Journey of the Elementals RP (Pm if Interested, Started)

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Cale nodded. "Later on could mean tomorrow as well. It could even mean the day after that given the context... maybe I'm being too pushy with you. But if I may be honest, I really enjoyed today. It was the most enjoyable day I had in a while especially with all the stuff going on these few days." Cale looked down at his scarf avoiding Nydia's eyes for a second then refocused back on it. "I think you helped make my day better." Cale sat himself up and planted his feet on the floor. He pushed himself up without any help, Cale had been through worse.

"Anyway I need to go... I can make it myself since your busy." As Cale walked out with his feet heavy with exhaustion Cale turned back one last time before he left for the Earth Mountains.

"Listen Nydia, I like you... in more ways than one. I'll be on the fields helping with the clearing out some place for our visitors. At least that's what the masters said we'd be doing tomorrow... see you around." Cale left the infirmary with one hand clutching his scarf and the other biting his nails.

Upon arriving in his dorm Cale was greeted by a familiar sight. Deanae at his door with a jester's smile on her face. Cale pushed her away before she got the chance to talk to him. But not wanting to go out without fighting Deanae grabbed Cale's hand and squeezed tightly as she drove him against the wall.

"You I don't like being pushed around, Cale." Deanae said as he noticed Cale's tiredness seeing that normally he would fight back in this current situation. "What's wrong, a little tired from all the fighting? I'm sure that you would have been tired anyway if you'd have worked.-"

"Stop it D! For the Gods' sake, I'm really tired today and I really don't feel like talking-"

"Talking about what? Your glorious endeavors in the arena without me or how you romanced some new visitor from Ker-"

"You didn't sound very mad about me going by myself! You should have asked!"

"Oh I'm not mad that you didn't go without me, I'm mad that I wasn't there to see you bumble into that Luminomancer's arms without me being there. Word travels faster than a aeromancer you know..." Deanae let go of Cale and ruffled his hair a bit. "You even smell like a lightdweller now. See you around, lover boy..."

Cale noted Deanae's words carefully and went into his room. Soon Cale's body met his bed as his mind slowly drifted into sleep.

 

[UnusualStranger]

"Lasers, ya say? I heard of the magic healing stuff, but being able to fire from your fingertips would be some sort of impressive, son. Might need to see a demonstration of that." Jones said with a laugh. He seemed like a well humored older fellow, though perhaps a bit more crass and personally energetic than the others. He turned to Edward, wearing a smirk.

"And you, my boy, seem pretty damn cocky. My arm is quite well under my control, and I know there ain't a damned thing you can do about it. And yes, a knife launcher. You know what a knife is, right?"

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

How did I not see this coming? Looking back it seems so obvious now. I study so hard... And yet I feel so ignorant now. Nydia's mind was in turmoil as she wandered down the halls towards her room, almost bumping into several people in her daze. When Cale walked out, she had barely had time to say goodbye. He said he liked me... In more ways than one. Even a fool like me can tell what that means. What do I say to that?

Somehow, Nydia managed to make to her room. She went in and let herself fall into bed, ignoring the sharp pain from her bruises. Though she tried, she could not seem to put her feelings to words. "I made a vow to myself and others. I cannot simply throw that vow away. But if I do not, Cale may suffer for it. And perhaps I will as well..." Nydia closed her eyes, but sleep did not find her soon. Years of avoiding matters of the heart had left her unfamiliar with such feelings and she was certainly paying the price for it now. I know how Cale feels about me, but how do I feel about him? As she finally drifted off to sleep, the question remained unanswered.

 

[blaze96]

"Well pretty much any of us can do that. Honestly lasers aren't that special to us, they are what we use for offensive attacks. The better displays are from the Weavers and Masters really. I could give a display though, but I don't think it would be a good idea right here. What with all the other guards and being told to be on my best behavior and all." Alexander said before thinking about the question of the arm being under his control.

I wonder how he would feel if the metal were to be controlled.

