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Episode 12 - A Prop-er Upgrade
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With gold, heavy meatal, and some powerful hexagons, OD makes one more essential upgrade for ID. What does she do with the power to replicate objects?
Anything she wants!
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Securing Gold and Ignoring Damage
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It's been a couple days, so you have secured some gold. You have ah completed your last task, which was actually to fix some player damage, so it was ah a bit more serious um on that note.
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Speaker
um but Well, you wouldn't know by Odie's behavior that it was that serious. He likes to have fun when the...
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Speaker
threat of a plane is at stake. or this And yet, like, but the problem's right there, but we can't just go and fix it. we have to We have to play sports ball first. We have to play sports ball first. Listen, if you're, like, a super advanced...
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Speaker
race from another dimension or reality or whatever and your boss says hey we have to fix some damage but don't let anyone know that you exist you can't just barge in there and steal the thing and get in trouble and like get involved in the law enforcement or the local plane or local world wherever you're doing whatever you're at well so it just creates so many problems i mean i think that's a differing opinion between id and od But anyway yeah, it's it's been a couple days.
Entering Odie's Workshop
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And ah for the most part, it's pretty quiet.
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Speaker
So with that metal so her but that gold secured, Odie, pretty much that same night you get back, shows you into like basically leads you into a workshop that's on the lower floor of ah the buzzard.
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Speaker
And I believe you were in this workshop at some point making engravings for your room and stuff like that. i be Yeah. yeah He put a big scorch mark on the wall.
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no No, that was there to begin with. Oh, yeah. and not that I'm sure that was there. I'm sure that was there for from someone else who ah was playing with the laser. in ingredient I mean, the the plane crashed, right? Maybe. don't know what happened to the plane. That's why the maybe. Yeah. ah The buzzard's wrecked. don't know how it got wrecked. um But um I will say that after this last adventure and after the last couple days, I.D. has taken the sign down.
ID Claims Workshop Space
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Speaker
Oh, okay. Improvement. Development. I mean, she left the one that says ID room. but Yeah. she took No boys allowed. Yeah. you all No boys including Gremly? You only have a giant magical dragon in your room?
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Speaker
No. Poor Gremlin. No offense to him, but all my stuff would get smashed. but that not No room for giant Gremlin. And wet? Then maybe slimy. Yes, definitely slimy. um So in this in this little workshop um that he has set up, like you have your section. i'm sure I'm sure you've claimed some territory in this lab already.
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Speaker
Or you're really doing stuff in your room. Well, okay. So, she was. I was. Whatever. I am her. She is me.
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Speaker
four Four actual play
Humorous 'ID Crisis' Moment
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sessions. and You are her. Man, this is kind of an ID crisis. Man. Don't turn it off, guys. I'm sorry.
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Speaker
Keep listening. It gets better, hopefully. You'll know what this episode is going to be about. I know. Okay. So she was working in her room because she liked being all secretive, right? do you have like...
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Speaker
equipment in your room or? She did. Okay. but Because like this this workshop is like it's like big tools bolted to the floor. like like Yeah, she's got this she's got little stuff. Okay. But like after the um After the time they spent in Olympus and the fact that he did eat the chocolate, she's she's starting to, like, soften a bit and let her guard down a little. bit Now, mind you, there's, like, really no reason that she would have to have her guard up.
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I mean, OD, of all people, who would have to, like, with the strangers in my house. But, um... I don't know. she She's young and she's... Still figuring shit out. Yeah.
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Speaker
But anyway, some of her defiance has softened a bit. Some. Like, she was like... Odie's like, don't touch anything. Don't go into locked rooms. And then he proceeds to lock all the rooms. And so she's just like, well, fuck this guy. I'm going to get into this. i can like I'm put a sign that says...
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Speaker
Lock this room, duh. Lock this room, bitch. on But she she has since, like, seen how silly that is. um So she would have asked for some space in the workshop.
00:05:01
Speaker
Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, so let's say like it's like a um So this workshop's fairly small. Like, you suspect that maybe it's just, like, a lot of other rooms in the buzzard that was just kind of, like, former passenger seating, but Odie tore out this room and repurposed it and put it in dividers to make a segregated room instead of a big, long a section of seating in the plane.
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um So there's some, like, tables and workbenches both down to the
Melting Trophy for Creation
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Speaker
floor. There's some large equipment. um Like, you see some, like... we would know is like table saws, band saws, like oh the some, you know, traditional big equipment that you would see in a lot of different shops. But you also see some different hardware that seems to be newer. um And you suspect that maybe some of is equipment, that like the older piece of equipment here, was maybe on the buzzer for like maintenance. um to Because who knows how long this this plane was been flying in the air and they need onboard maintenance to just, you know, maintain it.
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Speaker
Is there sci-fi and sea machine?
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Speaker
sea and sea machine? Yeah. i don't think It didn't work out the way it was. It's pretty much just like a small, um kind of crowded shop. There's room to walk around in here, but not much.
