Today I finished working on the simple pieces of gear and started working on the stuff that uses Portweed.

I managed to get one piece of teleportation gear to the point that anyone could use it. It was the one that teleports you away when you are in danger. Basically what I had to do was restrict it a ton with Astrie, and then add some of the mana berry plant so that it could actually store enough mana to be used about three times before it has to draw on the mana pool. The way it works is it figures out when you are in danger, using things like your mental state and a limited sense of what was going on around you and then teleports you. The user gets no say in anything it does, they can’t determine direction, they can’t determine when it will teleport, and they can’t turn it off without prying the thing out of their skin. I took it from being a piece of armor to being closer to a scale that you attach to your skin, it simply didn’t make good armor.

Tiddol has finished perfecting all of the alchemical combinations we needed for this project. There was quite a few of them, and I can see many of them coming in handy in the future. A surprising number of them incorporated Lace into the mix, mostly the ones involving Ergen and Flore. It somehow allows them to be more effective at lower doses, making it less dangerous, or something like that. I’m not really sure how that all works, but it does.

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My dad’s old partner, the one they went to visit recently, sent word that he is on his way here. He should be here in a week or two. That should be interesting if nothing else.

Other than that I worked with Azrezel on the undead, like usual. The ones I modified to have feel-good stuff constantly pumped into their heads are all dead. Examining the bodies tells me that their brains were basically destroyed as a result. I think this route is a dead end, we could probably get it working but it would be cumbersome and take too much mana to be worth it. And Azrezel doesn’t have the kind of mana that I do. So we are going to have to figure out some other way to fix this.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.