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[evictedSaint]

Wait, GM, do we get two Revisions this turn for getting the meteor iron? It did mention a Revision Credit.

Sorry - that was another mistake on my part.  The initial idea was to let the winner Revise the ore into something that they already had, but I decided it would be more useful and exciting to design it into something new.

[Chiefwaffles]

Revision: Crystal Circuits
Our current gold circuits are expensive, heavy, and unreliable.

The purpose of using gold is to "hold" the magic in our designs, but crystal can do that too as it's an inherently magical material. Crystal is summoned over our circuits by wizards instead of a long and expensive process of pouring over gold.
The crystal is sustained by the constant magic flowing through it, and doesn't require maintaining by a wizard.
As crystal is a very light material, our circuits' weight is heavily reduced. Crystal's strength ensures it can't melt or be degraded. And in the rare case of damage, any wizard can repair t in the field by summoning more crystal.


The resulting circuits are much cheaper, reliable, and lighter. Our engines, cannons and artillery become lighter, meaning our boats are more durable (not sitting as deep in the water) and/or can hold more weaponry. Our HA1s can fire faster as the circuit material no longer melts with high fire rates. Our circuits become much cheaper and designs making heavy use of it (namely HA1s or even steam engines) become cheaper as well.
And any future circuit-using designs will also share these benefits.


TL;DR

• Increases fire rate + reliability of HA1s (gold circuitry melts when firing too fast)
• Decreases expense of HA1 + future circuit designs (HA1 uses tons of gold circuitry and gold is expensive. Maybe expense of HC1-E too, but it uses less and its expense didn't change when we added gold to it.)
• Decreases weight of steam engine, HA1, HC1-E, and anything else using gold circuitry. (Gold is heavy. Remove gold then designs' weight decrease.)
• EDIT: Cheaper Crystalworks (Edited in after Crystalworks design was rolled. Crystalworks uses a lot of circuits. Cheaper circuits means cheaper crystalworks.)

[FallacyofUrist]

Revisions:
0 - Magegem Refitting: 0
0 - Higher Powered Magegems: 0
2 - Crystal Circuits: Chiefwaffles, FallacyofUrist

I'm down for that. We're going to be able to spam our artillery even more now. Magic items are the future.

As for the meteor... two more ideas. One hilarious one, one that the GM probably won't allow but would be awesome if it was, and one practical one.

I miscounted.

Spoiler: Hilarious (click to show/hide)

Catgirl Assassins:

Our researchers found that the meteor was predisposed to take certain forms, nyeh, and literally could not take any others, nyeh. To be precise, nyeh, they took the form of... highly flexible, almost living, nyeh... cat ears, claws, and tail.

One unnamed researcher volunteered to try them on, nyeh.

As it turns out, nyeh, the ears/tail/claws cannot be removed without killing their host and induce certain behavioral changes, nyeh.

That said, nyeh, they do offer certain benefits, nyeh. The wearer, now referred to as, nyeh... our development team has named the wearers catgirls, nyeh... and one unfortunate catboy, nyeh. The catgirls have greatly increased stealth, even magically shielded to prevent detection and divination magic from targeting them, nyeh. The wearer gains certain instincts, nyeh, that, while cute, also make them extremely deadly assassins, nyeh, using their claws to rip out necks in an instant and disappearing into the jungle and the shadows the next. They gain enhanced senses, nyeh, mainly sight and smell, but some hearing and balance to go with that, nyeh. They become extremely capable climbers, nyeh. All of this combines to make our catgirls extremely capable assassins, nyeh, especially considering the fact that the items resist antimagic of all kinds, nyeh.

The drawbacks, nyeh, namely what our researchers are calling a "verbal tick", nyeh, and the extreme fondness of catnip, and the fact that the enhancements are irreversible, nyeh, have alienated our men to the point where none of them will wear the... accessories, nyeh? Items, nyeh? However, many of the Arstozkan women who we have previously considered troublemakers for wanting to fight, nyeh, have volunteered to wear the meteoric ears, tails, nyeh, and claws in order to serve our country better, nyeh. They don't seem to mind the tick and everything else, nyeh. They consider it cute, nyeh.

That said, it would be nice to research a way to duplicate the effects of the meteor, nyeh, and more importantly, figure out a way to remove the items, nyeh. The anonymous researcher would greatly appreciate such research, nyeh.

