"No, no. We can go soon. I have no reason to stay here."
Dara nodded. 'I'm magnet' he signed. 'Can make metal move.'"Sugoi!!" Midori says again, obviously very excited.
"How fast can you move it? How mcuh can you control at once?" She asks taking a step closer and fishing in her pouch again, this time bringing out a pair of shuriken and holding them out towards Dara, palm up.
Dara focused on the shuriken and both went flying into the opposite wall on a trajectory that kept them far from anyone else in the room.
He shrugged.
'Go play game with Sun now. Can play with you later. Bye.'
"I'm trying. I've been run out of places for less reason in the past. Even though I know that's not going to happen here, I can't help but feel nervous about it."
"We won't let that happen, alright Ginni? I might not know you guys that well, but if both Raelle and Sadie think you're a good person, that's enough for me. Do you want me to talk to my Uncle Ryo? Maybe he can do something to make the rumours stop?" Vai offers.
Dara focused on the shuriken and both went flying into the opposite wall on a trajectory that kept them far from anyone else in the room.
He shrugged.
"Hajime mashite." Midori finishes the introduction properly with Settro, before turning back to Dara. "You should go play Dara-san, but maybe we can practice together! If I'm nearby you never have to be scared of anyone! I can make metal for you!" she says, actually excited about her power for the first time in memory.
"Hai! Go play, we'll talk later okay?" she says with a smile.
"Hello, Reviarti. I am Ephebe Blackscales. Please excuse us. I would be happy to speak with you at another time," she said politely.
::No luck finding the person, but I haven't detected any further anomalies, so they're around here somewhere.::
She snapped her fingers and an aschen appeared, bowing obsequiously. "Search the grounds for anyone who wasn't here fifteen minutes ago. That one is not who I'm looking for," she added, pointing to Reviarti.
"I'm trying. I've been run out of places for less reason in the past. Even though I know that's not going to happen here, I can't help but feel nervous about it.""We won't let that happen, alright Ginni? I might not know you guys that well, but if both Raelle and Sadie think you're a good person, that's enough for me. Do you want me to talk to my Uncle Ryo? Maybe he can do something to make the rumours stop?" Vai offers.
Ginni shook her head. "That's the thing about rumors. Once they get started, you can't stop them. You just have to wait them out. But it means a lot to me knowing that you guys are all willing to stand up for me...Raelle already got sent to detention once for slapping some girl who was being nasty about it. So maybe not so much with the fights, but other than that," she said trying to smile and almost getting there.
"Umm... I'm really good at divination... And i can see into the past..."
Wyrd slips out of the stone wall into his room. The school adapted to his desire for both solitude and a place to work on weaponsmithing by placing a high quality forge inside his quarters. In one corner stood a furnace for refining the ores he often brought back on his underground forays. Depositing the gems on a workbench, he takes the ores to the furnace and gets to work.
Dara focused on the shuriken and both went flying into the opposite wall on a trajectory that kept them far from anyone else in the room.
He shrugged.
"Hajime mashite." Midori finishes the introduction properly with Settro, before turning back to Dara. "You should go play Dara-san, but maybe we can practice together! If I'm nearby you never have to be scared of anyone! I can make metal for you!" she says, actually excited about her power for the first time in memory.
"Hai! Go play, we'll talk later okay?" she says with a smile.
Dara nodded eagerly, obviously a fan of this idea before heading off to play.
"I'm glad that Dara found out about your metal ability, Midori. That really made him feel better. Maybe now he'll start coming to class," Chara said cheerfully.
"Ooh, pretty....are we gonna make one for me too? Can mine be yellow? Like sunflowers?"
"Umm... I'm really good at divination... And i can see into the past..."
"How good are you at seeing the recent past? Someone teleported to just outside the school grounds a few minutes ago. I need to know where they went," she said, fudging the details a little bit.
"It's rather uncontrollable. It focuses on events with a large fact on the timeline, and only triggers on contact with the object. It doesn't always work."
"That's the planetary wards. The rules for those changed shortly before you arrived. To allow for things like extra-dimensional travel. And space travel. Which is of course more possible now that the planet has been flipped inside out....still getting used to this whole ginormous sky we've acquired since then. Anyways, those are totally different wards than the school wards. You're comparing apples and kumquats."
He shakes his head no. "No the planetary wards I have no confusion over. I appeared in the gym of Avalon. It seems my arrival ended a furious snowball fight. It was lucky there were some students with the ability to understand me."
