Ten more minutes but he told me he's out. I'll do the turn within two hours (have to eat first), and I'll repeat the 'highest waiting list to pm within 24 hours' to find a replacement. For next turn, of course, I won't let you wait another day.World difficulty: 61You land on a soft, squishy object. This must be Simon's Mind. It appears to be pulsating once every seventeen minutes. Around the landscape are hundreds of apparently random objects, ranging from a can of coke to an old farm house, all completely out of context on the soft pink floor.
Gather all of the edible stuff.
Attempt: 57 + 1
Quality: 17
Quantity: 5 (1)You walk around for a while, but you don't find any useful, edible things. You do see some weird things, though. There's a giant caterpillar, though it's completely static - a dormant memory, if you recall Osin's explanation correctly. There's also a pillow, talking in some weird European language, and a guy holding a half-burnt pair of jeans above a campfire - though the flames don't flicker, as if they're frozen, nor does the guy move or the jeans burn any more. But suddenly, you smell spare ribs. You walk in the direction your nose tells you to, and arrive at a party table. Twelve people, mostly couples, are eating the biggest ribs you've ever seen. Or rather, the'yre done eating. All that's left are bones, all the meat has been gnawed off. When you approach the table, the sky becomes brighter and brighter, as if a second sun is rising, and at the moment you grab a bone, you fall down in pain. Your heart feels as if it's burning. You grab your chest with one hand, holding the bone with the other - you're not going to give up - and crawl bakc to the ship. When you arrive, the pain slowly fades away.
+ 29 Gathering xp
+ 1 Gnawed-off Bone (I: 17)Build another robot using all of my current materials.
Attempt: 25 + 5You gather all of your stuff in your workshop, and start designing another robot, in hope of another spark of awesomeness. Sadly, you don't feel anything. You'll have to make thisone on your own. So you start sketching. You'll definitely use iron for the head. After all, that's where his sensors, the weakest parts of his body, will be. But then the legs would need to be iron too, to carry the weight. Which'd mean you can't make the torso out of iron, which would mean it has to be wood, which would make it way too weak.
You can't figure it out. You try everything, from elaborate working plans to mathematical approaches, but there's no way you could ever make a robot with this stuff.
By the time you decide to build two legs directly under the head - without torso - it's too late to start work already. Well, tomorrow is another day.
+ 25 Robotics xp (level up!)Create, using water and the giant tree branches, to create floating potions. I mean, if it can float that high, then certainly an alchemist can condense its lightness into a flask.
Attempt: 85 + 5
Quality: 190
Quantity: 37 (1)You start to work, using every technique you know on the floating tree branches. You start with a mortar and pestle, but the crumbled leaves do nothing out of the ordinary. You try calcination, distillation, dissolution, separation and conjunction, even fermentation and coagulation.
Nothing works.
Then it strikes you: The power is not in the leaves, it's
in the leaves. There must be some sort of gas in there. You puncture the last few leaves, and hear the hissing sound of escaping gas. You manage to capture what's left in two vials.
Now to test your theory. You go to one of the highest rooms of the ship - the arched dining room - and drink one of the potions.
You feel lighter and lighter. After a minute, you feel dizzy, and a few seconds later, you suddenly shoot up in the air, smashing into the ceiling. You stay there for a while, before you slowly start to float down again. As your pained body reaches the ground, you notice Osin standing in the entrance. "Bravo! Bravo! What a show!" he shouts, "Hope you didn't get hurt too badly. That was some solid alchemy there."
+ 43 Alchemy XP
+ 1 Potion of Rocketeering (I: 380)
+ 10 InfluenceI Gather. I ignore all the stuff that would just turn up as physical things, and instead try to use my powers to trawl for deep and abstract cognitive processes on their raw forms.
Attempt: 17You decide to go into the brain itself, hunting for something deeper. You sink trough the solid pink, using your powers to make you free, able to swim trough the solid stuff.
After a full day of swimming around, you finally notice something that gives out an air of power, just a bit further. You excitedly make your way to it, but before you are there, a sudden, soaring and unbearable pain shoots trough your chest. You pale, and whisper the magical words that you set as a safeguard, to teleport you back immediately. Once in the ship, the pain quickly fades, leaving you exhausted.
+ 9 Gathering XP (level up!)I attempt to go as deep into the brain as I can, the I gather. I just blew up a planet and am feeling lucky.
Attempt: 87
Quality: 95
Quantity: 92 (1)You decide to gather from the brain in a more direct way, and take a new drill from the storage. Just as you press the drill head into the squishy ground, you feel something coming at you, something that wants to hurt you. But something doesn't know you're a demi-god, and a lucky one at that. You dodge the thing when it erupts from the surface, and catch it in a forcefield. You are pleased to see it is a spear made of pure anger.
+ 44 Gather XP (level up!)
+ 1 Anger SpearGroup inventory
5 oak logs. (25 each)
2 blocks of white stone. (50 each)
2 reddish-yellow metal bars. (100 each)
1 animal skull (possibly feline) (150)
Ochita
Influence: 100
Stonecrafting: 5
Gathering: 1 (45/100)
1 Red Lobster (I: 33)
2 Liter of Water (I: 19)
1 Gnawed-off Pig Rib (I: 17)
Reisen
Influence: 110
Alchemy: 5 (43/100)
Gathering: 1 (32/100)
1 liter of pure water (I: 11)
3 Vials of Dark Liquid (I: 24 each)
3 Alien Rocks (I: 2 each)
1 Potion of Rocketeering (I: 380)
Mel
Influence: 100
Real Programming: 5
Geomancing: 0 (14/100)
Electronics: 0 (42/100)
Energy Manipulating: 0 (18/100)
Gathering: 1 (5/100)
5 Wax Cylinders (I: 11 each)
1 Vial of Energy Stuff (I: 78)
Taric
Influence: 100
Robotics: 6 (1/100)
Fusion: 0 (6/100)
Gathering: 1 (33/100)
3 Scraps of Iron (I: 21 each)
6 Pieces of Wood (I: 7 each)
6 Alien Branches (I: 3 each)
1 Man of Steel (I: 222)
Monty
Influence: 100
Futuristic Weaponry: 5
Gathering: 1 (17/100)
1 Alien Heavy Metal Planet Core (I: 124)
1 Anger Spear (I: 95)