Spoiler: Unlikely to Succeed but Awesome (click to show/hide)

Maxim Gun:

As it turned out, the meteor is completely ordinary(well, it has some useful mundane properties, we're going to make some swords out if it for our officers later), except for the fact that it's a container... from an alternate future. The meteor was of man-made origin! The meteor contained a damaged historical record that we couldn't get much out of... but we did manage to get something very useful out of it: the method of creating the "Maxim Gun", an extremely useful weapon from the time the meteor was created, as well as its ammunition.

Whatever happens, we have got
the Maxim Gun, and they have not.

Spoiler: Practical (click to show/hide)

Aetheric Staff:

The Aetheric Staff is a masterwork, one of the most useful(no, the most useful) magical item we have ever created. It does take the skill of Myark or another master wizard to use, however, it is very useful. It lets Myark manipulate magic energy itself.

It has several applications. For one, it lets Myark use magic in spite of the antimagic our foes wield by boosting his aether channeling. For another, it boosts his aether channeling! While not under antimagic, Myark's casting is greatly empowered. Seriously, you should see the Greater Fireball he cast yesterday. Finally, the means of boosting the casting is by taking the power of other mages, reducing the power of apprentices and journeymen in the area around him to almost nothing and even masters are reduce to a low level. Al-you-tricka won't like this at all.

Oh, you're worried about our artillery? Well... we have magegems, which are unaffected by the staff's power.

Rumors of Myark using the staff to fire lasers of pure aether are completely false. There's no possible way he could manage that. Then again, he is our Master Wizard. Eh. It's probably just a rumor. Right?

[RAM]

0 Magegem Refitting:
0 Hgher Powered Magegems:
0 Crystal Cartridges:
0 Crystal Circuits:

[FallacyofUrist]

Ah. Missed yours.

0 Magegem Refitting:
0 Hgher Powered Magegems:
1 Crystal Cartridges: RAM
2 Crystal Circuits: Chiefwaffles, FallacyofUrist

[evictedSaint]

Revision: Crystal Circuitry [1]

Crystals can be used for circuitry, it seems - they're just not a very good choice.

We can conjure crystals at very precise sizes, angles, and thicknesses thanks to our heavy investment into the stuff, and though the magical energy can flow through the hair-width crystal structure under correct circumstances, it invariably breaks.  Running the circuit produces a very small amount of heat, and for a malleable metal like gold that's fine - it can flex very slightly as it expands and contracts.  Normally it's not enough to disrupt the circuit, but for a ridged crystal structure even a slight amount of force is enough to induce hairline fractures that disrupt the flow of magic.  So, we've discovered we can use crystals to direct the flow of magic, but it's not effective to use it for magical circuitry, let alone circuitry on devices like the HA1 or the steam recycler.

[Chiefwaffles]

Okay. Okay.
Great. Of course.

But we can use crystal for wiring now. Just not circuitry.

[FallacyofUrist]

Hm. We can fix that by using the generated heat in the circuit to maintain the conjuration instead of cracking the crystal. But that'll have to be another revision. Now we have the potentially OP Meteor Design.

Add whatever designs you had before into here! Or... I'll do it myself. Fine.

Meteor Design:
0 - Catgirl Assassins(Hilarious):
0 - Maxim Gun(Improbable):
1 - Aetheric Staff(Practical): FallacyofUrist
1 - Beacon of Magic: helmacon
0 - Tower of Heresy:
1 - Demon Wolf From The Dark Heavens: VoidSlayer
0 - Crown of Ash:
1 - Gilded Guardian Gilda: RAM
1 - Staff of Forever Frost: Andres
0? - Orb of Divination: Andrea?
0? - Orb of Anti-Divination: Andrea?
1 - Spire of Frost: Chiefwaffles
0 - Large Ice Lizard With Wings:
0 - Fair-Day Cage:

... I'm beginning to think we may have a problem coming to a consensus on this.

[Chiefwaffles]

You should probably copy over the votes for meteor designs we were doing before Evicted's design post.

[FallacyofUrist]

Done.

To reiterate: are we ever going to be able to come to a consensus on this? Is Myark going to have to pick from among our proposals?

[evictedSaint]

... I'm beginning to think we may have a problem coming to a consensus on this.

Haha, yeah, this specific instance.  You're having trouble coming to a consensus this one time.  This is the first time. Haha.

To reiterate: are we ever going to be able to come to a consensus on this? Is Myark going to have to pick from among our proposals?

If you don't come to a concensus in the next hour or so, I'll just cherry-pick my favorite (regardless of how effective or difficult it might be)

[helmacon]

hmm, so crystals make poor circuits, but they can stand the flow of magic.
Could we do something like crystal lenses then?
The discharge of a mage gem focused through a series of crystal lenses to a small put powerful stream?

