Getting my current project to tie people into my hivemind was as easy as I expected, or at least the basic part was. The issues came when I had to figure out how to restrict it. I don’t want to use all of their brains and I don’t want other people taking advantage of the hivemind after all. Of course, it was still pretty simple, so I managed to finish most of it before the end of the day.

I ended up doing a couple things. The first is limit the amount of brain power I am taking to roughly a third of what is available, considering the fact that their brains will become much better as a result of this process they will have much more brain power available to them after this whole process. The second thing I did was form a smaller hivemind for the people, this one takes a tenth of the total available power and dedicates it to use by anyone that needs it. That one also lets everyone who has access to it communicate telepathically with anyone else that has access to it.

The last thing I did was the one I had the hardest time with, and will probably take me at least another day to perfect. Anyone that undergoes the process will become loyal to the person that controls the hivemind, me. Though theoretically someone could replace me after I die, but that isn’t likely. I did this because it could really come back and bite me if some less than savory people got access to it and I can’t think of an effective way to vet people. So some minor brainwashing is required. It’s not like it changes anything else about their personality, and I intentionally designed it to be easy to fight off with a force of will, so only the most weak-willed people would be able to have it forced on them.

During my downtime, I hung out with Tiddol in the lab, which is absolutely crawling with her assistants. She’s basically gathered up everyone with applicable skills and had them start to work and improve their craft with the tools available in the laboratory. For trades that no one knew she found some promising youths and had them learn them from scratch with at best a guidebook and the proper tools, and at worst just the best tools for that trade. She’s planning on expanding everything as much as she possibly can and once she has enough people that have a grip on the various trades we have the tools for she is going to start bringing in anyone that might want to learn. Her ideal situation is having an entire laboratory dedicated to each trade, from Alchemy to cartography to glass blowing, which I found out is quite literal and is used to make vases, jars, cups, and the like. I mean, I can see how that would be useful.

Of course, I offered her my full support with that goal. I don’t really understand the benefit of it but Tiddol assures me that nothing but good things could come from this project of hers, so I’ll trust her.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.