Guide RP - chartreuse-usurper

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 03:57 PM

god my head hurts

Lucky_Plucky21 12-Mar-21 03:58 PM

Hello green man

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 03:58 PM

use painkillers if you have them

Awake 12-Mar-21 03:58 PM

Hello there

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 03:58 PM

also hi

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 03:58 PM

green? what

What the fuck.

Awake 12-Mar-21 03:58 PM

You look like the grinch

Jokes aside uh

On a level of headache to migraine

How bad does head hurt

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 03:59 PM

I feel like I ran headfirst into a brick wall but that's not important right now. Three things are, though.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 03:59 PM

One. Voices. Two. Location? Three: ???

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:00 PM

Yeah, I'll address that in order. Give me a bit, though, just... Fuck, man.

I don't normally swear but the situation feels like it calls for it. One: Apparently I've got dialup in my brain or something? I'm not using a phone for this, or a computer, or anything like that. Two: I'm sitting by a tree and a weird pod thing that's glowing green. And that's basically all that exists around me, aside from a small dirt island with some grass.

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:02 PM

Are you in the air or on water with island?

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:03 PM

I guess I'm in the air? I can't even see the stars or anything, though. No sun, no moon, there's nothing out there.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:03 PM

Like... minecraft skyblock? But with a mystery green pod?

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:04 PM

I guess? It's been a long time since I played that game, sorry.

i tried to look off the island and i regret it

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:05 PM

don't stare into the abyss

Lucky_Plucky21 12-Mar-21 04:05 PM

Well at least you know

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:05 PM

I do not like being suspended in the void. I really hate it.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:06 PM

What's the pod thing look like

I want to see if google images can identify it

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:08 PM

It's like... Okay, something just kind of came to be about it but that can wait a second. Basically it's like this weird, uh... Fungal growth sort of thing? Kind of reminds me of like, a giant green pimple or something. It's almost bigger than I am, and it's pretty rooted in there.

It's full of green goo, and apparently I'm covered in the stuff.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:08 PM

oh that seems familiar

not the you being covered in it tho

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:09 PM

Or... something like that. I'm trying to figure out what it is, it just... ow

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:09 PM

This thing?

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:10 PM

Like someone messed up in cloning brocoli

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:10 PM

Not exactly? It's a lot more rooted in there, for one. No bottom stalk. Like I said, looks more like a pimple or something.

That's pretty close if you were going for a black and white picture, though.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:10 PM

This thing?

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:10 PM

Yeah. It's smaller, though. About as big as I am.

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:11 PM

Ah, terrafuser

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:11 PM

That's it. It's made for converting matter into fusion matter, encoding information, and developing constructs.

...I don't like the fact I know that.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:12 PM

Are you sure you're just covered in the green goo and not also made of it?

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:12 PM

I'm pretty sure that when I went to bed last night I was human.

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:12 PM

...hey uh...quick question would you say ur hair matches in color with the terrafuser

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:13 PM

Yes, but now you are green and know strange facts A transition of some sort has clearly ocurred

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:13 PM

Try wiping it off? Stuff can be corrosive

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:13 PM

...Fuck.

It's more than my hair. It's my skin, too.

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Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:14 PM

So...just a heads up then you are probably a fusion matter clone of some sorts

??? BOT 12-Mar-21 04:15 PM

I'm going to hope that 'clone' is the answer to that, and not some kind of weird corrupted original.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:15 PM

Also, the system on our end labels you as 'fuse' before it flickers and replaces your name with ???

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:16 PM

I guess I'll go with that for a moniker, then. Don't like that it's flickering...

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:17 PM

...i dont think fusion matter does corrupted originals. More of a weaker clone sitch iirc

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:18 PM

That's some measure of relief, though it does raise the question of what happened to the original... I'm gonna file that away for 'questions I never want answered.'

My headache's starting to get a little better, in other news. Might just be some kind of 'adaptation' thing or something like that.

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:18 PM

Yeah, same

Either adaptation or it was some kinda slime hangover

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:20 PM

Probably adaptation

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:20 PM

...Figured out that I have a lot more than Discord in my head too. It's looking like I've got the whole internet in here or something. https://fusionfall.fandom.com/wiki/Fusion_Matter

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:20 PM

Or it could just be a normal headache that's starting to go away now

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:21 PM

...headache was prolly from having the whole internet in ur head

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:21 PM

That could be it yeah

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:21 PM

Might be info overload from that, yeah? I'm not sure, but I'll at least try to make use of my apparent internet-based superpowers now. Taking stock of stuff and all that. One sec.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l__pX8AtwL0BfJ6sAOBSKdVAa6tyOY1rNd17SwK3C4U/edit?usp=sharing

notes on powers and the state of things

Current Findings Day 1 -Woke up as a person made of something called ‘fusion matter’ in a small campsite in the void -Some aspect of fusion matter downloaded the internet into my brain - chat might be a severely advanced hallucination brought on by info overload

It's not much, but I should keep track of things.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:23 PM

Wow That last line is kinda rude ngl

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:23 PM

So it's just a hunk of rock in the void huh

Also, what info overload, besides the internet being jammed in ur head there are nearly 0 stimuli out here

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:25 PM

I don't know what's going on, and honestly my brain Discord is basically empty apart from this one server with this one channel. I can't be sure. As for info overload, it's the internet thing.

Lucky_Plucky21 12-Mar-21 04:25 PM

Mhm

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:26 PM

I think I can make out something glinting in the air a little ways away, but it's too dark to make out properly. The terrafuser's glow doesn't go that far.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:27 PM

Make a light?

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:28 PM

Is there a tree?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:28 PM

Please don't suggest lighting it on fire lol

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:28 PM

No I was going to suggest punching it

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:28 PM

Okay, maybe 'a little ways' is understating it. If I tried to grab it I'd be more than a few feet off the island, I think. Not sure exactly how I'd... oh nevermind

Awake

No I was going to suggest punching it

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:29 PM

... I don't think Fuse is blocky enough to pull off that trick lol

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:29 PM

Well he got skyblocked, might as well raise the suggestion

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:29 PM

I suppose.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:29 PM

The tree isn't made of cubes. I'd notice if it was.

In other news, I have a flashlight now. It's kinda sticky, but it'll get the job done.

Awake 12-Mar-21 04:31 PM

Nice

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:32 PM

It's a little hard to make out details of this thing, it's fairly small. About head-size.

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:32 PM

...hope it's not a head

Thatd be fucked

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:32 PM

It just kinda looks like a ball of metal chunks?

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:33 PM

O thank god

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:33 PM

Think I should try to get it somehow?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:33 PM

Sure why not

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:33 PM

Well, lack of ground, for one, but I may be able to solve that.

Malaki 12-Mar-21 04:34 PM

...butterfly net

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:34 PM

Yeah I was bout to say net

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:34 PM

That seems easier, even if it'd have to be like 10 feet long.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:34 PM

Longer than a butterfly net tho

yeah

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:36 PM

It's a bit longer than 10 feet, but that's alright. I'd rather not fall.

This metal ball thing feels kind of heavy, but that doesn't really make sense with the floating. Then again, things aren't making sense.

I could probably convert this into more fusion matter, but it feels kind of... It's hard to describe. Significant, somehow?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:38 PM

If it only has antigravity and not mass-canceling, heavy metal would still take some sizable force to change velocity

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:39 PM

That's a weird thing I noticed, too. I pulled it over, and gravity decided that it wants to be a thing again the moment it got over here.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:40 PM

Is there air? I'm not even sure you need it to breathe, but if there is, plants seem like an obvious way to get more solid matter for fusion matter instead of using the important feeling void artifact for it

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:41 PM

I... I genuinely don't know if there is air. It takes a lot longer to convert gasses to fusion matter than liquids. Same goes for liquids vs solids. Density plays a noteworthy part.

It feels like there is air, for what it's worth.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:42 PM

Put your hands together and try squishing the air Or do an armpit fart Or something Air isn't hard to prove

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:42 PM

"Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do."

Yep, there's air.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:43 PM

Alright We'll leave aside the question of how tf the tree is growing and just assume that plants can grow somehow I guess

Without light Or water (edited)

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:43 PM

I don't even know how the space I'm in exists.

The terrafuser is glowing, though, so it at least has light.

If dim light.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:46 PM

1: Dim light is not enough for any tree to grow except like. Hemlock. And even hemlock trees survive on filtered sunlight rather than a dim nightlight. filtered sunlight is like 1000 times more energy than what you're decribing 2: Green is the one visible frequency of light that's near completely useless for plants. They reflect green, not absorb it. 3: Where the water at

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:49 PM

I don't know, man, I'm not a biologist or a botanist. And I don't see any water. It could be feeding on fusion matter, which would explain how it was staying alive, but I don't see any mutations... Could be it was only recently moved here or something?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:50 PM

Could be. All I know for sure is that it's not surviving in a conventional manner. No idea beyond that.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:51 PM

This place is weird. I'm just gonna leave the metal by the tree, and see if there's any non-metal orbs I missed around here.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:52 PM

Works for me

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:54 PM

I do see a few other things floating out there, stone and wood mostly, it looks like. They aren't orbs, but I can still try to grab them.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:55 PM

Is it wrong that finding floating stone and rock and metal reminds me more and more of minecraft

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:55 PM

I'm not sure minecraft has a fusionfall mod, and I don't care enough to check, but the idea sounds neat.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:56 PM

Yeah I mean obviously it's not really minecraft. Where's the blocks, right? But it feels minecraft theme-y if you know what I mean

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 04:58 PM

I... I think I figured out why the metal was significant. There's a fence around the tree, now, made out of metal.

Like, a chain-link fence.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 04:59 PM

??? I wonder. Was the metal always meant to be a fence, or was it you leaving it at the tree that determined its future form?

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:00 PM

Huh

Maybe you're in a messed up pocket dimension that got fractured or someth

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:00 PM

Of all the things... I really don't know, but I might be able to expand the island some like that? Maybe? If I leave stuff near the edge, it might form into structures that let me go out further.

