#warclema

As established in the previous post, ligic is a magical energy that is generated by matter under the effects of Warclema's physics. It builds up until it starts leaking out. But how do people in Warclema manage to shoot each other with blasts of it?

Stored ligic can be forced out of an object by having it put under some sort of stress, whether it be stretching, applying pressure, or causing it to undergo a sudden acceleration. Almost about anything that could wring water from a cloth can wring ligic from an object. Common methods used by humans are tensing the muscles of one's hand or simply punching the air.

I go with the general idea that a lot of DBZ style ki blast stuff can be done with ligic. It can be concentrated at a single point before being forced forwards in some sort of hadouken or kamehameha. It can be shot as a finger beam. It can also be used for beam struggles. The main differences between the DBZ ki blasts and ligic is the elemental nature of ligic and that ligic can't be guided once it leaves the person, so no curved shots or hellzone grenade attacks.

The ability to release ligic through sudden acceleration allows one to do melee attacks that let out some ligic that will extend past the attack's normal range. The ligic stored in a sword, fist, or other weapon is able to retain the momentum of the weapon even as that weapon stops or changes direction, resulting in a wave of energy continuing out. This provides an easy justification for sword beams and similar ranged attacks with melee weapons.

In games, ligic would have three stats associated with it that I'm going to call "capacity", "control", and "power" for now. Ligic capacity is pretty much max MP. Ligic control kinda corresponds to a mix of dexterity equivalent and wisdom in that it can be used for skillful aim of ligic and is a major part of holding back enough to make efficient use of beneficial properties of ligic without letting it get strong enough to do damage to a target (getting red ligic to heal instead of burn). Ligic power would pretty much be used for magic attack strength.

While ligic use is simple enough for most residents of Warclema to quickly learn the basics of, many still use external means of using ligic, such as plants that can be coaxed into releasing stored up ligic. This is mostly because plants have a higher ligic capacity and being more adapted for its use. The use of one's own ligic by humans is treated like unarmed combat. It can be a useful skill, but having an actual weapon/plant tends to be preferable.

Neutral Ligic

Neutral ligic is ligic outside the colors of red, blue, black, and white. It doesn't really have any elemental effect to it and instead sort of adds some weight to attacks. Even when reflected by an object of the same color, the impact of it can be felt. It's able to be used to physically push objects or continue a cutting slice beyond a blade's normal reach.

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I'm continuing my posting about the humans in my original fantasy setting, Warclema. Why humans? Because they won a poll where I left out their name and just called them “the tech race”. Well, now it's time to talk about the tech.

Most of the technology seen in Warclema is split between what works in the emulated physics around the EDS that major human settlements are built around and what works in the rest of Warclema. However, some of it takes advantage of the effects of the other set of physics available.

Emulated Physics Technology

Earth Dimensional Ship (EDS): Various large machines made for a one-way interdimensional travel attempt. There were three classes of them, luxury, ark, and common. Luxury class for those who had the power and resources to make one and invite whoever they wanted aboard, often being used by leaders and the wealthy. Ark class was for scientists that would terraform whatever place they ended up at. Common class was basically economy models made with leftover resources and made in places with lower security so that the common man would be too busy fighting over them to interfere with the luxury and ark EDS. The luxury and ark EDS have names while the common EDS have numbers. Many of the EDS that survived became the centers of cities in Warclema.

Solar panels: Warclema's ambient magic seems to be translated into light when it is under emulated physics. This results in a constant stream of light that can be converted into other forms of energy. These are a standard part of the EDS that allows them to make up for energy lost as heat.

Replicators: These machines rearrange the protons, neutrons, and electrons of inputted matter to create various programmed objects. They are primarily used to recycle garbage and waste into food, tools, and materials. They are unable to differentiate neutrons from a native particle of Warclema called a "watron", which has different properties under Warclema's native physics, but that's for a later post to expand on.

Communications Technology: When the EDS arrived at Warclema, communications between the EDS were cut off until they could find a signal that could travel under the effects of Warclema's native physics. The machines that send and receive these signals rely on emulated physics, and attempts to create versions that can operate under Warclema's physics require a large amount of bulk and suffer from deterioration that results in them just not being worth the upkeep.

Cloning Technology: Comes standard on the ark class EDS to help with the introduction of cloned flora and fauna as part of the terraforming.

Advanced Medical Technology: Enough to justify longer lifespans in humans and help them stay competitive with races that have enhanced abilities but can't survive being under the effects of emulated physics.

Advanced Weapons Technology: While their guns can't function when taken out of the areas with emulated physics, they can still be fired from within them. Lasers turn into magic energy upon entering Warclema physics, but bullets and other solid projectiles retain their deadly force between the two sets of physics.