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Speaker
Because there's basically workstations that have... different tools set up. Like, you have hand tools and everything, but then you have, like, a station that's at, like, a CNC machine. You have a station that's at, um, like, a boring machine. Like, different, different, uh, pieces of equipment that's set out and, like, there's different stations for them.
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Speaker
there's some organization here, and it's fairly clean, but you can tell what, like, whenever Odie messes with something, um, until he's done with the project, he kind of leaves shit out. Um... So he has a station in this lab, at this this workshop, um that has just like bits of metal um laying around.
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And you can see that they're like gutted instruments. um Some of them are so badly taken apart that you don't know what they were originally. They're just broken pieces of things.
00:07:06
Speaker
Um, but you can see that he had something set up like in process. Um, but he takes that trophy and he actually takes off. It's like a traditional, don't think I described it as trophy looks like it's like, it's just a standard, almost like a cup trophy with ah handles on the side.
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um and he takes, it's a small, I was picturing it was like a person. No, it's just like a small like cup trophy. um Actually, to be honest, I was picturing it as an Oscar and I don't know why. He chops off the Oscar's head and melts it down. um ah ah No, he takes ah one of the arms off this ah golden cup trophy.
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And I don't know if you're like, looking over at him or working on your own stuff. um But. Well, I mean, if he was like, okay, we got gold.
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Now I can make you s things. She's going to be like. What you doing? Yeah. So she's like looking over his shoulder since she's taller than him. Yeah. So he's at this workbench. Yes.
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Speaker
Two inches is taller. he's got She's got two inches on Odie. So, ah like, even though he's ah a machine, like like, he still puts, like, safety glasses on, like, almost like darkened glasses.
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Speaker
And he hands you a pair because he, like, without turning around, he knows you're there leaning over his shoulder. Well, yeah, I wasn't trying to hide it. Okay. Okay. So he puts the safety glasses on like they're just the regular safety glasses? They're like welding glasses. Because he's got like melt this metal Yeah, like it covers his lens and everything? That's kind of like over like Yeah, a little bit. It's kind of Okay, there we go. Doesn't quite fit on his face when he's making it work. ah um Like, it may have for, like, a very big person. But um he hands you a pair, and he's like, put these on, if you will.
00:09:07
Speaker
What are they for? They are to protect your eyes. From what specifically? So when I fire up this instrument here, this is a superheated laser. And the beam point when it contacts any surface is extremely bright.
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Speaker
um Similar to welding although you're not familiar for with that process. ah Why can't you just say it's going to get bright in here? It's going to get very bright.
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Speaker
Gotcha. I should put some on. Okay. um Yeah, he fires up that ah small laser. It's like a little handheld thing. And he holds it to the little piece
Introduction to Planar Door Chamber
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of gold that he has off this trophy and melts it down into a almost like a small mold.
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And um a black mold. Never mind. Just keep going. ah He built it down to a small mold. And when you see it form like ah like this molten gold of fill up this mold that's made out of like some kind of heavy metal, um it forms a lattice that you kind of recognize that Um, it's in the formation of almost like a honeycomb.
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Speaker
Uh, when he's done, he, uh, removes his glasses and he's like, okay, this needs to cool for bit. Uh, but if you follow me, I have something to show you.
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So he leads you to the, uh, planar door chamber. And there's a planar door in the middle of the room, bolted to the ground. And he leads you to the back of it where all these cables, these big corrugated pipes are coming off of the back of it.
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And near these pipes, almost up against the wall, is a hatch door that is in the floor. And he puts his hand on this pretty big lock that is on it.
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And he opens up that door. And he says, now if you wait here just a moment, you can't follow me down here. But I will bring... Well, this down here is where I keep the fuel cells for the planar door.
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Speaker
And I need to fetch a few of these in order to complete what I'm working on. And I can't go down there because... So the fuel cells that power where the planar door are made of fracture fire, and it's extremely dangerous and unstable energy.
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Speaker
So it doesn't necessarily affect me that much, but for you, ah it will surely be fatal. Oh.
00:11:41
Speaker
This is one room that is absolutely... No evidence for you, if you understand. Okay. I just want to make sure that you weren't just keeping me out to be that person.
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Speaker
i say he I mentioned that one of the ground rules for the buzzard is not to enter in the locked doors, and primarily, therefore, your safety. Yeah, you so you said, but I didn't really believe you, to be honest. well this I just thought you just didn't want me peeping in your stuff.
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Speaker
She wouldn't say peeping. It translates that way. okay and uh he's like i will be right back and he closed that hatch door and he's gone for a minute um so he's gone for a few minutes and um he comes back out and he like looks like there's like a ladder descending into this this chamber hold on i need to make a rule for what well What are you trying to do?
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Speaker
She was going to inspect the back of the planar door while he was down there. and like be like And once she heard him coming back up, she would like scoot back. ah She was not fast enough.