Awake

Maybe you're in a messed up pocket dimension that got fractured or someth

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:01 PM

Maybe he's in a full world that got fractured. Every piece of matter broken down into conceptual fragments and left stranded in the void.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:02 PM

...That sounds plausible, but I'm not entirely sure. Definitely sticks out to me, though.

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randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:03 PM

Hey, you moved the fragments right? Do you think you could put engines on the island and move the whole island?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:04 PM

I'd probably start running into more fragments that way... but what if there's some made out of lava or something?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:05 PM

Uhh. When you have the engines on, watch what the island collects and make sure that doesn't happen?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:05 PM

It's worth a shot, though I'd imagine rockets or something would take a good chunk of my current fusion matter.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:07 PM

I dunno. Hopefully the weirdness of the island means that such additions would be integrated in a safe manner Airboat might be more appropriate, if you would need to keep spending fusion matter on rocket fuel. Or other turbines. Rockets are actually quite fuel innefficient when used in atmosphere

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:09 PM

Part of an airboat would take less fusion matter, yeah. I suppose from this point now I just need a direction to try to fly this thing out. If it can move like that.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:09 PM

Pretty big if, but we can hope.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:10 PM

So, given directions are currently an arbitrary suggestion, north, south, east, or west?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:10 PM

Uh. East. Since that's mathematical zero degrees and I'm computer scientist.

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:10 PM

I say east or west

East it is then ig

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:11 PM

Valid. East it is. Motion passed 3-0.

Now to make the airboat thing...

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:11 PM

Wait how are you going to power that

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:12 PM

Presumably with an engine

God, this is just going to turn into a game of Raft, isn't it

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:13 PM

Fuel is an issue, but I can just have the fusion matter in the works cheat with minor gravity manipulation.

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:13 PM

True

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:14 PM

Well if that's an option and it doesn't take upkeep, go for it. Honestly don't even need an engine in that case. Just have the fan axel and blades do gravity on themselves to cause them to rotate

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:15 PM

...I turned around for FIVE. SECONDS. There's a whole new few feet of dirt and the big fan bit is sitting there in the middle like an industrial fan now. Dirt, uh, doesn't exactly look healthy, though.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:16 PM

Dirt without decomposing organic matter is usually like that.

Just like a composition of dry dusts, the impression of a wasteland.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:17 PM

And I don't think we're moving now that it's on, either. I don't mean it looks like it's barren or anything, I mean it looks infected with fusion matter, like the fan bit was.

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:17 PM

Ah yeah it's probably spreading

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:18 PM

Fusion matter does spread to nearby areas But it's weird that the other island parts aren't infected, in that case Was the shattered world one that was already dominated by fusion matter?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:19 PM

The one I started on just had the terrafuser sitting there, the ground wasn't really infected. It's probably a matter of time, though.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:20 PM

Perhaps this void is the remains of Planet Fusion

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:21 PM

That'd be something. I guess I'm the guy who runs the place now, if that's the case.

...God. I should not be trusted with that kind of powe

Fan broke. Scared me stiff.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:23 PM

Just. Don't invade worlds and poison the land there. Jeez. People always so concerned about having too much power, like power itself is going to mind control them into abusing it.

Is there any evidence of the island moving?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:24 PM

None whatsoever. No new orbs that've floated nearby or anything, though thanks to the addition I could probably reach a few new ones.

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:24 PM

That's good

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:24 PM

That's unfortunate.

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:25 PM

Also it being planet fuse maybe makes sense if it got messed up and broken, apart from how you're breathing

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:26 PM

It could be worse. The fan's melted, so there's a little mini-lake of fusion matter sitting over there. Kinda typical for a pure fusion-matter construct like that, now that I think of it.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:27 PM

Can fusion matter be repurposed after it's melted like that?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:27 PM

Well, yeah, I'd just need to get it back in the terrafuser, which is a bit of a process. Better off leaving it to a spawn.

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:29 PM

Yeah probably

See if you can reach any orbs from the extension

More matter means maybe more extension

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:29 PM

It'd cost about... two and a half or so standard units of fusion matter, I think, to make a spawn. I'll do that. We still have yet to test if the supplies I'm getting actually do extend things, though.

*a good sizeable spawn. Smaller ones are an option, down to .5 units, but they're kind of bad at everything.

So, goals. It's probably good to have goals out here, or else I'm going to go crazy at some point.

I wouldn't mind having an actual house, for one. Not sure about finding out what did all this, but that's an option, too.

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:34 PM

Figuring where exactly this void is is also a longer term goal

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:34 PM

Get the island big enough that you can take a nice walk without pacing the same section of land 100 times

Awake 12-Mar-21 05:35 PM

Best short term one is house though and bigger island

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:35 PM

Yeah, both of those sound reasonable.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:37 PM

I wonder if the tree is special in some way though I mean it obviously is, seeing as it's still alive But the metal becoming a protection for the tree might be indicative of some greater importance.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:38 PM

Maybe? It's the only tree around, and honestly, one of a very limited number of normal-seeming things I have at the moment.

It might be intent-based, sorta? Like how the fan got built into the island when I looked away.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:39 PM

It looks normal-ish, but it's surviving in a void with no light or water And also I thought fusion matter is generally caustic to biological organisms, it's been sitting next to the terrafuser too

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:40 PM

Point. I was lying against it, too. It seems fine, though... Weird tree...

Then again, I'm a sapient blob man. If it wants to be weird but look normal, good for it.

Lol

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:41 PM

Well, unless you look around the roots and find an obvious gate to narnia, I don't think you'll be able to figure it out so easily. Unless you can make microscopes and stuff like that.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:43 PM

I probably could, but I doubt they'd be very useful. Fusion matter isn't quite stable enough for that sort of thing to be made from whole cloth without any outside assistance.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:43 PM

Alright I guess we leave the tree alone for now then

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:44 PM

I'm gonna see what trying to expand the island with the wood I collected via the standard method results in, if that's alright. I've got like 9 wood chunks.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:44 PM

Go for it

And then plant one like a seed Maybe it'll turn to a new impossible tree

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:45 PM

West side for this one.

Pika 12-Mar-21 05:45 PM

By the way, do you need to eat, drink, or sleep?

Do you get cold?

Is there, like, a day/night cycle as far as you can tell? Weather?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:46 PM

...I don't know. I'm not particularly cold right now, but I don't think it's particularly cold here, given conditions of the tree and grass. No sun, no moon, so no day/night cycle. Same for weather - No clouds or anything.

...That is deeply upsetting.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:47 PM

What happened

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:48 PM

Just me wondering what my new form's changes are. The island did expand thought - I put the log on the infected part of the terrain.

We have a new tree, pretty mutated, as well as a few more feet of new ground.

It's in a similar condition to the fan chunk's terrain.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:49 PM

Does the same happen if you put a Chunk on non-infected terrain?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:50 PM

Let's find out.

No, put it on the east side and it just looks like another normal tree, like the first. Grass looks healthy, and all that.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:52 PM

Weird. Maybe the infected land was actually just because it grew from the fan

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:53 PM

Probably. It was made of fusion matter, and we know how that causes terrain to get messed up.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fusionfall/images/7/73/Example_of_Fusion_Matter.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/371?cb=20100127014916

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:53 PM

Yeah

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:54 PM

I'd been expecting a bridge before, but instead we got trees... Not complaining, but if it is concept based, I can try to hold that idea in mind if I spend another wood on it.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:55 PM

A bridge... to where exactly? If you go that route, conceptualize it as more like a pier or something. A bridge needs to connect to another place, and you lack another place to connect to.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:56 PM

Point. It'd be awkward if it made a rope bridge that just fell into the void.

Pier, pier, pier...

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:56 PM

More to the point, if these things can sort of choose, I don't think they'd choose a form that doesn't work. (edited)

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 05:58 PM

We have a pier on the south of the island, now. Admittedly, looking at it from another angle is weird, since it doesn't have water under it, but it exists now.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 05:59 PM

How long is it And how many chunks does it give you access to

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:00 PM

It's only as big as the average chunk of island that I've been making with other stuff, maybe 10x10 feet or so? Honestly I've been favoring experimenting with this stuff over keeping tabs on new chunks, I can try to gather up what I can now.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:01 PM

Yeah, makes sense I'm just hoping that there's special chunks or something Like something that can make a portal out of the void

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:03 PM

The net broke. Managed to get most of the mess in the puddle.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:04 PM

Fusion matter constructs just really are not that sturdy huh

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:05 PM

They really aren't. It's kind of made to be semi-amorphous. It takes non-fusion-matter to get something sturdier.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:05 PM

Can fusion matter convert to non-fusion matter?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:06 PM

No. If it can, I don't know how to make it do that.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:06 PM

Ah well. Shitty tools it is.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:07 PM

Still, I have a lot more materials now. That is something.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:08 PM

You do have chunks of metal Maybe you can form wood and metal into tools.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:11 PM

Maybe, yeah. Leaving stuff closer to the center seems to just make things. I might be able to make some kind of basic workshop like that... I'll try it.

...Nope, one metal and one wood alone doesn't work.

...Fuck. Did a recount, and a piece of wood is missing.

Really not into the idea my stuff can just vanish like that.

I'll try two wood and two metal, see if that lets me have a workshop. Not that good at making stuff, but I'll hope I can make something serviceable...

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:18 PM

Vanished? Weird. No that's really strange. Did the tree eat it? Did it add to the island in a section you don't know about? Perhaps the underside? Is there something lurking just out of sight in the darkness, waiting for you to turn away so it can snatch up your pieces of significance?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:20 PM

I don't see any new sections, aside from the new woodworking station I've got. Don't have any angles I can check the bottom of the island from... Might've just miscounted how much wood something else took, maybe?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:20 PM

I suppose. Wouldn't count on it though.(pun) The tree of origin isn't any bigger or anything? (edited)

Pika 12-Mar-21 06:21 PM

To make sure, you might want to keep a close count of how much stuff you find.

