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It does dissolve our magic though. And I think I remember Rukia implying our magic core is our soul.
You can make the math.
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Magical Girl Quest - The Fire That Burns
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You can make the math.
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Wait a second.
It dissolves things and turns them into magic that it then puts into our magic reserves.
If the soul is where our magic springs from, then one end of Alpha and Omega lies there... hm.
I am not yet sure where these thoughts are going, but they might be important.
The question is whether it is like a small channel leading to the soul or if the field is right outside and goes off in every direction. In the latter case, it snapping back after some point before reaching its maximum length would make sense because we would pull it away from a part of our soul it is connected to until the connection just can stretch no further.
That would also explain the splitting headache Cerys got; if she actually just pushed and pulled on her own soul in doing that...
With these thoughts, one would wonder if Ignition Aura has the same origin. If it has, we damn well should not ever try to merge them again.
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I would have thought that repeated training as well as suffering and surviving a number of wounds, some nearly lethal, would qualify for at least some progress. *shrug* oh well, nvm.
By the way, if the baseline human has something like 100 health, why do the Akashic Pillar troopers in CW's quest have, I believe, 500 health? Was it mentioned there if they received some kind of treatment or the like? Unless the training for their troops is simply inhuman, I don't really see how it could go that high normally. If so could we get some of it?
Oh, and vote
[X] Naron
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I think it is the armour giving them a boost; the Akashic Pillar created some incredibly durable materials by pushing magic into the mix.
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Gaia would have to be an idiot to not make us somewhat immune to our own affinities and their first derivative.
*looks at PtV-Girl* Oh...
Edit: We probably can channel Infinity safely through our sword though. It's probably some sort of conduit linking our soul to the outside world.
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And, seeing that we were created at least at the same time, if not earlier... well.
Cerys and Daiyu are the only Magical Girls who can possibly have the really broken abilities, but they are probably also the only ones who can kill themselves with them by not watching out.
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This. Gaia has learned from her mistakes.
But you are already a released product, can't take you back into the shop for a tune-up.
There is more to Daiyu's ability that it seems.
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Oh shit. Daiyu might fall in love with random people if she isn't cautious! Someday she might wake up in the wrong bed.
We have to find her as soon as possible so we can protect her smile!
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Okay, I got Insightful on both of those lines of thought; I will note them down somewhere as a reminder.
We will probably get to find out what the deal with Daiyu is once we meet her, no sense trying to shadowrun that.
Just keep in mind not to use auras at the same time... or to try metagaming them.
We can do that when we have far, far better magic control.
We will probably get to find out what the deal with Daiyu is once we meet her, no sense trying to shadowrun that.
Just keep in mind not to use auras at the same time... or to try metagaming them.
We can do that when we have far, far better magic control.
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Our sword has the affinity Infinity though. And we're going to be able to use it as a spell booster later on.
Rukia said:
I'm quite certain channeling Infinity through it will be (somewhat) safe.Rukia said:
Edit: Oh! Maybe we can use it as a wand (if it has its own magic core) when we want to cast an Infinity spell?
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While that is true, we have yet to find out what it does when we put magic into it in the first place.
Oh, hey! I found something we can do on Sunday!
Anyway, we have to play around with Infinity Edge for a while before we can say either way.
Furthermore, I doubt that it will allow us to remote-cast one of our auras
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Well, there goes that idea...
That's what I was thinking while reading about the experiments with Alpha-Omega and Infinity Edge's description. The reason we can't shape the Alpha-Omega aura until a certain distance could be, theoretically, that we are using magic to shape it. If we try to use magic to shape something that eats any and all magic, Cerys's included, it would stand to reason that the shaping would rapidly lose cohesion by eating itself. We wouldn't even realize it since the magic would be fed back directly into Cerys's magic pool. So, possibly, the way to make Alpha-Omega more controlled could be IE with its Infinity affinity which would, hopefully, allow us to use it better. Could result in IE inflicting wounds that worsen overtime if sheathed in Alpha-Omega or maybe later into a Celestial Severance like End-based spell. Though, likely, we would need spell-boost for it though since at the moment it is likely just a sword which would resist Alpha-Omega due to its affinity but nothing more.
Oh shit. Daiyu might fall in love with random people if she isn't cautious! Someday she might wake up in the wrong bed.
We have to find her as soon as possible so we can protect her smile!
