I got a functional version of my new armor done today. Putting it on feels exhilarating, I feel certain power suddenly at my fingertips. I’m attributing that mostly to the Astrie frame.

As I have said before the frame is made of Astrie, designed to assist me in manipulating my armor to a rather extreme degree. Because of how specialized I am able to make the Astrie, to the point that it wouldn’t work with any other armor than the one I made it for, I am able to control the armor several orders of magnitude better than without it. Unfortunately, I have noticed an interference with all of my other magics when I have it on, nothing works quite as well, with the closer it is to the function of Astrie the less it is effected. So while my ability to throw fire is drastically reduced, my ability to manipulate plants is hardly affected. I can likely decrease this effect while I refine the final product, but not remove it.

When I asked Mest about the phenomena he gave me an ‘I don’t know’ look before saying ‘You’re probably going to have to figure that one out on your own.’

For the other plants, I can pretty much do anything I could normally do with them, only much better. Of course, I have to do a rather roundabout method to get anything that isn’t directly manipulating the armor done, but it’s worth the effort. I would never be able to make an Ent like this, but if I were to do that again I would use a pure Astrie armor.

There are a couple particularly interesting things i can do with certain parts of my armor. For example using a combination of basic plant manipulation and Glovine I can make my armor look like pretty much anything, as long as it isn’t too large, I can even make the entire armor look like it isn’t there if i want too. Of course the Glovine constantly takes mana to glow like that, a little more than what i get from the armor, so i can’t use that all the time. Also using Glovine I can change the color of my skin or even make myself invisible almost instantly, with a bit more effort i can even paint my skin. All of this take constant effort, so i can’t keep it up forever even if my mana production is high enough.

With singing grass i can do things like throw my voice, using the method i figured out before. If i add Glovine i can even make the vine invisible. I can also create any sound i can think of, creating a symphony is now only a matter of imagination. I can even use it to speak for me, better than i can normally speak even. Obviously i have more control there, but it is also very slightly faster than speaking normally. I used this to give my voice a cool echoey quality. That plus making my eyes go completely white allowed me to get a pretty good reaction out of Talus, she was terrified for a moment before getting angry, it was adorable.

With the White Foot herb, I am able to use it to directly supplement my healing. A combination of healing magic and plant manipulation allows me to heal pretty much any injury I can think of, short of death of course, given enough time. The White Foot, empowered by both my plant manipulation and the Astrie’s over specialization more than makes up for the drawbacks of the Astrie’s over specialization when it comes to healing. I am considering making an armor out of just White Foot and Astrie for emergencies.

Using Drowsy Clover I am able to do exactly what I expected, nothing particularly new or interesting. I am able to make it affect me exactly how I want it too, which is not at all. I guess this makes it easier to manufacture the stuff Thes needs, but that is hardly surprising.

Dead Tulip was the same, it just allowed me to make myself or another fall asleep almost instantly. Well except Tiddol, she took a little bit, apparently, she’s been building up a resistance too it partially by accident, partially intentionally.

I looked over a list of other plants I might be able to get with the amount of money I have from selling plants, primarily Drowsy Clover variants, in the nearby city. In short, I don’t have enough for anything interesting. Everything is either similar enough to something I already have, like a slightly higher grade healing herb, not something i’m interested in, who would want a fire-spitting flower? Or flower that made you spit fire, wasn’t too clear on which, or way out of my price range, I would love a plant that can teleport people, but that one would take years of saving up at my current rate. I guess I’ll have to wait a while longer before I can get something.

Over the next few days i’m going to perfect my armor and once i’m satisfied I’m going to attempt to make a bag able to store Solar energy, I hope it goes well.

Anyway, Good NIght Diary.