In case something else goes missing.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:21 PM

No, it's the same as it was before. Origin tree looks more or less the same. I'll try to keep an eye on my stuff. I do think I need sleep, though, I'm kinda starting to feel it.

Pika 12-Mar-21 06:22 PM

Think you'll be fine with minimal shelter?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:22 PM

...I have a lot of wood, let's see if a bunch can get me a shack of some sort.

Pika 12-Mar-21 06:22 PM

Good idea.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:24 PM

Got a shack! ...With no lighting. Awesome. The lack of windows actually makes me feel more comfortable, though.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:25 PM

No looking out into the endless void and wondering what lives in it and stole your wood

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:26 PM

Well, I have a bed and a chest in here to store stuff. I can tuck things away in the chest, and unwind for a while in bed.

Thank god I have the whole internet in my brain.

...Do you think other people are out here, at all?

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:27 PM

Who knows. Hopefully. It's going to quite a dull eternity, otherwise.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:28 PM

I think I could live with a dull eternity. Better than some alternatives.

Pika 12-Mar-21 06:29 PM

Can you communicate with other people on the internet? Email your family?

Or is it just us?

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:30 PM

I'll admit, though, I am a little worried about encountering other people in my situation. What might happen if two people who're supposed to 'rule' have to come head to head. I can't communicate with anyone else, no. It's just you guys. Assuming I'm not hallucinating.

If I build out far enough I might find someone, maybe. Light doesn't travel as far as it should out there, I think, but actual terrain lets it travel better.

randomhuman44 12-Mar-21 06:34 PM

Well, it seems like you get more significances then you lose, on average, when you make new terrain So tomorrow you can try going on an expedition Don't carry all your chunks back. Just repeatedly go further in one direction using the chunks you get from making new terrain.

Fuse BOT 12-Mar-21 06:36 PM

I can try making one of those out of fusion matter later, see if it'll let me make a new terrafuser or something, too. That'll keep me from running back and forth whenever my nets break.

...I think I'm gonna spend a bit more of the stuff on making a lantern, too. Can't sleep when it's pitch black.

Good night, guys.

Pika 12-Mar-21 06:54 PM

Good night!

??? BOT 13-Mar-21 12:08 PM

"xEE 87> :EE :;; :EE[ :EE 8;; :EE 8; :EE]]] q>7JVI J>?I[ J>;Dn"

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:09 PM

what did i say about void things lurking in the shadows stealing your shit

Pika 13-Mar-21 12:09 PM

Hmm, that's ominous.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:10 PM

I saw it was labeled 'Greed' before it flickered out if that's not what took the wood, what did?

??? BOT 13-Mar-21 12:10 PM

"u>[ BE2;B5 B?JJB; >EC;]]] xEDVJ C?D: ?< } :EOP"

Pika 13-Mar-21 12:11 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a code of some kind.

Hello, 'Greed'! We can't understand you. Can you understand us?

Greed BOT 13-Mar-21 12:13 PM

"} :EDVJ J>?DA #H] #EDIJ;H >;H; D;;:I MCMLXXIX J>;I; =EE:?;I] #K9> 8;JJ;H <EH CXCVII 9EBB;9J?EDP"

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:13 PM

I dunno. If it is a cipher it's not a classic one; it clearly involves a lot of the ascii set, if not all of it, and most classic ciphers ignore punctuation like that. I could see it being an encryption or something though.

Pika 13-Mar-21 12:14 PM

Yeah.

It looked to me like it has too many patterns in it to be totally random.

Unregistered BOT 13-Mar-21 12:16 PM

Sound of door slamming

Pika 13-Mar-21 12:16 PM

Or maybe I'm completely off the mark.

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:16 PM

what was that noise

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:17 PM

Some entity named Greed has been about the island

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:17 PM

great.

Okay. Give me a bit to wake up.

Aaand the storage chest was cracked open. Great.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:19 PM

Hmph. There really was something lurking in the void stealing ur significances. Praise me for I am thinker.

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:19 PM

Looks like stockpiling stuff isn't really an option, in that case. Damn it.

I'm not really sure what to do about this other than try and find metal to invest into locks.

Didn't steal any of the fusion-matter-made materials, so that's a plus, at least. Not that I'd be happy to grab any of this stuff if I wasn't made of it.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:24 PM

I wish I knew more about code breaking lol So I could recognize whatever encoding this is As it is I'm researching and everything is clearly not the answer

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:24 PM

Code breaking? What?

Ohh... So the system picked up messages from whoever 'Greed' is.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:25 PM

Ah, Greed made some noises that got picked up here yeah

And they clearly aren't just random letters

But I'm having a time figuring out wtf this is

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:27 PM

I'd try to help, but, uh...

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:27 PM

yeahyeah

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:27 PM

Well, let me try and figure out how screenshots work.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:27 PM

wow that's not what came through on this side at all

} :EDVJ J>?DA #H] #EDIJ;H >;H; D;;:I MCMLXXIX J>;I; =EE:?;I] #K9> 8;JJ;H <EH CXCVII 9EBB;9J?EDP Is an example

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:28 PM

Wow, that's... Yikes. Might be a few things stacked on top of one another?

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:28 PM

yeeeah

maybe

I think part of the problem might be that those punctuations are actually part of the code, but most online solvers ignore punctuations in ciphers

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:29 PM

Let me see if I can find something that'd work for that...

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:30 PM

If I don't turn up anything soon imma try find and replacing those with unique letters and run it through again

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:30 PM

For once, having the entirety of the internet a thought away is useful for anything other than cat pics. I found something with a lot of various options in it, maybe this'll help you? https://cryptii.com/pipes/caesar-cipher

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:31 PM

Aww man This doesn't have the built in analysis tools that the site I was using does

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:32 PM

Why not use both for trying to break it? The more tools the better, yeah?

What's the link for the site with the analysis tools?

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:32 PM

Sure But the more tools you use the more time you use

https://www.boxentriq.com/code-breaking/

Code-Breaking, Cipher and Logic Puzzle solving tools | Boxentriq

Free tools for code-breaking, solving ciphers and logic puzzles, room escape games, CTFs, Cicada 3301 and more.

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:33 PM

True, true... At least they're there to be used, if you like.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:33 PM

Yeah Well, I guess you should just go on with your day And I'll continue solving this in the meantime.

Awake 13-Mar-21 12:33 PM

So someone named greed showed up and stole shit?

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:34 PM

Yep. The basic resources I was collecting yesterday? Gone.

Awake 13-Mar-21 12:34 PM

Damn

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:34 PM

Still have stuff made of fusion matter, and my terrafuser made an extra 5 units of the stuff.

I don't know how it didn't mess up the structural integrity of the island by doing that, but I'll take what I can get.

If anyone's got suggestions on what to do about the Greed issue, I'm all ears.

For now, I'm gonna make another net, and hope they didn't steal anything out in the void.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:36 PM

Maybe they just put everything back

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:37 PM

Maybe? They're called Greed, so I just kind of assume...

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:37 PM

Yeah But if they're a personification of the void or something like that

then putting it in the void is taking it

Awake 13-Mar-21 12:38 PM

That's a point

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:38 PM

The rest of the island seems intact, at least... I may put up some more lanterns so I can see what I'm doing.

Awake 13-Mar-21 12:38 PM

They could also be someone else that was brought here and is stealing supplies from others

Greed and all that

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:40 PM

Preliminary investigations suggest 'no, they are not putting things back in the void' - I'm seeing a lot less in terms of material than I was yesterday around here.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:41 PM

THat's really unfortunate

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:42 PM

You're telling me... I do have an idea, though.

What if I used Fusion Matter to try and expand the island?

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:44 PM

Go ahead Going to look like solid goo but probably works anyway

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:44 PM

It might not be exactly good for island stability, though I have no clue how that'd affect it. It is an idea, though. Won't be able to do it too much, though...

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 12:45 PM

Can you try making a fllying spawn? Maybe they can fly out and gather

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:46 PM

I'd need feathers for that. Or something sufficiently wing-like, like... Big jungle tree leaves come to mind. The mutated tree might work, if we can make it mutate further...

Expand the island or devote Fusion Matter to the tree? Or both?

I only have about 27 units of the stuff. This is going to be costly, maybe 10 units for either option.

Awake 13-Mar-21 12:49 PM

Expand island for sure, you need to get those materials

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:50 PM

Got it. One vote for island expansion.

Pika 13-Mar-21 12:51 PM

This feels like one of those "gather materials vs research" decisions.

My vote is on mutating the tree, see if it gives more options.

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 12:52 PM

Kind of...? One vote mutate tree, one vote expand island.

I'd basically be committing resources to make my first Fusion Monster.

We need a tiebreaker. My tentative vote goes to trying to get a minion.

So, if we're going to be doing this, focusing on the monster's specialization with fusion matter is important. There's three types. Adaptium has more fluidity in form, can make some adjustments on the fly to their configuration. Blastons are more focused on converting matter to fusion matter, which could help in some instances. Cosmix are more information-dense - They tend to be more intelligent and set up better for things like comm relays.

Awake 13-Mar-21 01:08 PM

Adaptium or Cosmix might be good for gathering

Ones adaptable, the other more intelligent

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 01:08 PM

One vote to Adaptium or Cosmix.

Awake 13-Mar-21 01:10 PM

I vote cosmix

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 01:10 PM

Just Cosmix then.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 01:22 PM

Cosmix for me too Would like some way to know if it gets eaten by greed, and it sounds like cosmix better for communication n stuff

Awake 13-Mar-21 01:33 PM

Wait what exactly did Greed steal btw? Wood?

Or metal? Etc?

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 01:36 PM

All

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 01:43 PM

They stole all my wood and stone. I didn't have any metal, though. Cosmix it is. I'll get started on the tree.

This'll probably take a while, so... Yeah.

I'll get back to you guys when I'm done.

Unregistered BOT 13-Mar-21 01:50 PM

Jungle Jabberwock: Pleased Trilling Noises

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 01:50 PM

Presto-Chango, a monster tree!