Her sister seems to have it already covered. In the interlude, she seemed super protective of her as well as having a cool head on her shoulders.
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Can confirm for those curious.
Infinity Edge is not degraded by Alpha and Omega
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If only we could think with portals......... We're currently under the assumption that our Flight manipulate Gravity to work, right? What if, later on, we can extend that to creating wormholes? Maybe by using both Gravity and End (and Beginning to recreate what we've pierced)?
I was only joking anyway.
Now that I think about it, can we change the length of our sword?
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I think we should see about getting gravity first; for all we know, it might be limited to Flight and is not obtainable with our powerset.
Once we have it, please run wild with these ideas.
On the other hand... please no wormholes. Imagine we mess up trying to create one and have an uncontrolled black hole at our hands.
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It was just a thought.
The underlined passages are weird. Maybe we can't stretch our magic farther than five meters than than the delimitations of our soul/aura?
We should try to create an appendage when our Barrier cover much more area. If it can only stretch five meters again, it might be one of the limitations Gaia has put on us.
Edit: Some sort of mental block maybe. It's not gradual enough to be natural.
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It was just a thought.
The underlined passages are weird. Maybe we can't stretch our magic farther than five meters than than the delimitations of our soul/aura?
We should try to create an appendage when our Barrier cover much more area. If it can only stretch five meters again, it might be one of the limitations Gaia has put on us.
The thought is fine... but maybe we should look for applications that will not kill us when we mess them up first.
As for those passages... if my previous theory has any merit, which it seems, we might be unable to do it altogether because... uh...
Okay, imagine a ball with threads running into it at every side. Now gather all the threads and pull them in one direction; those opposite to where you pull would be stretched out far earlier and then stop the whole thing, whereas leaving them to stand straight gives you a wider range.
So instead of controlling the whole aura, we might have better success in trying to only use one 'side' of it for an appendage.
But again, this would require a far better grasp on our magic.
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I am not Rukia, but I just checked.
Emphasis mine; we did not finish, but read most of it. So I made a mistake there.
On the other hand, I doubt we will need it anytime soon.
Although it sounds as if we got most of its use out of it already, anyway...
Emphasis mine; we did not finish, but read most of it. So I made a mistake there.
On the other hand, I doubt we will need it anytime soon.
Although it sounds as if we got most of its use out of it already, anyway...
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Una is competent in survival while we're only barely competent. We might want to finish it.
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Maybe when we do not have other pressing matters... there is just no time right now.
Again, I doubt we will get into a situation where we need survival again anytime soon, considering we are now with the Clocktower. On top of that, we have magic to cheat our way around some of the more common problems.
FLYING & SCAMPS
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You spend an hour or so getting ready, you had an extra long bath today to relax after working hard all week and then breakfast. With no work to do in the morning, you decide to keep working on trying to fly, for the morning at least. Una decides to stay in your room and keep reading while you work at it and despite your first instinct, you leave her alone, on the condition that Morgan is there. If she has to go somewhere, then Una is to go with her. That sorted, you enter the Gym to find it packed. Nearly every machine was being used and there were so many people looking at you.
You closed your eyes and made your way through the room, focusing hard on you your breathing. Your guided yourself with your temperature sense, gently heating a path through the room that you could follow. When you passed and entered a large room, small-scale spell testing, you let out a long breath. You try your best to shake off your jitters and focus on what you came here to do, figuring out how to fly. You were so close. You could almost move yourself in the air, but you kept slipping up on something. Still, you carefully flush your magic and try again.
(Cerys: 59 + 5 = 64
Pre-Flight: 5/5. Pre-Flight Evolves to Flight!)
You go through your usual routine and shortly later you are bouncing around the room as you try to fly. You pull forth a bit more magic, focusing on not falling and moving at the same time. It is confusing in the same manner as trying to describe some of your spell effects but you feel something click into place in mid-air. Suddenly, you aren't very slowly falling five metres above the ground, you are floating. You wave an arm and you move a little, but you don't float out of place.
You take a slightly excited breath as you move that way and suddenly you start creeping forwards. It's slow, barely even walking pace but you are flying! You let out a quiet giggle as you make yourself spin on the spot, then flip yourself upside down. Oh god. All of your blood rushes to your head and you quickly flip yourself back over. Still, you spend the next hour slowly floating around the training room, giggling like an idiot. Eventually, someone walks into the room. They don't notice you at first, but they eventually see you floating a good seven metres over their head.
