Session Start: Sun Dec 30 19:44:20 2007 Session Ident: #lunar-iog2 * Logging for #lunar-iog2 started ==LUDE BEGIN== * Niri is curled up on some scattered cushions in the room where Xenobia left the group, killing time until they hear about their audience with the emperor by taking a catnap. * Niri has apparently not gotten around to changing clothes yet. One wonders how she can sleep in that thing. * Trune knocks on the door once, and there is a long pause before he knocks once more. >> No answer! * Trune knocks once more. ...Mmrph? Niri, you in there? Mmph. Yeah. C C'min. * Trune opens the door slowly, and blinks once, slowly, then seems to get a hold of himself, "Sorry, just wanted to get away from certain places here. Brings up memories." * Niri sits up, yawning. "Ahh. I just fell asleep for a bit." She stretches. "Did you get some food? Looks like you got back into your old clothes." Yeah...kind of hard to walk in pants that are not meant to be worn. Ever. I got some food though, thanks. * Niri wrinkles her nose, looking down at herself. "I should have changed before nodding off." Er...uh... * Trune looks slightly nervous, "Should I come back later? Uh.." Well, I think I'll change now, but was there something you needed first? >> There is a series of raps on the door before it's cracked open. "Hello? You awake, Niri?" Otherwise you can just wait out- oh, hi, Mikel. Yeah, Trune woke me up. Er, I did? Sorry about that. * Mikel snickers, stepping into the room. He seems to have managed to reclaim the rest of his clothing and gear in the meantime. "Aha. 'ey, Trune." It's fine! I needed to get up anyway. Here, Trune, go wait outside with Mikel for a second, would you please? -Oh. Um. Unless you guys want me to wait till later. * Trune hesitates for a moment, "Nah, if you need to change, go ahead." * Mikel just nods, reaching into his jacket's pocket and lobbing something over Trune's head towards Niri. "Yeah, that's fine. Here, something I grabbed from the Stormrider while getting my stuff back." Ooh, what's that? * Niri stands and walks over to check it out. << oops >> * Niri catches it and looks << *Niri walks into it* >> << Scratch the previous one >> >> It's a bar of chocolate. * Niri grins and waves it. "Thanks a lot. Okay, time to change. Shoo, you guys!" ...Chocolate? Where the hell did you get chocolate? I keep the stuff. Oh. Uh. It's called emergency supplies. Right. * Mikel snickers. "She gets it. Anyways, let's give her some privacy." * Mikel steps back out of the room. * Trune steps out of the room as well. * Niri closes the door and strips out of the tight outfit, breathing a sigh of relief as she pulls on her usual clothing. It's much looser and softer. She slips her shoes on and opens the door again. "Thanks for waiting guys." * Mikel pushes off the wall he was leaning against, nodding. "No problem. So!" * Niri plunks herself down to sit on the cushions, waiting for the guys to join her. "I wanted to talk to you about stuff." * Trune plops himself down on a spare cushion, "Anything in particular, or just random crap?" Well! Remember a while back when we tried out using our magic in concert? * Mikel finds himself a seat as well, leaning back while propping his hands up behind his head. "Random magical stuff, I thinkt was the idea." << think* TYPING FAL >> * Huw is now known as Huwnap Yeah, I do. Thinking of expanding on that in some way? Right. We might be able to refine that and use it even more effectively. Any ideas? Hmmm... Hmm...well... Instead of attempting to control and ward off, summon up and direct? * Niri nods. "That sounds about right. Make it a proactive thing rather than reactive and defensive. Of course, last time we had Emili helping. We're going to have to redistribute the balance of elements. * Mikel snickers. "I can only work with thunder or water, fair warning." I can handle either thunder or wind. Trune can do...just about anything, really. I can work with...well, yeah. I think we ought to stick with storm magic. It's what most of us are best at. Hmm... * Mikel closes his eyes. "Thunder, water, and air then." Right. Which of the three are you best with, Trune? * Trune closes his eyes and thinks for a moment, "It's funny...I don't really have one of them I favor. I could work with any of 'em." How about this. I know that's not super helpful. I'll take charge of wind. Can't protest that. Mikel, you pick thunder