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Chapter 210: Know Your Enemy
Turns out, kiting the gorm wasn’t hard when you had access to Tinker-enhanced cargo planes that could keep running indefinitely.The cargo plane was because Perry needed some space to stretch his legs and set up his lab. The soundproofing was excellent and the autopilot advanced, so Perry only really felt a bit of turbulence every now and then.So far, no evidence that the gorm could fly, which was actually worrisome.If they could fly, Perry could rest assured simply by outpacing them, but they must’ve taken the floating castles down some oth...
Chapter 209: Keepaway
“You’re in trouble now, boy,” Perry and Charles said at the same time.“Stop copy- Listen,” Perry and Charles said at the same time, finally Charles shut up and glared at him.“Oh I’m sorry, you started chuckling so I assumed you were about to have a smug, dramatic power-moment, so I took it from you.” Perry said with a shrug.Perry pointed down at the wave of scintillating rainbows flowing over his factory.“Explain. Without the grandstanding.”Charles sighed, his breath whistling between bruised lips.“That right there is the ...
Chapter 208: You Asked For This
“What’s it gonna take?” Charles said.“You’re gonna to have to be more specific,” the power armor said.“What’s it gonna take for you to release my vassals and send them back to Earth?” Charles asked.George would need them.“You want me dead? Is that it?” Charles asked, spreading his arms and lowering his defenses. “Here I am.”“Don’t be silly, Charles. You were always such a kidder. I don’t wanna kill you.”Charles felt a hint of relief.“I want to break you.”The armor that had trapped Stella Germaine suddenly b...
Chapter 207: The Hunt Is On
‘This kind of situation has the unfortunate side-effect of bringing out the serial killer in me.’-Paradox ZaubererPerry managed to give himself more of a half-starved, stranded appearance by using his own life-force to fuel the last bit of healing on his wounded arm, making him look slightly emaciated. A bit of subtle charcoal smudges to bring out the starvation really did wonders.Gotta thank Heather for accidentally infusing me with a bit of makeup theory through osmosis.Thinking of Heather led to thoughts of Nat and his life at home and h...
Chapter 206: The Manita Kit
Gretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation.EXEThe flickering scenery in his seering sphere kept flickering and changing, but the differences were generally subtle and cosmetic with his internalized software filtering out ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine out of every hundred thousand possibilities.It was still infinite, but a narrower spectrum of infiniteI think Gretchen would be proud of the improvement I made on her wilderness and stone castle creator.With an impulse for the dramatic, Perry slammed his hands together on the one he ch...
Chapter 205 Flora and Fauna
‘Perry’ was in a pinch.I must be the stupidest doppleganger to ever exist, to agree to fill in for someone without checking who their family was first.And now he had ‘kill me’ permanently stapled to his back. Metaphorically.It was a good body, though. Supernaturally strong and smart. Zeke had never been in a body quite this spicy. If it wasn’t going to get him killed, he wouldn’t mind staying a while. It was that good. Although it seemed…flat, somehow, like soda without the fizz. There was some aspect of Perry’s abilities that s...
We'll fix it in post!
I love audience participation because it takes a lot of the burden off of me to be perfect, because you guys have got my back and will point out stuff that doesn't jive right. so, without further ado:1: I'm getting comments to the effect that the captivity we glossed over was too long. Do you think it would be better if it were closer to a couple months or half a year? 2:As for the reason he didn't spend his points, I got a reason for that, but I'd like to try to use it as a punch line at the end of a chapter. SEMI SPOILER ( He&...
Chapter 204: Squid Dildo
In a desperate bid, Perry triggered Dragor’s Kinesis.Dragor’s Kinesis.EXE(2/3) remainingHAHAHAHAH!Relief flooded Perry’s body as the spell locked into place. Whatever or whoever had been feeding him thoughts of self-harm was either crushed under the twisted wreckage of his submarine attempt or otherwise preoccupied.I’ll take it!With a mental tug, Perry created a buffer of water around himself and shoved upward, righting his crystal prison at the same time.Hunks of solid steel the size of houses were flung away as Perry drilled his way u...
