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 Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:24 pm
Malik watched with interest, and noted the words. and the liquid they created, adn with Kieran's explaination, took a guess.
"That's how you turn it off. you in essence blind it with that black liquid, correct?"
This was well worth watching, though he did show some concern for piper. after all magic was not a common thing for her to practice, and anyone who used magic knew dabbling in it without knowing at least something of what you were doing was dangerous..
Nightmare let them be, before turning her attention to Nerian. well well. there's a small bit of a spine in there after all. a snort at him. She'd teach him strength. though a bit of an indignant looked at Serino before he covered his tracks, so to speak. You have no idea. even for a two week venture he packs enough damned armor and gear for six.
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:53 pm
"Well, not only 'turn it off' so to speak but also control the levels and intensity and what not. Doses of sorts control what happens. Yet if you noticed that during our own mock between us, when I did it...none of this got on me when I pulled my hand away. This is only the first half of one spell." A look to Piper and a smile to her. "Honsely...I'm surprised you did it your first try." He knew his daughter had potiential for magic in a high degree...she just never fancied it really. "This black liquid...is actually a form of pure darkness pulled from the enviroment around oneself. Down here I suspect that it's all the more powerful due to the lighting." Which made this all the more dangerous because if done wrong, it could actually take away the ability or even blind the caster. But he didn't tell Piper that, no need to make her nervous.
"In other words...we're dealing with base elemental manifestations in thier prurest forms." See, she did know what she was talking about. Just because she didn't actively take it up didn't meant she was ignorant to it all. Though this was still gross in her own opinion. "So what now?"
"Exactly. And now this." He flicked his other hand up in front of Piper, a flash of light being produced at the flick of his wrist in front of his daughter's eyes. Kieran was well practiced with having to just think his spells to work them at this point in his life. Then he moved his hand both over his and his daughter's the dark liquid disappearing with an easy dispell.
Piper was busy squinting and then showing her displeasure in a frown. "Why do you always have to surprise me like that?" Indeed, seemed when he messed with her vision skills, he always did it in a way so that she was caught off ground and always got flash blinded. And it hurt everytime from the intensity.
"Because then I know that you're not protecting yourself against it and the full affect happens." Taking hold of her hand he raised it and placed it to her eyes. "Now...this is the difficult part, you have to combine two spells to one phrase with no breaks. If your eyes start to hurt more, just stop, drop your hand and keep your eyes closed." And a look to Malik...just to let him know. "The gold in a moon elf's eyes can effectively be destroyed under the exact right circumstances." Let that sink in a moment before he continued.
"Oh yeah...that's comforting to know."
As Piper has always said, he doesn't travel light at all. I can see why you put up so much of a fight with him when he wants to go anywhere that requires him to bring something. Unfortunately it's one of those habits that Piper hasn't been able to break about him.
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:50 pm
"That being the case, are you quite sure you can prevent that if somethign goes wrong in this little demonstration? after all, the last thing I need is piper blind. she has enough trouble getting around as it is."
A small joke to mask his concern, and a cross of his arms lightly, his weight on one hip, watching intently.
And she never will. That habit is centuries old. at least he uses tinkerer's bags. the magic inherent that gives them weight reduction abilities makes it a bit easier. course it also means he can carry more in teh blasted things. A nicker to her foals they coudl go play a bit if they wanted.
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:17 pm
He jut grinned, deciding it better not to laugh seeing as Piper would probably hurt him. But a nod to Malik. "Yes, she's prefectly fine. A quick counteractive reverse spell or a dispell done in quick succession to ill affects can prevent damage. Thus why the technique is never taught to one's self. Wouldn't want jut blue and green eyes now would we?"
"Cerintally not, I like having triple colored eyes thank you very much." And of course a little frown, though it didn't matter because her had obscured emotion depicted in her eyes right now. "I still say that's your fault Malik." She could think of several examples, but she didn't care to do it right now, bigger things were on hand. "Okay then, let's get this going, I like being able to see."
"Right then." Kieran placed one of his hands on the one of hers that was over her eyes, his other was placed on her back as if to steady her. "Relax, concentrate on the feelings of your surroundings, you know the first part of the spell. Putting them together is easy, simple say one spell and then the next, but don't pause, don't break. The second part is san kalina. So then, in all you say or think, on huine san kalina. Hopefully...she could get it on her first try. Because not doing so just wasn't a fun experience to reverse things. Not to mention Malik probably wouldn't be too happy with him for making Piper dabble in things no beginner should really be playing with.