00:12:51
Speaker
What did you roll? that's three. Okay. I mean, it's just the back of the door. like He sees you looking at it, but like the all the back of the planar door is is just a black...
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door frame, but is filled with cables, wires, hoses, tubes, all these things. Yeah, all these interesting things. and Yeah.
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But, like, that's all you really get from that? You don't know what is in these two? Oh, no, yeah. mean, but she was touching them. Okay. um And, ah yeah, Odie comes up, and ah he he walks up, sees, like, a... um Either a very steep staircase or a ladder, or you can't really tell, but um he walks up and he says, Miss ID.
00:13:37
Speaker
Yes. If you could refrain from touching that side of the pointer door. There was a bug. And. okay
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She stops because even she is like, all right, that's too much bullshit. oh He's like, all right, fine. Sorry. Fine. Okay. And you see him turn around and heft something pretty large out of this um this hash door.
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Speaker
It's almost too big like to fit through here. It barely barely clears it. And he hefts up a big black rack. um It's just a big, solid-looking thing. But the entire front of it, like it's pretty thin. um It's maybe a few inches thick.
00:14:21
Speaker
But it's just big and looks heavy. Especially with how Odie is even struggling to kind of heft this thing up. Um...
New Power Source for ID
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Speaker
And inside it, um like the front of it, um is just what looks like honeycomb. And you, of all people, know you know from your pollinators what honeycomb looks like. But these are very, very small honeycomb cells. Each of these things is maybe a quarter inch in size, like a cross. They're very small.
00:14:51
Speaker
But when he brings this thing out... um Actually, make a roll for me. It was flat roll. Ten. Holy shit. I hate ten when you kind of need it. I mean, similar to when you um crossed through the planes for the first time, um he was surprised to see how well you made your first planer jump, essentially.
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Speaker
um When he brings this thing out, you feel a twinge of this energy hit you. It's a heat. It's hot. um what he brings out that this this was on this rack. um But you don't feel really much anything from this.
00:15:26
Speaker
um But when you look at this this honeycomb, some of it's filled, it's maybe half filled with this white, like basically the cells are filled with this white um glowing material and the rest of the cells seem blank. And he says, I need to take this back to the shop. If you can grab one end of this, you can make quick work of that.
00:15:46
Speaker
So the role was just to... To see how well you withstood being exposed to a little bit of fracture fire. Okay. Yeah. Tiny bit. I want to try something. Okay. I want her to try and lift just with the one hand to see if like she can just be like, oh, yeah, I got one. Just have one hand? Yeah. strong Strong girl style? Yeah. But she gets a plus one to look yeah athletic stuff.
00:16:10
Speaker
Yeah, that's an 11. Holy shit. Yeah, you... So, this rack, it has handles on, like, both, like, long ends of it. um So, it's made to be kind of hefted by two people, because it is a big thing.
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Speaker
So, Odie has both hands on one end of it, kind used it to kind of hoist it out of this ah this hole in the ground. But you grab the other end, it's fucking heavy, but, like, you've lifted heavy shit on your farm before.
00:16:34
Speaker
You pick it up, and it seems heavier than it looks. Like, you might have picked up something similar in size on your farm, but it weighed maybe half as much. This is a very heavy thing. But you still, with one hand, ah with, oh, he's two hands on the other side, you have to with one on this side.
00:16:51
Speaker
And ah he's like, oh, well, impressive, Miss Heidi. Okay, let's carry on. What is this thing made out of? This is a lot heavier than it looks. This is Vancurian iron.
00:17:04
Speaker
It's a specialty metal made in the plane of Vancur, the plane of iron. It's one of the former planes that makes up elsewhere. she like makes a She pulls out like a ah ah concentrating face.
00:17:18
Speaker
That's where the golem people are from, right? Yes, exactly. ok Fantastic memory. Um, and, uh, you both walk back to this lab, uh, this is workshop and he sets this rack off to the side and, um, he lays it that flat on the ground and he unfastens some, uh, locks all around like on all four sides, sides. And the top kind of pops up like a hinge and And exposes these cells, these honeycombed hexagonal shaped ah cells.
00:17:52
Speaker
And using a kind like a pair of um of ah like vice grips, he grabs five of these small, flat, white hexagonal crystals. And they are glowing with this brilliant heat.
00:18:07
Speaker
um And now that you're kind of like away from that big chamber, that like that hole in the ground where this thing came out of, like you you feel the heat, but it's not like... Um, it's not super hot anymore. ah You feel the heat coming from these crystals, but it's not uncomfortable.
00:18:22
Speaker
Um, and he places them on the table next to this, uh, golden hexagonal, um, thing. And, uh, he says, if you would, Miss ID, need access to your equipment.
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Speaker
She gives, she like a big eyebrow raise.
Equipment Upgrade with Prop Lens
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Speaker
I'm sorry, what? I need to upgrade the cells inside that so you can make use of this. And he he has something set aside next to this this golden.