Chapter 203: SCP Perry
“Before you say anything,” Perry said, holding up a hand to forestall his uncle, who was flanked by a chevron of iron-faced mages of varying species.“I am impressed, and I am scared, but I just wanna let all of you know that this kind of situation has the unfortunate side-effect of bringing out the serial killer in me,” Perry said in his most even tone, tapping himself in the chest to emphasize his statement.“So if you don’t want thatPerry raping you in front of your family, then pulling out all your teeth before forcing you to cook...
Chapter 202: Mingle
Paradox Zauberer (Perry Z.)Class: Garage TinkerLevel 14HP: 15Body: 40Stability: 61Nerve: 44Attunement: 61Free Points: 36XP to next level: 22613Spells: Paradox’s Pernicious Prison (6/6) Light (5/5), Dragor’s Kinesis (3/3), Gretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation (1/1)Perry heaved a long breath and ran his fingers through his hair. Ten more points than last level. Things were starting to speed up, drastically. A distribution that leveled out his stats a bit further and prevented imbalance fatigue on his body would be…twelve Body, ten Nerve, eigh...
Chapter 201: Baby time!
Two weeks into designing a piece of equipment that could measure the dimensional wavelengths of essences, It Happened.Perry was hunched over a computer, brainstorming both an algorithm to patch holes in the modified soul-surgery equipment’s sight, and ways to pack the sensors tighter, so they didn’t have to.The cluster of evenly spaced crystals needed a certain amount of space between them, and originally, Perry’d had trouble squishing them together because of limitation in what he could personally cook up.With a hundred eggheads brainsto...
Continued brainstorming SPOILERS
I went through and read all the comments and will pluck out a few I resonated with and weigh them and ask questions of you.1: One of the most common threads of thought was that once he makes a table of essences, he should be able to mix-match them at will, using Abun'zaul's ultimate flexibility to produce exactly what he needs to cast anything. combine this with an AI that can predict the effects, and he can make any spell effect on demand. This IS perry's ultimate goal, and something he's working towards, but it's kind of a...
book 3 climax Brainstorming (spoilers?)
Okay, so the dragon and Perry are pooling their knowledge and resources to create some mind-bendingly powerful magitech, then they're gonna kill each other over who gets to keep it.That's the plan, But i don't have much mind-bendingly powerful magitech solidly in mind that could be the end-game for them.so my question(s) is(are) this(these):1: What kind of improvements to Perry's spell-storage could be made? What kind of spells could be invented? How would his Table of Essences work?2: How does the secret book pilfered from his ...
Chapter 200: Contract Work
“Part 234, paragraph 4, subsection c of ‘meat shield’ needs tightening up,” Perry said, pointing it out. “The part where the contract breaks if I use one of my family as a meat shield is too broad and exploitable by you.”“Let’s change it to temporarily suspend the terms of the contract for THAT specific person, should I use them as a meat shield, and immediately revert back to standard operation as soon as I stop.” Perry said. “Additionally I’d like an extra subsection prohibiting you from deliberately engineering a situat...
Chapter 199: Weaponized Generosity
Paradox Zauberer (Perry Z.)Class: Garage TinkerLevel 13HP: 14Body: 39Stability: 60Nerve: 42Attunement: 59XP to next level: 10156Spells: Paradox’s Pernicious Prison (6/6) Light (5/5), Dragor’s Kinesis (3/3), Gretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation (1/1)Still ten grand away from level fourteen,Perry thought, staring up at his stat block scrolling across the roof of the richly appointed orgy chamber.Perry glanced to the left and then the right, seeing the silk bedding spreading out in every direction for a good ten feet.Because non-orgies don’t n...
