“Follow? Yes I suppose I did.”
Clyde was somewaht annoyed to see the nuit tagging along, particularly since he had done so without asking for permission. Perhaps he didn't want just anyone watching, or tagging along, or interfering. A frown settled over his face as he stared back, considering whether or not a well aimed fireball sent at his head would be enough to make him scurry back to the dark depth of the citadel. But as he was pondering this, he noticed Anna nearing.
“Oh, I am Lenore.”
Lenore, for some reason the name annoyed Clyde further. Of course since it was more his presence there, the fact that he answered Clyde's question did little to settle his annoyance.
“I will stay out of the way Clyde Sullins, I wished to observe the wildlife this morning but I think this will be more constructive.”
“Don't annoy me Lenny, or whatever your name was. Or before this day is done you'll be looking for a new body. Do I make myself clear?”
As he spoke this, clearly a statement meant as intimidating, he glared at the nuit, making his meaning amply clear. Without bothering to hear his answer, Clyde turned back to face the approaching Annalisa Marin.
“Hail, Clyde. I see this season has fared you well enough. I suppose that is all one can ask for on Sahova.”
Clyde nodded his agreement, looking over Anna. She seemed a bit worse for wear, even considering how most pulsers were treated on Sahova. Perhaps too many of the nuit had been undead for too long, and forgot the requirements of the living. If he stuck around long term, he would need to make sure to deal with some of those issues.
“So, what manner of duel is this you had in mind? What are the rules and the magics permitted? As the one to be challenged I suppose I’d normally have the right to choose weaponry while you would choose location but I’ll accede both to you.”
Clyde paused for a moment, and held up the stone cube made of Sahovan terrain before her. He held it at an angle so that she would see that two of the visible faces held glyphs, and the third was the marred and expended side. The other sides were facing away.
“A duel with these. I know you know of Glyphing, yes? Well this is a creation of mine using Glyphing, I call it a Reimancer's cube. You store magic in the faces, a spell on each, and then use Reimancy to move the cube about and to break the glyphs when you need to release the spell. I invented it a season or two ago.”
Clyde paused for a moment, and then stepped forward, handing the cube over for Anna to inspect it.
“So, you'll need to make one of these, and prepare it with spells. Then our cubes fight, and the last one standing wins. If we both run out of spells, its a tie. So the weapon will be these, the magic will be Reimancy, and the fight is to the death... Well the death of one of the cubes, not us. Oh and for safety reasons, no lava or lightning. That could go badly fast. But besides that, any other reasonably sized Reimancy spell goes! Of course since the cubes are of a certain size, and so is the focus, you can only fit such a sized spell inside. So that is a self limiting factor in and of itself.”
Grinning back at Anna, he watched her, waiting for her to finish inspecting the cube.
“So, when you are ready, just make a copy of the cube, glyph it, and store some spells in it.”
Turning back to the nuit, Clyde frowned, making his mood towards the interloper clear.
“You said to stand back Clyde Sullins, will that boulder be suitably far?”
“I make no promises, so long as you remain. I cannot say what might happen with a stray spell, or with any leftover ones in the cube should it be destroyed.”
Of course, the idea was somewhat odd, fighting with a pair of cubes, one against another. Neither were really meant for such uses. In fact, Clyde had invented them with anti-personnel usage in mind. Prepare a few cubes beforehand, infuse them with res when the fight began, float them up and about, and release the spells at the enemies. A much better method for a Reimancer, since it was more durable than paper, and allowed one to move the storage device about more freely before releasing the spell.
Attempting to aim the cubes at each other when they were such small targets, and while the cubes themselves were moving about, they'd be lucky if one of them managed to even strike the others cube once, let alone destroy it.
“Anyways, I thought it might be a fun little exercise, to further test my invention. They've yet to be field tested in actual combat, and this seems the closest I'll get to it.”
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