Portable Runic Field Device - #02

The scholar poured himself a glass of wine, taking a sip with one hand as he opens up his tome with the other. He had acquired the majority of the materials necessary for the ritual containment device. There were a few things here and there that he needed to gather, but for the most part? All that was left was finalizing the design, runic inscriptions, and performing a multitude of field tests to ensure the contraptions practicality.

Adrian began drawing a more detailed sketch of the bracer.

The bracer itself was multi-layered. The outermost section of the device would be made of steel as to insure it's structural integrity. The material was strong enough to offer amicable protection, and wasn't nearly as scarce or rare as mythril. It would do just fine!

The inner layering was constructed of a steel-adamantine alloy, similar to the daemon containment device. Pure adamantine would have proved too strong a barrier and would have made it harder for the energy to be released properly, so it seemed like an amicable solution to dilute the base component with steel.

The scholar leaned back in his chair, taking a large sip of wine. Hoping that the vintage would give him some inspiration in these trying times. And it did! Adrian leaned forwards and began to hash out more details.

He wrote some notes off to the side column, as if to remind himself of what he was doing:

The device needs to be convenient, easy to produce, and effective for whatever purposes it is being used for. Simply enchanting this bracer will not replicate the effects of an entire runic ritual. No, no! It needs to be stored into the device. For that to happen, I'll need more than just a string of runic commands. I'll need an amicable power source-- one that is appropriate to the ritual being stored into the device.
(Adrian Montbell)

Adrian quickly directed his focus onto the sketch. He added four trapezoid-like protrusions to the north, south, east and west sides of the opening of the bracer-- the part that would go around one's wrist or forearm. They were not designed so that they would be jabbing into the user, however!

The scholar would not want the device to induce discomfort. No, no! He took careful measurements to ensure that once placed, they would not scrape up against the skin or draw any blood by accident. Safety was important. He took a few moments to perfect the sketch before continuing, hashing out any measurement imperfections or design flaws while he still was still occupied with the design of the contraption itself.

Once all was said and done, his attention was shifted back to the four trapezoid-like protrusions. He smiled to himself, sketching indentions into each one of them to replicate the shape of an elemental shard. That was it! The key to the success of the ritual being released was the use of the elemental shards as a catalyst to summon the stored runes from the device and its inscriptions.

Adrian jotted down some more notes onto the side column:

The elemental shards will serve as amicable mediums, in addition to the layers of runic arrays and the designs of the device. The four protrusions located in the four cardinal directions will be made of a steel-adamantite alloy, similar to the most dense part of the device-- the inner layering. If all ends well? The shards will need to vary depending on the ritual being stored, and will need to be inserted manually as if ammunition for a mana rifle.
(Adrian Montbell)

Several more hours were dedicated to the perfection of the design. Every measurement, every contraption-- it had to be nothing less than impressive. The scholar added a mechanical component to the design of the bracer, a simple hinge that would enable the device to split down the center so that it could be opened up and easily removed from the wrist. Almost like a singular handcuff, but without the lock and key.

Adrian was no mechanist, but something that simple could easily be done with enough effort and practice. It wasn't any kind of advanced internal components, such as the ones that the scholar had commissioned from his Senior Engineer Sima when they were building the bomb so many years ago.

Sleepless nights followed.

Adrian wanted to eliminate any structural mistakes before they had the chance to appear in his field tests. The more time that was put into preemptive planning, the better. When it came to research there was no such thing as time constraints. It's hard to say how long he spent on the design of the contraption itself. Some say the scholar had been locked up in his study for days, others claimed weeks. A few said it had been months since he had seen the light of day.

But it was all for a good cause.

It was all for progress.
(Adrian Montbell)