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  1. DragonHeir
    Layke arrived. His star had not been as he expected - the system was filled with a cloud of various elements, and there were in fact two stars; one much like Yolen’s and one an inactive yet white-hot ball of what Layke recognized as oxygen and carbon. Still, it wasn’t as though a shard needed somewhere to stand; Layke placed himself within the star system as a whole, and thought.
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    Yup, that sort is fine. “I agree to those stakes.” Rebus said, smiling.
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    I run away also, mostly just unsure of what is happening. I look for a convenient place to start a civilization.
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    “I do note that actual time travel is not allowed, but very well.” Hmm, there don’t seem to be any stakes…
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    It was a weird feeling, having a machine inside her, absorbing Narration she sent into it. This is Chaotic Order - it manipulates emergence, usually interesting interactions between parts of things. It can cause coincidences, allow magics and skills to combine in ways they wouldn’t, and boost bonds and interactions up to Narration levels of power. The material and magic users don’t have cool names, yet, though. Tam has not been gone 1000 pages, unless there has been something strange happening. It makes sense. Rebus assembled a body on a deserted planet he was converting to nanomachines. “This clone shall be considered my champion for this challenge.” “Nanomachines are very small tools that function on their own - there are many types, and they can do nearly anything.” He waved his hands around, and piles of treasure, tables of food, several people, and a house appeared. “I’m sure you can see the benefits.” It would, because in order for it do be used for anything it must be unfrozen, but this does slow down the cost when unused to an incredible degree. Rebus would have been a little surprised by the realization, but Heir was pretty sure his Thread Perception had been taken away again. Once Keys had finished setting up the fire, Rebus began to strike sparks at it. Rebus nodded. “It is only fair - we shall see if you get use out of them, for they are magic.” Bat frowned. “Nothing - I just woke up here. What’s wrong?” “They’re still technically supposed to be looking for you, actually, but they stopped trying once it stopped looking like they’d be paid.”
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    Rebus sighed. “I did offer anesthetic.” Meanwhile, the contraption absorbed some of the energy, glowing as it converted the Narration into Chaos and began to react it with the Order. The machine that had extracted her core turned off, the actual procedure finished. “Good - you can recover your core now.” I have a guess as to who this could be. Rebus moved some snow to create a location for their fire, and began setting up his sticks. The leather was grayish, almost blue - it had been made from the skin of a Sky Beast - and was worn mainly around the settings of the gemstones, though there was of course wear where the fingers would bend. The large gems were placed just below the finger tips, off the center of the palm, and on the wrist, with smaller ones between them. They were set with some sort of glue into depressions in the leather, and seemed to have been cut in such a way that they fit together if the wearer made a fist. The leather gloves ended at around the wrist, but had two tassels on either side, as though it was meant to be tied to sleeves. The other pair of gloves went to nearly the elbow, and the palms looked like they were almost woven from the crystals. They also varied in how much they stretched depending upon where Xanther pulled from, and - though it wasn’t obvious from visual inspection - could acquire fashionable ruffles, hide the crystal inside the weave, or both, if given the relevant cues. Rebus smiled. “I can do that, actually. My thoughts on whether he could be resurrected focused mainly on him being exactly as he was at the end - that is easier, and more authentic. He won’t be perfect, though. Memory alteration is hard, and personality alteration is typically even harder.” Rebus stood up, and gathered a ball of Narration in front of him. It drifted away, then began to expand into human shape, turning into Bat in a flash of multicolored light. “Dad? Rebus? Where am I?” the fake Bat asked. “What I believe was an early version of you killed a Machination strike team - the leader may share some things in common with you, though I doubt it will work.” Maybe if he follows Rebus’s advice at least a little that can be his reward. Rebus nodded. “I shall do that. Feel free to reach out to me if you have requests.” I thought it was Tam but it seems like it isn’t. Rebus can take what he asked without giving you your reward for if you break a deal with him, you forfeit any other magical contracts you might have, and you maybe get cursed. The same happens to him, though, if you get him to break a contract or actually lie.
