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January 10, 2024 11:06:38

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Ahem. I'm quite shocked you've made it to this corner of Sornieth. I'll take that as evidence of my burgeoning marketing skills. You're here to purchase the products of my latest project, correct? The energy bills certainly don't pay themselves. If you'd please, fill out this contr—; form. Hope you've brought your down payment.

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abyss starmap / clay flair / copper glimmer / ice eyes

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Several years ago, the first known Novamancers appeared on Sornieth. These sentient and magical fragments of space, seeking shelter from the devouring Shade, assumed draconic physical forms and assimilated into society.

After spending years observing, running experiments on, and eventually 'befriending' several subspecies individuals, Edge has decided to pursue her true calling as a mad scientist by engineering artificially produced Novamancers.

She markets her creations as Nouveaumancers, synthetic "artificially" intelligent dragons designed to exhibit traits desirable for any profession her customers specify, other than a breed requirement. For some reason, the equipment refuses to produce anything other than Imperials, and any further tinkling might cause the entire lab to spontaneously explode.

Of course, the Nouveaumancers' intelligence is not truly artificial, since they already developed a limited amount while living as magically imbued gas and dust. Edge is simply providing a greater incentive for these beings to seek out Sornieth by sending out massive magically-imbued signals that encode various prompts that an individual might be drawn to. The project documentation elaborates on her engineering process.

♦ sales info:

— Free rename scroll provided for Nouveaumancers.
— 3-4 sentences of lore provided for every Nouveaumancer. You're welcome to disregard it, remove them from the overall subspecies lore, etc.
— For payment, only currency or eggs at their LAH are accepted.
— No reserves. Holds are possible.
— I don't have any other hatchery sales threads so I merged all of my breeding pairs into this lore canon and listed them in this thread. Currently breeding pairs are listed as graduating interns.
— FREE Scene: Deep Space offer for Nouveaumancer clients: Post a "hatchling letter" to this thread. A narrative description of how your dragon is adjusting (or not) to their new life, new clan etc., written from their perspective or an outsider's.

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disconcerto

4483

January 10, 2024 11:34:51

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This is where I house the latest batches of Nouveaumancers. Ah, don't worry about all the wires and computers, it's for gathering important behavioral data. They have plenty of trinkets, familiars, each other, and my Novamancer intern for enrichment. Anyways, do you think the name "Nouveaumancer" is a little awkward? I should have called them Nuvo's instead. It's too late to change the flyers though, huh.

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It used to be that when I ran the creation sequence, some Gaolers would come to poke around the lab a few weeks later. And by "poke," I mean that they tried multiple times to break into the Nuvo enclosure. Absolutely feral little creatures; I had to catch and release them so many times that I was forced to investigate. Turns out my equipment was highly inefficient and emitted way too much byproduct magic, which I guess activated the 'abnormal activity containment' sleeper agent in them. I fixed the issue though, so we shouldn't be seeing any more of them.

