Philosopher's stones work like the fake ones do in Full Metal Alchemist, but last much longer, cats out of the bag for the entire homunculous book being a reference to it.
The lightning arm would need to be and could be subdued either through force of will or Chemical/magical sedatives., it is pretty wild, and has a will of it's own.
The Nubile Golem's spawned from their respective seeds are "helpful" and "obedient", Maybe the bandits would in fact like them.
You fuse Raw Force with Void essence from a Split Gourd, obtaining Vacuum Wave, a spell which pulls pressure waves towards you using your mouth.
You fuse Steel with Void essence, obtaining Void Steel, this metal fills concave areas in it with weak void energy.
You convert 5 mana into Demonite Mana, You then adjectify it with Friendly, Controllable, Loyal, and Obediant, 5 mana each. Finally, you create and cast a sustained "Animate Object" spell on it, creating A ball of Generic Smiley faces, it has two stubby legs and two fat arms, which are eternally spread out in search of hugs.
It tries to hug you, but you command it to stop, all of the smiley faces turn into frowns and it changes to a blue color. It is now throwing a tantrum, dropping to the ground and slamming its little arms into the dirt while emitting a wailing chorus.
You go inside and mix 1 part ash from burning random plant matter and 1 part clear steel until you get a homogeneous grey metal that is glossy like marble.
You craft two gauntlets, then start crafting psychic feedback tabs, stuffing the gauntlets with about 20 Tabs each, or about 50 Mana and 20 Pounds of Harkim Brass, you then animate the ash embedded in it, and apply a Psychic amplification sigil on it.
You put on one of the gauntlets, and it is in this moment that you realize that your left arm is still missing, A glob of psychically responsive goo forms a gooey arm to hold the other one. -2 Focus.
The more focus you spend, the more psychic material you can draw out of the tabs, it will remain connected to the inside of the gauntlets, and snaps back when focus is lost, it can create about 40 square meters of psychic matter total.
You copy down "Bowser Koopa's Flame" Scroll and split it, obtaining "Lungs and stomachs are basically the same thing in all honesty" a strange short spellbook that reads more like a novella...
"My morning was the same as any other, I ate whatever I was living in at the time, and sought out anything that could stave off my painful hunger. Animals, Trees, People, all of them fell to my waiting maw. The hunger pains were stronger than normal today, so I fell to eating dirt to survive. After my meal, which left a sizable crater for a lake to one day occupy, I wanted to go on a trip to town, my supply of milk, being zero from my last trip-snack back from town, was woefully lacking. Upon arriving in whatever quaint township my hunger had not yet eradicated, I asked humbly where the nearest market was, and was directed to none other than my destination thankfully, it seems these people did not know who I was, and would soon find out."
A spell formula is written underneath it, though it's purpose remains unknown. 100% chance to learn.
You also get "Koopa general purpose manual" It details the use of Shells, Shields, Armor, and varying degrees of spikes as weapons and armor.
The first things you can make of it is an armor design that while bulky and unwieldy, Is over 220% more effective at protecting the wearer for the materials used, how to use this armor offensively and defensively, and Key factors that make it's round shell plate design so effective. If you spent PP pouring over these blueprints, you could create this armor from the materials you have for your minions, machines and allies.
There is also a shield design variant which ties into it, the shield at varying sizes and curvatures, seems to be adapted to protecting area's other than the body in making armlets, greaves, and helmets. 100% chance to learn both.
Hard mode has been engaged.
Kaid, Now stuffed full of more organs than a butcher's offal bin, pushes the giant sandstone boulder containing the snake bones, the amount of rotted organs he has is staggering, and somehow provide enough raw power to push it inside for processing.
You send out your Zombies and skeletons to grab more misc bones, Snake, mammoth, humanoid, a few Ghost Mirage Scorpion shells, and the Centurion zombie's parts for later.
A rumbling outside interrupts your harvesting operation...
Day 23. Turn 4
104/104 Health points
9 Elbow grease (Used for performing physical actions)
1 Pontification points (Spend these during peacetime To develop and learn new actions and Spells)
0 Mana (Cast spells and channel magic into materials with this)
2 Flame charges (Breath flames of all kinds using these. they can be infused with any known spell.)
2 Focus being used (Represents your control over yourself, and your mana.)
109% Saturation.
Missing arm: Limited to one weapon equip at a time, unless using unconventional limbs.
Psychic arm: A psychically created arm Consumes your focus to maintain.
1 Montage token skips the boring parts for something Medium to Medium-large in length.
1 Days of Allure of the Grave, (Bone totem grants the ability to engrave the user's bones with information.)
RecordsPublic Doc((Always welcoming new contribution!))
Find 10 Alliteration turns (2/10) (Spellbook filled with Spells starting with a letter of choice.)
Name 13 references made (13/13) (3 Free Spellbooks) [✔]
Name 100 references made (35/100) (1 Free special Spellbook)
Solve a Story section with a Sly Cooper-Esque Heist (Free Technique Book) [✔]
Solve a Story section without anybody knowing it was you, outside of your party, at least until the climactic moment. (Fantastic Treasures) []
Finish a boss fight with an overly cheesy one liner (no wait don't do that) You sicken me. [✔]
Refrain from Defeating a boss using something stupid. Wait, no stop giving them ideas. []
Complete a dungeon in one straight go. (1 Montage Token) [✔]
Opt in to a max difficulty dungeon and complete it. Upgrade the difficulty of a dungeon in this instance by requesting it. (1 Plot Armor Token) [✔]
Solo a Dungeon (Fantastic Treasure) []
Complete any dungeon without anybody taking damage (Fantastic Treasure) []