as curious as I am to learn more about purifying and nature magics." "As for what we found, We fought a cloud, and got a magic staff, and ended up with a lightning gun. After that, we got some odd metal from a structure in the sky, along with a fancy new sword for leo to study. there were a few other things, but those stood out the most. The magic of the metal makes things float, if thats of any use to you." "Right, speaking of" Leo holds up the staff "Anyone want this?"

Name: Rosemary Moon Age: 12 Appearance and Magical Girl Outfit: A small girl with Green eyes, and Red hair. Her magical outfit is A black top and skirt, with grey and silver flecks of glitter sparsely scattered on the latter, Her hair also binds itself into a ponytail in this state, and its held in place by a band with a cracked skull on it. The almost demonic black glow from its right eye makes pepole looking directly into it feel cold. Her soulgem is held in a pentagram pendant which hangs from her neck. Her doll also somehow appears, regardless of where it was before, And becomes chained to her sleeve. Its fabric darkening. Its eyes glow red, and its body radiates darkness, whenever rosemary uses her powers. Naturally, this only adds to the aura of creepiness and unease rosemary puts off, but you would be hard pressed to sense any malice in its glow. Personality: Rosemary is nice, but at times, she dosent really seem to be all there. And many would call her...in a word. creepy. Between her habit of sneaking up on pepole and just...staring, and the way she constantly seems to talk to her doll or muttering to herself. or just...staring. Your Wish: "I wish dolly would talk to me more, and would be safe from harm" Backstory: An orphan who never talks about her past, and is distant from the various other children at the orphanage she lives at. She has a reputation for being weird and creepy. And so is typically avoided. Even some adults seem to become uneasy around her. And muttered half formed rumors circle in the dark. No one even seems to know what country she is from. Stats Durability: 2 How much damage your body can take. You can take injuries equal to 2x this stat. and your Hp is equal to 10x this stat. Magic Limit: 3 How much magic you can use before you start taking corruption. Your limit is 5x this stat. Soul Gem Purity: 2 Your maximum soul gem purity. Once purity reaches zero you become a witch. Your maximum purity is 100x this stat. Utility: 2 How much stuff can you do. Your skillpoint total is 1x this stat. Skills Shadow control +5 The user can control shadows Inanimate possession +5 The user can posses and control inanimate objects Damage hex +5 The user does something to there doll (Setting it on fire, throwing it in front of an attack, stabbing it) , and the damage it would have caused is shunted over to a target, The amount of damage the symbolic effect actualy does is determined by skill value plus limit spent Dance of the puppet +5 The user binds there doll with threads of magic, and forms a symbolic connection to a non-witch target in range, granting them the ability to puppet there body around, and use there abilities. A check must be made in order to establish control Derived stats: HP: 20 Injuries: 4 Magic Limit: 15 Soul Gem Purity: 200

"Yeah, Listen is there anything in the forge you wouldent normaly use? I keep getting odd results from refined metal, but the ore and gems seem to be normal enough. So I was wondering if anything in the smithy was messing with there composition"

Leo eventualy brings everyone back to the surface, and returns to town, heading over to the smiths shop to look at the spoils the golems he left had brought back. "Well....Looks like you lot ran into some trouble" "Assessing data now" "Data assessment complete" Leo watches the important parts unfold on his computer, and looks back at the stones thinking. A quick mana test yields intresting results. "So a mana that forms aggressive stone golems, Normal hematite, And two simple and very specific forms of alchemy that DONT seem like the require much in the way of safety measures." Still, If the ore was normal, then what was causing the mana type difference in refined metals? He really needed to talk to toshrio and the smith.

"Not at the moment, I need to go get cooking" Leo goes back through the same process he took with the cloudfish, useing the damsel fish. It goes....well. But not quite as great as he had hoped. As he goes about cooking the rest, for a total of seven, Jun comes into the room "Wait, if you are down here cooking who is piloting the ship?" "And what can you tell me about this book? I've started to feel a little weird after I read it, I can just... hear my heartbeat pounding inside of my ears all of the time for some reason and I know that it will get annoying soon" "We are still at-" The SCP golems snatch the book from Jun's hands as soon as they see it, stuffing it into the containment forcefield. "We haven't left the island yet, we are going to neat here before moveing on remember? Do you feel like your in danger of imminent death? If not, and you can wait just a few minutes, please just take a seat while I finish up here. Ill take a look at you afterwords." True to his word, once the food was done and he called out "FOOD IS READY" Seeming loud enough to reach across the entire ship, He took a look at jun. He studies and tries to feel out the magic, among other things, before trying to get more data out of analyze. "Ok, im not sure what im looking at. The structure is oddly put together, Im not familiar with this sort of magic. Going off the appearance of the book, my first thought is necromancy, or something related to death magic. But, despite the fact the spell seems to be centered around your heart, it dosent seem malicious at all. It has some capacity to puppet your body, but Im not sure in what ways, or how much. If you want, we can talk about spell breaking options while we eat"

While toshrio was fishing, leo finished what he had stated the day they acquired the weatherlight, and got the kitchen properly setup And he returned just as toshrio finished. "Great, I got the kitchen up and running. Im going to start with a test dish to make sure these cloudy things taste good" He takes the fish to the kitchen and lays them out. And after a bit of thought decides to test the taste of the shiver thorn flowers. Washing one off and taste testing it with a few nibbles. That wasn't half bad. Huh. May as well use that. He could go get more later. He checked the ingredients in stock... "Snow, remind me to pick up ingredients when we get the chance. This is pitiful for a proper kitchen. Especially one expected to feed a group of our size." "Right" Despite the short supply, It would be enough for the meal of the smaller group out to explore today. Leo got the grill ready, set up a small core using a gold coin. Diced up the flowers, and got to work... Only for the cloud fish to vaporize in the heat. Well then. He hadn't expected that. But apparently once it heated up to much, it could no longer maintain its solid form. He stores the remaining 3 cloud fish in a container of water. Then He heads back to the deck and breaks the news. "Cloud fish wont work. They vaporize when cooked. Hey toshrio, can you go back in and grab more of the blue ones? Those should work, Im about to go back down and try one."

Leo thought for a moment. He had a point. "Alright, If you find anything that looks good I guess we can take a break to eat." He turns back to the others "Is that all right with the rest of you?"

Leo put away his sword, And turned to toshrio. "I suppose, but dont you think that might make them angry? I feel like we would be better served finding another island"