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

[godbent]

Oh! [That's the one she's had the most success with, actually. She beams at that book before standing. She inhales... exhales... and then holds out her arm. Incanting the words with power and clarity the way the book specifies, she says:]

Glacies contego!

[And at this, from her palm comes a small shield of ice. It grows to about the size of a small shield you'd see in a knight story before holding there a moment... and when she lapses concentration is falls and seems to melt]

[folklorist]

[ Helios watches clearly intrigued and invested in Haruhi's spell casting. He'll move away a little when she finally conjures up that small shield. Helios will smile broadly when it starts to melt. ] That was...that was very good. H-Have you been practicing for long?

[godbent]

[She looks at the puddle, frowns, but then smiles back at him. Tapping a finger on one of her cheeks she considers...] Since... Oh, I guess the 18th? So three weeks.

[folklorist]

Three weeks...and you've made such progress so far. [ A broad smile. ] You're a rather fast learner. Have you made any progress with these other books?

[ He'll come closer then a hand running along the cover of one the books lying on the table. ]

[godbent]

Not really... I think I might have worked out levitation at some point? [From the Buffy one, but she was half-asleep and most of those require ingredients which she didn't necessarily know where to find and had to cross-reference in other books to even know what some of them are]

[folklorist]

I think you're making outstanding progress while doing this by yourself. Most of the books in the one from my world are human based. I-I think there's some upper level spells in it, but it's mostly for younger studying magicians and witches.

[ He'll go over to it and flip it open. ] Once you get the hang of it you'll be able to have it last and encompass a wider range. The, ah, p-power dampening effect of this place makes it a bit harder though.

[godbent]

Plus I'm not from the world, so the theory might not work 100% with me. [The more rational part of her brain says this, but she takes a seat neat to him all the same. This guy taught her the teleporting, after all, he might be able to tutor her more here]

[folklorist]

Very true. But you seem to have a good grasp on it so far. [ His eyes will glow and then the area around them will drop a few degrees as a dome of ice appears around them. It'll crack a few seconds later and the water evaporates well before it hits any of the books or them.

Helios smiles. ] With some more practice you should be able to do that eventually. But, well, small steps first. It might be easier to work near a body of water so that you can draw upon the base of the spell instead of having to use more energy to conjure it up.

[godbent]

[...Glowy eyes. Will her eyes eventually glow, that'd be cool. But she blinks, looking around them and then nods. Clearly more invested than she was even a moment ago. But, might as well bounce off of him-] So it literally creates the water? I assumed I was drawing it in from the air or using some of my body's water.

[After all, it does tire her out to use it repeatedly]

[folklorist]

Oh yes it does. [ He'll hold out his good hand, palm up and a ball of water forms. ] A bit of both, really. You draw if from the air which is why it takes so much energy to do so. Air doesn't have nearly as much water as a an ocean. So that's why it takes a good deal more to use such a spell. Also because you're not as used to doing it and well as you said mechanics and the like. You could always try to combine filial magic too. But that's a bit more complicated.

[godbent]

Sona doesn't like me anyway. [And she flicks her wrist, muttering a brief word so that a spark of fire comes out of it. Eferin and her get on great. Not so much with Sona]

[folklorist]

[ Helios chuckles a little at that. His smile fading slightly as he remembers something. ] I had a friend who...had trouble with her as well.

[godbent]

I've been working with it, but she's uncooperative anyway so I wouldn't count on it to work with her. I guess if I was going to try to combine doctrines by best bet would be with fire.

[folklorist]

Mm I do know a good few fire spells then. In my world there's offensive spells and defensive spells for each element. [ And then there's so illegal spells which are thankfully not mentioned in that book. ]

How are you with the other elemental spirits? Or have you not tried with them yet?

[godbent]

What about practical application? [But she shakes her head. Nah, no successes yet]

[folklorist]

Practical applications, hm. Like using it to cook or keeping you warm during the winter? Easy enough when you have a good grasp on how to the control the fire produced. [ Nevermind his cooking explosion awhile back. ]

[godbent]

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

[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.

[godbent]

Levitation, summoning, barriers?

[folklorist]

All of those are sigil related magic, yes. Though there are some barrier spells which have been translated and formed into spoken incantations as well.

[godbent]

Alright... [...Sigils, huh.] And does this one have sigils?

[folklorist]

Oh yes. When mythica I believe it was...yetis who gave us the sigil for this spell. But back in the very old times when humans and mythica were first exchanging magic between one another sigils were a common ground between all races. And then came the introduction of spoken incantations that we have today.

[godbent]

...Yetis have magic?

[folklorist]

Oh yes! All sorts of mythica have magic. Most human spells are made from the basis of mythica spells.

[godbent]

Oh, huh - you wouldn't think of yetis-

...Well, okay, go on.