or water, and Trune will take whichever one you don't choose. Hm. I'm even with both, so... lesse. * Mikel gestures a bit, forming a a coin shaped bit of thunder and ice. One face ice, the other thunder. He then proceeds to flip it into the air. >> Ice comes up face up. I'll take water then. Then I've got thunder. Sounds good. Now comes the fun part, of course. Okay. Hmmm. It'd be great to practice here, but...we might destroy something. I wonder if we could ask for a good place to practice. I'd like to not wreck the accomodations, yeah. I'd prefer to not end up back in jail. Hold on! I'll go find out. I second that. No, third that. * Niri ducks out the door for a moment. ...hm, probably best she asks anyways. * DooM_GazE (~doomgaze@staff.lunarnet.org) Quit (Quit: Computer going to sleep...) * Niri has to go a ways to find a guard who will stand still long enough to listen to her, especially now that she's out of the disguise outfit. * Mikel closes his eyes while he waits. "So then, thunder magic. How well can you work with it?" Well enough. Might take a wee bit of training, but not too much. Hmm... I've got an idea for that, at least. Though the real trick will be... how to say it, weaving the three together. * Niri comes running back. "Hey! Found a place to practice. Follow me, we can use this courtyard not far from here." That'll be the tricky part, but it helps that we seem to... Sorry it took so long. No one wanted to listen to me without the outfit. *She makes a face* Er, okay! Coming then. Huh, I wonder why. * Trune can't help but smile oh so very slightly to himself. * Mikel can't help but snicker. "Indeed. I hope they don't mind it getting torn up a bit then." I THINK I warned them sufficiently. * Niri leads the way There's no sufficient warning for storm summoning practice. * Mikel follows along. Maybe they'll think it's nifty? Or think it's barbaric. You know, in a 'Oh goddess help us!' kind of way? Well, we are barbarians to them. That's going to be a given I wonder if getting them out of hot water will change that. Let's hope, otherwise this entire experience will be a pain the ass. * DooM_GazE (~doomgaze@staff.lunarnet.org) has joined #lunar-iog2 * ChanServ sets mode: +o DooM_GazE * Niri opens a door leading out to an enclosed courtyard. "Here we are." * Mikel steps forward, looking around the place and hrming. "Leeesseee..." Got something in mind? ...should be big enough. Unless something goes horribly wrong. Man, let's kind of hope it doesn't for a change. What could go wrong? ... * Mikel stares at Niri. Don't answer that. Last time someone said that /lots/ of things went wrong. So. What first? Should we try identifying and controlling the ambient elemental energy out here? * Trune raises a finger and looks a little abashed, "Sorry 'bout that!" * Mikel grins, waving a hand. "Now you know better... and, hm. I want Trune to brush up on thunder some more, first. Niri, can you do that elemental alignment trick on me and him?" Oh! Sure. One second... * Niri focuses, her hair starting to lift and crackle slightly as thunder magic coalesces around her. Then a lightning bolt strikes Mikel, turning him into a crackling, glowing vessel for electric energy. * Niri gives Trune the same treatment next. Trune's hair stands on end, yellowish glows flickering at the ends of it. * Trune looks up at his hair, "That's actually kind of nifty. We should have done this for our disguises instead." * Mikel stretches, looking rather comfortable. "Aah, much better..." He snickers. "We'd stand out a whole lot more, you know." * Niri chuckles. "I don't know how effective that would have been. Fun, though." ...Looks very much like your thunder alter ego when you split, Mikel. Yeah, but people would have been so like, "What the "f!" maybe we could have snuck in by utter confusion." I bet if I align myself to water I'll look like the water one. Probably! Anyways, that... ought to do it. Alright. * Niri chuckles at Trune. "We should try that next time." * Mikel points his staff at Trune. "Come at me, now. With thunder, that is. You hit me with a plant spell there will be Words." ...mostly along the lines of 'ow', but. * Trune gets somewhat of a rogueish smile, "Better not tempt me, 'hotshot'." I can /still/ freeze you even like that. Well, yeah, but seriously, I would smack you with a giant plant! It'd be kinda neat otherwise. * Mikel fires a bolt of thunder