"Magehammer, we've been over this. I don't know healing magic. I have no way to heal myself multiple times. Wimp? Please. I don't want to verse out yet - I've got a few immediate goals to achieve, and versing while sparring isn't on the list. If I versed while learning magic, that's one thing, but I've got excess gear to get rid of.

Also, I don't only spar with other versers.

Also, what does looking like an eight year old matter? If they attack you, you kill them. Age never matters, especially when dealing with other versers."

Once back in verser world I wander around looking for a leather worker, an armor smith, and someone selling spatial technology, or space magic lessons.

Carrying around a bag sucks. It'd be nice to just open up a dimensional pocket and store all my gear in there, like Inventory in video games. Or a bag or ring of holding. Something to make carrying gear around easier and less conspicuous.

He starts chanting "WIMP WIMP WIMP WIMP!!!!" It's all in good fun though. You can tell he doesn't mean anything by it.

But then he teleports over to his shoppe and tells you to join him.

When you join him, he hands you a katana sword and sheath.

"All yours. Don't worry about it. It's a Chaos weapon. Have fun with it!!!!"

Then he starts laughing as he goes back inside. The sword is one of his high-end swords. It's not the junk he tried to peddle to you earlier.



I'm glad you feel that way, because as you're walking around, you see Samantha. It's the same little girl you saw buying a katana from Magehammer when you first arrived. She's eight years old. She's in the middle of six other people. She's got a blacksmithing hammer in one hand an a hatchet in the other. As you watch, in a fury of weapons and feet, she quickly dispatches all six of the attackers. When it's over, they all stand up and bow to her.



For the first two, you're referred to Magehammer.

For the last two, you are referred to Edison Carter. The guy you delivered the package to. He's a Chaos mage.



You want a hypercube. Those are rare even for versers. But you've met two who have them.

(Doing Therapy)

Oh, so that's Samantha. Maybe when I'm done with everything I'll spar with her, if she's still around. Or if I'm still around. Who knows.

After gathering all my information, I head back to Magehammer's.

"Magehammer, thank you for the sword. Does it have any special features aside from it being a sword? Also, I really need to offload some of extraneous armor. Would you buy it? Or could I use some of it as payment for using your forge while I smelt the rest of it down into metal that I might or might not use for future smithing?

I need to offload this gear - it occurs to me that I also know blacksmithing and could probably smelt some of it down, but some of it is high tech armor.  Even if you don't want it, you are far more famous than I; would it be possible to sell it on consignment at your shop?"

---

Not sure how many posts necessary to negotiate with Magehammer, but will head to tower and sleep afterwards if this is resolved in one post, otherwise will respond and act as appropriate.

Just from asking around, you hear that Samantha was abused by her father before she versed out. She has since dedicated herself completely to the art of self-defense. She knows any weaponless martial arts style you can think of at a minimum of 1@5 skill and she owns any hand-to-hand weapon you can imagine, again with minimum 1@5 skill. She prefers blades.



"It's a Chaos weapon kid. Create heat, create light, healing. And that's a low-end sword. This is a high end sword. It creates Chaos okay?"

And starts laughing at the last.



"Yeah, that sounds like a plan. Sell it on consignment. I get 20 percent. Guarantee you it will all be gone by week's end."

He seems very confident in his ability to sell it.



Well, what do you think?

(Doing Therapy)

"Sounds good. I wonder if my room is still my room at the tower. Probably, right? It just keeps expanding..."

I hand over the various bits of armor which includes:
Trojan Armor
Trojan Uniform

SWAT-like Armor

Uniform from Academy

Ninja Gear
Stealth Gear
Stealth suit and cloak

After handing over all the gear, I head to the tower and quickly inquire if my previous room is still my room. If so, I head there. If not, I get a new room and there instead.

I then get to sleep figuring I'll ask Magehammer in a week or so if he can make a sheath for my axe totem.

"Oh yeah, I know it's there. When Karin told me what you were doing, I went in in my official capacity as Councilman and told them to hold it for you. It should be just as you left it. Normally they'd put your stuff in storage."



He looks it over and says "Oh yeah. I can sell this easy. No problems."



OOC) So, with everything you know now, are you happy with your axe totem? You could have gotten a brick like Karin got. When you complete this one, you'll get the chance to make another.

IC) Then you wake up rested and well.

(Doing Therapy)

When I get up in the morning, I stretch, exercise, shower, get ready and make a trip back towards Edison Carter.

I'll chant 'Wind Walk' repeatedly to activate it and see how far and how fast I can get there. I'll stop to rest when I get tired, or when my vitals start dipping well below normal; I'll keep a close eye on my smart watch while I magically travel there.

