Wind-up Mammets

[emet_sulk]

Type: Video
Sender ID: emet-sulk (Emet-Selch)
To: Public
Subject: Wind-up Mammets
Warnings: None save for it being the spoopy time of year

[ Greetings, Escordvi. It's your resident recluse, sorcerer, and magitech tinkerer, Emet-Selch. He has two mechanical figures on display in front of him, about the size of one's open hand: a bluebird and a tortoise. The bluebird goes through the motions of pecking at the ground strutting a few steps whilst the tortoise ambles at a more sedate pace. ]

As All Hallow's Eve is approaching, so too does the end of the year. I've developed these mammets lately together with the clockmakers of the Forge. Should you wish to commission a gift, I suggest you do so sooner rather than later.

[ The bird and tortoise abruptly go scattering as a copper, clockwork T-rex jumps on to the table and begins playfully snapping at them. ]

Oh, for the love of--

Comments

drags myself into your inbox

[empyrean_mirror]

[Kaveh is mostly quiet while the process is ongoing, because he's taking notes, but he does tap his pen against his sketchbook as he watches, contemplative.]

The core...must be an elemental crystal, or are those simply what work most efficiently, here?

[It's nothing at all like the cores of King Deshret's machinery, and Kaveh's not about to try swapping out Mehrak's core, but the better he understands how these work, the more he might see a way to marry the two ideas.]

\o/

[emet_sulk]

No, it need not be. Unaspected aether is in fact ideal for this sort of thing. But a creature cannot fly without wind nor swim without water. Hence, any bird I create will require that former aspect.

[ He holds out his hand and the bird lands upon it, head swivelling in faux curiosity. It does not otherwise move from its place. ]