Warclema Physics Technology

Magnet Raft: These platforms make use of the principles that the sky islands of Warclema use to float in the air. They are used for making flying vehicles, hovering platforms, and sometimes as a lightweight roof or for a second floor for a building.

Physics Field Generator: An invention that would show up in later parts of Warclema's timeline and allow humans to force a small area to temporarily work under emulated physics, which allows them to have their technology work in more places.

Medical Tape: An adhesive bandage that has layers of antibiotics and nutrients to help a wound heal after being pressed on. There is a variation that works under both sets of physics, and a special version that makes use of Warclema's magic system by being loaded up with healing magic.

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EncounterReportChatlog.png

>Creating transcript...

>Transcript complete.

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Minta: I just saw something at the edge of the big rock.

Minta: I couldn't get a picture of it but I think it might be humanoid.

Cader: Please don't try these sorts of pranks on me. Also, that "rock" is officially known as "Boulder 01".

Minta: It's the only big rock around that isn't flying.

Minta: We don't really need a designation for it.

Minta: Also this isn't a prank.

Cader: So it's a hallucination then. Remember to see a psychologist when you're done with your analysis of EBS-01.

Minta: I've just spotted the first living thing to be on the other side of the barrier and you think it has to be either a prank or a hallucination.

Minta: We barely know anything about this world.

Minta: There could totally be native life and I discovered it.

Minta: That's a lot of typing you're doing.

Cader: We weren't even born yet when this ship landed here. You would think that if this place had native life, we would have seen it by now or noticed some preceding change that would justify that native life coming out of hiding. What we have had different since then is a person with a job closely monitoring something at the edge of the barrier. It's much more likely that the barrier, which we also barely know anything about, is giving off something that is affecting your mental state, and it's built up into something noticeable just now. I doubt that it will reach an irreversible state by the time you finish your analysis of EBS-01, but if you start feeling woozy, do try to put some distance between yourself and the barrier and get checked out immediately.

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Cader: Can I get some confirmation that you will get checked out once you finish your tasks or if you start feeling woozy?

Minta: I'll get checked out.

-16:32-

Minta: *Picture of humanoid form with sections made out of slime standing next to a cliff face*

Minta: Got a picture this time.

Minta: I'm going to try and communicate with it.

>End transcript.

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EBS-02.txt

Designation: External Biological Specimen-02 (EBS-02)

Discovery by: Lecter, Minta (Exobiology Department)

Assigned Researcher: Pending confirmation

Classification (tentative): Humanoid Entity, partial slime conversion

Physical Description:

EBS-02 resembles a young, prepubescent human female. Estimated age is 6 Earth years.

Physiological markers and garment remnants match those of old dimension planet Neo Tokyo 3.

Observed deviances from human baseline include:

*Green hair. Unsure if result of dying or side effect of slime conversion.

*Orange cohesive slime has replaced portions of limbs, torso, and facial tissue.

*Slime regions form approximation of lost anatomy.

*Slime sections occasionally drip before quickly reforming. Reformation seems tied to EBS-02's awareness.

Possibility of internal conversion. Extent unknown. Apparent malnourishment.

Observed Behavior:

EBS-02 is nonverbal but responsive to vocal tone, gesture, and positioning. Cognitive assessment inconclusive; responses indicate comprehension but inconsistent executive function. Variability may result from:

*neurological conversion (brain tissue affected)

*trauma-induced regression

*incomplete developmental trajectory pre-conversion

*nonhuman neurobiology (see Origin Hypothesis “B”)

EBS-02 demonstrates a strong proximity preference to EBS-01 (magnolia tree) and a consistent approach preference toward discoverer (Lecter).

EBS-02 refuses to pass through the boundary, showing pained reactions and retreating from it.

Subject responds reliably to the spoken identifier “Magnolia.”

Origin Hypotheses (Unconfirmed):

A-Human Survivor (partial conversion):

*Subject exited an EDS, passed through the boundary, and significant portions managed to avoid conversion.

*Clothing & phenotype match expectations for an inhabitant of EDS 29, supporting this possibility.

*If true, would imply some factor that may allow safe passage through the boundary.

B-Native Lifeform Mimicking Human Morphology:

*Slime portions may not be the result of conversion, but instead the natural body of EBS-02.

*Humanoid features may be adaptive camouflage.

*If true, would be first native life we've found. Clothing & phenotype would suggest that it had encountered EDS 29.

Recommendations:

*Assign single consistent point of contact.

*Noninvasive monitoring only. No retrieval attempts.