When I arrive, I'll first greet him, as it has been a while, then inquire about space storage, either as a technological device, via space magic, or both.

---

In 2 separate light novels I read the main character's first crafted item is a brick. Both bricks are super boss status items. One has a chance on hit to send the target flying backwards, the other has a 100% chance to knockout for 1 min when hit in the head, among other effects.  A third MC from another novel uses a brick at one point for  his weapon too.

Bricks are not that bad as far as weapons go.  I'd rather have an axe than a brick, yea, and a sword trumps both... as far as weapons go.  For totems? I'd rather gloves, probably. Something I can wear directly, that also won't impede my other abilities and skills.

Your vitals all go into hyperdrive. You're probably running 50-60 MPH. Instead of 16 hours, it only takes you about 2 hours to get there. That is, assuming you run the whole way with no stopping.

When you get there, you just need to sit down on a public park bench and relax for a few. Then you walk up to Carter's house.



When you get there, he greets you rather warmly and asks "Oh yeah. You're that delivery boy aren't you? That mimetic gel you delivered worked great."

To the rest he says "Sounds like you want a four-dimensional, infinite storage hypercube. Opens a portal to another universe. And you can make that universe as large or as small as you need it to be. Unfortunately, the lightest one I've ever been able to build weighs several metric tonnes. Hey let me know when you build one smaller. Seriously, let me know. We'll trade notes. I've heard tell of others, but these are the ones I've got."




Karin said she could throws hers and hit a target 100 miles away.



Work with what you've got.

(Doing Therapy)

Two Posts

OOC) Just because I want to say this whilst it's in my head.

After a week, you go to see Magehammer about your gear. He tells you "I got 100 ounces for all of it. I know a guy that collects Trojan armor, and another guy that collects police uniforms, and stealth tech is always easy to pawn off."

And he presents you with eight small cloth bags. Each contain 10 one ounce coins of the following metals:

Gold
Silver
Platinum
Copper
Nickel
Lead
Stainless steel
Aluminum.

"These represent the eight most common currency metals I've personally found in the Multiverse. I got you 10 ounces of each. You shouldn't be hurting for money for a while. You can take this, or you can risk it all for what's behind door number 2."

And presents you with a wooden cabinet the size of a closet.

(Doing Therapy)
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"A portal to another universe. That seems... excessive. I suppose if you're carrying a planet's worth of equipment.. or an actual planet, with you, it's not so bad. Still, I was thinking something on the level of a small dimensional plane, a couple hundred cubic meters at most.

Oh, while I'm thinking of it, if you weren't aware, Slider's world has a time ratio of 40:1. That is, 40 years outside is one year inside; my last year was spent there.

Just stopped in to inquire about it, but I'll let you know if I figure out a way to make a smaller dimensional pocket."

Well, that's not happening any time soon. Just a mild fantasy anyway, excess gear is already taken care of.  Just need to find a leather worker out here to make a sheathe. Should kill some time while waiting for Magehammer to sell that gear.

I don't spend much time out this way, so may as well focus on teleportation.  Once that's in better shape I'll probably find some sparring partners.

I spend the next few hours trying to locate a leather worker this far out.

---

I'll be going with option 1, when I get there.

Carter laughs and says "Lemme show ya what I'm talking about here."

And he leads you into his house. To a back room. Inside, you see a massive vault door, 10 feet by 10 feet. He presses some buttons on a console and the door creaks open. It must be four inches thick. Inside it is completely white.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeLrqLP1DJk Like 20 seconds into this video.

There are some boxes stacked up on the floor. He invites you to step inside. The walls open up from the 10 foot door to a room 100x100 feet. Carter waves his hands around and the back walls expand. 200 feet, 300 feet, out as far as you can imagine.

"This, my friend, is an alternate universe. It's blank. There's nothing. But you can put anything you want into a nearly infinite space. You need all the armor plating to contain the sub atomic nuclei......" and goes off on an incomprehensibly complex technobabble about it all.



He invites you to stay with him for a day or two if you'd like. He's a mad scientist type. He likes showing off his inventions.



Carter offers to spar with you, but only if you use the Chaos katana, saying "I'm not terribly good, but I've been dying to find out whose Chaos weapon is better. Mine or Mister Hammer's."

And he pulls out a light saber. The blade is pure white. He tells you:

"I'm focusing Chaos energy through crystals. Pretty cool huh?"

If you choose to stay with him for a day or two, he can help you find a leather worker.

(Doing Therapy)

"Coolio. Blank universe. I wonder if you combined this with elemental magic - they are fundamentally the building blocks of the universe, could you artificially create a universe with life if you add in elemental magic?"