We could make some badass rifles with that. AAA mage gems as bullets, some sort of catalyst, (maybe just shattering the mage gem?) and then pushing it down a tube with crystal lenses to shoot a concentrated beam of magic!

...actualy, why couldn't we just do that with normal lenses? Probably more durable than the crystal anyways.

so we could use crystal circuitry for something like... oh! holy shit! anti-magic landmines! anti-magic crystals tend to explode when they get magic, right? A small pressure trigger completes a circuit connecting a mage gem battery to an anti-magic crystal! Yay! landmines!

...wait, that dosent actualy need crystal circuits either. huh. Not sure what we could use it for. It just seems like kind of a dead end idea. Doesn't have any advantage over anything else we could use. Not wireing either, cause it still breaks and becomes useless.

[Chiefwaffles]

Meteor Design
1 - Spire of Frost: Chiefwaffles
1 - Tower of Heresy: FallacyofUrist
1 - Staff of Forever Frost: Andres
0 - Catgirl Assassins(Hilarious):
0 - Maxim Gun(Improbable):
1 - Aetheric Staff(Practical): FallacyofUrist
1 - Beacon of Magic: helmacon
1 - Demon Wolf From The Dark Heavens: VoidSlayer
0 - Crown of Ash:
1 - Gilded Guardian Gilda: RAM
0? - Orb of Divination: Andrea?
0? - Orb of Anti-Divination: Andrea?
0 - Large Ice Lizard With Wings:
0 - Fair-Day Cage:

I added the links from those that already had links in the quote.

Anyways. I've redone Crystalworks to be concise and ready for next-turn.

Future Design: Crystalworks
Crystal is an amazing material sadly of little use to us currently, but we can fix that. The Crystalworks uses new techniques to mass produce cheap crystal invulnerable to the pathetic anti-magic utilized by Moskurg "wizards".

The Crystalworks is a large building - somewhat like a warehouse - with a high roof and wide while quite long.
At the center of the Crystalworks lies the "power room" where extreme amounts of A-size Magegems are connected in series. This room provides powers for the many power-hungry circuits across the Crystalworks. Thanks to the discoveries from our failed delayed Crystal circuitry revision, we have crystal wiring from the power room connecting it to the many circuits, providing a quick and efficient way to transport large amounts of magic power across the building.

We realized early on that having one circuit summoning precise crystal designs is inefficient and wasteful. Instead, we use "conveyor belts" of a some kind of fabric or cloth-like material strong enough to hold the contents on top being artificially moved by a steam engine.
In the first part of the Crystalworks, we have large amounts of circuits constantly summoning new unformed slabs of crystal. These hunks of crystal are split across other conveyor belts moving across the rest of the factory where other circuits gradually reform the crystal into different shapes, like sections of armor plating for ships or people, axes, wiring, and more!
New lines of circuits and conveyor belts can be added to the factory as needed as we design more crystal-based items.

Perhaps the most important aspect of the Crystalworks is the nature of the crystal. It turns out that when a human summons crystal, they "spend" a bit of their total magic potential and put it into the crystal. This magical energy can't stay outside of its natural host (the summoning wizard) for too long, and thus eventually returns, dispelling the crystal. Maintaining it simply resets the timer by replacing the "old" energy with "new" energy. The method of production using circuits simply creates the energy without forcing it to rely on "borrowed" magic, meaning the crystal lasts forever. This means that the crystal also can't be dispelled by Moskurg anti-magic because there's no magic to dispel in the new crystal.

It turns out this "assembly line" method of creating crystal items is much more energy-efficient than spending effort and time summoning one perfect item at a time. This plus the decline in required personnel means we can produce crystal at a much greater rate than before. Things such as crystal axes almost pour out of the Crystalworks and into crates designated for shipping onto the battlefield, to replace the old dispellable crystal!


TL;DR Mass produce anchored crystal. Allows us to more easily manage expense in future crystal designs and not worry about dispelling.
How?
Just expense is something that could be done in a revision; the point of the Crystalworks is crystal expense, infrastructure (so we can get bonuses to expense of crystal-using designs), and most importantly, crystal permanence. In other words, this design just makes cheap anchored crystals. That shouldn't be impossible in a design. It's not like we're trying to antimagic-proof our mages. We're just making permanent crystal.


Also, Evicted, about how big are the A-size magegems?

[evictedSaint]

About the size of a can of soda.  Maybe a bit smaller.

AAA is closer to about the size of a disposable zippo lighter.

[RAM]

C'mon Valkyrie! You can do it!