by Reaver on May 15th, 2011, 5:39 am
Reaver calmly got up, and took the other branch out of the circle. He put it with the remaining sand, and grabbed the larger branch he had there. He set it neatly into the circle. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll take your seat. Please don't enter the circles while I work." He gestured to Ren to move aside.
((Assuming you do here. Every paragraph split will be where he expects some sort of input, but he won't really be changing his actions based on your answers. Unless you have questions, in which he'd answer them.))
Reaver sat down into the circle across from the branch. He remembered that he was trying to teach, and thus thought to vocalize his process this time. "Now, before attempting such work, I'll go over the steps again. First, build a Soulcore modeled after a soul. I will be using my own. Next, make the Directives the golem, or branch today, will follow. I will be giving it one command: wiggle. Then, build the Astral body for the golem. Teaching it every movement it needs to know. This will be two or three simple wiggly movements. Now, remember the first step?"
((If you did guess correctly, replace the first two words with "Yes, well remembered."))
Reaver paused and waited for an answer. "Is it? The first step, in any magic that uses circles, is to draw them, the preparation before you start and all. Seeing that we have done that, you then activate it." With that, Reaver poked his own finger with the needle, and brought it down to the circle. "Now, to give it the Soulcore." Reaver focused a few moments, but no longer. Having completed it, he continued. "After that, we send it it's commands. I like to tie the commands to words. So, as I visualize and focus on what it is to wiggle, I also think the word." 'Wiggle,' Reaver imagined what Ren was doing a lot of during his attempt at Animation. 'Body,' Reaver pictured his entire body, every part, fingers, toes, hair. Directive: 'Wiggle' 'Body.' Reaver transferred the thoughts, though it took him a couple minutes. "I told it what a wiggle was, and what body was... in regards to what it needed to know. Wiggle, and body. Its Directive: Wiggle body. Do you understand how the process works a touch better?"
The Soulcore was short, and the Directive was short. The last part, even with only a few commands, took longer. Reaver felt around, each branch, each leaf, each piece that he could get to move. He taught it how it moved, and how far it could move. He didn't want it breaking right away. In addition, Reaver had another goal beyond a simple wiggle that he worked into the wiggle's design. He told it to wiggle in a particular pattern, a pattern which would cause a particular effect later. After about ten minutes of work, he once again spoke. "I'm mostly there, I'm currently working on its Astral body. What moves where, and how. Once this step is done, I'll be ready to show you what my magic does, in the simplest form. Once these steps are completed, you have formed what is called a Life Principle. A Life Principle is like a soul, but it isn't. Think of it as a fake soul. Making these Life Principles is a long, and time consuming process, but can be very useful in the right applications. Could you give an example for me?"
As Reaver finished his comments, and possibly before his answer, he stood up. He stretched a bit, then kicked his blood from the circle, scuffing part of the circle with the same motion. Right after he did, the branch began to do just what Reaver told it to do, wiggle. It's wiggle had a very circular pattern to it. Reaver grabbed the branch, and began to walk back to the boat, following his arrows. "Follow me, and I could show you one way, a different way, to use it." He led Ren back to the water, where his boat was still around. He walked into the water, about waist deep. He set the branch into the water, where it's wiggle caused it to travel along. The branch was swimming along the water, in a slow circle. "If I could put that on a boat, and guide the boat around with that, it would be a lot easier then rowing, would it not? I'm not sure how to get one that only works when underwater, however."
Reaver's CS (Voice: #3355FF Thoughts: #000AAA Hidden: #3D2828)