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Portable Runic Field Device - #03

Dec 19th, 2017
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  1. After returning to his manor, Adrian made his way to his personal study. He finished up writing the progress report that Istvan had requested before folding it up into a letter and placing a wax seal onto the envelope. Once that had been dealt with, he cleared some place on his desk. He made room for his tome and several pieces of ore that he had collected over the past few months.
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  3. It was time to begin the construction. The planning of design had been perfected, all that was left was actually making it-- and then designing the runic arrays and encoding the device with the commands necessary to achieve the desired functions.
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  5. Hovering his hand forwards, a blue energy travelled to the tips of his fingers as am array was etched into the surface of the table. The complex geometries issued quite a simple command. It was a transmutation circle, carved for the purpose to combine two minerals into an effective alloy and then alter the size and shape.
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  7. This was an easy, yet practical way to proceed absent of a blacksmith. It was far less time consuming as well. He placed either ore into the center of the runic array, siphoning his own mana into the commands to function as a proper power source.
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  9. A brilliant blue-white light encompassed the stack of minerals. It was roughly five pieces of adamantite and ten pieces of steel condensed together into an alloy as per the original design specification. When the light faded, the middle layering of the bracer could be observed. Adrian picked it up to inspect it for any imperfections.
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  11. Naturally, he couldn't see any right off the bat. The scholar's runes were second to none. Many regarded him as unfit for his position. But none could argue with his runic designs, the intricacy of his symbols, the precise placements of his arrays. The planning that went into their design. Those who had seen him work knew it, and Adrian knew it too. There was one thing that was objective truth:
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  13. A Montbell rune was astep above your standard master crafted rune.
  14. (Adrian Montbell)
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  16. Several more hours were dedicated to closer inspection of the recently forged outer layering. The scholar thought it best to ensure that there was nothing wrong with it before proceeding forwards with the transmutation of the other pieces that made up the device. He wasn't expecting anything to be wrong with it, but if there was?
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  18. He'd make sure there wasn't.
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  20. The middle piece forged of a steel-adamantite alloy had already been constructed. Adrian thought it best to get that out of the way first-- seeing as the runes required for the transmutation had to be a little more complex considering he was working with two different types of minerals.
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  22. The rest was relatively simple in comparison.
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  24. The outermost and innermost portions of the bracer were both made of solid steel. He figured he'd get those two out of the way before working on the final aspect of the construction.
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  26. Adrian placed a heap of ten steel ores into the center of the runic array etched into his table. He transmuted the minerals into a compact and dense circlet, which would serve as the outer layering. It was large enough to encircle the steel-admantite section. Once that was done, he moved on with the innermost layer of the bracer.
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  28. He followed an identical process, but altered the runes here and there so that it would fit the specific measurements. It had to be small enough to fit around the inside of the dense steel-adamantite circumference of the bracer. The steel layering on either side had been put in place as a sort of insurance-- to make sure that the runic commands etched into middle section were not compromised.
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  30. Once those two portions had been successfully procured, Adrian inspected each piece to make sure that the transmutation runes had run their course properly. He utilized a variety of tools, as he had done before with the inspection of the middle layer, to make sure that all was well.
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  32. A magnifying glass, a simple microscope. Every minute and miniscule detail that was overlooked could result in failure. Adrian wanted to eliminate the potential of complications before they could even arise.
  33. (Adrian Montbell)
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  35. The final aspect of the basic construction would prove more challenging, to a degree. It was nothing the Champion could not handle. The steel-adamantite protrusions that would house the ritual catalysts, the elemental shards, had to be designed to specifically to fit the measurements of the shards themselves. The transmutation rune would require more commands and more mana in order to achieve the desired results.
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  37. Adrian hovered his hand over the array, adding a new set of symbols and issuing a new set of commands. It took some time-- but before long, everything was in order. He was ready to proceed with the transmutation process.
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  39. He placed a piece of steel and a piece of adamantite into the center once the transmutation array had been altered to fit the design specifications. Again, a light blue aura encompassed the two minerals as it combined them and altered their shape into a small trapezoid-like object with an indentation carved into the center-- a slot to place the elemental shard.
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  41. Before he continued with making the other four, he had to make sure that the transmutation rune had worked properly. Again, he picked up his magnifying glass and a small microscope to inspect the piece for any imperfections. All seemed well, and as such the scholar went on to procure the three other pieces.
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  43. Everything was in order. All the pieces were constructed, save for the minor mechanical components that would enable the hinge function of the bracer.
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  45. Adrian poured himself a glass of wine, taking a few sips. The next couple of days would be dedicated to thorough analysis. He had made sure there was nothing wrong with the pieces already, but there was a very slight possibility he had overlooked something. Closer examination over the course of hundreds of hours would ensure that if there was something wrong with the main pieces of the device-- they'd be corrected.
  46. (Adrian Montbell)
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