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Clyde learns more of Cha, and learns of the ability to slow ones magic.

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[Sullin's Residence]Slow Magic: Part 1

Postby Clyde Sullins on January 26th, 2015, 6:04 pm

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Today was another day, a new day, and yet an important day. Clyde could feel it deep within, could feel a threshold that he was about to cross, as he slowly awoke in his bed.

Over the time that Clyde had worked with Cha, he had come to know her quite closely. Naming her, gaining a understanding of her, making her, all were quite secondary. It had not been until he had actually used her, till he had attempted to unite with her to use magic, to make her an extension of himself, that his quest to understand her had truly begun.

Every day it felt to Clyde like their bond was one step stronger, one step closer, and his understanding of her was one step closer to completion.

It had been roughly three years ago when Clyde had first even heard of Magic Staff's from his Magecrafting instructor, had first aided in the making of one. If he'd known then that three years later not only would he have made many more, not only would he have made one for himself, but he was nearing perfect union with the one he had made for himself, he would have been both surprised and happy. In some ways that time was long ago to Clyde, and in other ways it was so very near and close.

However once he had begun to work with Cha, he had soon learned his knowledge of Magic Staff's and their abilities was incomplete.

Initially he had tamed the staff as he had been told was possible, and had learned to cast his magic through Cha, to exude his res from her skin, to look and see Auristically with her, even to open entrances to the void along her length. All simple enough.

But when he had gone past that, he had been surprised. Perhaps it was due to his djed running through Cha, a essence of that rubbing off inside of her, or of their closeness and proximity, but eventually he sensed something more of Cha. He could picture her in his mind, could see her, even when she was not about.

Through some trial and error, and much practice, he learned this sight was real, that he was truly seeing his staff from afar and seeing her surroundings. Along with that he knew of her, knew where she was, could not lose her due to their connection,

For instance without opening his eyes, Clyde could sense that in his sleep Cha had fell of of his bed, and was now resting on the ground next to it. Through her he could see the wooden frame of the bed, the ground. With a sense of the direction of Cha in relation to his own body, Clyde rolled over and reached downward, his hand snaking out directly at Cha to grab her, still with his eyes closed.

He could see all of this from Cha's perspective, saw as a hand reached over the side of the bed and came down, and finally grasped her length.

As the two of them physically met Clyde felt a prick of djed sweep along his arm and through his body, a gladness of the two of them once more together and united. This had more to do with a vague use of Auristics than a true inherent ability of the staff. But with such a potent work of Magecrafting being brought in contact with his body, rubbing against his aura, there was always a sudden surge of djed, a prick of sense of power which soon faded away, when the two of them touched.

Finally Clyde opened his eyes, feeling powerful and ready to meet the day now that Cha was in his hand. But the sense of a threshold, a perception of something to come, it had nothing to do with anything he'd already done. It had more to do with an oddity, something Clyde had noticed over the past days.

Oddly enough, when he cast spells through Cha, he was beginning to sense a odd delay. Normally anything cast through was more or less instantaneous, but lately there seemed to be an odd lag.

As Clyde rose from his bed and headed for his lab, Clyde planned to figure out why this oddity was occurring, and what it meant.

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Update 6/2/18- 1:10AM EST: His 7 year plan a success, and several weeks ahead of schedule, Clyde leaves to oversee the world he has taken over.

No new threads after end of Spring 518-Will still be checking for PM's occasionally, but focusing on a new character.

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Please be aware Clyde is a master Magecrafter. He therefore should not be gaining full xp(or possibly shouldn't gain any at all) for simple tasks related to this magic, such as low level MC items, particularly for repetitions of creations he has done before. Feel free to contact me if unsure of a instance of his magic use compared to his skill level.
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[Sullin's Residence]Slow Magic: Part 1

Postby Clyde Sullins on January 28th, 2015, 8:03 pm

First and foremost, Clyde needed to test out the basic issue. Which meant attempting to once more run magic through Cha, in hopes of observing the same issue again.

Inside of his lab, Clyde was alone, and had ample space to work his craft. Normally he used it for Magecrafting, but so long as he stayed away from any violent or destructive spells, it would serve his purposes.

Reimancy, being his strongest personal magic, seemed the simplest way to test his issue.

Taking in a slow measured breath, Clyde calmed himself down, and willed his res to exit his body, a small sampling of it to flow up from his chest, along his arm, and into Cha, from whom it would leak. The mental image of the process seemed to aid him. Little else was needed but simple mental directions for such a small spell.

