Audacious

Myriad Reality

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*PaMDA generates an alert bubble with a warning sign*
PaMDA: Caution: This material fails catastrophically. Be prepared to contain the shards. Do not inhale the shards. Do not touch the shards without proper PPE. Do not oxygenate the shards.

@Legend

*Nods and looks around*
Everyone ready to fail catastrophically?

Myriad Reality

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PaMDA: Correct. The pattern should apply on a nanoscopic scale for best results.

@Legend

Doable. I’ll need to focus, but doable.

Myriad Reality

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I believe it wants you to make an extreme heat at all points at once.

@Malevocholy

Not if there needs to be a differential, surely.

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*PaMDA generates a diagram of a pseudo-crystalline structure colored red and blue at irregular intervals speckled throughout the structure*

@Legend

So… If I just randomly make some parts super hot, and some super cold- no pattern here whatsoever- we’re good?

Myriad Reality

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PaMDA: The temperature differentials should be as discrete as possible. The material disperses gradient heat quite well.

@Legend

So extremely small steps in temperature difference. Easy.

Myriad Reality

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PaMDA: Non-symmetrical would better suit this material's reforging process. They should be as small as you can manage.

@Legend

Okay, okay. But other than that, what I said will work? Because I can do that.

Myriad Reality

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PaMDA: Cold temperatures decrease the required operating force but are not sufficient ends unto themselves. Suggested approach: Generate an extreme temperature delta within the material. If possible, create kaleidoscopal minuscule deltas within the material. Use Mierno's strength to shatter it.

@Legend

By “kaleidoscopal”, you just mean symmetrical, right? Tiny segments throughout the material with temperature differences that aren’t so great from the next, but that are extremely different from the highest to lowest point?

Myriad Reality

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PaMDA: The material can be bent with sufficient effort, exposing weaknesses at the joints, or the material can be reforged entirely by shattering it.

@Legend

Shattering it, huh?
*Walks in a circle around the spare armor set*
And would you say the material becomes more brittle at cold temperatures?

Myriad Reality

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Still, most people who have that mindset leave the dirty work to someone else.

@Legend

I do, as much as I don’t like that phrasing. But this time, there wasn’t someone else.
*Takes the hammer and points at the suit*
So how is it that I can take this metal without ruining it? How do you do it?

Myriad Reality

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I'm surprised you're willing to do this at all, to be honest with you.

@Legend

I told you I’d do what I could to help save your dad, and your home.
*Kneels down to the floor and melts some of the metal away from around a small shape in the center. I reach down into the molten metal and pull out a solid metal hammer from the puddle before letting it resolidify*
I know from past experience, talking to this guy doesn’t get you what you want. I will not be playing that game again.

Myriad Reality

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*PaMDA advises that the process to generate Prion-immune material is labor intensive and, while feasible, cannot be completed with simple phase change*
Does this change your mind about future conflict, then?

@Legend

I got it, PaMDA.
*Shakes my head*
Of course not. There always was the possibility that there would be no one else around to solve a problem caused by a psychopath who can’t be reasoned with. And I’m not trying to kid myself, because there really aren’t that many options for dealing with circumstances like that.