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[WillowLuman]

Some excerpts from "The art of fusion - a study of the grafting of living things through both magical and mundane methods."
by Thari

...Preface: Comprehension of these notes would likely be aided immensely by studying my previous volume, "On maintaining the body." The basis of medical and physiological research found within that book is expanded upon in these studies...

...these methods have many uses. In following the divine will of the Goddess, bodily modification can be used to enhance the ability to experience pain and/or pleasure, as for example a graft that causes the subject to feel constant pain to some degree. Or, it can be used to make the body more able to withstand the rigors of the sensations needed to discover enlightenment. It can also be used for artistic expression, allowing one to make a statement or symbol with their body or the bodies of others. Indeed, it can be used even for the facilitation of everyday tasks and necessary work...

...Let us differentiate between two core practices outlined in this journal. Grafting involves taking living or inorganic matter and affixing it to a living thing in such a way that it becomes part of them. This can involve replacing part of them or fusing the part with the matter in question. Hybridization involves changing the body directly, altering a part into a somewhat similar part found in another living thing...

[Eric Blank]

[You definitely don't want that cancer spell used on you, that's for sure.

We could be like the mages' guild! Sell spells and potions and train wizards.]

[Mrhappyface]

Stupid cybermen. Their crude and brutish mentality brings every normal augmentee down. Whatever, you can keep your normal, unimproved meat if you want. Augmentation is easier if you have a willing participant after all.

[wierd]

[You definitely don't want that cancer spell used on you, that's for sure.

We could be like the mages' guild! Sell spells and potions and train wizards.]

We'd need to get our chars back on speaking terms first though.  Right now, weird considers you dangerously untrustworthy, and your char thinks mine is an ass licking psychophant for the death goddess.

Maybe the pesense of athel in a clockwork body, and wierd's being complicit in that fact would enable a second chance dialogue.

[Eric Blank]

Eric was pleased. The walls were coming along rapidly. Everyone was terrified of the dragons' invasion, and for once there didn't seem to be any infighting. There were enough dwarves in the fortress that the western wall was already complete, imbued with the dwarven magics of indestructibility, and the north and south faces had both begun construction. Maybe he should reduce the expected construction time to 8 hours...

[WillowLuman]

Excerpts from "The flower of imagination"
by Thari

...Indeed, I write of that thing that has only been accomplished by a handful of Archdruids throughout history; the creation of new plant life. I myself have accomplished it, and have taken up quite a passion for it, and hope that from this others may gleam something of value. It must be admitted that the knowledge of using nature magicks to this degree is largely intuitive; attempts in the past to teach the ability of floral genesis have all failed. Teachers of this ability have been able to train very skilled acolytes, but have never been able to produce a student capable of the thing itself. Simply put, if one does not have the natural talent for it, then one can never hope to achieve it. However, I digress. I hope that the knowledge provided here will permit one in which the ability is latent to finally express it...

...Despite the charges that drove me from my native land, I never lost respect for nature. Reverence maybe, but I would still dispute that. The Goddess merely showed me how inflexible and fanatical my society had become in it's theology. Nature is something to be protected, at least to a degree, but it is also a resource that was meant to be used. Stubborn devotion to the so-called pristineness of the wilds has left my old land bereft of any true spiritual calling...

...What follows in the next chapter is a partial catalogue of my plants. It is very incomplete, a true catalogue is sure to follow in the form of many other volumes and increase as I design more over the years. This list includes many of the most important ones, whether for what they are used for or how they represent landmarks in the practice of floral genesis. They vary in use to producing substances to affecting the surroundings to providing an aesthetic. These substances are for food, mind-affecting compounds that serve various purposes (allowing me to somewhat directly shape minds to help achieve enlightenment, producing pleasurable responses, providing visions, etc.), medicine, poisons (and other substances for assisting with pain experience), aromatics, and producing the sacred material known as cocoa butter...

[Mr Frog]

[I don't have the faintest glimmer of a clue as to what the hell's going on here, but "psychophant" is now my Word of the Month.]

[Corai]

[I don't have the faintest glimmer of a clue as to what the hell's going on here, but "psychophant" is now my Word of the Month.]

-MR FROG IS HERE! Yay! You have about 300 pages to read if you want to know whats going on.-

[WillowLuman]

I'm afraid Corai is right. If you do read the whole thing, though, you won't regret it. Or maybe you will. Don't worry the length is inflated by short posts and several double-posts by me.

Eric, 8 hours for a perimeter wall seems ludicrously fast for our workforce. Unless we're just walling in say a few hundred square feet, but I don't think that's what you mean.

[Corai]

-And alot of crappy RP from me, took me until this thread to figure out to how RP without being a idiot.-

[Mr Frog]

You have about 300 pages to read if you want to know whats going on.

[Well crap, and here I am with a 3-minute attentooh, sparkly! *ahem* This is going to take a while ]

[In any case, I probably won't be joining unless the planets happen to align just so :p]

[Also: Corai that is mean and you should apologize to yourself right now.]

[wierd]

[I don't have the faintest glimmer of a clue as to what the hell's going on here, but "psychophant" is now my Word of the Month.]

It *is* an awesome word, isn't it?

Pedantic is another good one.  As is Sophist.

I draw strange looks at work when I use them.

[Eric Blank]

Eric, 8 hours for a perimeter wall seems ludicrously fast for our workforce. Unless we're just walling in say a few hundred square feet, but I don't think that's what you mean.

[Nah, it's about 300-350 meters to a side. But these ARE dwarves, and they are using only one block per section (Because dwarves are weird like that.) 12 hours is probably still way, way too fast, but I wanted to get that part out of the way without flipping the passage of tme on it's head for what you guys were doing in the meantime.]

[WillowLuman]

I'd bump it up to more like a day for building the wall. The outside presence of our fort is not currently that big. From the map I'd estimate an area about the size of an american football field at largest, maybe a little wider.

[Corai]

No, I say 6 hours. As we already have a curtain wall that Sauraine made in the first 10 posts.