I've only paused w oing because the weather has taken a turn for the worse, to the degree that everyone who is in the vilge has takeer inside. It's been raining heavily, and the wind has gottey severe. Thankfully, it isn't quite as bad as the st major storm we had, but I am still a little ed about the stru crew. I hope they made it back to the inn that I advised Zeb to build safely. The craggy terrain they're w in could be quite dangerous in this weather.
I'm also keeping ready for any up or emergehat might occur. I've filled my backpack with a few basiecessities to use if I hem, or someone else hem. I'm just hoping that the storm stays only at about this level.
The storm tinued for two more days before it cleared, and everyone in the vilge had some repairs to make of one kind or another. I had to spend three days repairing the mesh at the artificial tide pool, as portions had been damaged by debris being thrown by the o into it. The fishergoblins were left to the tide pools themselves of all the debris that had settled into the bay area due to the storm. I then had to ihe dam, as debris had built up there as well. That took three days, as I had to have goblins help haul all the debris out from the reservoir as the level slowly dropped. Thankfully, since all the valves were in the open position, none of them seemed damaged.
The stru crew was uninjured, but they're still in the process of fixing damage to the road. Not only did debris pile up, but some of the work in the craggy part of the isnd got covered in a minor mudslide. Overall though, I'm just gd it wasn't a repeat of the st huge storm we had a few years babsp; The sewer system seemed to manage all the rainwater, which is good. Irospect, I wish I had braved the storm to check the sewer outlet to see how much of it's capacity was being used during the heavy rainfall.
One of the biggest losses was that the salt evaporation ponds all refilled with water due to the rain and likely some of the wave crashes, which means that a bunch of the salt harvests have been deyed. It's unfortunate, because we only have a few months of the year during summer where salt produ is really productive, and as we enter fall, and rains beore frequent, it's unlikely we'll make much more this year.
I helped with repair jobs through the vilge occasionally while spending the remainder of the time smelting more of the metal into ingots. The storm did have one small be, there have been drastically more shells washing up to shore sihe storm passed by, which means I've been able to work for lohan I initially thought I would be able to. Since resuming smelting, I've been making ingots for another 19 days, and I've used up around fifteen pert of all the charcoal we've been stockpiling.
I make three ingots most days, and eagot weighs about twenty pounds. In total, we have 151 of these ingots, which means we have about one and a half tons of the metal avaible to use or trade. Unfortunately, I'm pretty much the only one here who works with metal, and I'm practically a novibsp; Not that I haven't beeier. The ingots from when I started are noticeably worse than the ones I make now based on the quality of the metal itself. I'm still quite a ways away from being able te the intricate meisms that I need for some of the projects that I'd like to plete iure.
However, I did tick over another level a few days ago, puttio 98. Holy, it's probably time to just bite the bullet and hit level cap. If fifty plus days of smeltial wasn't enough to gain somethied to it, then I don't know if anything will be.
I cut down trees just outside the vilge in order to level up. Unfortunately, due to the teique we use to cut trees down, it took twelve days to get to this point.
It's only midday, but I'm feeling tired, probably due to whatever our equivalent is of leveling siess, so I'm going to see what I have avaible and go to sleep early.
Avaible Traits:Improved Endurance: Increases the amount of strenuous activity you do at oime.Heighterength: Greatly increases muscle mass and by extension, strength.Thermal Hands: Spell. Variable Cost. Allows thermal manipution of objects held in hands aremely high heat resistance during use. Cost per sed scales expoially with thermal gradient maintained.
Avaible Species:Ogre
This is a tough choibsp; On one hand, I talked about how I might want to evolve again. Ogre seems to be a path for that. However, I did get somethied to smelting, possibly. I'm actually very intrigued by Thermal Hands. I'm not sure just how much mana it will end up taking, but given I spend an incredible amount of mana by utilizing giant crystals, I think it's worth it just to see how far I take that spell.
I pick thermal hands, ahe darkness overwhelm me...
I was out for a day and a half, but when I awoke, I immediately noticed a ge in my hands. I've noticed minor ges to my body before when I picked traits and prestiged, but this is a little more extreme than previously.
My hands, and a portion of my forearms, have gone from somewhat scaled with fur to jet bck scales with peaks on the back of each scale. The underside of my hands also have ged to bee seemingly calloused.
After I cheake sure I still manipute objects simir to normally, I check my stats.
Its always a little saddening to see my HP and MP pools drop every time I prestige, but I've gotteo it. I think of it kind of like molting for shelled animals at this point.
Simir to most other abilities, I have a general sense of how thermal hands will work intuitively. I basically just activate it, and I mentally choose to heat, cool, or maintaiemperature of something currently tag the rough pads on my hands. With that in mind, I decide to test it out on the rger copper s. I know I probably shouldn't deface the currency that I made, but oher hand, it's a ve size for this test.
Copper is highly ductive to heat and has a fairly low thermal capacity, meaning I should be able to manipute it's temperature fairly easily. I hold the with my hand open, fag upright, so I observe what happens. First, I activate thermal hands, and just maintain temperature.
Surprisingly to me, I only lose two points of mana for the five seds or so I hold the temperature. , I'm going to try heating the . As I do so, I barely feel any differen my hand, and initially, I don't notiything other than my mana draining. At first, the mana drains nearly as slowly as before, but by ten seds in, I'm draining three mana per sed.
Then suddenly, I'm startled, and drop the . I heard a high pitched noise from my hand. Looking at the , I see heat waves in the air rising from the . I'm down about forty mana, so I wait a little bit for the to cool somewhat before I tinue. I pick up the again, and start heating it, this time, I'm holding my hand up slightly more to observe my entire hand as well as the .
Again, as the temperature climbs, and the amount of mana I'm using increases, I hear a high pitched noise. This time, I don't drop the , and keep as my maes faster and faster. The s louder, and the pitch lowers, and then I see it. From the peaks on the scales, steam. The peaks seem to be getting a little wider, and steam is esg from them. Iing. I push the temperature of the higher and higher, until it takes on a slight glow due to heat. At this point, I'm down about half my mana pool. Rather than cooling the with magic, I merely pce it oone floor of the building before turning off Thermal Hands, and wait for it to cool.
I double check my own status. No missih, about half my mana used up. I don't feel dehydrated either, but maybe I didn't actually lose any water, or if I did, it was minimal. Steam does take about 1000 times the volume of water, so even though I was ejeg it, it may have actually been very little water at all.
Rather than wait for the to cool, I pull out a sed , and try using thermal hands to cool the . Keeping a close eye on the scales on my hand and forearm. This time, as the temperature drops, the peaks open much quicker, but they don't seem to release any steam. I put my free hand underh, and I feel air moving. Iing. I leave the sed oone floor here as well. My mana is nearly depleted, so I'll take this opportunity to go to the bathhouse while I think about what I should focus o, as well as what uses I have for thermal hands.