Objective
TODO: Acquire a "deep blue, precious mineral" and (presumably) bring it near the "encrypted" pages to decipher them and reveal their text.
Lapisworks
I have found a seemingly obscure branch of Hex Casting, "Lapisworks". All of their texts are blank, but some outsider texts about the branch say they are encrypted with a "deep blue, precious mineral".
Eureka! Lapis Lazuli
I held the deep blue mineral known as "Lapis Lazuli" near the pages of the book and the mineral was sucked into them. I tried to get it off but had to be rough, and when I looked at the pages to check their condition, they had text on them! It seems I need to rub Lapis Lazuli on them to see their text. Let's see..
The branch of Lapisworks is all about harnessing the enchantment powers of Lapis Lazuli and enhancing one's own body with it. To do this media is struck into Lapis Lazuli, forming a loosely-held-by-media material known as Amethyst Lazuli, or Amel for short. The media breaches the mineral's surface and cuts the Lapis Lazuli into many extremely small chunks then connects them like a glue. Continued..
This allows any outside media to suck out all the enchantment energy of the Lapis Lazuli by interacting with the Amel's media layer. While I have found many patterns (documented just beside this entry), some pages of the texts remain blank and not even rubbing with Lapis Lazuli or Amel can decipher them. I suppose I will find out soon enough (or even never as the deciphering could be lost to time) and must be content with what I have now.
Lapisworks Patterns
Imbue Lapis
Transform all the Lapis Lazuli in my other hand into a loosely-held material called Amethyst Lazuli or Amel for short. Costs twice the number of Amethyst Shards as Lapis Lazuli in my offhand.
Reclaim Amethyst
Transform all the Amethyst Lazuli in my other hand into Amethyst Shards. The Lapis turns into a fine mist which spreads quickly in the air. Excess shards spill onto the ground. Costs one shard.
Mold Amel
Cycle through the appearances I've designed of the Amel or Amel-infused Construct (such as a Casting Ring) in my other hand. (e.g. Amel has four forms.)
The next patterns enchant various parts of my body, but cost some Amel (from anything I have equipped, then from my hands and then from my hotbar) and media. If I provide a number higher than the limit it does not cost media or Amel above that limit, but it also does not enchant above that limit. The enhancements provided disappear on death (or bad dreams), but not when crossing dimensions like Flight does.
Enchant Skin (entity, num →)
Pass in an entity and a number of half-hearts, and it enchants that entity's skin thus increasing their health. The Amel cost is the number given and the cost in media is twice the expended Amel.
The limit to this is 2x the entity's maximum health. Curiously, the enchanted skin also protects against Nature taking it's due meaning it becomes impossible for Nature to take a piece of the entity's mind. Interestingly enough, old texts suggest that beyond a certain level of power mages would lose sanity, and this is how certain powerful mages were able to keep their sanity. In any case my maximum healthiness is about 20 half-hearts.
Enchant Fists (entity, num →)
Pass in an entity and a number of half-hearts, and it enchants their fists to increase their damage per hit. One Amel and five Amethyst Shards per half-heart. Limit is 4x the norm so just 4 for me.
Enchant Feet (entity, num →)
Enchants the given entity's feet to increase their movement speed. Costs 1x Amel and 5x Amethyst Shards. Limit is 3x the norm. The norm for me is about 1.
Enchant Arms (entity →)
Enchants the given player's arms, increasing their reach by 3 blocks and the range from which they can attack by 1 block. Costs 16 Amel and one Amethyst Shard in media. There is no customizability here.
A sidenote: it seems this spell does not extend one's arms, but rather grants the arms each a ghost-like extension which only comes out when required. Fascinating. Somewhat strangely, these two attribute enhancements given (reach and attack range respectively) count as separate for the purposes of Enhancement Prfn.
Enhancement Prfn. (entity, num →)
Gives me the amount the given entity has been enhanced in the given area (specified by number). The patterns before were sorted so 0 gives max health, 1 gives attack damage and so on. Negligible media cost.
