Loci?

During my grand awakening, there was a term that pounded within my head. Begging to be made and released. Locus.

After countless days of research within my libraries, and the knowledge I had gained during my awakening, I have discovered the meaning of Locus and Loci.

Summerized, loci is the plural form of locus, and a locus is a block that interacts with a Spell Circle in a unique way. Slates, however, do not count as loci. But, I may see loci as a "subset" of Slates.

Inlaid with each-other, endless pathways bending and wefting through a labyrinthine depths. A dance that which no single mind can comprehend. A song that sings to the universe; and the universe whispers back.

Slate Works Deco Blocks

As my enlightenment concluded, I was struck by inspiration for new blocks to build with. Since, if my mind has expanded, my build pallet might as well join along with it.

Though I do wish to state: unfortunately, very few of these are useful in a practical sense, just an expanded pallet.

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Slate Plated Edified Planks

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Copper Plated Slate

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Amethyst Embedded Slate

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Replicated Allay

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Replicated Allay

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In my frantic scribbling, I had found that this, Replicated Allay, was written down. It seems too be a super-condensed form of Allay, but I am unable to draw media from it. However, much like the Allays, it can be duplicated.

Whispering Stone

Whispering Stone

After finalizing the construction of my Librarian Impetus, I have found my self needing to be able to "reach" it from further away. After a flash of genius, combining a slate, some amethyst dust as a binding agent, and an Echo Shard; I now have a device that can listen to what I say whenever I hold it and speak.

When I click this onto a Librarian Impetus, it binds its self to the Impetus, stating its location and moniker. Then, whenever I state the moniker while holding the item, it silents me, and starts the bound Librarian Impetus.

However, if the impetus has had its moniker changed, I simply can just lightly "shake" the stone, and it will update.

Finally, the Whispering Stone can be unbound in 2 ways. If I crouch and use the stone, it clears its bound impetus. As well, if I attempt to speak into the stone while the bound impetus is destroyed and or relocated, it will unbind its self; but still silencing me for one last time.

Importantly: the Whispering Stone can not start the Impetus if it lays outside of "chunk loading"'s range.

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Whispering Stone

Whispers and mutterances, gasps and fears, I can hear these faintly echo from this stone. What was done to that shard?

Fanciful Pigments

Just as my Staves have evolved, so too must my Pigments. These may not gift any glorious or grand amenities or effects, but all their boons are purely visual.

Additionally, those who know of these pigments, will now know of my Awakening.

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Quenched Pigment

Since my... Visions, I have awoken to see the true form of Allays, nothing more than a scrap of media. Perhaps this scrap of media could be turned into a picture perfect pigment?

Slate Work Impeti

As I dive deeper and deeper into my Awakening, I have discovered new Impeti locked away within my self. Why did Nature bury and hide these designs and blueprints? Perhaps, it assumed that I could not handle them? Even after my Awakening? Or perchance, it was because they could not exist when I Awoke?

Whatever it may be, I can now utilize them.

It's large enough to require a finely calculated deliberate warping, of just a few centimetres from one end of the circle to the other, to account for the curvature of the Earth underneath it. Bright red and green beacons mark important loci and enable the accurate guiding of energy from one side of the circle to the other.

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Librarian Impetus

Villager must be a Apprentice Librarian or higher

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The first design freed and conceptualized is the Librarian Impetus. This reuses the Librarian's extensive vocabulary into a tool to understand what I say out loud.

To first use this, one must first "bind" a moniker to the Impetus by using a Text Iota held within an item, such as a Focus, on the Impetus. Then if a message is spoken within 16 blocks (or more if I use a Whispering Stone) of the Impetus and starts with that moniker; it silences that message, and starts the Librarian Impetus with the content of the rest of the message and the speaker on its stack. Thankfully, this will not cast as the one who spoke. Finaly, this gains a 16 block radius of ambit around the Impetus.

Akashic Locus

It appears like the Akashic Record is an extremely powerful conductor of Media and Thoughts; to the point of it being able to be used by a Spell Circle.

I have come to learn So Much. I might as well share it with my proudest creation.

Whenever an Akashic Record is activated by a Spell Circle's Media Wave, it requires either a Pattern Iota, or any Iota and a Pattern Iota, and pops the given iotas.

If a single Pattern Iota is supplied, it dives into the records, and reads the iota associated with the given pattern.

If both any Iota, and a Pattern Iota are given, it will attempt to associate the iota with the given pattern.