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    Rebus smiled, and sent thoughts to the man. Good choice - few people are willing to modify themselves, but the benefit is great. You’ll feel the ability to control utility fog; nanomachines in the air around me - and now you - that lock together and move around while remaining nearly invisible. Rebus gestured to lack of coat and intermittent shivering. “I am very well aware. Could you find tinder - I have some kindling and larger sticks over that way?” Rebus smiled, revealing two pairs of gloves. The first were a strange leather, and had palms studded with crystals the color of the sky, while the second were a much smoother material and shimmered the same sky-blue on the palms. “These are from an old story idea my Author has been considering rewriting - the first pair are authentic to the worldbuilding, while the second pair I made with the crystals from the story.” Rebus sighed. “Sadly, I did cause his death. Part of me wants to bring him back, but Tam disappeared, and Bat was torturing someone with magic and had attempted to kill me - he’d somehow manifested powers, so I think he even could. I understand if you don’t want to continue working for me, but I don’t feel I could have done anything else.” “I do, but considering that you’ve been slapped at least twice and kicked in the groin, I have a feeling that this one might not be good for your health. Also, I believe an early version of you killed her.” That’d be fun. I kinda want to have a vampire or spider-person or siren or something accept his offer and then try to kill him - though he might consider that a success. Rebus’s promises are genuine (and actually magic - he can’t break them), but he usually has people agree to them without knowing the consequences - should someone outwit him somehow he would continue to keep the promise. I shall assume this is to Rebus. “I will be incorporating planets into my empire - unless they are sufficiently unique, this entails converting them into nanomachines which can then form any structure desired, and molecularly assemble nearly any item.” Rebus constructed an apple with his utility fog, tossing it to Taeidin. “Those benefits shall be afforded to many of my citizens, including - potentially - you.” Rebus nodded, and waved a hand, directing a machine to rise from the floor and activate. Fael felt a painful tugging sensation, and her core was pulled from her body. It hovered within the machine, and Rebus placed the wire contraption over it. “Good - let off a pulse of raw Narration, please, so we can check if this works.” Wait a minute… Rebus teleported a spaceship the size of a small moon above the planet a few pages back - though I can understand how it got lost.
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    Basically, some words seemed to appear in the air asking him how he wanted to use Rebus’s network going forwards. He can use verbal or typed commands, more exotic methods, or even do what Rebus does and control the network mentally (though this requires letting nanomachines into your brain). Similarly, he can continue reading and hearing inputs through projection to his eyes and nanomachine bone conduction speakers (which seem to be in the real world, but are pretty much unnoticed by everyone but the person using them), have a physical screen or hologram display, get information projected directly into his brain, or something weirder. Asharak was given a lot of raw data about planets and their independence status, conversion status (whatever that meant), population, traffic data, and raw materials, as well as Rebus’s current teleportation network. He also had a search engine, it seemed, and options to control a bunch of nanomachines and their functions.
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    I’ll take one, though I was satisfied with my random red dwarf.
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    Rebus held up a contraption of silvery wire. “This stabilizes the second core, but in order for the Chaotic Order core to function it needs input of Chaotic Light from your actual core. And Nullite - though that gets converted quickly enough there should be no side effects, and can be stored as time-frozen Order.”
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    That’d be good, actually - I think that is what I shall do. For the time being, I suppose I’ll take my red dwarf.
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    Yeah - Virtuosity in the case, and Odium and Ruin from pure Intent, are more likely to destroy things, but Whimsy and Invention seem likely to break everything by accident. Google says you’d get a big explosion (the debris of which could end up clumping into planets) and a slightly bigger star - which is probably still a red dwarf. So yeah, I’m going to need a lot more stars if I want to make anything significant from scratch. Maybe I can get something from the nebula…
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    Do you really want to give Invention, whose “what does this button do?” attitude is exceeded only by Whimsy’s, access to a black hole? Hmm. I guess I can take a red dwarf for the time being - good luck finding a new way to pick these. Hmm, I wonder if I can stellar engine a couple red dwarf stars into each other for a better star…
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    My intent was that Layke had selected this star before ascending, having seen it in the night sky of Yolen. But I suppose you had no way to know that, since I only implied it in my post. I just learned about hypergiants, though I assume I don’t get one.
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    I was thinking a selection bias towards actually visible distant stars would mean something more luminous - a giant is far more visible than a dwarf, and also more interesting for my ideas.
