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<blockquote data-quote="contraserrene" data-source="post: 5930395" data-attributes="member: 63450"><p>Randomly riffing...</p><p></p><p>He spent his first year of exile learning new ways to hate. This city didn't like him, and worse, it didn't fear him. Formerly a power to be reckoned in his own little pond, he was barely more than a joke to Gloomwrought.</p><p></p><p>He spent his second year of exile learning to let go of the hate. He found a mentor and friend, a jovial vampire who had already learned this lesson and, in so doing, profited in body and soul. "Accept this world for what it is; you'll never change anything unless you understand it." Once the epiphany had come, he killed his friend so as not to be distracted in the coming work.</p><p></p><p>He spent his third year of exile building the Device... stealing chains and other mutable materiel from the Fettered Ward for the workings, smelting links and sintering crushed decorative pieces into new shapes, forming something both complex and ephemeral- like the architecture from which it was derived. The Device has over ten thousand moving parts and most of them will barely withstand a single revolution- they are fragile at best, hazardous at worst.</p><p></p><p>The Device isn't exactly going to <em>explode</em>, though there will be many explosions. It's going to weave and fold lines of arcane, shadow and elemental force through itself and turn its own self-destruction into a rite of sacrifice. Four tons of steel and stone will reform into eight thousand Devices, each with fifty limbs that can scramble and stab. Each new Device will seek out a brain, or a heart, or a mind, or a spirit- whatever is appropriate to the victim's type- and extract its knowledge and essence, then instantly relay it back to the pulsing nexus of energy where the original Device used to be.</p><p></p><p>He will circle the floating nexus on his great frightening steed, performing a ritual to sort and filter What Is Important from the pseudo-random babble flashed into the center by the new Devices. The ritual will impart upon his own mind a full understanding of the thousands he kills.</p><p></p><p>When he understands enough, he will be ready to build the third stage Device, using all the matter and energy and thought in Gloomwrought, and his escape will begin the conquest of... well, anywhere he happens to choose. He hasn't decided yet. His new perspective is lofty enough, even now in the grip of the Work, that he no longer cares about the fleet which rebelled and abandoned him. There are bigger fish in a much larger Sea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="contraserrene, post: 5930395, member: 63450"] Randomly riffing... He spent his first year of exile learning new ways to hate. This city didn't like him, and worse, it didn't fear him. Formerly a power to be reckoned in his own little pond, he was barely more than a joke to Gloomwrought. He spent his second year of exile learning to let go of the hate. He found a mentor and friend, a jovial vampire who had already learned this lesson and, in so doing, profited in body and soul. "Accept this world for what it is; you'll never change anything unless you understand it." Once the epiphany had come, he killed his friend so as not to be distracted in the coming work. He spent his third year of exile building the Device... stealing chains and other mutable materiel from the Fettered Ward for the workings, smelting links and sintering crushed decorative pieces into new shapes, forming something both complex and ephemeral- like the architecture from which it was derived. The Device has over ten thousand moving parts and most of them will barely withstand a single revolution- they are fragile at best, hazardous at worst. The Device isn't exactly going to [I]explode[/I], though there will be many explosions. It's going to weave and fold lines of arcane, shadow and elemental force through itself and turn its own self-destruction into a rite of sacrifice. Four tons of steel and stone will reform into eight thousand Devices, each with fifty limbs that can scramble and stab. Each new Device will seek out a brain, or a heart, or a mind, or a spirit- whatever is appropriate to the victim's type- and extract its knowledge and essence, then instantly relay it back to the pulsing nexus of energy where the original Device used to be. He will circle the floating nexus on his great frightening steed, performing a ritual to sort and filter What Is Important from the pseudo-random babble flashed into the center by the new Devices. The ritual will impart upon his own mind a full understanding of the thousands he kills. When he understands enough, he will be ready to build the third stage Device, using all the matter and energy and thought in Gloomwrought, and his escape will begin the conquest of... well, anywhere he happens to choose. He hasn't decided yet. His new perspective is lofty enough, even now in the grip of the Work, that he no longer cares about the fleet which rebelled and abandoned him. There are bigger fish in a much larger Sea. [/QUOTE]
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