It seems like the functionalities closely resemble the Akashic Patterns; however, these are ran without any cost. Meaning it is completely free to index an Akashic Library with a Spell Circle.

Importantly: it seems like this has the abnormal ability to clear shelves; if I attempt to store a Null Iota with this technique, it will instead clear the shelf associated with that pattern.

Ambit Extenders

Ambit Extender

The Ambit Extender is a fabulous answer to my Ambit woes when it comes to Spell Circles. This pops a vector from the stack, and extends ambit in the direction (negative vectors extending the negative corner of Circle Ambit).

With great range comes with great costs, err-

While this is not as strong as... other methods of giving a Spell Circle more Ambit, I do feel like Nature takes a kinder approach to my amalgamation of free will if I use this.

This does not come cheap however, the media cost increases with the square of the total distance extended in dust.

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Ambit Extender

Since the Ambit Extender operates on Ambit, having a "core" block that can operate on Media Waves would be beneficial. As well, having nearly Pure Media would also be required for this construction.

Gloopy Accelerator

After diving into libraries of old, I discovered blueprints for something called an "Accelerator," which was described as speeding up Spell Circle greatly. After some time of reverse engineering some materials lost to time, I have recreated it as the Gloopy Accelerator!

How the Gloopy Accelerator works exactly, is it takes 2 dust to speed the Circle up to a slate per 1/20th of a second for 13 blocks; however, it needs to spend some of those 13 blocks speeding up. Interestingly, I can "stack" their boosts, making the accelerated state last for much longer. But this also increases the cost by the square of the blocks to be accelerated as well. So I must be careful when spacing them out.

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Gloopy Accelerator

While I could not recreate the lost material of "gloop," a mixture of slime and Quenched Allay seems to emulate it well enough.

This is glooptastic !

Iotic Door

Iotic Door

After close examination of the enigmatic gifted Akashic Libraries, I believe that I may recreate their iota storage for Spell Circles; albeit, in a cruder manner.

"The door is open, if you're ready?"
"No, not... not really, but..."
*sigh* *click*

The Iotic Door creates a "back door" into reality its self, broadcasting the iota it holds within. Which, is set by popping the top iota of the Spell Circle's stack when activated.

As well, the Door can be read from anywhere in the world (as long as its being read in the same dimension), even bypassing the mysterious forces of chunkloading! The spell to read these are jotted down here.

Important to note, if the targeted position does not contain an Iotic Door, it returns garbage. I may only assume this is somehow from the background noise of Nature?

Just as importantly, due to the crude nature of the Iotic Door, it may only hold "simple" iotas; therefore lists (and any player references as well) can not be stored.
Finally, if I adorn a Scrying Lens, I may see the iota this stores.

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Iotic Door

Due to the Iotic Door's odd nature of being read from anywhere, it requires a suitable amount of Quenched Allay and parts from an Akashic Library.

Muffling Slate

Muffling Slate

While I work with Spell Circles more and more, the constant crackles from the Media Wave has begun to ring in my ears. And with some of my more... esoteric Circles, nearly deafening me.

Luckily, this, the Muffling Slate, can protect my ears from the obnoxious sounds and noises.

When activated by a Spell Circle, this pops a number between 1 and 0 (inclusive for both), and sets the "volume" of the crackles and rackets to that. This applies to all sounds that the Media Wave makes, so executing patterns, Macros, or moving will be silenced.

"Nat, he's made sound! He's an audiomage!"
"I hear it," Nat replies, not looking back. "And stop inventing words."

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Muffling Slate

Thankfully, the Muffling Slate is a cheap and simple craft; taking a scrap of wool, and some slate.

Silence is gold for some, or even iron for more; but for my self, silence is diamonds.

Patterned Assemblers

Patterned Assembler

Oh how my hands Ache and Buzz from countless hours of slaving over a Crafting Table... luckily these days are over. The Patterned Assembler solves these pains and problems.

Items ever deeper in items, I cant stop crafting, I cant stop looking; more items must be crafted and automated. NOW.

Precisely what the Patterned Assembler does is it attempts to craft whatever item is set within, pulling from activated Storage Vessels, and placing the resulting item(s) back into the Vessels. This is triggered when the Assembler is activated with a Spell Circle. The recipe can be set by hand, or via a Spell. If it can craft the inscribed item, it returns a True to the stack and crafts the item, else it does not craft the item (not enough ingredients, no recipe, etc) and returns a False.

