blink, blink
"Well obviously, but what's with the lightshow. You some kind of Celestial or something?"
More shifting lights,
"Yes obviously, I'm a starseed, my I ask what are you?"
"You just haven't lived through enough of it. And you still have not done anything about your problem. What is with those little shadows?"
"They aren't "shadows". The aura on my arms is the curse preventing me from doing magic."
blink, blink
"Well obviously, but what's with the lightshow. You some kind of Celestial or something?"More shifting lights,
"Yes obviously, I'm a starseed, my I ask what are you?"
"I'm Casseus. What is a starseed?"
Mel just looks at Vai a bit pained at everything, both what she said and what Vai said
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She glances over at Fei making his way to the cafeteria, giving her and Mel their privacy. She flaps her wings lightly once again. "I'm sorry, okay? I thought I was protecting you."
After calming down and realizinG the quake was over and not coming back(he hoped), Pyry realizes he has another problem.
How was he going to de-ice his door? The room was too small to melt it safely...
Asha went to knock on Pyry's door, and then quickly pulled her hand back...the door was cold.
"Pyry! Are you in there?"
He looks down at his plate for a second and just mutters "Yeah, kinda." He takes a deep breath. "I don't remember things I should. I'm 16, I think, but I don't remember much from my childhood. All I know is I was kidnapped by a group to be experimented on, kinda. I was brought here, I guess, as a way to start over. Well, then my dreams started to get really bad...bits and pieces of the past would come back...I guess I had a kind of emotional breakdown. I was in and out of the infirmary, and in some SIM rooms talking to people when those got up and running...some days I think I'm ok...and others I'm only hanging on by a thread...I've just learned to keep going, keep living, but...it's alot, you know? How do I move forward when I don't know who I am? My own face isn't familiar to me some days..."
"So," she said, dumping ketchup all over a big pile of hashbrowns before taking a huge bite, "why were you not in classes? Were you sick or something?"
"Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."
"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"
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After calming down and realizinG the quake was over and not coming back(he hoped), Pyry realizes he has another problem.
How was he going to de-ice his door? The room was too small to melt it safely...
Asha went to knock on Pyry's door, and then quickly pulled her hand back...the door was cold.
"Pyry! Are you in there?"
"Um.. Yeah! I'm not trying to keep you out, I promise!" He calls back quickly. "Everything was shaking and last avalanche on the mountain busted through my ice, so when it started shaking here I.. um, it made the door stronger..."
"Um.. Yeah! I'm not trying to keep you out, I promise!" He calls back quickly. "Everything was shaking and last avalanche on the mountain busted through my ice, so when it started shaking here I.. um, it made the door stronger..."After calming down and realizinG the quake was over and not coming back(he hoped), Pyry realizes he has another problem.
How was he going to de-ice his door? The room was too small to melt it safely...
Asha went to knock on Pyry's door, and then quickly pulled her hand back...the door was cold.
"Pyry! Are you in there?"
"Ummm.....so can you just de-ice the door?" she asked, not really sure how this ice stuff worked in the first place. All she knew was that it was cold and it hurt.
"Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."
"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"
"Yeah, nice to meet you." he says with a joking weak smile
"Me? Do anything embarrassing? Never!" he says, referencing his awkward pouring his heart out to a complete stranger. "It's not? I'll take that compliment!"
Rising up after the second post hairpin removal and brush of Palm, Sven says with a gracious and polite bow, "I am happy to assist and help prevent loss of your family's treasures, even if but a bauble, Lady. Please forgive my impulsiveness, returning the item was foremost on my mind, my social skills lazed behind that intent."
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Lily adopts a expression of cool, almost disinterested hauteur during Sven's introduction and following offer. "Well, I'm glad there are at least some Firebirds who are still devout to that which has made us strong in the past." she says, loudly enough to be heard over the small clamour happening over near Sorchan, playing up her own importance.
"I very much appreciate your offer, Sven of House Brightblade, and I accept." she says, still maintaining the cool, haughty attitude, as if this was only proper for someone of Sven's station to offer his service thusly. "Your impulsiveness is forgiven, and I thank you for your kind offer. We firebirds will have need of ones of your devotion to the values which we hold dear, such as purity."
