"Pleasure to meet you Shay-peer Dun-bar-lo-ka-ra-too-ki." Rena answers a bit haltingly, ensuring that she pronounced the name properly.
"Are you a transmuter then? A wizard? Don't worry, I'm used to magic so I won't resist it,...
"Excellent-- yes, I am an expert in transformation magics, turning one thing into another. You'll have to forgive my dramatic nature," motioning to the book and drawing, "but, magic is lovely and should be displayed with pride, don't you think?"
After watching the drawing for a few, clearly this is a person that enjoys their work, he turns smiling back at Rena and adds, "Instincts? To what degree do you want the transformation to go? Anything is possible with magic, obviously, it's just a matter of the right power and style."
Looking back at Rena, he then asks, "So tell me the dream you have, which prompted this, and we'll start planning out the details, fair?"
::(mental laughter)::
The slotted eye opens to a circular pupil
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::Its not anything of the sort, its not quite living, well not in the terms of sentience or of the living of elementals or humans::
Sheess pulls her back slightly
::That was....fascinating.::
::If a bit nervewracking without warning,:: she added with a slight shudder.
She was careful to not make any sudden movements until she was well away from the strange eye and then swam away quickly.
::Are there any other surprises you are planning to use to tease me like that?:: [i]she asked dryly.[/]
::Let me show you what it is...::
Sheess waits until Ryleh is beyond the radius of the blast and then moves quickly to the spot directly over the "Eye" and breathes a jet of water down...
A huge column of heat and water pressure explodes upward, launching sheessuroussen out of the blast with tremendous force...
::Its a fungus... a huge bio-luminescent, heat producing fungus that spans across the floors of the oceans and under the surface... and when the flesh is disturbed... BANG! the fungus forces some of its spores and heat producing chemicals out of it::
::It's...you...Ooh! You shouldn't scare me like that, you trickster!:: she scolded, though she was obviously more relieved than angry.
::It's...you...Ooh! You shouldn't scare me like that, you trickster!:: she scolded, though she was obviously more relieved than angry.
::well it is dangerous...:: he teases back ::to smaller creatures and the unprepared...::
::It's...you...Ooh! You shouldn't scare me like that, you trickster!:: she scolded, though she was obviously more relieved than angry.::well it is dangerous...:: he teases back ::to smaller creatures and the unprepared...::
::Well, so much for maturity coming with age,:: she laughed. ::You are as prone to pranks as any of the children.::
::Well, so much for maturity coming with age,:: she laughed. ::You are as prone to pranks as any of the children.::::It's...you...Ooh! You shouldn't scare me like that, you trickster!:: she scolded, though she was obviously more relieved than angry.::well it is dangerous...:: he teases back ::to smaller creatures and the unprepared...::
::if I acted my age....I would do nothing at all :: sheess pokes fun back at her....
She laughed. "This is what happens when you're involved with someone instead of just observing. It's normal and healthy. And I work on paper making nearly every day, so it's not like you won't have plenty of opportunity to observe and record later if you want to....and I think you've done plenty of learning today," she added, blushing.
Salis smirked. "Oh I don't know I think there is plenty more I could learn and would love to learn. There's are plenty of experiments that could be explored. Like maybe the effects of of these jello shot things, I have heard about, upon a vigorous woman such as yourself. That can wait till later however, as I am sure we both need to regain our energy."
tural-
"She can make herself look like a dwarf too.
Reviarti->
"Can ya lass, well thee and me may be getting on a lot better, that's a joke by the way""That would be correct, I don't smoke, and the game is simple enough, just basic geometry, with applied mechanical physics" he shrugs
Arthur->
"You just keep thinking that, and this will be like taking rock cakes from a baby"A figure walks up to the pool table,
"can I get in on the game?" he asks, resting his hands on his hips,
Renkai->
"You got a name lad?, Am Carl, for now"Carl takes pool Q and the white ball, he moves it 3" along from the spot line then pulls back the Q and with a steady hand, brakes, left spin on the Qball send it just off to the left, wile the brake pots the 3 ball.