They give you a look and go back to what they were doing, before suddenly snapping their head back around to face you, the half made spell in his? hands fizzling out as his mouth drops open. The look on his face is priceless and it draws more giggles out of you, your face stretching painfully into a wide grin. He stops staring stupidly after ten seconds or so and chuckles ruefully at himself, shaking his head as he goes back to whatever spell he was working on.
You spend a while longer floating around the room, before you catch sight of a clock on one of the walls. It's covered in armour plate to survive stray magical spells but it's still perfectly readable, and it's telling you that you've been floating around like a loon for two hours now. You shake your head as you slowly float back towards the ground, gently setting your feet back onto the ground beneath you and setting out for the door. You pass the man from earlier, looking considerably more tired than he had been earlier but still working on something and exit through the doors.
This time, there are nowhere near as many people and the few who are there just give you a cursory look before going back to whatever it was they had been doing. You much preferred this to the staring you'd gotten earlier. You quickly walk back to your room, pace picking up as thoughts of what had happened after being away for your sister for so long race through your mind. When you burst through Morgan's door, you feel your heart nearly stop when you don't immediately see Una, though when you look closer, you can see her hair peeking over the side of the sofa.
You make your way over to her, heart still beating like a drum, but much calmer now you can see Morgan sitting at the table filling out paperwork of some kind. She gives you a worried glance but doesn't say anything when you sit next to Una, drawing her into your lap to her sleepy murmuring. You sit there and watch her sleep, her chest slowly rising and falling as she curls up in your lap. Morgan passes you a mug of tea, slightly extra sugar this time and goes back to the table to keep working on whatever she was doing. A look tells you it has something to do with a map.
Eventually, Una starts waking up on her own, sleepily mumbling about something she'd been dreaming about. When she rubs the sleep out of her eyes and looks up at you, you hear her stomach rumble. You smile a little, moving her hair out of her face and wiping away a bit of stray sleep from where it fell onto her cheeks. "Hungry?" She nods as she yawns, stretching her back like a cat before she settles back into your lap, leading her head against your collarbone.
Morgan comes over to the two of you a little later, bearing a plate of food for the two of you and one for herself. Chicken slices and cheese in a wrap and some chips, wait here it's crisps. You thank her as you start eating, poking Una until she starts eating herself. Her position of 'on your lap' makes eating a little awkward, but it's not the first time you've done this, so you mage it without even getting a crumb in her hair. Morgan finishes her food quickly and spend the rest of the time staring at the two of you, looking like she's just about ready to melt into a puddle, but in a good way?
Once you are done, you fall into a light conversation as Una starts napping on you again. Jeez, why is she so sleepy lately? The conversation eventually gets around to what happened on Monday, and even mentioning it makes Morgan grimace. "Why did it affect you so much? I didn't feel anything at all."
Her grimace deepens as she thinks harder on what happened. "Ugh, it was..." She squeezes her eyes shut before she opens them. "Awful." She sighs. "I can sense magic pretty well at a close range and I'm focused on the natural world right?" You nod. "What I could sense happening inside your barrier was just..." She has a complicated look on her face. "Fuuuuck." She says it as she breaths out heavily. "I'm sorry, I just can't describe it, I don't have the words."
You were, feeling a little bad now, you must have really tripped her up. "Why was it so much worse when I used both my Barrier and my Aura?" She's silent for a long time at that, you see her open and close her mouth several times, aborting sentences before she eventually just shakes her head looking frustrated. You speak up again, before she frustrates herself any more. "No, it's ok, I guess it's just a magic thing right?" She reluctantly nods her head, not looking satisfied with her inability to describe it at all, but you change the subject before she can dwell on it for too long.
"While we're on the subject of serious things, do you know what was going on, on Thursday?"
She shakes away whatever her thoughts were as she nods at you. "Yes, I was just going over it actually." She stands up and hands you one of the maps on the table. "Someone decided to rile up the Peluda and got themselves killed being an idiot. Of course then it decided to continue on it's rampage through the country. Luckily we had a group of Enforcer's nearby who managed to corral it back into it's den." She sighs. "Karen was this close to having you fly over and immolate it."
You tilt your head as she hands you a picture of the creature. "Why did you need my help with this? It doesn't look too bad."