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[columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=6][color=19232F]♦ project docs[/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/afzBOoM.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/qfBanKq.png[/img][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/86332720][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/863328/86332720p.png[/img][/url][img]https://i.imgur.com/gD8p4vi.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/yZpxEpp.png[/img] [nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]Hello, are you new friend? Many other friends here too. Do you seek something or someone? You want see that paper? Big boss friend said that is secret. 'Pulo—pro—pietary.' I don't know what that is. But you are friend, so you can see it. Have good time![right]¤[sup]¤[/sup][sub]¤[/sub] [nextcol] [/columns] [center]_____[/center] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] 2022/01/01 I thought I already had enough work on my hands; under my tireless care, I’ve raised NOV-013’s comprehension to the level of an adolescent. He can speak standard draconian, albeit frequently interrupted by gaps of silence, and he’s even gotten rather good at fishing. Of course, there are always surprises with these creatures, and today another of these anomalies appeared on the scene. The new one seemed to recognize 13 immediately and they’ve become inseparable. They don’t speak draconian to each other, though, and their body language together is unrecognizable. This is an excellent opportunity to investigate the unique form of inter-subspecies communication they must be using. At least I’ll get a break from all the hands-on naturalization interaction and get to go back to being an observer. 2023/03/15 If I could put guttural screaming on parchment, I would. The blasted South Winds turned me into an ice cube for several months and I’ve just barely finished clawing my way out of the thawing ice. My head is spinning, but I must record the start of something truly magnificent. Sadly, my two specimens have frozen solid, but I don’t need them anymore. In all that time in the ice, I was half-awake, with only my thoughts and memories to entertain me. Being the genius I am, by replaying memories I unlocked a revelation! I remember thinking that NOV-13 looked different when he interacted with his compatriot than when he spoke to other dragons. That difference was actually the way his Starmap scales sparkled. Firstly, the stars sparkled more actively near the other Nova, and the other Nova would sparkle brightly back as if in response. Under more scrutiny, I noticed that on occasion the sparkles followed recurring patterns, indicating that they might have been communicating in a yet undeciphered language of the stars. Lastly, I saw that the patterns I recognized also appeared when I spoke to NOV-13, though more dimly. Whether the stars are speech or thought, mark my words: I will find no rest nor sleep until I’ve cracked this code. 2023/04/20 Broke into the Frozen Sanctum a couple times. Multiple different elemental sanctums. Successfully located and coaxed another Novamancer to “join my team for an important scientific project.” Think they were mostly convinced by the pile of magically charged rubbish I’d stolen and not the fancy words. While they were docile and entertained with their new hoard, I visually and magically recorded their Starmap fluctuations. Also collected that data during various different psychological experiments, I won’t go into details. The stars do match with their thoughts, there’s flashes of magical energy that are similar to neurons. I’ll call them star-neurons. I’m not happy with my current sample size. Hunting down the Novamancer took ages (around 312 accumulated dedicated hours and too much continental travel), the Association appears to have completely forgotten about them, few leads from clans. Novas come from space, right? Using a large source of magical energy to inhabit a physical draconic form? At least that’s what the research concluded. I think I’ll test the validity of these conclusions. (Haven’t slept all month by the way, if these notes seem scattered.) 2023/05/04 Should stop hoarding all this information in my brain, but I can’t tell how intelligible it all would be on parchment. Borrowed from The Source and set up my own lab over a ley line. Fired an explosive amount of magic into the sky. Multiple times actually, to no success. Until I accomplished just the right tweaks to the parameters. Behold, an Imperial Novamancer. It’s never been reported that they’ve taken the form of an imp. This is all so novel. I’m going to sleep now. 2023/06/18 Right. So I slept for several weeks and woke up thinking that my mind would be clearer. But after reviewing the data and the parameters used, I feel like my head is heavier than ever. Does it make logical sense that the creation process only worked after I turned every knob to the max? Can what is essentially a rushed import of magical living space dust even be boiled down into a structured engineering process? I’m just going to go run the equipment again, on the same settings, and see if the same thing happens. Update: The same thing did happen, and I have yet another Imp for my language studies. Am I insane for doing the same thing and expecting a different result, or is this whole Nova creation business the insane thing? I think the only logical thing I can do is spend several months studying magical instrument engineering to actually understand what all this junk does internally. Or to discover that this is all the result of several scientifically unsound steps that snowballed into a proper result. At least the observation research will be relatively easier: the current goal is to understand whether my three Novas all use their star-neurons the same way, and then figure out the patterns for some basic concepts. Might need to brush up on my neuroscience too… 2023/07/24 So. I got quite impatient and bored having to present the Novas with various activities and objects to think about. And I thought I’d gained a sufficient understanding of the equipment to change the parameters, to try obtaining a Nova that wasn’t an Imp. It backfired massively (several days ago) and all that “borrowed” equipment actually exploded (vs. being forced to the brink of explosion). I thought I’d just been taking extra precautions to escape the attention of any nosy magisters by setting up the majority of my operations away from the high-powered equipment. Now I’m actively trying to escape their attention. It doesn’t help that I discovered three Nova Imps wandering the ruins just today, and managed to lure them back to the research cavern right before a team of investigators arrived. It’s difficult to stay untracked when you have to wrangle six entities of varying intelligence, five of them being extremely large. Edit: I’ve been so frazzled that I forgot that I wanted to record the stroke of genius I conjured pre-explosion, by combining my two endeavors into one: Send a signal in their language along with the huge magical lure. I reckon that it might result in enticing varying personalities to take the bait, and I would have more avenues of research to pursue. For this past explosion, I did try to imbue the magic with the corresponding fluctuations for feeling joy, fear, and love. However, I fear that the collected signals I based the wavelength on are still far too noisy for any practical use, and these emotions might be too general. Would this have contributed