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[Fr0stByt3]

((This'll either be awesome or kill me horribly.))
Jixiu looks at his wings, flapping them experimentally. "Well then. That went well." He takes a deep breath, releases it slowly, then says "Clo-Caltel Conth Shubhallethel."
((Don'tkillmehorriblydon'tkillmehorriblydon'tkillmehorribly))

[Toaster]

Shed a tear and say Rothon Halthel again.

[Fr0stByt3]

((Just who exactly did you piss off, man? I mean, seriously. The fuck is up with those rolls?))

[+!!scientist!!+]

scratch out a couple more runes.

[luvmonke]

Llimp over towards the remains of the fire and hot ash until my leg begins to melt.

Then shape the stalk into long shaft, moving the eye around so that it's in the middle of my thigh and facing behind me.

"It helps because wax is more max is more easily shaped than flesh," Ozzy mutters to himself as he works.

If successful, shout "Harial Karenthar"

If unsuccessful, shout "Shareeb Zerth" and use a stripe from my rope to tie off my lower leg above the eye.

[Dermonster]

Garstorpit shoshashzel Cycallozion at the beast!

[Unholy_Pariah]

politely excuse myself from the tavern and then start running towards the bridge out of town, assist Derm or corsair depending on who i see first and assist them with words and stuff.

[Xanmyral]

[I can only assume that we Sky pirates have stolen all the luck with our shenanigans. Or just that one of you have pissed off the horrible wonderful and benevolent RNG.]

"Hm, dang, that didn't quite work. Ah well. Onward, towards the sea Sparky! Truly marvelous this, although not quite what I envisioned for our first ship, but our next will be just that much better! So, what to do when we reach the ocean? Shall we try and find a real ship, commandeer it from whoever owns such a vessel, and turn it into one of our own? Hm, not sure if Sparky could lift such though, not unless we made it light... Or I suppose I could simply make Sparky bigger. Good thing we know a word for both of those to do that, eh?" Glassco comments with a snide smirk at the world from behind his mask. Nothing can possible go wrong! 

[Unholy_Pariah]

Why dont you guys attach some levitating stone chains to your ship and have sparky drag you along?
Its not like you or the bowl weigh anything compated to him.

[Xanmyral]

Started as an answer, wound up more as rambling when it got along.

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Well, we'd have to get them on him in some fashion, although since he follows what I say to the best of his ability I don't think that would be too much of a problem.. That, and I'm not sure what the word for chain/rope is.

I suppose I could make a stone cylinder, put a control mark on it and will it into a chain shape, then put a levitate mark on it. We'd need a levitate mark on the bowl as well however, just to keep it afloat, and under control so we don't go floating off if Sparky takes the chains off or else we'd be swaying underneath Sparky if we didn't have it, which would be a rather dangerous prospect I'd wager. I was thinking more of a harness perhaps... But really, I want Sparky as more of a fancy bodyguard than a mode of conveyance, for now it has to be one or the other. At least until I manage to slap a control mark on him. Which would be possible, I think if I get what Piecewise is obtusely hinting at right, although that would require him to set us down...

So I'm thinking: Find a ship, take it from who owns it, slap a control mark on Sparky, go back to mental piggybacking John with Will while still retaining control over Sparky, slap new levitating mark on ship. Hopefully with an additional material in there to make it less... Flammable. Nor conductive. Stone or diamond is all I can think of for now. Maybe crystal, but I fear it may be brittle, and a tad too sharp on edges. Don't want future crew members to cut themselves on their stations when I eventually figure out how to mentally dominate multiple people, which for now may just be the Sparky route.

[Unholy_Pariah]

You need to think sideways more...

Use your levitation mark to command your ship to always be vertical then use stone control to make seats and a place to attach the chain. (Preferably by creating a cage-like frame and attaching it above where you sit, like a cablecar.)

Once thats done you can just have sparky drag you around while you make some seatbelts.

[Xanmyral]

More answers and rambling.