Morgan sighs and shakes her head. "Never judge a magical beings strength by it's appearance. You certainly don't look capable of destroying a city if you felt like it." You blink as her words register and you open your mouth to dispute her, before you remember that you had set fire to half of a town and tens of thousands of square miles of forest. You had asked Samantha and apparently it was one of the largest forest fires ever, at over 12,000 Square miles set on fire.
She sees your silent acceptance and continues. "While yes, we could certainly kill it, we would take a lot of casualties and it would devastate a massive area before we managed to bring it down. God help us if it decided to go in the direction of a town, we'd probably have to write off everyone there." An entire town? "We've always got a squad stationed there, but it's precarious with so many tourists about." She settles back into her seat. "But anyway, Karen was planning on giving you a softer first job. We've been keeping on top of a couple of Woodland Scamps, not really incredibly dangerous, but they are a god damn nightmare to kill completely." She stands up and moves over to her book-shelf looking through it until she comes across a particular book.
When she comes back over to you, she flicks through the book and sets it on the table. "Here, they look like this." Una leans forwards in your lap and hands you the book.
You blink at the strange thing in the book. God this thing is weird. You hear Morgan chuckle from her seat. "Weird right? Yeah, they aren't really that dangerous in straight up combat, they are so slow you can practically walk away from them, but they are made out of random twigs and branches, so killing on off completely means destroying all of it's body. Not exactly an easy task, even with fire, bur Karen figured it would be easy for you with your power over fire."
A question comes to mind, a bit cautious about killing anything you are just told to. "Why am I going to kill this? It looks mostly harmless."
Morgan instantly loses all humour from her face. "Don't be fooled by how pitiful it looks. It's method of feeding is to creep into your bedroom at night and start growing roots into your body, then it drains everything from you, leaving you as only a husk of mummified skin. They even take the bones." Oh fuck. Una squirms a little in your lap and you glare at Morgan over her head. She dips her head apologetically, but doesn't say anything.
"Why haven't they been dealt with before now?" Why aren't these things dead already, you think with gritted teeth.
She sighs. "We have been, for the last four years." You blink in surprise at the number. "I told you they are hard to kill yeah? Well, they are. We've destroyed them hundreds of times, but they've kept reforming from the one piece of branch we've missed. We have to reduce everything to ash or they will come back." She sits back. "We can't use any big spells to destroy them, because they are stuck inside a fairly public area, so all we can do is keep them from hurting anyone." She grimaces. "More than they already have." You think about her statement before you realise what she was implying. Oh... They have to feed to regenerate. How many people have they killed?
You sit there, thinking about these things for longer that you would admit to. Una is cuddling up to you closely, she keeps nudging you chin with her head until you lift it and she squeezes herself to you, her head pressed against your chest, ear just over your heart. You stroke her hair as you hold her close to you.
Eventually she gets up on her own, but she sticks close to you, not moving far. Morgan looks apologetic still, but returns to doing whatever it was she was with her paperwork. You remember your previous idea to go to the library and change your goal slightly. I want to find out about these things, need to know the best ways to kill them. You make your way to the library, Una tagging along and ask the receptionist, a short pretty lady where you can find information about Woodland Scamps. She guides you to a set of books about them and leaves you to do your own thing.
An hour later, you are frustrated by what you find. There are a lot of ways to kill them, but the only way to finish them off permanently is to incinerate every part of them to ash, if there are even wood-chips left they can return. Usually this is done with one big spell or by capturing them and literally throwing them into a furnace. You don't know why they haven't tried capturing these ones, but they probably have a reason. You shake your head as you put the books you had been reading away. You really just want to relax right now and not think about these fucking things.
You return to your room and ask Morgan a question. "Do you have any good movies?"
She looks up from her reading, a book about plants of some kind and thinks for a minute. "Uhh, I don't have all that many here, but I can ask someone I know if we can borrow one? I've got a VHS and DVD player here." A DVD player? How expensive, wonder where she got that from.
"What do they have?"
"Most anything? One of the perks of the job, we've also got a crap ton of movies in the Archive."
Mmm. You hear Una shifting behind you and remember something she said a long time ago. "Oh, do you have The Lion King?" You see her head snap up from where she was just fetching her book from your room. She had mentioned it some time last year, she really wanted to watch it.