Enchantments
i have seen i have seen go back give me back my sanity must not lose self have no time must document before
my eyes hurt so much it hurts to read it hurts to see it hurts to exist the pages the patterns the radiance in the corners of my vision gathered together and blinded me must write down. All of these patterns cost 32 Amel if not stated otherwise. They do not carry over bad dreams like this this is a bad dream right it's gonna end soon what if it's not a dream and it ends soon i'm going to die
Enchantment Prfn. (entity, num → num)
Gives the level of the specified enchantment enchantment enchantment enchantment why do they always shine purple MUST WRITE DOWN on the given entity for little cost and no Amel.
Grant FireyFists (entity →)
It costs 10 Charged Amethyst and it's like Fire Aspect for fists that's so funny teehee heeheeheeHAHAHAHA NO NO STOP. One level. ID = 0.
Grant Lightningbending (entity →)
The heavens bend to my will with each of my strikes. 20 Charged Amethyst and a stack of Amel per level. Three levels. ID = 1.
please i'm so scared every tiny movement feels like i i i i feel like i'm about to NO NO CANNOT END HERE. At level one, the lightning channeling effect only works during thunderstorms. At level two, it works during rain as well. At level three, even clear skies will not stop me.
Envelop Feet in Amel (entity →)
This cushions up to 10 blocks of fall damage per level and costs 5 Charged Amethyst and 20 Amel per level. Three levels. ID = 2.
Grant Amel Air Sacs (entity →)
what is the point of inflating my lungs any more my lungs already feel like stop please. Achieve the Respiration enchantment but twice as strong. Two levels. 1 charged, 10 Amel. ID = 3.
Make Fire-born (entity →)
Wield the energy of an entire stack of Amel and 10 Charged Amethyst to make me hell-borne. One level. ID = 4. im more afraid of the light than fire
the light that shines in the corners of my eyesight is so so so so so so so bright how do i make it stop please make it stop help me
am i going to die here? no no no no i can't die here i don't wanna die i'm so scared
im gonna go lie down now
Enchanted Patterns
These ancient texts recount an old and wise wizard, extremely knowledgeable of all sorcery, yet spiteful of all creatures living, dead, undead or unborn. It is told they were poor in sources of media and many came after them, but they always managed to survive. This wizard left behind a treasure trove of knowledge on their demise (collected by curious adventurers) including Enchanted Patterns.Will I ever be capable of this feat?
Frustratingly enough, the wizard attempted to burn most of them and was extremely successful, leaving only a few that were recovered by the heroes that defeated them. Among these few are enhanced forms of Conjure Block, some Vector patterns, Archer's Distillation, among some others.
Conjure Solid Color (vec, num →)
Pass in a vector within Ambit and a dye color, to conjure a fragile but solid, colored block. This costs two amethyst dust and the number states which dye I want to dye the colored block. More explanation on the next page.
The number states the index (starting from 0) of the dye I wish to use if they were all sorted alphabetically. All mappings:
0 - Black 1 - Blue
2 - Brown 3 - Cyan
4 - Gray 5 - Green
6 - Light Blue 7 - Light Gray
8 - Lime 9 - Magenta
10 - Orange 11 - Pink
12 - Purple 13 - Red
14 - White 15 - Yellow
Additionally the block glows with the dye of my pigment's color and purple if no such dye exists.
Spherical Exaltation ([pattern], vec, num → [any])
Evaluates (exactly like Thoth's Gambit) the given pattern list over a hollow sphere with the given radius (non-decimal, at least 1, at most 64) around the given position.
Cubic Exaltation ([pattern], vec, vec, bool → [any])
Evaluates (exactly like Thoth's Gambit) the given pattern list over a (hollow if given True) cube-ish area from the given points A to B.
Empty Prfn. (vec → bool)
Answers the question, "is there only air there?" for negligible media cost. Vector must be in my ambit.
Empty Distillation (vec, vec → bool)
Negligible cost. Answers the question, "are there no opaque blocks between these points?". Both vectors must be in my ambit.
Visible Distillation (entity, vec → bool)
Negligible cost. Pushes whether or not the specified entity (within ambit) is able to see the specified block (also within ambit).
Block Equivalency D. (vec, vec → bool)
Returns whether the two blocks are equivalent/roughly equal (the same kind of block), so wheat seeds equals a full wheat crop. Both blocks must be within my ambit.