at Trune from the tip of his staff while he's talking. Come on ...Hey! << Er, should have a ! at the end >> Fine, fine, dammit! * Trune quickly traces a pattern with his athame, the wake left behind is a strong yellow color, "Take this, then!" * Trune fires a bolt of electricity at Mikel! * Niri sits down on a nearby low wall, watching with interest. * Mikel smirks, already starting to move sideways while another bolt of electricty begins to gather at the tip. Part of Trune's bolt scrapes by as it grounds out before Mikel fires out another bolt. "Better, but you need to get a bit faster!" All right then, how about this?! * Trune traces yet another pattern in the air -- quicker this time, and slightly more polished. Another shot of electricity charges toward Mikel! * Mikel skids to a stop, letting that bolt hit straight on as the smirk just grows. "There we go!" With that he aims his staff at Trune, then suddenly points upwards and fires the bolt off into the sky. * Trune raises an eyebrow with interest. * Mikel just points upwards as bolts of thunder start raining down around and on Trune. "Focus on the flow of thunder, try to see what's going to happen after it's let loose." Er...right! * Trune holds his athames out to the side as he concentrates, trying to get a feel on how the thunder magic is flowing around him. * Mikel meanwhile starts gathering thunder willforce around him again, the spell starting to take shape. Trune for his part starts to notice that it will form around the two and begin charging up before releasing periodic discharges at him. "So, quiz time. What happens next?" Well, we have some mastery over the thunder here. If we're working on having something storm related, we need to add the other elements to the mix eventually. Unless I'm skipping like five steps and you might as well just spell out for me. I meant the spell, actually. Once you can see and predict the flow we'll start trying to control it with others in the mix too. ...it'll be harder with Niri, though. I don't think we have an air alignment handy. Ah, right. Thought I was skipping like a zillion steps. Okay. Mm. We'll work something out. So, what's this spell gonna do? That's the quiz. Well, it seems to be forming around the two of us...charging a bit, then discharging...it seems to be more concentrated, though? Not so random like at the beginning. * Mikel nods, releasing the spell to continue as a hemisphere forms around the two, firing off a bolt at Trune. He dismisses the effect with a snap of the finger. "There you go. Last one, then!" Another gesture as it gathers, this one feeling like it'll aim to restrain and bind Trune. "Now, can you figure out the effect before I fire it off?" It feels like it's gonna hold me in place. * Mikel lets the spell ground out, nodding. "You've got it, then." Not bad. Thanks. Hmm, right then. I can't work with air at all so I can't help much there... ...Niri does though. Right, and I'll be handling that part of it. *she stands* Want to practice wind magic with me, Trune? Sure, why not? Awesome. Okay, let's see...how should we go about this... * Niri thinks. * Mikel takes a few steps back and takes a seat on the grass, watching for now. Okay, Trune. Why don't you fire some wind magic off and let me try analyzing it? Kinda like what Mikel was doing. It's worth a try. * Trune nods, once again taking out his athames, "Okay, ready?" * Niri nods. "Ready." * Trune makes several complex patterns in the air with his athames at an incredible speed. The wake left behind is a soild yellowish-green color. As he traces the patterns in the air, a vortex of wind energy begins to swirl around Niri, faster and faster. * Niri closes her eyes and focuses, trying to follow the wind's path. After a few moments, she opens her eyes again and summons a whirlwind, which dissipates the air currents around her and sets up a protective barrier. ...Very nice! Not bad! Let's see... Try again. With feeling! * Niri grins and winks at Trune. What, the last one wasn't passionate enough for ya? Get a load of this one! * Niri smirks and prepares to dodge. * Mikel lets out a low groan and shakes his head, leaning back and laying down on the grass while watching. Who asked you? * Trune traces yet another pattern in the air, and this time the vortex of wind seems to shrink slightly, this time seeming to center right on Niri as opposed to anything else. * Niri sticks