I never really put much stock in writing a diary, but for this I might find an exception. Arbert suggested that I use this book as a method to get my ideas on paper. I am none too fond of the idea, but the old man has been around the farm a few times, so I thought I would at least try his suggestion.
My name is Manas. Manas Magellus, the Primer of the Kingdom of Biqiril. What is a primer, I hear you ask? Well it is the military rank for ‘greatest arrayist in the country’. I'm probably not, but a lot of people consider the arrays I make the most intricate and inventive in all the kingdom, so who am I to complain?
I'm stuck in this dumb frontier town called Aledia, a place that barely has running water and light arrays I might add, until I can create something for the military. They haven't told me what yet, but they seem to think that I will spontaneously come up with an idea if they throw enough money and unlimited resources at me. It's not like I'm a Hephaistian, but who am I to complain. If I get to tinker to my heart’s content, have a roof over my head, and food in my belly, then I will be as happy as a pig in muck.
I already have some ideas for a time release based explosion array that I am calling a... time boom! If I simply make an activation array on top of an absorption array that works as a trigger for the explosion then... I will work on it tomorrow and show it to my boss.
Entry 2. AY1.40
It has been a mighty busy month or so since I arrived at the laboratories in Aledia. I spoke to General Ashdon and he was horrified at my idea for the time boom. He spent the next week making me simplify the array to make sure that anyone could construct it with ease, so I think he actually found it helpful. Honestly, if it was not for the fact that I was so excited about it he probably would have been happier with the creation. Oh well.
I have made two more creations in the forty days that I have been in Aledia. The first was less military in concept, but no less applicable to the military machine. I call it a tunnel bore array. You simply inscribe the array and then inscribe the dimensions of the object and the array begins transforming the matter in the dimensions into mana. It takes a lot of power to get going, an entire Saint tier gemstone to be precise, but once it is up and running... In theory it should be able to bore to the lava layer of the plane. It has wondrous applications for making the foundations for trenches and geothermal power, but for some reason the General assumed it was for making trenches, pitfall traps and lava plumes within enemy territory. I might have given him something bad.
The second creation, one that I have spent almost twenty days on, was a little bit of a passion project of mine. It was an augmentation of the classic storage slate that was separated into three parts. First, I worked out how to make a parent slate and a child slate. Anything inscribed on either slate will appear, but the challenge was working out how to tether more than one tile to the same parent, and also how to partition the same parent tile so that there would not be any conflicts between the child tiles. In the end I decided to instance each tile in what I am calling an ‘interweb’, where the parent tile collects all the data and allows for any child tile that is tethered to it to interact with any other child tile. I actually managed to play a game of O’s and X’s while across the town from Elensonn! It was amazing, and the general was overjoyed with it. I think I earned my funding with these alone!
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