The Diamond Golem and the Iron Mech Suit - Wizard Craft 3.0 #9 - A Videogame Bedtime Story

0:04 Hello, friends from across the nation, around the world, and throughout the universe. My name is Martin, and I'm your host for Dad's Bedtime Stories tonight. It's almost Wednesday. Technically it's Tuesday when I put this out, but either way, we're going to continue with wizard Craft Wednesdays. I've been getting a lot of suggestions for wizard Craft, a lot of listeners, so let's continue the story.

0:35 Hi, my name is Ethan. I'm a story suggestion for wizard Craft three point I. But you go to the diamond mines and verse all the diamond signs. You get everything diamond. You also find in a golden Golum spell, the Diamond Golman spell. You also have to verse a flame dragon and you use your armored car. But your armored car gets destroyed. But do you have enough iron to craft one? And then you craft a next which is made of diamond and gold, which is impossible to beat by I love your podcast.

1:09 And I love your suggestion. In fact, I knew that this was the next suggestion I'd be using when I did the last episode, and I sort of started preparing for it. If you like wizard Craft three point oh, well, have you listened to wizard Craft two point oh. You can always head back on this podcast and find all the episodes of wizard Craft two point oh. Or you can join me on Dad's Anytime Stories. Well, I read the actual book, because I turned Wizardcraft two point zero into a book that I'm reading on my other podcast, Dads Anytime Stories, which you can kind of find anywhere.

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2:49 You find yourself lying on your bed, inside your house in the still unnamed mountain village. Congratulations. Character progress summary available current player level level four, Current skills unlocked, lock Picking level three, Nijitsu Combat level two, r Cane Engineer level one, Magical Mechanic adept Wizard, current spells unlocked, Stone golum, copper golum, iron golum, golden goalum, fireball, level two, Telekinesis level three, Earth Magic level two. Congratulations, you have reached level five. New skill point unlocked. All right, another skill point, you think, though you're not. I'm not entirely sure what you're going to use it for right away. Perhaps this time it's best to wait a minute. You head outside

4:09 and straight for the town hall, where you meet up with Gus and j D. Immediately you begin creating your daily golums once again, one rock golum at one copper golam each. Whll, then, what do you plan to do today? Gus asks, Well, we still have to prepare for the Golum King. I'm sure he'll be here any day, so I think it's time to head back into the mines and see what the next level brings. We've gotten some pretty cool stuff every other level. Yes, that does seem like an excellent idea. However, I might suggest that you go with a little more help his dime. You and j D were certainly able to manage the gold level, but I believe the next level should be diamond. Diamond slimes and other creatures you find there won't be so

5:18 easily beaten. Well, in that case, we better take some golams with us. What about the new golden goalums we created yesterday, JD suggests they seem pretty powerful. Man, we haven't really integrated them into the village system yet, so why not. It's probably a good idea. You head out of town hall and pass the armored car. Maybe that could be useful too. Would it be possible to get an armored car inside the caves? If you could, you and JD could just blast away its slimes and stuff.

6:07 You walk up to the armored car, place your hand on it, and focus on pulling the car into your inventory. To your surprise, it works. Now. It makes you feel kind of full, for lack of a better description, as if you couldn't really hold much more. Wow, you're gonna bring the armored car in. Cool, let's go. You mentally summon your own golden golm. It appears not long afterwards, his master the golam says, uh, go get the other two golden golams and meet us at the top of the mountain. We're going in the caves. Understood. You and j D march up the long winding set of stairs to the top of the mountain and the beginning of the mountain mines. Not long afterwards, the three golden golams roll their way up. Unlike other golums, these three are

7:21 made of something akin to liquid gold metal, giving them the ability to change their shape and will. When they arrive, they stretch out into their humanoid forms. You head to the elevator, open it up, and everyone climbs aboard. It's a little tight with three golden golums, but you make it work. The elevator doors close and it starts to lower down to the lowest level you've achieved so far, the last gold level with a ding the doors open.