"Lets get started, I'll brake"
He walks line to line up the 1 ball butt its blocked by the 7, he gos for an off cushion hit gets it but the misses the whole and heads back t the pack.
"Your up"
he says to Author, wile taking a swig of ale.
You note again a clear shot on 1 is blocked by a ball.
As Dom stood in the center of the lake. A large movement on the waters surface alerted him. He looked to ward the source unworried. What he saw however unnerved him for a moment. A black dragon had been swimming here while he was thinking had it not surfaced Dom may have not noticed till it was to late. He stood there watching in curiosity. He had heard countless tails of dragons destroying villages and attacking cities in the past, but He had also heard of dragons living in peace here. He had even befriended one without knowing.
As he watched he couldn't see any malice in the dragons actions in stead it was joy he saw. He slowly made his way to the lake side. As he finally made it to the the opposite side of the lake a pretty young girl arrived. Her small delicate frame reminded him so much of the fan girls he once wooed in the past. Soon it was obvious the girl had came to great the dragon. It however startled him to see her transform in to dragon and join the other in to the water. At first he was enamored by the majestic sight of the two flowing though the water in peace, but he decided soon after that he should leave the two in peace.
::if I acted my age....I would do nothing at all :: sheess pokes fun back at her....::Well, so much for maturity coming with age,:: she laughed. ::You are as prone to pranks as any of the children.::::It's...you...Ooh! You shouldn't scare me like that, you trickster!:: she scolded, though she was obviously more relieved than angry.::well it is dangerous...:: he teases back ::to smaller creatures and the unprepared...::
::Oh, I don't know...laying around as if crushed under the weight of your years dispensing the wisdom of fortune cookies isn't nothing,:: she teased, darting off to see more of this new underwater world.
Salis smirked. "Oh I don't know I think there is plenty more I could learn and would love to learn. There's are plenty of experiments that could be explored. Like maybe the effects of of these jello shot things, I have heard about, upon a vigorous woman such as yourself. That can wait till later however, as I am sure we both need to regain our energy."
She choked on her water and ended up coughing and spluttering for a while before she could speak.
"Please tell me you haven't been speaking to the bartender at the Lucky Dog. I convinced Miss Jones to go out drinking with me a while back...and honestly I don't remember much past ordering jello shots, but apparently we're both banned for life. And Miss Jones says she's never going drinking with me again. But I have a terrible feeling there's more to the story than that....nothing truly awful. That's why I didn't go alone. I know I'm a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. But probably plenty embarrassing."
"Uh, just to be certain, before you take your shot there, Arthur....you do know the rules of pool right?"
Names renkai" the figure responds to the dwarf, and watches the shot, laughing quietly to himself
::Oh, I don't know...laying around as if crushed under the weight of your years dispensing the wisdom of fortune cookies isn't nothing,:: she teased, darting off to see more of this new underwater world.
"You have to have wisdom to dispense.... To do that..." then sheess darts behind a huge shoal of fish
"uh yeah, I take the cue, hit the white one into the colored ones and hit the solid ones without putting the striped one in the hole, eight one goes last... am I forgetting something" he says as he tries to calculate the right angle and force required to do as he said.
Carl Chuckles then says
"Before ya go, we'er playing nine ball Lad-e, you have to hit the balls and pot them in order, any other ball go's down on a shot after you hit your number ball its fine, put the nine ball down on a shot or last ball you win, don't pot your number ball or any other ball on your shot, your gos over. white go's down your gos over the other team re-spot, you miss your number ball your gos over the other team re-spot, I potted 3, its down, then I did not pot the 1, so now you hit the 1 ball and hope you pot something, if you pot it move on to the next number still up until you get to 9 ball, this is why its called 9 ball pool, Bets are 10 coin a rake, losing team off, simple"
Carl looks around so every one knows.
