This time when I reached the cap, I only had the option to evolve, and with that, I only had the same two choices from st time. Ogre, or Lava Demohe options. We have a couple of ogres iy, some enterprising fishergoblins, or I suppose, fisherogres who used to be hobgoblins. So, given I haven't got a clue what being a Lava Demon is, I was ied.
It seems like when you first bee some species, you usually gaiher a magic or trait reted to it, and it seems to simirly occur when you reach Apex. So, finding new species could end up as a vital expansion to our ey. It's unlikely, but I'd hate if I missed out on that opportunity.
I was a little worried before I fell asleep, so I asked if I could stay with Zaka for a few days. I ended up sleeping for 20 hours, and not needing more time to evolve. I was gd that I stayed at Zaka's house, because I grew a foot taller, and also became bulkier. My scales are thicker and rger, and have taken on an obsidian shine. I've also gaihree parallel ridges down my back, which also seem to be made of scale.
Thermal Regution: Spell. Variable Cost. Allution of internal body temperature ireme thermal enviros, while providing some degree of thermal prote to the body as a whole as well. Cost per sed scales expoially with thermal gradient maintained.
The scales on my back seem to be reted to my new magic, Thermal Regution, which seems to be simir to thermal hands, except it only lets me keep my body temperature reguted as pared to the enviro, rather than maniputing something beyond that. The mana cost seems to be simir to what I had to expend for thermal hands.
It's not actually all that useful, as pared to say, just passive heat resistance, but I suppose there could be survival or bat situations where having sudden immunity to either freezing or burning could prove useful.
With that out of the way, I went back to resume work at the facility. Since I looked entirely different from before, it actually was a little fusing to prove who I was. Which led me to realize a gring fw in our security over here. Uh a single race of stagnant beings, demons prestige and evolve, meaning that we ge appearanbsp; So while our security is still pretty good at preventing unwanted visitors from non-demon races, it'd be fairly easy for a demon to infiltrate security. They'd simply cim they evolved or prestiged, making them look and sound different, and then waltz into wherever it is they aren't supposed to be.
As ara detriment, any demon at the same prestige with the same traits and magic look like twins, making it even harder to do identification. At the very least, we should probably start giving paper permission to demons leaving the facility to go to the city, which they o present to return. I'll also probably o create some form of temporary work badges that we give to temporary workers who are either hauling materials or doing other work. All that wait until the walls and security guards are actually in pce, but I have a feeling it won't go over well with the workers here.
I initially wasn't quite sure how I wao build out the hydrogen facility, and I was quite hesitant to keep and ste amounts of hydrogeo the explosion hazard. I also have a much rger problem, which is that I don't have an off switch for produ for the method I io use. My i is to use copper doped fluorite to produce the hydrogen gas. However, if I decide to go with that method, I'll have to deal with a tinuous produ of hydrogen. Even if I keep the actual hydrogen produ deep underground, it'll still have some amount of hydrogen it's produg, which would leak into the enviro and be a hazard.
So, rather than risking that, I think it'd be better to make a fre stack to burn off the excess hydrogen that we don't use. I do want to do some small scale experiments to determihe behavior of the hydrogen crystals as well, before I settle on a rger industrial scale design, so that's what I'll work on first.
I started by asking Tiberius to do some morous health studies on the copper fluorite crystals. Over the course of a few days, it seemed like the only hazards involved were the hazards associated with hydrogen gas itself, so I moved on to my phase of testing. I had a rger crystal grown in the 12-inch apparatus, but stopped part way to give me a 5-inch crystal for testing with.
The maiion I was trying to solve was whether I could dispough air with the hydrogen produced by a crystal that I could skip the bubbling through water step, which let me more easily isote the gas. So, I made a small chamber out of stone, with a long and thin outlet line, and then pced and sealed the crystal inside.
What I quickly realized, however, was that we weren't actually making hydrogen gas. We were making protons. At first, I thought it otentially monatomic hydrogen, sihe chamber started to rise in temperature quite quickly, which made me think that the hydrogen atoms were f diatomic hydrogen and releasi. While that was also true, we had an even bigger issue.
Sihe chamber was made of stone, and filled with air initially, there were a few loud pops, which quickly settled down, followed by a small psma jet f out of the exhaust line. Stone and air are reasonably good insutors, and the chamber was sitting on open ground, and the psma jet was actually crag with small electrical discharges. In essehe crystal rodug a rge amount of positive charge buildup, which was getting ripped from the air at the exhaust as well as internally from the walls of the chamber.
The chamber didn't st much longer either, crag and falling apart within a few minutes. Ihe crystal had also formed dozens of cracks throughout itself. Lone protons are the reason acids break materials down, and they cause all sorts of trouble in other enviros too. In essence, our previous crystal was somewhat smaller, was less pure, and was never really kept in an enviro meant to keep it pletely isoted to build up it's own gasses. Even the wooden box with padding that I'd received the previous crystal in had appeared to be shoddily made, but looking ba it, that robably done on purpose.
The water that I had submerged the previous crystal in had worked as both a thermal arical ductor, distributing the heat arical buildup across the eer chamber, preventing this sort of thing from happening. However, thinking about it, that crystal was also not in a pure octahedral shape. Instead, it was thinner and longer with multiple points where it had been cut. My guess, and it is just a guess, is that it had cracked in pces like this crystal, and so the owner had smoothed dow edges to make the crystal more presentable.
At a certain thiess, quantum tunneling and charge restoration probably reduces the amount of self-degradation that the produced protons cause. I actually hadn't pnned on cutting these crystals into ptes like the heat crystals, but now, I feel like cutting them into half-inch ptes might actually be very beneficial. So, for my est, I'm going to have an approximately six inch crystal grown, and then cut into half-inch thick ptes. I want to try holding the crystals in copper ptes, which might help with charge imbance, si's a ductor.