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aterat2021-12-14 04:02 pm
faithfulsupport) wrote in aterat2021-12-14 04:02 pm
Winter log
Who: Everyone!
What: Open Log
When: December
Where: The Hunter's Lodge
Warnings: N/A
Notes: This is a mingle log, so people are free to set up their own TLs under it. So tag in and tag around!
Snow has fallen outside and while it's not heavy it's set just enough down to gently cover the wooden benches and ground outside. The chairs have been removed but the lanterns are still out and lit (as well as the little lights that have been replaced with more festive ones) if people want to walk around outside and have private chats among the snow, the trees and the lighting.
Potluck - Food is all around. Got a story about how the food you brought is part of a long standing family tradition? So much the better! But Ignis for his part has been researching and working on bringing the foods he's heard about. So here you'll find an appetizer platter along with a cream cheese tree, turkey, ham, his version of the Crown City roast, stuffing balls, roasted potatoes and roasted vegetables, and of course a few different desserts.
So you can find him making sure the table is decked out in christmas colours and full of food. But as he sets the last appetizer tree down on the table, he nods. "Quite glad to see that you could make it."
Trim a tree A small group of freshly cut green trees are sitting in a corner with room to go around the back. Simple lights are already in place, but there are ornaments with hooks sitting in silent invitation to decorate the tree and gather around as well as different coloured garland too.
But there's plenty of supplies and being able to decorate a tree with Nida last year was all sorts of fun as it will be again this year. So the advisor is definitely happy that nature can come inside at least temporarily.
Ignis stands back and takes a look at the trees with a satisfied sort of nod. "I suppose after the holiday, I will see about replanting it outside." Turning to his guest, there's an easy smile. "It won't do to simply throw it away do you think?"
Gift exchange - Gifts aren't required, but people are free to do so. This can be as private or as public as wished! The royal strategist is busy arranging gifts under the tree, trying to make some sense as to how they should be grouped, so he's on his knees trying to keep the order straight. As soon as someone approaches, he acknowledges their presence with a smile. "Would you mind handing me that blue wrapped gift sitting on the chair right next to you?"
Wild card- Dancing? Snowball fights outside? Feel free to make up a thing here!
What: Open Log
When: December
Where: The Hunter's Lodge
Warnings: N/A
Notes: This is a mingle log, so people are free to set up their own TLs under it. So tag in and tag around!
Snow has fallen outside and while it's not heavy it's set just enough down to gently cover the wooden benches and ground outside. The chairs have been removed but the lanterns are still out and lit (as well as the little lights that have been replaced with more festive ones) if people want to walk around outside and have private chats among the snow, the trees and the lighting.
Potluck - Food is all around. Got a story about how the food you brought is part of a long standing family tradition? So much the better! But Ignis for his part has been researching and working on bringing the foods he's heard about. So here you'll find an appetizer platter along with a cream cheese tree, turkey, ham, his version of the Crown City roast, stuffing balls, roasted potatoes and roasted vegetables, and of course a few different desserts.
So you can find him making sure the table is decked out in christmas colours and full of food. But as he sets the last appetizer tree down on the table, he nods. "Quite glad to see that you could make it."
Trim a tree A small group of freshly cut green trees are sitting in a corner with room to go around the back. Simple lights are already in place, but there are ornaments with hooks sitting in silent invitation to decorate the tree and gather around as well as different coloured garland too.
But there's plenty of supplies and being able to decorate a tree with Nida last year was all sorts of fun as it will be again this year. So the advisor is definitely happy that nature can come inside at least temporarily.
Ignis stands back and takes a look at the trees with a satisfied sort of nod. "I suppose after the holiday, I will see about replanting it outside." Turning to his guest, there's an easy smile. "It won't do to simply throw it away do you think?"
Gift exchange - Gifts aren't required, but people are free to do so. This can be as private or as public as wished! The royal strategist is busy arranging gifts under the tree, trying to make some sense as to how they should be grouped, so he's on his knees trying to keep the order straight. As soon as someone approaches, he acknowledges their presence with a smile. "Would you mind handing me that blue wrapped gift sitting on the chair right next to you?"
Wild card- Dancing? Snowball fights outside? Feel free to make up a thing here!
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So the effect was just rather comical.
And, of course, the kid was going to want him to elaborate. He wasn’t sure what that meant aside from the fact that the people inside might be faster. “So what’s that mean, and what kinda stuff are you good at??” He began absentmindedly pilling a little more snow up to roll into a ball to play with.
Mono nodded rather seriously though at Harry’s agreement, “Yeah, it’s important to be careful and make sure of stuff before you run in. It gets dangerous really fast if you don’t.” He still had ended up in a few sticky situations, so caution and sneaking was a learned skill through experience.
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"What's what mean? Evocation? Uh...it's 'big boom' magic. Remember when you were climbing that pipe and I knocked you down with wind? I, uh," he cleared his throat, "I didn't mean to hit you that hard. See? Not great at it, but to Evoke is to form an idea in your mind, gather up the will, and throw it. Instant, and you usually have to have line-of-sight on the target. I have...a lot of power, and I'm not great and focusing it. That's why I make myself tools, like my blasting rod. It helps me focus power I evoke into something tangible, but some Evocators don't need outside tools."
It wasn't something he was proud of, but it was still the case. "What I'm good at is Thaumaturgy. 'As Above, So Below.'" Basically, you set up a little...miniature, sort of, a little object, or a doll, or whatever you want really, to represent a real-world thing, you perform the spell on the little thing, focus your will into it, then release that will and it does the spell on the real-world thing."
