Post by Scoria on Aug 2, 2014 11:15:49 GMT
Research
Thread: Here, Posts 4, 5
Researchers: Scoria [Alchemist]
Number of Posts: 2
Crafting Recipe Proposed:
Elemental Bauble
Materials Required: 1 Stabilized Mana Fragment, 1 Mana Fragment
Posts Required: 1
A 2-layer sphere, this bauble has an outer layer that almost looks like ice, followed by a denser inner layer, and a hollow vacuum on the inside. The sphere can be handled without dissipating. Its most unique property is that it will gain the magic elemental properties of nature around itself, as well as anima and mana, until sealed by an Alchemist. Explicitly, this is Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth, Wind, Water, Darkness, Light, Anima, and Mana. For the most experienced of alchemists, it might be possible to mirror other elements. This sphere has two caveats, however. First, it naturally attains the elements around itself until magically sealed. It cannot be created sealed, as the entire construct would cave in on itself due to the vacuum. Therefore, it often has a mix of muddy elements taken in itself and requires serious effort to get a pure elemental sample inside one of these orbs. Second is that artificial creation of an element will never create a sphere of purity and use equal to one derived from nature. Due to this, it can often be incredibly difficult to get a good majority of one element or a pure sample inside a sphere. The more elementally pure a sphere, the better a material it can become, so cheating this is not advised. The inside of the sphere reflects the nature of the elements it has come in contact with, from frosting over or swirling air inside, although there is no set pattern for any one element.
Explanation: Scoria is trying to cheat in his attempt to find chests. In order to cheat, he needs a means of messing with the elements. This is his means.
The sphere naturally collects elements around itself. Thus, you'll have a mixture of elements. It's possible for elements to fade. The purity of an element around a sphere can create a stronger affinity. (A sphere can have '10' or '100' units of element in it, so having 70/100 units of wind instead of 9/10 is totally different. The strength of the element determines how much it influences the sphere and how strong that influence is, adding into itself. It's possible for a very weak elemental presence to cause the orb to barely even react.) As an example, a sphere created by the seashore on a sunny day would naturally be mostly a weak collection of the light and wind elements. Place it in the sand? Light, wind, mixed with some earth. Put it in the water? Add some water into the mix. It's pretty much impossible to have a "high intensity, pure element sphere" without going very far out of your way. Go into the snow-capped peaks where they get Britain Snow for the ice element, for instance. Scoria's a druid, so it's all about nature! Mana and anima might be hard to figure out, but there's probably good places and ways to deal with it. Artificial (mana produced) elements < natural elements. Good luck getting lightning.
Feel free to ask any questions you like, I'm more than happy to take any questions about this. It's a little hard to explain, but it's basically a tool for collecting elements and the like. It will react to the purity of the element and the like and I guess it looks like a whole lot of babble, but it's pretty open-use. Anyone can interpret this thing as they want, I guessssssss?
No idea how I'm going to use this personally, but I'm sure it'll be useful somehow. I'll think of something.
Thread: Here, Posts 4, 5
Researchers: Scoria [Alchemist]
Number of Posts: 2
Crafting Recipe Proposed:
Elemental Bauble
Materials Required: 1 Stabilized Mana Fragment, 1 Mana Fragment
Posts Required: 1
A 2-layer sphere, this bauble has an outer layer that almost looks like ice, followed by a denser inner layer, and a hollow vacuum on the inside. The sphere can be handled without dissipating. Its most unique property is that it will gain the magic elemental properties of nature around itself, as well as anima and mana, until sealed by an Alchemist. Explicitly, this is Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth, Wind, Water, Darkness, Light, Anima, and Mana. For the most experienced of alchemists, it might be possible to mirror other elements. This sphere has two caveats, however. First, it naturally attains the elements around itself until magically sealed. It cannot be created sealed, as the entire construct would cave in on itself due to the vacuum. Therefore, it often has a mix of muddy elements taken in itself and requires serious effort to get a pure elemental sample inside one of these orbs. Second is that artificial creation of an element will never create a sphere of purity and use equal to one derived from nature. Due to this, it can often be incredibly difficult to get a good majority of one element or a pure sample inside a sphere. The more elementally pure a sphere, the better a material it can become, so cheating this is not advised. The inside of the sphere reflects the nature of the elements it has come in contact with, from frosting over or swirling air inside, although there is no set pattern for any one element.
Explanation: Scoria is trying to cheat in his attempt to find chests. In order to cheat, he needs a means of messing with the elements. This is his means.
The sphere naturally collects elements around itself. Thus, you'll have a mixture of elements. It's possible for elements to fade. The purity of an element around a sphere can create a stronger affinity. (A sphere can have '10' or '100' units of element in it, so having 70/100 units of wind instead of 9/10 is totally different. The strength of the element determines how much it influences the sphere and how strong that influence is, adding into itself. It's possible for a very weak elemental presence to cause the orb to barely even react.) As an example, a sphere created by the seashore on a sunny day would naturally be mostly a weak collection of the light and wind elements. Place it in the sand? Light, wind, mixed with some earth. Put it in the water? Add some water into the mix. It's pretty much impossible to have a "high intensity, pure element sphere" without going very far out of your way. Go into the snow-capped peaks where they get Britain Snow for the ice element, for instance. Scoria's a druid, so it's all about nature! Mana and anima might be hard to figure out, but there's probably good places and ways to deal with it. Artificial (mana produced) elements < natural elements. Good luck getting lightning.
Feel free to ask any questions you like, I'm more than happy to take any questions about this. It's a little hard to explain, but it's basically a tool for collecting elements and the like. It will react to the purity of the element and the like and I guess it looks like a whole lot of babble, but it's pretty open-use. Anyone can interpret this thing as they want, I guessssssss?
No idea how I'm going to use this personally, but I'm sure it'll be useful somehow. I'll think of something.
