So those PC problems I mentioned before? They came back. Ran more tests and determined that it was not recoverable so I just got my new computer today. Still at work but I intend to post later this evening. Sorry for the delays on my part.
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Now that most of his teammate had arrived at the dining table, Travis went and took his seat and claimed a few pieces of toast to add to his plate before digging in. A soon as Felix commented with his positive opinion on their meal, Travis resonated his own remark towards Nemo and Raiya, "This is very excellent indeed My compliments to the fine chefs."
Before long, Felix made his anticipated announcement. Travis already knew most of the details since he had worked with the Arch Magi earlier and already determined the difficulties locating their next Paragon. Listening further in on the announcements, it appeared that there will be some considerable wait time until they had a sure fix on following Paragon. It was slightly disappointing not having another relic to adventure out to retrieve but there were plenty of other activities to participate such as his project with containing the Paragons and a slew of other possible spells to develop after their previous trip.
Once Felix had ended his declaration, Travis openly made his report but directed it towards his employer, "I've so far compiled a few rough ideas on how we may contain the Paragons...if you would like to go over them after breakfast of course."
Before long, Felix made his anticipated announcement. Travis already knew most of the details since he had worked with the Arch Magi earlier and already determined the difficulties locating their next Paragon. Listening further in on the announcements, it appeared that there will be some considerable wait time until they had a sure fix on following Paragon. It was slightly disappointing not having another relic to adventure out to retrieve but there were plenty of other activities to participate such as his project with containing the Paragons and a slew of other possible spells to develop after their previous trip.
Once Felix had ended his declaration, Travis openly made his report but directed it towards his employer, "I've so far compiled a few rough ideas on how we may contain the Paragons...if you would like to go over them after breakfast of course."
Im going to need some posts here guys
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I will have a post created soon. I have been running into PC issues lately and much of today was spent trying to get it back into working order.
"Roger." Travis replied simply.
With Felix withdrawing up the stairs to his study, Travis remained in the lab staring at an empty page of his note pad. The idea of keeping two Paragons in the same space and yet out of each others influence was not a simple task. He took into account how limitless their Paragon was and how it could drain someone of their inner mana in a near instant. Having an equally endless source that was responsive to interaction was an incredibly unknown factor. Travis sighed for a moment and left the lab as well and began making his way back to the first floor. He needed room think and scheme.
Trying to keep to himself and stay out of everyone's way, Travis paced back and forth by the entrance to the basement, brainstorming as much as he could about their containment problem. The notes he made were little more than doodles as he expressed his unproven ideas to paper with pen. One simple line drawing supposedly depicted a runic circle with a Paragon residing in it. Small text to the side of each illustrated element described the concept dampening the Paragon's awareness to local auras via an erected field. If it were to be enacted, Travis could pull it off in a matter of a day provided his construction of the plan held up. This was however assumed that the Paragon was only able to pick up on auras and wasn't in any way "aware" of any other elements. It was a start nonetheless.
Noting some of his more capable teammates displayed abilities as of late, another concept described a way of housing the Paragons via a pocket dimension of sorts. The thought believed that by taking a Paragon into other measure of space, there was no hope of it being able to interact with anything. Travis comically drew a simple depiction of him tossing one of the sacred mana crystals into his chest back at his quarters. The fancy trunk he carried with him on his long travels was essentially a device in creating said pockets in order to house his belongs as he had not the mana well to maintain that kind of storage space by himself. The idea appeared to be more sound but proved more complex to develop than his first though.
As he continued to ponder further, he looked up on response to Nemo advising him that breakfast was ready, "Thank you Nemo. I'll be there soon," Travis replied before returning his attention to his notes and slowly making his way to the kitchen.
With Felix withdrawing up the stairs to his study, Travis remained in the lab staring at an empty page of his note pad. The idea of keeping two Paragons in the same space and yet out of each others influence was not a simple task. He took into account how limitless their Paragon was and how it could drain someone of their inner mana in a near instant. Having an equally endless source that was responsive to interaction was an incredibly unknown factor. Travis sighed for a moment and left the lab as well and began making his way back to the first floor. He needed room think and scheme.