While the Patterned Assembler can be quite quick, it can still take an agonizingly long time to finish large crafting orders. Thus, this is why I have created patterns for "bulk operations." This lets the Patterned Assembler try to craft more than one craft per activation; but, if the Patterned Assembler can't craft all the items at once, it will push a False onto the stack, and crafting nothing.

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Patterned Assembler

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The Patterned Assembler requires the mind of a villager well adapted to paging through tomes and texts; it seems like the Librarian is perfect for this.

Pocket Simulator

As I strive to expand my domain, I found it mind numbingly boring to lug items around in my pockets and bags. And whilst Hexes help automate this, I find my self requiring to hold items still... I must engineer a better solution to this; it seems like the Allays can hold items, perhaps I can use that?

Pocket Simulator

The Pocket Simulator solves my inventory woes!
Using an Allay as the core of it, it can hold up to 6 "stacks" of items, playfully dancing around the Simulator. As well, I can denote 1 of those stacks to being a held item, meaning blockwork spells will pull from that first.

Once a Spell Circle activates this, it becomes "bound," being able to use the Simulator.

Wonderfully, the Pocket Simulator can be interacted via my hands, or spells. If I interact with it via my hands, I am greeted with the 6 slots it stores, and the held item slot will be glowing with Quenched Allay colors.

A fascinating discovery is that the Pocket Simulator seems to function much like common item picking behaviors. This allows the Pocket Simulator to "hold" items, thus when block spells attempt to pull an item, they will pull from the Storage Vessels instead of the Pocket Simulator.

Important to note, this also functions just as a plain held item. Thus letting the Spell Circle read from Foci (and other iota holding items) as well as pull media from phials.

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Pocket Simulator

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Quite Handy, isn't it?

Redstone Agitator

As I build more complex Spell Circles, I require finer control over redstone output of the slates.
While a comparator works for more basic circles; it only gives off a flat redstone output of 15, and stays triggered until the Circle ends.

Thus, is why I have created the Redstone Agitator. This pops a number between 0 and 15 (inclusive) from the stack, and sets the redstone output of the Agitator to that number. Additionally, it stops giving off redstone power when the Media Wave leaves the slate.

While not quite intended, this seems to have coevolved with another ancient blueprint, the "Undulator" from the same libraries as the Accelerator.

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Redstone Agitator

Combing a mixture of redstone dust and amethyst dust, and intertwining it with a slate creates the exact mixture of redstone conductivity I require.

Restoration Mainframe

After careful research of Iris's Gambit, I now understand it stores the state of the cast as an Iota. And after hours of tinkering and failed experiments, I have recreated this, but for Spell Circles.

The Restoration Mainframe stores the total state of a Spell Circle, most found Loci are saved into this, as well as: the stack, ravenmind, and escaping patterns.

Restoration Mainframe

This works by "swapping" the internal stored state with the current running state. So whenever it is activated by a Spell Circle, it will exchange the 2 states. Additionally, it seems like this stored state does not remember its "orignal" Spell Circle, so it can be traded between Spell Circles if proper application of Directrices are used.

An important useful tidbit: if I don a Scrying Lens and observe the Restoration Mainframe, I can see all the data it holds, which is:

The Stack,

The Ravenmind,

Ops Consumed,

Is Running Consideration,

Iotas that been escaped,

And total level of escaped.

I can foresee this will be an extremely useful tool for debugging Spell Circles among other uses.

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Restoration Mainframe

bleep boop.

Sentinel Cache

The yells, the screams, the agony. The unimaginable pain I felt? Saw? Experienced? Witnessed. The- the... I am getting distracted. I must write down what I have witnessed. During the lights, feelings, and surge of my grand... does that even fit?- enlightenment, I saw a vision of a construct that would improve Spell Circles. But at an extreme cost.

The block- construct- amalgamation is called the Sentinel Cache. It is possibly the most flexible
block for Spell Circles, but the anguish required for its vision- am I going to make this? This creates a pseudo Greater Sentinel (called "Pseudosentinel") with a radius of 4 blocks that the circle can affect. This Pseudosentinel first "spawns" where ever the block is placed, but can be moved around with spells. Costs a negligible amount of media to awaken this monstrosity.

