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[NUKE9.13]

You consider electrifying the fence around your house.
You stop considering this because your grasp on Physics is too low to work with the Elektrik.

You retire to your lab where you spend several hours flipping through your Tome of Guidelines. You would really like to figure out why your pain pistol requires a human wielder (and thus cannot be automated), but your Tome of Guidelines yields no clues. However, you think you can see amidst the absence of clues the shape of what the clues should look like. You have some ideas for experiments that could give insight into the matter; designing and executing these experiments would take about 8 days, give or take a day or two, depending on your luck.


It is 30 days since you returned home. It is afternoon.

Spoiler: Your Gentlemanly Holdings (click to show/hide)

One (1) fairly dusty old family home in the country
Crappy Forge
Vegetable Patch (growing vegetables)
Chicken Run (contains 6 hens)
Hidden Shack (contains medium Steam Engine, small Pump)
Estates surrounding your dusty old family home (forests and hills)
£175 in cashe
£0 in banke account
Etheric Steamworks Lab:
-Decent Etherical Equipment
-Poor Steamwork Equipment
-Shitty Alchemical Equipment
-Shitty Physical Equipment
Book on Alchemistry
Book on Physics
Tome of Spells
Tome of Etheric Guidelines
Licence to Science

Spoiler: Your Various Things (click to show/hide)

A note on things: Unless otherwise noted, you have enough things to do all small-scale experiments and design prototypes.
Assorted Magical Crystals
Magical Reagents
Silver Wire
Samples of Rare Woods
Rusty Plumbing (Includes pipes, valves, boilers, ect)
Rusty Gears (mechanisms)
A further note on things: Many simple things can be found lying about the house. Your family did not throw things away.

Spoiler: Your Fine Inventions and such (click to show/hide)

Spells:
Local Fertility Boost: common herbs, uncommon herbs, animal sacrifice (>=chicken), 3 hours subtle preparation, 3 hours casting

Potions:
Spontaneously Combusting Goop: common herbs, uncommon herbs, 2 hours subtle preparation.
Beetle Killing Poison: common herbs, uncommon herbs, 3 hours subtle preparation.

Etherical Contraptions:
Unnamed magical 'gun': 1 uncommon gemstone, 1 piece of animal bone, 1 piece of plumbing, 1 gun stock/bits and pieces + 2 hours crafting, 3 hours crafting, 2 hours casting. Fires pain.

Steam Machines:
Medium Steam Engine: 10 pieces of plumbing, 1 boiler, some gears and pistons, 2 square meters of sheet metal, 1 big wheel, 4 days of crafting&forging. Consumes large amounts of coal, provides moderate power.
Small water pump: 25 pieces of plumbing, some gears and pistons, 1 water container, 2 days of crafting&forging. Consumes moderate power, provides moderate water.

Spoiler: Your Many Learnings (click to show/hide)

Etheric Sciences (Lv3)
Steamworks (Lv2)

Spoiler: Your Brilliant Accomplishments (click to show/hide)

Spells cast:
Local Fertility Spell

Contraptions created:
The 'pain gun': Looks like a shoddily-constructed pistol. Fires magical bolts of pain on pulling the trigger.

Machines built:
Medium Steam Engine
Small Water Pump (almost complete)

Mundane Accomplishments:
£100 of Potato Farm
Fireplace Ironwork

[Diablous]

Let's do the experiments.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Experiments are the very foundation of science! We must do it!

[dragnar]

Let's do the experiments.

Do them in the woods, maybe in the shack containing the pump. No science anywhere near that device.

[NUKE9.13]

Let's do the experiments.

Do them in the woods, maybe in the shack containing the pump. No science anywhere near that device.

The device is in the woods already; well away from everything else.

[dragnar]

Ah, missed that.

[Armok]

Think abaut how the fireball works. What happens if you replace the flamable component with somehting else, such as coal, stearin, whale oil, that nearly explosive thing you make from horsetail spores, or gunpowder.

Also, investicate if a magic fire could power a steam engine withoute needing a huge coal supply.

[dragnar]

Think abaut how the fireball works. What happens if you replace the flamable component with somehting else, such as coal, stearin, whale oil, that nearly explosive thing you make from horsetail spores, or gunpowder.

Also, investicate if a magic fire could power a steam engine withoute needing a huge coal supply.

Test that first one from a very long way off, but apart from that, agreed.

[Armok]

Think abaut how the fireball works. What happens if you replace the flamable component with somehting else, such as coal, stearin, whale oil, that nearly explosive thing you make from horsetail spores, or gunpowder.

Also, investicate if a magic fire could power a steam engine withoute needing a huge coal supply.

Test that first one from a very long way off, but apart from that, agreed.

yes.

Also, even further away, try to make a mechanism of positive feedback like you used for the gun, but instead of using the energy, it stores it up and rerproduces it, quicly geting millions of times more energy than ever occurs naturaly, wich can then be used manyaly with any spell you want to... This mihght ake some time and experinetion to get working, but shuld be VERY worth it.
Also, it mgith be good to make some kind of triger on the end of a long stick, and still get it "manual" so magic works.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Think abaut how the fireball works. What happens if you replace the flamable component with somehting else, such as coal, stearin, whale oil, that nearly explosive thing you make from horsetail spores, or gunpowder.

Also, investicate if a magic fire could power a steam engine withoute needing a huge coal supply.

Test that first one from a very long way off, but apart from that, agreed.

yes.

Also, even further away, try to make a mechanism of positive feedback like you used for the gun, but instead of using the energy, it stores it up and rerproduces it, quicly geting millions of times more energy than ever occurs naturaly, wich can then be used manyaly with any spell you want to... This mihght ake some time and experinetion to get working, but shuld be VERY worth it.
Also, it mgith be good to make some kind of triger on the end of a long stick, and still get it "manual" so magic works.

Isn't that infinite energy loop exactly the thing we don't want to do, so we don't accidentally bring about armageddon?

[Armok]

Think abaut how the fireball works. What happens if you replace the flamable component with somehting else, such as coal, stearin, whale oil, that nearly explosive thing you make from horsetail spores, or gunpowder.

Also, investicate if a magic fire could power a steam engine withoute needing a huge coal supply.

Test that first one from a very long way off, but apart from that, agreed.

yes.

Also, even further away, try to make a mechanism of positive feedback like you used for the gun, but instead of using the energy, it stores it up and rerproduces it, quicly geting millions of times more energy than ever occurs naturaly, wich can then be used manyaly with any spell you want to... This mihght ake some time and experinetion to get working, but shuld be VERY worth it.
Also, it mgith be good to make some kind of triger on the end of a long stick, and still get it "manual" so magic works.

Isn't that infinite energy loop exactly the thing we want to do, so we do bring about armageddon?

fixed.

[dragnar]

But an infinite amount of energy would kill us no matter how far away we are! It doesn't count as showing those fools if we aren't around to laugh maniacally in a dignified manner.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Yeah. We can't do science if we're dead.

Anyway, I vote that we name our magical gun "Powerful Affliction Implement that Neutralizes Garish Unyielding Nonscientists."

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Or P.A.I.N.G.U.N.

[Zako]

Hehehehe, I see what you did there.

[Urist McOverlord]

Yeah. We can't do science if we're dead.

Anyway, I vote that we name our magical gun "Powerful Affliction Implement that Neutralizes Gnawish Unyielding Nonscientists."

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Or P.A.I.N.G.U.N.

This. Very Much This.