*Investigate possibility of replicating avoidance of slime conversion suggested by origin hypothesis "A".

*Investigate possibility of passing caloric matter through the boundary.

*Compile list of experiments that EBS-02 may be able to assist with due to position outside of the boundary.

Report filed by: Exobiologist Minta Lecter - EDS Svalbard

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To: Director Thistle

From: Minta Lecter

Subject: Expansion of Duties Request

As it may have come to your attention, I have recently discovered an anomaly that has been designated as EBS-02. I am requesting that my duty of monitoring and caring for EBS-01 be expanded to cover the same of EBS-02.

EBS-02 has shown a fondness of EBS-01 and a desire to stay near it. EBS-02 has also exhibited a favoritism towards me over other researchers. I feel these factors will make it easier for me to monitor EBS-02.

Also, I have given her a name, Magnolia.

Relevant files are attached for review.

> EBS-02.txt > EncounterReportChatlog.png > CommunicationAttempt.vid

I will assume responsibility for this child until ordered otherwise.

-Minta Lecter

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About a human scientist figuring out Warclema's physics.

A story that I really should have planned more of.

A significant portion will be instructing a child.

Going to be told from the perspective of Minta Lecter.

Now let's get this started.

Warclema Tales - Experimentation Log 1

EDS Svalbard

Transcript of Audio Log 001 - External Biological Specimen Oversight

Recorder: Exobiologist Minta Lecter

Audio Log 001 - External Biological Specimen Oversight

I've been assigned to External Biological Specimen 01, a magnolia tree. For archival purposes, I've been asked to append my first growth report with a recording of my baseline understanding of EBS-01.

When I was studying for a specialty in exobiology, this tree was a big deal. It was the first thing we've gotten to grow outside of the ship. The first thing we've gotten to grow in this planet's, no, this dimension's soil. It's also the only thing we've gotten to grow in this soil. That would be so exciting if we hadn't figured out why.

Our ship is surrounded by what we've been calling the slime bubble, an invisible boundary that liquefies anything that passes through it into some sort of orange slime. As a seed, EBS-01 managed to land in a patch of soil outside the ship but within the bubble, so it was able to survive. Other vegetative growth outside the ship has been hampered by the slime, which seems unable to support vegetable life.

I'm pretty much in charge of jotting down notes about EBS-01's growth and development. How much taller has it gotten? How many leaves have shown up? How is being at the edge of an invisible bubble that turns whatever passes through it into slime affecting it?

It would be nice if it grew in a spot with something interesting in the background like that giant purple whirlwind, the flying rocks and water balls, or one of the other EDS units. It'd be nice to be doing this with the hope that I might be the first one to notice a communication attempt from one of those EDS units. Instead, the view of what lies beyond the specimen I'm stuck with is a boring, unmoving, rock that sits on the ground. It's big, sure, but utterly uninteresting.

I'm not even allowed to physically interact with EBS-01 and have to fertilize and water it through some slots installed in the glass wall between me and it. I understand that the wall is there to make sure none of my fingers get lost from going through the slime bubble, but it'd be nice to be able to get a leaf or blossom sample from it, or just... touch the thing.

END LOG

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Annul is the main protagonist of the Demon War plotline I have in mind. He's also an isekai character that I originally came up with because it seemed like an easy way to introduce a fantasy world with basic things being different. I also kind of thought him up as a blank slate protagonist whose dialog would start out simple, but get more nuanced as the plot went on and the player made more dialog choices that would influence later choices.

As a default, I imagine him going through an enemy-sparing route, encouraging rehabilitation of the Demon Army. Just a sort of "You have some 'might makes right' philosophy? That means that you should obey me, who had beaten you, right? Your first order is to serve the people you victimized.".

His arrival in Warclema was not part of some prophecy, the power of a divine figure, or some desperate attempt to receive aid from another world. Instead, it was an experiment, one that would provide valuable data that would advance Warclema's technological progression, but also alert those monitoring interdimensional activity to Warclema's presence, ultimately resulting in the Demon War. As a result, he is able to find a place within Warclema to consider his own before the plot kicks off, allowing the story to have more of a "destroyed hometown" start with some "found family" flavor to it and having the isekai origin turn up later.

I have long imagined the experiment that brought him over being performed by neutromorphs at the request of the Spoilers, who needed a bit of discretion because of agreements made after the Spoiler War. Annul would have decided to live with them and sometimes looting a nearby abandoned EDS for foreign matter that would convert into neutroslime. He would be especially watched by the Spoilers, who have less ability to predict his actions with him having spent a significant chunk of his life in a world that they are still trying to obtain details about.

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