Hexxy Skies Book

The practitioners of this art would cast their so-called Hexes by drawing strange patterns in the air with a Staff -- or craft powerful magical items to do the casting for them. How might I do the same?

Ship Navimancy

While various biological, mechanical, or otherwise media-infused creations are able to break from the environment, they are either physically restrained or unable to host solid construction. With the helping hand of the Naval Corps, I have devised methods of assembling and controlling portions of the world as rigid, separated objects.

These objects can move untethered, and allow for an enormous range of invention.

Ships are freely-moving objects which have separated from the world.

Force is an impulse in a specific direction.

Torque is akin to Force, but concerns rotation exclusively.

Variant forces are based on the ship's axes.

Invariant forces are applied based on the world's.

It appears I have installed some mods Hexcasting interoperates with! I've detailed them here.

Complex Navimancy

In the course of my research, I have found simpler representations of rotation inadequate. As such, I developed patterns that allow for the use of more useful representations of rotation. These patterns are for applying such representations to ships.

Bearings Purification (ship → quat)

Returns a ship's rotation as a Quaternion.

Bearings Distillation (ship, quat → ship | null)

Sets a ship's rotation to the provided Quaternion. The ship must not be cloaked, and the Quaternion must be valid.

More Navimancy

Developments in manipulating information justify appropriate ship-related patterns.

Boatwright's Prfn. (ship → string | null)

Returns the name of a ship.

Boatwright's Dstl. (ship, string → ship | null)

Sets the name of a ship. The ship must be uncloaked.

Windward Purification (ship → matrix)

Returns the World-to-Ship transform matrix of the targeted ship

Leeward Purification (ship → matrix)

Returns the Ship-to-World transform matrix of the targeted ship

Wisp Navimancy

Ships are often difficult for simpler beings to comprehend on their own, so I created these patterns to direct wisps between them.

Embark (ship | vec →)

Attaches the wisp to the ship. It must be near. This must be cast by a wisp; trying to cast it through a staff will fail rather spectacularly.

Disembark

Detaches the wisp from a ship. This must be cast by a wisp; trying to cast it through a staff will fail rather spectacularly.

A list of all the patterns I've discovered, as well as what they do.

Basic Navimancy

Cloaking Purification (ship → bool)

Toggles and returns the state of a ship's cloak. This pattern acts as security for a ship, obscuring new references from being obtained. Exercise caution.

Deckhand's Purification (vec → ship)

Takes a position and returns the ship that it corresponds to. Blocked by Cloak.

Ship Compass Prfn. (ship → vec)

Analogous to Compass Purification, but instead returns the position of a ship's Center of Mass.

Heading Purification (ship → vec)

Analogous to Alidade's Purification, but instead gets the ship's forward direction

Tonnage Purification (ship → num)

Takes a ship and returns its total mass.
Forces applied by Hexes are to be multiplied by this number.

Magnification Prfn. (ship → num)

Takes a ship and returns its current scale.

Crow's Distillation (vec, vec → ship | null)

Analogous to Archer's Distillation, but instead returns a ship. Blocked by Cloak.

Zone Dstl.: Ship (vec, double → [ship])

Analogous to Zone Distillation, but instead returns a list of ships. Blocked by Cloak.

Worldly Purification (vec → vec)

Takes a position originating from a ship and transforms it into its worldly equivalent.

Deadweight Purification (vec → num)

Takes a position of a Block and adds its current mass to the stack.

Patterns and actions that perform a magical effect on the world.

Applied Navimancy

Nature's Amusement (ship, double →)

Alters the scale of a ship.

Assemble ([vec] → ship)

Takes a list of vectors corresponding to static blocks in the world, and transforms them into a separated free-floating object. Blocks outside of my ambit are ignored.

Helmsman's Push (ship, vec →)

Applies a Variant Force to the ship in the specified direction

Helmsman's Twist (ship, vec →)

Applies a Variant Torque to the ship in the specified direction

Nature's Push (ship, vec →)

Applies an Invariant Force to the ship in the specified direction

Nature's Twist (ship, vec →)

Applies an Invariant Torque to the ship in the specified direction

Helmsman's Yeet II (ship, vec, vec →)

Applies an Variant Force to the ship in the specified direction with a specified offset from the Center of Mass

Nature's Yeet II (ship, vec, vec →)

Applies an Invariant Force to the ship in the specified direction with a specified offset from the Center of Mass

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