I spent all of the Solar Energy I gathered today fixing flaws in my battery. By the end of the day I managed to remove a decent amount of flaws, but I hardly put a dent in the overall number. The overall effect was an increase in both storage and production by about a tenth. What I want to do is get this one as perfected as I can before trying to make another one using what I’ve learned from this one.

As using solar energy took very little time I had plenty of time to experiment with armors. In particular, I am experimenting with pure Astrie armors.

The first one I made was specialized to boost myself, and by that I mean the spells that make up my body. The effect was exactly what I expected, I got stronger, faster, more durable, smarter, and many other things. The smarter part would be useful in magic, if it weren't for the fact that an armor dedicated to magic would be much more effective. Really this version isn’t all that useful.

Then I decided to see exactly how specific I could make it, location wise. Doing the upper half of my body was fine, doing a single arm was still fine, I started to have problems when I was only boosting my forearm, and only one hand is my limit. Anything beyond that I am afraid I will die. What ends up happening is that part of my body becomes better in every way, while everything else becomes worse, the smaller the area i’m boosting the bigger the effect. This means that I become significantly less durable when I am boosting a small area like my hand.

Next, I decided to see about boosting different aspects of my body, and if it weren’t for the fact that intention and desire are a large part of magic I might have killed myself with this one. Ultimately everything turned out exactly how I thought it would, the more exactly I boost one part or aspect of my body the more effective it is and the bigger the drawbacks, though I did come across some interesting combinations.

For example, if I increase mass exclusively not only do I sink into the ground halfway up my shins, but it also becomes incredibly difficult to do anything more the superficial damage to me. It’s really easy to break my skin at that point, because of the decreased durability, but getting much deeper is a challenge.

Exclusively boosting intelligence gives me a migraine so bad all I can think about is removing my armor. Though boosting both magic and intelligence at the same time works out for at least a little while, I might be able to use this to learn magic easier, though i’m not sure exactly how intelligence will help with that. For now though it is really uncomfortable so I’ll stick to what I’ve been using.

I tried using it to keep myself awake, but that was a mistake. It did work, but removing it caused all the drowsiness I had avoided by wearing it to come back all at once.

Other than that I hung out with Tiddol, who has started to show visual signs of pregnancy. While I was hanging out with her I noticed the Ents doing something to the twins with magic. It seemed to be beneficial, and I could tell that they didn’t want to be found out for some reason so I didn’t bring it up. Besides, whatever they are doing is making the children much more, pleasant, for lack of a better word, I don’t really know how to describe it. For now though it isn’t doing anything bad, and even seems to be making Tiddol, and by extension the twins, healthier.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.