Renkai->
"A blessing to meet you Renkai, I'm Carl "Ironfist" of the Clan Promethuigm. If yee don't mind me a asking but do ye know what went off in town, looked like a bomb of some kind, big whole in the ground and biu-dins all a busted"
Carl says to the new comer.
In response to being added to the collective "That's a great idea, will make things much easier. Thanks"
As Jaiye and presumably Ehos explain things, Ace says "Wow, sorry that you guys were targeted like that. Are we sure she's a demon, or working for one though? I mean, there's all sorts of other fiends that could be behind this. Devils, Daemons, Divs, not to mention all sorts of mercenary types that are affiliated with all the various factions"
She choked on her water and ended up coughing and spluttering for a while before she could speak."Please tell me you haven't been speaking to the bartender at the Lucky Dog. I convinced Miss Jones to go out drinking with me a while back...and honestly I don't remember much past ordering jello shots, but apparently we're both banned for life. And Miss Jones says she's never going drinking with me again. But I have a terrible feeling there's more to the story than that....nothing truly awful. That's why I didn't go alone. I know I'm a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. But probably plenty embarrassing."
He quickly reached out to her to make sure she was fine. Once he knew she was he started to chuckle slightly. "No I haven't spoken with him. Or any current bartender for that matter. From the sounds of it it may be a good experiment." He teased. "I believe I have met Miss Jones. She seemed competent, but not much trust in he fellow co-workers. She seemed to have much trust in her students however. I have had to learn to trust those I travel with first before those we work with. If I didn't trust in the competency of them many of our adventures would have ended in tragedy." He sighed slightly. "I do hope she learns to trust my competency in the future. Though I guess I will have to prove my ability to her."
"Sir would do well to slick the left hand with powder. Less friction is induced on the hands and allows the cue to glide well." He states in a matter of fact way. He produces one of the smoke sticks stocked in in his wrist.
"Sir may use this to do so."
He offers the black, powdery stick to Arthur.
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"You have to have wisdom to dispense.... To do that..." then sheess darts behind a huge shoal of fish
::Oh, I don't know...laying around as if crushed under the weight of your years dispensing the wisdom of fortune cookies isn't nothing,:: she teased, darting off to see more of this new underwater world.
She laughed. ::I really need to introduce you to the concept of the fortune cookie. It's rather bizarre. They put these little slips of paper inside a crispy pastry and on the paper they write things that are either blindingly obvious or so insane that no one could make sense of them. Apparently this is what passes for 'wisdom'. Quo, the monk who raised my daughter, was ridiculously fond of them and perpetually spoke in that fashion. I rather suspect that he was responsible for writing a number of the sayings thus dispensed.::
In response to being added to the collective "That's a great idea, will make things much easier. Thanks"
As Jaiye and presumably Ehos explain things, Ace says "Wow, sorry that you guys were targeted like that. Are we sure she's a demon, or working for one though? I mean, there's all sorts of other fiends that could be behind this. Devils, Daemons, Divs, not to mention all sorts of mercenary types that are affiliated with all the various factions"
"Well, Phaeze was the one who identified the symbol and he seemed pretty sure it was demonic in nature. But aside from that? No, we don't have evidence that it was specifically demonic. Evil, definitely. And powerful to keep that man's soul from returning."
He quickly reached out to her to make sure she was fine. Once he knew she was he started to chuckle slightly. "No I haven't spoken with him. Or any current bartender for that matter. From the sounds of it it may be a good experiment." He teased. "I believe I have met Miss Jones. She seemed competent, but not much trust in he fellow co-workers. She seemed to have much trust in her students however. I have had to learn to trust those I travel with first before those we work with. If I didn't trust in the competency of them many of our adventures would have ended in tragedy." He sighed slightly. "I do hope she learns to trust my competency in the future. Though I guess I will have to prove my ability to her."