"Oh, well, I can always make you a spell matrix. It isn't as good as casting yourself, but it will give you a few magic spells to use, not to mention the other useful features."
"No, it won't. It won't work for me. Magic spells an items don't survive me. Not for long."
Lily adopts a expression of cool, almost disinterested hauteur during Sven's introduction and following offer. "Well, I'm glad there are at least some Firebirds who are still devout to that which has made us strong in the past." she says, loudly enough to be heard over the small clamour happening over near Sorchan, playing up her own importance.
"I very much appreciate your offer, Sven of House Brightblade, and I accept." she says, still maintaining the cool, haughty attitude, as if this was only proper for someone of Sven's station to offer his service thusly. "Your impulsiveness is forgiven, and I thank you for your kind offer. We firebirds will have need of ones of your devotion to the values which we hold dear, such as purity."
Sven nods with a hint of smile, pride, perhaps, gleaning through.
"If my Lady Svarog were to permit, I shall return forthwith, with my belongings, to attend you properly henceforth." He certainly didn't appear to mind the 'proper' speaking, and stood with a measure of pride as she had spoken earlier, especially at the use of the word 'purity'.
Seeming to wait for her 'leave', he is at the ready, one hand on the hilt of his sheathed blade, and other behind his back, standing at attention while looking off at nothing in particular.
Mel goes to give Vai a hug but stops, remembering her deal with contact.
I just wanted you to talk to me, that was it. And Thank you for wanting to protect me. By the way can you come by the room earlier tonight, I really need to tell you all about what happened here while you were away. and you can tell me all about your trip.
before she lets Vai get back to Fei.
I'm not as helpless as everyone thinks I am
Mel bows (a bit awkwardly) to Fei I'm sorry for taking Vai from you for so long
"Ummm.....so can you just de-ice the door?" she asked, not really sure how this ice stuff worked in the first place. All she knew was that it was cold and it hurt.
Some fellow, humanoid, brown hair and brown eyes, dressed in the school clothing walking along the hall with a book in hand smiles at the sight of Asha at the door.
"Hey there... something wrong?"
He looks her over, appreciatively, then to the door curiously.
"No, it won't. It won't work for me. Magic spells an items don't survive me. Not for long."
"So you are a walking antimagic field? And no one yet has dispelled the effect? So either you haven't had a real mage try, or you are one of those cases of why a soldier should know more then just magic!" Vickory laughs at the end, the irony of one who can't be defeated by magic that was arguing for why anything but magic is useless, unless he really hasn't had a decent mage try to dispel the effect. Vickory doubted that though, the "headmaster" (odd title that) seemed quite powerful to her, and a circle casting could beat any single caster.
"I'm a single person, and this seems to only exist on me. It is irrelevant overall, because i am the only situation like this wasting your time for the insanely few scenarios like me is stupid. But no. I'm worse then an antimagic field. I can destroy prismatic walls like they were nothing, and with some time, can tear down antimagic fields.
Vickory seems suddenly serious, "People's lives depend on soldiers. Any fool stupid enough to ignore rare circumstances and unlikely happenings doesn't deserve the title of 'warrior.' Those rare circumstances and unlikely happenings have a habit of turning up at the worst of times. Shiara called it Murphy's Law, though I don't where she got the term. Never rely on your opponent's failings to achieve victory, cause when you do, your opponent will suddenly find success, and when other people are depending on you, there is no excuse for such laziness. The empire that attacked us had only one remaining elder dragon, we never thought they would send her riden by the crown prince to attack us, but they did and we made the greatest reapling queen from her dead body, because we prepared for that unlikely possibility." Clearly, Vickory thinks poorly of ignoring possibilities simply because of them being unlikely.
"..... Ok, well, you are the most strange being I've ever heard of. I would ask how you reproduce, but i don't want to know. i want to talk to you less and less. It's not even lazyness. It's better use of time preparing for the likely things. Let the other fools prepare with their swords."
the black aura can't even be seen through anymore. Adon begins eating again, almost finished with this plate of food.