00:18:57
Speaker
And he picks up um what looks like a small magnifier, like not a small magnifying glass, but one you can hold, you know, between your yeah your thumb and and index finger. And he puts it up next to his own lens and he says, I made this for you.
00:19:14
Speaker
This is prop lens. You can use this to summon any item you can think of, but it does need a power source. And the power source I gave you for your current equipment is not quite enough to power both your disguising device and this prop lens.
00:19:38
Speaker
she's She's got this, like, somewhat a horrified look on her face. ah um
00:19:48
Speaker
Do you have to, like, take out my eye? No, no, Masai. As long as it's attached to your current equipment somehow, it'll function the same. Oh.
00:20:00
Speaker
I was just comparing it to mine, because it's it's essentially the same thing. Okay, because, like, i for a second there, I thought you were going to... Rip my eye out and plug this thing into my brain. No. said it needs a good power source.
00:20:14
Speaker
Well, this is this is the power source matrix I just made for Okay. So if you would, Miss Heidi, I do need access to your current equipment.
00:20:25
Speaker
Just to exchange power sources. Now that I know that you meant this and she holds she raises her arm and not... ah Not your biological equipment, if that's what you're... out Listen, it's not the first time someone's asked to see my equipment, okay?
00:20:41
Speaker
And before, you know, we had a situation where you ended up like them, i wanted to make sure. But what? I won't ask.
00:20:53
Speaker
um Oh, they got punched really, really hard and their noses got broken. oh well, very good then. And then I dunked them min a hor in a horse trough.
00:21:03
Speaker
Oh, well, deserved. And then I tied them to the back of a horse and had it drag them around town. Oh, well, okay.
00:21:15
Speaker
um And then I poured lemon juice on them after they were done with that. Right.
00:21:23
Speaker
ah Can I see your equipment, please? Those were good times. Okay. She takes it off and hands it to him.
00:21:35
Speaker
all right. And ah he opens it up and you can see the inside of it. It does have some honeycomb cells in there, but there's only three. No, four of them. There's only four of them. He's like, I must apologize, Miss Heidi. While I was testing you, gave you equipment that was not 100% functional.
00:21:52
Speaker
Mainly because I did not have the gold supply to make the full power source. What? Well, that I... You gave me faulty equipment and didn't tell me? Not faulty. It's just that the batter would not last very long.
00:22:09
Speaker
But you still didn't say that. i did not. So I apologize for that. But I was testing you initially. But now we have more gold to make this matrix. I can make you a full-size power core.
00:22:22
Speaker
She, like, narrows her eyes at O.D. You gotta get better about that. p And he's like, well, I mean, from this day forward, you will have fully functional equipment that is comparable to mine.
Power Core Differences Explained
00:22:35
Speaker
Though I will talk to you about the main differences between this equipment and, well, the equipment that I have installed in me.
00:22:47
Speaker
um You can see where i got I got a little confused there because your equipment is kind of like your biological equipment. Yes. Yes. So... That's fair.
00:22:58
Speaker
That's fair. And, uh, he takes your, uh, that power source out of, um, uh, that, uh, gauntlet, essentially, that, uh, you have. And, uh, he takes this gold matrix that he made, clips it onto the front of almost, I guess, a circuit board. Um...
00:23:15
Speaker
And can tell it's like the same, relatively same kind of cardboard he used on the original one. So like he basically overlaid it. um And he very, very, very carefully takes these six white crystals and installs them inside this lattice, this matrix. And it forms, ah just so listeners know what this thing looks like, kind of like a circle made of seven hexagonal crystals, ah sex have seven hexagonal shapes. um So you have ah one in the center is surrounded by six. um So it makes kind of like a circular um honeycomb ah lattice.
00:23:53
Speaker
um And it's surrounded by pure gold. um And he takes this and clips it into your device and it it boots back on. um And so so like I should ask, um since you're not going to install this on your eye, um where is Eidi going to install this lens? ah Because Odi mentioned it has to be attached to your equipment somehow in order to function.
00:24:24
Speaker
Well, after she thinks about it for a little bit and maybe does some quick sketches, um she's going to have it attached right Yeah.
00:24:43
Speaker
the antenna is kind of towards the back of her garuntlet like towards her her forearm and but there's and there's a little space up front so she's going to put it there um at it sort of an angle So that it can per she can project out from her wrist, basically. Okay, cool.
00:25:07
Speaker
Yeah, so he hands you um this small lens. And it has um some features um attached to it. So it's like his lens is built into his skull. So like the same equipment is probably there in some fashion, but it's just not external.
00:25:23
Speaker
um And he says, now you can attach this to your current equipment any way you want. ah And I wasn't quite sure how to make this function the same way mine does. With me, when I summon props, I just have to think of the object and I can draw it out.