"Give it time. Miss Jones takes a long time to warm up to people...she hasn't really warmed up to me yet either, and I really didn't help with the jello shots incident. And I'm not entirely sure she trusts anyone's competency other than her own. But I'm sure she'll be less...er...disapproving over time. I think that's about as good as it gets with her. Heck, she doesn't even let her fellow teachers know her first name."
Carl Chuckles then says"Before ya go, we'er playing nine ball Lad-e, you have to hit the balls and pot them in order, any other ball go's down on a shot after you hit your number ball its fine, put the nine ball down on a shot or last ball you win, don't pot your number ball or any other ball on your shot, your gos over. white go's down your gos over the other team re-spot, you miss your number ball your gos over the other team re-spot, I potted 3, its down, then I did not pot the 1, so now you hit the 1 ball and hope you pot something, if you pot it move on to the next number still up until you get to 9 ball, this is why its called 9 ball pool, Bets are 10 coin a rake, losing team off, simple"
"Bah, 9-ball. Since folks are waitin' to play, wouldn't a regular game of pool go quicker?"
"I'm not too terribly interested, to be honest. I'm going to go ask someone else where the headmasters office is. Sorry to bother you."
she does what seems to be a little bow, then slides off unless stopped. (The anthro lion comes with her.)
Arriving in the library, Ace ask his friends "Would you two mind helping me scour this place for any and all books we can find detailing dwellers of the lower planes? I figure that might be a good place to start."
"oh, well then, fine" he then moves to a different position and calculates different angles
he hits the ball bouncing it off of a wall hitting the desired ball, unfortunately he hits it too hard and it bounces off the far wall of the hole "dang it"
Carl makes a wincing face, 'ohooo" as if it was such a good shot yet missed.
"We may be on for a game here lad-e"
Reviarti->
"See your around lass, it was nice meeting ya"
Casseus->
"We ant playing points, we'er playing one rack games, 9 ball down wins the coin and game, then next team up, an't no pool game faster, and your up Casseus, pop that wee 9 ball down off the 1 and the coin and win is ours"
Arriving in the library, Ace ask his friends "Would you two mind helping me scour this place for any and all books we can find detailing dwellers of the lower planes? I figure that might be a good place to start."
"Give it time. Miss Jones takes a long time to warm up to people...she hasn't really warmed up to me yet either, and I really didn't help with the jello shots incident. And I'm not entirely sure she trusts anyone's competency other than her own. But I'm sure she'll be less...er...disapproving over time. I think that's about as good as it gets with her. Heck, she doesn't even let her fellow teachers know her first name."
"Hmm. When I met her she seemed to have more trust than most would with the student bodies ability to stay calm on there own. I have seen many cases of witch hunts started much the same manner as what happened at that party. At least it's good to know that it is more a situation of I'm new to her rather than her trusting fully in the student body to handle it's own affairs with no fault. I am sure that many of the students are very capable, but it is our job to give guidance and from time to time step in to calm situations."
Given what Phae and the others have already pointed out, you'd be in similar awareness as they are, without any rolls. It's /most/ likely something that interacts with Demons, or is a Demon of some sort. Please don't take my trying to skip rolling skills here, but rolling a 35 versus a 45 isn't going to help, this be demon stuff, yo. Any doubt on that highly probably truth is solely at the creation of the PCs, to make sure that is said.
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"Hmm. When I met her she seemed to have more trust than most would with the student bodies ability to stay calm on there own. I have seen many cases of witch hunts started much the same manner as what happened at that party. At least it's good to know that it is more a situation of I'm new to her rather than her trusting fully in the student body to handle it's own affairs with no fault. I am sure that many of the students are very capable, but it is our job to give guidance and from time to time step in to calm situations."
