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Campbell Mark Swan ([personal profile] from_scratch) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia2014-11-27 08:45 am

trade my soul for a wish

This is a successor to "call me maybe", which is getting crowded.

Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.


with Mark (kappa)

with Adanya (Aestrix)

with Sable (kappa)

with Ari (andaisq)

with Metella (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Steel (Rockeye)

with Daphne (Maggie)

with Edie (Maggie)
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-27 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't believe so. The 'ritual' component is a extended period where you practice a specific action - say, picking up a stone - until you can do it in precisely the same way every time you do it. Once that is achieved, you begin attempting to substitute your will for the last component step - say, drawing the stone up into your palm with your fingers. It's an exercise in extremely precise visualization, more than anything else."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-27 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes. I know of no other practicing mages with a true medical Memnodyne. This is not to say that they don't exist, but we're thinly scattered enough that we don't have weekly meetings."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-27 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Practically anything that can be sufficiently ritualized. One of the most common and useful ones is to make a Memnos of your own hands, which allows for short-range telekinesis of anything you could normally hold in both hands."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-27 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Roughly a year of study to start seeing significant results, and then four more years to manifest your first Memnos, if you do it properly. If you have a particular skill that you're already an expert at, that can sometimes shorten the amount of time spent on an acquisition - but I would not reccommend using one of those to form your first Memnos. Many new students go from a quickly-acquired first Memnos to a much-harder-to-acquire second one, and that causes the vast majority of them to give up due to the disheartening spike in difficulty."
Edited 2015-06-27 21:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-27 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll be happy to instruct you in how to properly pick up rocks."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-27 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"You are going to pick up this rock several thousand times. Choose something not too heavy, that's easy to grip, and ideally aesthetically pleasing. Take your time over the decision: after all, you don't want to get halfway through the process and then decide you hate your rock after it slips out of your hand for the five hundredth time."
Edited 2015-06-27 23:37 (UTC)
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-28 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Switching rocks ruins it."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-28 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Lioncourt shrugs. "No-one's ever tried the latter. I would stick with the proven method."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-28 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Agate's not particularly valuable here, no."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-28 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Isabella leans in a little to inspect it more closely.

"It's very pretty, but I'm not sure you want something quite so polished. If you drop your agate and it breaks..."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-28 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Not much, but it is likely to make your rock more slippery. A scratch wouldn't be a disaster, but if it was at all significant it might set you back a few days as you reacclimated."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-28 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"That ought to make it sufficiently indestructible, then."

She tilts her head.

"... I would hesitate to be too optimistic, but working with an ideally suited tool like this might actually cut a week or two from the time necessary for proper ritualization."
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[personal profile] kaolinandbone 2015-06-28 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but that increase in durability means that you won't have to compensate for everyday wear and tear. Degradation of tools slows the learning process, since you have to adjust your motion, even if it is by the tiniest of amounts."

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