He chuckled, nodding. "No kidding. See, you actually get the greatest wizard secret already. We're not any smarter, faster, or more powerful than most other people. We're just really good at preparing Keep mum about that, thought. Trade secret."
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But Mono listened more closely to the explanation. “Evocation…” He tried the word before he nodded. ‘big boom’ was very accurate based on his experience with the drain pipe and Harry’s magic. Which admittedly kind of made him feel better about that, hearing that it had just been because Harry wasn’t as good at controlling it as others were. “I kinda understand that. I sometimes broke stuff in my world too. I dunno if it was the same thing, though.”
As the explanation continued, Mono’s face scrunched a bit to concentrate. Harry was using a lot of words he hadn’t heard before. “Thawmaturkey?” Close enough. “I don’t think I heard of that before, either. It sounds really complicated in different ways than the other one though, so I guess that makes sense. If some people are bad at Evocation, then they’d be better at… The other one. Or the other way around.”
He did sit up a little straighter to hear that he actually got an important secret already, just by knowing you had to be careful, planning ahead and being sneaky sometimes. “Yeah? Well, I kinda don’t know who I’d tell anyway, so I won’t tell.” Probably. Not on purpose, anyway.
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But honestly, he was more interested in what Mono had just divulged. "How exactly do you break stuff?"
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The question gets a little rise of his shoulders. “I dunno exactly. I think it’s just ‘cause I’m bad at controlling what I do. Sometimes when I leave a television, the screen breaks behind me.” Which was pretty damn inconvenient if you needed to get back in quickly if you landed somewhere you didn’t want to be. Instead, he’d have to start running and hope he ran into another quickly enough.
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Harry nodded at that, still not completely following but at least catching on to the fact that the kid had some kind of teleportation power. It was possible it didn't even have to be a television, and may just utilize the reflective quality of the glass.
"Can we talk about that for a minute? We don't have to talk shop if you'd rather not."
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Tapping his chin with a very serious look on his face as he tried to figure out how to explain it, or if he was sure enough that he knew how to do so. “I kinda just press on the screen? It goes all weird and staticky and then I kind of get sucked in?” He responded with a little tilt of his head. It was hard to say if that was what Harry meant. “It’s kinda like it reacts to me? Like…” He wished he could show the guy. Showing was way easier than talking about it. “I dunno how to explain it good.”
He shook his head a little as he tried to describe how it worked. “I can't control it really good either. I thought for a while I was getting better at getting to a place by messing with the signal, but I was just getting tricked to go somewhere someone wanted me to. Most of the time, I just kinda end up at whatever other television is closest to where I go in.”
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"Have you tried it with anything like televisions here? Maybe it's something about your world, not you specifically."
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It was definitely a ‘Mono’ ability, since Six couldn't do it at all. Not unless Mono had a hold of her when he was using his ability. If Harry asked, he could at least say that. The Man in the Hat could do what he could too, of course… But Mono doesn’t know why that is yet. Unless Harry got into very specific points, Mono might be a little lost on how to answer the guy. It’s not like he ever knew anyone in his world he could ask how he did what he could do. He just figured things out as he went.
“Um… I dunno. I haven’t found anything that’s like a television aside from the little screens on the phone thing. They’re too little for me to fit through, and I’m kinda afraid of getting stuck.” He responded, lifting his shoulders uncertainly. Maybe there was something enough like a television, but he hadn’t come across it yet.
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"I mean something other than technology...like a mirror, or a reflective window."
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"You want to try an experiment? I'll need to do some research first, and I'll need your help with it."
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The question gets a careful half nod, between curious and uncertain of agreeing to an experiment without more details. “What would I have to do to help with it?”
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It was a place to start, and the kid didn't need to know he intended to use the Third Sight to watch him transport. He didn't do it lightly, but it might be the only way to assure he has a good understanding of just what it is Mono does.
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Then Mono paused with a tiny frown. “Only, I dunno where I’d come out? I don’t really have a lot of control over that. Usually I end up getting out at the next nearest TV.” He didn’t have a lot of control yet, and usually he resorted to using the ability when he needed to get away or if his path forward would be blocked otherwise. “It’s something I was kinda practising as I went.”
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It sounded like it would work to Harry, at least. He'd done experiments completely blind before, usually with Bob (which made it marginally less dangerous), but he was a magus, damn it. He could do this without his magical computer.
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And on hold until such time as Harry could find TV sets. "So, what was the plan today?"
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"Do you...know how to play Go Fish?" He'd been that lonely kid with no friends and terrible social skills.
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He tilted his head up at Harry, looking more than a little confused and a tad skeptical about the idea. “You can go fishing in the wintertime? Isn’t the water all frozen?” He also clearly didn’t know about ice fishing, but that wasn’t exactly the point. The point was, the kid definitely didn’t know how to play ‘Go Fish.’
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"It's a card game." He stood, stooped due to the low ceiling. "Tell you what. I'll run and grab us a deck of cards and teach you the ropes. I'll bet you'll be a natural."
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But the kid was definitely enjoying the opportunity to learn how to play games now and then, especially learning how to them properly. The way he saw most games being played by the porcelain bullies in his world was… Far less fun. So discovering that they weren’t so bad when done properly was an experience. “But um… learning sounds like fun?”
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