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Ishirou The Remains of the Clockwork worlds are a few closely linked planets.  They were a machine empire who were mostly made out of victorian era style design.  Prosperous and peaceful, but now in ruin because of an invading force.  So thoroughly did they destroy their homes that one of the planets shattered.  People still live on the shards, still held by gravity.

Unfortunately, the gravity is very stressful inducing on the remaining larger pieces.  The remains of a city, where people were trying to live are starting to shake themselves apart.  There are the other two moons, but this is only kicking the can down the road.  

Can they evacuate them, or perhaps they can fix the problem for a little bit longer?
Chains Knight Chains Knight arrives via warpgate, and examines the situation

Which is to say that the ground shakes shortly after his arrival, and yep, confirmed that the ground is shaking.

"There is something I'd like to try, briefly," he says. "Importing a different cohesive force."

"Where to start on explaining... you had asked me before," he says to Ishirou. "If I was playing a children's card game in order to perform attacks. That was true, but it was not the entire explanation."

He pulls his deck of cards from his belt holster, and shuffles it, without any real intent. "It is more... along the lines of casting a spell, or I should say performing a ritual, the steps of which only resemble a children's card game."

"Effectively I am channeling the energy of my world by doing so, employing it to various effects."
Staren     Presumably Staren has been informed of the situation by Ishirou.

    Although the scale of any solution is going to be far bigger than anything she can actually touch and get hands-on with, it's important to actually interact with and observe the people you're helping. Otherwise you get too impersonal.

    When things shake, she double-checks the flight and environmental magitech wired into her coat. Just to be sure.

    She nods to Chains's explanation. She's seen him at work before, and card magic isn't unknown to the Multiverse.

    "If there's a way to permanently... hmm, well it's more complex than 'increase gravity', as we need to make the habitable parts comfortable, but hold this small piece of rock together *without* making it collapse into a sphere... but if we could establish a more ideal-for-our-purposes gravitational field, that probably would be better than making them leave their home, especially to another collapsing rock."

    "...I've got some ideas for things we could use to do that, but it has... side effects. So, is there anything I can do to help with your idea? Help channel or boost your or your world's energy, somehow?"
Ishirou Ishirou is there, in his power armor configured into flight mode.  Though right now the front of it is open and he's sitting down to listen to Chains. He listens to the explanation, deeply fascinated by how he's using the card game as a focus to channel the energy of his world to make rather interesting effects.  

"I see...but you seemed to be wishing on certain draws, is it necessary to use the magic to add an element of randomness to it?  To me that seems a bit...risky.  I'm not knocking it, I'm genuinely curious as to every part of your magic.  It's interesting!  I'm a huge fan."

Ishirou nods to Staren, "Yeah, there is a lot going on here.  Restoring stability is just the first step.  Though thankfully they are robotic in nature.  Atmospheric phenomena are less important to them, though I imagine shielding from cosmic radiation is going to be needed sooner than later.  However, the more immediate concern..."

There is another rumble.  Clockwork people, peeking out from the rubble shake in fear.  They fear the end is coming, they fear that their desire to live to this point was futile.
Staren     "I did have to wonder... if the magic won't go away when the 'game' ends, then can't you just keep resetting until you draw the cards you want?" Staren says.

    The sight of the scared clockwork people tugs at her heartstrings. She has to save them, somehow. She can't fail again. She can't fail at this... But... what plan to put work into *really* depends on whether Chains's plan works, first.
Chains Knight "If there wasn't some element of randomness, and if I could just reset till I had the ideal starting hand, it wouldn't be a very replayable game, would it?" says Chains, as if this makes sense. "And if-

The ground rumbles again, cutting him off. He looks alarmed (relative to how much emotion usually comes through the fullarmor and helmet). "Less time than we thought - in short in addition to being able to channel my world's energies, the energies are somewhat malleable - using one of the #include (pronounced pound-include) <key item>s (pronounced <key item>s). Which I happen to have one here."

He pulls out the <key item> in question from his belt pouch. It does indeed look like a <key item>.

"So I propose we make a new game and deploy it at scale. Ishirou, we will need your paradigm for the basic rules - and Staren, we'll need your fabrication abilities for the pieces - stabilizing structures we'll deploy throughout the island."
Ishirou "Good...game?" Ishirou makes a thoughtful pause.  "Oh, so everything you do is phrased in a 'game'.  Is that how gaining your world's energy works?  It needs certain precepts in order to be channeled, so if it's not a 'fair' or 'good' game it doesn't work as well, or at all?"  

Ishirou just stares as he drops keywords, including <Key Item>.  

"My...paradigm?  What exactly do I need to do to set the rules?"  Ishirou feels the same as Staren (for once) about the people looking scared of their ruined homes.  
Staren     Staren nods. "Sure. Just give me the specifications for the structures, what's needed to make them actually... interface with the game and perform the required function." She flips open a panel on her left vambrace -- there's a keyboard under there, and a screen on the underside of the panel. They're redundant to her HUD, but it helps show that she's Doing Something -- probably more important for the clockwork onlookers than her fellow elites.
Chains Knight "You need to... hmm. Right." There's the suggestion of a frowning face under the helmet. "Just... generally accept what I'm doing, and that should work."