Piper took a breath, visibly relaxing and merely stood there a moment. Contrary to popular belief, she was quite adapt in her magics, she just never really found reason to use them. Why? Because use of them often made her a bit weary seeing as it wasn't a highly practiced skill to her. Give her a bow and a trick anyday. Okay here went everything. "No huine san kalina." And a little dull light flash went off but not out, seeing as it was light being taken and not emitted. Along with that little glow she cringed slightly and took a step back, only to be prevented from doing so by her father's hand. His other kept her hand from moving from her eyes even as she tried to move it away.
Indeed he was keeping her from moving. Kieran's voice had now gone soft and his look had turned serious. "Give it a moment...it's supposed to be uncomfortable but don't let it break your concentration. Feel it, you'll know when it's done. You're doing fine." Indeed, depending on skill level, it could take anywhere from seconds to a few mintues even. But she was obvious she wasn't enjoying this. Looked kind of cruel to force it all what with the reaction and such, but that was simply the way it had to be done.
Play...hm...but with what? Ah, he knew. And so his sister went stumbling out from under mom at a good head butt to her shoulder. She whinnied as her color shifted again and then shook her head and stamped a hoof, tendril flames rising from it. A little rear from her and she rushed her brother, letting him go tumbling to the ground his shiftable color doing so. This was thier idea of play...who could knock the color out of who the best.
Serino blinked and shook his head. Foals. As long as they weren't maiming each other he'd let them push each other around all they wanted. Play fighting was all part of learning anyway. A look back to Zahara a moment and then to Nightmare. At least he doesn't treat you like nothing more than a mode of transportation.
Nerian had gone back to superficial grazing and two cent peanut gallery comments. Carrying just Malik by himself is heavy enough. All that armor for a simple trip...
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:29 pm
Part of him wanted to cut Kieran's hand off, asnd let piper move as she wanted but the rest of him knew better than to interfere while someone, who was not overly affluent with magic was dealing with something that they probably shoudln't be. So he watched and waited, though his hand rested ont eh hip that woudl have hand malvolence had he been wearing the blade.
Nightmare snorted at Nieran. that elf never goes anyplace without armor. be it the plate or chain under his clothes. and be happy all he took with him was armor. and you..back to Nieran...you know how he is. the only reason I am treated as such is becuase I earn that resepct when I allowed him to take me from the Plane of Hate. and after a good long fight, mind you. He just doesn't have that kind of bond with any other horse, of any breed.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:41 pm
Kieran gave a glance to Malik, knowing all to well that he probably wasn't liking the whole thing, but was containing himself none the less. After all, Kieran wouldn't be happy if someone was forcing someone close to him to do something. A look back to Piper as she was pretty much relaxing again and Kieran seemed to study her. A few minutes spent like that before he took his hands off of her.
With her father's hands off of her she dropped her own hand, shaking her head with her eyes still closed. Well that most certinally wasn't a fun experience...felt horrible. NOT pain wise either, more like sensation wise...the forcing of one thing and the harsh taking of another. Rubbing at her eyes lightly she blinked a few times as she opened them, seeming to readjust a bit. "Are things supposed to be dim?"
He took her chin in his hand, making her look at him and studying her eyes a moment. "Dim is better than blind, you have to expect a few side affects from first attempts. But other than that, not too shabby for a first try."
He snorted. No kidding, Malik doesn't even like me and I've been tagging along for years now. I still hold to the belief that he merely tolerates me for Piper's sake...otherwise he would of gone through with threat's and bottled and sold me. Another snort at that, he never liked to think about that particular threat.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:16 pm
Zahara watched the foals play. She saw the spider and seriously thought about getting rid of it for them, she could summon them and chase them away at whim. After all she had served teh Queen of the Spiders, why shouldn't she be able to? But she decided to let the foals find out for themselves, of course when they came scampering back to hid behind mom she just had to chuckle. And then watching them play with each other, well that was just funny. She enjoyed just watching them interact with each other. They really fascinated her. She had some more sugar cubes but she'd just let them play for now. Another chuckle, "Whoever wins can have a sugar cube..." How's that for spicing up the competition. Most likely the little flame tempest would win since her brother had so much color to be knocked out of him. She was so cute with her little spot of color and then the rest of her like her mother. She'd never tell but that little Flame foal was her favorite.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:28 pm
For a moment they quite thier shoving, looking to Zahara...did you hear that? Whoever wins get the sugar! Head bonk. If one didn't know they were horses, they'd be considered rams, seeing as they favored headbutting at the moment, whoever got knocked harder got the color knocked out of them. Both reared up a moment, pawing and nipping at each other. A little stumble on still clumsy feet and the little flame tempest went down, color knocking out to be transparent accept for her eyes, mane, and tail. For a moment she sat there before righting herself, shaking color back into herself. Accept this time instead of black with a tan stripe, she was white with a tan stripe. She'd taken to mimicking Nerian this time. Her brother blinked at her and reared, gave a nicker and went at her again, only to get head bonked himself to the ground, loosing color. Just to be irritating he shook his color back and took on while as well, but only where black wasn't before.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:34 pm
