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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3381539" data-attributes="member: 29014">(OOC: Well, I see no reason why Kharas would refuse to help search, and I'm on now and might not be later, so...35 it is!)*After Aethelus finally finishes his infusion on Anvuss, the three gathered Artificers search again, and this time, with their combined expertises--Anvuss's knowledge of metallurgy and attention to detail, Kharas's expertise with intricate devices and ability to appraise metal, and Aethelus's theoretical and practical knowledge of all things magical as well as sound engineering design principles, they are able to scrounge more information from the fractured construct.**First of all, while Anvuss looks for matching cracks and shards in the outer shell, Aethelus and Kharas are able to arrange some of the pieces on the ground in areas of roughly similar function, together constructing a rough skeleton of the infrastructure of the creature.  None of them has particular expertise at drawing, but they try to extrapolate from what they see to make a rough sketch of what the construct would have looked like--they can always double-check this with the woman whose name they still don't know if they want--as is often the case with Artificers, they have been paying more attention to the engineering task at hand.  Their sketch looks like, in Aethelus's xenotaxonomical opinion, a rather fanciful imp or mephit-like flying construct with slender fluted wings like a mix of a butterfly's or a hummingbird's--great for flying with high manoeuvrability:  They might be able to learn more from someone who knows about the principles of aerodynamics (OOC: Perhaps because he studies skyships as a House Lyrander scion<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).  One thing that has all three of them scratching their head, however, is that as far as they can tell, though the design is creative and rather ingenious, from what they have here to go on, it shouldn't work.**Additionally, a reaction of some of the metal fragments to several simple smithing tests (proposed by Anvuss) and simple alchemical/magical tests (proposed by Aethelus) indicate that the creature was constructed from several different materials--the wings seem to be a light mithral alloy perfect for flight, which isn't surprising.  The main body is mainly steel, with slight amounts of other strong and ordinary yet rarer metals.  The insides, however, seem to consist of some sort of alloy of steel, platinum, and an unknown metal that none of the three can identify.*</blockquote>

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