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| Smitejr | Apr 19 2014, 12:46 PM Post #1 |
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Kursten walks around the vacant lot that they had chosen for their little arena, making sure there was no interference that would reduce the value of their experiment. When he's satisfied that there are no errant phenomena, he turns back towards the two people who had accompanied him. "Alright, test area looks good. Are you people ready to start?" He palms his book...he's never really tried using it in anything even approaching a combat situation...but he's fairly confident that he could reign in the errant thoughts that tended to get in his head as he drew power from it. And it was worth testing...he didn't know nearly enough about the actual effects it produced, most of his work till now was in translation. "Okay, dictee, note that the test site is as control as anywhere in Reliquus can be. We might want to try the experiment outside of the city later to see if there's any noticeable difference." He takes a breath to steel himself, then nods. "Let's begin." |
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| Smitejr | Apr 22 2014, 09:55 PM Post #11 |
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"Huh...you can make fire so hot it turns blue? You should use that!" He shakes his head. "There's no sense limiting yourself...though we should get data points on both varieties of flame. They might have different properties besides just heat, no telling with magic. Can you switch back and forth?" He blinks, bowing a bit. "Wow, you did that for me? I appreciate it...but I'll be fine. You're the one I'm worried about getting hurt, to be honest..." Kursten mouths a 'wow' at the dazzling display. "That's a really nice trick you have there...It looks so pretty!" |
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| SarahSyna | Apr 22 2014, 10:23 PM Post #12 |
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Destiny beamed as Kursten complimented the big swoosh and there was a small surge from her fissures in response to his words. Instead of replying to his question though, she demonstrated, holding out her arms. The flames danced from red to blue without passing through purple. and the amount lessened drastically, so the chains were covered only by the barest flickers now. The chains, once red, were now also blue. The heat from them was now a great deal more intense than it had been just a few seconds before. "Subject has altered the flames from red to blue on the fly!" she announced for sake of the notes. "It takes a lot more focus to control but I have had enough practice that I can use it fairly well, if that's what you prefer. It really is up to you!" |
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| Smitejr | Apr 22 2014, 10:41 PM Post #13 |
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The blue chains gave him an unexpeted sense of unease, but he repressed it, as it didn't really make sense. Still, they seemed ominous in a way that he really didn't understand. "The blue flame is more intense..but I'm not sure actually getting hit by it would change in any way. Subject 1 should be able to heal damage regardless." He grins, and lets a tentacle burrow underground, and travel through the earth until it pokes out by Destiny's foot, poking her on the leg "That's another trick I thought up...I'll have to see if it can do that through concrete and stone, though. It should...the tentacles are very strong." |
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| SarahSyna | Apr 24 2014, 06:26 PM Post #14 |
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Destiny poked the tentacle with her foot. "You could make a tent out of it, or use it to... fix houses, maybe?" She frowned at herself. Those weren't very exciting options. But they were practical, so that was still a good thing! She nudged it again. "I like it! It'd make a great surprise in a fight. Ooh, you could make one burrow behind people to distract them while you do other stuff!" A much better suggestion, yes! |
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| Smitejr | Apr 24 2014, 06:30 PM Post #15 |
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Kursten pulls back the tentacle, confused. "I could...make a tent out of it? That seems...odd. And I don't think I'd want to leave the book active that long, especially if I go to sleep. Sometimes these things have a mind of their own..." Just as he says that, the tentacle shoots back up out of the ground, wraps around Destiny's leg again, and trips her. "Ahh! I didn't mean to do that! I'm sorry!" He runs out closer to her, holding out a hand. "Are you okay?" |
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| SarahSyna | Apr 24 2014, 06:57 PM Post #16 |
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She went down a lot harder than she would have expected from last time. Flames billowed involuntarily from the fissures as her whole back solidly hit the ground, thankfully guided by the chain. She took Kursten's hand gratefully and let him help her up, hiding her pained expression by looking down. "That tentacle... is a jerk." |
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| Smitejr | Apr 24 2014, 07:40 PM Post #17 |
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Kursten sighs, pulling her up. "I'd be lying if I thought what lied at the other end of this book was benevolent, let me tell you." He smiles though. "You should really keep a closer eye on your surroundings, though...wouldn't want something like that to happen when it actually matters." He sighs a bit. "Hrm...I wonder what else we should test. We should try and draw out as much as we can...we want to find the source of all this, after all...If we don't make some kind of discovery, all we've been doing was horsing around..." |
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| SarahSyna | Apr 24 2014, 10:45 PM Post #18 |
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If he didn't think it was safe to use, why wa-nevermind. She did have several painful tears to a dimension of swirling chaotic fire on her arms, and she used those all the time! So really, any form of judgement on her part would just be plain silly. "I'll try, but I can't promise that I won't be distracted by a passing butterfly or a dragon-shaped cloud." she joked, a little wheeze in her voice. Oh fuckersnaps, if she wasn't so bony, she'd be hurting a little less right now. She put her hands on her hips and tapped her foot. "We could try testing limitations on actual mass, if you haven't already. Or... oh! I have an idea!" Her face fell. "But it might be painful...." |
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| Smitejr | Apr 24 2014, 10:57 PM Post #19 |
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He smiles, shaking his head. "Well, I suppose I'll have to take what I can get, won't I? Just try not to get yourself hurt, please?" Noticing her shortness of breath, he makes sure to support her a bit more, concerned. "Hey, Destiny, you alright? You don't look so hot..." He didn't know what to do if his friend was hurt...he didn't have to worry as much, and she was the doctor. That was really an inconvenient mix. Seeing her recover a bit, he lets out a sigh of relief. "Alright, let's hear your idea! Testing it out on something would be good....but I don't know what would be okay to wreck or burn...hmm? Something else? What could that be?" He gets a bit nervous when he hears it could be painful, leaning back a bit. "Umm...how so? What exactly are you thinking about?" |
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| SarahSyna | Apr 24 2014, 11:07 PM Post #20 |
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"Well, the first idea was to test the limit of how many tentacles you can make, to see what the upper limit is, or if there even is one! Plus, since your tentacles sometimes act on their own, it might be a good idea to explore what is and is not a safe amount. I've done it myself, and I personally found it pretty useful for knowing just how far I can push things before it's either too hard to keep track of, or just plain out and out super difficult to control! "The second idea was a tentacle autopsy! Of course, the first of that would be seeing whether or not the tentacles are affected by sedative or anaesthetics, since if they're not, well..." She grimaced at the image in her head. "I wouldn't like to cut something up when you can feel it happening to you. It'd be really, um, unpleasant, especially for you." Edited by SarahSyna, Apr 24 2014, 11:09 PM.
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