8:04 All right, everyone, we need to find the stairs down to the next level. Start crushing golden rocks. Everybody understood the Golum's reply, and immediately their arms liquefy and transform into giant pickaxes. They head off in different directions and begin to strike boulders made of gold. They easily crush them with a single swing each and absorb the golden loot into their inventory. Sir, I believe I found them, one of the golums announces. You walk over, as do the others, to find a large set of stone stairs that lead downward. All right, everyone one, you say, follow me.

9:03 You head down the steps, and as you do, little lanterns that are lining the walls light up with bright blue flames. You wind down further and further before coming out on the other side into another large cavern, only this time filled with green diamond slimes, some of them normal sized, but others gigantic. All right, golden goloms, you head in. First, you go that way, You go that way, and you go that way. You point, directing one to the left, one to the center, and one to the right. Understood, the golams say. Instantly, both of their hands liquefy and transform into large golden blades. They head off into the cavern, and as gigantic giant slimes jump toward them, they start to slice. Ready, JD. Ready, JD says. The two of

10:22 you launch forward, creating huge concentrated fireballs and blasting them at the slimes as well. You reach out with your telekinesis, pick up two slimes at once and slam them together. They explode into a little puff of smoke that drops tiny pieces of diamonds. You spin around behind you and launch another fire ball at a slime approaching from the rear.

10:54 It also explodes. Then you reach down into the earth, summon two huge columns of stone and smash them together, smashing a bunch more slimes all at once between you, j D and the Golden Golms. The first level of the diamond mines is completed quickly. You again order the Golden Golams to begin breaking rocks. Their hands transform into two pickaxes each and they start to smash. Before long, you discover the next set of stairs. You head down together down another set of winding stairs until you come into another cavern, only this time it's absolutely infested by slimes, even more big slimes than before. Honestly, it's pretty overwhelming looking. Well, maybe we can test out the armored car. You suggest.

12:10 You reach into your inventory and release the car. You suddenly feel a lot less full. You probably don't want that thing in your inventory for long. You and JD open the doors, and before closing them you order the golden Golms forward. They transform into balls of liquid gold and roll towards the slimes, jumping up into humanoid form and slicing them to pieces. Almost immediately, you grab a hold of the controls, the steering wheel, the gas and JD heads into the laser turret. You hit the gas and blast forward. All right, let's pick some of these slimes apart. You drive around the huge empty cavern, bashing into slimes, which, luckily for you in an armored car, seems to destroy them instantly. Slime after slime after slime

13:18 is broken apart as you drive pretty crazily around the cavern, all the while j D starts unleashing blasts of laser. The blasts instantly incinerate slimes, breaking them apart and dropping loot. The whole place gets a little chaotic, and as golden Golams are rolling around slicing slimes in half, laser beams are incinerating others, and the armored car is just bashing as many as you possibly can. Again, it doesn't take you too long to finish the level the old and Golams begins smashing rocks again until you find the entrance to the third level. The only issue is that the car won't fit down it. You have to absorb it into your inventory once again. You place your hand on the car and brace yourself for that strange, too full feeling.

14:25 The car zips inside you, and again you feel a little bit uncomfortable. You head down the next set of winding stairs to the third level of the diamond slime mines once again, hence even more infested than before, and most of them are the larger slimes, the kind that just break down into a bunch of little ones as soon as you slice them in half. All right, let's get to it, you say a producing the iron car from your inventory once again, and once again, feeling the relief of not having an overly full inventory, you want to drive this time, You ask JD sure I can do some slime bashing. You open up the doors. JD climbs into the driver's seat, and you climb into the passengers before crawling up into the center of the car

15:32 where the laser gun is. As j D begins plowing forward and breaking through a whole bunch of gigantic slimes, you start to get used to the controls. You sit up on a little stool like seat and grab a joystick. When you move it to the left, the laser rifle spins around to the left. When you move to the right, heat it does the same thing. There's a set of sights in front of you and a big red button on the top of the joystick. It's all pretty straightforward.

16:12 You aim at some slimes, press the button, and a powerful red laser beam blasts out and almost instantly incinerates the slimes. You move it across the ground trying to get more of them, and the little laser leaves a huge mark in the ground as it plows through more slimes. You spin around in the other direction and unleash another blast.