00:25:42
Speaker
You do not have that capability yet. um She like absentmindedly like puts a hand up to her eye. Yeah. um And ah he says, in the meantime, I preloaded this with hundreds of assets, objects that you can draw out and search for. Similar how you search for disguises when you enter into a new plane. However, when it comes to the props, you don't need to be at any certain plane to summon them. You can summon them absolutely anywhere, whenever you want.
00:26:15
Speaker
But it comes at a cost. Now, when it comes to props and your disguises, it utilizes the six crystals around the center. The center is what powers everything else.
00:26:27
Speaker
So that power is already reserved for the basic other functions of your equipment. The six surrounding, when you summon a prop or disguise, it uses some of that power.
00:26:43
Speaker
You have to keep in mind how much power you are drawing from these crystals. If you draw too much, you will cause what's called a reset, which you've already experienced that when you tried to disguise yourself as Gremly.
00:26:56
Speaker
Right. Yeah, that was that was that was weird. So when it comes to generating disguises, ah the more different they are than what you currently look like, where you're much smaller or much larger, turning into a creature that is much more different than how you look now, it's going to draw more power out of these crystals. Same thing with props. If you generate something very small, it's only going to consume a small fraction of the power of one crystal.
00:27:28
Speaker
But if you were to summon something the size of this rack here, this planar door rack, it would consume a lot more energy to create that object.
00:27:41
Speaker
no right That makes sense. There is a major difference between my power core and this core inside your device. This is an artificial core made with artificial cells made of fracture fire.
00:27:54
Speaker
Fracture fire is what bleeds out of the broken remnants of the planes. It's very unstable, very hazardous energy. But when perfected... She, like, eyes like her equipment that Odie's got. like But when refined and crystallized, they become stable.
00:28:15
Speaker
And that is what is used to make these crystals here. These crystals are used to power very powerful things, including your device and my planar door. But obviously the planar door takes a lot of them.
00:28:27
Speaker
um And he points to that rack and there's still like, there's maybe a hundred of these cells in this rack, um but it's half full and now it's minus seven more crystals that he's drawn out um to make your power core.
00:28:41
Speaker
um I have a question about that, actually. Yes, go on. Why did you have to bring the whole thing up? Why couldn't you just have grabbed... He says, well, I don't have a good container to safely transport these.
00:28:57
Speaker
Remember when we first met on your world? When that battery I disabled? and yeah It was threatening to explode and cause a lot of destruction.
00:29:08
Speaker
While these crystals are stabilized... Destroying one would potentially delete half the buzzard. ah I do not want to know exactly what happens if you were destroy one of these crystals, but fracture fire is nothing you want to mess with, ah be reckless with.
00:29:32
Speaker
Okay, fair. i do have a question. Yes. Where did you get the rack? The rack? Yes. mean, every planer door has dozens of these racks to use as fuel cells.
00:29:46
Speaker
In fact, this rack you see here is a single fuel cell for the planer door. And there's a dozen of them down there. So where did they come from? They come from crystal refineries. And those who have the knowledge and skill and equipment to refine fracture fire, is there's only a few individuals that know how to do this because the process is so dangerous.
00:30:11
Speaker
Many have died in their pursuit of trying to refine this energy. So my stores where I get these, ah well, I suppose we meet them later. As I said, the individuals who refine these crystals are anonymous for the most part, and I'm not supposed to disclose who knows how to make these crystals.
00:30:34
Speaker
So how long do these last? Yes, ah that is one major difference between mine and these. So when it comes to fixer crystals, ah the ones that power myself and any other fixer out there, the material used to make them is no longer around.
00:30:54
Speaker
ah So there's no more fixtures being made. There's no more fixer crystals being made. Once their damage is destroyed, there's no replacing them. But these... These are a decent replacement, but there's a reason why, say, a broken fixer would not make use of these crystals.
00:31:12
Speaker
My crystals, they recharge whenever I'm around electrical currents or when I'm around fracture fire. For instance, just being in elsewhere. Mine recharge automatically. These crystals, they have a shelf life.
00:31:26
Speaker
The more you use them, the less they retain their charge. And once that charge is depleted, you can no longer use them. They die. So when it comes to your crystals and your device, we will have to change and swap these crystals once they drain their energy. Okay. Okay.
00:31:46
Speaker
He hands you this lens and he closes up um that fuel cell that he had from the player door. He says, i will keep this fuel cell up here for now because, well, we will have to make use of these crystals changing yours out.
00:32:01
Speaker
So eventually we'll have to go back and get more of these. ah Eventually. We still have plenty of fuel to make some trips. So, like, ah are you installing that lens on your equipment now? Do you need time to to do that? or Oh, um she has installed by the time they finish talking. Oh, okay.
00:32:20
Speaker
Cool. As soon as she mentions that, she, like, holds her hand up and she flips open the little ah little screen. Yeah, you flip that screen open it and you can see there's, like, almost like a new menu in there. And it is just filled with basically a button that says props. And...