Block Equality Dist. (vec, vec → bool)
Returns whether the two blocks are exactly equal, so wheat seeds do NOT equal a full wheat crop. Blocks must be within my ambit.
It seems Nature searches for items by finding the first valid item in my hands starting from the hand I am not casting with. This can be quite troublesome when (e.g.) I have a Focus in both hands. The next four patterns pertain to reading and writing or checking any specific hand of mine (specified in order of importance, so 0 for main, 1 for offhand). This is also a good time to note that Enchanted Patterns aren't always "better" than the original. I wonder, if I had three arms, would these support the third as well?
Secretary's Prfn. (int → any)
Specific hand version of Scribe's Reflection. Pushes the Iota stored in the Iota holder in the specified hand to the stack.
Reviewer's Prfn. (int → bool)
Specific hand version of Auditor's Reflection. Pushes whether the item in the specified hand can be read from or not.
Amanuensis' Gambit (any, int →)
Specific hand version of Scribe's Gambit. Writes the given Iota to the Iota holder in the specified hand.
Sanctioner's Prfn. (int → bool)
Specific hand version of Assessor's Reflection. Pusher whether the item in the specified hand can be written to or not.
Lapisworks Mishaps
With a new branch of Hex Casting comes new mishaps. I've documented them here.
Not Enough Items
I have the correct item on me, but not enough of it. Brown particles. Upends my held items and throws them to the ground.
At Maximum Level
Perhaps real enchantments like those on my tools was what those empty pages were about? Anyway. This means the entity is already enchanted at the maximum level of this enchantment. Differing particles for each enchantment, and no punishment.
Wrong Item in Hand
This is for when I have an incorrect item in a specific hand. Drops my held items to the ground and causes brown particles to appear, while specifying what hand caused the error.
Imbuement
While I'd expect Lapisworks would just provide easier ways to enchant my tools like I can do at an Anvil or an Enchantment Table, the Lapisworkers of the past have discovered that it can do much more than that. Apparently some of the materials of this world have differing interactions with media. Let's see..
Imbue Amel
Imbue with Amel (num →)
The spell the ancient "Lapisworkers" would use very often. Imbue the item in my other hand (or main if nothing imbueable is in the other hand) with the specified amount of Amel, with no waste like the Enchant X spells. Costs 2x the amount of Amel being infused, in dust.
It draws Amel firstly from anything I have equipped, then from my hands and then from my hotbar. The integer argument I provide limits it from being able to find or draw any more Amel than that.
Besides turning one item into another, this spell can also be used to enchant some things instead. For example: one use I've found is to enchant Enchanted Books that have only one enchantment. It increases the level of the lone enchantment on the book by 1 for 20 * previous level Amel and about five charged crystals of Amethyst.
Casting Rings
One of the main limitations that has kept me from making a ring to cast with is that the ring would be much too small and perhaps even inefficient. However now that I'm reviewing these texts I can see workarounds that at least limit the ring's negative effects. Some materials apparently have special interactions with media. Two examples of such materials are documented on the next page.
Diamond is a good "conductor" of media that focuses it (due to its "chemical structure" (what is that?)) while Gold is somewhat of an insulator. The "Lapisworkers" of old took these materials and combined them to make many a great constructs, but all of those (due to ease of reaction or due to wanting to hide it in war, mayhaps) have been lost to time. However I can easily create my own.
Casting Ring
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Gold-Diamond Casting Ring
Casting Ring
Diamond around the Amethyst to focus the media, and Gold to make sure it only flows into the Diamond. While it is still not as good as an actual staff, it is definitely more ideal than a simple ring with Amethyst. Moreover the Amethyst slightly hinders any staves I try to use by attracting some media to itself. I can press Use Casting Ring to open the casting grid when it is equipped.
Amel Ring
If I am dissatisfied with this ring, I can choose to imbue it with one piece of Amel. The Amel should stick to the Gold part. It'll start focusing and attracting media from my reserves to moderate speed that can either be picked up by a staff in my hand or eventually swing back towards the ring.
