Endlessblaze

“Well there’s a lot of different ways ways to do thiings. Since they aren’t Useing magic in the lights, there almost certainly Useing electricity. There are plenty of ways to generate it magicaly and otherwise, and it can be used to power things.” “I would need to get a look at the gun, but it most likely uses some form of explosion to propel the metal. Since the container of the explosion won’t give, the blast only has one way to go. And it takes the ammo with it. Of course, there are also other kinds of guns” “In terms of AI and computers, it’s easiest to explain the latter first. At it’s most basic, a computer is a machine that processes information. They can be made in many different ways, and come in many forms, some magic, some mundane, and some a bit of both. Some as small as your hands or as large as a room. If you want to get really technical, a brain is just type of advanced computer found in nature.” “you can program a computer to accomplish pretty much any task, if you know what your doing, and have the right parts. and that’s where AI, Artificial intelligence comes in.” “A program which can make decisions based on data it receives. Some are simple and aren’t really intelligent, used for basic task or entertainment. But on the other hand, some of them can be on the same level as a human, or even greater, many such types can even feel emotion.. In my world we have classes, and ranks to describe the ‘level’ of our AI” “Of course we also use this system to discribe other forms of Artificial Intelligence, such as homunculi.” He picks up his wolf pup. ”This little guy here, is a recent creation, only been around for a few minutes. But as you can see it’s not acting like a complete newborn, and already is more or less obedient to me. That’s because when I made him, I gave him the appropriate Class and Rank in intelligence, and then added pre-programmed information so he could be useful and mostly trained right away. As an example of an artificial life form, he technically exists as an AI. Though you aren’t really going to call him a computer or AI in a casual conversation.” He was tipping his hand now. Sacrificing one element of surprise. But still.... He puts the wolf down and lifts his arm. The one with what seems to be a colorful sleeve on it. Theres a ridge on it, which he runs a finger down ”This however, is much closer to your typical computer.” The PBA shows what it truly is, wings unfurling, revealing its legs and body. The wings change color, forming a screen from there surface. ”This one is biological in nature, and though made with magic, is MOSTLY mundane in its actual construction, Useing bio electricity to power it. It’s got pretty much all the functions of your typical personal, portable computer, and then some. Wireless access and communication, sound, visuals. All that fun stuff. I keep notes in here, use it to communicate vast distances, research, and conduct various businesses.”

Another world huh. That could be a point against the maid being a Throne User. Unless her world also had thrones. An unlikely possibility, but a possibility never the less. This woman DID mention divine magic after all, though perhaps that held a different significance in her world? For now he should remain cool. This was a trap of some kind, or a genuine request. In the former case, being to nervous could tip her off and create a bigger problem In the latter, it was both unneeded, and could make any unneeded enemy. Or just make him make a fool of himself. "Of course. What exactly do you need to know? Or rather, what are some things you've noticed that you aren't used to?"

Roy's eyes followed the demon for a moment as she left. If she was a Throne user, she was clearly just as unhappy to see another, potentially hostile one, as he was. The fact she reacted the way she did at all, made it look more and more likely. "Don't worry about it to much, its clear she cares for you. A few of my own servants would act the same way in a situation like this." "As for the magic I used, it was merely an act of typical, mid level healing magic. I provided a boost of energy and caused there bodies to begin healing at a rapid rate. Even wounds that don't normally heal or would require more advanced treatment normally can be healed in such a manner." It was clear that they at least knew about his throne now. He hadn't used it, but they had still detected it in his soul. He quickly went through his mental list of known throne users, but none matched. Perfect. He Diden't even know what he could be dealing with. He was holding his composure well enough, but his heart rate had risen, and his fingers twitched a bit for a moment. If someone made a move, should he draw venom? Or ascend right away?

Roy having arrived only to find another person coming in behind him and introducing themselves, and then see a fight break out. Was standing in a corner pinching his nose. He WAS going to ask about the power surge he had felt while working, but since the party was still alive, it was probably fine. "I cant believe I have to deal with these idiots" With two quick cast of regenerate, the monk and alien begin to heal. "I suppose I should introduce myself. Im-" He notices the eyes of the demonic maid for the first time, Yellow meeting Yellow. A throne user? or a coincidence? -Roy. Its nice to meet the two of you."

