The bandit's clothing is made of Rough burlap cloth, tinted with rust.
Yes, you need to breath.
If only through luck, you manage to figure out how the soulbound spell works, It seemed like an insurmountable task from your meager understanding of sympathetic bonds, But with Some looking tinto it, and re-reading other spellbooks related to them, you manage to figure it out, and from there the remainder of it is easy enough to learn. -2 Pontification points.
To be clear, It works so that it does not just appear next to you, but that you come across it by chance Every time you lose it and the further away it is lost, the longer it takes to come across it.
You perform all the enhancements you promised Galar'nt, and he grants you a single black and white key from nowhere. -20 mana.
"Now no more of this nonsense in the future, OK? It is only through my deity's blessing that I let you have this. It is a sign, i hope, of something more coming of both of us."
You open the chest, Set to the Parchment and the Eye...
Inside is a thick red leatherbound tome called "The remains of evil" the first and easiest spell is Almost identical to the Spacial rend spell, only this one is more precise, and limited. It can only produce Things that are the remnants of Evil or dark beings or objects. and only one at a time. Otherwise it functions the same, the more you dump into the gateway, the More likely it is to produce an object itself.
I don't recall the exact details required to produce the food-mana engines, but it looks like you need at least 7 corpses to get a 50 mana/day output for 3 days from 105lbs of food? Let's assume we need 120k mana to make this happen, we have methods of storing vast quantities of mana (which I understand is decidedly non-trivial) and we give ourselves a month from project completion (30 days).
Well, we need to produce 4000 mana per day to make that viable. 80 engines running at full pelt should do that, or 560 human resources. We could acquire that many by raiding and eviscerating three or four whole villages, even accounting for 'spillage'. Each engine is loaded 10 times in the cycle, so a good 1050lbs per engine. That's 84,000lbs of food, or 42 (short) tons. Let's assume wheat works for this.
A farmer in a fertile, temperate environment using broadly medieval techniques can produce maybe 17 bushels a year? Let's assume that a very well stocked village granary + their households might hold 5% of that at any given time, or about 35lbs. That would require us to completely deprive around 2400 people of their foodstores, about eight or ten villages or maybe a well-stocked town. We could pick up the human resources on the way.
So, we just need to completely annihilate a small barony, build a mana retention system capable of holding 116k of mana and then wait a month for it to build up (while presumably fighting off vengeance parties).
But let's assume we can't store mana that effectively, or that a month is far too broad a span of time for do-gooders to intervene. In that case we need to produce a single, god-like jolt of mana to power the spell. Scale things up by 30, murder 16,800 people to produce 2400 engines and although two thirds of your food will be essentially wasted, you need 252klbs (or 126 short tons) of grain, or the granary stores for 7,400 people. Assume a capture rate of 50%, you need to attack a capital city with 34k people and very efficiently butcher them. This would be a city on a par with medieval London.
But, after you've done that, wait a day and then simultaneously discharge all of your mana engines and use the wave of mana to shoot you to the moon! Better yet, there's redundancy. Set up a spell to bring you back that draws energy from the source and 24 hours later you'll have enough mana to pull you back home.
So, all you need to do is commit an atrocity on a scale with war crimes and you can see the moon first hand!
Or you could use something other than teleportation, since it is a burst spell that works instantly, of course the cost would be insane.
Do not forget the surplus 10K some odd Pounds of fat obtained from Killing the humans and extracting their stomachs, that would cut down on costs, and the fact that there is a loss involved since using fat is much more efficient than using wheat, grain and any non-animal foodstuff, due to the concentration of mana and calories.
Your better bet would be to steal pigs and a VERY large amount of forest land, let the pigs loose, after implanting runes of mind control and Sustain life, and letting them run rampant before harvesting a sustainable portion of this population by mind controll/corraling them back for slaughter, the using the fat to Produce the mana and stomachs necessary to generate the 1.21 jiggawatts necessary to teleport to the moon.
Homunculi cannot reproduce naturally. so that is a no go.
What even would be the point of teleporting cells on a microscope, Shits and giggles? but no, there is a flat tax of activating the spell which is based on the size of the object.
You equip the AA spider with Cryskeel shears and a special gearbox to give it greater force in return for slower speed, for cutting chains. -1 Elbow Grease, -1 mana
The chest dissipated when you opened it. Stupid magic..
the turrets, while they DO have Ruby cores, are obviously not Golems. It would take multiple Crackerflies, one to make the core into a golem core, and 1 to make the machine into a golem.
Breaking through the ceiling is a valid plan, but it might be best to take care of the Missile first, It is up to you.
"Ensorceled aluminum could dampen and drain the ambiance a bit, or a golem core attached to the pipe itself."You start by Crafting the Sticksuit, a Suit of pipes, enchanted with warp space, Iron/glass shoes built in for riding the bandit chains, Made with a matching wicked Cryskeel Dagger with two blades, one of which is enchanted with Near Death, and the other is dipped in filth, the Feet are padded with cloth and Adjectivity'd with Silent, Pig iron channeling hands and feet Adjectivity'd with Climbing. Enchanted with silver mana to reduce weight, Lots of pockets also taking advantage of the Warped Space. Shadowy, sneaky, flexible, high-traction. Internal Cryskeel plating for armor and protection in case of warp failure. The whole thing is Covered in dark leather, with a leather hood and retractable cloak at Valerik's request. -10 elbow Grease
"I thought the cloak would make it look better. It did not."You make three more Crackerflies, Filling one with edit core, one with flame inhale, and 1 with teleport. -6 mana, -3 Elbow grease.
You decide to get it out of the way, getting everyone in the gang some upgrades, Dublin gets a WCD, a cryskeel Dagger, and a leather quiver enchanted with sustain spell. -2 Elboe Grease, -5 mana
Gallarnt gets a WCD and a Clear Steel visor, -1 elbow Grease, -10 Mana
Fairy refuses your Cryskeel tretment, but You convince him to take a Giant boulder helmet shaped like a hammer. -3 Elbow Grease, -1 Mana
You can no longer see Him underneath the stuff, his altitude dips, and he seems ashamed when he is forced to give the helmet back. It -seems- that way because he is screaming curses in your face.
You make some stick golems which fold into Carrying Cases when not in use. -2 elbow Grease, -2 mana.
You ask how Galalr'nt and Dublin are going to get on the roof.
"I have wings.""Magic."You don't know why you asked.
Day 13. Turn 6
107/107 Health points
4 Elbow grease (Used for performing physical actions)
0 Pontification point (Spend these during peacetime To develop and learn new actions and Spells)
20 Mana (Cast spells and channel magic into materials with this)
5 Flame charges (Breath flames of all kinds using these. they can be infused with any known spell.)
1 Willpower being used (Represents your control over yourself, and your mana.)
Large Wound in Right hand (Scar)
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