to the explosion, maybe? I think I should try different feelings that are more specific next time. 2024/01/01 I remembered these dusty parchment records just in time for the new year! I have many achievements to celebrate other than the fact that I haven’t been properly documenting anything. To be succinct, here are major points: [LIST] [*][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]Fired signals today encoding the more primal feelings of pain and hunger, creating two Imps [*][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]Developed a dictionary of sorts for star-neuron signals related to the basic experiences of a living thing [*][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]Working on determining the level of complexity the Nova language covers w.r.t. concepts, grammar etc. [*][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]Developed a standard set of experiments for each new Nova to experience and for me to gather data from. This helps with determining if all Novas’ star-neurons function in approximately the same way [*][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]Investigating star-neuron patterns when Novas are introduced to Sornieth novelties; do they combine existing patterns or form something new? [*][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]Observed personalities of all Nova imps received so far, especially w.r.t. the prompt I stuck onto the magical bait. They all exhibit higher amplitudes of neural activity when I signal the prompt to them, so the prompt really gives rise to a strong reaction. [/LIST][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] Now onto some issues I’ve deliberated about. These Imps eat a lot of magic, much more than my Wildclaw Nova intern. And even upon rebuilding my equipment and tweaking parameters in a way that it all wouldn’t explode, today’s batch was still Imperials. (Perhaps it would be haughty of me to say that I’ve discovered a way to shape Imperials without the power of the gods.) I can’t keep creating Imps without finding somewhere or someone to take them when I’m done with my research. I’m straining the local ley line enough with star-fishing, and I think the Frozen Sanctum’s still got their eyes on my operation. So, the obvious solution: Find an innocent clan to handle them. I’ll have to really embellish why they should hand over their treasure for an adult dragon who has seemingly failed to develop cognitively past the hatchling stage. Would using a fancy name, say for example “The Nouveaumancer Project,” be able to sufficiently pull wool over their eyes? It certainly would be nice to earn enough money to pay for a legal tap into the ley line. Time to learn marketing. 2024/02/05 Marketing was a success! I see there’s no shortage of foolish wyrms who’ll believe anything they’re told; I don’t even think I was particularly convincing. The flaws in the product were clearly visible too: one seemed socially awkward and another was socially avoidant. Which brings me to another issue which I’ve tried to mitigate with this batch, the issue being that the last batch’s prompts of primal, survival-related emotions are too primitive, producing ‘dragons’ of varying capabilities. NOV-13 and his friend clearly knew each other. They must have developed sentience together, lived together. I’m imagining that these magical space creatures form a colony, which also explains the shared language that they all possess. (Well, most of them.) So, this time I sent out a few lures containing the most frequent messages that my intern communicates to freshly created Nuvos. Thanks to my newest invention (a star-neuron data collecting wearable circuitry kit; I’m very proud), it was very efficient to decipher that he’s telling them there’s plenty of food, no danger, and plenty of new friends. Not that I really need to translate that last bit, ‘friend’ seems to be his favorite word in both languages. Now he has three more friends to chat with, and I have three more creatures to observe. 2024/02/29 My intern really is a wonderful asset. It was worth it to forgo that entire month of sleep to find him. My brain has also been wonderful, of course, what with the wearable circuits and number-crunching algorithms and all. But my project wouldn’t have progressed even 15% as far as it has now without all the valuable translations I’m juicing out of him. The last kiddos we got were indeed especially interested in the messages we sent out, and they all seemed like they could adjust to living as dragons relatively easily. Which got me thinking: what if I could pre-adjust them? Instead of just sending a message in their language, I could send an entire education. And I did just that. Or, at least it was an averaged signal of the star-neurons of my intern and a few Nuvos while I taught them about virtue. (Specifically: I taught my intern about virtues and then had my intern try to translate that to teach them.) I’m a little concerned that “virtue” is a bit of an advanced concept, but who knows? There could be an advanced civilization of pure magic space things creating notions far beyond a humble dragon’s imagination. Though, looking at the new group of five, something may have gone amiss with the prompts I sent, because some of them don’t act in the most virtuous of ways. I might have to refine my marketing again; I’m thankful now that I chose to invest all my batteries’ magical energy for a “hatch” on this quote-unquote special day. 2024/04/08 After last batch’s failure, I took a step back to think about what went wrong, and concluded that it must have been the abstract concepts. I’m not too sure that my intern fully grasped the idea; I’m not sure anything complex goes on in his head at all. Must be nice to be so carefree. Let’s not even mention the data from the other Nuvos. So I’ve pivoted to something different this time: physical movements. If dragons’ neurons are anything like star-neurons, then there’s relatively fewer neurons that control body actions. It took a couple sleepless days to confirm this hypothesis, involving a lot of trials where I put the Nuvos through various repetitive movements and identified the neurons that consistently spiked. It’s still curious that these creatures have nervous systems that work similar to ours; is it related to our shared affinities for magic? I’m not one to believe the seers or in prophecy, but I wonder if even the Tidelord would have any answers regarding these aliens. Anyways, I managed to prepare a couple recordings of the simplest gathering occupations: fishing, foraging, and digging. Today was an excellent day to send those recordings into space. One of Sornieth’s moons lined up to perfectly cover the sun, and it seems most of dragonkind flocked to Dragonhome, where totality would be visible. The Southern Icefields were even emptier than normal, other than these three new Imperial monstrosities. I think they might be spending a little Too much time gathering. I think I’ll tackle some more advanced physical skills next. [right]♦ [nextcol] [nextcol][/columns] [img]https://i.imgur.com/e6h0NLb.png[/img] [center][font=georgia][size=2][color=19232F][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_3306852]front desk[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938095]available product[/url] / [u]project docs[/u] - [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938100]latest update[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938106]misc. materials[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55996630]graduating interns[/url]

