Closed Glyphing a chest oh so special

[Clyde Sullins]

30 Fall 513 Clyde had been preparing for this work of Glyphing for awhile. Really ever since he had made his latest Glyphing creation, his Mage Weapon Scroll. It was a powerful combination of master level Glyphing and Reimancy, and thus easily detected. He had known from the start he would need some means of holding in this force, lest it easily be detected by even someone with the least skill in magical observation. Just picking up the scroll sent a tingle down his spine, in a auristical sense. He could only imagine what would happen if someone was actually looking for a malignant magical force, how easily it would be seen. Which meant he had to try something new, yet old, yet better than before. Logically, a barrier blocked magic, the passage of it, holding it in, keeping it out. Taking that up to the next level, scaling it up, meant making something that would block even such magic as the detection of Auristics. He wanted to make this box so powerfully Glyphed with barriers, that not even a trace of the power in the scroll it would hold could be felt. If anything, it would be a magical dead zone, in which nothing djed based could cross... If his theories and logic worked and were correct. Anti-magic. Such a simple word, for such a complex concept. But as was true in all of Glyphing, at its base it used the same principles as were learned by a novice newly being initiated into the craft. A barrier, only made manifold, and used in a way that a lesser Glypher could not manage. A lesser Glyphers Glyphs would fall under the force of what would be striking his. But if they worked... Then it would be the start of something interesting to say the least. But of course he would not start by Glyphing the chest. No first he would try a much simpler application, he would Glyph a scroll on both sides with barriers to block djed, and then try to look at it with Auristics. His auristical sight was no where near as potent a magic as those held in the scroll he had made, but it would be a good first test.

[Clyde Sullins]

Clyde took out his basic Glyphing supplies, parchment, ink, quill, and set to work. However, first he needed to think out what his Glyphs would be, and how they would work. Break it down, figure out the reasoning that would go into it, and make it work. Clearly the traditional barriers he used would not work, since they were usually ringing something, and so only a single line around something he did not want crossed. Here though, they needed to spread and arch out, and cover the entire side of the scroll, not leaving any big gaps for djed to leak through. He ran through a few ideas, words breaking out, symbols peppered in, some basic images, things usually used by him as focus... But none seemed to fit... Then he recalled some curling waving lines, looping in upon themselves, touching, breaking apart, filling in slots, something he used when he double or triple layered his outer warding barrier... That might just work. He started out simple, wetting his quill with ink, and drawing a straight line at the center of the page. Then he drew off of one end, it curling around and looping in on the tail till the circles grew smaller and smaller and almost collided upon itself. Then he copied this on the other end, so he was left with a mirror image coming off each end of the original line. But what next? No thought, no planning, just chaos, a beautiful chaos with a logic of its own. Clyde began inking his glyphs at high speed, almost without thought, a line breaking off in the opposite direction of the topmost curve, before breaking off into a fork heading for the upper left corner of the scroll. This broke off again into two lines, one spreading outward, the other looping around in a tightening curve like some of the others. A line drawn off the other ends curve split into four equal parts, of which two died in a few inches, and the other two spread on and forked into different numbers of spreads. The entire thing was confusing to the eye, hard to trace from one end of the scroll to the other, but interesting, drawing in ones gaze. Clyde continued to draw his Glyphs at a speed few could match, pausing only to re ink his quill, and then scratching away at the parchment. Clyde took in a deep breath, reveling for a moment in the randomness, the chaos, the unplanned Glyphs spreading before his eyes, which still served a logic and purpose all their own. Beautiful, like a piece of art. He added more arches, a loop, more forks, more curls upon themselves, till the entire scroll was covered, barely a half inch of empty space could be seen without ink going through it. Clyde added in a few finishing touches, covering in some of the sparser areas, before finishing. When he was done he was left with a piece of parchment inked in his Glyphs, a single spreading barrier sigil that spread and formed and morphed into a confusing total that should do as Clyde desired. The intent was to block magic, to block the passage of djed, to make it a dead zone. Now he would see if it worked. "Well now... That was different..."

