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Thoughts on lore and Aspasia. These things are not significant, but more a record that you have an odd player on your hands.

In Badon, I went shopping with Ashley, but the products - t-shirts and the like, stood out as anachronistic, because the setting initially seemed to be an medieval fantasy sort of thing. It got me thinking, "how are the shirts made?" Having no ingame answer, my speculation was thus: they are mass-produced items, that are sewn together by golems in a Triangle-Shirtwaist sort of location...but with magical runes to imprint images onto the products. Maybe those golems are very crude copies of Juno's angels, employing a core and magi-tek circuitry that are roughly hewn?

Second set of thoughts, regard Aspasia. One of my initial questions after encountering her was "what are you made of, and is it deadly to organic life?" This is because she is composed of a silvery substance. The immediate candidates that came to mind was Mercury and Lead. As a human, that is concerning because those materials are not known for encouraging healthy living. Dunno if the MC is aware of hazardous materials, but that was my first worry concerning the lady. Not that she was a predator slime or hawking wares to rando forest travelers, but that she might inadvertently be poisoning people by just being around them.

Moving on, I was very pleased with Celica's love scene. The artist did an excellent job, the ahegao was satisfying, and the writing helped convey that Celica was starting to emerge from her shell of negativity, if only for a time. I am looking forward to spending more time with her, be it lectures or lecherous.

Cryswar2 years ago(+2)

Haha, no worries~ I love worldbuilding, so if anything I'm glad to talk about it.

For the higher tech - the setting varies WILDLY on tech levels. The MC comes from somewhere that is pretty low level (though they do have a functional grandfather clock - so 1700-1800s), but Badon is one of the biggest trade cities in the world and has access to much more stuff.

There's a bit of Avatar: Korra where the proliferation of low-level magic has made some forms of production and lifestyle much easier, for example healing magic makes the average life expectancy much longer than it was in the middle ages IRL and earth/water magic can make farming pretty reliable.

On the opposite end of the scale, Mage-Colleges can be full on floating cities, and mages combine science and magic to push the boundary on things that wouldn't even be possible in our modern 2022 world. Some of that trickles down, much of it doesn't. Across the setting, a lot of places are still somewhere in the 1700-1800s range, sometimes even tribal (ex. the beast tribes), but rudimentary guns (Firewands) are somewhat used by desert mages.

It's intentionally not *just* generic 1700s stuff, but obviously I had to pick a rough timeframe for the default.

Aspasia has a lot of control over the exact material she's made of, so she might be able to turn into mercury, though that would probably be a bad idea during a slime bath LOL

And nice, glad you liked the Celica stuff! Good play on words too. I really like Celica, she's a lot of fun to write.

Sabin Stargem2 years ago(+2)

I have been noticing a trend with slimes, especially in hentai games: They consistently have the most fatal abilities and consequences if they don't feel merciful. Drowning, acid that can selectively destroy materials, able to grapple and vore protagonists outright, jellyfish paralysis or electrical eel capabilities in some cases.

From a human perspective, a person like Aspasia seems like Gaea's answer to the question "What if Mother Nature REALLY wanted you dead?"

When it comes to civilization at large, I suspect that slimes are also treasured craftsmen. Selective destruction offers slimes a role in manufacturing goods - they can potentially carve wooden logs into precise shapes, or jiggle their acidic bodies to separate materials into pure concentrate.

Looking forward to Aspasia being expanded. There are many ways for her and the world to show their interwoven depths.

Cryswar2 years ago(+1)

Yeah - slimes, especially if they can control their bodies effectively, can be absolutely terrifying.

Terrifyingly hot, in particular.

Aspasia is one hell of an alchemist, both because of her mind and her unique body composition. Most slimes lack either to her degree, but they can do some pretty cool stuff too! I'm hoping to spend a lot more time on Aspasia next update, where I just want to write, instead of all the mechanics bullshit that has been fucking me this update lol.

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