As of tomorrow, I will no longer be able to teach the creatures from the other dungeon, they will have learned all I have to teach. I'm looking forward to not having to dedicate mental resources to teaching them, though it is impressive how quickly they have learned. I made sure to include some critiques on the parts of their bodies built for plant manipulation, when I say some I mean extensive analysis of pretty much everything, which I sent over to the older dungeon.

I personally hope he uses these creatures to develop new plants that I can then get ahold of relatively cheaply. As good as I am with making things out of existing materials, I am not very good at creating new plants. It kind of requires you to already know what you are doing in one field or another, which kind of defeats the purpose of making one in the first place, at least for me anyway. Plants are a tool that allows me to do things I otherwise would not be capable of, among many other things.

I have more or less refined the ingredients needed for the physical part of my current project. I need Spellwood mixed with Grey Iris to actively maintain the memories, I need a mix of Grey Iris and Lace to enable people to communicate with the device, allowing people to learn from the memories inside, I need Mithrilwood to act as a case keeping everything together and because it’s pretty, and I need Requiem to make sure the whole system always has mana, it running out of mana for even a moment would cause irreversible catastrophic damage to the memories. Although that does make it easy to clear them out to replace them with something else.

I still need to get all of those pieces working together perfectly, which could be going better. There are a number of points with the soul to mind translation part of the device that I am stuck on, I’m not entirely sure how to fix these parts. It isn’t strictly necessary that they be fixed, but I wouldn’t be able to accept the results. It’s just a completely different control scheme from the one I learned about, so of course, I would run into problems like this. I know I can figure it out, even if I can’t figure out the correct solution on my own I can brute force it easily enough. I’m just hoping to avoid having to do that as many of these problems are complicated enough to be annoying to try and brute force, they wouldn’t be problems otherwise. Either way, it’s a learning experience.

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Other than that I spent my downtime hanging out with Jasmine again as she was in town. We ended up going shopping for clothes, which was a novel experience for me. I have never actually bought clothes before, I always just wear the ones I make, or before that ones my mom made. It’s interesting, and kind of fun, but it’s also a lot of work. There is no way I would ever do something like this on my own, but when hanging out with someone whose company I otherwise enjoy it isn’t too bad.

Now the only problem is what am I supposed to do with these clothes? They aren’t really functional enough to help me out in a crisis, and recent events have shown that a crisis can happen at any time so I need that extra edge constantly. I could try mimicking the designs with my own clothes, it would kind of defeat the purpose of shopping but some of the designs are really nice. Yeah, I think I’ll do that.

I thought it was funny that the first thing Jasmine picked up was one of the first ones I designed, way back when I was calling my clothes ‘armor’. They might be able to function as such, but it was still really weird. Regardless, it was strange seeing her wear what was basically my old clothes, but I will admit that they looked really good on her.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.