Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
[X] Wake her, your path lies with her
Magical Girl Quest - The Fire That Burns
- Thread starter Rukia
- Start date
- Original
THE CANADIAN BORDER: DAY 1
- Location
- England
You contemplate just leaving, it would be easy. A minute to pack up the tent and then you could be gone in any direction you wished. You look back up at where Morgan is snoozing away in the tree, unsuspectingly trusting you as she is. It would be so easy. You look down at your sister, standing next to you, ready to follow you wherever you go and whatever you do. You sigh, gently ruffling her head. God I'm such a softy. "Morgan, Morgan wake up." You call up to her loudly, the sudden noise makes her jolt and she rolls straight off of the side of the branch she's on.
Before you can move more than a step towards her, magic rushing down into your limbs, she manages to throw her arms around the tree in front of her. There is a small warble in her magic and suddenly her fingers are digging into the tree instead of failing to find purchase, and she quickly slows until she is just hanging there, a metre or so off of the ground. You stare at her nonplussed, gently letting the magic you had rushed into place go back. Well ok then.
"Oh uh, Cerys, sorry about that. I can get a little jumpy when I get woken up." Literally, apparently.
"If you are such a jumpy sleeper, maybe you shouldn't be sleeping anywhere you can jump from? What if you'd hurt yourself?" She looks properly reticent, though she distinctly makes no statement about not sleeping in trees. "You just like looking cool and sleeping in trees don't you?" You say as she drops the last of the distance.
She jumps guiltily at your words, looking over her shoulder from where she was turned away. "Nooooo?" Mmmhmmm, teenagers. In the face of your unimpressed look she just ducks her head and sheepishly runs her hands through her hair. "Of course not. I just do it to stay off of the ground, lots of critters that live there you'know?"
Well, she's not wrong. But it's entirely unrelated to the point you were making. You just sigh at her as you start digging through your bag for food. A quick trip later and you have a packed tent, your last bars of chocolate and a rising sun. "Do you have enough food for yourself Morgan?" You hope so, you don't have any spare, you'll need to go hunting for something.
She nods and starts poking through her backpack. "Yeah, I have a weeks worth or so. Why, did you guys need some?"
"No, we are using the last of ours, but it won't be any trouble for me to hunt something to eat." You hope, your sense should easily guide you to food and you could probably just make your prey die of overheating by raising it's internal temperature by a couple of degrees. Test that later. "I guess this is where we split ways then? We are going further north, across the border. I hope you find whatever it is you are looking for in town." You and Una start walking off to the north, along the left side of the lake's waters.
Your exit is promptly interrupted by an indignant shout. "Hey! Where are you guys going without me." She quickly closes her bag and throws it onto her back as she runs over to the two of you. "I said last night, no way in hell I'm letting you out of my sight." She falls back to a walking pace by your side. "I don't care about the town, I just want to find interesting things. You will do perfectly. Interesting things are bound to happen around you, practically a win-win. I'll teach you about magic-things and you bring interesting things to me!"
You had expected her to do this, really. Why else would she ask you to wake her in the morning, but you had wanted to hear her reasoning as to why. Her offer was a good one as well, you didn't mind her company and you had someone who was at least semi-well versed in magic. You smile at her as you nod. "Welcome aboard the S.S running away from the military."
She smiles back at you as she turns her head to look out over the lake. It takes her a good three seconds before what you said registers in her mind. You know exactly when, because she snaps her head back towards you and lets out a very loud "WHAT?!?"
Your sister sleepily glares up at you for causing the loud noise, but you just smirk back at her and mouth Payback. Still, you start explaining your situation as best you can to Morgan, quietly amused at how easy it is to get a reaction out of her.
Journey...
[] Travel half of the day, hunt at lunch time
[] Travel all day, hunt and set up camp before nightfall
Questions for Morgan...
[] Write In...
A pair of eyes peer above the water in the distance, before they slide back underneath silently
Before you can move more than a step towards her, magic rushing down into your limbs, she manages to throw her arms around the tree in front of her. There is a small warble in her magic and suddenly her fingers are digging into the tree instead of failing to find purchase, and she quickly slows until she is just hanging there, a metre or so off of the ground. You stare at her nonplussed, gently letting the magic you had rushed into place go back. Well ok then.
"Oh uh, Cerys, sorry about that. I can get a little jumpy when I get woken up." Literally, apparently.