 

[SkyeNeko]

The books looked like the textbooks she saw in class sometimes. She laced her fingers together behind her back and looked at the books suspiciously, but decided to go for it. "Erm... okay..." She picked up the bigger one first, then ran over and dropped it into her brother's arms. "Drew can you please carry this for me please? Okay, thank you!" The other book was very much lighter, and she balanced it on top of her head to pull out another lollipop. Mmm... grape~ She looked around for a room or any place free of books, this was the first time she was going to try a spell from a library book. "Um... where can I try some of these spells?" she asked the librarian.

 

[NeoAC]

Raven was still trying to fully grasp exactly what this could mean. So some guy in metal armor tried to attack a pyro in the library? "So wait, if these metal guys are here trying to cherrypick sheep to go off to some far off place and work them, why do they have things going around and getting into fights with people? Wouldn't the fights be enough to see who can fight? Why bother sneak attacking?"

 

[My name is Fiction]

"Hayhay no reason to be offended, I never said I could take control of your arm. Just meant I will someday I could bend steel to my will. And yes I know what a knife is, seems a little redundant to launch one. Would rather cut bread then people."
Edward felt his stomach grumble again after mentioning food.
"What kind of food do you have in the city? Can you grow stuff on those ships?"

 

[UnusualStranger]

"Fair enough boy. Still, would be impressive to see something along the lines of light being turned into a weapon just like that. I would like seeing it, even if you are not....that other stuff you said." Jones replied, appearing to be entertained by the idea of seeing light firing from the hands of someone. Turning to address Edward now, he shrugged.

"Not offended, just figure you couldn't manage that. You don't look....dedicated enough, I thinks the word. Besides, how is it redundant to launch one? You never heard of a thowing knife before?" Jones said, then pausing for a moment.

"Uh....Well, I imagine we could, if we actually put some dedication into making it so, but instead we just bring food, I figure....and what about you gents? You just grow all your own foods or something?"

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"Of course! You just need to have someone supervise, and get to the separate room. There you are free to practice....within reason, of course." The librarian stated, pointing to the doorway some distance away in the back.

"Just....one book at a time, please. Don't want to risk too much at once."

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"That is probably the biggest set of questions we cannot answer. Why sneak around in the first place when there is nothing to really stop them from getting around? And was the purpose to fight someone in the first place? Odd to be smashing open windows and fighting a pyromancer around here." Seth said, standing up to go look at the other body, which burned in a different way.

"This guy....didn't die the same way. He burned, but it doesn't seem like he did the same way. I know that probably doesn't make any sense, but....it is what I feel."

Heat....from around him, but not spreading? What the hell did this guy have on him to cause that? Gods, what could a pyromancer have done to even manage this?

 

[My name is Fiction]

"Well my focus is a little broad." He said scratching his head
"never really train hard until I need toobut thats not the point! Oh and we grow our food, we get some good quantity since we can control the weather and soil conditions. You will taste the quality for the feast I am sure we are having."
better, I am starving
"And yes, its a little redundant. I have heard of throwing knives but I am sure you don't use hands for that job, probably an overly complex way to do it."

 

[SkyeNeko]

"Oh... okay! I'll just take the book Drew has." she nodded, putting the smaller one she had down. She dragged her brother to one of the back rooms, depositing him on one of the chairs before running back out to the librarian. "Um, excuse me, can you please watch me while I try something!?" She was excited to try a new spell that no one in her class would know.

 

[blaze96]

"Well I'm sure there will be some kind of arranged display for you of some kind. Seeing as our masters made kind of a big deal about you showing up. I can see why obviously but you'll probably see something I have no chance of doing yet to be perfectly honest. Then again there may be some kind of set up where they take you around to the different schools while they train, I don't know though." Alexander replied. It was almost kind of funny that words that he used everyday were actually so foreign to this person.

 

[UnusualStranger]

"An....overtly complex way to throw knives without throwing them?......Boy, do they just keep you locked up or something? Crossbows, bow and arrow, slings? Any of those ring a bell?" Jones asked, now obviously slightly concerned about what he was talking about, only to turn to Alexander.

"Huh.....fair enough boy. Guess I will look forward to...whatever is going to happen, feast and all. Though, not sure what you fellas have here. What they serving?