"I don't want to stay here," she said, quickly, not wanting her cousins to leave her behind.Cindra nods to Sorchan, more of a slight bow, really, and steps back beside Solus. She looks at Hestia and Solus and speaks with a confidence and sense of purpose that she rarely displays, "I am going to gather a few things and get on the shuttle, will you two come with me?""You already know my answer," Solus said, smiling to see Cindra taking charge.
"And what of you, little cousin?" he asked Phaedra, noticing that she had crept up near them.
Cindra smiles at Phaedra and heads back towards the tents to pack up what few belongings she values.
"I zoned out? Hmm, I must have gotten distracted by a stray stray thought or something. It is gone gone now, whatever it was." Kezzin does not seem to be concerned by his blank moment, but also seems not to have noticed his stutter."And now you're stuttering. You have a problem. It's not normal to black out like that."
Kezzin scowls slightly and his voice is a little irritated and a little defensive, "I am pretty sure I would know if I stuttered. And I didn't black out, I was just distracted by a thought or something like that. My only problem is that magic does not work for me."
Kezzin scowls slightly and his voice is a little irritated and a little defensive, "I am pretty sure I would know if I stuttered. And I didn't black out, I was just distracted by a thought or something like that. My only problem is that magic does not work for me."
"I'm going to have to find a way to record you, aren't i? Look, I'm just trying to make sure you're alright... I'm sure you stuttered... What thought were you destructed by?"
Recalling the deft agility of an elven duelist who was undefeated on the streets of Sharn for an entire summer, Ace nonchalantly deflects the shard from David
"Man, you seem to have gotten weaker since the last time we fought. Maybe I should have challenged Tybs to this duel."
eventually, Florence gets bored of watching the two whisper to each other. May as well let them catch up, if they don't think it's ok to talk to her about it. She wanders away slowly to allow them a chance to protest, and if they don't, she darts off to the school.
"Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."
"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"
"Yeah, nice to meet you." he says with a joking weak smile
"Me? Do anything embarrassing? Never!" he says, referencing his awkward pouring his heart out to a complete stranger. "It's not? I'll take that compliment!"
She laughed. "Well, it was meant as one, so there's that."
"So now that you're going to classes, which classes do you have? It would be cool if we had a class together."
Recalling the deft agility of an elven duelist who was undefeated on the streets of Sharn for an entire summer, Ace nonchalantly deflects the shard from David
"Man, you seem to have gotten weaker since the last time we fought. Maybe I should have challenged Tybs to this duel."
"and yet you're the one who's on the ground, not doing anything, whereas I don't have a scratch on me, either way I feel like I've already won after the fool you made of yourself in the cafeteria"
"I have a few spells that can do it, but the room is too small. I'd burn myself...""I have a few spells that can do it, but the room is too small. I'd burn myself...""Well, that's no good....maybe I should get a teacher?""Ummm.....so can you just de-ice the door?" she asked, not really sure how this ice stuff worked in the first place. All she knew was that it was cold and it hurt.
Some fellow, humanoid, brown hair and brown eyes, dressed in the school clothing walking along the hall with a book in hand smiles at the sight of Asha at the door.
"Hey there... something wrong?"
He looks her over, appreciatively, then to the door curiously.
"Oh! Umm, hi. Umm....my brother got a bit startled when the ground shook earlier and iced his door shut. We're trying to figure out how to melt the ice without burning him. Any suggestions? And if not, would you mind going and getting a teacher for us?" she asked plaintively.
Tybalt eventually appears back in the cafeteria, obviously distraught.
He gathers his trays and goes outside, trying to do so before anyone recognizes him as one of those involved.
The shirt Dave handed him is draped over his shoulders, looking like part of his own outfit, being in the same style.
The large blue dragon at the table gives him a short wave.
It is designated from an average dragon, by 1 its translucency, 2 its wearing of a white lab coat, and three the fact that it is at a lunch table and not a large cavern full of gold.
"How ya doin? You're new."
It is at this point he starts doing squat thrusts.
"Uh, watcha doin' there?"