As he started there was a slight tingle, as his djed made itself manifest as res and trailed along. However the res did not ooze off of Cha right away as it did usually, instead there was a odd lag, at least a quarter of a chime. While that might not be odd for a lesser Reimancer, and for some might even be a good time to exude res, for Clyde it was pitiful.

Taking a moment, Clyde tried to think through the process. His magic couldn't be at issue, one didn't simply regress in skill in such things... He'd never had such an issue before he had began working with Cha.

Considering the changing of their connection, of their relationship, it only made sense that the issue had something to do with Cha. Adding to that his lack of a complete knowledge of everything that was possible with Magic Staff's, it seemed likely enough that he was perhaps edging himself into another yet unlocked ability of Cha. Or perhaps even something unique to her. After all, with the powerful reagents that went into her making, it wouldn't be implausible that she might have some secrets special to her alone.

Going back to the last process, Clyde decided on a simple test. Often in magic ones mental state and willpower affected things. If he could make his res exude simply by willing it, could he then make his magic slower or faster by willing it also?

Starting with slowing things down, Clyde repeated the earlier process of exuding res. However this time he mentally pictured it as a slow thing, as ice slowly being pushed along through his veins, chugging and making its way at a steady but slow pace.

His attempt seemed to work, as when the res finally manifested itself from the surface of Cha, a full two chimes had passed.

Clyde stood in his lab, looking down at Cha somewhat dumbfounded.

The further he worked this oddity, the more confused he became. Clearly something unknown to him was at work, and he was going to have to figure it out bit by bit. However if he could will the res to slow, perhaps another deviation of his will could make it move at normal speed?

It seemed logical enough.

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Update 6/2/18- 1:10AM EST: His 7 year plan a success, and several weeks ahead of schedule, Clyde leaves to oversee the world he has taken over.

No new threads after end of Spring 518-Will still be checking for PM's occasionally, but focusing on a new character.

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Please be aware Clyde is a master Magecrafter. He therefore should not be gaining full xp(or possibly shouldn't gain any at all) for simple tasks related to this magic, such as low level MC items, particularly for repetitions of creations he has done before. Feel free to contact me if unsure of a instance of his magic use compared to his skill level.
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[Sullin's Residence]Slow Magic: Part 1

Postby Clyde Sullins on January 29th, 2015, 5:31 pm

Still holding Cha, Clyde once more willed his res to manifest through Cha's body. This time however he pictured it as a hot liquid, warm and alive and flowing fast down a incline. And then Clyde waited... And waited...

When it finally came out perhaps a chime had passed, quicker than when he'd last attempted to slow it, but still slower than earlier before he'd begun this testing.

Perhaps then his focus was off, or he was not willing it into the correct state hard enough?

Trying again, Clyde pictured his res as he did his djed in his aura sight, bright silver light thrumming deep within himself. Willing the light to weave and mold into a solid thing, a string, he pictured it shooting and stretching and expanding. He pictured it quickly moving as his djed normally did, out of his chest, up his arm, into Cha, and then out of her skin as a puff of gaseous res.

Perhaps he was concentrating better now, or perhaps the mental picture was closer to reality, or perhaps it was simply the practice and trial and error and a steady improvement of control, but with this attempt the res appeared more or less at normal speed. There was a brief moment and gap between his willing it to appear, and its extrusion.

Clyde grinned down at Cha, glad that at least when he concentrated, he could properly summon his res. But still though it did not fully explain what was going on. Perhaps if he mastered the problem, and understood it, then slowing and speeding would become second nature, and in his direct control.

Seeing as what was going on was not physical, but magical, the solution to go onward with his testing was clear. Auristics. Cha always being close to him, almost a part of him, it was easy to extend his aura sight to envelop her, a simple willing of djed to flow and build and then release, a pulse sweeping along Cha's length and rebounding with her image and touch and taste.

However that was not enough. Pressing beyond the mundane and physical perceptions, Clyde looked deeper into its djed layout, the changes and deviations laid deep into its being by Magecrafting. Even now long after its enchanting, the magical nature of Cha was still easily seen, her tonality singing out to Clyde in greeting.