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Hm... Yes, that could work. Would require a bit of finagling and a few turns, but very possible. Why would I make a second mark to stone control though, the first mark could do both just as easy as it controls both the levitation and the object. At least I'm pretty sure it would. Always being vertical doesn't however mean it won't sway, at least sway in the sense that it would be constantly moving side to side, up and down, or side to side in a method, making aiming anything rather annoying. Because while it would always stay vertical, it must be able to move else the whole thing is rather pointless, thus no way around the jerking/swaying movement without making it rather immobile sadly.

Probably not much better than it is now however, with Sparky pseudo-carrying us. Either way, the ship/bowl would be re-purposed into something else the moment we find something better, such as an actual ship. Its much easier to modify something already existent than to remake what is already there. Also more turn-efficient, as I see the cable-car idea taking... Four turns, assuming a lot of things go right, we are unhindered, and Piecewise is feeling benevolent. Now, I won't say I don't like gambling against the odds as I find such fun, but the latter is one thing I will never bet on.

One turn to find a suitable spot to settle down, mark Sparky and swap to John, another turn to make a stone cylinder and mark it with control float and warping it into a chain, third turn to remake the mark on the ship and warp it into a cable car, fourth turn to attach the chain to the cable car and hopefully also to Sparky. I'm not sure if I can command two different things at once with my Will, to be honest, so a fifth turn might be hooking the chain on Sparky, which would require shaping it into a harness around Sparky as well that doesn't affect how Sparky moves. This is if your interested in how the turns would be structured. This is assuming we find a spot and land in it on the same turn, as well as getting off and marking Sparky without a problem and swapping to John, that I don't mess up making a stone cylinder, and that we don't get attacked/random-encountered for taking so long. Its a fine idea, but I'm a tad too impatient for that sadly. I'm more for Head to ocean, find ship, take ship, make ship fly, laugh at results.

EDIT: I realize Sparky wouldn't need a harness, but that doesn't change the length of the turns sadly.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Why would it take four turns to make a cable car??

Turn one: create staff of control stone, use staff to reshape the bowl into a cable car complete with hoverchain cable.
Turn two: use mark to make ship always vertical, have sparky drag you off somewhere.

Alternately if your worried about the swaying,

Turn one: summon stone control staff, use staff to give ship a cage-frame with hooks or rings tailored to sparkys feet, have sparky grip the frame and carry you around like a skycrane.
Turn two: summon a rubber roof

[Harry Baldman]

"~Joyous-rewarding-science.~"

Do more science.

[Xanmyral]

Indeed, even more rambling and answers. This conversation is quite thoughtful honestly, gives me ideas that I question why I didn't think of sooner. -Snipping idea I'm going to definitely do when down time-

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Hm... I concede the point, it would indeed be much shorter to simply do that. Might be easier to slap stone control on my spear though, that way we don't have to lug around more stuff. Actually, nah, my hand because then I wouldn't even need the spear anymore. Would be easier to simply make a stone roof as well however, eliminating a turn from the second idea, however not sure how this solves the swaying though.

Still gotta find a landing place however, and slap a control mark on Sparky so he doesn't go AWOL on us when I make it to where we won't catastrophically fall from the sky because of a two in six chance, so even the most cost efficient plan, the second one, would still take two turns minimal. One for slapping stone control on one of my hands as well as finding and landing on the same turn if lucky although this could be a several turn jaunt since we're currently going off a sheer cliff, and would probably have to deal with being random-ed. Second turn, everything willing, on the shaping of the cage, slapping a control mark on Sparky, and possibly piggy-backing on Johns mind in the same turn, but that brings up the leeriness on if I can attempt several willing things on different objects. You can attempt several alterations on the same object, this is seen, but making several alterations on several objects is sadly yet to be seen, and I doubt of it. Otherwise I'd just shape every single pebble I see into a square because I can, thus maxing my Scarlon rating due to shenanigans in a single turn. And invoking Piecewise's wrath probably. So three turns minimal, which is much better than four or five.

Doesn't solve the swaying sadly, at least that I can see. I suppose I could also make it forever vertical however, but I'm not sure if the hooks/rings would prevent the swaying rather than facilitating, while smaller, more frequent and violent swaying.