Ishirou has a feeling of something being examined and then copied. Something innate and intrinsic to himself.

"Got it. Alright. I'm going to assume you two are familiar with Minesweeper..."

He points at Staren next. "Give me a stability structure - gravity generator, or whatever feels most appropriate, and put it down just... wherever, for this first move."

When Staren does so, a holographic '7' appears floating above it.

"Let's see - I believe we need to place those down as close to the '0' spots as we can - the numbers indicate how far away we are from the closest '0' spot. Find those spots as quickly as you can, and the game magic should reinforce the island's stability. I hope."
Ishirou Ishirou gets the situation explained to him.  He pauses, then tries to fit this into his worldview.  "Oh I see...so it's reality-warping in a way.  Not just that, has a memetic component that relies on that the people 'playing' believe that it's real.  Honestly, if all religion was like this I'd be far more in favor of it.."

Ishirou leans back and the machine closes in around him as he takes off.  The Flight unit takes a moment to shift into Fighter mode and zooms over the area as the first building is placed down.

"Oh, minesweeper.  That's a classic!  I'm very good at that!" Alright... let's see.  Seven.  "Well looking at this the best places to start would be cardinal directions seven spaces from the first building," Ishirou says, marking them on the HUD with a glowing marker.  

"Starting from there I can start calculating where the 0 areas are."
Staren     "Uhh... a *gravity* generator?! I can't just whip that up on the fly... well... okay... maybe..." She fiddles with her computer, not bothering with the arm keyboard but typing and swiping screens on something only she can see. "Okay. Like Chains said. Accept that this will work. This is a *gravity generator*. Remember that, and believe in it..."

    Staren warps in a pylon type thing. About eight feet high, narrowing towards the top, black-painted metal, greebled with wires and gems, some like her normal magitech, but also among them are glowing purple erchius crystals. Stabilization struts spread out around it against the ground, and stakes dig into the rock.

    She places her hands on it and focuses, and the not-already-glowing gems glow briefly as she pushes her magic through it. The device is two-stage -- a techno-wizardry stage Staren can make SURE will work over a small area, and an erchius stage, a copy of her ship's gravity generation systems, that should work but will be enhanced by everyone believing it will work and that it will generate gravity. The mysterious glowing purple rocks that make technology empowered and amplified by thought and belief seem like a good choice for this sort of thing... hopefully...

    Then Chains explains they need *more*. "Ah... give me a moment..." While they find spots to place them, she makes and warps in some smaller ones, a little over five feet tall, just incorporating very tiny bits of erchius crystal without the magitech boost. She's not sure how effective they'd be since she *just made them*, but hopefully everyone's intent and belief and Chains's magic will reinforce them enough.

    Staren walks a few meters away and places one to see what number comes up.
Chains Knight Does this power run on belief? It's hard to tell, strictly, if it's powered or empowered by Ishirou's belief (or Staren's belief) or if it'd work the same regardless of if he believes in it.

But as structures get placed, numbers continue to pop up - mostly zeroes and ones, with Ishirou's guidance - and maybe the island becomes more stable and shakes a bit less already?

"I was hoping to find some less shallow method of increasing the island's stability meter, instead of just 'empowering structures'. Substituting some deeper physical laws. This will have to do," says Chains as he places some pieces of his own. "I have an ally who was looking deep into such things, but I haven't heard from him in some time."
Ishirou Ishirou monitors things from the sky, as Staren's buildings go into place.  Thanks to their proximity to the 0's and 1's that were generated by the game itself, there is a pause in the rumbling.  Ishirou waits, with bated breath as something else happens.

The ground itself starts to become more stable.  Rock that was flying out and around dangerously stops, slowly moving back to hover closer to the ground itself.  The gravity field is becoming less chaotic and more ordered.  

The people look out from their destroyed homes with hopeful expressions as the shaking stops.  Ishirou lands once more deploying out of the flight unit and nods once towards Chains.  

"Oh, he's missing maybe?  Well...you helped me here, and this might be more of a bandaid than a long-term solution...so I'm willing to help you find him!  I'm also extremely curious as to how this game magic works...also it sounds fun!"
Chains Knight "I would appreciate it. I think I know his approximate location, but it is... hard to reach. I'll let you know when I'm ready to go looking for him again."

Chains looks around. "It does appear that it has worked..."

"... Let me know when you go back to check in on this area. I imagine there's more to be done."
Staren     It's working, it's working! Although Staren wishes she knew she'd been designing such a large network from the beginning. Hopefully it scales well enough. Staren smiles, seeing the hopeful denizens, and goes to start clearing rubble and constructing new buildings with her disassembly/reassembly tech, animating some collections of rubble as humanoid golems to assist in clearing the rubble.
Ishirou Ishirou nods to Chains, "Of course!  You're welcome here, even if our allies are uh..." he shrugs at the radio.  

Ishirou watches Staren start helping others.  "With things stable here, I can get Paladin and my resources here to help to stabilize the cities.  We're going to need your friend for the long-term fix, I think."

He turns to them both, "Thank you for your help though!"  The citizens are cheering, likely to be buying card-based games in great amounts once things are settled.