#magictech

[jenniferdarlas]

[lumarisart]

Voices of the Old World

I'm just trying to get myself psyched up to edit/revise/rewrite chunks of an 88,000 word manuscript of these two lovebirds from 2017 lol send me coffee & candles

[commander-coppercogg]

have 2 and 16 from the headcanon asks, if you'd like! :) @kerra-and-company

2.) In game the cities are obviously limited in size. What part of a city that is definitely there isn’t shown in game?

Not gonna lie my first instinct was to say the DMV. Can you imagine a Tyrian DMV? Wild. But more seriously I think the game does a pretty good job of making a realistic city. There’s institutional buildings, libraries, market places, housing districts with class differences, heck Divinity’s Reach even has thought out water management. The one piece of infrastructure I can think of that we don’t see is garbage disposal. All cities gotta dump trash somewhere. But it’s easy to see why that wasn’t included lol

16.) Have you put any thought into how Asuran Magitech works? (If yes the author of this game would love to hear as many details as possible ;D)

As someone who almost exclusively plays asura, yeah I have! This ended up being kinda long so I put it under a read more. Also @dasozelotvonnebenan if you would like to see some magictech ideas here you go!

Ok so in text there a lot of talk about crystals in the context of asura tech. Power crystals, data crystals, storage crystals, you name it, there’s a crystal for it. So I think that almost all asura magictech is based to some degree or another on crystals. Which makes sense as the asura are originally a subterranean race and would have a lot of access to minerals and stuff. So you start with a crystal and then I think you would pass a wavelength of magic through the crystal to make something happen. I think that magic in Tyria works a bit like light, in that it can be split and reflected and refracted. (Also the idea that magic can be both a wave and a particle like light is really interesting, but I don’t know enough about physics to say much more than that.) I imagine there’s a lot of different combinations of crystals and magic and each would refract in a different way and thus cause a different effect. Some would be used everyday, others only in extremely rare laboratory conditions. Things would also change depending on what kind of housing you put the crystal in. You put a crystal in a golem, something golem-y is probably gonna happen. But just imagine all the ways crystals could be used: pyrite used as magically strengthened building blocks, selenite slabs used as computer screens or tablets, diamonds magically enhanced to drill or cut through anything, opals used as power sources. It’s like crystal healing but make it Silicon Valley!

This also applies to some character stuff my partner and I have created. During character creation for Syrryl (my partner’s main character) , he chose the Infinity Ball as Syrryl’s first invention. The Infinity Ball was made of crystal and allowed you to view different possibilities and time lines. Sometime later Syrryl had his left eye burned out (it’s a long story) and replaced it first with a crystal that used similar tech to the Infinity Ball and then later with one of Glint’s crystals. Combined with a telescopic monocle, it allows him to see and calculate probabilities and trajectories on the fly that turn him from an amazing sniper to an extraordinarily terrifying one. It also means that if he ever got around to publishing some of the things he’s discovered (which is unlikely due to a variety of reason), it would probably revolutionize crystal work.

[marlynnofmany]

This little footnote in Digger is a great writing prompt.  I wrote a half-page drabble inspired by it that will hopefully one day be a novel, and it was lots of fun. 

The character doesn’t have a name yet.  All I really know is that he’s somewhere with mythical creatures and advanced technology, and he is not adjusting well.  (The title on the folder holding the drabbles is “flustered magitech”.)

...A quick search of my own Tumblr shows that I’ve posted three other drabbles with this guy, featuring his misadventures in taking out the trash, gathering mushrooms, and spying on celebrities. 

[vkhat]

These are my characters and some homebrew races and classes. Sadly, I was stopped from finishing these as my table died. 

[spacebrick3]

Technology Tuesdays!

What this is: a theme-day thingy sponsored by one (1) small blog run by a nerd who loves technology. There’ll be a theme for the particular day - I’ll post something about technology in my own story that relates, then anyone who wants to can reblog/send in an ask/reply/whatever about some technology in their own WIP. And then I’ll reblog your reblog or answer with excited gushing or keysmashing or something. Fun? Hopefully.

I might do themes like weaponry or transportation or something like that next time, but for the very first one, I’ll leave it completely open-ended!

My fact(s):

In the world of Empty Space, a pen has been developed which pulls molecules from the air in order to create ink that never dries out. There’s also a pencil which does the same, pulling carbon and compressing it into graphite, although this is less widely used since it grows uncomfortably hot when it’s doing that. Despite the fact it’s not made of wood, people still get nervous about the 350 degree stick while it’s pulling in carbon.

Talk to me about technology in your WIP!

[jenniferdarlas]

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