00:32:38
Speaker
All in alphabetical order, you can see different items. Like, um you just see hammer, screwdriver. Like, it starts with very small things. Key, coin. Like, it has all these different things you can you can summon. And then it goes up to somewhat larger things where it says just, like, you know, different sized boxes. um A microwave. An anvil.
00:32:58
Speaker
What the hell is a flugelhorn? i It was in my library of assets that I've summoned before. I'm not It's a musical instrument. Man, I don't know when that would to be useful, but and do not look forward to that day. Namasadi, if you want,
00:33:16
Speaker
oh we could head out to another plane to maybe get you used to summoning props. little bit practice. Man. See, now that I know the price of everything, I'm so hesitant about it.
00:33:31
Speaker
But ID
Practicing on a New Plane
00:33:33
Speaker
would not be. Yeah, so speaking of cost of things, for our listeners, introduces a new mechanic into the actual play. Both ID and OD can summon props and summon disguises, but now we have a limit of things we could do. So if you picture those six cells around the seventh central cell, if you divide those up into three equal pieces...
00:33:53
Speaker
It's yellow basically three charges per crystal. And for I.D. she can use each of those divisions three times max before they go dark completely. So it's kind of like HP, but you can't recover it until you come back to elsewhere to exchange crystals.
00:34:11
Speaker
So... If you're out there for a few hours, not a big deal unless you just turn into a billion billion things or summon a billion things. You've got run out energy very quickly. But if you're out there, like we ever have an extended mission where you're out there for several days, you could be in a bit of trouble.
00:34:29
Speaker
Both ID and OD because they both have limits. So that probably explains why the... power cells that Odie took out were mostly dark. Yeah, yeah, so... Because Idy... She's been messing around with it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:34:46
Speaker
She's been messing around with it. um So, yeah, now now you have this... yeah all the ability to summon props, which he can... Odie has done numerous times. Going back to the first... Well, technically second episode when we met Odie.
00:35:01
Speaker
um He summoned a map um to... um To navigate or basically trick ah Dez and you into following a path to the ship. um And he also disguised himself as a horse, which also consumes power.
00:35:16
Speaker
So depending on the size of the thing you summon and depending on the thing you turn into for disguise. Kind of give an example for our listeners. If you change Idy's skin color, because like maybe you're traveling to a world where people aren't blue, you have to change your skin color.
00:35:31
Speaker
That's a very minor change. It might consume like one charge. But if you're turning into an elephant, that might consume nine charges, three whole cells, um to turn into something that large. And then you have to use the remainder of it um to summon props or you know do what what you want with.
00:35:47
Speaker
As Odi mentioned, you don't want to absorb all or use all that power, otherwise you cause what's called a reset, That disables all your props, disables your disguise, and reveals you. So that's a big, big deal.
00:36:00
Speaker
So as as Odie was talking about practicing, she's scrolling through the thing, and she's he's talking, but she's... Blah, blah, blah, blahh blah, blah. blah blah like She, like, points her wrist, like, out. Like Green Lantern style.
00:36:15
Speaker
why did you react Why did you say that? Now... It's green... and That's immediately what I thought when you showed me... When you showed me how that is assembled. so Instead of coming out of her knuckle, it's coming out of wrist.
00:36:28
Speaker
Well... Okay, fine. Apparently... Now everyone in the world knows what one of my ah inspirations for things is. Okay?
00:36:43
Speaker
Cool. yeah it she So she pointed it and then she puts she pushes a button not on her um device and this pink light like shoots out from the lens.
00:36:56
Speaker
Well, it's thought actually, at first it's kind of like it like blinks a little bit like you like a dying light bulb. And then then then it like gets this constant pink light.
00:37:08
Speaker
It goes out for, don't know, how far does Odie's... It's like a foot. Like, it's not very far. It's enough for him to grab it. Okay, so it comes out, and at the end of it, it forms a... I'm curious how much power you are spending right now.
00:37:24
Speaker
Shush. Okay.
00:37:28
Speaker
It forms into ah a chocolate bar. Okay. So it's one charge gone. Yep. um And she, like, reaches out with her other hand and grabs it and, like, opens it up and takes a bite.
00:37:48
Speaker
Does it taste just like... I mean, props are a fully realized thing, but, like, you notice as you eat it, it doesn't quite, like, like, it melts, but then just seems to just vanish.
00:38:01
Speaker
You can't just, like, you can't use the spell create food. It's not magic. That's fine. But she, like like, she, like, takes another bite, and she, like... It gives you the sensation and taste of a chocolate bar, but, like...
00:38:16
Speaker
When it dissolves in your mouth, like it's suddenly it it suddenly gone. It's almost like you swallowed it, but you didn't swallow it. like you you're not There's nothing that you swallow. So what ID has effectively figured out is the perfect weight loss solution.
00:38:32
Speaker
Or the everlap everlasting gobstopper. Eat as much cake as you want. It's not actually going in here. It's not actually doing anything. Yeah. So you can eat a million candy bars. You might rot your teeth.