16:42 All the while j D continues to plow through as many as he can. The golden gulams continue to slice and well just kind of adapt their bodies to avoid any attacks. Their whole liquid gold thing comes in pretty handy. When the floor is clear, you once again smash through all of the diamond rocks, collect all of the lute, absorb a car into your inventory once again, and head down the next set of stairs. The fourth cavern, however, is surprisingly empty, almost entirely open, but filled with some diamond oor veins. That is, until something lights up at the other end and fire blasts across the cavern. You look in the direction of the blast, which narrowly missed you, and see a fire dragon. You immediately summon the armored car.

17:53 You jump in the driver's seat as JD crawls into the laser cannon turret. Let's hit it with everything we've got, you say, slamming down on the gas pedal, spinning the tires and blasting towards the dragon. The three golden Golams transform into balls of golden liquid and roll towards the dragon at the same time, ball at once. The three Golams jump into the air, transformed to their humanoid form and reform their arms into large blades. They lift their arms up and slice down towards the dragon, but the dragon spins in a circle, hitting each one of them with its tail, a tail with a huge spiked club on the back. The three Golums fly backward, hit the walls, and smash into little puddles. They melt down onto the

18:58 ground before re forming themselves into humanoid form and sort of shaking it off. JD aims the laser directly at the dragon and unleashes a powerful blast. The dragon, however, opens its mouth and breathes fire straight at the laser. The powerful blast of fire hits the laser, and strangely, it starts pushing it backward, back towards the cannon. Ah, what do I do? JD asks? I have no idea, you say. The blast pushes the laser back into the cannon, and the cannon starts to light up a bright red color.

19:49 It cracks along the center before it explodes. The armored car sets on fire, and you and JD right showed side just in time to see it explode into a little puff of smoke and drop a whole pile of iron underneath it. You run over and absorb the iron into your inventory, gather a ball of fire in your hand and shoot it towards the dragon. It has almost no effect at all. Ah, any ideas you ask, is huge?

20:31 J D and the three golus surround the huge dragon. I have one idea, you say, retreat all at once, hu, j D and the other golums head back for the stairs as quickly as you can. You run straight up them onto the now cleared third floor of the diamond area. I think we need a new plan, you say, and you lead the others over to the elevator. You head back up to the top of the mines, order the three golums to stay right there and wait, and then you go down the stairs straight to Grayson's house. Ah, what are we doing? J D asks, Well, I didn't tell you this, but I recently unlocked a new skill.

21:31 It's called Arcane Engineer Level one Magical Mechanic. It allows me to sort of instinctively understand how magical machines are assembled and powered. And as much as we lost the armored car, I think I can make another one. Really, yeah, maybe even more than one. Grayson should have all of the other parts we need. He's already created a ton of copper wiring and power cells. We'll need his help.

22:11 You head towards Grayson's house, where you see all sorts of interesting machines outside copper golams, automated farms, a completely redone automatic chicken cooking machine, and a whole bunch of other miscellaneous machines. Oh hey, guys, Grayson says, when he sees you approaching, How can I help? Well, remember the armored car that we stole from the golum king, Yeah, that thing was cool, highly advanced deck. Well, we kind of broke it. You what you broke the armored car?

23:01 One could do that a fire dragon, you respond, anyways, I'm going to create another one, but I need some parts from your inventory. Okay, what do you need? Well, some power sells, copper wire, and then the rest I think I can do with iron and gold mixed together. All right, I'll be right back. Grayson heads over one of the chests in his yard. He opens it up and he starts pulling things out of it, throwing them onto the ground in front of you. Loads of copper wire and a couple large blocks that seem to be glowing with power. Well that's doe, he asks. Yeah, I think this will be more than enough. You empty your own story of gold and iron. Then you picture the strange machine in front of you, a layer by layer,

24:11 starting with the frame of the armored car. A ghostly frame appears in front of you. You squeeze your fist to lock it into place, and the materials fly from the pile and form themselves into the exact right shape. Next, you imagine the interior mechanics of the thing. The power cells connected to the cannon, and again a ghostly series of wires, power cells, and a cannon appear. You squeeze your fist and they all fly into place, forming the guts of the machine. Next, you imagine the material on the outside the You see a ghostly form appear around the car, and again you squeeze your fist and they all fly into place, revealing a completely finished armored vehicle.

