Third Umbral Moon / 2nd Sun
Trial and error have nearly killed me in my experimentations with materia so far. At first I was trying to use impure materia and just doing my best to have a flush seating with the bracelet. By the way my bracelet couldn't be any more plain and “impartial†to these trials, it is solid plain gold with a divot for the materia to sit in. A simple clasp, that's it. I haven't moved onto any sort of stylized designs, unsure whether different metals will affect the efficacy. I have been burning through hundreds of thousands of gil at a time to work towards a design that is manageable. Details to follow.
Materia can break. I can't rightfully place an academic backed theory as to why, but I have guesses. One is the simple idea that impure materia has a shelf-life, and wears out. Another idea is that due to impure materia being imperfectly round and rife with impurities and imperfections making it almost like an unprocessed and unsmoothed rock, it's not able to...well I'd guess do its job properly. The good news is that I have felt the effects of materia already, though it was short lived.
The materia I first started using to test was a sky-blue one, small and of the lowest purity you typically see. I was told through my dealer there are various materia that affect people differently, while even sharing the same color. He apparently can “feel†their difference, which of course I thought was complete shit so I told him I would take one meant for enhancing physical strength, and if I could prove he wasn't fooling me, he would secure millions in future trades no questions asked. He sent me on my way with two, didn't even bother charging me. He was that sure of his wares.
I started off small, yet thorough, in my initial testing and designs. Apparently, simply seating it properly like I would a ruby or any other gem is all it takes. Even more surprising is that the degree to how much it affects me is almost quantifiable. I had the idea to lift weights and see if I could challenge and surpass some of my maximums. Being honest with this journal, I can benchpress 425 ponze. That's far above average, but I've seen numbers much higher from my kind.
To my dealers credit, the little blue materia worked. I had some variations between 440 and 450 and will say about a 20 increase for simplicities sake. A single materia doing that much work. Hard to imagine, and it makes me yearn to wear 10 of the largest most pure I can find as I'm writing this. Fear stops me for now though. Who knows what would happen to the body if you did that.
To help ensure I am getting consistent results, I took my bracelet off and tried my newly found max. I could barely muster 420 ponze likely due to being tired. Wearing the bracelet again and giving myself one last push for the day to try and break 450 almost killed me. I had the bar set to 455 in all and I could only manage to unrack it before, terrifyingly, the materia cracked in its fitting, losing its internal coloring, fading to brown, and sending the bar crashing onto me. Fortunately for me, I had one of my office girls in the other room hear my screaming and she ran to help me barely get the bar off my chest.
No one had told me up until that point that materia can even break, and when I went back to my trusted supplier with all hells fury behind me he gave off an air of genuine surprise. We went over everything I had been doing and he asked me the queerest thing “What did you do to meld it to your wristlet?†I wasn't sure what melding was at the time, and he told me he wasn't sure either. He only knows that properly melded materia looks like it has been forge-welded into the pieces and that Mutamix the Goblin teaches others who know how to use aether the proper technique, for a price. Unfortunately I can't use aether, so that option was and is no good for me.
My dealer was intrigued that I had managed to feel the effects of materia by simply seating it like a jewel. He's the first one that gave me the idea that because the lower grade of materia was used, it didn't perfectly set. He would be correct, it didn't seat flawlessly. I was treating it like any other gem and clasped it down into its seating. If I were to try and have a flawless seating, I would need a pure materia. I consider myself a true Master of smithing with precious metals, matched by next to none. There is no way to have a perfect and flush joining of impure materia to a bracelet without I would imagine a forge-weld, and how is that even possible with materia when it can break with a simple hammer blow to its face. More importantly, how is that ever a viable option when it would defeat the purpose of designing something I can wear fashionably.
True to my word, his initial sampling did work, so I went through with my promise. He shipped me 12 of his flawless and allegedly pure materia that would affect physical strength. In all the order cost me over 6 million gil. The order was brought to me by an armed carriage, elaborate. After tasting what simple little ones could do , it was time to put to work new ways to test my designs and the effects of materia on myself.
At this point its essential to point out, that 6 million gil is a lot of money. Even to me. As of this writing I'm only worth 246.3 million gil, and that's how much I'm worth, not how much liquidity I hold. I barely have 30 million gil in the bank ready to spend at a moments notice. Moving 6 million gil from a bank all at once gets a lot of attention real fast and its dangerous considering how much I've leveraged my businesses. I had to tell them I was buying a new house for one of my wives to hopefully shake any suspicion, my research into materia and becoming more than I am is of utmost importance now that I've seen it work with seemingly little in the way of magic and mysticism.