I put plans on hold and decide to stay with Carter for a bit. Tech stuff is cool stuff.

"I'm actually not sure about all the functions  of the chaos katana, Magehammer was pretty vague - I figure I'll find out eventually.  I'm still waiting for the war to happen here.  See, every world I go to, or at least, 90% of them, a war or major conflict happens while I'm there. The other 10% are desolate worlds. This isn't a desolate world, so I'm expecting war at some point in the future. Magehammer thinks that's silly.

So, game on, I'm good for sparring a bit. Is it just between our weapons, or are we including supplementary and support magic?"

"Heh, wouldn't surprise me. Anyways, we better get back outta here. It ain't wise to leave the door open for too long. The gravimetric isotopic field........" More incomprehensible technobabble.



"I'm a Chaos mage. I can show you some of it."

And with your permission, he takes the Chaos katana from you, and holding it left-handed, begins to wave it around. The blade begins to glow like a neon lightbulb.

"That's what inspired me to make a light saber hehehe."



At this he ponders a bit and says "You ever heard the theory of the Nine Missed Meals? It states in brief that a societal structure is only nine missed meals away from complete anarchic collapse."

So he thinks it's possible.



"Heh, just weapons, if you don't mind. It's funny ya know? Before the chess pieces selected me, I coulda blown a city off the map. Sure. Nukes ain't that difficult to build, after all. Now I could do it with a wave of my hand. Hard to comprehend, really."

But he takes a standard fencing pose, activates his saber and says "En Guard!!!"

(Doing Therapy)

"Yea, funny how a visit from the gods does that. Chaos and Order were the most chatty, which was a welcome change. Ares was condescending and a pain in the rump, Thanatos was annoying, the elemental gods are interesting."

As I speak I put the katana back in its sheath and put it back on my waist. My right hand hovers over the hilt, lightly touching it, while my left hand holds the sheath and positions it favorably, I take a step back and slightly crouch, rotating my body slightly, ready to draw.

"Ready."

Draw second, attack first.

Not going for the kill, but definitely aiming for the weapon. Mostly trying to see quality, and to see if any cool features pop out while fighting.

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Not sure how well versed you are on battoujutsu as a sword style. Though the concept is the same, every style has their variations, and Avahur has altered his slightly over time, as he learns more and fights his way through battlefields.

Here is it in action, sword draw into target: https://youtu.be/1OxI_l9QJ7k?t=3m0s (it's 12 seconds long. Whole video isn't bad, but quality isn't the best and the first 3 minutes are meh overall.

This is a pretty good demo for a battoujutsu sword style: https://youtu.be/tDfSrop26Vs?t=15s (It's about 2.5 minutes long, but a good overall representation.)

Avahur's own style is aggressive, and largely isn't pretty. Most of the flourishes and fancy moves were removed in favor of efficiency. That is, only when referring to single sword.

Avahur's 2 sword style is more defensive oriented, less attacks, but when they happen, they are lethal.

Let me set the stage here. You were in a room with the hypercube. You've since moved into a gymnasium. There's a door 30 feet away that is open to the outside.

Carter says "No blood drawing; fight until one of us passes out."

So he attacks you. You block. You attack, he blocks. Etc. It's a sword fight.

But every time the two blades connect, you feel a strong electrical charge run through your body. Carter's face seems to grow pale during these times.

After a particularly long period of blade contact, Carter just straight passes out.

And you, feeling the electrical equivalent of the need to toss your cookies, runs out the door, raises the katana skyward and fire a lightning bolt harmlessly into the air.

Then you pass out.

(Doing Therapy)

When I wake up...

Shot out lightning.  Yea, that's super cool.  I wonder if it's only because of the build up from clashing weapons or if it can do that all the time?


If I get a chance, or if Carter is not up yet, I'll quickly head outside and see if I slash the sword, if lightning shoots out.  If it does, awesome, if not, well, at least I tried.

I'll head back inside and try to wake Carter up.  Once he wakes up, I will offer to teach him swordsmanship.

"It may never come up, but if it does, it's generally good to have."

I'll check my biometric device to see what it says, see if I can check 'history' and also to see if I can find out how much time passed.

You are outside. But you wave the sword and shoot yet another bolt of lightning into the air.

Then you feel compelled to wave the sword in a circle. A tornado builds inside which you shoot harmlessly into space.

A bit more waving and you throw a fireball. This gets your fascination up and you focus more power until you're shooting a flamethrower into the sky.

Then you pass out again.

When you wake up, Carter is outside cooking burgers and bratwurst on a gas grille.

