BUMP?
Patience, young grashopper
World difficulty: 97You are standing on an asteroid about one km across. The rock is, of course, completely barren. You see
a rather bright star a beginning supernova relatively nearby, and a few dark planets around it.
Assemble the rocks into a rock-robot.
Attempt: 13You puzzle with the rocks for a while, trying to find the best way to make them into an awesome shape. You decide to go with a rocky humanoid, roughly half a meter in height and just as wide. But the actual implementation proves tiresome. The rock is a very difficult material to shape and bend, let alone use it for fine-tuned engines or even wiring. After attempting to flatten one of the rocks into a workable sheet, without breaking it, you give up. These rocks are not made for roboticism, they are golemancy-aligned.
+13 Golemancing XPNow, lets collect large amounts of rock..
Attempt: 100
Bingo
Quality: 340
Quantity: 1This is your last day on this planet, and you are determined to make it work. You step out of the portal.
Every pace you take on the barren surface of the rock shakes the ground beneath you. If anyone where to watch you walk, they would be awed by your appearance, a tall, dark shadow, slowly treading forward, the exploding star behind you, as if it was a personal aura. You feel you could take on the universe, no, you
can take on the universe. You know, while you are walking, that everything, anything, is within your grasp. The stars are aligned right, or your powers have grown beyond containment, whatever it is, you are the man of the hour, the hero, the warrior who makes the very stars tremble and planets shiver in fear, the center of the universe, a singularity, a power so great even the gods themselves would fear to wield it.
The asteroid still shakes with every step, and then you stand still. For a second, everything is silent. Every animal, everywhere and anywhere, holds his breath as you are about to speak. Every stream stops running, every fire stops burning. The planets stop dead in their tracks, waiting for you to resume their orbit. The universe stands still, for a moment that feels like eternity. And then you speak. One word.
"Rock."
You whispered it, but trough all of spacetime echoes your voice, nesting that one word in the brain of everything which has one. For thousands of years to come, cults would worship the Rock. Dozens of calendars would start on this very day. Hundreds of people would bury themselves alive, to become one with the Rock. Millions would start and end their day praying to it. And from everywhere, immeasurable billions of lightyears around you, people offer every single rock on their planet to you.
As you go to sleep, an unimaginable amount of rocks is heading trough the fifth dimension of prayerspace, straight for your back pocket. And you know these rocks will clump together as the come closer to you, merging on a very subatomic level, middling out every trace of mineral they have. In the end, just before arriving, you will be left with one single rock. But what a rock. The rock upon which all rocks are based. The very model of a rock. The rock that rocks all rocks. You will not have a rock, you will not have a sweet or awesome rock, you will have
THE rock. It will be perfect, and gigantic, and it will make the neighbors jealous.
And just before you slumber off, you notice, between the rocks flying towards you, a dot of music. A rock song. You smile. And you see it is good.
+100 Gather XP (level up!)
+1 The Rock (I: 340)
+1 Rock Song (I: 50)Try again. The heat can come from the star which is going nova. At least it is easier to adjust that way.
Attempt: 21 + 5You clean up your workshop, and walk outside with the flask and the dust. You shield your body against cold, and drop the dust into the flask.
Instantly, the flask freezes. You throw it towards the star.
That is to say, you attempt to throw it. The flask is so cold, it is frozen stuck on your forcefield! The blue energy beams normally making up the shield are white and crystalline, and even through the protection it offers you feel your hand getting colder. You decide to stop experimenting with this chilly stuff for a day, and separate the components before your shield collapses.
(+21 Alchemy XP)
Take the oak log and six alien branches from the group, then craft a totem with the maple sticks, alien sticks, lapis lazuli and oak log.
Attempt: 28You decide to make all of the stuff you gathered, and some things you've seen in group inventory, into a wonderful totem. You place everything in a roughly totem-y pattern, then you start thinking about animals and other stuff to carve into it.
But you can't think of anything good enough. You have little inspiration, and the few thjings you come up with are either not totem-worthy or not godcrafting-worthy. You are struggling, so to say, with a Totemizer's Block. Your Muse is on a day off. Your creativity is in freefall. And before you know it, the day is wasted.
+28 Totemizer XPI think I shall try again on gathering darkness/shadows.