"Oh! Is that what you meant? No, that's not trusting the students at all. Most of them she doesn't trust in the slightest. That's trusting the wards, which short of actual deific interference, and not just demigod either....this by the way is why the wards don't protect anyone against me when Kryshyykilli'vkk gets all rampagey...technically he's a god I think sort of although extremely limited and location specific and not a very powerful one....relatively speaking. At least that's what my research suggests so far. Anyways, back on topic, short of deific interference the wards would prevent the students from forming an effective lynch mob on campus. As soon as they started to attack with intent to do violence, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop...off to detention they go. Usually in a situation like that it's safe to concentrate your efforts on the students at the center of the situation without worrying too much about the others. And it's usually worth a few extra moments to make sure you round up everyone involved before moving the discussion to a less public location. It takes forever to round people up to answer questions if you don't and really, it's just not worth the trouble. And sometimes it's better to just go ahead and have it out in public. Nothing stops a witch hunt before it starts like a big public airing of actual facts. It's the getting people to hold off on the attacking long enough to get to the fact-sharing that can be difficult, and the wards take care of that."
"And no, it's not at all uncommon for new teachers to have trouble adjusting to this whole 'wards' thing. I still can't watch any of the martial classes in progress. No matter how many times I'm told that nothing teaches like pain and that any maimings are swiftly repaired in the infirmary, it still seems rather barbaric to me."
"Oh! Is that what you meant? No, that's not trusting the students at all. Most of them she doesn't trust in the slightest. That's trusting the wards, which short of actual deific interference, and not just demigod either....this by the way is why the wards don't protect anyone against me when Kryshyykilli'vkk gets all rampagey...technically he's a god I think sort of although extremely limited and location specific and not a very powerful one....relatively speaking. At least that's what my research suggests so far. Anyways, back on topic, short of deific interference the wards would prevent the students from forming an effective lynch mob on campus. As soon as they started to attack with intent to do violence, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop...off to detention they go. Usually in a situation like that it's safe to concentrate your efforts on the students at the center of the situation without worrying too much about the others. And it's usually worth a few extra moments to make sure you round up everyone involved before moving the discussion to a less public location. It takes forever to round people up to answer questions if you don't and really, it's just not worth the trouble. And sometimes it's better to just go ahead and have it out in public. Nothing stops a witch hunt before it starts like a big public airing of actual facts. It's the getting people to hold off on the attacking long enough to get to the fact-sharing that can be difficult, and...
"It some what explains things, but I have never been one to trust in only one thing. Even when I adventured I trust multiple people to do one task rather than sending only one person. It seems reckless to expect the wards to protect the students all the time. My arrival actually is an example to this, at least from Ryo's explanation of the wards. The wards protect from extra-dimensional travel, which would include extra-universal." He talks of his arrival as though it is an ill-omen. "So I am a little couscous of the wards. They are a useful protection. One that I feel is invaluable to this place, but putting all my trust in it not failing seems foolish to me." He explains knowing that Ori probably didn't know he arrived.
She laughed. ::I really need to introduce you to the concept of the fortune cookie. It's rather bizarre. They put these little slips of paper inside a crispy pastry and on the paper they write things that are either blindingly obvious or so insane that no one could make sense of them. Apparently this is what passes for 'wisdom'. Quo, the monk who raised my daughter, was ridiculously fond of them and perpetually spoke in that fashion. I rather suspect that he was responsible for writing a number of the sayings thus dispensed.::"You have to have wisdom to dispense.... To do that..." then sheess darts behind a huge shoal of fish
::Oh, I don't know...laying around as if crushed under the weight of your years dispensing the wisdom of fortune cookies isn't nothing,:: she teased, darting off to see more of this new underwater world.
::search the ocean floor and you shall discover the source of life:: comes an ancient and thoughtful voice....
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"Bah, 9-ball. Since folks are waitin' to play, wouldn't a regular game of pool go quicker?"
