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[TheBiggerFish]

{I know. On the other hand, there are like four other people who should also be doing so, and I don't have anything interesting to say.}

(("Fire.  Lots of fire."))

[endlessblaze]

"nice dragon. now help me figure out how to make one with runes."

[TheBiggerFish]

"nice dragon. now help me figure out how to make one with runes."

"Don't."
"Runes are a specific tool for a specific job.  General computational thaumaturgy, enchantments, familiar bond and-or sympathetic magic, and glyphic constructions were involved in this one.  As well as what one might term an exploit in physics, but that's not a key portion of the construct."
"Exactly one of those could be replaced by runes in this construct."
"Said construct needs a name and gender, by the way."
"Anyone?"

[endlessblaze]

"lets make with a reference and name it shaphira, female"

[TheBiggerFish]

"lets make with a reference and name it shaphira, female"

"....I...Am reasonably sure that if you're trying to reference the Inheritance Cycle aka Eragon, that you're doing something wrong.  Sapphira was/is her name.  I think.  I know it's pretty CLOSE to that."
"But something does strike me as...Right...About the gender, at least."
"Not exactly in favor of the name, though.  Wrong gem if nothing else."
((Yeah, thanks but if I was going to reference something it would be slightly less blatant ripoff.  And the dragon is ruby, anyway, not sapphire, so we'd want Murtaugh's dragon's name.  If it was ever given.))
((Augh, now I'm not sure I spelled HIS name right.))

[endlessblaze]

((its been a while since I read the books I cant spell any of it ether))

[Amperzand]

{Memory informs me that yes, those are the correct spellings. And no, they weren't particularly good books. I don't really names, I'm afraid, so I don't have any useful input other than not from Inheritance. Also, the [male, magic-induced schizophrenic] red dragon was named Thorn, which seems vaguely wrong for this one.}

"Flare?"

Putting the piece of firearm I was fiddling with back with its kin, I come over to get a closer look at the remarkable little construct.

[endlessblaze]

"what about rubinus?"

((google translate says its latin for ruby. I have run out of English names that I like the sound of....they mostly pertain to fire and darkness...))

[Amperzand]

{It's also a male-pattern name, for what that's worth. Carmine? {car-mine/car-meen}}

[endlessblaze]

((I don't quite understand what you mean by that.))

[Amperzand]

{I was saying that Rubinus is a male-sounding name, and then I suggested Carmine.}

[TheBiggerFish]

"I think carmine is a type of dye, isn't it?""
"Actually, I think I kind of like Flare."

[Amperzand]

"Flare's a good name. Hey, speaking of flares, the thing could act like an artillery spotter, just fly over things that need to die and make a flash."

[TheBiggerFish]

"Flare's a good name. Hey, speaking of flares, the thing could act like an artillery spotter, just fly over things that need to die and make a flash."

"In case of absolute emergency.  However, I could probably make something that could do that.  And not be irreplaceable."

[Amperzand]

"...That is also true. Well, it's certainly far and away more advanced than I believed to be possible."

I cautiously examine the construct, extending one of the wings to determine how they seem to work.

"Can it fly? Or, for that matter, communicate? I wouldn't be surprised, at this point, if you had a magic AI in the thing."