godbent | 31st: The Spells of Haruhi Suzumiya

[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]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

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]

[ 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.

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.

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?

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

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. ]

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

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.

Levitation, summoning, barriers?

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.

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

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.

...Yetis have magic?

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

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

...Well, okay, go on.

Lots of mythica have their own unique spells. It's where humans derived most of their own after all. Mythica's spells are a bit more taxing s-so humans decided to make a derivative of them. Easier, less powerful, human spells were thus produced and used now by a good majority of magicians in my world.

Okay, that makes sense. So it's like mass production.

Yes, exactly. An easier, safer, mass produced spell that all humans can use.

It feels sort of cheap to be learning a knock off, but if it's safer that's probably better anyway.

It was...the Magic Council's ch-choice to, ah, do so. Y-You can't really um do much about it, really. [ Helios looks sadly down at the books on the table. ]

They were just...d-doing their jobs after all and keeping people safe. [ Just like always. Helios closes his eyes for a moment as if a memory too painful to see passes before his eyes and he tries to blot it out. He looks back at her a second later with a smile again though. ] People do still use mythica spells and magic but, well, it's more draining and not as productive in-in dueling or fighting.

Uh huh. [A little hum, ans she looks back at the books] Do people have affinities where you're from?

Affinities? Something like...a person having specific element they're better at utilizing you mean? I-I not sure. There are people who are better at elemental spells than others but that's usually due to practicing a specific set of spells more than someone else.

[Nod. Okay... okay, so she's not necessarily stuck with ice. That's good]

Uh huh. Okay, that makes sense...

Was there any particular element you wanted to practice more of?

[ Helios knows a whole bunch of beginner spells not offered in the book too. ]

(no subject)

godbent - 2012-06-12 02:32 (UTC) - Expand

folklorist - 2012-06-12 03:26 (UTC) - Expand

godbent - 2012-06-12 17:01 (UTC) - Expand

folklorist - 2012-06-13 02:35 (UTC) - Expand

godbent - 2012-06-13 16:53 (UTC) - Expand

folklorist - 2012-06-17 06:22 (UTC) - Expand

godbent - 2012-06-17 17:48 (UTC) - Expand