"Yes, let's go play."
Sara had been very focused on finishing the dress. Stopping to say hi to Chara, Settro and the new person.
Ginni shook her head. "That's the thing about rumors. Once they get started, you can't stop them. You just have to wait them out. But it means a lot to me knowing that you guys are all willing to stand up for me...Raelle already got sent to detention once for slapping some girl who was being nasty about it. So maybe not so much with the fights, but other than that," she said trying to smile and almost getting there.
"Alright, well I think we're supposed to be forgetting about our troubles right? You know we're here for you, so that's that. Right?" Vai smiles broadly for Ginni, putting on a cheerful attitude and brushing some her blonde hair behind her ear.
"I'm glad that Dara found out about your metal ability, Midori. That really made him feel better. Maybe now he'll start coming to class," Chara said cheerfully.
"Ooh, pretty....are we gonna make one for me too? Can mine be yellow? Like sunflowers?"
"I've never felt excited about my ability before Chara-chan! I was always so scared I would lose control but I think if Dara-san and I practice together we won't have much to worry about!" Midori says happily as she goes to retrieve her shuriken from the wall where Dara has implanted them.
"Hai! Let's look for some patterns in here, and we need to take some measurements so we know we're making the right size!"
"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...
Shaypeer smiles and nods saying, "It might take a bit of getting used to it, but we're in a school, so the learning won't be that slow I suspect. The choice will be yours-- a humanoid figure, or your current one, which is impressive. It's a shame some people fear your look, but you could educate them otherwise, no? I can prepare for the changes, you just need to tell me the specifics-- hair color, height, all those little details so it's perfect. I take pride in what I do, you should be proud of what you decide on."
"It's rather uncontrollable. It focuses on events with a large fact on the timeline, and only triggers on contact with the object. It doesn't always work."
"Probably won't work for this then. If you want to try, they came through in that crater over that way. But I'm not holding out much hope for it really."
::Whoever it is came from the future of a timeline that diverged from ours about six months ago. But that's all I've got. Not sure what the point of divergence was,:: she said telepathically to Krays. ::Bootprint looked military.::
He shakes his head no. "No the planetary wards I have no confusion over. I appeared in the gym of Avalon. It seems my arrival ended a furious snowball fight. It was lucky there were some students with the ability to understand me."
"Hmm...I wonder. It might have been during the troubles the wards were having last year.....Or it might have been the school itself. Teachers...and students for that matter....show up from the darnedest places. Places that have never heard of here....there were even advertisements for teaching positions placed in the world serpent inn...and nobody from the school put them up. It was the talk of the teachers lounge for about a day before something else came up to distract folks."
"Well, if it's worth all this fuss, it probobly has a large effect, so it would be rather easy to Focus on. Could you give a brief discription of the crater? I want to teleport."
::[/b]"Sorry Phaez, not exactly used to working with others. Most of the 'others' I knew from my home world were all killed off quite some time ago"[/b]:: There is no real sorrow in his voice, just a touch of sadness.
::"Good ideas though, I'll cast my spell twice then. I also plan to Commune with my deity as well, to seek even more answers."::
"How should we draw out the being that seduced Ehos?"
"Alright, well I think we're supposed to be forgetting about our troubles right? You know we're here for you, so that's that. Right?" Vai smiles broadly for Ginni, putting on a cheerful attitude and brushing some her blonde hair behind her ear.
"Right...we'll save the crying for later....around the time Raelle realizes she's the only one here except maybe the new girl who isn't currently in a happy relationship," Ginni said quietly so Raelle wouldn't overhear. "Morrivan hid some beeswax behind the other snacks for when she figures it out. It's like the firebird equivalent of cookie dough ice cream."
"I'm glad that Dara found out about your metal ability, Midori. That really made him feel better. Maybe now he'll start coming to class," Chara said cheerfully.
"Ooh, pretty....are we gonna make one for me too? Can mine be yellow? Like sunflowers?"
"I've never felt excited about my ability before Chara-chan! I was always so scared I would lose control but I think if Dara-san and I practice together we won't have much to worry about!" Midori says happily as she goes to retrieve her shuriken from the wall where Dara has implanted them.
"Hai! Let's look for some patterns in here, and we need to take some measurements so we know we're making the right size!"
"That's even better. It helps you and Dara," Chara said enthusiastically.
"Wow, Sara is really into this sewing thing, huh? She concentrates on it almost as much as Ignace."
Chara looked through the patterns until she found one that had white ducks on a bright yellow background. "This one! I like this one best."