25:17 Nice JD says, ah, I only have one issue with this. Oh what's that? Well, this vehicle didn't work last time. It's cool that you could recreate it and everything, but how is the exact same thing going to help us? Oh? Yeah, that's a good point. You think for a second, and then remember you have one unspent skill point. You close your eyes and go into your menu. You mentally move towards the skill menu and bring up the Arcane Engineer tree.

26:02 It looks like a little star constellation in the shape of well a mech. You focus on the next level Rcane Engineer level two Magical Inventor. This skill allows you to come up with new ways to improve machines and to create new ones. Your imagination is your only limitation. Ah and actually sounds perfect. You select the skill point locket into place, and immediately your mind is flooded with a feeling of well understanding. You look at the armored car once again, and you look over at all of the machines surrounding Grayson's house. Almost immediately an idea comes to you, Grayson, how many more power cells do you have? Oh?

27:10 I have a ton of them. He opens up his chest and starts to throw out more blocks of energy.

27:18 Perfect.

27:20 You focus on the car once again, only this time you can see improvements. You can see a way to reinforce the body using diamond. Why hadn't you thought of that before? And how to connect more power cells and reinforce the cannon. You focus first on the internal components, imagining more power cells connected to the cannon and a reinforced canon itself. A ghostly outline of the structure appears inside the car. You squeeze your fist into place, and the power cells and copper wire shoot into the car, forming a little area at the back that's completely uncovered by armor. Next, you focus on the armor itself. You see the flaws in the original iron armor, You see places where diamond can be added, and you extend the

28:23 whole thing around the back, where you've added in more power cells, a ghostly outline of peers. You lock it into place, and the pieces fly all at once, smashing together and creating a slightly larger and much more powerful iron vehicle. All right, that might just do it. I think it will. I even integrated the laser cannon to have an auto mode where it can target on its own without somebody having to.

29:00 Be up there.

29:02 What that's perfect? Yeah, And I think I have another idea. You say, as you catch a glimpse of an iron goalum walking by, something in your mind sees the goal and the armored car sort of mixing together. What if you used the blueprints from an iron goalm and mix them together with some of the components from the car, and instead of breathing life into the goal em, you just you know, left a sort of large opening to crawl inside and operate the thing like a giant mech suit.

29:50 You immediately allow more iron out of your inventory. You add a little diamond and a little gold too. Grayson, more power cells and more copper, you say. Grayson nods and understanding, and gathers more from his chest, throwing it to the ground in front of you. You start to wave your hands around in the air. The iron pieces flowed up, smashed together into the form of something that looks like a golam But then you make it sort of hollow. Inside. You expand the goal em outward, causing it to be larger and leaving enough room for a little human sized box. Inside you create a little chair.

30:42 Little controls like exist in the car, and then you imagine the wires connected from the core of the goalum, where you can of course put some power cells up to the shoulders where you'll add not one but two laser cannons. The parts fly through the air and form themselves into a giant iron golam mech suit. What is that?

31:18 JD asks? That is how we get to the bottom of the mines. Congratulations, you have invented a new thing, iron golam mech suit. Enemies beware. You step into the back of the iron golum mech suit and the iron wraps around behind you. You sit on a chair, place your hand on the controls, and immediately something shifts in your head. The controls connect you to the iron golum and even you didn't expect and you find yourself in the body of the mech suit itself. You think about moving your hand, and it moves its hand. You think about walking, and it walks. You think about aiming the laser cannons that are mounted on your shoulder, and they aim at whatever you're looking at. Wait a second, You've never had laser cannons on your shoulders before, but somehow

32:30 they feel like a natural part of your body, and somehow you now feel very powerful. Congratulations. On top of being on a pretty awesome iron gola mech suit, your carrying capacity has also increased. You and the mech are now one. You walk over to the iron car, press your well giant iron mechhand onto it and concentrate on absorbing it into your inventory. It zips inside and somehow, this time you don't even feel full well JD. You're ready to take on that dragon, I think, so that does this mean I get the iron car? Yep, this means you get the iron car. You march back up the mountain and inside the elevator with the three golden golems.