He offers you a burger, declines your offer to teach him swordsmanship saying "Eh, it's just a novelty to me."



It records history for an hour. Unfortunately, you were passed out for longer for that and the history has gone.

Carter just says "Eat your burger."

(Doing Therapy)

Oh, yea, Chaos, wind and fire. Seems to take a lot of energy for one invocation though. Good to know, really need to use sparingly.

I eat the burger.

Over the next couple of days I marvel at Carter's various inventions and also inquire about a leather worker, if he knows any in the area.

After lunch, Carter takes you into the back and he shows you an ordinary looking briefcase. He holds it up by the handle and touches a control console on the side. It morphs into a laser cannon. Then he touches the console again and it morphs into a rocket launcher. Does it a third time and the case morphs into a minigun.

"Now this is MY weapon of choice!!!!" He says with pride.

Then he shows you a handheld printer. "These are awesome if you're on a world that uses paper money. Just scan a bill and this baby will print all the bills you want. And good luck telling them apart from the original."

He's got a few inventions he's working on that combine Chaos magic and technology. Mostly using Chaos to power them.

But Carter points you towards a leather worker. His name is Mister Leather.

(Doing Therapy)

In response to the inventions, in order: "Wow. That's an interesting set of weapons." "That is super nifty, any chance you'd trade for it, or be willing to build one for me?" "Hooh... interesting...."

Upon meeting Mister Leather, I ask if he could make a small sheath for my axe, which I  then show him, preferably one that can be hung on my back over my left shoulder blade, so the handle is in easy reach of my left hand.  I have cow skin which I would prefer be used for it (at which point I'll hand it over, if/when he asks to see it.)

"It's gotten me out of a jam or two.



Carter says "I've got an extra. You willing to run some errands for me?"

He's just got a few deliveries he needs to make. Other people buying his inventions.



"I think so."



Mister Leather says "Sure. I can do that. Price is one gold coin."

(Doing Therapy)

To Carter: "Sure, I'll do some errands. Just need to visit a leather worker, but after that, I'll go wherever."

Then, eventually, to Mister Leather: "Sounds good." I hand over 1 gold coin and the cow skin.

After doing so, I'll return to Carter to start making deliveries.

Making deliveries isn't too bad.  Get to meet new people, get some exercise... who knows, might meet a specialist.

Carter says "I got one for him too. He's gonna give you a bullwhip."



He asks if he can have what's left of the cow skin when it's finished. He'll trade you something form his shoppe.




So you do. Whilst you are walking to your first delivery though, you hear rumbling footsteps coming from behind you. Then a hand and arm the size of a whiskey barrel shoves you out of the way, grunting "Move puny man!!"

You get a glimpse of the guy as he walks past. He's about 9 feet tall, his skin is gold tinged. If he stood still, you might think he was a statue. He's wearing several cobbled together pieces of Ye Olde armor as well as some stuff which is clearly more high-tech. He's carrying several swords and knives on his belt, and a whole bunch of guns and phasers. And he's got muscles on top of muscles. He looks like a yellow version of The Incredible Hulk's big brother.

Assuming you don't do anything to get his attention, he will just walk on ahead and go into a shoppe.

Oh great, he's your first delivery!!!!!!



Or start a war........

(Doing Therapy)

To Mister Leather: "Go for it. I'll be back a bit later to pick something out, I've got some deliveries to take care."

I'll start the deliveries after returning to Carter's place.  I can pick something out when I make that delivery.

When the yellow hulk passes by:

Indignation, anger, and fury rise. Puny man? I take a deep breath, exhale. Not even 10 years is too late for a gentleman's revenge.  Things to do, still need to pick up my money from Magehammer.

"Sorry."

Watching him go into the shop.  Well, this'll make payback easier. He's 'missed meals' 1 through 4.

I head into the shop to make the first delivery. "Hello! I'm here on behalf of Edison Carter to make a delivery."

He agrees. Then he says "How about you just give me the cow skin and you keep your gold coin for the sheath you bought?"



Yellow Hulk doesn't acknowledge you.



OOC) Mind explaining what that "Missed meals 1-4" means?



When you go into the shoppe, he's sitting in a gigantic recliner. You would look like a child sitting in it. He's drinking something fruity smelling from a plastic 5 gallon bucket. When he sees you and you announce yourself, he doesn't seem to recognize you. In fact, he becomes very polite and well-spoken. Kind of reminds you of a 1930s era gangster.

"You got my stuff? Great. Here, pass it over."

Then he gives you a one ounce lead ingot as a tip and shoos you from his shoppe. There's nothing of note. It's an office kind of place.

(Doing Therapy)