"Well, if it's worth all this fuss, it probobly has a large effect, so it would be rather easy to Focus on. Could you give a brief discription of the crater? I want to teleport."
"It's a big hole in the ground, like a bowl, kinda glassy in spots, about two miles that way."
"Alright, that should do."
and she disappears. She appears in the crater, and runs her hand across the ground, her third eye opening in center of her first belt in response to a significant temporal event.
Time sight-
On contact with an important object, often riviarti will have her third eye open of it's own accord. Her third eye can view the past, homing in on the most recent "significant" event. During the time she views this, she is paralyzed. She can expend uses of hand of the apprentice to use arcane sight and true seeing through this, as usual. (Due to plotline ending power, whomever runs a plot can control this. Often, it isn't entirely accurate, or only offers shaded figures.)
Occasionally, (20% of the time) while her third eye is open, it will allow her to see the near future, predicting an attack before it happens. Is gives her a insight bonus to ac of +20 vs that attack, and any attempt to feint fails. This does not function if she isn't aware of the attack.
@Ace:
Casting your spell, you hear the laughter and chuckle of your patron, with a simple phrase responding, "Love corrupted a tasty treat, provide another meal for it to eat. Be advised, with out risk, there will never be a reward."
Then the spell is complete.
Renkai smiles and nods, taking the cue and walking to the corner of the table waiting for the balls to be racked...
"So, what exactly is that smell? It's like a tin cup being dissolved "
"Not me that smells bad, I had a bath last week"
"Hmm...I wonder. It might have been during the troubles the wards were having last year.....Or it might have been the school itself. Teachers...and students for that matter....show up from the darnedest places. Places that have never heard of here....there were even advertisements for teaching positions placed in the world serpent inn...and nobody from the school put them up. It was the talk of the teachers lounge for about a day before something else came up to distract folks."
"It is possible, I guess. I'm glad whatever it was isn't reckless. Power like that could be dangerous for both universes. WellI guess eventually I will discover what it was and why I was brought here. I think I'll thank it for the chance to meet you."
Looks at Arthur,
"You lad baths every day, its not healthy I tell ye, mind you I used soup and all, so im telling ya it an't me a wifing"
Carl slaps 10 coin down, then starts racking the balls and when done waits for the other team to brake.
::"Sounds like our best bet is to bait her, most likely with another couple of young lovers. I do not think Ehos and Jaiye will suffice. Not to be a jerk, but I feel the love there is not, uh, tasty enough, for lack of a better term. Hmmm. Maybe I can ask Ginni to be the bait with me. I'm pretty sure I can protect us, and if nessecary we can ask a teacher for help."::
::"Should I cast my spell again, and ask about the location of Ehos' charm? or move on to Communing?"::
::Hey, Dave. Is it possible to be able make this telepathy link permanent? Not constant, but so we don't have to do and redo the link all the time? Something like permanence for psionics? I'd like to be able to talk to you whenever not out loud. Especially if it could work over a distance.::
::I am a telepath, linking minds is second nature to me, doesn't even require any expenditure of energy, and incarnate is what the psionic permanence is called, though I suppose I could try to get you some way to initiate it yourself::
::Ya. That's what I meant. I could talk to you through this. I can work it with the machine thing you have but that's out loud. I can't telepathy talk with people who don't a tech thing. I'm still not really sure how to use this thing so well. And I don't suppose I ever will now. . . .::
:hey man, don't be like that, she might come back and even if she doesn't there will be other people who can teach you about the tech thing:
::I guess so. . . . Anyways. . . . So you think the link can be done?::
::sure, we'll do it when we get back if you want::
Lining up ten one coins on the edge of the table.....then sniffing again...
"why are you carrying acid dwarf?" Renkai teases, motioning to his drink
"Acid? you mean the Dwarf Ale, far as I knows, Dwarf ale is strong but acid, nay lad, it just puts hears on ya chest, its good for pain stripping as well"
Carl takes a swig off his dwarf ale, some drops on the ground and you can see the grass go brown before your eyes, Carl belches, there is quite a whiff after.
"See good for ya"
"Right...we'll save the crying for later....around the time Raelle realizes she's the only one here except maybe the new girl who isn't currently in a happy relationship," Ginni said quietly so Raelle wouldn't overhear. "Morrivan hid some beeswax behind the other snacks for when she figures it out. It's like the firebird equivalent of cookie dough ice cream."