Trial and error have nearly killed me in my experimentations with materia so far. At first I was trying to use impure materia and just doing my best to have a flush seating with the bracelet. By the way my bracelet couldn't be any more plain and “impartial†to these trials, it is solid plain gold with a divot for the materia to sit in. A simple clasp, that's it. I haven't moved onto any sort of stylized designs, unsure whether different metals will affect the efficacy. I have been burning through hundreds of thousands of gil at a time to work towards a design that is manageable. Details to follow.
Materia can break. I can't rightfully place an academic backed theory as to why, but I have guesses. One is the simple idea that impure materia has a shelf-life, and wears out. Another idea is that due to impure materia being imperfectly round and rife with impurities and imperfections making it almost like an unprocessed and unsmoothed rock, it's not able to...well I'd guess do its job properly. The good news is that I have felt the effects of materia already, though it was short lived.
The materia I first started using to test was a sky-blue one, small and of the lowest purity you typically see. I was told through my dealer there are various materia that affect people differently, while even sharing the same color. He apparently can “feel†their difference, which of course I thought was complete shit so I told him I would take one meant for enhancing physical strength, and if I could prove he wasn't fooling me, he would secure millions in future trades no questions asked. He sent me on my way with two, didn't even bother charging me. He was that sure of his wares.
I started off small, yet thorough, in my initial testing and designs. Apparently, simply seating it properly like I would a ruby or any other gem is all it takes. Even more surprising is that the degree to how much it affects me is almost quantifiable. I had the idea to lift weights and see if I could challenge and surpass some of my maximums. Being honest with this journal, I can benchpress 425 ponze. That's far above average, but I've seen numbers much higher from my kind.
To my dealers credit, the little blue materia worked. I had some variations between 440 and 450 and will say about a 20 increase for simplicities sake. A single materia doing that much work. Hard to imagine, and it makes me yearn to wear 10 of the largest most pure I can find as I'm writing this. Fear stops me for now though. Who knows what would happen to the body if you did that.
To help ensure I am getting consistent results, I took my bracelet off and tried my newly found max. I could barely muster 420 ponze likely due to being tired. Wearing the bracelet again and giving myself one last push for the day to try and break 450 almost killed me. I had the bar set to 455 in all and I could only manage to unrack it before, terrifyingly, the materia cracked in its fitting, losing its internal coloring, fading to brown, and sending the bar crashing onto me. Fortunately for me, I had one of my office girls in the other room hear my screaming and she ran to help me barely get the bar off my chest.
No one had told me up until that point that materia can even break, and when I went back to my trusted supplier with all hells fury behind me he gave off an air of genuine surprise. We went over everything I had been doing and he asked me the queerest thing “What did you do to meld it to your wristlet?†I wasn't sure what melding was at the time, and he told me he wasn't sure either. He only knows that properly melded materia looks like it has been forge-welded into the pieces and that Mutamix the Goblin teaches others who know how to use aether the proper technique, for a price. Unfortunately I can't use aether, so that option was and is no good for me.
My dealer was intrigued that I had managed to feel the effects of materia by simply seating it like a jewel. He's the first one that gave me the idea that because the lower grade of materia was used, it didn't perfectly set. He would be correct, it didn't seat flawlessly. I was treating it like any other gem and clasped it down into its seating. If I were to try and have a flawless seating, I would need a pure materia. I consider myself a true Master of smithing with precious metals, matched by next to none. There is no way to have a perfect and flush joining of impure materia to a bracelet without I would imagine a forge-weld, and how is that even possible with materia when it can break with a simple hammer blow to its face. More importantly, how is that ever a viable option when it would defeat the purpose of designing something I can wear fashionably.
True to my word, his initial sampling did work, so I went through with my promise. He shipped me 12 of his flawless and allegedly pure materia that would affect physical strength. In all the order cost me over 6 million gil. The order was brought to me by an armed carriage, elaborate. After tasting what simple little ones could do , it was time to put to work new ways to test my designs and the effects of materia on myself.
At this point its essential to point out, that 6 million gil is a lot of money. Even to me. As of this writing I'm only worth 246.3 million gil, and that's how much I'm worth, not how much liquidity I hold. I barely have 30 million gil in the bank ready to spend at a moments notice. Moving 6 million gil from a bank all at once gets a lot of attention real fast and its dangerous considering how much I've leveraged my businesses. I had to tell them I was buying a new house for one of my wives to hopefully shake any suspicion, my research into materia and becoming more than I am is of utmost importance now that I've seen it work with seemingly little in the way of magic and mysticism.