00:38:45
Speaker
But like, you're not going to get fat. And
Experimenting with Prop Lens
00:38:51
Speaker
Oni sees you do that. He says, have one use of a prop, I suppose, but it's not going to give you any benefit other than taste.
00:39:00
Speaker
She like just stares at him. What other benefit would there be? yeah I suppose it's not an extremely beneficial food. She keeps staring at him.
00:39:12
Speaker
But, uh... And then she, like, continues to stare at him, and then she, like, holds it out, but offering it to him. He says, no thank you, Miss Heidi. I promise it tastes just like it should.
00:39:27
Speaker
the No. i I'm sorry, no. I appreciate the offer. Well, fine. And she tosses it behind her, and then she pushes a button and it disappears. Yeah.
00:39:40
Speaker
Odie says, well, if you would like some out on the field practice, I know a destination we can we can practice. All right. Get used your new equipment. Okay.
00:39:51
Speaker
um Can we just be ourselves or do we have to? You would have to be in disguise. But it's not that dramatic of a change. So he leads you up to the player door control console.
00:40:06
Speaker
And he once again sits in that chair and he drives both of those joysticks forward. And- Hold on, hold on. She says as she, like, runs to her room. Oh, well okay.
00:40:20
Speaker
All right. And then you hear from down the hall, I'm not a machine. I have to grab stuff. I don't just keep it in me. what are you grabbing?
00:40:32
Speaker
Like, she's grabbing, like, ah her, like, belt and her journals and all... You know, she's going somewhere else. She's yeah you know she's getting suited up. Yeah, essentially. um so when you make it back, he shows basically on all his monitors, he shows what this world looks like.
00:40:48
Speaker
And he shows like different regions. Like he shows one region that's very, very cold. um He shows one region where it looks like a tropical jungle. He shows one region where it just looks like a mountainous, you know, kind of like barren, rockin ah rocky area. Barren, rocky? Yeah. The rockin' area.
00:41:07
Speaker
And he shows this ah one area that looks like a plain with some fields and you know forests, like spotted trees. Or spotted bunches of trees. Spotted trees? Okay. Give me, I fucking suck ass at talking. Nope. Spotted trees is canon. So like, um basically like ah spottings of groups of trees. ah Spottings of spotted trees. Spottings of spotted trees. We discussed this in the world development session. See if you can spot the spottings of spotted trees. um
00:41:38
Speaker
And he also... See if you can spot the spottings of spotted spruce... Spotted spruce. Okay. But on the central like big monitor, where he sometimes he basically shows like the focus of the mission or the world you're going to he shows a small encampment. And there's little shallow huts.
00:42:03
Speaker
Looks they're made of some kind of like tree material. But it looks like these huts are primarily underground. But what comes out of these huts are... Feathered, bipedal creatures.
00:42:17
Speaker
um And really tell how big they are, but they're bestial. And... You have likely never seen beasts act like people before, but they're all gathered around a central bonfire. And you see them conversing but among them amongst themselves.
00:42:37
Speaker
You see little younglings running around, chasing each other, probably playing some game. ah You see some of them decorated in, like, almost like, like ah crude clothing or like ornamental clothing um and you see them like you can't they're saying because like oh this is all like quiet there's no volume uh there's no audible you know there's no there's no uh audio to any of this footage or pictures um but you see they're almost like seem to be telling a story like it seems to be like maybe like the elder of this this clan is talking to a bunch of youngsters uh talking about some story and odi says this plane is fascinating oh this this particular world is
00:43:19
Speaker
I've been looking at it for quite some time, watching the evolution of these creatures here. Aren't they wonderful? Wait, what do you mean you've been watching them? So, sometimes I go to different worlds and different planes where i don't have a task, I don't have a job, i don't do much of anything. But I go there to satisfy my own curiosity, my own desires for knowledge.
00:43:47
Speaker
So I came up with a way to get my planar door to work without use of a job assigned token.
00:43:58
Speaker
So when it comes to these creatures here, I've been observing them for... a couple hundred years now, just observing their behavior, and they're fascinating. There's not a lot of worlds out there where creatures like this in this type of world evolved the way they did.
00:44:16
Speaker
This world is very similar to many I've seen. However, evolution scene to Evolution seemed to favor mammals for most of those worlds.
00:44:30
Speaker
This world is so similar to others I've seen that have some sort of mammalian species as the dominant race. This one is reptilian in nature. ah Well, more...
00:44:43
Speaker
proto-avian. So this is sort of following some evolutionary timelines where these creatures have evolved to become birds of some kind. Somewhere in the buzzard, she has found sticky notes. And this has been a game changer for her.
00:45:00
Speaker
So now all her journals, like before she would just have to write down all her thoughts and sometimes like even little things and then whatever. But Now her journals have like sticky notes everywhere. Yeah. And ah so she like pulled out a sticky note and writes, look up mammals.
