Day 127: Wealday the 23rd, Abadius, 4708

I woke up on a better side of the bed today, so to speak, with only Faunra coming to talk to me immediately. She wanted to ask me what I worried about in our future. I asked her if she could make it specifically against spellcasters and she shook her head, saying that such enchantments were beyond her. I asked if she could further enchant it to be against dragons, because we seemed to have the worst problems with them when things went wrong. Faunra smiled and told me that the gun already had a good resonance against dragons, being that it had already been used against three different types of them. I asked her how many different types of dragons there were, and she gave me a short list of over fifteen different types of dragons, differentiated into groups of colors, metals, phenomena and other different classifications.

I got up, got dressed, and got ready for my day of work. Faunra was working on my rifle today. Her bow and Jonathan's gloves were all ready to go into the pool. Tomorrow would be Dame Rebekah's longsword. Then Fireday would be the day that we use the Runeforge pool to get each of the weapons enhanced.

I went off to the Halls of Transmutation and quickly found that there were a whole bunch of sub components for the radios that had been manufactured by the unseen crafters overnight. There was a whole pile of raw materials in the beginning of the assembly line. I summoned up another four batches of unseen craftsmen, with one of the crews assigned to repairing the various halls, one of them being sent to work on making the raw materials into better, more usable forms, another crew tasked with looking for issues with the equipment and repairing them. The last group was working on assembling more components for me, including very small servos and wiring.

I worked with them as they finished off materials, where my armor was being upgraded and integrated. Servos and wiring with limiters and feedback loops. Working with all of these new components with the various upgrades and encasing them in armor. It wouldn't be finished today, but I got a large way done. I finished up my eight-hour block in the Halls of Transmutation just as the alarm went off. I went over to the Halls of Illusion, now denuded of mirrors. I spent my time meditating on what the self really meant and how I could learn to adjust myself like an illusionist adjusts his craft to be what he wants them to be. I felt a tiny tinge of pride for how well I was adapting.

After an hour of this, I decided to wander the hall. The entire complex was bare, and the walls looked to be a bit closer in than they were when we first came through here. I took some measurements and spent time in the far off reaches of the hall, practicing my illusionary magic to fine tune my crafting techniques. The hall seemed to appreciate it, and on the whole, the experience wasn't terrible. I went on and after eight hours, an alarm went off and I exited the halls. As I was leaving, Faunra was coming in. We nodded to each other as I walked to the Halls of Enchantment.

While I was in the halls of Enchantment, I spent time focusing on how my life had been indelibly changed by the people who had care and affection for me. From the people who I had just met to the people that I had known the longest, but would never see again. I collected myself and went to work on getting my priorities in proper alignment. Since there wasn't a good way to practice enchantments alone, not that I had very many enchantment spells in my arsenal, this would have to pass for focusing on related matters. I spent a few hours going through all of the things that I could, before running into roadblocks.

I spent the rest of my allotted time exercising. The whole hall had been basically stripped down to just a large chamber and the columns were now plain, rather than intricately carved, Dame Rebekah's work. I thought about recommending to Jonathan that he create a shrine to Calistria in this hall when it was all said and done. I decided to just run through some basic exercises, stretches, and calisthenics, rather than try to get anything specific. After a few hours of the light exercises, my schedule was done and I went in to the Halls of Evocation and Wrath, to catch up with everyone and get some rest.

When I got there, Faunra was just getting back as well, and she asked me why I had left all of the workers in the various halls that I had them working in doing what they were doing. I told her that I was trying to make the most out of my time here while we were waiting on getting the weapons prepared and enchanted. Faunra got a little upset at me, thinking that I was accusing her of taking too long. I told her that I wasn't trying to do so, only that I was trying to make the best of what I could, to make my contributions to our group effort be more recognizable to myself and to the group. Faunra harrumphed and walked off.

Jonathan appeared out of nowhere and sat down next to me. Jonathan noted that Faunra was under a lot of stress. I agreed and said that I would try to be better about not sounding accusatory. Jonathan shook his head, saying that she was really just getting a lot of feedback from the Halls, since she has to be Wrath the most out of any of us, and she spent some time in Pride as well today. I nodded, saying that I could at least understand that, and that I'd try to leave her alone a bit more. Jonathan nodded, and disappeared again.

Dame Rebekah was the next to visit me, with me trying to be as pleasant and non-offensive as possible. The interaction went fairly well, with her noting that it seemed like the crafters I had ordered to excavate the Halls of Abjuration were getting along nicely, and were disposing of the stone debris in the pit in the halls of Necromancy. I nodded and asked if this was okay. Dame Rebekah shrugged, noting that she had less that she had to purify that way. I thanked her for letting me know and excused myself.

I went into my assigned tower and started getting ready for bed. I tried to get a sending out to Savah from my radio, but there was no reply. Either the thickness of this domain, or the fact that we are on another plane, or both, prevented me from getting a message to her. I thought about some things that I might be able to make for her if I can figure out the fabrication room in Sandpoint, and what I could possibly make tomorrow after I was done making the modifications to my armor. I could really use having Veronica or Igor here with me in this place. That would make a lot of this work easier.

I got ready to end my day with a short nap and spent my remaining few minutes figuring out what I would do with the next day. Faunra would be getting Dame Rebekah's sword ready, so I could spend the day working in the entirety. I decidedly confirmed one tiny little addition to the armor, thought about adding a few more potentials for the armor, and if I could get Faunra to add her magic after it was done, it would even be practical. Nothing like a self-targeting shoulder mounted grenade launcher to add to the mayhem that we like to inflict. I have NO idea how we will make that quiet, but at the point that I am breaking out grenades, I think that i am safely in the territory of "bringing the noise."