Turns out, kiting the gorm wasn’t hard when you had access to Tinker-enhanced cargo planes that could keep running indefinitely.
The cargo plane was because Perry needed some space to stretch his legs and set up his lab. The soundproofing was excellent and the autopilot advanced, so Perry only really felt a bit of turbulence every now and then.
So far, no evidence that the gorm could fly, which was actually worrisome.
If they could fly, Perry could rest assured simply by o...
2023-10-06 15:59:27 +0000 UTC
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“You’re in trouble now, boy,” Perry and Charles said at the same time.
“Stop copy- Listen,” Perry and Charles said at the same time, finally Charles shut up and glared at him.
“Oh I’m sorry, you started chuckling so I assumed you were about to have a smug, dramatic power-moment, so I took it from you.” Perry said with a shrug.
Perry pointed down at the wave of scintillating rainbows flowing over his factory.
“Explain. Without the grandstandin...
2023-10-03 17:49:53 +0000 UTC
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“What’s it gonna take?” Charles said.
“You’re gonna to have to be more specific,” the power armor said.
“What’s it gonna take for you to release my vassals and send them back to Earth?” Charles asked.
George would need them.
“You want me dead? Is that it?” Charles asked, spreading his arms and lowering his defenses. “Here I am.”
“Don’t be silly, Charles. You were always such a kidder. I don’t wanna
2023-10-01 18:59:03 +0000 UTC
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‘This kind of situation has the unfortunate side-effect of bringing out the serial killer in me.’
-Paradox Zauberer
Perry managed to give himself more of a half-starved, stranded appearance by using his own life-force to fuel the last bit of healing on his wounded arm, making him look slightly emaciated. A bit of subtle charcoal smudges to bring out the starvation really did wonders.
Gotta thank Heather for accident...
2023-09-30 16:38:18 +0000 UTC
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Gretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation.EXE
The flickering scenery in his seering sphere kept flickering and changing, but the differences were generally subtle and cosmetic with his internalized software filtering out ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine out of every hundred thousand possibilities.
It was still infinite, but a narrower spectrum of infinite
I think Gretchen would be proud of the improvement I made on her wilderness and ...
2023-09-28 18:45:18 +0000 UTC
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‘Perry’ was in a pinch.
I must be the stupidest doppleganger to ever exist, to agree to fill in for someone without checking who their family was first.
And now he had ‘kill me’ permanently stapled to his back. Metaphorically.
It was a good body, though. Supernaturally strong and smart. Zeke had never been in a body quite this spicy. If it wasn’t going to get him killed, he wouldn’t mind staying a while. It was that good. Although it seemed…fl...
2023-09-26 16:45:36 +0000 UTC
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I love audience participation because it takes a lot of the burden off of me to be perfect, because you guys have got my back and will point out stuff that doesn't jive right. so, without further ado:
1: I'm getting comments to the effect that the captivity we glossed over was too long. Do you think it would be better if it were closer to a couple months or half a year?
2:As for the reason he didn't spend his points, I got a reason for that, but I'd like to try to use it as a p...
2023-09-23 14:37:49 +0000 UTC
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In a desperate bid, Perry triggered Dragor’s Kinesis.
Dragor’s Kinesis.EXE
(2/3) remaining
HAHAHAHAH!
Relief flooded Perry’s body as the spell locked into place. Whatever or whoever had been feeding him thoughts of self-harm was either crushed under the twisted wreckage of his submarine attempt or otherwise preoccupied.
I’ll take it!
With a mental tug, Perry created a buffer of water arou...
2023-09-22 17:10:05 +0000 UTC
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“Before you say anything,” Perry said, holding up a hand to forestall his uncle, who was flanked by a chevron of iron-faced mages of varying species.
“I am impressed, and I am scared, but I just wanna let all of you know that this kind of situation has the unfortunate side-effect of bringing out the serial killer in me,” Perry said in his most even tone, tapping himself in the chest to emphasize his statement.
“So if you don’t want that
2023-09-20 18:52:34 +0000 UTC
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Paradox Zauberer (Perry Z.)
Class: Garage Tinker
Level 14
HP: 15
Body: 40
Stability: 61
Nerve: 44
Attunement: 61
Free Points: 36
XP to next level: 22613
Spells: Para...
2023-09-18 17:25:42 +0000 UTC
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Two weeks into designing a piece of equipment that could measure the dimensional wavelengths of essences, It Happened.