Kodjack didn't notice the wave from the translucent dragon, and at first didn't seem to notice his words, either. He didn't really seem to notice the conversation between the don and Vickory, either, and instead just continued to stretch. As he rose from his squatted position, though, he grabbed himself another handful of meat and some fruit, clasped one ankle behind him to start stretching that quad muscle, then turned to look at the dragon.
"Figures no one here would know what stretching is," he then said before stuffing his face with the handful of meat and fruit. He then spoke while chewing, saying, "Muscles...must firsht be warmed up...behfoar put into ush...foar teh besht to come out...of truh warriorsh..." Swallowing the mouthful after finishing that bit, he went on to say, "One small mistake in daily preparations for war will always end in your death."
"Oh! Umm, hi. Umm....my brother got a bit startled when the ground shook earlier and iced his door shut. We're trying to figure out how to melt the ice without burning him. Any suggestions? And if not, would you mind going and getting a teacher for us?" she asked plaintively.
Looking back to the door, then to Asha, nameless guy seems to think, then looks back to the door saying, "Hey, bro in the room, step back a bit, 'Kay? Goons try something here."
He puts both hands on the door and frame, setting his feet down and seems to focus while adding, quietly, "If I get too blurry, don't touch me, 'Kay? Definitely teacher time wit the arrows then, doll."
He then hums. It starts in his throat, then builds up from his chest, and out his arms...
The effort is clearly a strain, and on Pyry's side, humming and creaking leads to vibrating ice, which leads to cracking, which as it builds up, finally leads to shattering... And minor chucks of ice-alanche and the ice wall starts to fall apart.
Nameless guy is still going, perhaps the focus and controlled look on his face telling Asha he's not really aware of his surroundings, when he's at the point he gets too when she hears the ice shattering.
He clearly doesn't know if it worked yet, as he's straining with gritted teeth and vibrating like mad. The sound seems still focused towards the door and frame though, as it passes from his torso through his arms. Sweat spraying, misting instantly, as soon as he perspires. He definitely appears to be exerting himself. Gaining a redness to his form.
eventually, Florence gets bored of watching the two whisper to each other. May as well let them catch up, if they don't think it's ok to talk to her about it. She wanders away slowly to allow them a chance to protest, and if they don't, she darts off to the school.
Mel calls to Florence as she starts to leave, hoping to stop her before she flashes off.
Florence wait, I will go with you, I'm sorry....
Turning back to Vai, Vai we will talk more later, I really do want to hear about your trip, OK
"Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."
"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"
"Yeah, nice to meet you." he says with a joking weak smile
"Me? Do anything embarrassing? Never!" he says, referencing his awkward pouring his heart out to a complete stranger. "It's not? I'll take that compliment!"She laughed. "Well, it was meant as one, so there's that."
"So now that you're going to classes, which classes do you have? It would be cool if we had a class together."
"Well, I have History of Agartha, PE, Mathemagics, Psionics 101, Philosphy, and Meditation. Oh, and a study hall after lunch."
Mel calls to Florence as she starts to leave, hoping to stop her before she flashes off.
Florence wait, I will go with you, I'm sorry....
Turning back to Vai, Vai we will talk more later, I really do want to hear about your trip, OK
"Look, if you want to tall to your friend, that's fine. You just met me. I can wait here longer, if you want."
"I suppose that's helpful for those with muscles... and I know what stretching is. I can name the muscles you're using for each in about seven languages. I was mostly wondering why you were doing it in the middle of the cafeteria while you eat..."
"What is a starseed?"
Alreennesha holds her hand out in front of you Casseus, into it comes a 3d image. Cluster of galaxies, then the image zooms in and in until you see a single galaxy , then an arm of that galaxy, then a cluster of stars, then a single star around which an number of worlds spin. Each world the image shows in passing. On each you can see temples, holy sites, hospitals, places of hermitage and contemplation. Then the images moves out and to systems single sun. You can feel from the image that sun radiating light, love, healing and companion to the worlds around it. Then time seems to winds back, you see the sun bust into life in reverse, a brown dwarf shrinking until you see a lump of rock in an accretion disk, then a gas cloud and a point of light flying out of it. The view follows that point of light, the image stops; there you see a being made of light.