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    Yup - that’s how Rebus killed Atrediesthe first time; healing from being stabbed in the chest until Atredies gave up. As for Cursed Treasure, I shall wait for your plan. Rebus struck it against the rock, throwing off sparks. In real life, that only worked with high-carbon steel, but plot convenience was a powerful force (and anyway, sure one of those keys would be the right kind of metal). “Now we just need to start a small fire - any particular reason you want to burn this tree?” Rebau nodded. “Understood - ideas are one of the best currencies. Allow me to think…” “I’m not sure he’s never coming back - there are a lot of strange things to be found in the world, some of which could very well bring back the dead - but he is certainly gone.” Rebus made a remorseful face, which was actually rather genuine. “He seemed drunk with power at the end - not himself. He attacked me, magically tortured my closest friend, then turned himself into a cloud of disintegrating fireflies when I attempted to immobilize him - seemingly out of spite. I myself might be able to bring him back, but he seems to have become something comparable to a Narrator of the worst kind.” And all that Rebus had said was true, though it was certainly not a very accurate representation of events. “And you are entitled to that opinion, though I continue to endorse my proposal.” I kinda want to play someone who is having none of his nonsense. As I said earlier, I should really have more female characters, and this seems a good opportunity for a new character who won’t immediately fizzle out.
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    Layke went really really far away - he wants nothing to do with the only other significantly unpredictable things in the universe. That would be funny, actually. I may or may not spin it until it turns into a magnetar and then throw it at you.
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    I cough back, being already sick. “Are we supposed to be sacrificing people?”
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    Could I get a star system? I don’t especially care what it looks like (in fact, the weirder it is the better), though it would have to be a fairly bright star to be visible with the naked eye from so far away.
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    I found a sci-fi worldbuilding blog one time with some habitable tidal locking configurations - though none were binary. I can look for it again. *reads spoiler* …if it’s needed.
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    Layke ascended to Invention and was glad to find that at least some of it was familiar. The world looked the way it did when he used Microkinesis, but far more detailed. Odd, that becoming a god could feel some familiar. And the foresight he had! Layke had always worried about the future, wanted to prepare for every possibility, and now he could! He looked at his fellow Shards and felt sick to his nonexistent stomach. He was wrong - that made him feel even worse, that his third thought with supposed omniscience could be so wrong. They were incomprehensibly shifting messes of possibilities, far too many of them catastrophic. And so, as his first real act as a god, Layke fled. He passed all the worlds he had discussed with the others, and went to a star he had seen in the sky, had chosen specifically because it was uninteresting and presumably distant. He didn’t know anything about it, but that was acceptable - for it would be far, far away from these other Shards and the daunting potential they had.
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    Xanthar beat up Cricket and Rose at the top of the page, but I see your point. Sadly, combat is generally won by whichever Author is more stubborn - only occasionally does other things apply. Cursed Treasure’s priorities were in that order as well, though it didn’t tell Lezterp that. Meanwhile, Rebus was getting ready to deal with Rebel. This was perhaps significant.
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    Note: Xanther might be an actual Author Avatar. So yeah… Understood - I will follow your directions. “It is a pleasure doing business with you, Asharak.” Rebus said, smiling. Asharak’s newfound position gave him limited authority over Rebus’s nanomachines. Consequently, a number of them lit up in front of his eye, forming a heads-up display that asked for further interface decisions.
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    “Alright… this will require physical manipulation of your core, either inside or outside your body.” “Someone to run the public transportation network, with general efficiency and good public image - though of course you don’t need to actually live up to it - and a cut of the more eclectic payments going to me.” “That, I can try,” Rebus said, somehow making a small white rock appear in his hand. It was quartz, and he’d found it on the ground a few minutes earlier, slight-of-handing it to add unnecessary flair. “If you have something metal - or I suppose I could try the hinges of my glasses - this will spark.” Rebus nodded thoughtfully. “Gloves representative of me, or of you? For the former, I have some consideration to do - lasers and lightning do not provide the elegance I believe you desire.” Rebus took mental notes, realizing once again what a genius this man was. “You have done incredibly well, Mr. Whitlock. I’m glad to have had you in my employ. But that isn’t the whole reason I came to visit you - I’m still not entirely sure how I should tell you this, but Bat is dead.” “It is,” Rebus said, “but if you pick the right person and the right hobby, you’ll enjoy it and actually succeed.” “I assume literal corners as well, but you are right.” “Exactly? Answering that question would never end. But generally, Fate used a favor I owed him to have me read his book - specifically the messed up page you have.” Traps, mostly. There’s not a ton you could do to avoid hurting yourself, though you can restructure the maze.
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