Chapter 198: Our ‘First’ Meeting
“You must be Tyrannus,” Perry said, offering his hand to the wall of gemlike red scales.The twenty-foot tall death-lizard daintily extended a single arm-length, razor-sharp claw and Perry shook it.“And you must be Paradox Zauberer. Please, call me William.” the dragon said before waggling his front paw. “Tyrannus is my…stage name.”“Perry,” Perry said.“You’re so shiny!” Natalie blurted.Tyrannus gave a booming chuckle that Perry felt rattling his bones.“I just got them buffed for this meeting, actually. It’s good to me...
Chapter 197: The ‘D’ Word
***On a weathered Birth Certificate in a burnt-out husk of City Hall***William ‘Billy’ Red KlineBorn Feb. 14, 1970, Berkeley, California, to Jessica Annabelle Kline and George Nathanial Kline.Sex: MalePlace of Birth: University of California, Berkeley, Astrobiology Division.Weight at Birth: 84 LbsBlood type: Unable to acquire.***Paradox***The trip through the rocky mountains had been pleasant enough: Nothing particularly dangerous tried to kill them, and the road had been magically cut straight through the range, resulting in an easy ride w...
Chapter 196: Paradox is Coming
A half-rotted document under the ruins of a large pentagonal building.***TOP SECRET***SEAL team 5 debriefTranscript text coded by speaker:***General Abrams******Lieutenant Tom Grisham***Having confirmed that the environment on the other side of Site 14 was nontoxic, the brass decided that the government needed to get some eyes on the situation on the other side of the portal.The other sites exist in the public space. They have way too many eyes on them for the government to probe this ‘Manita’ world without every Tom, Dick and Harry second-...
Chapter 195: Temple
***In a moldy box of papers in an abandoned safe******TOP SECRET***Sept. 12, 1972.Behavioral Notes on subject 84Subject 84 shows a staggering level of natural intelligence, having achieved a college level of reading comprehension in a mere three months of captivity. Problem solving and pattern recognition follows a similar inhuman level of development.Access to Subject 84 is restricted to only the most brilliant minds of Berkeley. This serves two purposes: the first is to maximize the subject’s development and the amount of information derive...
Chapter 194: Everyone’s a Critic
“What do you think this power would qualify as:” Perry asked, backhanding aside a skittering horror made entirely of paint, that had gotten inside the reach of his sword, staining him up to the elbow in thick, squirming oil paints.“Minder with a gimmick, extradimensional space with godlike powers inside it, or Wildcard?”He glanced up at the painted sky, which trembled slightly as new brushstrokes overwrote old ones at a speed nearly fast enough to trick the human eye into believing it was seamless. Maybe twenty-four times per second. Th...
193: Varsity level
Perry felt it.That crackling energy that slowly suffused the air where a fight was about to take place. Stances adjusted. Fists tightened around weapons. Eyes narrowed.“Before we begin…” Acolyte Karen Figgis said with deadly careful enunciation, cocking her head as if listening to something in the distance before scanning the three of them. “Would anyone who is pregnant take a safe distance?”“Good luck with the diplomacy you guys,” Wraith said, kissing Nat on the cheek before turning away, her body walking off to the side while he...
Chapter 192: Violently Amish
“This is it, son,” Harv said, patting his boy on the shoulder. “Everything you can see from here on out is ours,” He dramatically, gesturing to the limitless expansion of East. “You were too young to try this four years ago, but now…now you’re a man.”Harv glanced down at his teenage son’s apathy.“Or at least close enough to it,” he said, grabbing Chris’s shoulder in a firm side-hug.“If your hairbrained scheme gets mother or my brothers and sisters killed, I’m gonna cut your balls off, old man,” Chris said, spitting...
Landmarks Wanted
Hey, now's as good a time as any to mention that Perry's probably going to be heading even further west, probably North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California. Maybe a little Idaho in there.If you've got any landmarks you wanna suggest that a native would think of that are OLDER than 1969, drop 'em in the comments, and I'll compare them to the route and see if we can use any of 'em. Sound fun?