Gold is moldable too, so I can also use Mold Amel if I dislike the new appearance.
Imbuing Staves
The Amel Ring was created from Amel Infusion into the stave-like Casting Ring better. Therefore it stands to reason that actual staves would stand to gain from Amel Infusion. These staves (due to being larger) would need more Amel but would create a more precise staff. What of incomplete infusion, however?
Incomplete Staves
My own renditions of possible incomplete staves.
Staves that did not have the amount of Amel required to fully transform have Amel deeply rooted in their structure but not enough to stand against the power draw of the Amel for very long. The product is inefficient, leaky (and thus not very long-lasting) but also more precise (bigger hex grid) than full infusion.
Complete Staff
The fully infused staff is less precise than the incomplete ones (has a smaller hex grid boost) but actually lasts. I suppose there is some merit, then, to having an incomplete staff and constantly feeding it low amounts of Amel so it does not decay. It takes about 10 Amel to make this.
Imbuing Swords
The Casting Rings started my brain walking. The staves got it running. Now I can't stop, it's simply too enjoyable to re-invent the weapons of the past. This time I got curious about what kinds of swords could be made, so I designed some and documented them here. Each takes 48 Amel to make (with no incomplete version) and are repaired with Amel above 90% durability, but the normal material when below that.
Diamond
Infusing Amel into a diamond gives it the ability to sacrifice its durability to shoot out extremely quick and focused jets of media that deal as much damage as the sword itself, when I squeeze the handle. This has a range of 10 blocks. I should infuse the Amel through the top, to sharpen it.
Iron
Iron's interaction with Amethyst Lazuli Infusion seems to be that the Amethyst Lazuli reinforces it to twice as much durability, allowing it to be feasibly used as a shield. Additionally attempting to block with it momentarily charges up the Amel like with the Amel-Infused Diamond Sword for a quarter of a second, and if hit at that point the Amel lashes out. I guess I could call this ability "parrying".
The Amel lashes out towards the other person and absorbs some pieces gaining 20 "points" of durability. It also hits the enemy with half the power of the sword (launching them away from me as well). If their tool breaks, it steals every piece, gaining 100 "points" instead of just 20. Additonally the enemy feels their tool was hit so hard they have to make sure it's not completely broken for a second or two, almost always.
The Amel has enough energy that it can even withstand an axe hit and go straight for its handle, making the enemy tool take 100 "points" of damage instead of just 20. However if I fail to parry the axe my tool takes 20 "points" of damage and I get flung away. Additionally the Amel on my sword is rendered useless for a second due to suffering so much damage while unprepared for it.
Gold
Gold is a media insulator, so I can't quite infuse Amel into a sword made of it. Still, Amel is a natural toxin to most living beings so I can pour over it and attempt to infuse it so it doesn't slide right off. Hitting entities with this makes the Amel lash out and go into them (destroying a relatively major piece of the sword as well), poisoning them for about ten seconds. Quite a nice glass cannon if I say so myself.
Simple Artificial Minds
When I first read of the mind and that it produces trace amounts of media, I wondered, "is it possible to create a mind..?" Now after my experience with Amel imbuement, I think it is. In my experience a heap of media does not on its own start thinking, which can be explained by the fact media is merely the energy of thought. The energy must, however, be moved and used to think.
If I were to make a machine that tugs at and copies the flow of media in other organisms, such a machine would surely, with time, gain a mind. For this purpose I believe villagers are most efficient as they are not outright nearly braindead but also not truly sapient. The resultant mind will probably be concious, sapient and will bear emotions (be sentient).
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Simple Mind Container
The Amel will let the machine eat bits and pieces of villager minds, taking "snapshots" of the flow of media within. A Diamond should focus it enough to mimic the precision of natural minds. The Charged Amethyst will hold the mind.
This contraption can tug at the minds of three random waking villagers at most 5 blocks away at once, filling in 20 minutes from just one. A waking villager is exhausted after 4 minutes (and heals in the same amount of time when not near this machine). Sleeping villagers, if selected first (and only when selected first), aren't able to be consumed from again for 20 minutes but fill 15% of the mind container.