[Clyde Sullins]

Ready to continue onward, Clyde opened his auristical sense, focusing on the piece of parchment. In a simple means of gesturing, Clyde swirled his hands over the piece of parchment in circular motions, first his left hand, then the right hand, switching back and force until a rhythm was gained. After a chime Clyde could feel the djed seeping into his eyes, felt his awareness open, and saw the bloom of djed around him as the auras exuded off of everything. He focused however right in front of him, at the grass, at the paper, reaching out with his eyes to inspect it. Normally paper was quiet, not to active, a dull gray emanation coming off of it. Clyde could see a small aura of life, a light greenish hue, coming off of the grass. He could see another aura, that of the dirt below him, in which the grass rested, a dull grayish brown. But when he looked directly at the parchment, where he knew it to be, he saw nothing... All he saw was a empty blackness, with no aura... He could not inspect the aura of the scroll, it was blocked, as if the scroll did not exist. In fact, he could not even see below the scroll, where it covered some grass and dirt. The things directly below the scroll where also blocked, shielded by his Glyphs from inspection. He looked less directly upon it, and his eyes shifted about, focusing for a moment on a tree, then shifting to a twig on the ground... When he was not focusing directly upon it, the blackness and emptiness was not noticeable... But then he looked directly at it, there was nothing, a black empty nothing where he could not read. The funny thing was, at least in Clyde's mind, with his mundane eyes he could still see the parchment, see the mundane script underlying his djed based vision. But with his magical vision, while trying to look upon its aura, he saw nothing. It was as if nothing existed there, nor under it, a tiny spot of nothing not noticeable unless you stared right at it. "Interesting..."

[Clyde Sullins]

As Clyde inspected the piece of parchment, he cut off the flow of djed to his eyes, letting his auristical vision wane until all he saw was with his mundane vision. When it was back to normal, he was holding a apparently normal scroll. However his trained Glyphers eye could see they were not simply a random scrawl. They were infused with the intent of blocking, of stopping, of cancelling. No magic could touch it. Clyde wondered if he should try for a more advanced test, perhaps toss a bit of magical fire at it, to see if it bounced off?... But regardless it was interesting to see what a simple barrier Glyph, when brought up to a master level sigil's level, could do. But as he thought on this, he wondered if more could be done... He could block the auristical sight, he could make the item a shield to djed, but could more be done? This was a barrier, a simple application of Glyphing... But another thing that could be done, was a path, which was twinned barriers making a pathway for djed to follow along, allowing it only to go there... Could he perhaps... Or was the idea to crazy? If he could block magic as he had now done... Could instead of making it a mighty shield to stop all comers... Could he instead make it a stone in the middle of a river, letting the water flow around it, itself more or less undisturbed... Could he instead of making a magical dead zone, could he instead make a magical untouchable zone, in which any magic sent at it instead went AROUND it? It was a crazy idea, but still made a sort of sense. Clearly it was not something he needed to try right now, but later... Later perhaps when he had time, he could figure it out, and make a magically untouchable zone where djed based things simply went around it without even noticing. Wouldn't that be better? Instead of blocking it, guiding it around. Surely that would be less noticeable than a block, than a empty spot. Who after all noticed a spot they could not notice? But alas, it was a task to investigate another day.

[Clyde Sullins]

Now that Clyde had tested his rather simple theory, it was time to actually do what he came for. Glyphing the chest he had bought specifically for this, so that it would block casual observation from magical sight. Someone looking specifically for it close enough would still see the dead spot, but that was not to likely... But that was not all, he realized. Not only must he block djed, he must also let it out. For if it served its job to well, then when his scroll unleashed its powers the magic would not be let out. Or perhaps it would, and eventually would overwhelm the box's Glyphs by raw power and strength. But to be on the safe side, he needed to include a trigger set to go off and drop the barrier's, upon something occurring... Running his mind back through the trigger he had made for the scroll, he decided the best time to do so would be upon... The first or second trigger condition occurring, on the first series of triggers. If something of the second series of triggers occurred, he would rather the device hold in the magics, if at all possible. All of the first series of triggers occurred when Clyde was safely away. In fact now that he considered it, it made more sense to do it upon any of the triggers in the first series of triggers occurring, not just the first and second. With that figured out, what trigger to apply to the series of barriers he would paint on the inside of the chest, he set out upon actually doing it, taking out his inscribing paint and readying himself to do some more high level Glyphing.

[Clyde Sullins]

