[Silver Sliver Tavern] Clashing of Minds (Clyde Sullins)

by **Lizzy MacBeth** on December 4th, 2012, 3:51 am

The idea clicked, and had been much, much better than Lizzys ever could have been; Rhysol why did she have to be such an idiot sometimes? The small woman exhasperated to herself, calmly listening to Clyde, with the utmost attention to what he had been saying. The look on her face must have been horrid, or at least subliminally so, he was making perfect sense after he had used the canal& water metaphor. She found herself tapping her foot against the cobblestone ground beneath her tightly put together heels, knee bouncing as she was in rapt silence before finally breaking it "that makes sense."

There was no scrutiny, there was no anger but a mild seeming, if not strained, mutual acceptance of who Clyde was; Lizzy had trouble getting along with other, normal people, but mages? She rarely met any, the most prominent mage she had known was gone- long disapeared, and with him a sizeable chunk of mizas and supplies from her father. Lizzys tutor.

What had it that her tutor had said? What was it that he had taught her, his own lessons seemed to be a millenia ago. Slowly, Lizzy inhaled and pushed aside her meal, and the wine, and instead put on the table in front of her, her journal. Uncorking the ink-well, and then opening to a blank, random page whilst picking up her quill and dipping it in to begin scribbling.

"Voiding," Lizzy said as she drew a circle, being as precise as she could, the most concentration she had ever had to do "is when something, passes through a point which has been emptied of its.. energy.." she tapped the middle of the circle with the tip of the pen to leave a random, but small splotch "and can no longer be retrieved, because the other side is random when this side is opened, you'll never be able to get something back without ties, or anchors."

Lizzy pursed her lips, thinking hard on how to explain "lets say," she drew a dot next to the circle "this dot is being transferred to the other side, and" she drew an arrow to the middle of the circle "the void, or.. I think portal as you connect both this side and the other side, acts as.. yes, a doorway- but only if you keep feeding it your djed which acts as its key, but you can't put a key in when there is already something jamming the hole, when you empty a point in the air, or anywheres, it's like unclogging that lock, so you can put the key, or the djed in."

She sighed as she stared at the half-arsed visual representations, looking up at him now, somewhat.. tense "I've always thought of it as fire, except it needed sparks, but I think the former metaphorish explanation works much, MUCH better."

Then she laughed, chuckled at his question of a pictogram, it wasn't a mean gesture but one rather bemused over it "what, does Glyphing involve drawing? You just saw how horrible my drawing just now was."

by **Clyde Sullins** on December 4th, 2012, 5:57 am

Clyde kept himself from replying, well of course, at her saying his words had made sense. After all, this was not exactly his first lesson on glyphing, and not his first time in teaching someone. He should hope he would be able to at least explain such a basic topic to someone else...

Instead he just let out a deep breath, and focused on her words... She seemed to skip around a lot, and leave much unsaid... He was fairly certain if he did not ask questions to clarify, he would end up learning little... Obviously she was not as learned as himself, in teaching others.

Clyde looked on as she began to write, scratching away in the book with her quill... Not sure why she suddenly broke out into a spell of writing... Or hadn't she been doing that before also? He could not quite recall... Yes, he was fairly certain she had been, but such things were not ones he generally committed to memory. But yes, he saw, she was not drawing something, apparently to try and explain things...

He noted her words... She said that voids were doors that led into the nothing... But which popped up anywhere... Only if one used... Anchors? Could one open in the same place... Which tied you to that one spot, or something like that...

"Anchors? What exactly are anchors in relation to voiding?"

He listened some more, as he noted a repeated phrase... Saying something gone through a void was going to the 'other side'... Perhaps another voiding phrase for things in the place were voided things went? Along with 'anchor'...

He paused for a moment, taking in everything he had heard... Mulling it over... Trying to put things in words and ways he could understand...

"So, perhaps voiding is sort of like... Tossing things into deep water? If you were to sail out, and toss a heavy object overboard, for all purposes it is gone and not coming back, as if you came back another time you would never find the same exact spot, and end up somewhere else random... "

"But... If you have an... Anchor, to tie you to a certain spot, when you toss something... Then, it becomes possible to return to the same spot, and retrieve the object, even if still hard... Or possibly toss something else in the same spot... Is that right? Would that be how an anchor works then, in both cases?"

As Eliza asked Clyde of his question, he simply smiled. She was simply showing her ignorance more, and of what she did not know of glyphing...

"I suppose you could say glyphing involves drawing... Or it can if you want it to. The important thing is the intent you place upon it, as you make the glyph. That is why two different glyphers drawing the same glyph could make a completely different looking glyph. It is not about what it looks like to any one person, it is about what it means to you the drawer, and the intent you place upon it in its inception, which allows it to manipulate other magics. You place the importance on it. That is why I asked. So I would know what shapes are important to you, to start your lesson on glyphing."

by **Cataclysm** on April 25th, 2013, 10:44 am

Cylde Sullins :

Lizzy :

Nice chat though I admit I did not like the timing for when you used your auristics. Not really a Clyde like behavior from what I have seen so far but hey what do I know? Though it's a conversation starter and it gets parts of the story moving so it has merit. The lighting of the candle I felt was much more natural.

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