Zahara watched the foals battle each other and then thought she was going insane. Wait a minute...wasn't she black before? She blinked a few times but where an almost exact replica of Nightmare had been sitting, now was a white Zephmare with a tan stripe. Her eyes went wide and then her face split into a huge grin right at the tempest. "Aren't you talented. Both of you, that's a very neat ability you have." Wow, that was really awesome. If it was possible she loved the little foal even more for her ability. She'd never seen anything quite like it. She'd be a perfect animal to use to sneak around on, she could change her color at whim." Oh yes wonderful indeed. "Well you both won, so you both get sugar." She reached down and pulled out two cubes, holding one in each hand and offering them to the foals. "Here you go." And now she was down to one more cube. Would they play for it, or should she just break it in half and give each half. Or maybe...a look to Nightmare. Maybe she should give it to mom and eliminate any fighting. Hmm, might be the best solution.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:40 pm
Little high pitched nickers from both to Zahara, taking thier prizes and sucking on them a moment. Hehe, she thinks its fun that we can change colors! Isn't that confusing? I dunno, are you confusing yourself? You're confusing me. Ear n**. You started it. No, you did. Why did I start it? You hit me first, well you deserved it. Mom! Dad! And they but heads again, making the changeable aspects of thier hides waver as they pushed against each other, forehead to forehead. Ah, sibling rivalry.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:58 pm
Sibling rivalry indeed. They were very cute together, and she could tell that they were both feisty but especially the girl. She was falling in love with that little foal, which was strange because she'd never felt this kind of attachment to either an animal or fellow elf before. She wasn't afraid to fight back, just like her mother but at the same time she was so adorable. Zahara loved to just stand there and watch them, she could do this for days. Holding that last sugar cube, she stood there just watching them play. She wasn't going to try to touch either of them, Nightmare didn't trust her enough to let her yet anyway. And she wasn't sure about their father either. She'd just have to wait. They would, in due time. A soft smile flitted about her lips, the foals were fighting again. Let's see who won the contest this time. "I've got one left so this time there can only be one winner." Yep, Zahara would boost the sibling rivalry, though she hoped the tempest would get it. She deserved an extra treat.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:09 pm
They each pushed against once another, hooves sliding on the ground from time to time in either direction as one moment on was winning and then the next. Seemed like a game of push and shove that neither were realy making any progress in. Though with thier detremination, the revealing of powers was coming about. Flame from one, and a switch between wind and flame for the other. Tempest flames were nightmare dominate in thier powers and armors had an equal split of both parent's powers. Though both weren't controlling them.
And that's where he drew the line, where they started to spark thier powers with thier own determination. Yes, he was all good and well for play fighting, but not for power slinging when it wasn't controlled...that was just an accident waiting to happen. With a nicker he lowered his head, nudging his son's backside forward...which caused him to stumble into his sister and take both foals down in a pile of legs and dying down powers.
They lay there tangled in each other, blinking with little nickers and snorts, not caring to untangle themselves at the moment. In the end he laid his head down on her flank and she in turn did the same to him. Another little snort from each. Look at that, they tired themselves out.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:23 pm
Her eyebrows raised, hmm...fire and wind popping up all over the place. Not the best combination and it really didn't look like they could control what was going on. That wasn't always a good thing but it looked like dad was going to handle it. And a moment later they were in the cutest position Zahara had ever seen in her entire life. She had one cube left but she could break it in half. But she wasn't going to make those tired little foals move to get their treats and she wasn't going to not give them to them either. So she carefully walked forward keeping an eye on the adults and moving slowly broke the cube in half and laid one half on the male's flank for the tempest and then just as slowly moved to the other side and laid the other half on the female's flank for the Armor. Then she backed away from both foals before the parents could get upset.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:35 pm
Their ears pricked at that sugar and no matter how tuckered out they were they eagerly gobbled up thier piecees of sugar. They didn't care if it was from one cube, point was that they got something period. Which made them both happy inside. Happy and sleepy. For the first time thay day, they were being relatively quitet...considering the amount of sugar they had thus far. Hm...how far away was dinner anyway?Which of course got an inquisitive look to mom before they both laid their heads down again.
Serino watched them a moment and Zahara as well before looking to Nightmare, giving a nicker and then looking back to Zahara. Hm...he wondered. Giving a paw at Zahara and a snort, flicking his ears at her he reached his snout forward some to her, wanted to see her reaction. For a drow she sure seemed to have a wood elf's affinity for animals.
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