Trying to keep to himself and stay out of everyone's way, Travis paced back and forth by the entrance to the basement, brainstorming as much as he could about their containment problem. The notes he made were little more than doodles as he expressed his unproven ideas to paper with pen. One simple line drawing supposedly depicted a runic circle with a Paragon residing in it. Small text to the side of each illustrated element described the concept dampening the Paragon's awareness to local auras via an erected field. If it were to be enacted, Travis could pull it off in a matter of a day provided his construction of the plan held up. This was however assumed that the Paragon was only able to pick up on auras and wasn't in any way "aware" of any other elements. It was a start nonetheless.
Noting some of his more capable teammates displayed abilities as of late, another concept described a way of housing the Paragons via a pocket dimension of sorts. The thought believed that by taking a Paragon into other measure of space, there was no hope of it being able to interact with anything. Travis comically drew a simple depiction of him tossing one of the sacred mana crystals into his chest back at his quarters. The fancy trunk he carried with him on his long travels was essentially a device in creating said pockets in order to house his belongs as he had not the mana well to maintain that kind of storage space by himself. The idea appeared to be more sound but proved more complex to develop than his first though.
As he continued to ponder further, he looked up on response to Nemo advising him that breakfast was ready, "Thank you Nemo. I'll be there soon," Travis replied before returning his attention to his notes and slowly making his way to the kitchen.
Somewhat bogged down in work currently. Should expect to post late tonight or tomorrow.
Sorry for the delayed post, I've been juggling my time to work on a post for a few days.
It pleased Travis that Felix had agreed with his theory about the Paragon's uses. It pleased his more when he found he was right. Per the Untalent's suggestion, we watched Felix extract the Paragon from its case and interacted with it just like last time; but this time, there was intent. The Arch Magi's eye quickly opened to reveal its pupils clouded in white. This confirmed that Paragon was responding and carrying out is function and taking Felix though what Travis could best describe as a vision quest of sorts.
Felix eventually came to though grunted as if he was pained by something. Apparently Espial had showed him the location of another Paragon, one an undisclosed island. That was hardly much to go by but Felix further explained that he was denied any further information due to some aura ward in place at that location. Travis immediately took a note of this as it became almost clear that while through this vision, the Paragon seemingly transported the user's aura, or perhaps in another debatable spect; their spirit, to that location they desired via a more ethereal sense. If this was truly fact, how much of it could be made present? And could it be detected by anyone else? Felix's earlier vision of Thadeus determined that it probably not enough for some of equal footing to even take notice.
Afterwards, Felix declared he'll be investigating this matter further on his side until breakfast was ready. In the mean time, he gave Travis a rather interesting project to begin working on; the containment or perhaps sealing of the Paragons. Assuming that they were successful in retrieving another Paragon, there was a risk of what two Paragons could do or behave if they were in very close proximity. It was understandable since as observed before, the Paragons, or at least Espial specifically, could literally leach off someone's mana reserves in an instant. That alone was enough to keep the Paragons out of untrained hands. The trouble was that they had hardly any knowledge of Paragons resonating with each other and to what degree or method. Travis would argue that they would actually need to test this before coming up with something concrete. Of course he had to admit that assuming that the test wouldn't kill them in the process could they then draw up a resolution.
"I'll see what I can do for the time being," replied Travis as he went over his notes, "There isn't much to go by aside from what we know what the Paragons would do. I have a few ideas in mind though I would feel more confident if we had a little more knowledge to work with."
Felix eventually came to though grunted as if he was pained by something. Apparently Espial had showed him the location of another Paragon, one an undisclosed island. That was hardly much to go by but Felix further explained that he was denied any further information due to some aura ward in place at that location. Travis immediately took a note of this as it became almost clear that while through this vision, the Paragon seemingly transported the user's aura, or perhaps in another debatable spect; their spirit, to that location they desired via a more ethereal sense. If this was truly fact, how much of it could be made present? And could it be detected by anyone else? Felix's earlier vision of Thadeus determined that it probably not enough for some of equal footing to even take notice.