her tongue out at Mikel playfully. Pay attention before he blows you away. * Niri calls upon Zephyr and lifts herself off the ground just in time to avoid Trune's attack. ...Man, you're good at this! My dad's a good teacher! Okay, my turn. Get ready - here it comes! * Niri summons the magic around her, her hair lifting in the breeze as she prepares to shoot off an attack on Trune... * Mikel looks like he's taking a nap at this point, though one eye is cracked open to watch the two carefully. * Trune braces himself and already begins to trace a few patterns in the air with his athames. «ooc: Dinner, we'll bbiam ^^ » * Stelas is now known as Stelazzz «ooc: still there? :) » * Niri lets a whirlwind fly, straight at Trune! * Trune suddenly pulls his athames up and outwards, and suddenly there seems to be a wall of air between the two athames, shimmering. When the whirlwind goes to hit Trune, it bounces off. It's not totally perfect -- Trune is pushed back a bit from the impact, but it does work, and the whirlwind flies harmlessly off into the sky! * Niri grins. "Nice work! Right. So, Mikel...want to do some practice with water?" * Mikel opens his eye a bit more. "...not bad." * Mikel springs back to his feet, snickering. "I get to hit Trune with water spells now? Works. I won't use Cold Blood, though." Heh, thanks. * Mikel gestures with his staff, conjuring up a whirl of water that engulfs him. Soon enough the stream flows to engulf Trune afterwards, leaving them both aligned with water. "It's meant to punch through no matter what, so it'd suck to get hit with." So. Ready? Ready. * Mikel gestures once again, spikes of ice taking shape around him. "Let's get this party started then. Crystalline Daggers." With a flick of the staff he sends them flying towards Trune! * Trune suddenly traces anothe pattern with his athames -- this time the wake left behind is a strong blue color. He then flicks his athame upwards, and a large bubble of water suddenly spurts from the tip of the blade, and roars towards the daggers. The bubble then sperates into several smaller bubbles, and knocks each of the daggers off course! * Mikel smirks, darting forward towards Trune as he gestures again. This time rushing waters flow alongside him before streaming forward to engulf Trune. With that it wraps around to return to Mikel as he reaches into the stream with his free hand. ...Hey don't you even THINK about it! * Trune suddenly flicks his athame outward, and a torrent of water suddenly springs from the tip of the blade, flowing in the opposite direction! It crashes into Mikel's stream! * Mikel continues the spell, skidding to a stop as he attempts to push through Trune's stream. "Not thinking about it! /Doing/ it!" How about not doing it! * Trune makes several more motions with with his athames, attempting to increase the force and speed of the torrent of water! * Trune also makes a downward gesture at the same time, two bubbles of water forming around his athames. * Mikel takes a step forward, gritting his teeth as he tries to push the spell through. He's forced to take that step back though, and then another. He starts muttering under his breath, almost looking like he's counting off... "...now!" He drops the spell and dives out of the way of Trune's torrent as a chill wind engulfs the spell and Trune, sapping away the power behind it. * Niri whistles softly from one side, watching. * Trune nghs, "Ugh, fell into that!" * Mikel grins, coming out of the dive half kneeling. "It pays to be sneaky, sometimes." Play fair, Mikel. *she grins and winks* Hey, it /was/ a water based spell! Still, that was kind of sneaky. * Mikel gets to his feet, grinning. "If it helps, in raw power your spell would have beaten that one. It's meant for stealing, not breaking through defenses." * Trune nods, "Heh, overall, a good match though." So how are we going to put all this together? We need a practice target. Very carefully. ...hm, one moment. * Mikel points his staff at a spot a couple feet of way, a burst of water flowing out and assuming a vaguely humanoid shape. A moment or three pass before it settles and freezes into position... into something that looks a lot like the Prophetess. "There." * Niri snickers. "Good choice." I thought so. * Niri draws in tendrils of power from the air around her, creating a swirl of wind wrapping around herself, ready to protect or be cast out as an