Chapter 191: Manifest Destiny
“This is my daughter Onslaught,” Karth said, kneeling before Perry’s throne. At his motion the curtains were drawn away from the cage, revealing a stunningly attractive eight-foot-tall troll dancing seductively.“When she was born a midget and deformed, I despaired, because that is a muzzle only a mother could love, and if any of my subjects learned that I had spawned such a thing, that would be reason enough for them to kill me.”“Uhuh?” Perry grunted, barely tearing his eyes away from Onslaught’s mesmerizing jiggles.They’re bi...
Chapter 190: Expansion
“Why are you giving them our food?” Mark asked, his brows furrowed. “You said you could wipe them out, so do that instead of giving away the biggest source of food for a city that is, by the way, STARVING!”The mop-headed young man’s voice rose as he continued, glaring at Perry, along with the rest of his captains.“I hear you,” Perry said, holding up a hand. “But I have a good reason. And that reason is because they are a small army of sixteen foot tall, infinitely regenerating, human-level intelligence shock troops with absolute...
Chapter 189: Karth the Experiment
Karth was hungry.Karth was always hungry, but this particular day found him wandering further afield of his village in search of Meat. Despite its purpose of making Karth temporarily not hungry, Meat had the most infuriating tendency to flit away at high speeds.Today had been no different, except the sun looked a little different along with the dirt, plants, animals, and sky, but that was of no concern.Currently he was tracking a pale, two-legged Meat, that had done him the favor of pissing itself before running, making it extremely easy to fol...
Chapter 188: Teaching Fear
Paradox’s Spine Tingler (troll variant) (Intermediate-advanced Difficulty)3 decigrams of troll spine, 1 bat ear, preserved Thunder Heart, Seeker’s mummified brain. Magma Fish eye lens, 1 Cm^3 Lunt bone, Ultimate adhesive.Carve a depression into the lunt bone as depicted below, allowing the magma fish eye lens to slot in nicely. Cut tiny crescents out of the bat ear as shown in the picture below. Scale added to the picture because ancient wizard were hilariously bad at measuring accurately. Use tiny dots of Ultimate Adhesive to adhere the ba...
Chapter 187: The Dark Urge
In my dreams I’m with you, bathed in the golden halo of your hair. Awestruck by your beauty.When I wake, It’s not you that’s changed, but me.You remain perfect, radiant, enchanting, a beacon in the night to my poor soul.I wish I was worthy of a fraction of it.“If I could put down my weapons and close the gulf between us, I would dedicate my heart and soul to mending yours,” Heather recited, kicking her heels against his desk as she scrolled through Perry’s self-blackmail packet.“I was fourteen, okay!?” Perry said, holding his ha...
Chapter 186: More Information Required
Gna’kis is an incredibly valuable resource, Perry thought, while he inspected the slimy fetus.A baby demon lord doesn’t happen often at all. In order for them to happen, there needs to be a paradigm shift in the world drastic enough that the older demons are completely unaware of the new portfolio. That portfolio being high technology and the misuse thereof. Then it has to develop self-awareness in secret and ‘be born,’ then it has to hide from the other demons, who would most likely consume it and take its brand-new powers for themselv...
Chapter 185: Gna’kis, Lord of Sinful Technology
Ultimate Adhesive: (Neophyte Difficulty)Ingredients: troll Ichor, Hymn of the god of homesteading, Lunt bone in ¼ squidge cubes, cheese cloth, wax, airtight containter.Stir the lunt bone and troll ichor together while reciting the hymn, when the mixture begins to glow, quickly pour through the cheesecloth into the airtight container lined with soft wax, then seal.WARNING: Do not get any mixture on your skin, wearing long blacksmith’s gloves is advised.Obviously magical, but more of a commodity than a spell, this particular recipe was quite p...