disconcerto

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January 10, 2024 11:34:54

♦ project docs

Hello, are you new friend? Many other friends here too. Do you seek something or someone? You want see that paper? Big boss friend said that is secret. 'Pulo—pro—pietary.' I don't know what that is. But you are friend, so you can see it. Have good time!

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2022/01/01
I thought I already had enough work on my hands; under my tireless care, I’ve raised NOV-013’s comprehension to the level of an adolescent. He can speak standard draconian, albeit frequently interrupted by gaps of silence, and he’s even gotten rather good at fishing. Of course, there are always surprises with these creatures, and today another of these anomalies appeared on the scene. The new one seemed to recognize 13 immediately and they’ve become inseparable. They don’t speak draconian to each other, though, and their body language together is unrecognizable. This is an excellent opportunity to investigate the unique form of inter-subspecies communication they must be using. At least I’ll get a break from all the hands-on naturalization interaction and get to go back to being an observer.

2023/03/15
If I could put guttural screaming on parchment, I would. The blasted South Winds turned me into an ice cube for several months and I’ve just barely finished clawing my way out of the thawing ice. My head is spinning, but I must record the start of something truly magnificent. Sadly, my two specimens have frozen solid, but I don’t need them anymore. In all that time in the ice, I was half-awake, with only my thoughts and memories to entertain me. Being the genius I am, by replaying memories I unlocked a revelation!