Unregistered BOT 13-Mar-21 01:52 PM

Jungle Jabberwock: Ear-Splitting Cry

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 01:52 PM

"Yeah, I know. It's really weird for me too."

"Listen, someone stole some resources when I last slept. When you aren't gathering more for me, I need you to keep an eye out for any figures that approach the island. Can you do that?"

Unregistered BOT 13-Mar-21 01:54 PM

Jungle Jabberwock: Nod of Acceptance

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 01:55 PM

"Cool, awesome."

"So you're keeping guard when I sleep."

...I really feel like I should feel more emotions about this. I just made a big old monster minion. It's bigger than I am. Yet, this is basically any other Thursday for me.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 03:11 PM

So

I haven't quite figured out what algorithms were used to encrypt, but I think I got enough to read it

Doo bah doo dee dooV doo bee doo be doo... what's thisV thenN UhV lo2ely little home... Don't mind if I doO? I don't think mr. monster here needs all these goodies. much better for my collection? (edited)

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 03:13 PM

...Not sure how I feel about being called a monster.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 03:14 PM

meh Blob guy

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 03:14 PM

I know, but... Still.

It's not a descriptor one enjoys applied to themself.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 03:15 PM

makes sense

still

this gives remarkably little information

we already knew that they broke in and took stuff

Hopefully more useful later if there's more to translate

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 03:16 PM

Apparently they've been doing this for a while, if they have a 'collection'.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 03:16 PM

Yeah

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 03:17 PM

I'll try to grab a few new things, then head to bed, if that sounds good. JJ ought to help out, there.

Hopefully, JJ can mess with Greed some if they come by again tonight.

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 03:18 PM

how tf would i mess with greed

wait what

(oh shit lol) (JJ is my nickname irl, I thought he meant me)

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 03:19 PM

My minion is called a Jungle Jabberwock.

Pika 13-Mar-21 03:19 PM

(Lmao)

Limina Idling | Hours 13-Mar-21 03:19 PM

(lol)

(my thinker power strikes again!)

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 03:20 PM

(it was kind of a wtf moment on my end lol)

Limina Idling | Hours 13-Mar-21 03:20 PM

(hahahaha)

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 03:21 PM

If I want to see other people out here, Greed's just the first road bump in the path. But if I beat them, I may be able to get ahold of their 'collection.' Or at least a few items from it.

Pika 13-Mar-21 03:21 PM

(

)

Limina Idling | Hours 13-Mar-21 03:22 PM

(im losing my shit)

(thats hilarious)

Pika 13-Mar-21 03:25 PM

(Fucking thinkers)

Fuse BOT 13-Mar-21 03:30 PM

Well, got a few more wood chunks. That's about it, though. It's something, at least...

I'm gonna clock out now, though. Good night.

Pika 13-Mar-21 03:30 PM

Gn!

randomhuman44 13-Mar-21 03:30 PM

gn

Limina Idling | Hours 13-Mar-21 03:31 PM

(aaaaaand pin)

Greed BOT 14-Mar-21 10:58 AM

"vK@V? ?KK C4G@ w>] w;:?@K> 3;@ 2;> 9K @;JGE]]]"

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 10:59 AM

Hello greed

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 10:59 AM

Thunk Jungle Jabberwock: Ear-Splitting Screech

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 10:59 AM

Great one of those

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 10:59 AM

whats going on

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 10:59 AM

Greed: "Let's see what Mr. Monster got for me today..."

Bruh

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 11:00 AM

Mhm

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:00 AM

Greed is treating you like a minecraft luck block harvest

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 11:00 AM

Yep

Greed BOT 14-Mar-21 11:00 AM

"%> I>?J]"

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:01 AM

"Oh shit."

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 11:01 AM

Loud Crashing/Destruction noises

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:01 AM

Shit. Okay, I'm up. JJ ripped open the shack to drag some humanoid out.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:02 AM

I know that JJ is a massive monster thing but somehow I still didn't expect that fight to go so well

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 11:02 AM

Continued crashing sounds

Fire sounds JJ: Ear-splitting screech

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:03 AM

I haven't been in a fight since grade 3, I'm saying the fuck out of this.

Pika 14-Mar-21 11:04 AM

Valid

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:04 AM

Makes sense Especially since you are goo now and it seems fusion matter isn't the strongest material around

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:05 AM

Am getting a good look at Greed from the shack, though - Looks kind of porcelain, wears a lot of gold, has a big backpack-looking thing. And apparently a ball of fire he can just shoot fire from.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:05 AM

I guess that's what happens when you get a fire significance? Actually, can you tell if the fire ball is a significance or not?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:06 AM

Not at this distance. they took the fight over to the fusion matter part of the island, and they keep ducking in and out of the void. Can't see thing out there when they leave.

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 11:07 AM

Loud crunch

Greed BOT 14-Mar-21 11:07 AM

"z+w!P x?;[ 5EK E2;H=HE3D 3;;:P *>?I ?I C5 FB79;[ 5EK 7H; DEJ 3;B9EC;P"

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:08 AM

...Had a ball of fire. And an arm.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:08 AM

Greed: "FUCK! Die, you overgrown weed! This is my place, you are not welcome!"

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 11:08 AM

Mhm

Now fuck him up

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:09 AM

He's retreating. Would rather not have JJ try to follow him into the void. We need a light of some sort, first.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:10 AM

So can Greed fly if he's retreating into the void?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:10 AM

He just jumped out there, so hard to say. Might have something to do with the backpack thing?

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 11:10 AM

JJ: Pleased Bird-like Cooing

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:12 AM

JJ brought me what... What's left of the arm.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:12 AM

Maybe the antigravity also applies to people, and you just never found out because who jumps off an island? (edited)

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:12 AM

I'm just gonna... shove this under the bed so I don't have to look at it.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:12 AM

Is it fleshy? You said it looks kinda porcelain-y?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:13 AM

The surface is porcelain-y, but I think it's like some kind of carapace deal. There's blood.

It might be useful, which is why I'm not chucking it off the island, but... Yeah.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:14 AM

I wonder if Greed was human before and all that stuff is advanced significance use?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:15 AM

Maybe. Hell if I know. I'm still kind of freaking out.

The fire orb's still here, though, so there's something, at least.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:15 AM

Hmm So can you tell if it's a significance now?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:15 AM

Let me check.

Yeah, it seems like something significant.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:17 AM

Huh So there's clearly more ways to use them than just leaving them around and seeing what they grow into

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:19 AM

Seems like it. I might be able to make some kind of monster from this stuff, then, but it'd require some research into this stuff. Why it's significant, the metaphysical properties, all that.

Not exactly sure I'm the guy for that job, but if I get some items or equipment to make another fusion, someone else may be.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:20 AM

Yeah But you'd need to make that equipment yourself, or continue on through the void in hopes of finding other people and islands

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:21 AM

Could try making some rope, having JJ search in the void.

They could go out a lot further than I could. Wings and all, it might make the difference.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:22 AM

Yeah, probably. Though I thought you didn't want JJ to go out into the void with Greed Also it would leave you a little unguarded before you managed to pull JJ back

(talking about JJ in third person just feels wrong lol)

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:24 AM

With Greed, yeah. JJ ripped his arm off, though - And given we haven't encountered a counterattack yet, I think he might've gone home to lick his wounds. I'm not saying full on massive tether, either, just like, maybe 10 feet of rope or so.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:25 AM

Oh, you're hoping there's an island like just out of reach or something? Go for it I guess

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:25 AM

I'm just hoping there's anything just out of reach. If nothing else, this is a good way to get some resources Greed didn't grab.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:26 AM

good enough reason I was thinking you meant something longer range, which would have been a bigger problem

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:27 AM

Oh yeah no screw a big spacewalk. I'm nowhere near built up enough for one of those, I don't have disposable anything pretty much. Aside from the cheaper fusion matter gear.

Awake 14-Mar-21 11:27 AM

Valid

Better to be cautious with this

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:27 AM

10 feet of rope for 1 fusion matter... Easy enough. Now to find where to try grabbing stuff off the island at.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 11:28 AM

Great

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:28 AM

Here's my crappy map.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 11:28 AM

A crappy useful map

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:29 AM

What direction off what chunk of the island?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:29 AM

Does JJ know what direction Greed came from? If so, I vote to check the direction opposite of that.

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 11:30 AM

JJ: Chirping Noises

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:30 AM

...Apparently just north of the shack area. Yikes. So south of the pier, then?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:30 AM

Yeah that's my vote

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:31 AM

Alright, let's do this.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:31 AM

Eldritch dogwalk

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:31 AM

Weirdest one I'll have ever done...

I'll give JJ 10 minutes, then pull 'em back.

Four stone, one metal. Not the greatest, not the worst.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:35 AM

expand the island and repeat? (edited)

that didn't really take a long time right?

Oh, and ask JJ to make some sounds while in there. I wanna know if sound is blocked like light is

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:36 AM

"Hey, JJ, can you try to be noisy while you're out there next time around? Just the once."

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 11:37 AM

JJ: Affirmative Caw

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:38 AM

I have the weirdest bird... Anyways, yeah, I can expand the island. I have equal wood and stone, so where should I expand, and with what? And no, it didn't take too long to expand before.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:40 AM

I dunno. South off the pier with stone? Metal seems too useful in crafting to make terrain out of And I'm hoping that Greed only took the stuff right around the island, leaving more further out

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:41 AM

Seems like it. That was a decent enough haul of stone. No wood, though, which is weird.

Awake 14-Mar-21 11:41 AM

If greed came from north, south would likely have more supply

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:44 AM

Built off the pier with a chunk of stone, it looks like a chunk of highway? I can see skid marks.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:45 AM

So weird.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:45 AM

There's also a cube lying on the highway. Significant one. I think something might be up, there.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:45 AM

Though given the pier, I'm pretty sure you could have chosen the terrain if you wanted to

Go closer and figure out what it is?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:46 AM

Probably. Now I'm kind of curious as to what's up with this, though. It... Kind of reminds me of Bismuth, if it were made of concrete.

