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Post by Omni on Dec 23, 2007 18:47:21 GMT -5
((Um, Rikku, we're all sitting around a round table))
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Post by Rikku on Dec 23, 2007 18:51:44 GMT -5
(( ... Oops. XD *goes to edit*))
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2007 2:17:14 GMT -5
"Environment," Aly mumbled at Rikku's comment. From under the table, she slid out a small knife and start poking her leg with it, hoping to wake herself up a bit. All she got was a small hole in her pants.
With a sigh, she lifted her head and spoke again. "'N...um...I think I've seen magic work better because of nearby animals--like a dark mage would work better with ravens or jackals or something, or an air mage would work better if they had some kind of bird around them. But I'm not sure if that's because of familiars or not."
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Post by Rikku on Dec 25, 2007 18:02:13 GMT -5
"Environment," Aly mumbled. Rikku headdesked.
"Yeah, that's what I meant ... can't think of the right words sometimes."
Aly went on, talking about animals. Rikku nodded at her first comment, and shrugged at her second. She didn't know much about familiars, and despite knowing quite a bit about animal anatomy, never found them all that useful.
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Post by Omni on Dec 26, 2007 16:17:20 GMT -5
Omni nodded. "Environment would make sense, I suppose, but animals… That's an interesting one. Sounds like something to look into.
"Speaking of which," she scooted her chair back and gestured toward the shelves, "I think now would be a good time to start looking into what other mages have said." She stood up, "Feel free to look for whichever topic you'd like. Bear in mind, those books near the south wall are mostly history books and the ones on the south-west most bookshelf are non-magical topics. Anyone wanna help me look for weather?"
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Post by Goosh on Dec 26, 2007 16:42:16 GMT -5
Goosh nodded. "Sure," he said, standing up. He walked over to Omni and glanced at the shelves. "Y'know, I knew this one air mage who lived on a mountaintop. She trained for hours and could barely master spells. Do you rhink it could have been the thin air?"
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Post by Omni on Dec 26, 2007 16:53:24 GMT -5
"Hmm… I'm not sure, but I don't think so," Omni said as she glanced over the covers. "I've heard that air mages like to spend time in the mountains to learn and practice their air magic. Why would they like to practice there if their magic was pretty much snuffed out, unless they were already masters and trying to strengthen their already-powerful spells? I suppose after some point or another of altitude where the air gets really thin they might have trouble, though they'd probably have a hard time breathing, as well." She wrinkled her brow at a few of the titles. "I think we're in the wrong section."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2007 0:09:55 GMT -5
Aly got up and followed Omni, breaking off after a while to some of the other shelves. "Might as well check out animals..." Or I can fetch Lika and get her to tell me.
Nah. Any lecture from Lika was torture.
Listening to the other mages' comments, she searched through the books for several minutes before realizing she'd been zoned out for the last five minutes. "Great," she muttered, pulling out one of her most used vials.
Sounds of violent sneezing from the western shelves were followed by continued sniffling and, a few minutes later, Aly carrying a pile of books to one of the tables. "English, English, Latin, English, Greek, Something, English...Chicken-stratch?" With a shrug, she opened the book with the biggest print and started scanning the chapters for information about animals.
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Post by Rikku on Dec 27, 2007 0:43:08 GMT -5
Rikku wandered over to the north wall, not particularly feeling like researching history.
"Let's see what we have here," she said reflectively, running a finger along the volumes. A few of them seemed to be in languages she didn't understand, though there were a lot in English. This seemed to be the section on ... geography? It was difficult to tell.
"Couple of these and some of those history ones could help with the environment thing, I guess," she said thoughtfully, and chose a slender leather-backed tome and a newer-looking and heavier atlas bound in cloth, both in English. She wandered over to the magical history section and pulled down a couple at random, then took a couple of spell books as well and headed back to the table, burdened down with her load.
"I get the feeling this is going to take a while," Rikku muttered, flipping the atlas open and glaring at the page.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2007 5:08:29 GMT -5
Honestly, Drakhé was glad of the opportunity to browse the books and do research... if only because being fairly close to Rikku had made him noticably uneasy. It wasn't due to personal prejudice or anything of the sort. Necromancers merely made him nervous... after all, he was a ghost, and an undead being of sorts. He was good friends with the necromancer who had given him the ability to solidify, but all the same, he had become familiar with what someone of that power could do...
The dragon shook his head as he got to his feet. Books. Need books.
So he headed to a particular section, trying to find any sort of reading material relevant. Somehow he wound up looking at titles of books related to the environment. Some were in English, some in Latin, and there was even a title in Ancient Egyptian.
Then he stopped, and his eyes went wide.
That language... it's... it's from the city!
The title of that particular hardback book would have looked like a collection of symbols to most, but the dragon understood it perfectly – it was a book on magic and architecture.
Naturally he took it, walked back to the table, sat down, and opened it. To the observer, he would have looked like he was in shock and disbelief. The fact that this book read from right to left might have added to it as well.
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Post by Goosh on Dec 29, 2007 14:11:58 GMT -5
"I think so too," Goosh said to Omni. He ducked behind a narby shelf and scanned the rows of books. "This is astrology. Is that anyway near weather?" He pulled a book out at random and flipped through the pop-up planets.
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Post by Omni on Dec 30, 2007 14:39:26 GMT -5
"Well, I hear how much energy the sun's giving out can affect weather but… Wait, did you say 'astrology'? Well, unless planet-reading fortune-telling can tell the weather, I don't think so."
Omni looked over in the next isle over. "Let's try over here."
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Post by Goosh on Jan 1, 2008 9:55:35 GMT -5
"Right." Goosh stepped into the next aisle. His eyes swept across the titles of the spines. "Botany, Music, the history of dinner plates..." There! At the end of the aisle. A book titled Predictabilities of Precipitation. "I think they go on in the next aisle," he told Omni.
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Post by Omni on Jan 1, 2008 12:53:52 GMT -5
"…'Go on in'?"  Omni waited awhile before saying "Well, go ahead and flip through that, see if it has any mention of how weather effects magic. I'll see if I can find another one, just in case." |
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Post by Goosh on Jan 1, 2008 14:11:08 GMT -5
"...yes. They go on, they (that is the weather books in general) continue in the next aisle. Sorry for any confusion." He flipped through the book, though it didn't really make much of a connection between weather and magic.
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