Morgan thinks for a second and nods. "Yeah, I know who has that right now. Give me a minute to finish this chapter and I'll go grab it ok?" You nod, smiling as Una starts bouncing slightly in place. When Morgan is done she places a bookmark and leaves the room, returning five minutes later, movie in hand and blushing slightly. You consider asking her about it, but Una skips, literally skips past you and nearly yanks Morgan off of her feet as she pulls her towards the TV.
A minute later and you have all settled in on one sofa. Morgan to your left and Una on your right. Morgan starts the movie and rests back into the sofa, you admit, you were curious about this one too.
An hour and a half later, you have a sleeping Una on your right and a drowsy Morgan on your left, who was slowly slipping towards you. They call this a kids movie? Jesus Christ. Una had watched the entire movie with rapt attention, then fallen asleep ten minutes later. Morgan had apparently already seen it and so spent most of the movie dozing, which apparently lead to her current state of sleeping half on and half off of you. You look to your other side, where Una has practically crawled on top of you.
This is my life now.
You turn off the TV with the remote and decide to try and sleep as best you can, not like you were going anywhere.
When the morning comes, you are horribly stiff and your back aches something nasty. No, sleeping on the sofa with two people on you was not a relaxing way to spend the night.
Sunday...
[] Morgan
-[] More Training!
[] Samantha
-[] Information?
[] Karen
-[] Tea?
[] Monsters
-[] Research?
[] Write In...
Imagine someones insides being sucked out of them like warm yogurt through multiple straws. While they are alive. And conscious.
You closed your eyes and made your way through the room, focusing hard on you your breathing. Your guided yourself with your temperature sense, gently heating a path through the room that you could follow. When you passed and entered a large room, small-scale spell testing, you let out a long breath. You try your best to shake off your jitters and focus on what you came here to do, figuring out how to fly. You were so close. You could almost move yourself in the air, but you kept slipping up on something. Still, you carefully flush your magic and try again.
(Cerys: 59 + 5 = 64
Pre-Flight: 5/5. Pre-Flight Evolves to Flight!)
You go through your usual routine and shortly later you are bouncing around the room as you try to fly. You pull forth a bit more magic, focusing on not falling and moving at the same time. It is confusing in the same manner as trying to describe some of your spell effects but you feel something click into place in mid-air. Suddenly, you aren't very slowly falling five metres above the ground, you are floating. You wave an arm and you move a little, but you don't float out of place.
You take a slightly excited breath as you move that way and suddenly you start creeping forwards. It's slow, barely even walking pace but you are flying! You let out a quiet giggle as you make yourself spin on the spot, then flip yourself upside down. Oh god. All of your blood rushes to your head and you quickly flip yourself back over. Still, you spend the next hour slowly floating around the training room, giggling like an idiot. Eventually, someone walks into the room. They don't notice you at first, but they eventually see you floating a good seven metres over their head.
They give you a look and go back to what they were doing, before suddenly snapping their head back around to face you, the half made spell in his? hands fizzling out as his mouth drops open. The look on his face is priceless and it draws more giggles out of you, your face stretching painfully into a wide grin. He stops staring stupidly after ten seconds or so and chuckles ruefully at himself, shaking his head as he goes back to whatever spell he was working on.
You spend a while longer floating around the room, before you catch sight of a clock on one of the walls. It's covered in armour plate to survive stray magical spells but it's still perfectly readable, and it's telling you that you've been floating around like a loon for two hours now. You shake your head as you slowly float back towards the ground, gently setting your feet back onto the ground beneath you and setting out for the door. You pass the man from earlier, looking considerably more tired than he had been earlier but still working on something and exit through the doors.
This time, there are nowhere near as many people and the few who are there just give you a cursory look before going back to whatever it was they had been doing. You much preferred this to the staring you'd gotten earlier. You quickly walk back to your room, pace picking up as thoughts of what had happened after being away for your sister for so long race through your mind. When you burst through Morgan's door, you feel your heart nearly stop when you don't immediately see Una, though when you look closer, you can see her hair peeking over the side of the sofa.
You make your way over to her, heart still beating like a drum, but much calmer now you can see Morgan sitting at the table filling out paperwork of some kind. She gives you a worried glance but doesn't say anything when you sit next to Una, drawing her into your lap to her sleepy murmuring. You sit there and watch her sleep, her chest slowly rising and falling as she curls up in your lap. Morgan passes you a mug of tea, slightly extra sugar this time and goes back to the table to keep working on whatever she was doing. A look tells you it has something to do with a map.