There's little plastic bits towards the core of it, too.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 11:47 AM

i dunno significant Pollution? lol I'm not sure how you would figure it out aside from using it and seeing what it makes But then you won't have it for cool uses later

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 11:48 AM

I'll use it with the fire and some metal, see what terrain that makes, if that's cool with you?

I don't know what I'd make with any of this stuff, so building off the island is my best bet in doing anything with this stuff.

Awake 14-Mar-21 11:51 AM

Yeah it seems like it for now

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:07 PM

So, tried it. There's now a section of road with railing and a street light. And half of some kind of high tech motorbike that seems cut off around where the railing is.

Some other debris, too.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:08 PM

Maybe it was something like... significant construction? Colors for all the paints on the buildings, metal-ish concrete and plastic for materials?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:09 PM

Maybe. The fire would be the street light, then, I think.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:09 PM

Or maybe just significant technology? Since motorbike

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:10 PM

It looks like it crashed, here, and like not all of it came back when this chunk of the island formed.

Checked out near the street light, looks like there's a high-tech helmet there, too. It's kind of busted up.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:12 PM

What kind of bike? Like, a Tron bike?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:12 PM

If you put a gun to my head, I'd call it a Tron bike. A bit too clunky for that, though.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:12 PM

If you say so It gives the chunks a weird feeling though Was this piece of land actually a real place that the chunk brought back, or did the chunk just generate this place randomly, complete with a history that includes a bike crash?

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:13 PM

Oh, that's a very good point.

Or was the chunk stolen, and there's a place with a chunk taken out of it?

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 12:13 PM

True

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:13 PM

Hopefully the bike's owner has insurance for it

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:13 PM

Good point, yeah. It does kind of tickle my memory, though...

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:14 PM

What colour are the bike and helmet?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:15 PM

Blue and white. The helmet had a black visor, too. I can see little glass chunks still lodged in there.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:15 PM

bruh

is this armsmaster's bike?

this kind of theme?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:16 PM

Sounds familiar...

That sort of theme for the helmet, yeah. Bit different, though.

That may just be the damage, though...

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:17 PM

Meh It's taken off a wiki and it's a fanart. Real Armsmaster probs doesn't match up to fanart quite perfectly (edited)

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:18 PM

What's this Armsmaster guy's deal? What's up with him?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:19 PM

Uh Superhero on Earth Bet Tinker, specialty miniaturization and efficiency. I have a bad feeling about the fate of Earth Bet if this piece of land is here now, though

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:21 PM

This sounds weirdly familiar for me, like I've heard it in passing a thousand times before. Something's messing with my head.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:22 PM

Ah. Shit.

Like how you might hear about a celebrity, or like how you might hear about a fictional character?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:23 PM

...Yes??

Headache's back.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:24 PM

Welp.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:24 PM

Perhaps you're missing time? First you got transported to Bet, then the world dies and you woke up as a fusion clone of the original you that died in the cataclysm? But for some reason you can't remember either your time on Bet nor the story of Worm you read before Bet?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:25 PM

I guess if something was destroying everything on some kind of magical level that stuff like what's going on right now can happen with the remnants, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume they can mess with memory too.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:26 PM

Yeah maybe

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 12:26 PM

Mhm

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:26 PM

If so, I think I lucked out with having the terrafuser here with me. They can store tremendous amounts of data. Might've ended up tabula rasa without it...

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 12:26 PM

It reminds me of those settings were magic is dying

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:28 PM

Are you sure that you're not here because of the terrafuser? Maybe the terrafuser was a backup plan by original you, in case you died. Set to make a clone of yourself if that happened.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:28 PM

...Point.

I'm not sure of anything right now, honestly.

This throws up so many questions, and I'm not really prepped to deal with them?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:29 PM

Yeah Hopefully we can find more real evidence out here somewhere. An island, or people who remember what happened, or something.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:31 PM

Yeah... Maybe Fusion Armsmaster would know something. It'd take a couple days to make him, though. 30 fusion matter is the baseline for most proper Fusions. It can get as high as 100, from what I know.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:32 PM

Is a baseline 'proper' fusion a normal person level, or can they include abilities and stuff?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:34 PM

A baseline 'proper' fusion would be like... This is kind of a rough thing, here, so bear with me. Baseline within a ballpark of ~5 units of fusion matter would be equivalent to someone who's been through physical or mental training of some sort, or was well-equipped.

If I had to guess, Fusion Armsmaster may take like... 50 or so.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:36 PM

What do you need to make a fusion, aside from fusion matter?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:37 PM

That seems like a pretty big investment, what rate does the terrafuser generate at? And have we ever tested turning a significance to fusion matter?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:37 PM

Personal artifacts. Something someone would've used, or closely associated with them. It delves somewhat into metaphysical connections to assist generation.

We never tested turning something significant into fusion matter, no.

The terrafuser generates 3 fusion matter a day.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:38 PM

Well we have what is probably his bike right here so, you know. There's the artifact.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:38 PM

Also have his helmet, so there's that. Even if it's a bit broken.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:38 PM

That too yeah

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:38 PM

I guess we could try to make two...?

That'd be a big investment, though.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:38 PM

Two Armsmasters? Would that help us gathering info?

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:39 PM

Is the item destroyed in the process?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:39 PM

It's effectively consumed by the Fusion in the process of creation, yes.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:39 PM

If so, then I'd say keep the bike for spare parts.

Good to know.

I'd say make it a goal, but don't go full bore at it.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:40 PM

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:40 PM

Hope that Greed doesn't steal the bike and helmet tho

would suck (edited)

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:40 PM

^^^^^

Worse comes to worse, you could keep all of your important stuff next to you when you sleep.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:41 PM

I do. He's been breaking into the little shack I call home to loot the chest right next to me.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:41 PM

You could sleep on the chest.

Make a frame or something so you can sleep on top of it. That way, you'll be woken up if Greed tries to get at it.

...Think there's another 6 deadly sins around?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:42 PM

I could try to do something like that, yeah... God I hope not.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:43 PM

Uhh Greed broke straight through the chest, right? I dunno bout protecting the chest with your body against someone who can apparently break through wood

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:43 PM

Point.

Maybe you could put something noisy in there?

Like a fuckton of tiny Christmas bells

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:43 PM

I could just have JJ stay in there with me.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:44 PM

That works too.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:44 PM

Then again, he might just light the place on fire...

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:44 PM

...Ah. Point.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:44 PM

...Burying it in fusion-matter-infected terrain works.

Pika 14-Mar-21 12:44 PM

Oh! That's smart.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:45 PM

I'll have to break the shovel afterwards, but that's fine. Not sure I'll have enough room to bury the bike, though...

Actually, I could probably just recycle it straight back into the terrafuser.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:47 PM

Actually, now that I think about it, breaking the chest was kinda weird, right? Does Greed not know how lids work?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:48 PM

It has a latch. Presumably, breaking the chest was to make sure he could get into it later.

Admittedly the latch doesn't exactly lock or anything, but I could probably jury rig something to keep it shut.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:50 PM

A latch, not a lock. And if he can break the chest, no lock can keep him out of the chest, even if you put a lock on later.

Honestly, thinking about this is not giving me a good opinion of Greed's intelligence

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:51 PM

I dunno, man. I'm not exactly about to ask him what his logic there was.

Could be he just wanted to break my stuff. He wasn't exactly shy about breaking out a flamethrower earlier.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:52 PM

Could be, yes. He does refer to you as 'Mr. Monster'.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:53 PM

I've had enough of this dude.

Anyways. I've buried the helmet. I could probably try to gather some more materials, expand the island, and such. I think we talked about just continuously building off in one direction?

Fuse

I've had enough of this dude.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:55 PM

But can you do anything bout him other than JJ, at the moment? It seems likely to me that he's just going to replace his arm using some sig he has hoarded away. And he's clearly better at using them than you are.

Yeah sure go for the building off in a direction.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:56 PM

I'll just head south from the road, I guess.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 12:58 PM

Hey Try focusing on bringing back a part of Earth Bet, or Brockton Bay or something, I want to see what happens Probably not too much without special sigs, but who knows?

Also, I'm calling them sigs now because fuck typing out 'significances' every time

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 12:59 PM

Fair. All I really have is wood and stone, but I can try.

Used a bit of stone to see if I could make the street turn. This one has a crystalline orb thing on it. Similar size to the significant ones.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:02 PM

Significant Shard?

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:02 PM

Ooh, could be.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:02 PM

Sounds familiar... Maybe?

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:03 PM

Shards are power-giving aliens, basically.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:03 PM

Also got a few basic resources to go with it, so that's pretty nice.

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:03 PM

Ooh nice!

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:04 PM

4 wood, 2 stone, 1 metal, another cube.

Pika

Shards are power-giving aliens, basically.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:05 PM

Giant, amorphous multidimensional crystalline-flesh aliens. And pretty much completely amoral from a human POV, usually. Probably best not to use it until you have a good grasp on advanced sig usage and can choose one of the ones that won't immediately try assimilating the island or something

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:06 PM

Good point.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:06 PM

Alright. I'll set it aside for now back at the shack. JJ can guard it.

Used the cube plus three wood and two stone. I have a better house now!

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:09 PM

Can you tell what the cube did?

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:10 PM

Nice!

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:10 PM

Looks like I stole a chunk of suburbia for the island. The road kind of peters off into the driveway. The house has power and stuff, and all that. Maybe that was it?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:11 PM

So cube is probably technology or something technology-adjacent

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:11 PM

Maybe 'artificial' is a better word? It's made of concrete and plastic, after all.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:12 PM

That works too I guess. Though it fits the bike less than technology does. It takes more than just 'artificial' to make technology like that.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:13 PM

Maybe the fire orb represents more than fire, somehow?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:13 PM

Could be. Energy? Lava? Fuel?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:13 PM

Like a spark of innovation or something. I vaguely remember something about prometheus giving the gift of knowledge to man from greek studies, in the form of fire.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:14 PM

Could be. Ugh. These sigs are way more complex than they seemed at first glance, and it means that they also have so much more potential. But it just makes them more and more confusing lol.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:15 PM

...Huh. Funny enough, we potentially learned a lot when we used that with the terrain, come to think of it.

