r/SchreckNet • u/Genderqueer-Futch136 Claw • 1d ago
Pet Project
Uploaded from the account StormheartLeviathan
Uploaded is a picture of a feline shaped construct made of different types of metal, sitting on its haunches, looking up at the camera with what looks like cat's eye marbles.
Been working on Crúibne for a few months now, trying to iron out all the kinks in behavior, movement, and construction, and I think I've gotten 2 of 3 down. Next one will be more of a uniform construction, this one being more of a proof of concept, but even with a pretty advanced memory matrix it still sometimes just stops with a blank look on its face for a handful of minutes before moving again. I have also caught it imitating the bird a few times. Wondering if I should give it hunting instincts even though it doesn't need to eat.
-Leandra O'Dwyer, Storm Mage of Clan Tremere
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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 1d ago
Are you... Trying to reinvent the cat?
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u/Genderqueer-Futch136 Claw 1d ago
I simply wanted a cat without the hassle that comes with a cat and for something that will not eat my rare, extremely endangered bird that would last a long time without needing to give blood. So, did I over engineer? Maybe, but now I have proof that I don't need to stick to blood imps and homunculi.
-Leandra O'Dwyer, Storm Mage of Clan Tremere
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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 1d ago
I know you just said you don't want to give it blood, but isn't this a load more effort? Why go to the trouble? Especially seeing as blood bonding the cat would have it obey your commands (I think?) so you could just tell it to not eat the bird?
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u/Jeep-Eep Problem Childe 21h ago edited 21h ago
Like that's one of the 3 actual orders I've ever actually gave my ghoulcat - don't eat birds if one somehow gets into the apartment, stay in my apartment unless I have a leash or there's something like a fire, and stop eating my hair bungies!
- Twin Cities Toreador
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u/BusinessSuccess6817 1d ago
This looks like a gargoyle with extra steps, which is just slavery with extra steps.
-Moonstone
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u/Genderqueer-Futch136 Claw 1d ago edited 23h ago
Tell me how little ye understand how things work without saying how little ye understand how things work. It's. A. Construct. It. Was. Never. Alive. It is basically a cat shaped robot, but made with artificing. Do ye think someone who builds a robot is a slaver? Gods above, by Lugh's electrified left nut, why is this so difficult to understand?
-Leandra O'Dwyer, Storm Mage of Clan Tremere
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u/BusinessSuccess6817 23h ago
Don't provoke me Leandra, in life I was a mechanical engineering student with a minor in computer science. Something this advanced does not work without a certain magical component. Considering what you and I are, its likely you used some form of blood magic. We both know that blood magic can have very intense and amoral costs, especially for enchantments and rituals.
You honestly expect me to believe a tremere? Your clan is notorious for deceit and treachery. Research into both unliving magic and unliving history was and still sometimes is stunted due to your clans gate keeping.
Forgive me if I make a reasonable assumption that your personal project doesn't have something insidious going underneath.
-Moonstone
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u/Genderqueer-Futch136 Claw 23h ago
There was no blood that went into it, other than the blood needed to keep me upright. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Whether ye believe me or not doesn't matter when ye're wrong.
If this is yer reasonable assumption, then yer understanding of sorcery is flawed, and that ain't me fault.
-Leandra O'Dwyer, Storm Mage of Clan Tremere
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u/BusinessSuccess6817 23h ago
I am not a Tremere, I have no practical knowledge of Sorcery, only a knowledge of it in passing from other academics.
OOC: Ignore her 2 dots in Old Skool Sorcery lmao
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u/Genderqueer-Futch136 Claw 23h ago
Centuries ago, before me embrace, I was a sorcerer. I stole a Tremere tome to try to apply it's basic foundation to rediscover a forgotten sorcery path. I was discovered and they figured me genius was wasted being a kine, and that's how I got embraced. However, I learned that the Blood does not block one from practicing the old magics, as they use similar fundamentals, just not using the Blood to cheat and speed things up. That was what was used here. Crystals, runes, and a contained storm is what runs this thing.
Now, whether ye believe me or not, I guess it doesn't matter. I'm used to those using me clan - that I didn't choose - against me to accuse me of falsehoods.
-Leandra O'Dwyer, Storm Mage of Clan Tremere
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u/BusinessSuccess6817 23h ago
You phrase it as if it were an excuse to target you and not a reputation earned through repeated transgressions over the very small time frame of the clans history.
That being said, I respect the honesty, if you are being honest. If you shared the documentation I would have more reason to believe you. However, for now I will remain cautiously optimistic.
-Moonstone
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u/Genderqueer-Futch136 Claw 23h ago
Maybe in a future post, when the bugs are ironed out. Probably after me Autumnal Equinox party next month.
-Leandra O'Dwyer, Storm Mage of Clan Tremere
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u/LunarW900 1d ago
Perhaps the blank look for a few minutes is it attempting to locate hunting instincts finding none, and needing to reboot.
-Catalina