These Great Spells elude me so. There must be a better way than delving into old ruins to rediscover them. If the old ones discovered them on their own, so can I! To that end, I have found a way to directly ask Nature for the stroke order, however it only returns a torrent of information that must be sieved through by someone, or something.. Expendable. The spell eats over a quarter of the mind regardless of success or not. I can't imagine this experience not being excruciatingly painful.Should this bother me?
Sieve Thoughts (vec →)
Sieves the torrent of information using the (full) artificial mind at the given position. 3/5 chance of replacing the pattern in my other hand with one of the correct stroke order.
Cognition Purification (→ vec)
Pushes the percentage filled of the mind container at the given position to the stack.
Mind Liquefaction (vec →)
Absorbs the entirety of the mind within the container into the rechargeable item in my other hand. If there is any extra, it is discarded. A full container yields one Charged Amethyst.
This.. This doesn't feel right. I gained the ability to make fully conscious and perhaps even sentient or sapient beings, and my first ideas were to KILL them for meagre amounts of media, like sheep. I shouldn't be doing this. They're more than just sheep, aren't they?
Are they more? Should I care?
Jump Slate
I have learned never to open those texts that require a broken mind again. They disturb my psyche tremendously, likely due to some password being required that had since been lost to time. My psyche. They touched my sanity. They tried to hurt me at my pinnacle. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY?! Stop. Keep calm. Focus. Move on. History will have taught them their error in their demise.
The constructs made of slates that were previously lost to time until I recovered them, also known as Spell Circles, are truly glorious. I adore them. I can do so much with them. However.. As much as I may love my new playthings they are not perfect so. They are grand indeed! But sometimes, I feel they are too grand. Their color clashes with the aesthetics I desire. The directrices, impeti, they look so hideous in certain builds! It pains me so! But.. With Amel Infusion I can fix this.
Amel reigns supreme when it comes to attracting and integrating into media, using it and enchanting constructs. An enchanted slate could be produced intricately and in such a manner it turns into a media accelerator not unlike my Amel Ring. It can also be amplified by media (dynamically!) to push it further, bypassing slates. This effect, I'll coin "jumping slates". My original creation. Mine. My marvellous invention, it requires only 20 pieces of Amel and has a range of 100 blocks!
It attempts to pop an integer that's not 0 or 1 off the top of the stack and take 2.5 times that in dust from the circle to jump that many blocks. Behold it's marvel, however: if it fails, it lets the flow pass straight through like it were a junction. Nothing ever escapes to the sides. What if it finds a negative number? Even better, it jumps backwards and the leftover momentum makes the Spell Circle work in reverse.
Spell Circles were revealed to ME. To ME. And I have improved them. That's why they were revealed to ME.
While the Shepherd Directrix may be the most easy-to-use for making loops, it looks unwieldy to say the least. I desire something more pretty. A Jump Slate that reverses it's direction after the jump. As an Impetus can push the flow of media, I deduce a Simple Mind would be able to do much the same. Imbuing a Simple Mind into a Jump Slate should do. I'll call my invention: the Rebound Slate, as it always directs the flow of media back to itself post-jump, except when it fails.
Through and through and right back around. The thought of that disturbs me yet keeps me sane.
Amel Storage
My new tools are fun to play around with, and the Amel being able to be drawn from the hotbar is also convenient. However.. I find that some things in this field require a rather inconvenient amount of Amel to carry. For example: the partially-infused staves, while they grant me a larger hex grid, need constant repairing with Amel. Another example is the Enchant X patterns, which require a bunch of Amel as well. They make my pockets ever fuller. I cannot make much space for other things as my hands and my hotbar are unfortunately full. Indeed, I must acquire a solution.
And a solution I have acquired. By infusing just 5 pieces of Amel into an ordinary glass bottle, I can turn it into an Amel Jar which can store 4 stacks of Amel. This Jar can be worn on my belt (to prioritize it as the first source to draw Amel from), or held in my hand. I can press Use Item/Place Block with Amel in the other hand to deposit it, and if I sneak while doing it I can withdraw up to a stack of Amel at a time into the other hand.