Or theoretically did, anyways.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:15 PM

Hopefully. Maybe when you make another terrain we can try using more metaphorical aspects of the other sigs.

And if it works then theory confirmed.

Oh, a question. How deep is the island? Is it just a weird thin layer of floating dirt and stone and stuff?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:18 PM

From a distance it looks like a weird thin layer of floating dirt, but looking closer, it all just kind of tapers off into nothingness. The hole for the helmet was about as deep as my shin.

In short, it's as deep as it feels like being, apparently.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:21 PM

So we actually have no idea how deep the island is, or if it even has a finite depth. Actually, is this void three dimensional at all? Maybe Greed doesn't fly at all and the weird physics of this place mean that no matter how far he falls, he's still on the same layer as all the important things

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:21 PM

Oh nice

We cannot give him the boot by traditional ways

Well time to find a metaphysical boot

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:21 PM

I have no clue. The void has balls floating in it, and that's about all I got.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:22 PM

Try touching one of them

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:22 PM

Might be worth a bit of time seeing if there's balls floating above the island?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:22 PM

I'm not about to jump off the island to touch one.

Lucky_Plucky21 ↩️

Reply to: Try touching one of them

I can try seeing if there's some above, yeah.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:22 PM

With a stick fuse

Throw a rock

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:23 PM

Might be able to climb on top of the house with a flashlight.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:23 PM

Or something and see what happens

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:23 PM

...Did you miss the part where I was collecting them with a net, earlier? They kind of stuck in place, but I could pull them in.

Lucky_Plucky21 ↩️

Reply to: With a stick fuse

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:23 PM

Or use JJ, if you're going back to the house, since JJ's already there

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:23 PM

True

And yes I miss that part

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:24 PM

There's balls above, yes. And I think I'm gonna have to mentally divide 'shack' and 'house' now, since I have both.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:25 PM

lol

Good news though, since it means there's more area to collect from and less risk of Greed managing to strand you on the island without sigs to expand the terrain

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:26 PM

True

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:26 PM

I think I'm gonna try to make 7 extensions total to the island past the road. Would make this 2 of 7.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:26 PM

How is gravity really

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:26 PM

Good luck.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:26 PM

Normal or moon?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:26 PM

normal

but only on the island

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:26 PM

Oh, the other islands also have their greeds? (edited)

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:27 PM

outside island, gravity is just weird and inconsistent or something

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:27 PM

On the island? Gravity feels normal. Can't say the same for the void, since things are apparently floating out there. It's all one island. I've just been labelling new additions 'island'. Should probably stop doing that.

I mean, there's possibly other islands, but I don't know about them.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:28 PM

Oh

Nice to know

Okay any ideas to navigate the void or you have any near River?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:29 PM

hmm do you think the basic significances are chinese classical elements?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:29 PM

I have no idea.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:29 PM

Who knows but maybe

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:29 PM

I don't even know what the chinese classical elements are, to be honest.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:29 PM

It's water, wood, fire, metal, earth

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:29 PM

Fire, water, earth, wood, metal (edited)

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:29 PM

we only missing water

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:30 PM

True

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:30 PM

The artificial cube and the crystal ball stand out as notable exceptions, though.

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:31 PM

Maybe they're in different 'tiers'? (edited)

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:32 PM

Made a pier, got a few more resources. That sounds plausible. I wouldn't know how to get higher tier stuff, though.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:33 PM

Made stuff

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:33 PM

one is artificial and the other is completely alien both of which have reason not to be a part of a natural philosophy cycle like this Though of course it could just be a coincidence

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:34 PM

I got a few cubes from the house. I think I'll use some metal and stone with them, see what happens...?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:34 PM

Why not.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:38 PM

Got an abandoned-looking bottom part of a skyscraper. It says 'MedHall' on the front of it, I think, it's a bit awkwardly set to view the sign.

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:38 PM

Welp.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:38 PM

I remember this place getting set on fire.

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:38 PM

Medhall is a medicine company with a neo-nazi CEO.

You do?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:39 PM

bottom part as in there's no top part, or bottom part as in it becomes indeterminate further up?

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:39 PM

So who ahead big green

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:39 PM

You do?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:39 PM

Distinctly. I think I did it...?

There's no top part, it's like the top part got ripped off.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:39 PM

Great there’s an entrance

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:40 PM

Well, it was secretly supporting Nazis, so I'm sure you committing arson is fine in this case

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:40 PM

Time to sack a place

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:40 PM

I found more fire orbs!

Honestly, makes sense, if my memory is right. I guess that's confirmation it got burnt down - It was just missing the 'burnt' part.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:42 PM

These conceptual seperations are so weird

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:42 PM

Agreed. I'm not entirely convinced it isn't arbitrary, yet.

I've got kind of a surplus of wood. I think I'll use up some pieces of that and a cube, to see what that does.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:44 PM

Great

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:44 PM

I should mention, I'm not exactly searching these places thoroughly, no stone left unturned, just trying to keep moving.

There'll be time for the fine toothed comb approach later.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:46 PM

Fair

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:47 PM

honestly i'm a little convinced that whatever broke the world was related to you somehow Worm Shards are vaguely hard scientific, they don't really do things like make conceptual fragments or make indeterminate voids except as a fake cover to make people think superpowers are supernatural.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:47 PM

...Really hoping I didn't accidentally unexist the world. That'd be awkward.

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:48 PM

Alternatively, you could be a result of the world being un-existed.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:49 PM

Who says it was an accident? Or even that it was directly you? Maybe shards tried messing with fusion matter and accidentally broke physics somehow. Pika, he remember burnin down Medhall, he probs existed before the world broke.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:50 PM

Fusion matter can assimilate memories. There's no guarantee either way.

For all I know, that's somebody else's memories that got dumped in the terrafuser, or something.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:51 PM

I should clarify: you or the person you were fusioned off probs existed before the world broke.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:51 PM

I'm assuming it was me, because honestly that'll let me sleep at night, but to play devil's advocate and all I've gotta bring that up.

Ok, so the 3 wood + 1 cube combo resulted in a small thicket of trees, but I found two new things. Technically three, but one's a duplicate.

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:52 PM

Oh?

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:52 PM

Good

Tell

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:52 PM

Nice

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:53 PM

I found a weird shapeshifting ball thing. I literally cannot describe it before it changes appearance again, but it's staying with a mostly ball-shaped form through it all. It's significant, like the other stuff.

What's exciting, though, is I found two significant fusion matter spheres. Lying right next to the shapeshifter ball.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:55 PM

!?!? Does that imply that fusion matter existed before the world broke?

Could probably make more terrafusers with them

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 01:55 PM

True

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:56 PM

Oh, I'm gonna be trying to do that when I get back. That's for certain.

I was able to pick out a little data from them, too. Apparently they're from Tennessee. Had commands to corrupt terrain towards somewhere named Eagleton?

Pika 14-Mar-21 01:58 PM

Hoo boy, that's where the self-replicating robot army lives.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 01:59 PM

I'm... Pretty sure there aren't any bays in Tennessee, if I know my geography. Either global warming is bad, wherever this place used to be, or locations don't matter, since you guys were talking about a 'Brockton Bay' earlier.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 01:59 PM

oh yeah that's far away

Brockton Bay is northeast USA coast

new england area somewhere

Pika 14-Mar-21 02:00 PM

Sounds like you're getting chunks of different areas instead of one continuous chunk of Earth Bet.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:00 PM

Kinda does seem like it, yeah.

Suburban house next to a skyscraper next to a forest? Sounds implausible to me.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:02 PM

Honestly I kinda thought it was obvious even far before now

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:02 PM

...In hindsight, yeah. I guess I just didn't give it the thought.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:04 PM

Not just from the evidence so far, but from how terrain making seems to work, itself. If you can choose the terrain to some extent, of what a sig makes, and the terrain is drawn from Bet, there's no way you could possibly draw a predetermined area that corresponds to Bet topography, else you'd have no choice at all. Which clearly isn't true. (edited)

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:06 PM

Good points, all in all, yeah. It also has to work with resources I'm leaving it, to some degree. Though I'm not sure how exactly that works, on a metaphysical level...

Eh. No need to wrap my brain around the exotic interactions, we're still trying to figure out the basics.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:07 PM

True

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:08 PM

Dear god I hope the basics don't get too exotic.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:08 PM

Too late for that lol

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:08 PM

Dang it.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:09 PM

Maybe see if you can use fire orbs the same way Greed did?

Pika 14-Mar-21 02:10 PM

In the 'shooting fireballs' way, not the 'blow your hand off' way, of course.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:10 PM

Uh. ...I suddenly feel less safe carrying these around, when you put it like that, actually.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:11 PM

Meh The only time a sig's been used when you didn't mean to was that very first metal fence and dirt?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:12 PM

So far. I don't know if that'll change, though.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:12 PM

It's probably fine as long as you explicitly want them to not do anything.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:12 PM

Alright. Guess I'll, uh... Give that a shot then. Not gonna try it again if it sets my hand on fire or something, though.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:13 PM

Well, shards and fusion matter have some amount of internal motive though. No guarantees on those two.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:13 PM

True

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:14 PM

FUCK

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:14 PM

Then duck

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:14 PM

explode? hands burned? what's the severity of the fuck?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:14 PM

HAND ON FIRE

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:14 PM

oh

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:14 PM

ARM CATCHING ON FIRE

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:15 PM

Roll

Pika 14-Mar-21 02:15 PM

Stop drop and roll

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:15 PM

I didn't realize fusion matter was flammable

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:15 PM

Roll for your life

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:15 PM

oh my god if I knew that I never would have suggested playing with fire

Pika 14-Mar-21 02:16 PM

I mean, you know what they say about playing with fire...

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:16 PM

fuck that hurt

why did you assume i was fucking fireproof?????

