Cicciograna
2010-01-25, 09:57 AM
I was thinking, just for fun, how could we make something akin to a personal computer.
The base for it all should be a Moigno, a creature from Mechanus (first seen in Planes of Law, from Planescape setting), peculiar for having a "definite knack" for mathematics, as it's a creature whose only purpose in life is to perform infinite calculations to reach the exact value of pi: one of them could work as a CPU (or even more, if you like quad-cores) and GPU, as it could handle without any problem all the calculations required for a computer to work.
The creature should be dominated or otherwise controlled, as it won't collaborate of its volition, instead fleeing by teleport or attacking the user: more, the user has to find a way to bypass the particular communication method of the moigno (it communicates by mathematical expressions), so the use of a permanencied version of Tongues, or some other sort of language-bypassing is suggested.
Since we have a CPU, we need now multimedia, and this is where Illusions come handy: the * Image spell list makes wonders to provide the user with full color video and high fidelity sound! The problem here is that it should be the moigno to adjust the images projected, so we need a moigno with at least the 5th level of Wizard to cast the Major image spell (and concentrating to keep it active without interfering with its calculations should be easy for the creature...).
While what we have at hand for now is sufficient to satisfy everyone's need for CAD programs, image manipulation and word processing (and a printer with a simple cantrip to operate it would be wonderful...), we need one of the most important features of a PC: Internet! As Internet is a general repository of knowledge, it seems obvious for our moigno to take levels not in Wizard, but in Bard, the highest the better: do you need informations about the Dwarf Kingdom of Beerland? Connect to Mooigle and make a Bardic Lore check! Want to have some fun with some nice video? Go to MoigTube and watch some bardic performance on your Major image flat screen! Heck, we could even have porn, if we instructed the moigno about human anatomy!
And to add some Mooigle Oerth, some uses of Scrying or Clairsentience to have a visual image of your area from above should do the trick!
I'm open to suggestions on how to improve this device!
The base for it all should be a Moigno, a creature from Mechanus (first seen in Planes of Law, from Planescape setting), peculiar for having a "definite knack" for mathematics, as it's a creature whose only purpose in life is to perform infinite calculations to reach the exact value of pi: one of them could work as a CPU (or even more, if you like quad-cores) and GPU, as it could handle without any problem all the calculations required for a computer to work.
The creature should be dominated or otherwise controlled, as it won't collaborate of its volition, instead fleeing by teleport or attacking the user: more, the user has to find a way to bypass the particular communication method of the moigno (it communicates by mathematical expressions), so the use of a permanencied version of Tongues, or some other sort of language-bypassing is suggested.
Since we have a CPU, we need now multimedia, and this is where Illusions come handy: the * Image spell list makes wonders to provide the user with full color video and high fidelity sound! The problem here is that it should be the moigno to adjust the images projected, so we need a moigno with at least the 5th level of Wizard to cast the Major image spell (and concentrating to keep it active without interfering with its calculations should be easy for the creature...).
While what we have at hand for now is sufficient to satisfy everyone's need for CAD programs, image manipulation and word processing (and a printer with a simple cantrip to operate it would be wonderful...), we need one of the most important features of a PC: Internet! As Internet is a general repository of knowledge, it seems obvious for our moigno to take levels not in Wizard, but in Bard, the highest the better: do you need informations about the Dwarf Kingdom of Beerland? Connect to Mooigle and make a Bardic Lore check! Want to have some fun with some nice video? Go to MoigTube and watch some bardic performance on your Major image flat screen! Heck, we could even have porn, if we instructed the moigno about human anatomy!
And to add some Mooigle Oerth, some uses of Scrying or Clairsentience to have a visual image of your area from above should do the trick!
I'm open to suggestions on how to improve this device!