Number 1 here, I got the proof of ID from Michael and went down to the Crystal Guild, I enter the massive building and go up to the same receptionist I met (or rather Number 5 did) an Elf man who's wearing long red robes and a symbol of the gem from the emblem out front on the robes.
Troolle, the Elf has been a big help signing me up for the Guild, at the moment I’ve signed on as a student so I get to go to classes. From what we know about crystals so far they come in all shapes and sizes but normally in a polished oval shape.
The internal crystal structure is cut using a specific Power and a “Crystal Power” is added to it, most of the books here look like technical manuals but the gist of it is that the crystal gets imbued with a specific purpose via the cutting of its internal structure.
Once it is completed in specific patterns apparently Power does something and the crystal comes to “life” (I will stress that it does not mean alive but working.), performing its tasks on its own without Power needing to do anything apparently. It is theorised that Power adds microscopic patterns to the overall structure so that it works as intended with Crystalists being the ones who make the overall changes required.
The colour of the crystals will turn from their normal colour into either a deeper, richer version of that colour or become clear (like normal mana) or red in colour. This has something to do with how light is passing through the mana and structure apparently.
These crystals come in all shapes and sizes and are mostly Quartz however many are made of other hard crystals, things that dissolve like salt or sugar crystals are not used.
They had at one point looked at growing their own crystals but it seems that crystals grown via Powers are contaminated and as such cannot be used. Same for any crystals found in a high mana environment.
Now I know how to grow crystals the old fashioned way, I used to make some back when I was a kid and I did later do research into how to create large versions of existing crystals like quartz as I wanted to try and sell them but found I had neither tools or talent, or money but that's aside the point.
With my current knowledge of synthetic quartz and other crystals I might be able to grow our own crystals, if we can somehow later down the line mass produce these then we might start a revolution for Crystalists. You know what, I can see why everyone loves it when OutWolders appear.
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Number 2 here, I want to go home…
These people are absolute idiots! Scientific Method? What Scientific Method! Oh my experiment doesn't work? Well it must be something to do with the surrounding mana, of course!
Every scientific book, research document or otherwise I’ve read is saturated with Powers doing something honky or blaming failed experiments on mana. They made some advancements obviously but so much is just mana this and mana that.
Nothing in here says anything like “X happens because of Y” it's more like “X happens because of mana”.
Astronomy? Mana gets shot out from the sun, that's why we have light.
Geology? World did it all.
Weather? Air Domain.
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Atoms? The “essence” of mana.
Biology? Germ Theory? Creature did it.
They get some basic things right but man so much is just too incorrect. They have basically forced their current understanding by creating Powers that do what they want. Want to see Atoms? Create a Power that does exactly that and Power/World does all the heavy lifting.
Whenever a Power is created we just push mana into a shape and then Knowledge passes on what we want to Power who then activates the Power. When we want the Power to work it's just putting it in that same pattern and then Power takes it from there.
To paint a picture of my pain, imagine sitting in a closed off, glass walled room with a table filled with all manner of books ranging from Biology, History, Mana/Power research, Atomic research (of which there is surprisingly very little, Powers for it are banned almost world-wide.), Geology, Physics isn’t even much of a thing here!
Luckily, these books are duplicates created automatically by the Library, they have this system that can create a physical copy made out of mana which then can be saved. So far I have “borrowed” half this dam library and have not gotten much further!
Ok, I am exaggerating a little bit but to be honest I’m surprised these guys got past the Bronze Age. I am here to try and create an outline of what the next two Creation Powers should be and figured there might be something here but never mind.
The two creation Powers we want to make are: Alchemy like from Full Metal Alchemist and a Teleportation Power. Using the Alchemy Power we will be able to create nearly anything and at higher levels thinking it could be used to view atoms and mess around on smaller levels, get some real mad science finally done.
And a short/mid/long range teleport will help with fighting and getting Number 0 (Mr Original) back to the Oasis to recreate the Alpha Team there and get them the Alchemy and Teleport Powers.
Oh yea, and speaking of Oasis. There is nothing here in the history books, just several references to expeditions crossing the mountains but apparently it is just too dangerous. Like, picture walking at the peak of Mt Everest but staying at that or higher heights continuously while there are massive storms going on all around you.
Yea, even with Powers I am surprised someone even managed to make it to Oasis.
And if you thought all that was bad well… I found something, the Well of a creature or animal (the bit that stores mana) can be artificially expanded, that can be done with some Powers that are mostly commonplace but there are other non-Power methods of increasing this.
This includes either the eating of other Wells (very taboo and “toxic?” I think it’s trying to say?) or by having someone or something push mana into a person. Now this does raise some parallels, in order to increase the size of the Well you need to take in and out a lot of mana. That’s how you grow your pool, by training, but these methods are going beyond that.
Now think on that and think about our latest Power, Mana Beast Uprising. That uses an animal’s or monster's mana and body to create a physical, shadow-like being from that animal, its rank and power is related to how strong it was while it was living.
Suppose, at the time of death or after death, we filled an animal or monster with mana?
Now the question is, would this be right? Like animals here can become sentient as weird as that is, and it felt like a challenge getting the ok past Creature and Power. At the least they were not crazy about the idea so… Is it the right thing to do?
I may need to talk with Creature and Power again, if we want to do this to increase the Kage under our power we need confirmation that we are not going to kill something that might become sentient. But even then, is it right to just kill animals to increase our numbers?
That’s rhetorical, obviously not. But KIA in a fight or if it's already dying then maybe?
I might have a chat with Koda and Wojtek about it as well, they did become Kage so I wonder how they feel?
Oh and by the way, if anyone reading this is a Math nerd: Maths is in Base 12, not 10. That’s right boys, it’s a Duodecimal numbering system instead of a Decimal system. I now have to re-learn maths, ouch.
End of Report.
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Kilroy was here lol.