Perry was hunched over a computer, brainstorming both an algorithm to patch holes in the modified soul-surgery equipment’s sight, and ways to pack the sensors tighter, so they didn’t have to.
The cluster of evenly spaced crystals needed a certain amount of space between them, and originally, Perry’d had trouble squishing them together because of lim...
2023-09-15 15:46:06 +0000 UTC
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I went through and read all the comments and will pluck out a few I resonated with and weigh them and ask questions of you.
1: One of the most common threads of thought was that once he makes a table of essences, he should be able to mix-match them at will, using Abun'zaul's ultimate flexibility to produce exactly what he needs to cast anything. combine this with an AI that can predict the effects, and he can make any spell effect on demand. This IS perry's ultimate goal, and somet...
2023-09-13 18:00:38 +0000 UTC
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Okay, so the dragon and Perry are pooling their knowledge and resources to create some mind-bendingly powerful magitech, then they're gonna kill each other over who gets to keep it.
That's the plan, But i don't have much mind-bendingly powerful magitech solidly in mind that could be the end-game for them.
so my question(s) is(are) this(these):
1: What kind of improvements to Perry's spell-storage could be made? What kind of spells could be invented? How would his Table of...
2023-09-12 18:16:09 +0000 UTC
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“Part 234, paragraph 4, subsection c of ‘meat shield’ needs tightening up,” Perry said, pointing it out. “The part where the contract breaks if I use one of my family as a meat shield is too broad and exploitable by you.”
“Let’s change it to temporarily suspend the terms of the contract for THAT specific person, should I use them as a meat shield, and immediately revert back to standard operation as soon as I stop.” Perry said. “Additionally I’d like an extra subse...
2023-09-12 18:05:18 +0000 UTC
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Paradox Zauberer (Perry Z.)
Class: Garage Tinker
Level 13
HP: 14
Body: 39
Stability: 60
Nerve: 42
Attunement: 59
XP to next level: 10156
Spells: Paradox’s Pernicious Prison (6/6) Light (5/5), Dra...
2023-09-08 17:37:32 +0000 UTC
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“You must be Tyrannus,” Perry said, offering his hand to the wall of gemlike red scales.
The twenty-foot tall death-lizard daintily extended a single arm-length, razor-sharp claw and Perry shook it.
“And you must be Paradox Zauberer. Please, call me William.” the dragon said before waggling his front paw. “Tyrannus is my…stage name.”
“Perry,” Perry said.
“You’re so shiny!” Natalie blurted.
Tyrannus gave a ...
2023-09-04 18:37:00 +0000 UTC
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***On a weathered Birth Certificate in a burnt-out husk of City Hall***
William ‘Billy’ Red Kline
Born Feb. 14, 1970, Berkeley, California, to Jessica Annabelle Kline and George Nathanial Kline.
Sex: Male
Place of Birth: University of California, Berkeley, Astrobiology Division.
Weight at Birth: 84 Lbs
Blood type: Unable to acquire.
***Paradox***
The trip through the rocky mountains had been pleasant e...
2023-08-31 17:19:35 +0000 UTC
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A half-rotted document under the ruins of a large pentagonal building.
***TOP SECRET***
SEAL team 5 debrief
Transcript text coded by speaker:
***General Abrams***
***Lieutenant Tom Grisham***
Having confirmed that the environment on the other side of Site 14 was nontoxic, the brass decided that the government needed to get some eyes on the situation on the other side of the p...
2023-08-29 16:47:27 +0000 UTC
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***In a moldy box of papers in an abandoned safe***
***TOP SECRET***
Sept. 12, 1972.
Behavioral Notes on subject 84
Subject 84 shows a staggering level of natural intelligence, having achieved a college level of reading comprehension in a mere three months of captivity. Problem solving and pattern recognition follows a similar inhuman level of development.
Access to Subject 84 is restricted to only...
2023-08-25 16:49:18 +0000 UTC
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“What do you think this power would qualify as:” Perry asked, backhanding aside a skittering horror made entirely of paint, that had gotten inside the reach of his sword, staining him up to the elbow in thick, squirming oil paints.
“Minder with a gimmick, extradimensional space with godlike powers inside it, or Wildcard?”
He glanced up at the painted sky, which trembled slightly as new brushstrokes overwrote old ones at a speed nearly fast enough to trick the human eye int...
2023-08-22 18:15:27 +0000 UTC
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Perry felt it.
That crackling energy that slowly suffused the air where a fight was about to take place. Stances adjusted. Fists tightened around weapons. Eyes narrowed.