I remember thinking that NOV-13 looked different when he interacted with his compatriot than when he spoke to other dragons. That difference was actually the way his Starmap scales sparkled. Firstly, the stars sparkled more actively near the other Nova, and the other Nova would sparkle brightly back as if in response. Under more scrutiny, I noticed that on occasion the sparkles followed recurring patterns, indicating that they might have been communicating in a yet undeciphered language of the stars. Lastly, I saw that the patterns I recognized also appeared when I spoke to NOV-13, though more dimly. Whether the stars are speech or thought, mark my words: I will find no rest nor sleep until I’ve cracked this code.

2023/04/20
Broke into the Frozen Sanctum a couple times. Multiple different elemental sanctums. Successfully located and coaxed another Novamancer to “join my team for an important scientific project.” Think they were mostly convinced by the pile of magically charged rubbish I’d stolen and not the fancy words. While they were docile and entertained with their new hoard, I visually and magically recorded their Starmap fluctuations. Also collected that data during various different psychological experiments, I won’t go into details. The stars do match with their thoughts, there’s flashes of magical energy that are similar to neurons. I’ll call them star-neurons.

I’m not happy with my current sample size. Hunting down the Novamancer took ages (around 312 accumulated dedicated hours and too much continental travel), the Association appears to have completely forgotten about them, few leads from clans. Novas come from space, right? Using a large source of magical energy to inhabit a physical draconic form? At least that’s what the research concluded. I think I’ll test the validity of these conclusions. (Haven’t slept all month by the way, if these notes seem scattered.)

2023/05/04
Should stop hoarding all this information in my brain, but I can’t tell how intelligible it all would be on parchment. Borrowed from The Source and set up my own lab over a ley line. Fired an explosive amount of magic into the sky. Multiple times actually, to no success. Until I accomplished just the right tweaks to the parameters. Behold, an Imperial Novamancer. It’s never been reported that they’ve taken the form of an imp. This is all so novel. I’m going to sleep now.

2023/06/18
Right. So I slept for several weeks and woke up thinking that my mind would be clearer. But after reviewing the data and the parameters used, I feel like my head is heavier than ever. Does it make logical sense that the creation process only worked after I turned every knob to the max? Can what is essentially a rushed import of magical living space dust even be boiled down into a structured engineering process? I’m just going to go run the equipment again, on the same settings, and see if the same thing happens.

Update: The same thing did happen, and I have yet another Imp for my language studies. Am I insane for doing the same thing and expecting a different result, or is this whole Nova creation business the insane thing? I think the only logical thing I can do is spend several months studying magical instrument engineering to actually understand what all this junk does internally. Or to discover that this is all the result of several scientifically unsound steps that snowballed into a proper result. At least the observation research will be relatively easier: the current goal is to understand whether my three Novas all use their star-neurons the same way, and then figure out the patterns for some basic concepts. Might need to brush up on my neuroscience too…

2023/07/24
So. I got quite impatient and bored having to present the Novas with various activities and objects to think about. And I thought I’d gained a sufficient understanding of the equipment to change the parameters, to try obtaining a Nova that wasn’t an Imp. It backfired massively (several days ago) and all that “borrowed” equipment actually exploded (vs. being forced to the brink of explosion). I thought I’d just been taking extra precautions to escape the attention of any nosy magisters by setting up the majority of my operations away from the high-powered equipment. Now I’m actively trying to escape their attention. It doesn’t help that I discovered three Nova Imps wandering the ruins just today, and managed to lure them back to the research cavern right before a team of investigators arrived. It’s difficult to stay untracked when you have to wrangle six entities of varying intelligence, five of them being extremely large.