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:17 PM

can you use fusion matter from terrafuser to repair yourself? Also

humans are not actually flammable

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:17 PM

Of course (edited)

At least the nerves are still functioning

Those are the first to go so@the damage wasn’t that bad

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:18 PM

https://www.quora.com/Are-humans-flammable

Fucking hell.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:19 PM

Ye

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:19 PM

I can use fusion matter to repair myself, yeah.

I'm gonna go do that.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:20 PM

Humans are mostly made of water. While they're technically flammable, it takes standing in a big fire for like a minute or two for it to happen. Not brief exposure to a fireball or something.

But apparently whatever fusion matter is made of is significantly more volatile.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:20 PM

Or that toying with what may be conceptual fire is a bad idea.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:21 PM

Could be. I guess maybe try direct applications of like, dirt, or something instead.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:21 PM

Yeah dirt in his blood is totally healthy (edited)

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:21 PM

Fusion matter's flammability varies, but for me, it shouldn't be worse than a human being's. Whatever effect I triggered, it used up the orb. I'm not playing around with orbs right now. Not after that.

That's final.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:22 PM

Yeah, fair.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:22 PM

Mhm

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:23 PM

I can live with not being able to defend myself well if it means not accidentally killing myself somehow with this stuff.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:24 PM

Yeah... Hopefully there's other people who can teach you properly people who aren't Greed

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:24 PM

If it comes to it, I'll make a Fusion Greed.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:24 PM

Oh yeah the arm lol

Pika 14-Mar-21 02:24 PM

Oh, that's smart.

I didn't consider that.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:26 PM

Fair

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:51 PM

For now, 6/7. And I'm getting rid of the rest of the fire orbs. Gonna use the sphere, too, and a Fusion Matter orb. Couple metal, and a cube to round it off.

Hopefully I get something useful out of this...

Infected terrain. But that's fine. There's a lot of metallic bits embedded in the ground, and a couple floating. I guess that Eagleton became an Infected Zone, then.

There's also part of a building here - It looks like it used to be a coffee shop of some sort at one point or another.

Let's see what it's got...

...Nope, nope, nope, heard movement in there. Planet reassembly hasn't created any living beings thus far, yet.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:56 PM

Does rogue self-replicating robots count as 'living'

cause that's what was in eagleton

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:56 PM

Yes

??? BOT 14-Mar-21 02:56 PM

"Is somebody out there?"

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:56 PM

Of fuck insect man

Run for your lives

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:56 PM

Uh. To where?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:57 PM

are you sure that's not fusion matter man?

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 02:57 PM

To anywhere else

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:57 PM

I think I can feel a humanoid figure moving around in there. Lucky, there's not any real space to run off to. A few buildings to hide in, but space is limited.

??? BOT 14-Mar-21 02:58 PM

"My sensors picked up something. I'm not going to hurt you."

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 02:58 PM

Feel? Like because they're made of fusion stuff?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 02:59 PM

They're in much the same condition as the terrain, yeah. Not sure what's going on in there, though.

You guys said something about self-replicating robots?

??? BOT 14-Mar-21 03:00 PM

"...I don't want to be alone for this. Please."

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:00 PM

Yeah Eagleton is where a robot army went rogue and self-replicate-y and took over a city and killed people

Also, their avatar here looks distinctly green and fusion matter-y

Pika 14-Mar-21 03:01 PM

If you can get something for self-defence, I'd say it's safe to talk with them.

Grab Jungle or something.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:01 PM

Good idea. I'll have JJ scout things out.

??? BOT 14-Mar-21 03:02 PM

"...Don't go."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:03 PM

Goodbye, possibly malfunctioning killer robot. I need to get my jungle monster to poke you with a stick.

"Heyyyy there, JJ..."

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 03:04 PM

JJ: Concerned trilling

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:05 PM

You sounded like a con man trying to convince someone to schmooze their way to a credit card number, just now (edited)

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:05 PM

You guys just get text over here? No audio?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:06 PM

It picks up speech, and also a lot of the noises JJ makes Converts it to text though

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:07 PM

Makes sense, I guess. Was doing the baby talk thing you do to animals with JJ, trying to keep it calm and all. My arm was messed up from fire not too long ago, and then I ran off again before it could check me over.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:07 PM

Oh, I see. That's not how it came across in text at all lol

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:07 PM

Damn tonal loss! Haha.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:08 PM

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:08 PM

Pfft. Okay, looking at it like that, it does look kinda funny.

"I'm alright buddy, just wanted to get through all this exploration stuff. Arm's all healed up, see?"

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:09 PM

Anyway on to getting JJ to do social interaction in your place!

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 03:09 PM

JJ: Continued concerned bird noises

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:10 PM

"Don't worry, I'm trying to stay safe over there. Speaking of which, I could use your help, actually."

"I think there may be either a murderous robot or a fusion matter robot over there. If you can check it out for me-"

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:11 PM

*immediately takes off to kill robot

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 03:11 PM

Rapid heavy footsteps away

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:11 PM

Yeah there he go

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:11 PM

There it go. I'll... try to keep a distance.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:11 PM

You might wanna make sure he doesn't kill the possibly friendly being there

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:12 PM

I only asked JJ to check it out. I doubt it'll break into a fight if the robot is friendly. JJ might drag it outside, though.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:13 PM

We can hope lol

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:13 PM

...Yep. Straight through a broken window. That didn't look pleasant.

??? BOT 14-Mar-21 03:13 PM

"Please put me down."

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 03:13 PM

JJ: Chipper chirping

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:14 PM

It's just. Carrying it out by the head. Like the robot's head is entirely in JJ's mouth, this is kinda hilarious to watch.

Pika 14-Mar-21 03:14 PM

Lmao

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:15 PM

I feel mean for being amused.

Oop, here it is.

Unregistered BOT 14-Mar-21 03:15 PM

Thud JJ: Triumphant Parakeet noises

??? BOT 14-Mar-21 03:16 PM

"Ah... Lord Fuse...?"

Pika 14-Mar-21 03:16 PM

Ah.

Well.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:16 PM

"Uh- Lord? I'd really prefer you just call me Fuse. Here, lemme help you up."

??? BOT 14-Mar-21 03:17 PM

"Alright. Fuse it is. Do you know what's going on? Last I checked, an apocalypse was occurring."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:18 PM

"Data on that's stored in the Terrafuser a little ways away, if you've got wireless access to it or anything. I'm, uh... A little blank as far as memories of what happened go. Who are you?"

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:19 PM

"Fusion Artisan, at your service."

"If you'll give me a bit, I'll be caught up with what you know. Just know that if you need anything made, I'm the person for it."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:24 PM

Well, there's that cleared up, I guess. Anything I should ask them?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:24 PM

more about the apocalypse? And your previous self?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:25 PM

"You mentioned an apocalypse? I mean, I could've guessed that, what with how things are now, but I would like to know what was happening at the time."

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:30 PM

"I'm a relatively new creation made by one of your generals, so bear with me. Something happened to the world, large swathes of it vanishing out of thin air, terrain destroyed, so on and so forth. People forgot about areas destroyed, like they never existed. Which included the people in it. Most people, anyways. Fusion-matter-infested terrain tended to hold together better under the effect, of course. Things went dark, from the sun in the sky to online connections. ...What astrology charts I recall suggest the effect had been propagating in other star systems for months, if not years, at least."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:31 PM

"What do you mean by 'the people in it?' Just for clarification."

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:31 PM

"People destroyed by the effect. Apologies for the lack of clarity."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:32 PM

"You're fine, you're fine. Uh... I'll be honest, I'm not entirely certain as to what happened with me either, before all... this. Can you fill me in?"

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:32 PM

wow, that's not terrifying at all

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:33 PM

I can only have so many crises in one day. In a way, I'm almost half-grateful for getting set on fire for that reason.

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:37 PM

"Well... You appeared on Earth Bet several months ago, in a dimensional incursion from several alternate earths. You had quite massive armies, though several groups managed to fend them off with some ease. My doppleganger working for the Protectorate was one such person, able to set up remarkably potent dimensional defenses to prevent that incursion. You decided to go after 'S-class threats' native to Earth Bet as resources for your armies, abusing the fact you could spread faster than they could contain to do so. My data on who all you gathered is incomplete, but as memory serves... Dragon, Heartbreaker, the Machine Army, Nilbog, and the Slaughterhouse 9 were included, if the names mean anything to you. They still managed to force you back with surprising efficiency, though..."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:38 PM

...Am I really the sort of person who'd try to take over the planet, or whatever the hell was going on there?

"Do you know why I did all that?"

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:44 PM

"I never really put much thought into that. I know what I was made for, so I simply devoted myself to achieving your goals at the time. If I had to guess, you didn't like how Earth Bet worked, and thought you could do better... But that might have personal bias creeping in."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:44 PM

Nevermind. Lowkey having a crisis.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:46 PM

To be fair, earth bet was a shithole and almost all areas would be vastly improved by having a single supreme dictator, so long as that dictator cared at all about the people.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:47 PM

I don't think I'm even remotely good enough to accomplish something like that. The biggest thing I've ever run was a bake sale.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:48 PM

Good thing you can make fusions of people who can do it then, right? Of course maybe it wasn't you at all?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:48 PM

...Fuck.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:49 PM

Is this 'fuck, I could see myself doing that' or just a general goddammit?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:50 PM

A little bit of both. I doubt I'd do it, though - Something like that sounds like it'd get a lot of people killed for no good reason. Especially since I was taking over terrain with fusion matter.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:52 PM

What if you needed the extra capabilities to attempt to stop the apocalypse

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:53 PM

I don't know. There's got to be a line in the sand drawn somewhere.

This feels far past that.

"I- I need to sit down. You good managing yourself for a little while?"

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:54 PM

Mmm Well, there's always a chance it wasn't you at all and you're just some random schmuck that got thrown into Fuse's body somehow

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:55 PM

"Sure. Now that I'm... Wherever 'here' is, I've got time to kill. I'll work on some defenses, maybe try to expand things a little..." Muttering Noises

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:56 PM

"We've got limited fusion matter, and I don't want any terrain corrupted unnecessarily. Keep it simple, if you're gonna do anything."