Attempt: 93
Quality: 198
Quantity: 1You decide to leave the philosophical questions to the philosophers, and concentrate on the important stuff: gathering shadows. Or darkness. As there is a star exploding nearby, you know where to find the best shadows: just behind the asteroid. Not a single ray of light could get there, if you wait for the right moment, when the planets are on the star side of the asteroid. Else, they'd reflect light on the dark side, making it an impure shadow.
You wait patiently for hours. Finally, the second planet sets, and your side of the asteroid is covered in complete and utter darkness. You open a bottle, and after an arbitrary amount of time, you close it again. You have no idea why you did that o why you think it'll work. But once you step back into the light, you notice the glass bottle radiates darkness around it in a wide radius, blocking the starlight over the better part of the asteroid.
When you get back into your workshop, you find a note. "Thanks, dude. My eyes were sore from those days in supernova light, you carrying that darkness around is perfect. And with your darkness and Reisen's experiment, the Aglaia won't overheat in this bombardment of solar energy, which is one thing less to worry about. -Osin"
+47 Gather XP
+ 1 Vial of Darkness (I: 198)
+ 10 InfluenceThat's why I said to do that to the PLANET, NOT THE ASTEROID!
I see. Don't worry, you would have failed it anyway.
Attempt: 43You prepare to travel to the greatest of the two planets. You take a wheelbarrow and place a wide assortment of tools inside it: three pickaxes of varying hardness, a pneumatic hammer and a few regular ones of different sizes, a metal detector, and an inflatable oven. As you come outside, you take a few quick steps and then push off in the direction of your chosen planet. After a few hours of interplanetary travel, you are in orbit around what appears to be a gas giant.
But you didn't come out here to take a tour, you came for metal. There should be a solid core. You descend into the atmosphere, however, as you get close enough to the center to feel the core, you notice that once more, it is only rock. You sigh, and briefly contemplate godly suicide, but then return to the ship empty-handed.
+22 Gather XPThe Aglaia takes off once more.
World Difficulty: 1You land on top of a grassy hill, surrounded by forests on three sides, and with a small river on the last. Mountains are nearby on one side, and down the hill, in a lake, under an ancient apple tree a man is bathing. This place seems yet untouched by civilization.
Group inventory
4 oak logs. (25 each)
2 blocks of white stone. (50 each)
1 reddish-yellow metal bar. (100)
1 animal skull (possibly feline) (150)
1 Heavy Metal Rhino (I: 193)
1 Anger Spear (I: 95)
5 Unspecified Brand Building Bricks (I: 10 each)
5 Wax Cylinders (I: 11 each)
1 Vial of Energy Stuff (I: 78)
6 Pieces of Wood (I: 7 each)
Ochita
Influence: 304
Stonecrafting: 5
Cooking: 0 (48/100)
Gathering: 3 (17/100)
1 Big Bag of Stardust (I: 120)
1 The Rock (I: 340)
1 Rock Song (I: 50)
Reisen
Influence: 140
Alchemy: 5 (86/100)
Gathering: 2 (27/100)
3 Vials of Dark Liquid (I: 24 each)
3 Alien Rocks (I: 2 each)
1 Potion of Rocketeering (I: 380)
1 Bag of Stardust (I: 72)
Taric
Influence: 70
Robotics: 7 (58/100)
Fusion: 0 (6/100)
Golemancing: 0 (13/100)
Gathering: 1 (77/100)
1 Man of Steel (I: 222)
1 Random Quantum Robot (I: 106)
1 Multi-functional Robot (I: 132)
9 Boring Rocks (I: 2 each)
Charles Witticker
Influence: 57
Gathering: 0 (62/100)
Voodoodollology: 5
Totemizer: 0 (28/100)
4 Big Walnut Branches (I: 8 each)
4 Lapis Lazuli's (I: 6 each)
1 Oak Log (I: 25)
6 Alien Branches (I: 3 each)
Unekaru
Influence: 90
Gem Elemancing: 5
Gathering: 0 (84/100)
2 Beams of Light (I: 9 each)
1 Vial of Darkness (I: 198)
1 liter of pure water (I: 11)
Neco Ferratum
Influence: 100
Metallurgy: 5
Gathering: 0 (59/100)
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Topic: Osin's Automatons: TB Crafting Game (World 8, Turn 2) (Read 29802 times)