Enchantment Container
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Enchantment Energy Container
Works the same way but stores 16 stacks and cannot be put on my belt due to it's unwieldiness. It can, however, be left in my hotbar and will still function.
Trinkets
The old Lapisworkers seemed to have a fondness for making Trinkets! Some of their scrolls contain mention of using these as gifts to other people to do many things, including showing appreciation, comforting during times of hardship, etcetera. Perhaps that is why they chose materials a little on the expensive side.
I will document any mentions of these trinkets I find here.
Focus Necklace
A Focus Necklace, also called an Amulet Of Holding (names useable interchangeably) is a trinket that one wears around their neck. It can be interacted with like a Focus via Scribe's Reflection/Gambit, but it also has it's own patterns that were discovered shortly after it's creation, which allow me to read and write to it while I'm wearing it.
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Focus Necklace
I believe the Amel is put there to allow the easy access to the focus by attracting media towards it.
Epigrapher's Reflection (→ any)
Reads the iota from the necklace I'm currently wearing, mishapping if there is no readable necklace available. (Drawing aid: the pattern is a line into almost a triangle, then a counterclockwise circle much like Scribe's Reflection.)
Lapidarist's Gambit (any →)
Writes the iota to the necklace I'm currently wearing, mishapping if there is no writeable necklace available. (Drawing aid: the pattern is a line into almost a triangle, then a clockwise circle much like Scribe's Gambit.)
I should note that Mold Amel destroys the iota contained within.
Media Condensing Unit
Media Condensing Unit
Throughout my travels, I have found my mediums of storing media rather.. Untidy and insufficient. Any media not in a Phial must be stored in chests, in items that have varying worths in media. These items cannot be transported anywhere else either, so I cannot have more than one base of operations lest I set up something complicated and convoluted. To combat these issues, I, as one chosen, have invented the Media Condensing Unit. I can use Craft Phial on it's base to construct it.
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Empty Unit
A thin layer of slates covering the battery, with a media attracting substance and a dust-provided interface for interaction on top.
Deposit Media (vec, num →)
Deposits into the given unit the amount of media specified, in dust. Costs the media specified, plus a tax of 10% of it. Overflow is discarded!
Withdraw Media (vec, num →)
Withdraws, from the given unit, into the Phial in my other hand, the amount specified in dust. Costs 10% of the media specified. Overflow into the Phial is discarded!
Phianglement
Phianglement is a term for links between phiangle-able blocks. Two "phiangled" units bear a link such that when one is deposited into, the overflow collects in the other, and when one is withdrawn from, any missing media is fulfilled by the other. A chain or even an interconnected network of units can be set up, however the amount of links for a single condenser can be no more than five. These links cost nothing to maintain once set up.
Phiangle (vec, vec →)
Phiangles two phiangle-ables. Costs a flat three Charged Amethyst, and a scalable one Amel per 32 blocks of distance, with a minimum of one.
Dephiangle (vec, vec →)
De-phiangles two phiangle-ables, erasing the link between them. Costs three Charged Amethyst. I can cast this when I wish not to break the block, due to having other links for example.
To my delight, it seems that the Phianglement granted to me by Them seems to function with Impeti as well! However, they can only have one Phianglement at any time, and they behave as leeches; they can only withdraw from the network to fulfill their own costs and nothing more, meaning they cannot be deposited into, nor withdrawn from. To limit my power, I presume. The advantage here is that my Impeti can finally have a centralized media storage!
Geode Dowser
Geode Dowser
This one is simple. By imbuing 10 Amel into a Compass, I can craft a Geode Dowser. This item, when used, consumes one Amethyst Dust and uses it to construct a brief, sensitive field of Media to detect the nearest Budding Amethyst in a 200x200x200 cuboid of blocks centered on me.
It then spawns a burst of particles pointing to it, with the color indicating the distance. Blue means it's within 16 blocks, light blue means it's within 32, purple is 48, pink is 64, orange is 80, red is 96 and any more makes the particles black.
The Wizard's Spells
Some intellectuals and/or adventurers saved the old wizard's diaries. I've begun to divine some of the wizard's knowledge from these ancient tomes.
