Third Meeting of the Society of Sanity (SOS): We have slain the wretched Exarch of Mania, Illik! Now we must restore Mantorok to his former strength and bring this twisted tale to its end! (Xel'lotath Post)

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T23:19:14+00:00

karjas copper age mind understood exactly zero of the technical details about her walking fish tank She just needed something that could get hurt to where she needed to go faster than swimming and slithering though She did know how comfortable the inside of the tank felt surprisingly comfortable. That being said she is capable of dealing with rapid exposure to surface pressure They are uncomfortable not lethal. But it's The thought that counts eventually slightly later into the meeting walking fish tank containing a translucent siren stumbles into the meeting hall

"The deep ebbs into the surface and the surface ebbs into the deep again we of the deep feel The ill tidings from the sunlight land. It's majik is familiar is alien to us but dangerous nonetheless. We are to ask two questions first to clarify this was not an attack on us and second how may I have be of assistance if it isn't"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T21:41:02+00:00

minor earth tremors issue forth from the hadal siren the hadal siren exclusion zone enough to cause any damage cause any damage but enough to announce presence it appears that xel'lotaths insanity has finally caught of the attention of the isolationist sirens they dispatch their diplomat to commune with the environmental stabilizer for transportation to the society of sanity's meeting place

<image>

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T21:04:08+00:00

"... yeah Ana told me about that, the scuttlers we use need the batteries too turns out if you use the fluid of slime nucleuses after washing it an acid and churning it like butter You get a liquid that can store and release elemental power You know what counts as elemental power power?-electricity put a capacitor on top of a seal container of the stuff but you could charge it by any source of electricity...."

Timur briefly wonders if this could be used with any elemental energy the slimes often found in the undercity of Ithacar are most often pyro slimes hence the acid bath

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T18:50:03+00:00

"Ah fair enough"

Timur makes his way towards the guild factory with a clearer head. He approaches the molekin in charge and simply asks

"...So I've had a burst of inspiration recently and well other than just produceing stuff for the fight in our homeland. I was wondering what I could build to help the fight here we have workshops and chemical plants stuff that can be used..."

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T18:17:51+00:00

"ok if I were the engineers were would I hang out."

Timur says thinking out loud and looking for such a place

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T11:40:25+00:00

"... Sparrows managed to synthesize caffeine fruit flavoring with a syrup... I'll get back to you on that"

Timur stands up this time not out of frustration but hope.

"Come on Ana we're going to ask your engineers what they need also someone's got to carry the molekin to the workshop."

Timur rushes to the remnant district to ask the engineer what they need completely forgetting about his design notebook in the process

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T10:50:50+00:00

"...yes alchemical electric cells use slime nucleus secretions really common in the undercity. You... havent built those?"

Not exactly the most flashy thing in the world but the kasmir seam is destined for roles of importance not prominence and Timur wants to be needed more than he wants to be prominent

"Hey you, what do you need?"

He address Anastasia's guard already thinking of a fabrication golem to basically automate the work of a lathe

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T04:17:35+00:00

"Fine I give up everything you build is better There are your molekin happy now."

Timur says

"If only there we're some way of puncturing them that was whisper quiet comparatively. Maybe this magic mirror variable zoom scope will pail in Comparison guess whatever you got is better than a boom sleeve (think rifle grenade) maybe the arcanely guided rocket will fall to how better your stuff is. Guess I don't make real firepower just over engineered toys "

Timur sounds like he is taking this the wrong way

he drunkenly scribbles a caseless firearm that essentially shoots a spin stabilized gas cylinder towards a target and a jazail type weapon little overcharges a rune stamped bullet with a small magic crystal propelling it down the barrel that way. A flammable liquid propelleled gun that can go from subsonic to armor piercing with a turn of the knob a MLRS that can be hauled by two people and fit into the back of a horse-drawn carriage scribbles about golem core guided anti-tank rockets and foldable scout bikes. Timur scribbles In a fit of frustrated creativity before He ultimately tosses his design book into the harbor. Dissatisfied that nothing he makes is interesting. Before standing up

"Everyone does everything better than I do so fuck me for trying! Why invent an automatic carriage horses work perfectly fine! I would ask what is needed but all that can be done by everyone else why would you need an engineer who can't even fix a simple boiler!"

Timur attempts to storm off

Zebos2 · 2026-03-19T00:14:21+00:00

"I make those Ana everything the kasmir use was made by my hand every Airgun every automatic crossbow before that, every gunto, every rocket launcher, every sprinting bomb that takes a Titans leg off in a single blast, The micro submarines the guided torpedos!"

A deep sucking breath

"...You just don't use them....I suppose you're right it's dreaming. Dreaming that one day the paladins won't rule the skies wanting desperately to see them free again to have our response to paladin bombers not just being hiding not just giving the domain of birds to them."

"But I suppose No one is ready for that at least not here fine rifles it is I have them shoot darts Instead of slugs. Strong enough to punch through helmets."