Eventually, Una starts waking up on her own, sleepily mumbling about something she'd been dreaming about. When she rubs the sleep out of her eyes and looks up at you, you hear her stomach rumble. You smile a little, moving her hair out of her face and wiping away a bit of stray sleep from where it fell onto her cheeks. "Hungry?" She nods as she yawns, stretching her back like a cat before she settles back into your lap, leading her head against your collarbone.
Morgan comes over to the two of you a little later, bearing a plate of food for the two of you and one for herself. Chicken slices and cheese in a wrap and some chips, wait here it's crisps. You thank her as you start eating, poking Una until she starts eating herself. Her position of 'on your lap' makes eating a little awkward, but it's not the first time you've done this, so you mage it without even getting a crumb in her hair. Morgan finishes her food quickly and spend the rest of the time staring at the two of you, looking like she's just about ready to melt into a puddle, but in a good way?
Once you are done, you fall into a light conversation as Una starts napping on you again. Jeez, why is she so sleepy lately? The conversation eventually gets around to what happened on Monday, and even mentioning it makes Morgan grimace. "Why did it affect you so much? I didn't feel anything at all."
Her grimace deepens as she thinks harder on what happened. "Ugh, it was..." She squeezes her eyes shut before she opens them. "Awful." She sighs. "I can sense magic pretty well at a close range and I'm focused on the natural world right?" You nod. "What I could sense happening inside your barrier was just..." She has a complicated look on her face. "Fuuuuck." She says it as she breaths out heavily. "I'm sorry, I just can't describe it, I don't have the words."
You were, feeling a little bad now, you must have really tripped her up. "Why was it so much worse when I used both my Barrier and my Aura?" She's silent for a long time at that, you see her open and close her mouth several times, aborting sentences before she eventually just shakes her head looking frustrated. You speak up again, before she frustrates herself any more. "No, it's ok, I guess it's just a magic thing right?" She reluctantly nods her head, not looking satisfied with her inability to describe it at all, but you change the subject before she can dwell on it for too long.
"While we're on the subject of serious things, do you know what was going on, on Thursday?"
She shakes away whatever her thoughts were as she nods at you. "Yes, I was just going over it actually." She stands up and hands you one of the maps on the table. "Someone decided to rile up the Peluda and got themselves killed being an idiot. Of course then it decided to continue on it's rampage through the country. Luckily we had a group of Enforcer's nearby who managed to corral it back into it's den." She sighs. "Karen was this close to having you fly over and immolate it."
You tilt your head as she hands you a picture of the creature. "Why did you need my help with this? It doesn't look too bad."
Morgan sighs and shakes her head. "Never judge a magical beings strength by it's appearance. You certainly don't look capable of destroying a city if you felt like it." You blink as her words register and you open your mouth to dispute her, before you remember that you had set fire to half of a town and tens of thousands of square miles of forest. You had asked Samantha and apparently it was one of the largest forest fires ever, at over 12,000 Square miles set on fire.
She sees your silent acceptance and continues. "While yes, we could certainly kill it, we would take a lot of casualties and it would devastate a massive area before we managed to bring it down. God help us if it decided to go in the direction of a town, we'd probably have to write off everyone there." An entire town? "We've always got a squad stationed there, but it's precarious with so many tourists about." She settles back into her seat. "But anyway, Karen was planning on giving you a softer first job. We've been keeping on top of a couple of Woodland Scamps, not really incredibly dangerous, but they are a god damn nightmare to kill completely." She stands up and moves over to her book-shelf looking through it until she comes across a particular book.
When she comes back over to you, she flicks through the book and sets it on the table. "Here, they look like this." Una leans forwards in your lap and hands you the book.
You blink at the strange thing in the book. God this thing is weird. You hear Morgan chuckle from her seat. "Weird right? Yeah, they aren't really that dangerous in straight up combat, they are so slow you can practically walk away from them, but they are made out of random twigs and branches, so killing on off completely means destroying all of it's body. Not exactly an easy task, even with fire, bur Karen figured it would be easy for you with your power over fire."
A question comes to mind, a bit cautious about killing anything you are just told to. "Why am I going to kill this? It looks mostly harmless."
Morgan instantly loses all humour from her face. "Don't be fooled by how pitiful it looks. It's method of feeding is to creep into your bedroom at night and start growing roots into your body, then it drains everything from you, leaving you as only a husk of mummified skin. They even take the bones." Oh fuck. Una squirms a little in your lap and you glare at Morgan over her head. She dips her head apologetically, but doesn't say anything.