"If you are such a jumpy sleeper, maybe you shouldn't be sleeping anywhere you can jump from? What if you'd hurt yourself?" She looks properly reticent, though she distinctly makes no statement about not sleeping in trees. "You just like looking cool and sleeping in trees don't you?" You say as she drops the last of the distance.
She jumps guiltily at your words, looking over her shoulder from where she was turned away. "Nooooo?" Mmmhmmm, teenagers. In the face of your unimpressed look she just ducks her head and sheepishly runs her hands through her hair. "Of course not. I just do it to stay off of the ground, lots of critters that live there you'know?"
Well, she's not wrong. But it's entirely unrelated to the point you were making. You just sigh at her as you start digging through your bag for food. A quick trip later and you have a packed tent, your last bars of chocolate and a rising sun. "Do you have enough food for yourself Morgan?" You hope so, you don't have any spare, you'll need to go hunting for something.
She nods and starts poking through her backpack. "Yeah, I have a weeks worth or so. Why, did you guys need some?"
"No, we are using the last of ours, but it won't be any trouble for me to hunt something to eat." You hope, your sense should easily guide you to food and you could probably just make your prey die of overheating by raising it's internal temperature by a couple of degrees. Test that later. "I guess this is where we split ways then? We are going further north, across the border. I hope you find whatever it is you are looking for in town." You and Una start walking off to the north, along the left side of the lake's waters.
Your exit is promptly interrupted by an indignant shout. "Hey! Where are you guys going without me." She quickly closes her bag and throws it onto her back as she runs over to the two of you. "I said last night, no way in hell I'm letting you out of my sight." She falls back to a walking pace by your side. "I don't care about the town, I just want to find interesting things. You will do perfectly. Interesting things are bound to happen around you, practically a win-win. I'll teach you about magic-things and you bring interesting things to me!"
You had expected her to do this, really. Why else would she ask you to wake her in the morning, but you had wanted to hear her reasoning as to why. Her offer was a good one as well, you didn't mind her company and you had someone who was at least semi-well versed in magic. You smile at her as you nod. "Welcome aboard the S.S running away from the military."
She smiles back at you as she turns her head to look out over the lake. It takes her a good three seconds before what you said registers in her mind. You know exactly when, because she snaps her head back towards you and lets out a very loud "WHAT?!?"
Your sister sleepily glares up at you for causing the loud noise, but you just smirk back at her and mouth Payback. Still, you start explaining your situation as best you can to Morgan, quietly amused at how easy it is to get a reaction out of her.
Journey...
[] Travel half of the day, hunt at lunch time
[] Travel all day, hunt and set up camp before nightfall
Questions for Morgan...
[] Write In...
A pair of eyes peer above the water in the distance, before they slide back underneath silently
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Spectral Waltz
Scatterbrained Writer
- Location
- Walking the Endless Corridors
We should probably travel all day since we were warned to get out and I would like to put some distance between us and the forest in light of that.
Not gonna put it in a vote before I can think of some good questions to put in with it though...
Not gonna put it in a vote before I can think of some good questions to put in with it though...
- Location
- The Garden
Let's just get as far away as possible please...Journey...
[X] Travel all day, hunt and set up camp before nightfall
Let's just throw some questions against the wall and edit in the ones that seem the best.
Questions for Morgan...
[] So how much can you tell me about that vow?
[] who taught you magic?
[] you said you saw some interesting things, anything in particular that stands out?
So yeah, let's just start building on this.
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- Location
- England
You are between 60 and 100 miles from the Border. You are on the left side of Lake Superior
kinigget
Best Demon
- Location
- People's Republic of Portland
- Location
- Earth
... I missed one of the greatest nights in a Quest ever since signing up on SV.
Oh well... there is nothing to really analyse, considering that everyone else already picked apart what was going on.
By the way, @Sinarblood, maybe you should cut your posts into smaller chunks; that way, we could have a better idea of what part of your thoughts Rukia marks as Insightful.
You know what? Committing Genocide is an option in Libra's Lament. I am surprised you picked up on that, even if it was merely in jest.
"Instead, I will set your lake on fire because you piss me off. Suck on that!"
By the by, it was a nice touch that Cerys started cursing more due to the stress. It becomes noticeable that she has been living on the streets here.
Hm... let us ask her about that during the first meeting. We will get to see Gaia sooner or later, considering we are the protagonist.
Anyway, I already like Morgan. Best Forest is still my favourite, but she quickly managed to get silver.
