Solo Shopping and Summoning

[Clyde Sullins]

Done with that section, and deciding he would do a summoning from Swalden to get a memosite, he looked over its astral coordinate one more time. 8492841047291777. Then he turned to the last section, the one on how to actually do a summoning. "Now, it is time to actually summon for the first time, to open a gateway to a far off world, and meet a being from another dimension. Or maybe just a piece of unusual grass. I suppose that is up to you." "First things first, you must make the circle. Since this is your first time, likely the best one to use is the minimal circle I previously showed you. Anything more might be to high level for you to operate. It takes but a single drop of blood to activate the completed circle. Simply press the cut against the outer circle, for this a finger is advised to be used. The djed of your blood will activate the circle, allowing it to function, and also via this blood bond link you to the circle and whatever goes through it." There was a few more excerpts, but most of this was simply rehashing of what had been said before. It was time to act. He was about to draw out the gateway circle, when he realized he already had one, from the copy of the circle he had drawn earlier. All he needed to do now was to add the astral coordinates for Swalden, which he quickly did, counterclockwise as the text said. Going into his bag, he took out a dagger, and pricked the print of his index finger using the tip of the blade, watching as a single drop of blood beaded and fell. Clyde quickly brought the finger down, and pressed it to the outer ring of the gateway. As he did, he felt a sudden brushing/tingling across the edge of his aura, which was surely the feeling of the powerful djed of the gateway forcing its way open, linking this space to a specific space far away on another world. There was a flash of light, and then Clyde looked down into the gateway to see... Not paper... It took his eyes a moment to adjust to what he was taking in, but then... He realized he was looking down upon some kind of planet, or something. But then he noticed the glimmer, and realized he was not on the planet, but in its ring, which as the book said was made up of a multitude of gemstones. But what next? Did he just wait until something wandered in? It only now occurred to him he did not know how to call something to the gateway. Or could he? He could not recall exactly, but he did not remember reading anything about it... On the contrary, he vaguely recalled something about not being able to force something to cross, it being up to the creature. But he was in the middle of the ring of gemstones, so surely something would cross. It was as he was thinking of this, that he noticed a specific gemstone moving amongst all of them. Though from this perspective they all seemed to be moving, this one was coming right at him. He looked down into the gateway, which really did look like a window into another realm. It grew closer, and closer, and closer, till it struck the gateway, the small portal he had drawn. But it did not smash into it, it slipped through. It looked like the gateway was a sheet of water, and the memosite was moving through it, to emerge dry out of the other side coming up out of the ground and the glittering space on the other side of the gateway. As it floated out, Clyde could see a silvery string connecting to the memosite, and trailing back inside of the gateway. Its leash? The djed of the gateway also surged once more, and he could feel it brush against his aura again as the powerful aura ensconcing the memosite impacted his own aura, which was also a bright silvery color, just like the leash.

[Clyde Sullins]

He could only assume that the bright silvery color was how Clyde saw his own djed, via his aura. He wondered what that said about him. But his res was always that color, and now it seemed when he summoned something, it was also connected to him by a aura connected to his blood, with the same color as his res. He looked at the small gemstone creature, and wondered for a moment how it worked... Or if it really was alive, and that had not just been some odd prank. But the rest had been true, he had indeed summoned a memosite, and could even know see below it into the gateway, see the glitter of the many gemstones deep, in open space similar to that found in the void. Except the void had no light, no heat, nothing. Certainly not at all like the world were the memosite were found. Or, he reminded himself, the ring around the world were they lived. "Hello? Are you a... Memosite?" He asked it, feeling slightly silly. He was not quite sure how to open communication with it, what to do. Could it even hear? Then he recalled, it was telepathic, so it spoke through the mind. So you thought at it right? So he tried thinking at it, "Hello? I was wanting a memory, how do I get one?" It was only a few moments until he was suddenly overcome by a vision, a memory invading his brain, almost like he was truly there seeing and experiencing it. He was standing in a open room, with a large gateway before him, looking at another memosite. Suddenly, he walked away, letting out a sigh, and sat down at a desk. It was littered in pieces of half used parchment, quills, ink bottles. As he turned his head to sit down, he noticed the walls, stone, no windows. Were they underground? Was he? He took out a piece of parchment, and wrote on it: "Don't forget, we meet at the 7th bell, don't be late, Jace-" Clyde shook his head, now that the memory was over. He thought back on what he had seen, and realized that the memory was over... Apparently he had received the memory of another summoner, who was leaving a note for yet another summoner. But how would that work? How did you pick a specific memory? He was not sure... He quickly looked through the book, but found no mention on it. He looked back at the gateway, to see that the memosite was still there, the gateway was still open. He let out a sigh, and thought at it, trying to send it a memory. He thought back to a long time ago, when he had been practicing his Reimancy alone in the woods outside of Syliras, exuding his res, flowing it into the shape of a ball, letting it float at arms length, and then watching as it burst into flames. He slowly began to move it by moving his hands, and it began to orbit around him in a wide arc. He had been so young then... Clyde broke off the thought, the memory, that he had been feeding the memosite. He watched as it began to float downward, sinking back into the open gateway, pulling in the leash, it shortening like some stretchy string as it got closer, and then sank in, once more floating through the gateways surface that looked like the surface of a pool of water. He waited a few more moments, and then watched as the gateway died, blanking out to a mundane piece of parchment. Letting out a sigh, he sucked on his finger were he had pricked it, and looked about for something to wrap it in. Not bad for his first time summoning. But he still had so much to learn. And he needed to especially learn some new petching circles!

[Alric Wilmot]

Grades Clyde Sullins Persuasion +1 Summoning +3 Drawing +1 Lores: Summoning, Astral Coordinates of Common Worlds, Fryden, Kseyden, Shoyden, Swalden, Zaiden, Vilemoss, Memosites, the Diverse, Glassbeaks Injury!- a small cut on your finger that will heal in a week's time +Chests +Parchment +Ink(Black) +Ink(Red/Colored) +Quills X6- 3sm +Book, Average(Summoning) Please subtract 175 gm, 3 sm from your ledger if you have not done so already, feel free to add those other items when they are picked up. Notes Secret : First magic thread I've graded. Very fun reading a book from an apprentice Summoner. Please delete you post in the request thread or edit it saying that it has been graded. If I missed anything, PM me.