Carl Chuckles then says"Before ya go, we'er playing nine ball Lad-e, you have to hit the balls and pot them in order, any other ball go's down on a shot after you hit your number ball its fine, put the nine ball down on a shot or last ball you win, don't pot your number ball or any other ball on your shot, your gos over. white go's down your gos over the other team re-spot, you miss your number ball your gos over the other team re-spot, I potted 3, its down, then I did not pot the 1, so now you hit the 1 ball and hope you pot something, if you pot it move on to the next number still up until you get to 9 ball, this is why its called 9 ball pool, Bets are 10 coin a rake, losing team off, simple"
"agreed" he said while chalking up his stick with the smoke stick and offering it to his team mate "but I'm good either way, and the game has already started, if only just so we might as well keep going"
Renkai->
"A blessing to meet you Renkai, I'm Carl "Ironfist" of the Clan Promethuigm. If yee don't mind me a asking but do ye know what went off in town, looked like a bomb of some kind, big whole in the ground and biu-dins all a busted"Carl says to the new comer.
Renkai Urmas of no clan or house, outcast of my race." Renkai responds and looks calmly at the dwarf, idly scanning his surface thoughts
Arriving in the library, Ace ask his friends "Would you two mind helping me scour this place for any and all books we can find detailing dwellers of the lower planes? I figure that might be a good place to start."
Ehos looks a bit sheepish, and can't really look at Jaiye when he says this... but he does say: ::I... I'm a little fuzzy... but she was... um... good. Like... way better than a human her age should be. If she is a demon... she might be some kind of succubus? A greater succubus or something? Maybe we should look into the different kinds.::
Of course, what might have been implied - and the reason why Ehos couldn't really look at Jaiye - was that she was probably the best Ehos had ever had bar none... even if his memory on the event was somewhat fuzzy.
Renkai Urmas of no clan or house, outcast of my race." Renkai responds and looks calmly at the dwarf, idly scanning his surface thoughts
[Carl's mind is blocked from mind reading and such, you can tell with a simple Magic item Knowledge roll say DC 10, the arm braces he has on are doing this]
"Outcast you say, well put it here Renkai Urmas, I'm the same, outcast and sent away"
Carl smiles and offers his hand to you, he dos not however say why hes outcast how ever.
In response to being added to the collective "That's a great idea, will make things much easier. Thanks."
Before he leaves, Phaezeriel adds Ace to the collective, then bows and turns away, ::I will rejoin you as soon as I can.::
As he walks away, Phaezeriel reaches out to a mind he is only somewhat familiar with.
Dara tilts his head, somewhat confused by her offer. He nods slowly, wanting to solve the mystery.
Midori reaches into her holster as if she's about to draw a weapon... but instead she brings forth a birghtly coloured yellow silk ribbon - probably useful as a distraction when tied to a kunai, the ribbon catches the eye quite easily.
She smiles at Dara and closes her eyes. Her horn comes to life suddenly, glowing with a soft white light seemingly from within, and the ribbon turns to steel in her hands.
She opens her golden eyes and smiles at Dara. "See? It won't hurt you anyway."
Ginni smiled shyly. "That sounds like a good plan. I'm looking forward to it...and dreading it...but mostly looking forward to it."
Vai returns the smile happily. "I'm not sure I would have been able to perform even at the tryouts if I hadn't seen my sister in the crowd. Fieri's the one who taught me the harp and she's always encouraging me, so knowing that she was there watching really helped. I think I would've just froze otherwise."
Vai glances at Mel who is talking to Raelle some ten feet away. She continues a little more quietly, almost conspiratorially. "Melody really helped too when she started backing me up, but don't tell her that. We don't need our band leader getting a big head, y'know?" she winks afterwards and smiles broadly.
"Alrighty then..."
He calls the 9 ball into the appropriate pocket and...
...knocks it into the pocket.
"Aww yeah."
Just as Ephebe is about to go to join her mate in play in the lake, she feels soemthign drastically wrong. A familiar sensation no doubt, but much closer to home than usual.
For a very brief instant, there was a massive temporal anomaly some two miles from the school. Usually that means some sort of time travel.