On the other hand... there are only two characters aside from Una we actually met, so being second place does not say much.
Also, teasing Una is great.
And because I am weak and like votecrafting too much, let me throw in some stuff. I like the questions already brought up, but... some of them probably can be worded better, less inquisitive and more curious.
[X] Travel all day, hunt and set up camp before nightfall
[X] Questions for Morgan
-[X] What are the biggest things I need to absolutely not do?
-[X] How do those vows work? Can you tell me about yours?
-[X] Who taught you magic and what can you do?
--[X] Explain your own powers to some degree if she asks in return; that is only fair
-[X] You said you saw some interesting things; anything in particular that stands out... besides me, that is?
-[X] What have you heard about other Magical Girls?
-[X] By the way, how old are you exactly? From the sound of it, you've been travelling for a while
The questions are loosely sorted by importance.
I thought about adding a few slightly more personal questions about Morgan herself, but then I noticed that would make her ask about us in return... I doubt Cerys is ready to have that conversation.
Now let me check... yes, Morgan has a sheet up on the first page. There is not much there, but we can find out.
Oh well... there is nothing to really analyse, considering that everyone else already picked apart what was going on.
By the way, @Sinarblood, maybe you should cut your posts into smaller chunks; that way, we could have a better idea of what part of your thoughts Rukia marks as Insightful.
No, no. That's Libra.
Here it's: "Wow, surprisingly less dicks than I first thought." Which fits Fresh Meet in Light that Shines.
There it's: "Wow, everyone's a dick. Let's kill 'em all! Genocide Ho!"
You know what? Committing Genocide is an option in Libra's Lament. I am surprised you picked up on that, even if it was merely in jest.
"Instead, I will set your lake on fire because you piss me off. Suck on that!"
By the by, it was a nice touch that Cerys started cursing more due to the stress. It becomes noticeable that she has been living on the streets here.
Anyway, I bet Gaia cried in dismay when we called her a lolicon.
Hm... let us ask her about that during the first meeting. We will get to see Gaia sooner or later, considering we are the protagonist.
Anyway, I already like Morgan. Best Forest is still my favourite, but she quickly managed to get silver.
On the other hand... there are only two characters aside from Una we actually met, so being second place does not say much.
Also, teasing Una is great.
And because I am weak and like votecrafting too much, let me throw in some stuff. I like the questions already brought up, but... some of them probably can be worded better, less inquisitive and more curious.
[X] Travel all day, hunt and set up camp before nightfall
[X] Questions for Morgan
-[X] What are the biggest things I need to absolutely not do?
-[X] How do those vows work? Can you tell me about yours?
-[X] Who taught you magic and what can you do?
--[X] Explain your own powers to some degree if she asks in return; that is only fair
-[X] You said you saw some interesting things; anything in particular that stands out... besides me, that is?
-[X] What have you heard about other Magical Girls?
-[X] By the way, how old are you exactly? From the sound of it, you've been travelling for a while
The questions are loosely sorted by importance.
I thought about adding a few slightly more personal questions about Morgan herself, but then I noticed that would make her ask about us in return... I doubt Cerys is ready to have that conversation.
Now let me check... yes, Morgan has a sheet up on the first page. There is not much there, but we can find out.
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DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
I think we should ask her how big she thinks we fucked up with the military and if she really wants to be part of our group knowing we might fuck up again.
- Location
- Earth
I... uh... I do not think we need to ask her to tell us how much we messed up. We know that by ourselves.
The second part goes without saying, considering that we do not force her to tag along with us. We would just make ourselves sound whiny and insecure... although that might wake up some big sister instinct or something like that, once she realises she is actually older than Cerys.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Mm, it's one of those self-depreciation things. You know you messed up, but you want to hear it from someone else that you did so you can beat yourself up over it. I think that's something Cerys would do with mess ups that may hurt Una.
On a slightly related note, good luck safely working for the military after what we've done.
Oh and @Rukia I am not betraying you. I'll still help select people I think are worthy. Just have to find them first.
- Location
- England
Yes, children are heavy.
- Location
- Where I need to be
Yeah, just imagining this happening during a day when I was working (three of the posts having been posted during my normal work hours and a fourth being in the middle of being written by the time I would get home) makes me shudder a bit.
I tend to have windows of oppurtunity wherein I can post without being interrupted by anything.
If I post part of a comment, then wait for another person to post then I might not be able to actually post the rest of what I want to say.