Afterwards, Felix declared he'll be investigating this matter further on his side until breakfast was ready. In the mean time, he gave Travis a rather interesting project to begin working on; the containment or perhaps sealing of the Paragons. Assuming that they were successful in retrieving another Paragon, there was a risk of what two Paragons could do or behave if they were in very close proximity. It was understandable since as observed before, the Paragons, or at least Espial specifically, could literally leach off someone's mana reserves in an instant. That alone was enough to keep the Paragons out of untrained hands. The trouble was that they had hardly any knowledge of Paragons resonating with each other and to what degree or method. Travis would argue that they would actually need to test this before coming up with something concrete. Of course he had to admit that assuming that the test wouldn't kill them in the process could they then draw up a resolution.
"I'll see what I can do for the time being," replied Travis as he went over his notes, "There isn't much to go by aside from what we know what the Paragons would do. I have a few ideas in mind though I would feel more confident if we had a little more knowledge to work with."
Travis left hand grasped the elbow of his right arm, stabilizing it vertically as he assumed a deep-in-thought posture, gently pinching his chin with a free hand. The only clue they had about the Paragon was that it seemed to pull, at least currently, memories from the user that possessed it as displayed by Felix earlier once he had mentioned Thadeus' name. But if those agents of the Academia were able to use it to seek out qualified Talents, surly there was some way to have Espial seek out those they didn't know.
"As far as tests go, I would surmise to build upon the case from last night when the Paragon...informed you of where Thadeus was." replied Travis as he continued to maintain his posture, "I would assume that the if Paragon was used in away that allowed the Academia to track unnamed Talents, they would have provided some sort of criteria for the Paragon to work with."
Travis then backed up and withdrew his hands and placed them at their corresponding hips, "It sounds like Espial was able to locate Thadeus because you - I would assume - wished him here, in a sense. With that logic, we could use the same notion to replicate the methods the Academia used."
"Basically, we could try 'feeding' the Paragon a desire or objective and see if it can comply in anyway." Travis finished before giving a somewhat conflicting expression, "It is of course a start based on we know."
"As far as tests go, I would surmise to build upon the case from last night when the Paragon...informed you of where Thadeus was." replied Travis as he continued to maintain his posture, "I would assume that the if Paragon was used in away that allowed the Academia to track unnamed Talents, they would have provided some sort of criteria for the Paragon to work with."
Travis then backed up and withdrew his hands and placed them at their corresponding hips, "It sounds like Espial was able to locate Thadeus because you - I would assume - wished him here, in a sense. With that logic, we could use the same notion to replicate the methods the Academia used."
"Basically, we could try 'feeding' the Paragon a desire or objective and see if it can comply in anyway." Travis finished before giving a somewhat conflicting expression, "It is of course a start based on we know."
"Seems like it...hadn't expected the extra company though." replied Travis in response to Nemo's morning greeting while rubbing one of his eyes.
It was then one of the newcomers noticed him and gave a friendly wave and a shy smile. Travis responded in kind with a formal hand wave and a similar and positive expression. It was not soon afterwards that one of the new members accompanying Felix had broken off to seemingly explore the place a bit. Her choice of attire was unusual at best, though Travis knew couldn't discredit her if someone like Felix had showed up out of the blue. Then there was Alya whom was interfacing with another unknown face in what appeared to be a mana transfusion of sorts. The act begged for Travis' curiosity in the matter but Felix's timely entry dissuaded that notion as he sought the Untalent's assistance in analyzing the Paragon.
"Sounds like a plan to me, boss." Travis nearly yawned as he went and followed Felix towards their lab, "What did you have in mind for the morning?"
It was then one of the newcomers noticed him and gave a friendly wave and a shy smile. Travis responded in kind with a formal hand wave and a similar and positive expression. It was not soon afterwards that one of the new members accompanying Felix had broken off to seemingly explore the place a bit. Her choice of attire was unusual at best, though Travis knew couldn't discredit her if someone like Felix had showed up out of the blue. Then there was Alya whom was interfacing with another unknown face in what appeared to be a mana transfusion of sorts. The act begged for Travis' curiosity in the matter but Felix's timely entry dissuaded that notion as he sought the Untalent's assistance in analyzing the Paragon.
"Sounds like a plan to me, boss." Travis nearly yawned as he went and followed Felix towards their lab, "What did you have in mind for the morning?"
Will be posting later this evening though it will be very late since I'm staying after work today.
So apparently I didn't know how late I was anticipating and ended up burning my self out.
But I am working on the post now.
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