33:36 It's even tighter this time. You move down to the last unlocked floor, head down the stairway, which seems a lot smaller. Now that you're in a giant mech suit and out onto the floor with the huge dragon, you produce the iron car beside you. JD immediately jumps inside cool. The controls are automatic, and it's time to show that dragon.

34:06 What's what?

34:08 Attack?

34:09 You yell, and together you, the three golden Golams and uh Well, your friend j D inside his mechanical armored car, blast forward towards the dragon. The dragon unleashes a huge blast of fire, but you simply cross your mechanical arms in front of you. Taking the blast and running forward, you aim your two laser cannons on either side of the blast and unleash huge lasers, hit the dragon and send it flying backwards into the wall. JD fires with his own laser cannon, and the three Golams jump in, transform their arms into huge beers, and strike all at once.

35:03 In an instant, the dragon disappears and a puff of smoke, leaving loot behind a spell book that looks like Lightning and another with a picture of an animal on the front of it. What are these? You ask? Congratulations, you have found a lightning spell book and an animal control spell book. Lightning is self explanatory and the animal control spell as titled allows you to commune and control animals cool you say, absorbing them into your inventory once again.

35:54 As soon as you do, the golden gold them off to your right reveals that he or it has discovered the entrance to the last floor of the Diamond mines, so you absorb the armored car once again and head down them. When you get to the bottom, you immediately produce the car again. JD jumps inside and you step forward to find pretty much exactly what you expected to find, a gigantic diamond golum. Only something tells you that a single diamond golum is going to be no match for your current team. The golum roars and you unleash two laser blasts from your shoulders. They hit the golum and start to push it backward. It screams and then fires spikes of diamond out towards you. One of them smashes into your armor and causes it to spark a little bit.

37:02 JD blasts the thing from the side with another blast of laser, and the three golden golams attack all at once. But the diamond Golam is pretty impressive he can't transform his shape like the golden ones can, but all of their strike seem to just glance off of the thing, and it seems pretty capable of Ninja like reflexes, blocking the golden golams, throwing one of them into another, and unleashing blasts of diamond spikes straight through the things. Luckily for them, their liquid golden metal sort of absorbs the strikes.

37:48 With the golum distracted, you and j D unleash more powerful laser blasts, hitting the golum dead center and sending it flying into the rock behind. Somehow it still gets up. You unleash more blasts of laser, smashing it back again. But when the lasers stop, the Golden goal and rises once more. This thing is clearly tough. All right, Uh, let's see how long these lasers can fire for you and JD blast the thing again. Three beams of laser shoot across the cavern and slam into the creature. You walk forward as the lasers continue. The cannons themselves start to heat up. As you continue the laser blast, they begin to smoke, and finally the Golden Goal of cracks and explodes into a little pile of diamond warning your

38:55 laser weapons have overheated. They will not function until cooled. The laser cannons on your shoulder sort of droop down, and there's a weird power off sound. The same thing happens to JD's cannon, but at least you've already defeated the golum. You head over towards it and sitting in a pile of diamond is another spell book, the Diamond Golum spell Book. You grab a hold of it, suck it into your inventory along with all the diamonds, and you yawn, Oh, it's getting pretty late, we better head back.

39:44 You mentally deactivate the golam suit. It opens up at the back, Your mind disconnects, and you step out of the thing. You place your hand on it and absorb it into your inventory. Uh, JD mind getting the armored car Ah Sure. JD places his hand on the thing, absorbs it into his own inventory, and suddenly has a feeling of being very full himself. The elevator on the floor dings to life, and the two of you, along with the golden Golams, head inside. It lifts you all the way up to the top of the mines once again.

40:34 You dismiss the three golden Golams to go on patrol and head down the staircase at the town hall. J D allows the armored car out of his inventory, and you do the same with the golam suit. It feels better not to have your inventory that full, after all. Then you wave goodbye to your friend and head directly into your house. You lay down on the bed and familiar words appear. Sleep. You select yes, and a wave of fatigue passes over your body. Your eyelids get heavy, and your muscles instantly start to relax. With each breath, they sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress, and the more you breathe, the deeper you sink, and the deeper you sink, the better you feel. Soon it feels like you're floating on a cloud, and your mind begins

41:49 to wander off as well, off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures, and new inventions to come.

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