Sentinel Cache

This agglomeration of minds, twisted, pulled, shattered, and mended. I hear them, yet no sound is made, I hear their pain. Several minds ripped and combined into a block. All for my gain... But- the way the light shimmers and dances off of the slate foundation, the wetted amethyst's gleam... It calls to me

My mind is degrading. I must finish my notes. Now.

If I observe the Sentinel Cache with a Scrying Lens, it displays the current location of the Pseudosentinel. As well, activating more Sentinel Caches adds to the list of all known Caches, and the Circle gains ambit from each.

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Sentinel Cache

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For this amalgamation of agglomerations, it takes an Ambit Extender, to generate the ambit modifications, and a Master level Villager of any kind. If the mind was weaker, it would shatter against the already saturated Flayed Block.

Spell Imprinter

Spell Imprinter

During my travels I have heard mutterances about things called "macros," patterns that represent larger Hexes (I believe these to be linked to a possible Akashic Library?). Nonetheless, I am able to recreate these "macros" with Spell Circles using the Spell Imprinter, and an iota written inside of any iota holder placed on top of the Imprinter.

When this is activated by a Spell Circle, it binds the
currently set pattern to the iota stored within the held item (which can be set via a spell). Thus whenever the pattern is inscribed into slate and activated, it instead runs the iota rather than the written pattern. Though, the implications of this are horrifying, rewriting the definition of a spell. A thing that is deeply intertwined with the world itself, does that mean I, could be rewritten; changed by a higher force? No. NAAAAA!

A quite handy feature of the Spell Imprinter is being able to wear a Scrying Lens and observing the bound pattern and the iota to be ran with the bound pattern.

On closer observation of a freshly... "constructed" Spell Imprinter, it has a pre-inscribed pattern of Mind's Reflection. Whilst useful, it is deeply unsettling for reasons I can not put into words...

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Spell Imprinter

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Despite the horrors this possibly ascertains... this is still an advantageous block to obtain. I believe a Weaponsmith villager would be the best fit. This is due to their adeptness at reworking broken weapons to new, sharper instruments.

Storage Vessels

Storage Vessel

After FAR TOO LONG of lugging my items in clunky, splintery, chests... I have discovered the perfect method of storage, Storage Vessels.
Despite my current state, I am still far too full of mental garbage to interface with the Storage Vessels. However, Spell Circles are perfect for insertion and extraction of these new storage methods.

While Storage Vessels can only hold 16 "types" of items each (much like a single chest holding only 27 slots), they ignore the standard stack limit, holding a near-infinite amount of each slot!

Additionally, as a Spell Circle activates these with its high-density Media Wave, the Circle gains the ability to read and retrieve items from the Storage Vessels (stacking as more are activated). I have noted down the Spells for doing just that here.

Important to note: when Storage Vessels are broken, they do not eject the items stored within. Instead, they carefully pack all of their items into the resulting broken block (much like a Shulker Box).

"Oh boy! Time to get my items!"
[sound of chest opening]
[sound of chest closing]
[sound of chest opening]
[sound of chest closing]
[sound of chest opening]
[sound of chest closing]

Whenever I wear a Scrying Lens and observe a Storage Vessel, it displays the items held within, to me. This feels almost like Nature is toying with me, since there is no way to pull items directly out of a Storage Vessel... I will admit however, it is handy to see what I have with a glance.

It seems like the Villager used in the Storage Vessel's construction has retained their ability to access chests! Meaning, the Storage Vessel can be inserted and extracted from hoppers. This lets me have buffer storages that have a near unlimited inputs; but with only 16 slots.

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Storage Vessel

Villager must be a Novice Fisherman or higher

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The Storage Vessel requires a mind capable of diving into the depths, and retrieving something based on only a hint. A Fisherman villager is perfect for this.

Synthetic Dreamer

Despite my advancements in Storage, Crafting, and Utilization in Spell Circles, I have always lacked a fundamental action that I take; an action that I take for granted every moment of my existence. Being able to use items.

Until now with the Synthetic Dreamer.

Synthetic Dreamer

After much research I have found something quite peculiar, items always require a person to use them. Which means I can not just slap a hand onto a rod and thrust it into blocks (though it would be humorous). Instead, I must look towards the Allays and their ever fascinating properties...

Using Quenched Allay's shifting abilities, I can extract a being that resembles a person out of the shards for just a moment, and force them to use the item. This figment of a being acts much like my self when I attempt to use an item on an entity, block, or by its self. Additionally, it seems like it has a reach of 10 blocks.

