>>6111302Action 1: Build Lapidary (crystal shaping facility using the Medqa ability to crystallize trees) and experiment with various shaping methods and limits for processes
>Bille Hitab: But shields are meant to be heavy are they not?>True Katan: Too heavy, they shatter the arm. Too light, they shatter from one blow.>Bille Hitab: What if many light ones?>True Katan: Cease frivolous jests. Are the Medqa in place?>Bille Hitab: Yes. Will send logs floating downstream by noon of the morrow.- Excerpt From Lapidary Development Communiques: Series #3
>True Katan: Frequency increase impressive. Secret?>Bille Hitab: Wavy pattern of expansion. No more dead patches of land. Growth potion covers up pattern.>True Katan: Wavy inspires. I shall attempt experiment.>True Katan: No more durable. But produces intriguing noises at select blows. Will send to skalds.- Excerpt From Lapidary Development Communiques: Series #7
>True Katan: Remember frivolous jest of many light? Test axe on attached plate.>Bille Hitab: Queer ringing. Shattered shards painful.>True Katan: Attempted wavier pattern. Skald say this produce sharper ringing. Confirm?>Bille Hitab: Skald correct. Blow repelled greatly. Less shattered shards. New shield?>True Katan: Or armor. Material still too heavy and rigid. If only could make more flexible.- Excerpt From Lapidary Development Communiques: Series #11
>Bille Hitab: How was plate?>True Katan: Badly shaped, but too flexible! How?!>Bille Hitab: Peeled bark off fresh cut tree and carved into circle. Crystallized less.>True Katan: Very interesting. Will move workshop to logging cabins. Must test different shapes fresh! Potential for bows and shields!- Excerpt From Lapidary Development Communiques: Series #12
>Bille Hitab: Why such obsession with armaments?>True Katan: Council fears neighbors. Especially birds.>Bille Hitab: Is that not for 'mancers to handle?>True Katan: Unreliable. Show of arms is most effective they think.>Bille Hitab: And what you think?>True Katan: I think I want to go back to Kata design. My wish was twisted.- Excerpt From Lapidary Development Communiques: Series #14
>Bille Hitab: How was bad-Kata?>True Katan: Bad. Although I am flabbergasted at how you carved it so tiny and flexible. You're no jeweler.>Bille Hitab: Am good with hands. Carved wooden ring and let crystallize.>True Katan: Intriguingly supple. Perhaps hint to lesser crystallization?!>Bille Hitab: Again with crystallization, are you blind and deaf?>True Katan: What you mean?>Bille Hitab: Nevermind. I drink Dulce tonight.>True Katan: Cannot be there. Much work to do.- Excerpt From Lapidary Development Communiques: Series #15
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