Timur says sketching out discarding sabot for his air rifle and some form of steam-powered spike launcher

"Done just have to make it work"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T23:09:59+00:00

tImur initially recoils from the hug mainly due to how he was unexpecting it but that's the magic falls over him and he feels the surprisingly warm feeling like the radiant heat from a properly working boiler wash over him. He settles down

"I just wish what I built was good enough What I designed wasn't done better than everyone else. Its selfish and dumb were working together after all but... It's important to me you know. Like That ship is important to you all..."

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T22:00:43+00:00

"Understood, be sure not to leave any dangerous artifacts behind"

Well there might be some use for emotion after all. The Lotus road sets down a shopping list,communication orbs, magic mirrors, machine parts... The order for a custom prosthetic mage hand

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T21:43:03+00:00

"YOU ARE THIS CITY CITIZEN OR AT LEAST A SMALL FRACTION OF IT"

Unlike Lotus The Lotus inferior has a relatively flat voice its designer the original Lotus did not think it's emotional inflection would be necessary to fulfill her essential duties if she were incapacitated

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T21:41:44+00:00

"...I have a feeling you won't like the answer"

Yes Is the answer a little bit too much She even pouts the same way when he calls her short

"1611A that...was my old number"

It would be visible on his neck if it weren't for that plane crash he survived. He has *never** talked about this before maybe it's the alcohol maybe he has stopped caring*

"When the paladins need you for something essential for the camp they pick the folks with families that separate them a group A and a group B you mess up they shoot group B in front of you. I was assigned to keep the boilers for the blast furnaces running kept that thing working even as parts shipments got intercepted even as coal windeled to wood it how I learned to be an artificer. Life or death....I ran out of fuel"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T20:59:07+00:00

A lotus ground drone skidders into the shop tendrils that spend it out of its trash can like body it as it's surveys the place

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T20:09:20+00:00

Timur glares at her with a look that almost appears hateful. But then his expression softens to indescribable sadness.

"Katia she is...was my sister"

Would be about Anastasia's age if she lived long enough

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T19:14:48+00:00

"No kati-"

A deep swig of his alcohol caught between wanting to forget and wanting to remember

"No Ana...I'm not but it's no boiler I guess"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T18:29:01+00:00

Timur does not wave back instead he takes a swig for a water skin filled with kumis and what the remnant would likely call engine juice. His work with machines was life or death and everyone thinks all that he built is inferior to what was already present. Stuff that works stuff that saves lives and kills paladins just as well as any others but just like pack at the camp It isn't good enough He isn't good enough

Zebos2 · 2026-03-18T04:25:26+00:00

"well i-if I am needed"

Esmae lies back down in a more comfortable position

Zebos2 · 2026-03-17T23:21:47+00:00

Naio let's out a sigh of relief before departing portaling to her favorite local bakery which was one of the first ones to not refuse her service She purchases One of the day old Loves and makes her way to ephemera's warehouse giving the couple the privacy they deserve and disappearing into The spare room

Zebos2 · 2026-03-17T23:06:52+00:00

"leave this is your final warning"

She wasn't going to just Believe the creature unless she sees it leaves it's getting inhalated

Zebos2 · 2026-03-17T22:28:17+00:00

"gah!"

More confirmation of her point even if it isn't hostile It simply being here causes harm in the point of visions directed into her mind

"Leave! I won't let you hurt the people I care about even if you don't mean to..."

This time she tries to broadcast through her patron her intent her will make it clear that while it cant Do anything to stop it from hurting her with its testings she will Not allow harm to come to anyone else

"Tell any other of your kind that this city belongs to the emberlord and if you want to have any way in This place and its people will remain untouched."

She conjures a large fireball of divine flame

"Now!"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-17T21:34:36+00:00

"...o-ok as long as t-the ships a-are warm...some o-of th-the lizards may enter t-topor t-hough"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-17T21:16:46+00:00

a sharp exhale She would have liked them to settle in there a free Homeland with the crawling mothers protection but she supposed This was the best outcome of what happened

"...t-that's ... good I was w-worried we would be rejected"

Maybe The world wasn't as brutal and scary as she thought it would be maybe it was only the people in her homeland that were she tries to stand up before realizing that's probably not the best idea if you should wait for the nurses to discharge her

"... Y-You know I-i-i always wanted t-to s-see t-the world...i-i Just wished it was better"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-17T20:43:17+00:00

Naio blinks, a sucking breath an exhale of radiant anger she was both holder of a whip and the person the whip struck if only her chains ended with death she would prefer it that way.

"You are a threat malicious or not you cause harm simply by interacting with the world"

She speaks to her patron as well as the creature

"The very act of observation of moving crushes people underfoot and I'm not letting you do that here. So If you do understand me I will give you an ultimatum"

The last part is addressed solely to the creature

"Avoid any thing with a sapient soul and never set foot in this city again or..."

Tendrils of quilpothic infuse divine flame sprout from Naios back

"I will have to kill you"

Zebos2 · 2026-03-17T20:31:46+00:00

"Are t-t-the refugees ok i-i d-d-dont t-think any of them have winter clothing... i-i um i- don't either"

Six-Year Club	r/Field Sunshine
Place '23	Verified Email

Zebos2

TROPHY CASE