Yseldra moves carefully among Posh’s unfinished constructs, her black mantle brushing neither bone nor metal. She studies exposed joints, pinned vertebrae, and bright strips embedded within pale frames.
Yseldra Vey
The metal is not merely reinforcement. It follows the skeleton’s intended movement. What alloys do you trust, and which have failed you?
She crouches beside a half-assembled frame, examining its hip socket and segmented spine from several angles. Her hands remain folded behind her back, carefully avoiding contact.
Yseldra Vey
You mentioned imprinting memories into newly formed bodies. Do you provide instructions, sensations, or an entire borrowed history?
Candlelight glides across the workshop’s scattered tools and unfinished forms. Nothing stirs; even the faintest magical residue lies quiet beneath the smell of oil, dust, and old bone.
Yseldra Vey
And where do you place the boundary between invention and necromancy? Is it the source of the material, the presence of memory, or the will that answers afterward?
Yseldra Vey
She has built enough here to make theory irrelevant. The question is whether her definitions protect the work, or merely protect herself.
✓ Quest Accepted
Have Yseldra acknowledge Posh's bonecraft as legitimate practice
““Woah, thats a lot of questions. But really I’m just putting metal into there to better guide the structure and allow for more internal structural integrity””
SUCCESS (Legendary Reasoning, rolled +1)
Posh
There are a lot of questions. I’m putting metal into the structure to guide its form and give the whole frame better internal integrity.
Posh’s explanation settles over the workshop. Yseldra studies the embedded strips again, following their path through the pale framework without touching it.
Yseldra Vey
Structural guidance, then, rather than an independent skeleton. The metal gives the new form a disciplined center while the bone supplies its shape.
Yseldra shifts to another unfinished construct, comparing its reinforced spine with the first. Her eyes linger on the concealed joins and their deliberate alignment.
Yseldra Vey
That clarifies the principle. You are not asking memory to compensate for weak construction. You are making the body sound before you ask it to move.
Yseldra Vey
She speaks of dangerous craft as plainly as a mason discussing foundations. That simplicity may be wisdom, or merely confidence without a priest’s vocabulary.
Yseldra Vey
I will not press you for a demonstration. Your explanation is sufficient for this question, though I remain curious which metals withstand the strain best.
““Well steel mostly, preferably light yet durable””
SUCCESS (Legendary Reasoning, rolled +1)
Posh
Steel, mostly. I prefer it light, but durable enough to hold the frame together under strain.
Posh indicates the narrow metal strips embedded through the unfinished skeletons. Candlelight catches their clean edges, tracing the intended lines of spine, hip, and limb.
Yseldra Vey
Steel is a sensible foundation. Light enough to preserve movement, durable enough to carry force without burdening the bone.
Yseldra moves to the nearest construct and follows the metal’s path with her eyes, measuring each turn against the pale bones surrounding it.
Yseldra Vey
The choice also limits magical interference. Steel accepts shaping cleanly, provided the smithing leaves no hidden weakness along the joints.
Yseldra Vey
Her craft has a practical discipline beneath its irreverence. She builds first, then asks magic to obey the structure.