Leo grabs and drinks an Ironskin potion. He also takes two standard health potions. Once ready he climbs up onto the South wall, and takes position. "All defense systems were online at last check. Im out of range of a fair bit of it, but we should be good to go" "Right, just sit back and relax, we've got this." "Not like I have much of choice" Leo draws the Starfury, electing for a weapon he can use at range. The staff they had acquired from the fight with the big angry cloud was set on his person for quick and easy reach, in the event he needed to use it. "Alright everyone this is it! Don't let a single one of these creeps through!" Leo raises his arms and cast his Blizzard Wind, throwing the frigid gust at all enemies on the south side. Loadout Between the shield, machine synergy and potion, the bonus res is 7

Meanwhile, roy was tinkering with the grass and highly toxic trees, a few drops of chemicals from his brief case to help things along, and some magic, was all that was needed for him to whip up a little companion. One very, very poisonous companion. Grassy fur, a bit of wood scattered about on its body, and cute little tail. Sticking largely to the simple appearance template of a wolf. After the mental programming was done, it rolled over and made what could almost pass as a proper bark. Prompting Roy to give it a belly rub, before standing back up. He should probbly catch up with the others. "Come on boy"

Roy moves back into the dome, and opens up his briefcase, to start with sample collecting and study. "Well then, thats a thing."

Roy runs a quick analyses spell on greg "He is chipped, but its not active. I cant remove this here. For now, we must hope it stays inactive"

Rosemary sics her captured flower things on the bear! Giggling all the while. Dancing as she puppets them into battle. She spends her limit for this turn.

"Hes got you there. Its not like the fellow is resisting." Ok, so how many pepole do we have who are reasonable? Not enough. He should really consider infecting all of them with kill code viruses before one of them did something out of hand. Was this really the best group their "benefactor" could come up with?

Roy pokes his head back into the starting room and looks towards there new guide. "Hey, We need information on the area, and the current threat, Start with our location in the facility, and the purpose of the dome. Oh your injured aren't you?" Roy points at him at and mutters something under his breath, causeing a green and red glow around the target for just a moment. "Ive applied a regenerative spell to your body. You should be more or less healed up in a few minuets. Start talking."

Roy gets holds his spear in one hand, and looks at the barricade. Just needed to get rid of a few nailed in bits, and then the rest should come away. Forming a small crescent shaped blade of darkness on the end of his spear, he moved to slice apart the parts of the barricade connected to nails, so he could pull the rest away

And the fools are already going at it. Roy sighs audibly, And moves to the door, drawing his spear. "Here, allow me."

Roy promptly revaluates the muscle man Note to self. He is a threat to a functional society and empire, even beyond my initial expectations. Keep him on a leash, and be prepared to get rid of him. Why wouldent he? Casting away ones humanity was a road to an empty life, It was clear he only cared about being the strongest kid on the block. A motive incompatible with his own. Roy considered calling him and his obvious lack of a throne out. Strength envied by gods? Please. Still perhaps he should keep that card close to his chest for now. These otherworlders may not yet be aware of the significance of his eye color. If they wernt aware of his power, they wouldent prepare for it. If he kept it secret, he could use his throne to kill the man should he become to much of a threat.

"Likewise, If you have spare biomass, I would be happy to whip something up. Maybe if you also have some magical gems or metals I could add as well" Roy taps the table, Considering the options "Im thinking.....something ridable." He also internally considered the group The nerdy girl seemed useful, it was nice to have a roboticist on board. The girl with tattoos and the man who seemed to agree with her were likely only brought along as dumb muscle. Useful, certainly. So long as they managed to maintain advantages over whatever artificial legions the group whipped up, which usualy required intelligence. The others... Hmmm. The one with the large beast seemed to have a low view of technology and machine craft. Perhaps some sort of Caster purist? And The one with four arms, Which seemed to be opposite. It was honestly hard to tell with those two. He would need to learn more about them and the others.

"How do you intend for us to obtain this duplicate? Do you just want us to copy its programing and what I assume is corrupting magic off to an enchanted flashdrive? Is it safe to connect another computer wirelessly? My PBA might be able to access it, but I'm not sure how it would react to corrupt military system"

Roy moves, and actualy takes a seat. Propping his head up his arm. "This is quite the intresting proposition. The resources and skills found in other worlds would no doubt help in my own missions" Not to mention provide an excellent direction to spread his rule, effectively bypassing the stalemate that had cut off there expansion entirety. Ruling all worlds eh? Not a bad Opportunity. If there were any among the group not willing to bow, well....That was an issue for another time. "So, assumeing we accept, what means of travel will you be providing?"

Leo gets back to work as promised. Then he decides to double up on labor golems, building another set of five!

