Role

Chapter 10

Its gone pretty well, all things considered. I'll hope my old man never
hears how many legions I've gone through in the span of a couple of years -
they're meant to be preserved, is the traditional thought. Mine tend to
explode violently a few days into their animation, but how else am I going
to learn yields and range? Needs must.

Early on, my experiments mostly focussed around the animation contamination.
Its a very vicious explosion, and there is still lots to work out here to
get it down to the precision needed for a solid demolition strategy. Elves
tend to splatter a bit more, though dwarves really do seem to pack more
punch behind the detonation. I'm not sure quite why that is yet, though I'm
sure I'll figure it out. I've got some initial thoughts, mostly surrounding
bone density. Lets come back to that in a bit.

I had a pretty huge breakthrough. Definitely luck, I was thirsty while
sitting on duty and asked the guildmaster if he'd got anything to wet the
throat. Safe to say that was a really good idea and a really bad idea:
don't accept drinks from him going forward.

Not the most pleasant experience I've been through, though after I got over
it and read the label... well. I've heard of Davarrah in passing, usually
not in flattering terms. Can't argue with results though, because when I
put that into one of my legion, the next major impact made it... well.
Explode just seems too tame of a word, really.

That's opened up some possibilities I'd not envisioned. Two forms of
activation, with very differing results. Next steps seem pretty simple with
that in mind:

- I've got to see if its subject density that impacts how well the
contamination takes. No, not that kind, I can't test on a battlerager. I'm
thinking a dragon will do the job though. A really big one. That's going to
take some doing, and you just know I'll fail the animation a few times, but
needs must.

- The other thing is working out how best to apply these two different
techniques. There's no one size fits all solution, so the diversity is good.
Knowing when to use what is going to be key though.