Other beings in the school which are sensitive to such things may also feel something very briefly amiss.
Renkai Urmas of no clan or house, outcast of my race." Renkai responds and looks calmly at the dwarf, idly scanning his surface thoughts[Carl's mind is blocked from mind reading and such, you can tell with a simple Magic item Knowledge roll say DC 10, the arm braces he has on are doing this]
"Outcast you say, well put it here Renkai Urmas, I'm the same, outcast and sent away"
Carl smiles and offers his hand to you, he dos not however say why hes outcast how ever.
Renkai shakes his hand with his middle finger folded across his palm.
"All are outcasts when they had no clan..."
Ace decides to call upon some of his divine magicks. He sits upon a table, laying his staff across his lap, and pulls out a pendant that doubles as his holy symbol.
Before he casts his spell though he looks to his friends "Goin to call upon a little deific aid. I was thinking to ask 'What is the best course of action to capture Kara', but if either of you have a better suggestion, I'll gladly ask that instead"
Carl looks down at the ground, in a introspective voice says,
"Ye no Clan, not unless you can....." he go's silent
He notes the handshake but dos not respond in kind,
[FM or ACDC?]
he say nothing for a moment before looking back up and exclaiming in a proud voice.
"Where I come from, we have a saying, 'The past is like moss on a rock,'To much and ya can-nee see the rock no more', so best not carry to much a lad"
"Alrighty then..."
He calls the 9 ball into the appropriate pocket and...
...knocks it into the pocket.
"Aww yeah."
[Casseus dis you pot the 9 Ball strait or cannon the 1 ball onto the 9 ball to pot it?, it is was start it was a foul, if a Cannon its a win. Ill take it you Cannoned as we can carry on etc.]
Carl stomps his Q, "Next"
Carl seems back to himself again, irascible yet in a strange way joule at the same time.
For a very brief instant, there was a massive temporal anomaly some two miles from the school. Usually that means some sort of time travel.
Other beings in the school which are sensitive to such things may also feel something very briefly amiss.
Then he stops and looks concerned off into the distance,
[Some 2 miles in fact, if you can see magic, Carl seems to have a 3ed eye.]"Now that can't be good lads"
"Excellent-- yes, I am an expert in transformation magics, turning one thing into another. You'll have to forgive my dramatic nature," motioning to the book and drawing, "but, magic is lovely and should be displayed with pride, don't you think?"
After watching the drawing for a few, clearly this is a person that enjoys their work, he turns smiling back at Rena and adds, "Instincts? To what degree do you want the transformation to go? Anything is possible with magic, obviously, it's just a matter of the right power and style."
Looking back at Rena, he then asks, "So tell me the dream you have, which prompted this, and we'll start planning out the details, fair?"
"Oh, I quite agree. Magic is amazing. I've spent all my life with one who wields magic, though he prefers to conjure new rather than shape existing. You have nothing which requires my forgiveness Shaypeer." Rena says happily in that silky-smooth voice of hers, still bobbing up and down, though when Shaypeer is drawing Rena floats behind him and peers over his shoulder.
"I just... have never had feet before is all. What if I can't walk, or I trip and fall constantly? That is what I would like to avoid if at all possible."
When Shaypeer seems to request a story, Rena settles down a bit, sinking towards the floor and coiling her feathered self up, getting comfortable before talking. "It's more... of a spur of the moment idea. Someone suggested yesterday that I might be able to be a student here - since otherwise I've just been here with my friend who is now teaching Conjuration. I thought it would be... fun... interesting? To learn and fit in. I might be a bit too big for a classroom though, and I don't have hands, so I've never learned to write. Beyond that... I mean. Before coming to Avalon there were very few who were not immediately afraid of me upon seeing me. That is not something I enjoy either."
She doesn't relax fully - her head is still up and alert, so not lethargic by any sense. "It's not that I'm... ashasmed of my form, but I would like people to actually meet me before calling me a mosnter and running away."