Edit: I’ve been so frazzled that I forgot that I wanted to record the stroke of genius I conjured pre-explosion, by combining my two endeavors into one: Send a signal in their language along with the huge magical lure. I reckon that it might result in enticing varying personalities to take the bait, and I would have more avenues of research to pursue. For this past explosion, I did try to imbue the magic with the corresponding fluctuations for feeling joy, fear, and love. However, I fear that the collected signals I based the wavelength on are still far too noisy for any practical use, and these emotions might be too general. Would this have contributed to the explosion, maybe? I think I should try different feelings that are more specific next time.

2024/01/01
I remembered these dusty parchment records just in time for the new year! I have many achievements to celebrate other than the fact that I haven’t been properly documenting anything. To be succinct, here are major points:

Fired signals today encoding the more primal feelings of pain and hunger, creating two Imps
Developed a dictionary of sorts for star-neuron signals related to the basic experiences of a living thing
Working on determining the level of complexity the Nova language covers w.r.t. concepts, grammar etc.
Developed a standard set of experiments for each new Nova to experience and for me to gather data from. This helps with determining if all Novas’ star-neurons function in approximately the same way
Investigating star-neuron patterns when Novas are introduced to Sornieth novelties; do they combine existing patterns or form something new?
Observed personalities of all Nova imps received so far, especially w.r.t. the prompt I stuck onto the magical bait. They all exhibit higher amplitudes of neural activity when I signal the prompt to them, so the prompt really gives rise to a strong reaction.

Now onto some issues I’ve deliberated about. These Imps eat a lot of magic, much more than my Wildclaw Nova intern. And even upon rebuilding my equipment and tweaking parameters in a way that it all wouldn’t explode, today’s batch was still Imperials. (Perhaps it would be haughty of me to say that I’ve discovered a way to shape Imperials without the power of the gods.) I can’t keep creating Imps without finding somewhere or someone to take them when I’m done with my research. I’m straining the local ley line enough with star-fishing, and I think the Frozen Sanctum’s still got their eyes on my operation.

So, the obvious solution: Find an innocent clan to handle them. I’ll have to really embellish why they should hand over their treasure for an adult dragon who has seemingly failed to develop cognitively past the hatchling stage. Would using a fancy name, say for example “The Nouveaumancer Project,” be able to sufficiently pull wool over their eyes? It certainly would be nice to earn enough money to pay for a legal tap into the ley line. Time to learn marketing.

2024/02/05
Marketing was a success! I see there’s no shortage of foolish wyrms who’ll believe anything they’re told; I don’t even think I was particularly convincing. The flaws in the product were clearly visible too: one seemed socially awkward and another was socially avoidant. Which brings me to another issue which I’ve tried to mitigate with this batch, the issue being that the last batch’s prompts of primal, survival-related emotions are too primitive, producing ‘dragons’ of varying capabilities. NOV-13 and his friend clearly knew each other. They must have developed sentience together, lived together. I’m imagining that these magical space creatures form a colony, which also explains the shared language that they all possess. (Well, most of them.)

So, this time I sent out a few lures containing the most frequent messages that my intern communicates to freshly created Nuvos. Thanks to my newest invention (a star-neuron data collecting wearable circuitry kit; I’m very proud), it was very efficient to decipher that he’s telling them there’s plenty of food, no danger, and plenty of new friends. Not that I really need to translate that last bit, ‘friend’ seems to be his favorite word in both languages. Now he has three more friends to chat with, and I have three more creatures to observe.

2024/02/29
My intern really is a wonderful asset. It was worth it to forgo that entire month of sleep to find him. My brain has also been wonderful, of course, what with the wearable circuits and number-crunching algorithms and all. But my project wouldn’t have progressed even 15% as far as it has now without all the valuable translations I’m juicing out of him. The last kiddos we got were indeed especially interested in the messages we sent out, and they all seemed like they could adjust to living as dragons relatively easily.

