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cobbledtogetherenvy) wrote2022-01-04 04:28 pm
cobbledtogetherenvy) wrote2022-01-04 04:28 pm
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[No recording. Envy doesn't want to talk to any stupid humans.]
That's what happened to the human batteries I tried to use. The barge grabbed them before I could use them. It's bad technique, anyway. I should have used them to build a stone and tapped that. But what I used to open the gate? It's still gone.
Should be. It didn't come back when the new warden woke me up. I'm doing some basic experiments now.
I wonder, then, if the Admiral only has the means or ability to hold onto a very specific kind of soul. If other energies are incompatible with his power. Thus, when it was expended from your stone, he could not catch it in his system, but the souls of those he brought here who meet his criteria were caught as such.
What kind of experiments?
What kind of experiments?
I've been trying simple alchemy, but it either doesn't work or it's not strong enough. I don't really want more warden attention. And I never studied the basics like a human would. I'm not an alchemist, I'm alchemy.
Anybody who wants to study, though there's talent like anything else. There are some things you need to be a human to do. Human meaning, not artificial, like one of us.
[Since he's pretty sure half the people on the barge who insist they aren't human are just humans with minor variations.]
I know plenty that no human alchemist would have time or access to in a lifetime, and I also never sat down and learned all the basics like a beginner.
[Since he's pretty sure half the people on the barge who insist they aren't human are just humans with minor variations.]
I know plenty that no human alchemist would have time or access to in a lifetime, and I also never sat down and learned all the basics like a beginner.
Of course. I will have to look into it once I am no longer in Zero. It does not seem the sort of thing to ask someone to get for me.
[ well, maybe Max. ]
If I should have any talent for it, I would be willing to assist you with your experiments and crafting your theories.
[ well, maybe Max. ]
If I should have any talent for it, I would be willing to assist you with your experiments and crafting your theories.
[A lot of alchemy is a lot easier with humans around. Father didn't just involve the government and army for convenience.]
The library's supposed to have everything. I may not have learned whatever exercises they give little humans, but I can tell you if you're looking in the right place or missing anything major.
[It should be a good field of study for someone who likes to set people on fire.]
You've already got a better version of the Flame Alchemist's little trick, but it's a versatile skill.
The library's supposed to have everything. I may not have learned whatever exercises they give little humans, but I can tell you if you're looking in the right place or missing anything major.
[It should be a good field of study for someone who likes to set people on fire.]
You've already got a better version of the Flame Alchemist's little trick, but it's a versatile skill.
Sure. I may not have read them, but I'm sure basic texts exist for the military to train alchemists.
No-- Oh.
[This guy seems like the ambitious type.]
If you start playing with alchemy? You'll run into forbidden things. Most of them are just a squeamishness thing. But the one about bringing back a dead person really won't work, and the side effects are nasty.
[This guy seems like the ambitious type.]
If you start playing with alchemy? You'll run into forbidden things. Most of them are just a squeamishness thing. But the one about bringing back a dead person really won't work, and the side effects are nasty.
There's just no difference in the warnings between don't do this because it's icky and don't do this because you'll lose several organs and it flatly won't work. Humans wrote all those books.
Not that I know of, but it's entirely possible there are things no one I know has tried.
Some of them might, but some of them are just Truth being capricious.
Oh, it's not a metaphor. If you're human and you go through the right hoops, you can meet something that names itself Truth. Father's a powerful, inventive place where a lot of confluences met and created something nasty. Several somethings, if you count me and my brothers and sister. Truth, I'm pretty sure, is the same, just older, bigger, and meaner.
I've seen humans call Truth a god, or talk about gods the same way. Both. I've never seen a definition that meant anything other than bigger, older, and stronger.
That is part of it. But there is also purpose.
She is the goddess of the sea and also the goddess of death. She is the watcher of that gate from whence the Gods will come at the end of the world to fight their final battle upon the ruins of humanity.
She is the goddess of the sea and also the goddess of death. She is the watcher of that gate from whence the Gods will come at the end of the world to fight their final battle upon the ruins of humanity.
[Sounds very made up.]
Truth just takes some pieces out of you--assuming you don't die--and you come back better at alchemy.
Truth just takes some pieces out of you--assuming you don't die--and you come back better at alchemy.
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