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Series Finale and Ability to craft ALL Tiers of Elemental Workshop Armor

tl;dr - The Quest series comes to end with 1 "puzzle" and a machine to let you make ALL armor tiers thru a simplified/singular process.

Suggested Skill Requirements

Smithing, Crafting, and Divination, all of the same level/tier.

The Story So Far

By the end of Elemental Workshop 4, we learn that Vitruvius had unlocked the means of creating Cosmic and Chaos Elemental Armor ... and ... he was nearly broke. Making all of these complex machines had nearly exhausted his finances.

The elderly Archmage, Metallurgist, craftsman, and engineer still ha s a long ways to go to save his inept apprentice.

The Suggested Story Going Forward

It is suggested that Vitruvius, upon re-reading everything he's done so far in understanding Elemental thru Chaos energies, his extremely brilliant mind comes across a sort of universal constant for energy. At first it is theoretical. He basically comes to learn that his approach to imbuing the energies is like trying to smith a dagger with a sledgehammer.

Since he doesn't have the money or resources to keep building complex machine after complex machine to permanently imbue the energies to increasing tiers of metals ... he can do it temporarily. Keep in mind: he just needs proof of concept, NOT a permanent effect for Law, Nature, Death, Blood, and Soul energies.

He and the apprentice are able to quickly prove his theories by harnessing smaller amounts of each type of energy in smaller apparatuses.

28-Oct-2023 14:48:58

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The Final Puzzle ... which he couldn't solve

The greatest mind of his generation throws himself into creating one last machine. And time is not on his side. His greatest masterpiece isn't simply a machine that does a unified theory of everything, but one that is so simple to build, even his apprentice (or an adventurer) could build it.

Sadly, time catches up to Vitruvius, but he does complete his final schematics.

He has figured out how to make higher tier bars using the energies to imbue bars such as Runite.

But he runs into 2 problems:

Metals. He has managed to find ore veins to make Runite Bars and Orikalkum Bars in caverns around his workhsop. But to truly tap into the highest tiers ... he can't safely access ores to make Necronium, he has no idea where to get Banite (other than small samples), and he's theorized a way to make a higher tier using Runite as a base but he has no idea what to use as a catalyst (it would likely require a revolutionary rework on the very concept of smithing to make something that can handle Level 90 Soul Energies).

Energy. His efforts to imbue Runite with Law Energy and Orikalkum with Nature Energy have reached the literal limits to what he can do with conventional means. If he had something that was a form of pure anima (*cough* divine energy *cough*) he could do this more efficiently.

The final machine would have several parts:

- one that would look suspiciously like an Invention Machine Generator

- a fixture to place the bars into

- a fixture to do things to convert the anima into the desired bar.

The player would need to use Runite and Orikalkum Bars, along with several Elemental Bars to make the machines.

Devs would need to do a thing with the "puzzle".

28-Oct-2023 14:49:09

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The Final Machine

The Final Machine gets away from the overly complex rube-goldberg machines we are accustomed to seeing. Instead ... switching to a simpler interface where the player can add bars + energy to basically select what they get.

Think of the Final Machine as a 3-D Printer.

Player would need to insert:

- Rune Bars + Elemental Bars + Certain divine Energy to get Law Elemental Armor

- Orikalkum Bars + Elemental Bars + +1 Tier Divine Energy to get Nature Elemental Armor

- Necronium Bars + Elemental Bars + +2 Tier Divine Energy to get Death Elemental Armor

- Banite Bars + Elemental Bars + +3 Tier Divine Energy to get Blood Elemental Armor

- Elder Rune Bars + Elemental Bars + final Tier Divine Energy to get Soul Elemental Armor

Devs would need to create each of the final elemental armors in one go. (We know we at least need Leg Armor to "complete" the current standard sets. Up to devs if they want to go all in for creating armor pieces beyond shield, helm, body, legs, boots, and gloves.)

The Apprentice

The devs will need to make one other decision: did Vitruvius manage to "Save" his apprentice? did the Apprentice succeed on his own? Does the player character get to "save" the apprentice? or are we too late?

28-Oct-2023 14:49:22

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