My apprentices are improving their ability to puppet bodies really quickly, which is no surprise. By the end of the day, Askos even managed to figure out what exactly it was he was supposed to be doing. I’m sure there are more effective methods to puppeting a body than relying on its ability to control itself, but all of those would defeat the purpose and would likely be significantly harder to actually pull off.

I ended up helping Azrezel with his project again. Today we managed to actually get a glob of acid to be spat out by the zombie, which was the goal. It didn’t go very far, and it certainly wasn’t very accurate, but it was an improvement over what we had before. It might be useful for destroying items or in a close melee, but that isn’t really the point of the project.

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I also managed to make a minor improvement on the acid. Previously he was just using stomach acid, which is already really potent. So potent in fact that the stomach needs to use some mucus to prevent itself from being damaged in most creatures. I changed the insides of the stomach to something a lot more leathery, removing the mucus that can mix in with the acid. As I said, it’s only a minor improvement, but it does make the acid that much more potent.

The acid itself will also probably need to be changed eventually as well, but that seems like it is more in the realm of alchemy than in flesh manipulation.

I spent my downtime sitting by a small creak and thinking to myself, mostly just letting my thoughts wander. It’s definitely a relaxing experience, especially when wannabe adventurers don’t show up to pester me.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.