Which got me thinking: what if I could pre-adjust them? Instead of just sending a message in their language, I could send an entire education. And I did just that. Or, at least it was an averaged signal of the star-neurons of my intern and a few Nuvos while I taught them about virtue. (Specifically: I taught my intern about virtues and then had my intern try to translate that to teach them.) I’m a little concerned that “virtue” is a bit of an advanced concept, but who knows? There could be an advanced civilization of pure magic space things creating notions far beyond a humble dragon’s imagination. Though, looking at the new group of five, something may have gone amiss with the prompts I sent, because some of them don’t act in the most virtuous of ways. I might have to refine my marketing again; I’m thankful now that I chose to invest all my batteries’ magical energy for a “hatch” on this quote-unquote special day.

2024/04/08
After last batch’s failure, I took a step back to think about what went wrong, and concluded that it must have been the abstract concepts. I’m not too sure that my intern fully grasped the idea; I’m not sure anything complex goes on in his head at all. Must be nice to be so carefree. Let’s not even mention the data from the other Nuvos.

So I’ve pivoted to something different this time: physical movements. If dragons’ neurons are anything like star-neurons, then there’s relatively fewer neurons that control body actions. It took a couple sleepless days to confirm this hypothesis, involving a lot of trials where I put the Nuvos through various repetitive movements and identified the neurons that consistently spiked. It’s still curious that these creatures have nervous systems that work similar to ours; is it related to our shared affinities for magic? I’m not one to believe the seers or in prophecy, but I wonder if even the Tidelord would have any answers regarding these aliens.

Anyways, I managed to prepare a couple recordings of the simplest gathering occupations: fishing, foraging, and digging. Today was an excellent day to send those recordings into space. One of Sornieth’s moons lined up to perfectly cover the sun, and it seems most of dragonkind flocked to Dragonhome, where totality would be visible. The Southern Icefields were even emptier than normal, other than these three new Imperial monstrosities. I think they might be spending a little Too much time gathering. I think I’ll tackle some more advanced physical skills next.

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[columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=6][color=19232F]♦ project docs - latest update[/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]New friends come and go. When they come, boss friend always writes more paper. Paper goes up so high, like mountain. One day, paper fell, boom! Boss friend very mad at paper, very scary. Now paper goes into a hole, won't fall. Here is paper on top for you. [right]¤[sup]¤[/sup][sub]¤[/sub] [nextcol] [/columns][center]_____[/center] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] 2024/04/08 After last batch’s failure, I took a step back to think about what went wrong, and concluded that it must have been the abstract concepts. I’m not too sure that my intern fully grasped the idea; I’m not sure anything complex goes on in his head at all. Must be nice to be so carefree. Let’s not even mention the data from the other Nuvos. So I’ve pivoted to something different this time: physical movements. If dragons’ neurons are anything like star-neurons, then there’s relatively fewer neurons that control body actions. It took a couple sleepless days to confirm this hypothesis, involving a lot of trials where I put the Nuvos through various repetitive movements and identified the neurons that consistently spiked. It’s still curious that these creatures have nervous systems that work similar to ours; is it related to our shared affinities for magic? I’m not one to believe the seers or in prophecy, but I wonder if even the Tidelord would have any answers regarding these aliens. Anyways, I managed to prepare a couple recordings of the simplest gathering occupations: fishing, foraging, and digging. Today was an excellent day to send those recordings into space. One of Sornieth’s moons lined up to perfectly cover the sun, and it seems most of dragonkind flocked to Dragonhome, where totality would be visible. The Southern Icefields were even emptier than normal, other than these three new Imperial monstrosities. I think they might be spending a little Too much time gathering. I think I’ll tackle some more advanced physical skills next. [right]♦ [nextcol] [nextcol][/columns] [img]https://i.imgur.com/e6h0NLb.png[/img] [center][font=georgia][size=2][color=19232F][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_3306852]front desk[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938095]available product[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938096]project docs[/url] - [u]latest update[/u] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938106]misc. materials[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55996630]graduating interns[/url]

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♦ project docs - latest update

New friends come and go. When they come, boss friend always writes more paper. Paper goes up so high, like mountain. One day, paper fell, boom! Boss friend very mad at paper, very scary. Now paper goes into a hole, won't fall. Here is paper on top for you.

