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adwarf

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You are a Magical Asteroid
« on: January 27, 2016, 01:57:04 pm »

The universe was created by a Being who surpasses all understanding, and when he forged it through his will countless planets, stars, asteroids, and more were created alongside a seemingly omnipotent power that came to be known as Mana that pervaded the entirety of the universe. When this Greater Being created the universe and Mana he set in place laws to govern everything, and then sat back to watch the events that would occur hoping that perhaps something in the world he created could bring to him a surprise. Of course as several eons went by countless creatures came into being on planets throughout the universe, and innumerable civilizations rose and fell as they wonders of Mana lead them to prosperity or even brought about their very downfall as they attempted acts that were far beyond their capabilities.

One of these acts that has brought low countless civilizations was attempting to create sentient creatures, and yet out in the vastness of space in a area of the universe of seemingly small import there is a solar system in which a miracle has occurred. This solar system consists of two terran planets slowly orbiting a brilliant yellow star alongside countless small asteroids, and among those asteroids is one that stands out from the rest as a millennium ago a sage had been born on one of the planets who had achieved a mastery of magic that allowed him to reach out to this seemingly innocuous rock. For hundreds of years the sage made the asteroid his home, and on a small part of its surface he forged a massive array meant to gather mana from the cosmos for his use though mysteriously one day the sage simply disappeared from this asteroid.

It has been several hundred years since the sage's disappearance, but in his absence the mana gathering array has been active pulling mana in and injecting it into the asteroid until its entirety was imbued with the purest of mana. With so much mana seemingly pervading its being a change occurred one day as the mana inside of the asteroid seemed to roil before rapidly charging into the center of the asteroid to compress into a small seemingly opaque white ball which in turn expanded outwards once more. By the time that opaque whiteness enshrouded the asteroid it disappeared entirely and for the first time the asteroid realized it existed, it felt weak but it could feel a new sense of power slowly flowing into it from a strange array on its surface.

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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2016, 02:03:02 pm »

Study the Array. Before we begin changing shape we must ensure we do not disturb our foodsource.
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2016, 02:06:00 pm »

Study the Array. Before we begin changing shape we must ensure we do not disturb our foodsource.
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You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2016, 03:29:59 pm »

Before you even begin to mess with anything on, or within your planetary body you immediately turn your sights on the Array formed on your surface in order to ensure that you have a continued source of Mana for you to wield, and to fuel your existence with. Time passes by slowly, but each moment of it is filled with countless discoveries and rather outstanding realizations as you come to understand some small part of how the array actually works which turns out to be far more simplistic than you thought it would be. The array may look complex at a glance, but from your observations you've learned its actually an intricately connected web of smaller arrays that amplify each others effects as more of them are connected together and you're certain that you can continue to expand the current one to at least twice its size. If your theory is right doubling the size of the array will complete it, and bring in five times the amount of mana it currently does though sadly with your current knowledge expanding the array anymore is near impossible ...

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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2016, 03:31:45 pm »

Well lets get to it! A bigger array means more food!
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2016, 03:34:41 pm »

Well lets get to it! A bigger array means more food!
Add 5 Lesser Mana Gathering Arrays to the network (-75 mana)

Seal off all surface entrances to the Tunnel System with Earth Movement.
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2016, 04:04:41 pm »

PTW
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adwarf

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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2016, 04:28:54 pm »

Your first action after discovering a method to create more of the arrays is to seal off the tunnel system from the surface which drains only a small amount of mana with the end result that anyone on the surface who tries to find the system with their normal senses will be incapable. With whatever it is inside of the tunnel system sealed away for you to observe at a later date you turn your attention to the incomplete array network on your surface, and begin to manipulate the surface to slowly form the arrays which is a process that you complete with ease as the only truly tasking thing about creating the arrays is how much time they take to form by delicately shifting your surface into the right shapes. The moment you finish connecting the five new arrays to the existing network you feel a sudden surge of Mana flowing into you that seems to change you further as something about your perception noticeably changes though for what reasons you're unsure.

As the changes finish you get a feeling that with a small use of mana you can more accurately look within your planetary body though you're unsure what you might find in the end.

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GM Note: Minor mistake on my part, the arrays take up 4 space each.
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2016, 04:34:18 pm »

Examine our innards! It's a good idea to know what is what and what is where!
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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2016, 07:14:36 pm »

Examine our innards! It's a good idea to know what is what and what is where!
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« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2016, 10:16:52 pm »

You quickly begin to funnel mana into your perception quickly allowing you to delve deeper into your planetary body to find what goodies might be hidden away deep beneath the surface. Several decades seem to slip by without your notice as you probe around your planetary body discovering pockets and small deposits of three different types of materials: some form of mana-imbued crystals, a vast deposit of mundane iron ore, and countless much smaller pockets of iron that has been imbued with mana over the years. The iron ore and its mana bestowed variant do not really stand out as you find them though the crystals do give you a shock at the massive amount of mana that has seeped into them ever since they came into existence, if you had to take a guess the crystals could restore your current mana pool almost completely from a depleted state.

Your scan ended on a bad note though as you discovered a small isolated chamber near your surface on the far side of your body from the array network during the last parts of your scan that gave you a massive shock. When you first moved your perception across it you recoiled in instinctive fear as you felt an entity contained within whose mana vastly surpassed what you're capable of, but before you began to panic your potential death so soon after coming into being you seemed to remember a faint feeling of suppression surrounding the entity. Taking a closer look you realize you can't actually see into the chamber, but the entirety of its walls are filled a massive complex array made to suppress and seal whatever being inside of it though that makes you even more fearful at the though of what power it could wield unsealed ...

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GM Note: Resources discovered, and potential threat found. Try not to poke the bear :P
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2016, 10:19:16 pm »

((PTW))
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2016, 10:40:32 pm »

See if we can recreate the crystals. If so, make some more, and attempt to put mana into them. Storage is good.
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2016, 11:18:45 pm »

See if we can recreate the crystals. If so, make some more, and attempt to put mana into them. Storage is good.
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Re: You are a Magical Asteroid
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2016, 11:40:41 pm »

See if we can purify some of the mundane iron ore by pumping mana through it. My thinking is that different materials would move at different speeds when charged with mana, so we could use this process to separate the impurities from the pure iron. Also, we might discover other materials only present in trace amounts before. If the other materials move at different speeds, then any non homogeneous material should be separated into like groups, right? 
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