00:45:21
Speaker
And she but she like puts it on a um on a page that just says things to do. Yeah. Very lengthy, growing lists, I imagine. Yeah, oh, that there's like... It's covered... it's Like, there's layers of sticky notes. Yeah.
00:45:36
Speaker
So, Odie says, these creatures here, they evolved from very humble beginnings. And it's fascinating to watch a new dominant race become the dominant race of their world. It's it's fascinating.
Preparing for Exploration
00:45:51
Speaker
What they learn and the cultures that they develop. So I figured... we could explore this world while also giving you some practice for your new equipment.
00:46:03
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, biology, blah, blah, blah. Let's go. ok He laughs and he ah takes out from um a pocket in his ah his leather jacket a token.
00:46:15
Speaker
But this token appears a little bit different than a task token. Like, obviously, there's no task assigned, so he's not given a token. um He walks over to the player door and he pops that token in.
00:46:27
Speaker
But just before it seems to grab this token to, like destroy it essentially he grabs this string that he attached to it and yanks it out of the uh this coin slot and the moment he does that the door dings and you know that sound that has reached his destination he smiles he's like uh i learned that from a few different places She has this, like, this grin on her face.
00:46:55
Speaker
Why, Odie, that's very disobedient of you. It's devious. is. i used to feel bad about it, but, uh, this is... Yeah,
00:47:06
Speaker
I'm not supposed to use this plain door. Sure, but... Recreational purposes. Okay. When's the last time someone's came and, like, checked in on you? Last month. Oh.
00:47:18
Speaker
Oh, that is a thing. okay. Okay. Yes. um Though they don't make physical appearances here. They do overall equipment checks and other checks of that nature. But... ah They haven't found out about this yet.
00:47:33
Speaker
Though I'm sure there's questions about why I drain the fuel reserves for my plane door so quickly. Aha. She, like, presses a few buttons on her, on her, on her, uh, I can't just keep calling in her device, right? Her antenna.
00:47:51
Speaker
I guess. Yeah. While he's still holding the coin in his hand, she like waves her hand over it a few times, like in front of it.
00:48:01
Speaker
And then she looks back at at at the screen and she presses a few more buttons. And out of her lens, um approximation ah of the coin with the string appears.
00:48:16
Speaker
Now, this approximation, I think we should roll. yeah I was going to say, roll four. You can't just ye get away with shit. yeah Absolutely. Like, she's trying to do something that a biometric scanner is not necessarily supposed to do because it's not alive.
00:48:34
Speaker
Let's see how we do. Well, that's a five. So, it sounds a coin on a string, but like it's like one for a vending machine. It's a small coin. The token that he has is like pocket watch size, you can hold the palm of your hand.
00:48:49
Speaker
And it's like not circular, it's like wobbly. It's like oval-shaped, ever so slightly out of circle. like Yeah, it's it's the 3D version of being blurry. Yeah, essential like you got ah approximation. But like he looks at that when you you hold in your hand, ah and he actually seems delighted, like impressed. he's like, wow, very good work, Miss Heidi.
00:49:12
Speaker
Though, I guess for practice, it's a good thing, but I wouldn't recommend making a duplicate of this coin. Oh, really? And why is that? Because until you are familiar, i rather not have you operate this equipment by yourself.
00:49:30
Speaker
Right, because I'm still on probation. Essentially, yes. But one of these days I will teach you out you should it. You know what? You are a lot like my dad, and that's not a good thing.
00:49:44
Speaker
How so? I'm trying to keep you safe. Oh, that's what he would say, too. But he never let me he never let me do anything. He just like I'm a very capable person.
00:49:55
Speaker
You know, I am smart. I am, you know, very dexterous. I know things. I can do things like I can. Yes. Anyway, and she realizes that she's like going off on this like tirade about her dad and that this is definitely not the time or place for this. Yes, Ms. I understand your frustrations, but... Anyway, can't... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Let's just go. war Let's go.
00:50:19
Speaker
Okay. He opens that door, and, like, you are met with kind of, like, warm, kind of humid air. But it smells great here. It smells like a forest. And you walk out, and...
00:50:31
Speaker
It's just a big, wooded, foresty area. And ah you see Odie walk through that door and he turns into one of the plains raptors that you saw on the screens.
00:50:44
Speaker
just I imagine they look kind of like, drab, um, for being in the plains. Kind of, like, hide amongst the tall grasses. Mm-hmm. Similar to how, like, cheetahs and jaguars and leopards have spots. There might be some spots on there, so, like, you probably blend in pretty well. But, yeah, like, uh, you see Odie turn into kind of this brownish, drab kind of raptor, um, with feathers all over his body, except for his big, powerful reptilian, or, you know, like, uh, raptorial legs.
00:51:15
Speaker
And... He stands the middle of this clearing waiting for you.
00:51:34
Speaker
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