The biomancer arrives! All hail king Roy! And his current scheme isssssss

Leo just, kind of half turns to look at kusuke as he walks "Have you even been paying attention to the area? Everything is super close togther. Snow and Ice That way, Forest over there, passed right by a desert earlier. Numbers have been crunched regarding theoretical outcomes of worlds without Elemental Delineation. If we even accept such a thing is possible, then the odds of an alternate system that can support such world, with its diverse biomes so close togther, is so low as to be almost non-existent." He gestures in various directions as he speaks, pointing out the vague locations of the other biomes "And agian, like I said, the idea of a world that can survive without elemental delineation is absurd. Why on earth would my first thoughts on a new world be 'Huh, I better go check with some important person, who probbly has more important things to do, if a fundamental law of nature is still in effect.'? Leo will clearly not be convinced so easily They soon reach the smiths shop, where leo sits down at an outdoor table with some of his stuff scattered around it. Ready to begin his work

Leo keeps walking, but at least responds "Righttttt. Look Lets ASSUME your world got by without Elemental Delineation, Proving it's possible. Wouldn't it be just as inane to assume that things here work like things in your world, as it supposedly is for me to assume it works like my world. If your so well studied on the matter, why don't you explain further, and why are you so sure it works here, the same way it does back in home"

Leo sighs. "No, I'm calling you wrong. Look, I dont mean any harm. I'm sure a lot of pepole died, and thats tragic. But I can ABSOLUTELY assure you, Regardless of whatever this one dude might have been doing, SOMEONE, perhaps this black beast itself, had to take some serious deliberate action to bring about your end of the world event. If a world DIDENT have Elemental Delineation, It would die completely, likely before society even got off the ground, and you wouldn't be here to tell the tale of it. Destroying a world is possible, but it takes a lot more then a few lab hiccups. He seems absolutely sure of himself, speaking with absolute certainty. "I would love to continue this delightful chat, but I have work to do. The enemy will be arriving today, and we need to prepare as much as possible. So If you dont mind, I'm going to take my leave. Later, if you still aren't convinced, ill prove it to you. We can go find a nice secluded area, maybe even an uninhabited world if it makes you happy, and ill set some of that goo loose." With that, he turns and starts walking away. Frostbrute following behind and carrying some things for him. As he goes, the eye on his sword turns back to look at kusuke, who may or may not sense that someone did not take kindly to his threats.

Something about that argument sends leo into what sounds like genuine laughter. Like Its so far out there its not even there any more. His anger cooling and melding with it into something resembling....haughtiness? Or....It was a little hard to place. "Dystroy the? HA. WHAT ARE YOU EVEN ON? HAHAhhahhaha….ahhhhh. No really, did you take a break from your work and have a little to much to drink?" "Thats not possible" He states it plainly. Like a statement on the color of the sky. "Look, I didn't even have a first grade, or any grade, education. And I know this. The mere idea that a person can 'Accidently' dystroy the world is completely absurd. Take one of my most aggressive mana types for instance. The first time I got access to wax, To icefire, was because dysto sent a big metal bee queen thing after me. It splashed icefire all over the woods before I killed it. The whole place was frozen over, but not once did its flames pass the Elemental Delineation Line. After a few days the whole place was reborn as a winter wonderland. There were these little lizards that loved people, and warm places. Lazy little things. The kids from the area started comeing over to play. And skate on the frozen lake, and the glow from the plants ensured the place was always pleasantly lit. "

"Ruin things!? RUIN THINGS?! IVE HELPED UNCOUNTED NUMBERS OF PEPOLE! YOU THINK ALL I CAN DO IS KILL AND DYSTROY?! HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN PAYING ATTENTION!?" He violently shakes his head. Trying to clear off some of his anger. Though his emotions still bled into his rebuttal. "The mineing golems have given this village and ourselves more metal then we know what to do with! I'm not even sure how much stone we have been bringing in as a result! The constructor golems could have built all sorts of things if they hadn't broken from the strain of Satomi's demands. And there replacements should be more then capable! In fact, I was just about to build messenger birds, in absence of time to build a more convenient and advanced system!" "I manipulate matter at the molecular level, can enchant even atoms, And turn all manner of substances into magical machines and computers. Can you even IMAGINE what I could do to help this village, If we weren't in the middle of dealing with an army out to tear this place apart!? What have YOU been doing this whole time? Aside from your help on the dark alloy, I have scarcely seen you around. So forgive me If I'm not aware of whatever GREAT things you've done for the past few days!"