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The librarian nodded, happy to be of help to someone rather than chasing people down. He calmly walked to the room, showing the small open room with a few small amounts of each element inside.

"Just be cautious please. Can't afford to have anything else happen in the library today. Quite a mess I have to clean up, and I would rather not risk completely losing a book making someone else have to rewrite the whole thing."

 

[NeoAC]

Seth was right, it wasn't making a lot of sense. At least to Raven it wasn't. Of course, it really did just look like a pyro went rogue but Seth was still acting a bit off about it. What is going on with this? It looks like he doesn't know what happened here. Are the pyro's really having that much trouble keeping tabs on their own? Raven silently watched Seth try and work through his own thoughts and piece this together.

 

[SkyeNeko]

She nodded a quick thanks, and quickly began to scan the book. It didn't take her long to find and read over the text she needed, but everything else was too distracting for her to actually start the spell. Some 15 minutes later she had completely forgotten about healing her brothers burn, and was buried in a spell about manipulating water currents. She kept swirling the water in the small bowl in front of her, trying to get the temperatures right. "What do you think Drew? Technically the spell isn't really useful, and even then I could only really use it in a big body of water, but I can't control that much water yet. How much water do you think I'd really need though? [small]I mean, I'd only need to heat the water up. It would cool by itself right? Maybe I should look at something more useful... aiieee look Drew! [sub]There's a spell to make a thunderstorm! That would be convenient wouldn't it? Instead of just having to make a reserve on our own we could make a thunderstorm and then we could use our own magic..."[/sub][/small]

 

[Mr. Omega]

"You're doing great, Fei. Maybe you should check that book out and practice some of them at home. You're trying to control the temperature, right? How about trying to freeze it?" He smiled, glad to see her so enthusiastic. I can go to an infirmary later for the burn. It isn't that bad...

 

[SkyeNeko]

"Hmm I don't know if there's anything about freezing in here... mostly things dealing with heat and water. I should ask if there's any books on freezing! Imagine having snow whenever I wanted!~" It didn't snow often if at all outside of the mountain peaks in the Academy, due to the weather control the mages had. "Drew... do you think it snows in the place those people are coming from?"

 

[Mr. Omega]

"I'm not sure. Who knows what the place like that would be like. I mean they don't have magic, so imagine what else they don't have. And think of all the things they have that we have no idea what they have. Still, if you do go making snow, promise you won't go causing trouble with it. Last thing I want is for a teacher to go telling me that you hit him with a snowball..."

 

[UnusualStranger]

Seth shook his head once more, not really sure where else he could turn to, and looked over to Raven.

"So, what do you think? Maybe bring them back from the dead or ferret information out of them some other way? Cause I really got nothing more to go off of here other than to take the metal left and go to....the blacksmith I guess." Seth said, standing up from looking at the oddly burned corpse.

Course, maybe that is why I am over here in the first place. Clean up, move out, and not tell anyone what is going on with this odd metal stuff.

"Then we can go see what our odd guests are up to as well. maybe they wear something similar to this as well."

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The Librarian seemed quite happy with the interesting conversation going on, listening to the chatter about the strangers he had yet to see arrive, other than the odd man who had run through the library earlier. He kept glancing out the doorway to see if any other people were entering the library, and somewhat to his relief there were none, since they were mostly over at the meeting of the odd peoples who had arrived.

 

[SkyeNeko]

Forgetting about the healing she went outside and sat down at one of the tables. "Excuse me are there any books on those strange people who are going to visit us?" Fei asked the librarian. "They're kinda scary and funny looking. Do you know if they have snow?"

 

[NeoAC]

Necromancy was a bit beyond Raven's talents so that would be out of the question. So this is it then. We're going to have to let the blacksmith have his way with this. Have him pound along on the thing until it's only fit to make more god damn swords. Great. More fodder for the battling flock.

"I guess there isn't much that can be done is there?" Raven noted. "If you and I have little info to go on with this...thing, then handing it off to someone else will probably be the best option." Not that I'm thrilled to give someone else an opportunity to steal the thunder away from me. But what am I going to give for info? A chunk of metal broke the library? Great Raven, we'll pass that along to no one.