"A starseed"
Alreennesha says simply
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"So...someday you're going to blow up?"
"In the future, if I learn and grow I will become a ShrineSun"
She pulls her hand away.
"Please say, what are you?"
He face looks puzzled, all the time she talks, there are shifting lights around her.
"I defy classification! But if I had to pick one anyway...I am a Devil, with a capital D. I think technically only part devil...but I dunno what the other part is. I get along with both demons and devils, though. But I digress. So a shrine sun? That's like a normal sun with more 'happy' or something?"
"..... Ok, well, you are the most strange being I've ever heard of. I would ask how you reproduce, but i don't want to know. i want to talk to you less and less. It's not even lazyness. It's better use of time preparing for the likely things. Let the other fools prepare with their swords."
the black aura can't even be seen through anymore. Adon begins eating again, almost finished with this plate of food.
"Of course I'm strange, I'm from a completely different world. And I'm sorry, I didn't realise you didn't like the debate, should of said so, I was enjoying it myself. Shiara always said one should constantly challenge their beliefs and views. Thought that was what we were doing. Besides we don't reproduce, we are created. If I can't find what happened to the others I'll probably morph into a queen and start a colony somewhere. You can watch if you desire."
Vickory watches Kodjack and the strange creature (she doesn't really connect it with dragons, it looks so different from the ones she has seen.) for a moment.
"Well, I have History of Agartha, PE, Mathemagics, Psionics 101, Philosphy, and Meditation. Oh, and a study hall after lunch.""Wow. That's some seriously heavy stuff. Sorry, Gavin."
"On the bright side, at least you can't remember anything embarrassing you might have done in the past," she said, trying to put a good face on things. "And it's not a bad face, so at least there's that...Yeah, I'm not helping, huh?"
"Yeah, nice to meet you." he says with a joking weak smile
"Me? Do anything embarrassing? Never!" he says, referencing his awkward pouring his heart out to a complete stranger. "It's not? I'll take that compliment!"She laughed. "Well, it was meant as one, so there's that."
"So now that you're going to classes, which classes do you have? It would be cool if we had a class together."
"Well, I have PE, of course, the basic one. And Meditation. Last class of the day. I have basic arcana, music, study hall, PE, nature magic, and meditation. Nature magic stresses me out. I mean, I'm a weather witch. Why do I care about all this other crap with plants and animals and so on...I can't do anything with that stuff....and I tend to summon thunderstorms when I'm stressed out, or at the very least high winds, so I guess that's why they thought I needed meditation. I still haven't once seen the teacher either. There are instructions on a blackboard at the front of the classroom when we get there. Usually something weird like contemplate a pebble."
"Look, if you want to tall to your friend, that's fine. You just met me. I can wait here longer, if you want."
Mel calls to Florence as she starts to leave, hoping to stop her before she flashes off.
Florence wait, I will go with you, I'm sorry....
Turning back to Vai, Vai we will talk more later, I really do want to hear about your trip, OK
"Of course I'm strange, I'm from a completely different world. And I'm sorry, I didn't realise you didn't like the debate, should of said so, I was enjoying it myself. Shiara always said one should constantly challenge their beliefs and views. Thought that was what we were doing. Besides we don't reproduce, we are created. If I can't find what happened to the others I'll probably morph into a queen and start a colony somewhere. You can watch if you desire."
Vickory watches Kodjack and the strange creature (she doesn't really connect it with dragons, it looks so different from the ones she has seen.) for a moment.
"Magic is a... Sensitive topic to me.... Um... Yeah... Maybe i will... Probably not."
"Ah!" Pyry yelled, a piece of ice cutting into his cheek despite the shield he'd put up between the door and himself and Lamai. "what happened?!"
"Pyry? Are you okay? I found someone to help...he's using some kind of
ability," she called out. "Did it work yet?"
Raelle sat on a bench outside the cafeteria, hands over her face as she tried to process bad news. She'd already tried pinching herself, so it wasn't a bad dream.
"Hey! It worked! You can stop now!" she shouted to the young man who was looking a bit...well...alarming. That color didn't seem healthy.