36 | Warrior | Action / Dictated

[radiantwingedone]

[ Action

Anyone looking out a window - provided it was in the right direction - could probably spot Duke. He is wearing his normal red and black, and hasn't seen fit to do anything to his white hair, as usual, so it isn't like he blends in. He also is holding a glowing sword. The red isn't terribly bright, but there is white glowing from under and about his fingers. Its a little bright.

His behavior is a bit odder - he paces out a clear section once, twice, then circles it. In his footsteps, he leaves a faint red trail that looks quite a bit like strings of math. Once complete, it flares for a second, then the math turns into words - WARNING, CROSS CAREFULLY - in letters about a hand tall. In the center of his new bubble, he sits on... nothing, heels floating a half inch or so above the grass, blade across his lap.

What to work on first? He had been reading about quite a few different types of magic, what was the most interesting to try?

Within a few minutes, there looks like someone's wooden, single story house, although its oddly lacking details - like the space between planks of wood, or the color of the wood isn't quite right. Illusions are hard when you can't see. ]

[ Dictated ]

... What do worlds have, when they do not have what are considered monsters? [ He sounds a little distant, like he's focusing on something else entirely. He is, so he is speaking a bit slowly. ]

Are they dull and uneventful, without mushrooms that grow taller than two men standing atop each other, or do their ... humans, their non-monsters, grow to more variety to take their places?

Comments

(Dictated)

[tylendel]

My world lacks mushrooms and the monsters you described. There are those who dabble in Blood Magic and Darker spells. Depending on how long a Mage uses such spells, he or she will become something...almost...demonic.

Monsters can also be Summoned...if a Mage is so inclined. (Like how he had Summoned Wyrsa.)

(Dictated)

[radiantwingedone]

... I think the way your magic works is clearly far different - the only things that are familiar involving blood are "here, this limb is bleeding. How do I best patch it up", and dark is an element like the others.

Summoning... that is completely new to me.

(Dictated)

[tylendel]

Which makes it interesting, hm? (He likes their differences and wants to celebrate them.) Blood Magic is where the Mage uses his blood - or another's through sacrifice - to Summon monsters or cast a malicious spell.

I...have Summoned. It's incredibly taxing and it is easy to lose control of the beings you Summon.

(Dictated)

[radiantwingedone]

[ Does 'celebrate' mean learn? If it does, Duke agrees. ]

.... That sounds painful and wasteful.

... Is it a matter of the being called that makes it easy to lose control? Or the combination of exhaustion and the being's will?

dicated

[teenagebadboy]

I'm from a world which lacks monsters and magic. But humans can be just as bad if not worse. I don't know how many times people just in my village have torched each other's places. Or cheated with someone else. My mum have gotten cheated on so many times by Carl King that she finally lured him on a load of his cash. Suited him well because that's the thing he cares most about.

dicated

[radiantwingedone]

Unsurprising. Betrayal, destructive greed.

[ He pauses and... that sounds awkward. ]

... I am sorry to hear of your home environment.

[teenagebadboy]

It's fine. It's home despise all the bad stuff. I still want to go home. Or maybe go home and leave that place to head somewhere else. Haven't made my mind up yet. I've lived there for 3 years. In that time both good things and bad things happened. Even some real bad things. But it changed me for the better. If it wasn't for Paddy or Jackson I would never have came out and become proper happy.

[radiantwingedone]

[ He meant the one he grew up in, but oh well. ]

It is good to have something to go home to.

[ He doesn't understand the 'came out' comment, but oh well- ]

[indirectcause]

My world was pretty normal, right up until the monsters did show up.

[radiantwingedone]

... That is a new thing. A place where monsters arrive, rather than "new ones" or "stronger ones".

... Also definitions of normal vary - monsters are what I would consider normal.

[indirectcause]

They sure weren't normal for us. Everything was just normal, then one day the goddamn dead come back.

[radiantwingedone]

... Dead...

[ Now he sounds confused. ]

Dead humans coming back to life? Assuming humans, and assuming not as ghosts?

[originalcopy]

What qualifies as a 'monster'? I mean, we have aliens and they can by total douchebags.

[radiantwingedone]

This is where it varies. The simplest answer would be "non-human", but that would be an insult to those who are not human here.

A being that acts, consistently, in a hostile, aggressive, hindering way toward... humans, in this case, whether they have provoked it or not.

[originalcopy]

So, what about other humans that fit that description? No one hinders us like we do.

[radiantwingedone]

... Humans are case by case. [ Although he disagrees, personally. ]

Meant more of "I see a large orange bird with an axe for a beak, I ought to go a different direction."

action

[rapscalliongirl]

[ A glowing sword would be a magic sword, right? Dungeon capturer? But he doesn't look like anyone from her world, so that can't be it. A magician, then?

Was he practicing something? Or was he preparing some spell? She can't read the words, but everything he does? It makes her confused. And also curious. He definitley had to be a magician, right? But she couldn't see him have any staff, so the sword must be a replacement for that.

So, she jumps out of the third floor window, leaping right out and landing with a soft thump, not too far away. Having strong legs helps when crossing a distance. ]

action

[radiantwingedone]

[ It most definitely is a magic sword. Ask him about it, it has an interesting history.

Duke hears the thump, the steps that follow when she is close enough - but doesn't really think anything of it. If she chooses to cross the line, there's a faint chiming noise, like a bell that lets the shop owner know a customer is there. If she approaches the house, she finds that it really has some flaws. Like not being solid at all. ]

action

[rapscalliongirl]

[ Of course she would choose the line, because why not? She's curious, and "curiosity killed the cat" is not a things she's ever heard. She looks around to find the source of the sound but she shrugs it off when she can't.

Curious house, though. It's an illusion, and not like the houses that she's heard Yunan makes of air. Clouds. Or whatever. ]

He~lloo~?

action;

[peacockherald]

<sub>[ He was indeed looking out the window, having been spending some time fixing pants and shirts, those he had not totally ruined during the spiral event. It was not a seamstress' expertise, but it would do as it had done time and time again. He liked it better by the sun, the window open to look out.

And just in time to see Duke, working his magic. He watched, fascinated, and after a fit rose and made his way down to where Duke was.

He paused a good distance away, but close enough he knew Duke would hear him. ]</sub>

Do you know, I am not sure I have ever seen you work magic on this scale before.

action;

[radiantwingedone]

I am attempting something.. new.

[ He's speaking slowly, because this house is still slowly filling in with details. A vase in the corner. Sand near the door, swept into a pile. ]

I read about... image magic? Illusions? I thought I might try...

Re: action;

[peacockherald]

What are you building then, with your illusion?

_{[ He kept his hands behind his back, a relaxed position, his eyes watching the magic. He tried to keep up, decipher it, but the magic was simply to foreign to him. ]}

Dictated

[rose_of_battle]

[Sheena comes from a world with said mushrooms and monsters, so she's a little concerned when she responds over the journal.]

Duke, is everything all right?

Dictated

[radiantwingedone]

... I'm bored?

[ He sounds confused. Why wouldn't everything be all right? ]

Re: Dictated

[rose_of_battle]

Are you sure that's all it is? Because that's kind of an odd question to be asking.