“Before we begin…” Acolyte Karen Figgis said with deadly careful enunciation, cocking her head as if listening to something in the distance before scanning the three of them. “Would anyone who is pregnant take a safe distance?”
“Good luck with the diplomacy you guys,” Wraith said, kissing Nat o...
2023-08-21 17:46:55 +0000 UTC
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“This is it, son,” Harv said, patting his boy on the shoulder. “Everything you can see from here on out is ours,” He dramatically, gesturing to the limitless expansion of East. “You were too young to try this four years ago, but now…now you’re a man.”
Harv glanced down at his teenage son’s apathy.
“Or at least close enough to it,” he said, grabbing Chris’s shoulder in a firm side-hug.
“If your hairbrained scheme gets mother or my brothers and sister...
2023-08-16 21:35:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey, now's as good a time as any to mention that Perry's probably going to be heading even further west, probably North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California. Maybe a little Idaho in there.
If you've got any landmarks you wanna suggest that a native would think of that are OLDER than 1969, drop 'em in the comments, and I'll compare them to the route and see if we can use any of 'em. Sound fun?
2023-08-15 06:35:53 +0000 UTC
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“This is my daughter Onslaught,” Karth said, kneeling before Perry’s throne. At his motion the curtains were drawn away from the cage, revealing a stunningly attractive eight-foot-tall troll dancing seductively.
“When she was born a midget and deformed, I despaired, because that is a muzzle only a mother could love, and if any of my subjects learned that I had spawned such a thing, that would be reason enough for them to kill me.”
“Uhuh?” Perry grunted, barely tearin...
2023-08-14 15:45:20 +0000 UTC
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“Why are you giving them our food?” Mark asked, his brows furrowed. “You said you could wipe them out, so do that instead of giving away the biggest source of food for a city that is, by the way, STARVING!”
The mop-headed young man’s voice rose as he continued, glaring at Perry, along with the rest of his captains.
“I hear you,” Perry said, holding up a hand. “But I have a good reason. And that reason is because they are a small army of sixteen fo...
2023-08-10 19:09:43 +0000 UTC
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Karth was hungry.
Karth was always hungry, but this particular day found him wandering further afield of his village in search of Meat. Despite its purpose of making Karth temporarily not hungry, Meat had the most infuriating tendency to flit away at high speeds.
Today had been no different, except the sun looked a little different along with the dirt, plants, animals, and sky, but that was of no concern.
Currently he was tracking a pale, two-legged Meat, that had d...
2023-08-07 18:22:54 +0000 UTC
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Paradox’s Spine Tingler (troll variant) (Intermediate-advanced Difficulty)
3 decigrams of troll spine, 1 bat ear, preserved Thunder Heart, Seeker’s mummified brain. Magma Fish eye lens, 1 Cm^3 Lunt bone, Ultimate adhesive.
Carve a depression into the lunt bone as depicted below, allowing the magma fish eye lens to slot in nicely. Cut tiny crescents out of the bat ear as shown in the picture below. Scale added to the picture because ancien...
2023-08-04 17:10:52 +0000 UTC
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In my dreams I’m with you, bathed in the golden halo of your hair. Awestruck by your beauty.
When I wake, It’s not you that’s changed, but me.
You remain perfect, radiant, enchanting, a beacon in the night to my poor soul.
I wish I was worthy of a fraction of it.
“If I could put down my weapons and close the gulf between us, I would dedicate my heart and soul to mending yours,” Heather recited, kicking her heels against his...
2023-08-01 17:20:14 +0000 UTC
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Gna’kis is an incredibly valuable resource, Perry thought, while he inspected the slimy fetus.
A baby demon lord doesn’t happen often at all. In order for them to happen, there needs to be a paradigm shift in the world drastic enough that the older demons are completely unaware of the new portfolio. That portfolio being high technology and the misuse thereof. Then it has to develop self-awareness in secret and ‘be born,’ then it has to hide from the other demons, wh...
2023-07-29 21:22:18 +0000 UTC
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Ultimate Adhesive: (Neophyte Difficulty)
Ingredients: troll Ichor, Hymn of the god of homesteading, Lunt bone in ¼ squidge cubes, cheese cloth, wax, airtight containter.
Stir the lunt bone and troll ichor together while reciting the hymn, when the mixture begins to glow, quickly pour through the cheesecloth into the airtight container lined with soft wax, then seal.
WARNING: Do not get any mixture on your skin, wearing long blacksmith’s glov...
2023-07-27 15:26:13 +0000 UTC
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