The resting place for the transducer, and requisite tunnel from that cleft to the end of the body where the jack will be mounted, required a bit more work than expected. The cavity shapes necessary proffered few enough options to begin with, and those selections were whittled down further by the inherent limitations of the task. As an example the tunnel could easily be accomplished by termites, but constraining them to the dimensions needed would have required individual hypnosis of hundreds of the little guys. The amount of effort required for this was a daunting prospect. Generally speaking insects take to hypnosis well, but the effects are short lived. The risk of my having a lapse in concentration and missing the "update window" one was simply too great.
After some thought I recalled a bit of lore I read in the the tablets of Nhing during a family camping vacation on ancient Yaddith which mentioned a certain temple that was fashioned from a living tree. The chambers and doorways were not carved, rather they seemed to have grown that way, though no living memory of the process was immediately available. Certainly a bit of research should yield the location of the temple, though no name or locale was even remotely hinted upon. The only thing I had to go on was the rumor of a name of the cult that purportedly sojourned there before moving on and leaving the Temple as a mystery to archaeologist and theologian alike. Access to the Library at Zaoth would be necessary.
The caretakers of the Library is a vast hive mind of mechanical intelligence, and as such a trip to the world is not necessary if one knows the proper communication frequencies and coordinates. I have a special apparatus attuned to the Library for just such a purpose, though I use it rarely as the intense energy required to power the device has a tendency to burn out the orichalcon connectors, and that particular element is hard to come by. The caretakers are also notoriously difficult to communicate with, and the proper phrasing needed for them to peruse the archives for a piece of information is as laborious due to my oral faculties not having the necessary organs to form certain sounds required by certain phrases and words.
This particular time it went smoothly, and I was provided the whereabouts of the temple, though they did try to convince me that using an enchanted Dhole for the work might be an option. I shudder to think what would happen if even a single small star worm were to escape my control. Considering the history of the eventual infestation and destruction of Yaddith I think it might have been a joke, but with the caretakers it's hard to tell. With the information I sought in manipulative digits I poured over all of the grimoires I have access to for some mention of the temple, and I struck pay dirt. The Book of Eibon described a rite that was not helpful in and of itself, but the preparation steps involved the creation of "...a whole and unbroken ring of ebon fashioned in the same way as the unnamed temple on the mountain steppes of Thnull...".
I won't go into the whole technique here, but feel free to PM me if you are interested in employing the same approach in one of your own builds. Be warned that the method requires components that are dangerous to handle and hard to find.
I am pleased to say the process went smoothly, though there were a few moments of uncertainly as the field of influence is tricky to get right. The discordant sound of the wood "singing" as the fibers were moved was disconcerting. The kids thought the sound was "pretty", but the neighborhood dogs were howling for hours after I finished.
The moon is up, and I have a few wards of protection that need updating in my laboratory, so I have a bit of work left to do before I can enter the Dreamlands.
