I got things set up again to test for electricity, and initially checked for a spark every minute or so. After ten minutes, I started cheg every five mihen every fifteen, and after a few hours, it seems like it had probably reduced in output by some amount, but the exact amount I couldn't tell. After half a day, it became apparent that a det amount of the electrical capacity was gone. The decay seemed to be logarithmi nature, so I imagi would tio gee electricity for a det amount of time, albeit more and more weakly over time.

  When Tiberius returo the b the day, he wao resume his experiments, and I was taking the whole underground b spay tests, but I'd basically finished what I wao do for today. I want to make an inductor before I try this again. I 't make a small inductor for this though, as I'm basically attempting to smooth out static shocks. What I need is a fairly rge iron core, which will be made of thin yers of iron separated by lightstone. I'll then wind thick copper wire around that core repeatedly, making sure there aren't any shorts in the copper wire, and coating them again in lightstone. Ultimately, I'm going to have a rge round rod of lightstoh two thick copper wires ing out of it.

  I expect I'll have to spend at least a few days w on that inductor to get it where I want it, so, to pre-empt any potential interruption, I left Tiberius with some more s to use if he needs it for any resear the week or two, though I doubt it will take me that long.

  I ended up having to build an intermediate mae to help, namely, a roller. Thankfully, rollers are fairly simple so we only spent four days getting it w. Once we had the roller, making this of iron, while somewhat bor intensive, was fairly easy. Then we were able to sheer the sheets into the shapes I needed for making my iron core, which took another four days. Ultimately, this core is about ten inches in diameter and made of twenty-seven yers of iron separated by a small amount of lightstohen sealed in a yer of lightstone, reag a yard ih.

  I then had Karsh's help with making the fairly thick copper wire that I wanted while I wound it around the iron core, using stone shaping as I went to ihe copper. The previous wire I used robably less than a sixteenth of an in diameter, so I've goh one quarter inch wire for this project.

  I wound 120 turns down the length of the yard-long core, theed the process bad forth down the length until I made the inductor 8 yers deep for 960 total turns. That took a total of two more days of work. This thing is heavy. So heavy, in fact, that I 't even lift it. I roll it though, and thankfully, hobgoblins with heighterength seem to be able to lift it with a bit of effort.

  I'm going to have to be careful with running this thing though, as it might gee a detly powerful magic field in its charged state. I'll o keep any magic materials retively far from it, to prevent damage. The st thing I want is to have to rewind the whole thing to repce the lightstone insution.

  When I had the inductor hauled to the b the day, Tiberius seems to have been waiting for me to begin his experiment. He had some hings he wanted made of stone, so I obliged him. I thought it robably a step in the right dire that he wasn't just carving from wood and wasting materials from the fish to run a test so I wao reinforce that behavior, though I 't say for certain if that was his iion, or if he just thought he needed my more precise manufacturing with stone shaping to get the outes he wanted from his tests.

  Though it still seemed for naught, as his tests still resulted in wild electric aring off the an until it was fried, and back tracked to the blood, then boiled it to the point of stopping the electricity again. I'm fairly fident that figuring out how exactly the fish's trolled ar be onized is far beyond Tiberius, or anyone in the current state of the world. Biological engineering is just that hard to do. The only real way we harness any of this is by harnessing sedary properties anic matter.

  We used the self boiling property of Zaka's blood, or in Tiberius's case, the rathgore, to make the ons. I highly doubt that either the rathgore or Zaka actually boil their own blood when they direct a fireball somewhere. This is probably a result of the chaotic usage of random excess mana flooding their blood. Hypothetically, something like that could occur if they touched a powerful enough magic crystal directly though. I have a feeling that biological beings have some form of natural defense against that, but I could be wrong.

  Likewise, I'm trying to harness just a bit of the excess electricity here to make some semi-perma mags, which would be the step to making an actual semi-stable source of power. The blood itself isn't actually a stable source of power, and would require areme amount of the fishes to be killed to provide enough power to do anything useful. What I use it for, however, is to make aromag, which I use to porize some steel.

  That steel won't remain magic forever, but I use it to jumpstart a dynamo. By using a self-feeding stator coil, as long as I give it a det initial burst of power, I could then use a dynamo to gee some amount of stable electricity from our dam, for instanbsp; The issue before now was that I had no real way to jumpstart that initial dynamo. We don't have enough types of metal on the isnd to make a battery, and perma mags have the same problem. Konkur has a lodestone, but it's field was a bit weak, and I'd hate to actally demagize it and not have the dynam at the same time.

  Now, if the dynamo has to stop for some reason, then I'll just have to make a emporary mago restart it. That means we'd have to kill another electric fish, but that's far easier for us to do than waiting for the trader to hopefully be able to find another lodestone.

  As for why I've chosen to try to make a dynamo over an Aerator, there are quite a few tributing factors. First, we're on an isnd. One of the biggest advantages of alternating current is its ability to use transformers to allow long distarical distribution. We don't have especially long distances here on the isnd that we o handle, meaning that advantage basically serves us no purpose.

  The sed reason is that direct current is generally safer than alternating current. The third reason is that direct current circuits are generally simpler and more useful than alternating current, which should lighten my work load siderably. The fourth reason is the ease of eg multiple geors together. In direct current geors, you only have to deal with voltage and amperage, while in alternating current, you also o synize the frequency of all the geors.

  If some day someone decides to rei alternating current, and utilize it, I'm not going to resist, it has it's own bes, but for us right now, it's signifitly worse than direct current systems. One downside loo direct current geors is their maintenance is more frequent than alternating current geors, so as long as someone else is doing the work making the circuit verters for everything, I wouldn't mind.

  The first trial run of the inductor was a success. Although the inductor ran fairly hot, it never failed, and never hot enough that I would be ed. After the inductor, I was able to use smaller gauge wire in the same figuration as previously, and this time the wires seemed stable, as did the magic fields.

  There was a small dowhough. It did seem to be slightly more damaging to the blood itself, and I noticed that the power level seemed to decay about twice as quickly as before. My guess is that the load on the circuit is causing a higher buildup of charge in the blood, potentially accelerating its decay.

  Twice as fast of decay isn't enough for me to be worried though, as I don't pn on needing to run it for that long to make some temporary mags. Though before I do that, I want to make a small dynamo that I ihe temporary mag into to test with. Though I'm starting to feel like a criminal with all the differerical discoveries I've been using at onbsp; All these different devices were discovered by multiple people over a detly long k of time, and I'm basically bringing them ience over the course of a single season here. Though I suppose a few of the things I brought ience for the war could be cssified simirly...