"Why haven't they been dealt with before now?" Why aren't these things dead already, you think with gritted teeth.
She sighs. "We have been, for the last four years." You blink in surprise at the number. "I told you they are hard to kill yeah? Well, they are. We've destroyed them hundreds of times, but they've kept reforming from the one piece of branch we've missed. We have to reduce everything to ash or they will come back." She sits back. "We can't use any big spells to destroy them, because they are stuck inside a fairly public area, so all we can do is keep them from hurting anyone." She grimaces. "More than they already have." You think about her statement before you realise what she was implying. Oh... They have to feed to regenerate. How many people have they killed?
You sit there, thinking about these things for longer that you would admit to. Una is cuddling up to you closely, she keeps nudging you chin with her head until you lift it and she squeezes herself to you, her head pressed against your chest, ear just over your heart. You stroke her hair as you hold her close to you.
Eventually she gets up on her own, but she sticks close to you, not moving far. Morgan looks apologetic still, but returns to doing whatever it was she was with her paperwork. You remember your previous idea to go to the library and change your goal slightly. I want to find out about these things, need to know the best ways to kill them. You make your way to the library, Una tagging along and ask the receptionist, a short pretty lady where you can find information about Woodland Scamps. She guides you to a set of books about them and leaves you to do your own thing.
An hour later, you are frustrated by what you find. There are a lot of ways to kill them, but the only way to finish them off permanently is to incinerate every part of them to ash, if there are even wood-chips left they can return. Usually this is done with one big spell or by capturing them and literally throwing them into a furnace. You don't know why they haven't tried capturing these ones, but they probably have a reason. You shake your head as you put the books you had been reading away. You really just want to relax right now and not think about these fucking things.
You return to your room and ask Morgan a question. "Do you have any good movies?"
She looks up from her reading, a book about plants of some kind and thinks for a minute. "Uhh, I don't have all that many here, but I can ask someone I know if we can borrow one? I've got a VHS and DVD player here." A DVD player? How expensive, wonder where she got that from.
"What do they have?"
"Most anything? One of the perks of the job, we've also got a crap ton of movies in the Archive."
Mmm. You hear Una shifting behind you and remember something she said a long time ago. "Oh, do you have The Lion King?" You see her head snap up from where she was just fetching her book from your room. She had mentioned it some time last year, she really wanted to watch it.
Morgan thinks for a second and nods. "Yeah, I know who has that right now. Give me a minute to finish this chapter and I'll go grab it ok?" You nod, smiling as Una starts bouncing slightly in place. When Morgan is done she places a bookmark and leaves the room, returning five minutes later, movie in hand and blushing slightly. You consider asking her about it, but Una skips, literally skips past you and nearly yanks Morgan off of her feet as she pulls her towards the TV.
A minute later and you have all settled in on one sofa. Morgan to your left and Una on your right. Morgan starts the movie and rests back into the sofa, you admit, you were curious about this one too.
An hour and a half later, you have a sleeping Una on your right and a drowsy Morgan on your left, who was slowly slipping towards you. They call this a kids movie? Jesus Christ. Una had watched the entire movie with rapt attention, then fallen asleep ten minutes later. Morgan had apparently already seen it and so spent most of the movie dozing, which apparently lead to her current state of sleeping half on and half off of you. You look to your other side, where Una has practically crawled on top of you.
This is my life now.
You turn off the TV with the remote and decide to try and sleep as best you can, not like you were going anywhere.
When the morning comes, you are horribly stiff and your back aches something nasty. No, sleeping on the sofa with two people on you was not a relaxing way to spend the night.
Sunday...
[] Morgan
-[] More Training!
[] Samantha
-[] Information?
[] Karen
-[] Tea?
[] Monsters
-[] Research?
[] Write In...
Imagine someones insides being sucked out of them like warm yogurt through multiple straws. While they are alive. And conscious.
Abilities
Pre-Flight
Removed.
Flight
Level 1
-Cerys can fly at walking pace.
Pre-Flight
Removed.
Flight
Level 1
-Cerys can fly at walking pace.
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- madison
yes! not really super combat useful, but it lets us moon anything without a ranged attack. not to mention it opens up possibilities like using flight to recover from losing our balance and lets us go over a lot of obstacles.