Today I started by setting up a place where Azrezel and I can teach my Apprentices how to manipulate flesh and bone. It was basically just the same thing as what I made for them to learn about anatomy, only on a much smaller scale.

The first step to figuring out flesh manipulation is to figure out how to puppet a body with no soul. It’s either that or necromancy and they don’t have the talent for raising the dead. Regardless they have to be the ones to control the body because that is the best way to figure out what works and what doesn’t.

They’re struggling with this step. Controlling a body manually is pretty hard to figure out, necromancers are able to get around that problem but necromancy isn’t really an option for them, so they are stuck going at it the hard way. That being said, I would be surprised if they didn’t manage to figure it out within the next day or so. The body already knows how to pilot itself, they just have to figure out how to get it to do that.

Junior is doing a bit better at that then Askos is, though I would bet that Askos would be the one to figure out the trick to it first. He is just more creative than Junior is, he is more likely to try and find a way around the problem than Junior is. Junior will eventually succeed on her own, whether through brute force or by eventually figuring out an easier method. If it wasn’t for Askos then Junior probably would never try anything other than just the most basic and straightforward method.

I honestly didn’t expect them to struggle nearly this much with figuring out how to puppet the bodies, so I ended up having a bunch of free time and didn’t know what to do with it. Flesh manipulation would take a lot more personal instruction from me than what they are currently working on. So I ended up helping Azrezel with his projects instead, mostly he just bounced ideas off of me while I suggested ideas of my own, though I did do some actual work.

He is currently trying to make some kind of acid shooting zombie and is struggling with that actual mechanism to shoot the acid. He is able to get a weak stream of acid at best, or the zombie just dribbling over itself at worst. I’m not really sure how all of that works, but still, there was some notable progress by the end of the day.

Other than that not a lot happened. It was mostly downtime for me today and I will probably end up helping Azrezel again tomorrow.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.