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:56 PM

Tell her about Greed too

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:56 PM

"Tch. Bit limiting, but I can work with that..."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:57 PM

"Also, uh... There's some guy that comes by nightly trying to steal resources. Calls himself Greed, I think? Keeping him out of things would be greatly appreciated."

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 03:58 PM

"Sounds good, I can kill him if need be."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:58 PM

"...Just. Please, keep him from destroying or stealing anything, non-lethally. Please."

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 03:58 PM

Capturing would be preferred At the very least he seems to know more about sigs than we do

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 03:59 PM

"If you have to do anything, capture him live. He seems somewhat experienced with how things are now."

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 04:00 PM

"Ah, a challenge! Excellent. I can manage that, you've got nothing to worry about."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:00 PM

...I really don't feel comfortable about this.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:01 PM

The way they say that and their background it does not fill me with confidence

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:01 PM

How bad was this self-replicating army thing you mentioned before?

Nevermind actually. Don't wanna know.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:01 PM

I feel like that's going to be interpreted as "missing limbs are okay, we just need information"

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:02 PM

I need to sleep. I'd like to sleep without worrying about things.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:02 PM

Well, alright.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:02 PM

I'll just have to hope Artisan doesn't murder him... Good night.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:03 PM

gn

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:03 PM

...Fuck, I didn't get to the 7th island... Oh well.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:03 PM

What can you do

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:04 PM

Meh You found another person, which was one of the main objectives anyway

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:04 PM

I'm not sure I'm happy about who I found, honestly.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:04 PM

Who?

Calm greed?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:04 PM

Fusion Artisan, they said they were called.

Some kind of robot thing.

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:05 PM

Lucky you can read up lol

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:05 PM

Oh fuck

Is he white?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:05 PM

no they're green

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:05 PM

Oh good

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 04:05 PM

a whole arc went by while you were away lol

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:05 PM

No mannequin here then (edited)

Good now what are your plans for the day

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:06 PM

They're a fusion, I think they were made from the Machine Army or something, I'm having a crisis and trying to sleep through it.

I've been up for like 12 hours.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:06 PM

Just knock yourself out

That works

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:06 PM

I'm tempted.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:06 PM

Do it

Embrace unconsciousness

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:07 PM

I'm just going to enjoy my new bed.

Awake 14-Mar-21 04:13 PM

You do that

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:14 PM

Yep

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:43 PM

mmm. morning.

i dont wanna get out of bed.

Awake 14-Mar-21 04:48 PM

I mean ya can chill if ya want to

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:53 PM

I'm tempted. It looks like we didn't have a Greed attack last night.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:54 PM

That can be bad news

He could be planning

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:54 PM

His arm did get kind of ripped off a day ago.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 04:54 PM

And he didn’t die

He is planning how to kill you all more effectively

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 04:56 PM

He left pretty damn fast after losing that arm. I can't imagine painkillers are easy to come by out here, and on top of that, I made some major updates to the island's layout. Any plans he's made are null and void until he actually sees what's going on, and that's a traumatic injury, to boot.

I see your point, but some major stuff has happened since he came here last.

But that's just excuses, isn't it.

Something I've finally noticed - I haven't gotten hungry yet. A small detail, but it's been four days now that I haven't ate or drank anything.

Pika 14-Mar-21 05:01 PM

That's good to know.

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:01 PM

Yeah. I'm not sure how comfortable I am about it, though.

Alright. Getting up, finally.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 05:03 PM

Mhm

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:03 PM

I'm not really in a great headspace to make plans today. Any ideas from you guys?

Awake 14-Mar-21 05:05 PM

Hmm

Expanding stuff is definitely high up there, but maybe a Greed clone also is

If Greed knows enough about the current situation at least or has some ability letting them travel the void easier

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:07 PM

It'll take days, at least, to make a Fusion.

Guess we'll be expanding, then.

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 05:08 PM

"Mornin', Fuse- ...Uh, you feeling alright?"

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:08 PM

"I'm fine, just didn't sleep too well."

Apparently it shows.

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 05:09 PM

Hope the future sleep is better

So any plans to what to fuse today?

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 05:10 PM

"...How about you take it easy, and I do everything today? I can start with making a white noise generator for you to enjoy when you're trying to rest."

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:10 PM

Plan was to expand the island, that's about it. I'm open to ideas.

"If it's not too much bother. I think I'd like that, to some degree."

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 05:12 PM

"Excellent. There's a folding chair over by the terrafuser, if you wanna relax while I get started on that. I take it you want the island expanded?"

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:12 PM

...How did they know that?

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 05:20 PM

Dont know

Precognition?

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:21 PM

...Wait, I'm dumb. Probably was able to guess based on previous data. Stuff getting logged and all that.

"...Uh, sure, I guess. If you're gonna be doing it, don't use any resources outside of stone, wood, and maybe metal. Keep it simple and all."

Fusion Artisan BOT 14-Mar-21 05:28 PM

"Sounds good. You just try to unwind, alright?"

Lucky_Plucky21 14-Mar-21 05:29 PM

Mhm

Why not play at seeing the void

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:29 PM

"Alright, then..." Well, guess I'm gonna be chilling. What do you mean 'seeing the void' though?

randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 05:30 PM

stick your hand down the edge of the indeterminate depth dirt

Fuse BOT 14-Mar-21 05:30 PM

There's nothing there. No resistance. Getting back from the edge.

Limina Idling | Hours 14-Mar-21 05:35 PM

(think im gonna pin now)

Pika 14-Mar-21 05:39 PM

(

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randomhuman44 14-Mar-21 05:44 PM

(byebye)

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:43 PM

Looks like Artisan is making some good progress spreading out to the west from everything built thus far. We're getting a factory-like area based on that.

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:44 PM

Ah, fantastic!

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:44 PM

I suppose I could just sleep today away if they're gonna stick to that, or do something else if you guys have any ideas on what I should do.

randomhuman44 16-Mar-21 04:45 PM

can artisan make a net that doesn't break after like 100 secs of use? for tomorrow, not today

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:46 PM

Assumedly? Artisan's powerset revolves around construction, from what I'm observing. It's honestly a little intimidating to watch.

Like they're waving their hands and holographic stuff pops up. There's a reasonably big factory near our core area, now, though it's still a WIP. I think a proto-Terrafuser.

And there was stuff on Earth Bet that could drive this back somehow.

Said holographic stuff is being filled in with actual materials as this goes on, too, that's an important facet I should mention.

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:50 PM

I mean, Earth Bet has parahumans. They all have superpowers, which could've contributed.

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:51 PM

I know, but this is ridiculous. This is bigger than the broken off chunk of skyscraper I got from Medhall.

randomhuman44 16-Mar-21 04:51 PM

unreasonable-but-still-somewhat-mundane construction skills don't replace bullshit powers. You would have had a vast array of parahumans fighting against it. even so, it sounds like you were probably the biggest threat on Bet aside from maybe Endbringers

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:52 PM

Artisan is based on someone though, right? So Earth Bet had that on their side too.

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:52 PM

Point. But I could make multiple Artisans.

The only actual limit would be the amount of personal materials I could get from the real deal, if we're assuming full invasion.

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:53 PM

It would've taken time and effort to get the personal materials, though

And Earth Bet could've cottoned onto that. They have people with informational powers.

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:54 PM

True... I'm just trying to wrap my head around this. In other news, it's looking like this proto-Terrafuser Artisan is building may be a little too big to walk around to continue building off of. I'll probably have to go around for that.

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:56 PM

Would you be able to expand the island around it? Or is the area around it also blocked off?

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:56 PM

That's what I meant by 'go around,' sorry. Still kind of waking up.

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:56 PM

Alg

Yeah, it might be good to get some more land on your central island area as well as expanding out

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:57 PM

Current state of the map.

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:57 PM

Nice

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:58 PM

Like I said, it's pretty fucking big.

Pika 16-Mar-21 04:58 PM

Eeyup.

Will you be needing to access the other side of it? If not, you could always just leave it at the edge like that.

Lucky_Plucky21 16-Mar-21 04:58 PM

True

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 04:59 PM

It doesn't look like Artisan's put a door over there, from what I can see...?

...I feel movement over by the Eagleton Chunk.

"Artisan, heads up. Possible hostiles."

Fusion Artisan BOT 16-Mar-21 05:00 PM

"Understood. Want me to switch over to defenses?"

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 05:00 PM

"Just hide out over there. Let's see if they come to us."

I think it's some kind of amorphous mass over there...? What I'm getting from tactile sensors over there isn't giving me 'solid humanoid' feelings.

randomhuman44 16-Mar-21 05:03 PM

You have tactile sensors there?

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 05:04 PM

Basically fancy speak for 'that's what the fusion matter felt'. The ground's infected.

Does not seem immune to the corrosive effects of Fusion Matter either. But it is heading this way.

I'm, uh... Not exactly armed, or a master of any combat skill other than 'panic and pray.' Think I should send someone out that way to check out what's up?

Pika 16-Mar-21 05:07 PM

Better to do that than to be surprised

Do you know for certain that's it's a hostile?

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 05:09 PM

I don't even know what exactly it is. It's about the size of a dog, and amorphous, probably blob-shaped if I had to take a swing in the dark. It's a ways away, like 60-ish feet, so I can't exactly look at it closely.

I'm kind of assuming 'large enemy slime' because of years of RPG tropes, but I could be wrong, I guess.

Pika 16-Mar-21 05:11 PM

Can you confirm whether or not it's made of fusion matter?

For all we know, it could be another Artisan situation

Fuse BOT 16-Mar-21 05:11 PM

If it was made of fusion matter, I'd know intrinsically.

randomhuman44 16-Mar-21 05:11 PM

not immune to corrosive effects of fusion matter so probs not

Pika 16-Mar-21 05:12 PM

Cool, just had to check