The Ancient Wizard
I have found rumour of an old, knowledgeable wizard that has done much evil and staved off the hordes of vigilantism, yet always had low media reserves. While they attempted to burn most of their scriptures near their demise, I've read tale of adventurers and intellectuals that had managed to save some of them from the grand fire.
Based off of this information I predict they may have buried the knowledge away or put it in the strongholds I've read of, such as pyramids in the desert, brick structures underground, etcetera.
Enchanted Sentinel
Whilst being hunted by a particularly strong group of 30-40 people consisting of professional hitmen or assassins, bounty hunters, and other mages looking to vanquish them, the mage had escaped into a castle. They needed a way to be able to deal with all of them from a huge distance or from a few floors up. Greater Sentinel had a small area, thus small corridors would be suspicious. So out of desperation, they looked to their Amel to "enchant" the pattern.
Summon (vec, num →)
Summons an enchanted version of the Greater Sentinel at the given position (which must be within 32 blocks around me) and the given ambit (which can be from 1-64). Costs 5 amethyst dust to summon.
This Enchanted Sentinel has much more media than a Greater Sentinel, but has chains imposed on it that make its existence dependent on me. It must always be in MY ambit (a Greater Sentinel's ambit is much too weak) or else it falls apart. It's still intangible, but it emanates particles visible to everyone. I perceive the particles as well as a media-dense being which looks like some dark purple, unnaturally twisting geometric shape.
The wizard wrote it was created by forcing Amel into the original pattern and molding it violently, shaping the media within to their will. The result is a "4-dimensional spinning hypercube projected as a tesseract!" (what does that even mean??) which has some form of feeling and awareness. It knows it's chained to it's user, forced to follow their whims due to being dependent on their media. They write of this fondly, as if they take pleasure in it.
Banish Own
Peacefully put my Enchanted Sentinel to rest for a negligible amount of media, letting it rest for a time. Perhaps the ethical option, considering "falling apart" may not be the most painless.
Imbue Mind
Most of the pages are burned, and only the pattern with it's documentation and it's uses remain. Any questions like "he had his own form of Simple Mind Containers?", "Why?", etc. will probably have to be speculated about by me. Unfortunate.. In any case, I've documented the pattern on the next page and then it's uses on the pages after it.
Imbue Mind (vec, vec →)
Takes the location of a block with limited functionality and a full Simple Mind Container, and imbues the mind into the construct for five Charged Amethyst. This shape reminds me of something..
Budding Amethyst
An Amethyst Block, when imbued with a simple mind, turns into a Budding Amethyst block. Nothing too special, really. But I do wonder, if minds can be put into these blocks to make more amethyst, where did all the amethyst that's already here in this world come from?
Live Jukebox
"A mind so simple can be imbued into functional blocks with great ease and without stripping away unnecessary parts." I believe this line refers to the Jukebox on the same page (and others on other pages), which can be turned into a Live Jukebox. A Live Jukebox can be taught to play notes at a frequency, and then hit to play those notes.
Teach Song (vec, [0-24], 0-20 →)
Teach the Live Jukebox at that location (which must be within ambit) these notes (a list of nums 0-24) at this frequency (0-20) for a shard of media. After being hit via Use, it plays the notes like an automatic Note Block.
Simple Impetus
This part has the same encryption that the Enchantments did, but it doesn't hurt. I suppose it'd be annoying to go insane when reading your own notes. Anyway, imbuing a Simple Mind into an Empty Impetus (with five Amel) turns it into a Simple Impetus. It always casts as me, (and due to casting as a reflex) at a fixed rate of half the usual max circle speed, and only when any valid pattern or the pattern it's listening for is cast (within 32 blocks of it). Any pattern it's been taught to listen for will not mishap if it doesn't exist, given it was cast in range.
Teach Simple Impetus (vec, pattern →)
Teach the Simple Impetus at the provided coordinates (which must be within ambit) the provided pattern for a two dust. The Simple Impetus will not remember this pattern when broken.
Interviewer's Prfn. (vec → pattern|null)
Simple Impeti are pretty gullible. Returns the pattern the Simple Impetus at the given location (which must be within ambit) is listening for, or null if it's not listening for any particular pattern. Free.