Also I don't like the idea of needlessly cluttering the thread with my posts when I already know what I want to say.
And it would make me feel bad if I wasted people's time with them replying to a comment when if I expanded my comment I would have already given an answer.
Furthermore, I don't like feeling like I am "gaming the system" by changing how I normally post to gain more contextual cues from the QM, and long posts do actually tend to make me go off on tangents that expands my thoughts and views in unexpected ways, that I am not sure shorter posts would accomplish.
Also I kind of like not being completely sure what rated the insightful on my posts. Trying to figure out if for instance it was Una having thoughts of burning things down or destroying the world at times or something else in a previous post and imagining the possibilities is literally half the fun for me. A bit counter productive but true.
As for the chapter itself:
… Since wilderness survival is a skill Cerys only just now got, does she even know how to properly skin and field dress an animal? I mean she could probably look towards to wilderness survival guide for answers, but still that is a messy thing to fumble about doing.
That said, once the animal is dead and there is no more internal magic making using thermokinesis harder it occurs to me that we can just heat up the body to cook it without having to make a fire at all, which is useful in that it means we can cook without making a lot of smoke from sustained fires, or a lot of light.
Also, with our ability to pull water out of the air (ice ball spell, and the snow ball Cerys put down the back of Una's shirt than flash dried a bit ago) means that we should always be able to get clean water uncontaminated water right now.
A reminder that now we have someone who knows magic with us and that we might have some things we want to learn from her in that sense as well.
One thing we should ask is to ask how to minimize our magical signature when we practice magic. While it was benefitial this time having a future enemy being able to pinpoint our position from magic use would be bad.
The ideal would be to make it so that most people capable of sensing magic can't sense our usage even when using the magic well being right beside them or in front of them if we don't want them to.
I am also kind of tempted to look like a hypocrite and have Cerys travel part of the day doing fancy acrobatics with flight to try to level that up
Morgan: "to think you criticized me for doing things just to seem cool"
Actually have a slightly modified version of Naron's vote:
[X] Travel all day, hunt and set up camp before nightfall
[X] Questions for Morgan
-[X] What are the biggest things I need to absolutely not do?
-[X] How do those vows work? Can you tell me about yours?
-[X] Who taught you magic and what can you do?
--[X] Explain your own powers to some degree if she asks in return; that is only fair
-[X] You said you saw some interesting things; anything in particular that stands out... besides me, that is?
-[X] What have you heard about other Magical Girls?
-[X] By the way, how old are you exactly? From the sound of it, you've been travelling for a while
-[X] Do you know a way to hide magic use? While it was an ok result this time, you wouldn't want the wrong sort of person or creature being able to track you down by your magic.
[X] If she does know a way to hide magic use, use part of the walk to try to figure out how to do it yourself. If she doesn't still try to experiment on a way to do so. You wouldn't want to put Una in danger in the future because some monster can sense you.
Decided against practicing the flight or any other magic in part because once it actually occurs to Cerys that using magic might put Una in danger by dint of being a beacon other magical beings can sense and follow, she'd probably want to rectify that before practicing magic just for the sake of practice.
If it takes too long for Cerys to figure out we'll eventually have to practice other magic after by dint of it being dangerous to risk falling behind the curve, and because we are currently in a life threatening situation (chase after by the military), and magic is our best bet of actually surviving it, but spending one or two days trying to get a skill that would prevent a method of future enemies or current enemies being able to track us? Very much worth it.
Since things like emotions, reasoning, location, etc, has an effect on our DC, I also suspect that taking an action to work on that ability alone and no other (unlike our other magic practicing actions where we trained multiple abilities at once) giving us "more time" practicing a certain ability also lowers the DC of learning that ability or causing it to level up, giving us also potentially a mechanical reasoning to only work on that for now rather than just an in character one. I kind of expect that a character who feels the need to literally cage their power so that it doesn't become a roaring inferno burning everything around them, might have additional trouble learning to fully conceal their magical signature
. While it isn't greatly important right now for most skills since we are pretty low level all around, it is probably something to keep in mind for the future.Once we actually get the skill it will be something that should go up in time by simple dint of using it every training session to try to obscure our magic use. Practicing other abilities directly gives reason to practice this ability automatically.
- Location
- England
Just to clarify, yes. Only choosing a single action for magical practice lowers the DC by a lot and gives you much better results.
As you would expect.
ConfusedPotato
Unverified Verifier
- Location
- Australia
[X] Naron