¤^¤_¤

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2024/04/08
After last batch’s failure, I took a step back to think about what went wrong, and concluded that it must have been the abstract concepts. I’m not too sure that my intern fully grasped the idea; I’m not sure anything complex goes on in his head at all. Must be nice to be so carefree. Let’s not even mention the data from the other Nuvos.

So I’ve pivoted to something different this time: physical movements. If dragons’ neurons are anything like star-neurons, then there’s relatively fewer neurons that control body actions. It took a couple sleepless days to confirm this hypothesis, involving a lot of trials where I put the Nuvos through various repetitive movements and identified the neurons that consistently spiked. It’s still curious that these creatures have nervous systems that work similar to ours; is it related to our shared affinities for magic? I’m not one to believe the seers or in prophecy, but I wonder if even the Tidelord would have any answers regarding these aliens.

Anyways, I managed to prepare a couple recordings of the simplest gathering occupations: fishing, foraging, and digging. Today was an excellent day to send those recordings into space. One of Sornieth’s moons lined up to perfectly cover the sun, and it seems most of dragonkind flocked to Dragonhome, where totality would be visible. The Southern Icefields were even emptier than normal, other than these three new Imperial monstrosities. I think they might be spending a little Too much time gathering. I think I’ll tackle some more advanced physical skills next.

♦

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[columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=6][color=19232F]♦ misc. materials[/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] Big boss friend said she try market. Sales. She said, need pretty thing. 'Pretty thing' means more eyes see and like the sales. So, I try draw— drawing. Tried drawing. She said it look pretty! She gave lots of food. She said to give flyer of drawing. Free! I hope you like drawing. Or, if you want food, I have lots. Free![right]¤[sup]¤[/sup][sub]¤[/sub] [nextcol] [/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]♦ a permanent job for bounty hunters:[/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] Dream G1: Abyss/Clay/Copper (for reasons that are obvious by this thread) Bounty: Will pay, at bare minimum, 10kg [nextcol] [/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]♦ links:[/columns] [center][font=georgia][size=3][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/2383461/1]Novamancer sales thread (retired)[/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/2591076/1]Novamancer sales hub (inactive)[/url] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol][font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F]¤[sup]¤[/sup] graphics:[/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol] [img]https://i.ibb.co/SVS1zfq/nuvo-export.png[/img][nextcol] [nextcol] [font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] Nouveaumancer pixel art emblem, 100 x 100 px [nextcol] [/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/XUwCyBN.png[/img][nextcol] [nextcol] [font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] Novamancer emblem, signature size [nextcol] [/columns] [columns][nextcol] [nextcol] [img]https://i.imgur.com/tZNTEsi.png[/img][nextcol] [nextcol] [font=georgia][size=4][color=19232F] Novamancer emblem, large size [nextcol] [/columns] [img]https://i.imgur.com/e6h0NLb.png[/img] [center][font=georgia][size=2][color=19232F][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_3306852]front desk[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938095]available product[/url] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938096]project docs[/url] - [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55938100]latest update[/url] / [u]misc. materials[/u] / [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/3306852/1#post_55996630]graduating interns[/url]

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January 10, 2024 11:35:52

♦ misc. materials

Big boss friend said she try market. Sales. She said, need pretty thing. 'Pretty thing' means more eyes see and like the sales. So, I try draw— drawing. Tried drawing. She said it look pretty! She gave lots of food. She said to give flyer of drawing. Free! I hope you like drawing. Or, if you want food, I have lots. Free!

¤^¤_¤

♦ a permanent job for bounty hunters:

Dream G1: Abyss/Clay/Copper (for reasons that are obvious by this thread)
Bounty: Will pay, at bare minimum, 10kg

♦ links:

Novamancer sales thread (retired)
Novamancer sales hub (inactive)

¤^¤ graphics:

Nouveaumancer pixel art emblem, 100 x 100 px

Novamancer emblem, signature size

Novamancer emblem, large size

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