After a few days, Tiberius had me e help him in the b with his projebsp; He'd gathered two of the electric fish, and had a new design that he wao try using. I brought along some detly thick copper wire to use as well, given copper's ductivity. With stone shaping, it was very easy to make the shapes and designs that Tiberius had in mind for his device, and I gave him some input as well as we made it.

  The cept is pretty straight forward, he was basically using the blood as both the geor and ductor. Then eling it to the ans which seemingly direct the electric arc through the air. Knowing what I know about electricity though, electricity isn't like a rock, you don't just throw it through the air. You o make a el for it to arc through. So I'm guessing that the an does something with mana to allow that. Either that, or the blood electricity is ued, and the an just gees spontaneous electricity when stimuted with mana.

  That idea was easy enough to test usionise, though I was a little afraid of gettirocuted as a result. I used teise through one of the ans without much of the blood on it. I got a painful shock, but nothing like what I saw before when Tiberius was testing the devi the past. The electricity arced from one of the three prongs that protrude from one side of the an, and arced sideways to my hand. It seems like it does gee some of the electricity itself, but perhaps not all of it, then it arced quickly to the ground through me.

  I worked with Tiberius for a slight redesign of the device, using copper wires to direct the flow of electricity toward the an. In his previous device, he had soaked wood in blood to act as a ductor. In the new device, I've stone-shaped out hollow rods which we've filled with the blood. Each rod has eight wires that run along the edges, toug the internal blood aending out beyond both sides. One side grasps the electric an, and the other side be distributed through the blood pool when it's attached to the crystal.

  Though a problem with both his old devid current oo be getting a lot of mana to the an itself. I know some water and bloods make good mana ductors, but the issue of eg that to a somewhat squishy an is a problem. There are multiple ways to attempt to solve that problem, like eng the an in a tainer with the blood, but without knowily how it funs, it's hard to say what might work. Even then, it's hard to say exactly what use this even has outside of experimentation purposes.

  The main issue is that it's basically just static discharge, like lightning. There is a rapid and powerful arc that instantly dissipates destructively, so it's not even like we could use this to gee electricity in any useful way in the current form, but perhaps something valuable might e from it.

  The first an got fried by the electricity being ducted through the wires. It arced electricity dangerously around the rod for about ten seds in half sed bursts before the an had bee too charred to work anymore, and the electricity started just crag all over the rod and surface of the blood until it died out.

  If everything is w approximately how electricity oh works, then the blood and an are somehow geing aher ive or positive charge. Teically, it doesn't really matter which, because for all I know, everything has opposite electric charge here, and we're operating with positrons and antiprotons.

  I did get ahough it heavily relies on the blood not being damaged or depleted over time. Currently, we keep cooking the blood to the point where the electric charge causes such powerful sparks that the blood stops w to gee the electric charge. So, what if we made many small chambers with a small amount of blood, and ran wire to each of them, then ected that wire to a strong ground? Could we get aric differential that is somewhat stable?

  Within this buried room, basically every surface acts as a ground, albeit a poor one. Which could be partially why there is so much trouble trolling the output from that an, though I'd guess that it'd require quite the plex manipution to get an an to fun with precision outside it's body.

  So, I discussed the idea of installing a ground wire opposite the crystal in the room. Stone is generally very resistant to electrical flow, making it a pround, so I'll o use quite a bit of copper to get enough surface area in tact with the ground to properly fun as a grounding wire.

  For the first iteration, I think I'll just i some solid copper rods into the stone surface at regur intervals using stone shape, thehem together with copper wire. At the very least, that should be the best ground in this room by a signifit margin. While I work oing the copper rods made and installed, I've given Tiberius some moo use to pay the fishergoblins to get more of the electric fishes.

  After three days of setup, I've finished with installing the grounding rods, and made a testing bed for my idea. What I've made is essentially about three dozen thin tubes that run back towards the crystal, with a single copper wire running down their ter. Those copper wires are then all ected to each other, and ruo the grounding wire.

  Sihe electricity should be running along the wire, rather than arg through the air, we'll need a way to visualize if this is w. To do that, I've prepared a few differes. I've got three separate coils of copper wire set up, with some lightstone sheathing to fun as both an insutor, and to keep the wire in pbsp; One of the coils surrounds a steel core, another has iron filings scattered around it, and the third has both. I have other pieces of iron around that I use to check the magic effect, if there is any.

  After Tiberius butchers the fish, we get some of the blood loaded into the chambers, starting the process. Initially things seemed pretty promising. The iron filings snapped into a magic grid, and even more-so around the iron core coil. Though I noticed that the filings didn't actually stop ale. Less than ten seds ter, while bringing a piece of iroo one of the coils, I could feel the heat radiating off the coils, and aen seds ter, and the copper started to melt. A few seds after that, the electricity started to crackle off the severed cable, arg to the part of the cable to the ground.

  I was thankful that I made a quick dise my design for the tubes, which allowed us to drain all the blood into a taihat wasn't toug the crystal retively quickly. On one hand, things were somewhat successful. The electricity did seem to flow from the blood to the ground through the path of least resistanbsp; Oher hand, it fried the coils.

  I was way more excited by the process than Tiberius was though. He seemed far more ied in the prospect of using the electricity as a directed on than for other purposes, so my little experiment probably seemed like a step in the opposite dire for him. After thinking for a while, I think I might have a guess as to what caused the coils to heat up like that.

  The source of electricity is likely very unstable. I saw the iron filings tio twitch through the experiment, whidicates that the magic fields were shiftiedly. So the coils were probably experieng powerful eddy currents as the residual magic fields were driving opposite currents every time the electrical current shut off. If I had to guess, we've got something like a pulsed DC to ral circuit.

  What I'd o fix that issue is an inductor actually capable of handling the voltage installed circuit, which means I'd o make the inductor first. Before I run that test though, I should run a test again using the existing blood, but with a thick cable directly to the ground, and see just how long it seems to run before the blood no longer produces electricity. This would all be for naught if the blood only runs for ten minutes before it's fried, even with a ground.

  To check that there is still electricity flowing, I'm going to put a small lever he ground cable to work as a disect switch, to move the cable very slightly away from the ground, to hopefully see a spark eg the two when I throw the switbsp; I'll do that at regur intervals and roughly gauge the size of the spark to determine if we're losirical potential or not over time.