Past that Cha was a solid rod of djed, a stream made solid and whole, unlike the liquid and changing nature seen during an enchantment. Perhaps any suitably skilled Aurist could see such a thing. Perhaps Clyde only saw it because he understood it, had taken a part in her making, and had seen her in her infancy, had watched her grow and blossom into her current state. But as he looked he saw the deeper essence, the colors that mixed and melted into a single thing which was Cha.

He could see a strong hinting of bright silver, his own effect on the enchantment. He could see a slight hinting of purple, Anna perhaps? At the core though was the warm and bright blue essence, the core and initial state upon which the other colors were laid. It was that base state that had been altered, made a lie, and manipulated into the fine piece of Magecrafting that rested in Clyde's hand.

While he focused on this image, this essence of Cha, he focused his Reimancy once more, willing a pulse of djed to rise and flow hot and quick through her and out of her skin, another poof of res.

As he did, as the djed moved along Cha, there was a brightening, a point of light sliding along inside of the outer layers of changed essence, starting where Clyde's hand touched Cha, moving along her length, and then vanishing as a poof of res exited Cha.

Clyde had just watched his own djed move and exit his body through Cha, or at least the auristical equivalent.

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Update 6/2/18- 1:10AM EST: His 7 year plan a success, and several weeks ahead of schedule, Clyde leaves to oversee the world he has taken over.

No new threads after end of Spring 518-Will still be checking for PM's occasionally, but focusing on a new character.

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[Sullin's Residence]Slow Magic: Part 1

Postby Clyde Sullins on January 29th, 2015, 7:06 pm

While Clyde hadn't quite yet figured out the issue at hand, he could tell he was getting closer. Through trial and error he'd figured out how to slow down the passage of djed, how to return it to normal, and had seen what it looked like when the djed passed as normal.

The next logical step was to see what happened when the djed moved slowly, in hopes of understanding why.

After each usage of res was done, Clyde would reasbsorb the excess remaining, taking the djed back. It was not perfect, and some djed was lost in the transfers, but it meant he spent less djed than if he had simply let the res decay.

And considering his ability, and the small creation of res, he'd not even created enough res to equate to one decent sized spell. Of course that didn't mean he should be careful, particularly since he was using the Reimancy now in unison with Auristics.

Keeping his focus on the image of the beam of djed, of the essence of the staff with all of its magical additions, Clyde attempted to once more move his djed slowly through Cha.

Once more he pictured the djed as slow, as ice churning a cold river, slowing and stopping and barely moving. He willed his res as such, and then watched the djed signs within the staffs Aura.

Once more a bright spot of djed, the res Clyde assumed, entered the staff were it made contact with his hand. At first it moved slowly, flowing along, and then it vanished, as if someone had poked a hole in the bottom of a bowl and the water once held inside had drained away.

The djed wasn't gone, it was still there, but it hadn't gone in a linear direction like the other instances of transfer... Instead it had gone parallel, or sideways, sidestepping deeper into the pathways of the staff. Not literally sideways, since little of the motion was literal or physical, instead most of it only existed as motion within the djed of the object itself. One couldn't tear open the staff physically and say "there" is the djed, since much of the substrate of the staff was non-physical additions added onto the staff through enchanting, the djed added by Magecrafting.

Clyde searched around, pushing and pulling and looking within his aura sight, but did not see where the djed had gone. It had seemingly vanished within the staff itself.

After a few chimes the djed "reappeared" into sight, or leaked back into sight. Quickly it moved again, moving out of Cha and physically appearing as res pouring off of Cha. Clearly the important thing was that missing djed, and understanding where it went when it leaked away.

Letting out a frustrated sigh, Clyde repeated the process, this time keeping a closer eye on the djed, making sure to not loose track of it, and to follow it wherever it leaked away to.

Once more he willed his djed to shift and move, to flow along him and into Cha, to appear as res. Once more there was a sudden bright silver point, that of his res' power appearing within Cha. Once more it moved as if to flow out of Cha, to extrude from her skin, only to skip sideways and drain away. This time however Clyde was ready, and followed the djed in deeper, watching as the piece of djed slowly drained within a deeper pathway and flowed along it, coming to rest within a non-physical niche.

Now that he knew where it was going, Clyde focused on keeping the djed there, on not letting it flow out, instead making it stay there. Perhaps if he could keep it there, he could understand why it was going there, what purpose it might fill, and why this niche within the essence of Cha existed.

“What are you my little hollow? On your journey may I follow?”

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Update 6/2/18- 1:10AM EST: His 7 year plan a success, and several weeks ahead of schedule, Clyde leaves to oversee the world he has taken over.