However, due to the ethereal nature of these beings, special accommodations must be made for what items they hold and use. Thus, the "Hotbar" of these beings must be from a Pocket Simulator.

The main item of these beings will be the selected slot of the Pocket Simulator; as well, they do not have an inventory, only the hotbar the Pocket Simulator provides.

Interestingly the Synthetic Dreamer can also be used to attack others. If I were to lightly press on the Synthetic Dreamer it will make a small chime, and instead of using its item, it will attempt to punch with the held item. However, this can not break blocks since the ephemeral being that is conjured is too weak to break blocks. Finally, if there is no entity found, the Synthetic Dreamer will instead do nothing.

As for where it attempts to do it's action: the look direction of the ephemeral being is based on either the facing of the block, or an optional axis-aligned Vector. When I crouch and use the block, it toggles between taking the facing of the block, or the Vector.

If I where to equip a Scrying Lens, I may see if the block will take the Vector or not; as well as if the Synthetic Dreamer will punch or not.

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Synthetic Dreamer

Boltzmann Brains? Never heard of them.

Wave Regulators

Wave Regulator

As I begin to explore the uses of the Great Work, I find my self needing more control over these fascinating possibilities. So I have created the Wave Regulator; what this does is it pops a number from the stack, and attempts to set the "speed" of the wave. More specifically, how many 20ths of a second the wave should wait before going to the next slate.

This system does have some limitations however. For one, it cannot set the speed to be faster than the wave could possibly move, doing nothing if I try to set the speed higher. Explained, it can only set the time to wait to any number above or equal the circle's default acquired speed, or back to its regular speed. To do this, the Wave Regulator needs to pop a 0 from the stack, and it gives the Spell Circle full control of the Media Wave again.

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Wave Regulator

Wave Regulators are odd in their construction compared to the rest of my... Gifted visions. All they require is a scrap of Media with some writhing will still left in it... how it must be in pain-- and some slate to make it compatible with the Circle.

Pocket Simulator Patterns

As nice as the Pocket Simulator is, it amplifies its power through these patterns and spells.

These mishap when not cast in a Spell Circle. However, these preform nothing if the current Spell Circle is not bound to a Pocket Simulator.

Slate Reflections

Locus Spells

As wonderful as Vessels are for storage, they have an... opaque method of interaction. The main way of interaction is with Hexes; more specifically, using a Hex to describe what I wish to retrieve. Importantly, these all mishap when not cast in a Spell Circle.

“Riddles,” I said.
“Always preferable to no answer at all,” he responded.

To elaborate more, Vessels respects Nature's silly rules regarding the "Stack Limit" by working around them. Rather than directly calling an item based on its name, I more-or-less supply a "description;" this is a Hex that takes an Item Stack Iota, and needs to return a boolean. Also, all patterns to do with the retrieving of Storage Vessels take a copy of the Stack, and puts it onto the 'inner' stack (much like Thoth's Gambit).

Further explained: this runs the given Hex on every stored Item in the Vessels. The Hex must return (top to bottom) either a False (omits the Vector, and Number) or True, Vector, and Number. The Vector corresponds to where to output the items into the world (respecting ambit), and Number relates to how many of that type of item to retrieve.

Costs a 1/4th of a dust per activated Vessel.

Patterned Assembler Patterns

While the Patterned Assembler is quite accessible without a staff, it does become extreme powerful with spells. I have listed all the spells that interact with the Patterned Assembler here.

AE2? Never heard of it.

To note: the given list gets "formatted" as left to right, top to bottom in the Patterned Assembler. As well, the Nulls represent blank spots in recipes. Finally, the Spell will mishap if the given list is longer than 9 items (but passes with less than or equal to 9 items).

Does not mishap if cast outside of a Spell Circle. Costs a negligible amount of media.

Sentinel Cache Patterns

Sentinel Caches have an odd method of interaction compared to their non-Spell Circle counter parts. They are interfaced via a list of vectors, opposed to a single vector.

These all mishap when not cast in a Spell Circle.

It's doing physical and mental damage to it, as if it had body parts and organs and memories being consumed as Media.

Helpfully, the list of vectors from Locate Pseudosentinels will always match the order of Apply Pseudosentinels, meaning I need not worry about the ordering.

This will mishap if the given list is larger than the current awoken Cache amount. Costs 1 dust to command the Pseudosentinel, and due to fatigue, an extra 1/8th of a dust (stacking) for each Pseudosentinel that was already moved in the same instance.