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[Eschar]

[S1ilent] is correct about our priorities, and I'm sure the Herald (or the Perversion) can multitask answers to our questions during training.

[19_EgarAlnis]

((Hey guys, what's popping. I'm just hopping in to let everyone know that there will be an update tomorrow. Work picked up hardcore. And remember, even if there's a lot to do, you can still post more. I'll get to everything. Eventually.))

[BlackPaladin99]

we should also try to extend the range of our willpower

[S1lentWanderer]

we should also try to extend the range of our willpower

+1

((No worries 19_EgarAlnis. Life happens sometimes, and that's okay.))

[King Zultan]

Mastering the powers seems like it's the best thing we can do for now.

[Eschar]

Yeah, there's hardly much else to do until the Glass reaches her destination.

[King Zultan]

You know we probably should ask where we're going and what we expect to find when we get there.

[Eschar]

That is part of my earlier suggestion

[Eschar]

bump?

[Devastator]

I think one of the long term goals is to escape the ship.

As such, I think that some of the powers to develop are new masks.  Instead of developing natural weapons for this one mask, new masks should be developed to create whole sets of natural weapons.  Our originator expressed difficulty in taking physical form, so I suspect a strong connection to physical reality in addition to the ability to control dust will serve us better than taking one path or another.

IOW, we should develop different forms.

Now we don't know much about what we'll want or where we'll go, so I'd recommend concentrating on environments.

Environments we should have masks for:

Void of Space
Air/Gaseous environments.
Water/Liquid environments.
Land/Solid environments.
(Two kinds, ones you walk on and ones you dig through.)

Now we don't know what we should use, but here's my initial suggestions for each one:

Space: Self-contained spaceship.  A simple ovoid device with modularity we can take advantage of as we learn more capabilities.  Roughly egg-shaped.  Should have some kinda sensors, some kinda protection and heat shield, and long range communications devices.

Air: I'd recommend one that's very large, for things like gas giants or wild environments, or combat-heavy environments, and one that's small, for environments which we'll be sharing with other creatures.  If possible, something around hummingbird size would work.. I feel that becoming an insect or a swarm of them is a bit too fragile to be safe and may not be able to store enough dust for our actual abilities.

So.. big flier, small bird.

Water:  We can get away with one here.  Probably something along the line of a dolphin would be ideal.  We don't need hands or other manipulators for objects, and a dolphin shape is very effective at moving.

Burrower: Here I think we want a multi-limbed insectoid type with a hard shell and a wide variety of tools, because we will be wanting manipulators even if only to save on effort from transmuting elements in front of us all day.

Walker: Humans are obvious.  Here I'd recommend picking one less-distinct form and one heavy form for fighting.. they can both be humans, or one could be non-human.  Could also go with a humanoid but nonhuman design, for one or both, but I think one good normal-looking infiltrator would be a good idea, and one good fighty design would be another.

As for what these units need, I think matter manipulation is much more important than simply relying upon dust-related powers forever.. I think it's a mistake to solely rely upon dust, as we may not discover anything new that way, only exploring things that can be overriden or overpowered by the will of others.. if we need to combat someone with a greater will, we need physical objects to defeat that challenge.

So, we should try to develop one physical weapon.  I'd recommend a simple fusion-powered laser would be fine, for now, and we should develop some implausably hard material for physical combat, to be our sword or our fangs and claws.  Molecular-level mettalurgy should let us make some extremely potent materials like this.  Both of these should be usable in our various forms.

One last thing, I think Basil might have the ability to neutralize dust with two cores, by issuing simultaneous contradictory orders.  I don't know how to explore this, but it might be a powerful tool for neutralizing other dust-users.

[King Zultan]

I like the sound of all that.

Also when it comes to the walking version shouldn't we also have a quick moving version, like a horse or something?

[Devastator]

Also when it comes to the walking version shouldn't we also have a quick moving version, like a horse or something?

I'm not sure that's a necessary alternative to flight, although there might be surfaces with no atmosphere.  I think if we want to go over ground quickly, some kinda mechanical form with wheels would work instead of a horse.  I'm not against that.

Or the fast one could be a fighter.  That'd work.

[King Zultan]

Are we able to turn ourselves into a thing with wheels?

[Devastator]

I'm not certain, but the power descriptions make it seem likely.

"Like water, you can fill any vessel, be it living or machine."

Also, our mother is a 2000 km long spaceship.

I think we could save the water and burrowing masks for later, cutting it down to 4.  A spaceship mask, to learn how spaceships work, spaceship engines, void survival, atmospheric entry and exit, etc.  Like a kid learning to swim, it's really for safety at this point.

A combat mask, some kinda big flyer, to practice gravity manipulation, test our maximum size limit, and to learn about large-scale combat.  This seems like a much better environment to practice than, say, the middle of a random city.  Maybe a big dragon?

A small flyer, to learn stealth and scouting, and to test how small forms work.  The small creature would also be good for actually learning how air works, since the big flyer would fly through gravity manipulation.

A ground form to complement our human one.  Could be a combat capable animal, such as a wolf or big cat or something, could be a vehicle, could be something else.  This would be to set a basis for a non-human land form, to provide more opportunities.

I also think that we should not practice much with our first mask, at the moment.  We're basically an omni shapeshifter at this point, so our actual 'main form', is more like our brand.. what we show people when we want them to be able to identify us.  Creepy black-eyed child seems like a poor choice, and I'd recommend not making a final branding decision until after we know what we're dealing with.

[King Zultan]

Also, our mother is a 2000 km long spaceship.

I thought she was able to fly though space because she was filled with spaceship parts, so if we get a hold of a schematic we could copy it and turn into it somehow.

Other than that I like the sound of all the things you've mentioned.