Knight of Dreams (Sallin_Kari)

[porne]

(Search:13)

The red and green, the ones you've tested so far, only seem to have a very limited range, and the others haven't reacted to your presence just yet. While your search of the immediate area doesn't reveal much, you do recall there being a small forest like grouping of trees. Glancing at it, nothing unusual seems present, and the outside has small saplings, one you're able to immediately rip out of the ground, about as thick as your wrist. Of course, the red stone seems to have its own localized gravity, maybe you can just give it a flying leap?

[Sallin_Kari]

Yeah... no... I'm not going to hurl myself at something when it already hurt me. A good lever is much better and safer.

[porne]

Dragging your small tree over, you find that the bases do seem to taper down slightly, and you find that it takes some serious muscle, but you manage to tip the big fucking rock over and manage to get them to touch together. There's a... flex of space around you, seemingly a high pitched whining just beyond your hearing before the two stones turn to ash.

[Sallin_Kari]

"HAHAHAHAHA!" I let out a grand laugh of victory, "Take that you massive rock bastards!" Now to deal with the others.

[porne]

Well, fortunately, your eyes seem to be showing you the colors as opposed ones, it's hard to tell if that's intentional or if your mind is filling in gaps. A blue and orange set are doing something odd, seeming to pulse between the two of them, while the yellow and purple seem to be affecting the planetary gravity itself, rather than having their own localized gravity field.

(Luck:19 aw, no selective clothing repelling gravity)

It doesn't take long for you to fully cancel out the six stones, a small blob of... something rising from the center. It smells intensely of magic, and you have an urge to take it with your mechanical hand, pocket it, and feed it to your cat, which is odd considering that your inner loot goblin shouldn't be that specific.

[Sallin_Kari]

So was this it? I think, looking at the... thing of magic. I remember the cat telling me to consume the source... is this it? I reach out a grab it with my mechanical hand, trying to see if it can absorb it.

[porne]

Overcoming the other two urges within you, your mechanical hand reaches for it, and seems to begin unfolding, something within your hand that you can't see darting out and snatching the small object. Whatever it is... makes your arm 'grunt' as if gears are spinning up and catching, and you feel a new... muscle? within the arm. The world hasn't collapsed yet, so you've got that going for you.

[Sallin_Kari]

"Okay... but what did that do?" I mutter out loud. I try... 'flexing' the 'muscle.

[porne]

'Flexing' the muscle, your body seeming to change weight at random intervals as long as you're holding the power 'on'. You can't feel any particular difference in the time frame where you're holding it, but it seems like it's mostly just wobbling back and forth. It also seems to be centered around your arm, but affecting your body as a whole. You could ask the cat, or you could go hunting for more abilities on this tiny world.

[Sallin_Kari]

This... seems less then useful then one might hope. I could ask the cat about this since the damn thing seems to know more about my arm then I do... though speaking of it, where the hell is it? Probably should figure out if it is still in low orbit before I look around more.

[porne]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Recall, this dungeon exists because she rolled a 1 on search. The loot is going to be dogshit.

The cat is curled up in a ball of angry fluff as it orbits the planet. Calling up to it reveals an angry pair of eyes glaring down at you. "Look, I'm stuck okay? And then you decide to feed the magical potential to your arm instead of me..." The cat continues to grumble.

[Sallin_Kari]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Sure, but no loot should be useless.

"Excuse me?" I snap at the cat, "You told me, and I quote, 'Find the source and consume it?' as your only piece of guidance... Well I that and you're getting an attitude with me? Fine stay up there! I'm going to look around then. Have fun being a dick by yourself!" I wander off... Weren't there like pine trees or something I saw?

[porne]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Fair enough. Maybe gain one more element to unlock proper control?

"Yes, but I'm part of you! You should have fed it to me!" The cat grumbles and it's hard to tell if that's being a cat, or something about yourself. You do recall multiple urges to take it in different ways. Searching around, you do find the pine trees, and note that they appear to be descending on a hill, which is odd considering how tiny the planet is. A bit of poking around doesn't show an obvious puzzle for you to solve, maybe deeper in? Or you could search the rest of the small planet, it's not big enough to have that many secrets.

[Sallin_Kari]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

I mean, that is one thing. It could be that it just is something she'll have to practice with for later. Or maybe she can only like float in place with it, with no horizontal movement, so it's of limited use(but would allow her to escape the gravity field.) Something like that could work. It doesn't have to be powerful or anything. Could be something you could expand on later though.

"Wait what? What does that mean?" I snap back, wanting a straight answer for once.

Well... the only other place I saw was the cave and I rather not go climbing around in the dark until I am damn sure I'm out of options. Deeper into the weird forest it is, I guess.

[porne]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Yeah, that does seem more reasonable.

Pushing against the way the cat is being mysterious, you feel something in your head... shift a bit. The cat begins to speak, but you already know the information. You have two sets of magic, that which follows basic rules, which is represented by your mechanical arm; and you have the esoteric magics that make no goddamn sense, which the cat represents. But... you're a human being, and if there's anything your species is good at, it's crafting tools. The three different pulls you felt to take the part were each of these ways trying to demand the object, one as a simple mechanism, one as an esoteric mechanism, and one as a part for a machine or tool of some kind.

Heading toward the forest, you find that it does indeed slope downward. Strange that it seems to be built like that... still, you press on, until you come to a cliff face. Well, it seems like a cliff face, but peeking down the side, you find that there's forest growing out of the side of it, like it's curled around on itself. And... you're pretty sure your footprints are visible. You don't recall turning, but it could be some strange property of the local gravity field messing with your head?

[Sallin_Kari]

Wait... I've backtracked? Something is odd here... Okay, I take a 90 degree turn from my previous path. If I come across my own path again, I try to make a pattern of footprints.

[porne]

(18)

Attempting to turn in again, you find your way back to the same cliff, but further along. The pattern seems to be the key though, careful analysis reveals that you're drifting to one side, the minor shift to imperceptible to notice.

[Sallin_Kari]

Well... that is interesting... but I'm still not sure what I'm trying to find here, so I'll just adjust my original path the other way, making a slight turn every few dozen paces to try and compensate.

[porne]

The forest passes, and you find your counter turn is effective at helping to prevent the cliff face from showing up once more, and soon, you're deep in the forest when you see a warped bit of ground, wrapping around itself and creating a spiral toward a glowing bit of light, much like the one from before. You've got the same urge to approach and consume it three different ways.

[Sallin_Kari]

Okay... so the cat needs one of these right... how to do I... feed it to it? Damn thing is floating into the air so even if I take to him... what then? Well, I guess I'll figure it out then. Grabbing the glowy orb and I return to the site of the cat.