"I'm pretty that if she wanted to, Raelle could be in a relationship too." Vai whspers conspiratorially. "She's alot more popular than I think she realizes."
"Wait... do we have cookie dough ice cream? That sounds delicious..."
Shaypeer smiles and nods saying, "It might take a bit of getting used to it, but we're in a school, so the learning won't be that slow I suspect. The choice will be yours-- a humanoid figure, or your current one, which is impressive. It's a shame some people fear your look, but you could educate them otherwise, no? I can prepare for the changes, you just need to tell me the specifics-- hair color, height, all those little details so it's perfect. I take pride in what I do, you should be proud of what you decide on."
Rena shakes her head a little sadly. "People can only be educated if they /want/ to learn. Most people are content with their lives and don't strive to learn or be better. I cannot - and would not - force them to change."
It does take a bit more coaxing, but eventually Rena is able to give Shaypeer all the little details he's looking for: she wants hair the same whitish-blue as her feathers, to be tall but not overly so (5'10"). Her build is probably going to be muscular whatever Shaypeer does. She wants green eyes, and her hair to be long and flowing.. waist length.
"That's even better. It helps you and Dara," Chara said enthusiastically.
"Wow, Sara is really into this sewing thing, huh? She concentrates on it almost as much as Ignace."
Chara looked through the patterns until she found one that had white ducks on a bright yellow background. "This one! I like this one best."
"Hai, sewing can be fun too! Cariban-san is really good at it, that's why we can do this without Ignace-chan's help. Don't tell her please Cha-tan. It should be a surprise!" Midori says excitedly as she helps Chara to pull out the bolt of fabric she had chosen. She can't quite repress a smile that comes with the overly-cute choice of pattern that Chara had made. "This will suit you nicely I think Cha-tan."
Midori begins to lay out the fabric as the other two are finishing up Sara's yukata. "Okay Cha-tan, stand on here please so I can take your measurements." she says, picking up the measuring tape.
@Reviarti:
Reviarti is able to get a near-perfect fix on the temporal, and her Time Sight comes into near-perfect focus. After a moment of nothing happening, there is a brief shimmering in the air at the exact time of the event... but nothing appears. At least, no figure. Possibly invisible or cloaked, but there's definitely someone there as the dust on the ground is being stirred. As if by someone with wings... or perhaps a personal flight device - a jetpack of some kind. Either way, whatever is there isn't generating any noise. Reviarti sees a bootprint form on the ground as the being lands, and then nothing. The dust stops being kicked up.
After a couple more seconds, the dust has mostly settled, and the girl she had spoken to earlier shows up at the site, and begins to look around.
when the dust appears, she immediately casts True seeing, spending 4 uses of hand of the apprentice.
Strangely, True Seeing does not reveal the subject.
Reviarti may be aware of several ways to deny True Seeing - one of the main ones being the spell Mind Blank, which blocks most divination spells including True Seeing.
"F***! I f****** hate that spell! One spell denying an entire school of magic... Makes me so mad. One spell negating all my hard work...."
she teleports back to the school and ephebe.
::"Sounds like our best bet is to bait her, most likely with another couple of young lovers. I do not think Ehos and Jaiye will suffice. Not to be a jerk, but I feel the love there is not, uh, tasty enough, for lack of a better term. Hmmm. Maybe I can ask Ginni to be the bait with me. I'm pretty sure I can protect us, and if nessecary we can ask a teacher for help."::
::"Should I cast my spell again, and ask about the location of Ehos' charm? or move on to Communing?"::
::It's probably useless to do so, but unless you think it's a completely waste Ace we should at least try to do it. I don't think she'd be so careless, but you never know.:: Ehos shakes off his slight depression as causing Jaiye yet more pain and sets off after her.
::I'm gonna go find some books too.:: he lies, but that message is only to Ace.
::Ace... it's a big risk, for whoever we put up to be the bait. She may not even go for you either, if she finds out that we've been working together.::
He goes off in search of Jaiye, aiming for her nook in the comic book section first.
"Ooh. Someone is really pissed off. Tastes good."
after meeting Karla Mel excuses herself It is nice to have you here. but if you will excuse me I made a promise to dedicate a song and I want to test out a couple new songs as well.
Mel sets up the Sim band and stage I would like to dedicate this song to all of us that have been wronged in our lives. and lets just hope that our time here and our time together will only make us stronger with a wave of her sonic device the lighting changes and begin to pulsate and flash and color chages in tune with her music as Mel goes into this song.