His inscribing paint prepared, bought in fact specifically for this purpose, Clyde set out drawing more barrier Glyphs. They where similar to the ones done on the prior piece of parchment, but not quite the same. After all, Clyde had done the previous one randomly, letting chaos guide him, not giving it any direction but to spread out to the four corners of the parchment. This however would be a bit trickier, since the chest was not a flat surface, at least not a single flat surface. Instead, it was six flat surfaces. The bottom, the four sides, and the top of the chest... In fact, it was more like ten surfaces, since there was a lip, and part of the four walls existed as part of the lid, meaning it only truly had six sides when the chest was closed. So he needed to match up the Glyphs so that they would work together when the chest was closed, but still fill in the entire space. He also needed to leave space for the trigger. It was this that made Clyde decide to start with the trigger on the bottom, and then spread out and upward around the chest as he went. It seemed the simplest way to go about it. Clyde did his normal triangle trigger shape, letting it come into contact with where the barriers would sprout forth, and then wrote out the trigger phrase. Activate this trigger and deactivate the connected barriers upon any of the triggers of the first series of triggers on a scroll within this chest being activated. It was specific, yet slightly vague, just vague enough to allow for other scrolls to activate the effect if inside of the chest, but specific enough to do so only upon when he wanted it to... In this case, a trigger from the first series of triggers being activated... Which on another scroll would be any of the triggers, since most only had one series of triggers, or one trigger period. On his selected scroll however, it would mean his specific series of triggers of his choosing. With that done, Clyde added three more triangles as trigger glyphs, one on the left and right end, and one on the bottom. In this way all four sides where covered, and he could use this trigger as the root of the sigil. Then he could spread out vine like in all directions. With the slow parts done, Clyde began to do his Glyphing much faster once more, painting on the lines and curves and Glyphs throughout the inside of the chest. Each of the triangles would have a single line sprouting out of it, but each spread and forked in varying ways. One forked into two, another three, another forked but immediately had a row curl up and die, twisting in upon itself to a tightening curl. The edges of the chest where the trickiest, even more so when dealing with a corner where two edges met. Clyde solves this by making a dot on the crack, and then going toward the dot from each side. Once that was done, he could stretch out the line in each way, making it meet back up with other parts, and then in the other way spreading out further. Similar to the last one, he finished up by adding in a few dabs and bits, a fork here where a empty weak spot existed, a curling crushing spiral, a few loops to through off anyone trying to follow. He even once had a line fork in mid loop, cutting off in two intersecting yet not overlapping directions. The final product was hard to follow by ones eyes alone, and was filled with so much detail a viewer would often accidentally skip over to another line, and lose their train of motion. It was a masterpiece of chaos and confusion, it was art, it was Glyphing, and yet it all held a cold logic to it, in purpose and intent if nothing else. It was interesting to say the least, perverting something that was normally so straightforward and logical, Glyphing, by using confusion and chaos to draw it out. No planning, no overarching design... Perfect really for what he had in mind, a weapon, a instrument, whose purpose was chaos and confusion and destruction. Going into his things, Clyde took out his masterfully created scroll, and after giving the paint time to dry, set it inside of the chest, closing the lid on it. Picking it up had left a tingle on his spine, which had dwindled away as he dropped the scroll. As he snapped the chest shut, he eyed the chest, ready once more to use his auristical sight, to test his work.

[Clyde Sullins]

The chest while well made, was still mundane. It had a normal aura. However normally with such a potent magical creation inside, there would be quite a bit of djed emanations, easy for someone looking to see that something powerful djed wise was inside. That is, before Clyde added his Glyphing. Now though... Since he Glyphed the inside of the box only, it should still allow the aura of the box itself to be seen. However, likely some of it would be cut off, since only the outer layer was anti-magic free. However if one tried to push further and see the inside, it would be blocked by the Glyphs. Or so he hoped. It seemed like this time, opening up his auristical sight was easier than the previous time. Perhaps it was just because all the Glyphing had rubbed off on him, and given him better focus. Or perhaps he was just slowly getting better at it. Either way, it took only half a chime of making swirling alternating motions with his hands over the chest, before he felt his djed vision activate. Clyde kept on making the motions over the chest, letting it help him to focus on the specific aura of the chest, and nothing else. At first there was just a dull grey bloom around the chest, but it soon fell into focus and clarity. However... As he looked at it, he saw quite quickly the aura was a bit off from what he would expect such a chest to look like. It was... Noit exactly thinner... Sparser... No... It was... Faded. That was the best way he could describe what he was seeing. He could only assume this faded grey color was his eyes way of interpreting what he was seeing, a partial aura. As he focused more on the aura of the chest, little more came into focus. It was a chest, he could feel the wood, could smell its finish, but... The inside of the box, that was completely invisible. He felt no powerful djed as he would looking at the scroll by itself... Nothing. It felt like he was looking at a normal chest, with nothing magical about it, certainly nothing extraordinary inside. It appeared that Clyde had attained his goal, making a chest that would block observation, at least of the magical variety. He did not plan to let it out of his sight to give someone the chance to open the chest and inspect it mundanely, and anyone else who handled it would know to do the same. Clyde spent a few chimes putting away his things, and finally took his chest, picking it up and feeling its smooth surface with his mundane hands. It was a beautiful chest. It was almost a pity it would be obliterated when the scroll inside of it activated.

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Grade Awarded!

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Clyde

Award :

Skills

~ Glyphing - 3
~ Auristics - 2
~ Planning - 1

Lores

~ Glyping: Djed Blocker
~ Djed Blocker: No Aura?

Other

N/A

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Notes

Nothing to say.