"Again, I'm not responsible for this. The new biome was the dilibrate creation of a third party. They interrupted an ongoing experiment, Which again WAS SAFELY CONTAINED, stole the metal we were useing, and transmuted the area. If I leave a plasma cannon on a table at say, A park, and some kid runs by and uses it to blow somehting up, thats on me. If I'm actively working on a weapon, or any other dangerous device in a secluded place, under an obvious protective barrier, and someone runs in and snatches it out of my hand to blow somehting up, thats on them." His increasing annoyance and exasperation, begin to approach anger as he stands up. His movements becoming more and more animated. "Also vendetta? HAH! You have it backwards. Dysto wants ME and EVERYONE else in the barren kingdom dead! You know why is called that? Because it was destroyed hundreds of years ago, and dysto is STILL out to kill everything there! Theres no plant life, not even a blade of grass! And its not like you can just LEAVE, oh no. Dysto has its monsters everywhere, And the closer to the borders you get, The more and more of them there are. Even now its still trying to kill me." "When was the first time you had to fight for your life, because ill tell you one thing I know for absolute certain!, I was fighting before you were. In a way ive been fighting death since I was born. It just became more direct at what I can only assume was my parents death. I dont know how old I was. Only that my oldest clear memories are of Genocidal death robots trying to kill me! Even if my parents walked by me right now, I wouldent know! I cant even remember there faces! And its not like I could count on others!" He throws his arms into the Air. He seems to have become quite agitated. "Pepole couldn't be trusted. Even the ones who wouldent sell you out or exploit you for all your worth, would just make you a target! Pepole would gather togther in groups, sometimes they Actualy got to the point you thought they might be strong enough to do something, ANYTHING. Only for dysto to sear them off the face of the earth in an instant. I found old books, pilfered the occasional magical tool. And you know what? That got me out." He looks down at his hands, making a sort of clawing motion with his upturned hands, as If clawing at some invisible metallic carcass. "I learned to turn Dysto's own matrials, rigged and DRM ridden as they were, against it. For the longest time the only thing of worth I could pull from the corpses of those things were the bio muscles, the only food source I ever knew. But soon I was striping metals and Machinery. Building my own machines of death." His anger suddenly seems to become much greater, and bares his teeth for a moment, practically snarling. His pupils dilate into the thinnest possible slits, and his eyes almost spark with light. "When I was ten, a group of bandits took intrest in my skills and tried to force me to work for them. I was there for a week before they all died. The idiots couldent make heads or tails of what I was doing, only threaten me with death if I tried anyhting funny. I wonder, was killing everyone in the band with the matrials THEY gave me funny enough?! Was it funny when my machines stomped there heads like grapes? Cut them down like the worthless scum they were!?" He looks up at the sky, and seems to calm down a little. His eyes water. "Thats when I realized I could do it. That I could finaly escape that place. I remember when I saw grass for the first time. Heard the birds chirping in the air. When I saw the sun among green leaves and white clouds. When I met pepole that could be trusted and children that could run and laugh. I remember all those first. I remember learning about so many things. I went places I never imagined existed, made friends for the first time, learned to talk with others. I gained access to the internet, working libraries. I went out to eat, and watched movies. And for the first time in my life I could help someone other then myself." "But dysto kept comeing. If it couldent kill me in the barren kingdom then It would send its minions after me. I fight and fight and fight and fight and fight. And every time I find somehting new, I learn what I can, and turn that into power." His arm is wrapped in an intense icy blue and teal, as he raises his first, Staring at it. "I decided a long time ago, there is NOTHING on this earth, nothing on ANY earth, that will prevent me from stopping that mindless machine! I wont stop until me, and everyone else, is free from it! AND YOU THINK YOU CAN TELL ME SOMETHING THAT THE PEPOLE OF THIS WORLD ALREADY HAVE IN CHECK IS TO DANGEROUS TO IMPLOY AGIANST OUR ENEMIES, AND THE ANCIENT SUPER WEAPON THAT MADE MY LIFE A LIVING HELL!?" If he had not been on the verge of tears before, he was now. His teeth were clenched, and his slit pupils quivered in rage. Snows projection leans over him, she moves as though rubbing his shoulder, Even if he can't feel it. Her voice is softer then her usual tone. "Leo, you need to calm down" Leo is breathing heavily, but he seems to have ended his rant, and begun the process of cooling off. Clearly kusuke, struck a nerve. Likely helped along by Satomi.