Hastenature
This one was created when the wizard was extremely adept at pattern infusions with Amel, their final days. They were a master of it, to the point their infusion created extra patterns, or byproducts. The main pattern here was one that was supposed to be one that'd age enemies to death, a horrifying spell the pattern for which - for better or for worse - was burned.
Hastenature (vec, int →)
Takes a block position and a positive number, and ages the block (or how I call it, induces a random tick) there that many times. Costs 1 shard per age-up, but 3.5 if the target is Budding Amethyst.
Interop
The branch of Lapisworks has no problem interoperating with any other addons that I have installed on my world.
Lapixtended
So many staves! So pretty! I must model incomplete Amel-infused versions of all of them!
I tried to give Obsidian a "crying" look, much like Crying Obsidian, however it was unfortunately too thin for that to look good on it.
Moreover, I believe the functional Amethyst staves are already good enough.
The wands take 20 Amel to fully infuse, but are more precise.
Amel-tuned Orb
The unique energy that entities give off I cannot emulate. However, Amethyst Lazuli does have a pretty large presence. Thus, the Amel-tuned Orb, made from infusing 10 Amel into a Drawing Orb. It is a device which can turn 10 Amel into particles unfathomably small at my head position, and arrange them into an ever-reshaping line between it and the orb. The line can stretch across truly vast distances to provide me about three blocks of ambit around the set position as long as the orb is in my hand, the mysterious forces of chunkloading notwithstanding. I should note that the Amel can never return to it's solid form.
Lapse
The Lapisworkers of old mention these "slipways" in their texts in passing, along with many remarks of "it is not a place we can interfere", or other phrases that sound the same. It seems I must be the first Lapisworker to innovate in this field, then.
I've noticed Imbue Mind can shape the Simple Mind into many things before imbuing it somewhere. If I can truly shape the Simple Mind into anything, does that mean imbuing a Simple Mind into the air will spawn one of the wisps that usually emanate from slipways?
Perhaps I can take advantage of this to get more media out of the Simple Minds.
The Slipways. They must lead somewhere. wisps do not manifest from thin air. Yet no matter what I do, the slipways won't let me through. I WILL find a way beyond them. If the slipways will continue to deny me access, I will rip them open myself. I feel the answer lies within getting Simple Minds to do my bidding, and I will write further when the revelation comes to me.
Imbue Mind can do it. I KNOW so. By instructing the Simple Mind to open the Slipway and enchanting it with the power of 48 Amel, the Simple Mind exerts an unimaginable amount of force upon the slipway, tearing the very fabric of space open! The world will marvel at my feat! Now, all that is left is to realize it by attempting to imbue a Simple Mind into a slipway.
SHATTERED. The slipway was forced open with an otherworldly-seeming entirely worldly force, and the fabric of space made a deafening sound as it was torn apart. I felt a powerful gust of media that pushed away all living beings except for allays. Marvelous. However.. As I tried to enter the hole in space, I found I could not travel through it. DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT, LET ME THROUGH I DESERVE ENTRY!-- Calm down. Calm down. I cannot risk losing myself now.
I guess there's another way, and that I was just going about this wrong.
The Rift still has other properties. For one, the media expelled from it is so vast in magnitude, it pushes away all non-allay living entities. It also makes many, many more wisps than a regular slipway, which I may find useful as a source of media.
Lexical
The Lightning Rod Staff is great, but it makes me wonder: What if I put other things in it's cradle? I theorize that I can use Amel to focus the media and hold any item in place indefinitely, similar to how a staff can work indefinitely. Placed upon the rod, it gives the impression of a wand. My hexes are also able to access the item within via (for example) Scout's Distillation. (I tried hard to make the area within which my hexes detect it bigger, however I unfortunately failed to do so.)
Rod & Cradle
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Copper Rod
Amel-Copper Item Cradle
A decomposition of the staff.
Handed Prison
The Pedestal does not have any shortcomings, yet as with all things, it is not perfect. It can ony act as my off-hand, yet there are many examples of patterns that work with a specific hand. Amel Infusion has focused those to their specific-handed versions, thus I see no reason why it wouldn't work with the Pedestal. 15 Amel should do.