No new threads after end of Spring 518-Will still be checking for PM's occasionally, but focusing on a new character.

Graders note: :
Please be aware Clyde is a master Magecrafter. He therefore should not be gaining full xp(or possibly shouldn't gain any at all) for simple tasks related to this magic, such as low level MC items, particularly for repetitions of creations he has done before. Feel free to contact me if unsure of a instance of his magic use compared to his skill level.
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[Sullin's Residence]Slow Magic: Part 1

Postby Clyde Sullins on January 29th, 2015, 7:29 pm

As Clyde focused on the djed held within the odd niche within Cha, he searched about slowly, searching for similar hollows.

However the longer he looked about, the more he wondered if the hollows or niches actually existed, or if they were simply a foreign concept being explained in ways Clyde could understand. Likely there were no holes, no hollows, no niches, and some other odd example of magic was taking place. If Clyde had learned one thing from his time as an Aurist, it was that much of what was seen was not literal, especially when dealing with magic. Along with that he had learned that ones Auristics, and ones mind, often took odd ways to explain things, but always did so in ways that intuitively made sense to his own mind.

Clyde was also fairly certain that this oddity of the staff had not existed before his test had began. Perhaps it was some recess or ability being unlocked, a once closed keyhole being unsealed by his djed and work. Or perhaps it truly was some other ability of Cha that he did not know of. Once more Clyde found himself wishing he knew more of the general lore of staffs, of their capabilities and such in full. Alas his lessons had been simple and focused on the basics of what could be done, and on how to make the item itself.

An idea popped into Clyde's head however. If perhaps the niche could not be seen until magic flowed into it, perhaps there were more, and he had simply not discovered them? Perhaps it was only the light shining out, the outline of a recess illuminated by the spell within, that showed the niche's existence? If so, perhaps he could attempt to thrust another spell within, along with the initial spurt of res?

Focusing on the aura of the staff, and willing his res to rise and flow into Cha, he willed the djed to be sealed within, to flow into a niche, mentally picturing the djed flowing into Cha and skipping sideways into another leak, another hollow within its pathways.

After a moment another bead of bright silver light appeared, and then leaped sideways, coming to rest nestled within a yet different niche.

Now there were two niches, each unique and isolated, and yet the same. By a working of willpower, Clyde held the djed inside of Cha, not allowing it to escape or run back out to its source.

As time went by nothing seemed to happen, the two beads of bright silvery djed sat in their niches, quiet.

It was easy to lose track of time while within a working, but it had been at least half a bell, and less than two, when Clyde noticed a change. The first bead was losing cohesion. Where once a tiny solid bead of silver had been, now a growing mist of djed spread. It did not flow back up through the hole in the niche, instead the misting of djed spread and expanded, coming into contact with the outer edge of the niche, with the sides of the bowl. As it did the djed sapped away, not destroyed, not lost, but diffused. Dissipated.

Not wanting to also lose the second bit of djed, Clyde willed it to move, picturing it turning into a hot liquid, moving quick and surging out of the niche, along Cha, and out of her head.

Clyde watched as the djed moved, leaking back into Cha, surging upward, a bead of silvery djed. However unlike the earlier res, which had exited normally, this one sprayed out as a physical substance, as a small spurt of water, the thing Clyde had pictured the djed as.

As the water fell, splashing across Clyde's front and wetting him, Clyde broke from his Aura sight, instead focusing on his physical senses.

Perhaps Clyde did not fully understand what Cha was doing, but he did see a purpose in it. He had just stored a completed spell within her, as one might with Glyphing in a focus. After a time the one spell, the first one, had dissipated, losing cohesion and fading into Cha as djed. But the second one, he had stored it within Cha, had turned it into a spray of water, and had then released it as such...

“I?... You? We just... Stored a spell, within a staff?”

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Update 6/2/18- 1:10AM EST: His 7 year plan a success, and several weeks ahead of schedule, Clyde leaves to oversee the world he has taken over.

No new threads after end of Spring 518-Will still be checking for PM's occasionally, but focusing on a new character.

Graders note: :
Please be aware Clyde is a master Magecrafter. He therefore should not be gaining full xp(or possibly shouldn't gain any at all) for simple tasks related to this magic, such as low level MC items, particularly for repetitions of creations he has done before. Feel free to contact me if unsure of a instance of his magic use compared to his skill level.
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