zeico:

k-halfnoise:

carnagebydesign:

Some kind of guy with infectious metal/plastic? I dunno, you interpret xD

fuck this is good

infectious metal/plastic

infectious

metal

Guess what I’m thinking of!

It resembles a Neurok in an advanced state of phyretic discorporation. I like it.

The physiological changes depend on the subject. The oil transmutes the materials of the body into a more efficient blend of flesh and metal, a process that is radically different for organic and artifactual beings. In organic subjects, it also mutates glands such that they produce glistening oil in addition to or instead of their usual secretions and induces necrosis of superfluous tissue. In artifactual ones, it reshapes components into sleeker, spikier, and otherwise more martially useful forms. Exhaust systems are also retrofitted to emit minute amounts of the oil in particulate form.

On a mental level, the oil acts much as it does on the superstructure of a construct, sharpening and streamlining. A comparison in mentalities between incompleat and compleat specimens of the same species offers a fine synopsis of these changes. Suffice to say, compassion and empathy don’t fare well.

purplebitsofanalysis:

askjin-gitaxias asked you: The meatus should be complete. A region of one wall is likely displaying unusual properties: peculiar color and texture, irregular pulsation, occasional salivation, and so forth. Tug the uvula if you have need of me.

Surely will do, once another problem arises… or until I find some beverage to share our experiences over. Hope you don’t mind if I help myself to some bits to analyze, in the meanwhile.

*Her scalpel is already pointing longingly at the living wall.*

I wouldn’t do that if I were you. It is a fully functional gastric conduit capable of conveying multiple beings of your size in and out of a highly unstable plane of existence. If threatened, it will not hesitate to defend itself. Usually by biting. I’ll send you samples of the tissue instead. It will make a good test run. You should receive them by the time you see this message.

askjacememoryadept:

Jin Gitaxias! How’d you like to be a pony? You’d be a pretty wack pony. 

Some anecdotal evidence suggests a kind of morphic restriction field in Equestria that reshapes humanoid beings into equinoids upon entering the plane. If such is the case, this may be useful in anticipating how it will affect me should I take a personal hand (or hoof, as the case may be) in the plane’s compleation. Thank you, Beleren.

Alas, as much as I would enjoy such imperviousness, attempts to generate it have proven incompatible with my optimized homeostasis. The constant subtle biomantic flux of my systems distort and attenuate any manner of internal magical protection field to the point of uselessness. Given my thorough knowledge of reactively protective and proactively destructive spells, I decided that it was an acceptable sacrifice, since I could defend myself to a degree that more than adequately covered that minor vulnerability. Furthermore, exploiting the harmonics of my homeostatic flux allows me to slide into existence instantaneously, always a useful talent.

On a final note, I must admit a certain degree of near-fatal curiosity. It always fascinates me to see the specifics of my foes’ assassination plans before I foil them. Sometimes I even take notes.

asklaboratorymaniac:

askjin-gitaxias:

Hmm. I’d think this was a scene from the Maniac’s lab, were it not for the quotation attribution. I like this Geralf fellow. He’s definitely on the short list for personality preservation.

GERALF’S AN AWESOME GUY!!! HE HAS WONDERFUL IDEAS ESPECIALLY THE SKAABS THAT CAN SUSTAIN EVEN THE STRONGEST WOUNDS!! I’VE BEEN WORKING ON SIMILIAR SKAABS BUT THE GLISTNING OIL SEEMS TO HAVE AN ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE UNDYING CREATURES RETURN!!!

I see. I believe the problem here is that you’re trying to create of a crude, hideous parody of life by two different means, and right now they’re working against one another. I’d have to analyze the resurrection process to be sure, but I would think that this could be fixed through strategically placed lead or silver inserts in the major muscle groups to help better conduct the necromantic energies. The oil should fuse them into the tissue and augment the boost. Again, just an untested hypothesis, but you have any lead scraps or abandoned Avacynian relics laying around, it might be worth a try.

I don’t need to. Between the growth behavior of the mycosynth and the efforts of Kraynox, the Deep Thane, the nested sphere design of Old Phyrexia is being rebuilt without any effort required on my part. As for other conditions of the old order, I’m afraid we simply don’t know much about them. Remember, New Phyrexia rose from a single drop of the glistening oil, and while certain designs are encoded into it, there simply wasn’t room for a full dissertation on every layer of Old Phyrexia.

In any case, the core of New Phyrexia is not the logistic keystone and lynchpin that was the Ninth Sphere. It does not house a slumbering posthuman intelligence whose dreams govern every action of the plane. It is merely a focused orb of pure mana capable of converting devices into vital energy.

Furthermore, planeswalking, from what I understand of it, is no longer the precise method of travel that it once was. A ‘walker that tries to travel to just outside the core may end up within it, in the Furnace Layer, or even in orbit around one of the suns. Of course, Venser could be more precise, given his affinity for teleportation, but now he’s dead. Bear in mind that I say this without total certainty (except for Venser. He’s definitely dead.) You will have to ask one of the planeswalkers for confirmation.

A prototype portal is a clever application of the metamaterial commonly known as “shifting steel” combined with a temporal lens. By placing a template device in the lens’s peculiar chronomantic limbo, one can mass produce duplicates of that template, given sufficient time and mana.

Sadly, the portal’s design does not offer any insight into interplanar transit.

Interesting. This seems to suggest that the macrooptic/microoral morphology known as “anime style” has levels of contamination. Perhaps it is similar to mycosynth spores. The product of a hypothetical “moesynth”, if you will. This may bear looking into, especially when stable access to Kamigawa is achieved.

askurza:

I based my fifth, sixth, and seventh dragon engines on this concept.  Unfortunately I had yet to based genetic weapons so I had to abandon it.

But the concept of a bunch of spiders reaching around and grabbing phyrexian terrors out of the sky was motivating enough for me to keep some elements of the spider design.

Hmm. An intriguing concept, certainly, though spiders are really more Vorinclex’s department. Blightwidows and what not. Still, one of the designs encoded into the oil, the “witch engine”, is this model in essence: Millions of minute constructs in a larger casing, acting as both motivators, a self-repair system, and a sort of hyperaggressive immune system. I could definitely try a variant with quicksilver blood that self-animates into autonomous oozes when spilled.

Oh, this should be fun. Thank you for the inspiration, Urza. Once again, your efforts to eradicate Phyrexia aid it.