attack. Let's see... try working all three at once now, and see what we can conjure up with it. * Trune traces a pattern with his athames, the wake left behind is a strong yellow color. He furrows his brow as he concentrates. * Niri aims the wind spell out to mingle with the thunder power Trune is gathering. * Mikel brings his staff about as swirls of water start forming around him, directing it to join in with the wind and thunder the other two are bringing to bear. So far so good, nothing's exploded yet... now, let's see... Ready, everyone? How about on three... Sounds good! Right. One...two... ...Three! * Niri watches the others to synchronize her attack with theirs, shooting her wind power out and straight at the ice statue of the Prophetess. * Mikel unleashes his own assualt as Niri does, water swirling around the blast of wind and forming into multiple small blades of ice propelled by it. * Trune closes his eyes so he focus his magic so he's intune wit the others, and then flings a bolt of electricity into the mix, making the ice blades and wind supercharged. * Niri grins, watching as the spiraling storm power spins outward and shatters the ice statue into tiny shards. * Mikel takes a deep breath, nodding. "...Good, although, now..." Hm? * Mikel gestures again, taking the broken shards of the statue and forming multiple statues of the Prophetess. "...can we extend it?" Ooh. Let's give it a try. * Niri repeats the process, pulling more power from the wind swirling around her and melding it to the combined elements of her friends. * Mikel pours more water elemental willforce into it, grinning despite the strain. "Alright then!" * Trune takes a deep breath and once again traces a pattern, the air becoming charged once again with electrical energy, "Let's do it!" * Niri helps them to guide the magic, sending it out and splitting it among multiple targets. The shattering sound is a crashing echo this time, as all the statues burst into thousands of tiny pieces. ...Wow. I think we're good to go. * Mikel lets out a whistle, nodding. "Wider range then Wrath on that one. That'll do /fine/." << than* >> We're good, then? I think so! We're ready to start kicking butt and taking names. * Niri flexes I'd call it a safe bet. Now someone figure out a name for that trick. * Niri slings an arm around Trune's shoulders, and another around Mikel's. "Hmmm. Let me think." The Power of Friendship! * Niri smirks annoyingly and winks. ...Please, no. ...Goddess no. Out voted, 2 to 1. New suggestion. * Niri giggles Tri-storm? ...Nah. Trinity Tempest. ...I like it. much better, that is. << Much* >> * Mikel cranes his neck to glance back at the courtyard, parts of it sogged, others scorched, some windswept, and ice scattered everywhere. "...hope they don't complain about that." * Niri snickers. "Hey, I /warned/ them." About this though? Someone's gonna wake up pissy. ...as long as it isn't Xenobia. The last thing I need is her pissy. Hmph. I'm not sure I'd care, at this point. She ticks me off. You're not the one trying to drag more information out of her, though. * Niri sticks out her tongue at Mikel. "On your quest to become the most powerful mage ever, right?" It's a start. I'm jealous, though. I want to be a powerful mage too! But you and Trune have me beat. Oh well. Eh... * Niri still has her arms slung around their shoulders, and she gives them both a hug and a squeeze. "You're still both awesome friends." She lets them go. "Maybe we'd better get back?" * Trune gets a haughty pose, "With enough training, young one, you too can be a magi." * Niri chuckles at Trune * Mikel rolls his eyes. "Oh boy, he's already becoming a professor." Young one? Shh. I know you're older. You don't have to rub it in. Plus the day I'm a professor is the day I wear a dress. ...I shouldn't have said that. * Niri slowly starts to grin. ...I didn't need that, Trune. Mikel. No. REALLY shouldn't have said that. I'm getting an idea. No idea. Idea bad. Awww. No. Just...no. * Niri sulks. Fine, then. But... I'll get you some more chocolate instead. * Niri grins again suddenly. "Race you guys back instead! * Niri darts off, laughing over her shoulder, "Chocolate acceptable! I'll beat you there!" * Mikel dashes after Niri, snickering. "You wish!" * Trune follows the others at a sprint, "Not if I get there first!" == LUDE END. NOW WITH MORE MAGE KART == \o/ Session Close: Mon Dec 31 00:00:00 2007