31st: The Spells of Haruhi Suzumiya

[godbent]

[Voice / Action for the library]

[For the last 20some days, Haruhi Suzumiya has been obsessively studying. While she slowed down some after the Cultural Fair, it still was a very, very welcome distraction from thinking about how much she was hurt by that break up. Which is why she's been in and our of the library a lot. Finally though today she has decided to prop open the journal and ask for help.]

Hey, Luceti, does anyone recognize these?

[And she moves the journal to focus on:
* Helios's universe basic spellbook
* Basic Buffyverse spellbook (possibly this one or this one)
Lined up next to each other. these are the two she's had the most success with so far... she even more or less mastered one of the spells in the first one.]

Or these?

[And now it focuses on:
* Touhou Grimoire
* CLAMP universe magic tome (Western)
* CLAMP universe magic tome (Eastern)
Much less success here...]

Or this one? [She is much more unhappy sounding at this last book (a Greenhill Academy Rune textbook) because she's had basically no success even figuring out what it is talking about other than it apparently deals with mythology and magic... things.]

Or, I also found the "Writings of Aurelius" next to those first two ones, but I'm not sure if it's got spells in it or not... [it feels ominous, actually... so she figured it might, but- inside it just looks like a bunch of horoscope type things as well as just some weird old school notes]

I'm looking for people who know these books and are willing to tutor me in what's within them. I expect answers ASAP; that is all. [A pause] Also, Leon, since when do you write textbooks? [And then the camera focuses on a book written by Leon DS Geeste on Symbology]

[Anyone can, of course, question here about this post. Or the books. Or both]

Comments

[voice]

[mirrorblade]

It's even weirder to think of how old he must've been when he wrote it!

voice;

[menial]

You know. Lovecraft. Cosmic horror.

[blinkingusalong]

It's like a little glass ball with the power of a rune in it. You take that to an engraver, and they can transfer that power over to a person's hand so they can use magic!

[herotypical]

Mmhm. And if that book's the one I'm thinking it is? It doesn't exactly come in an abridged version...

[Voice]

[cuethemasong]

And my second is using magic alchemy, but I'm still getting used to that.

[godbent]

I've worked out things in these other books, why couldn't I work out this one?

[...Other than she's had 1/10 success so far tbh]

[Voice]

[godbent]

Uh, sure? [But she is not holding up the book, she is moving the journal to look at them on the table. There we go]

[action]

[godbent]

That's right. [...Final- oh right he's a student. Oh well]

[Voice]

[rocketpunch]

Machines are just cooler, and they're a ton more useful. And everyone back home could work with Symbology if they wanted to, you know?

[action]

[fellpool]

[He drums his fingers on the table for a minute as he tries to figure out where to begin.] Despite how easy it is to explain the very basics of Symbology, the study of practical Symbology relies heavily on observing individuals. Just as Symbology can exacerbate or attune symbological elements, people's symbological affinity can affect the strength of their Symbology.

A single person doesn't have equal affinity for all the elements. So, in that way, it's similar to working with magic from the Filial spirits.

[voice]

[falenandawn]

They are mined, actually.

[winged_moon]

Would you expect a blind man to be able to "figure out" how to paint your portrait?

It's the same thing. If you lack any magical ability you can study all you wish, but they'll remain only words in a book.

[godbent]

Or non-elemental things, unless stuff like cloaking falls under wind.

[voice]

[godbent]

[...Crap that's right. What, 13? Maybe even younger]

voice;

[godbent]

Are you stupid? Since when did that apply here?

[folklorist]

Mm no. Cloaking would fall under light, at least in my own world it does. Bending and manipulating the light so that it creates and illusion or makes the person or object invisible. There's other sorts of spells like that. Sigils mostly fall under the applicable everyday time of magic.

voice;

[menial]

How do you know it doesn't?

[godbent]

And where do the balls come from?

[Voice]

[godbent]

Like potions or is yours also physical transmutation?

[godbent]

I don't think any of these do.

[action]

[godbent]

[Nod,okay, that makes sense...]

[Voice]

[godbent]

Can't everyone work with machines by definition?

[action]

[fellpool]

Any Symbologist ... or Heraldic mage, or whatever you want to call them, learns about all of the elements, and constantly practices how to draw the crests. That much doesn't change for any beginner. But, as they develop and begin actually putting symbols together to form "spells," their individual affinity also takes hold. So, even if they put the same amount of practice into all of the elements, they'll discover that they have a natural strength towards certain elements.

...Or they find out that they're terrible at it. That happens, too. [wryly] But at least they get the tattoos for trying.

voice;

[godbent]

Because I've already worked some out to no ill effects, everyone else here uses it, and you can't summon things here, I've tried.

[godbent]

Levitation, summoning, barriers?