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佐々木 琲世 ([personal profile] ex_adept136) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology2016-06-21 09:25 pm

(open) A little sincerity is a dangerous thing

CHARACTERS: Haise Sasaki [personal profile] pursuit and anybody.
DATE: Shortly after returning to Oska after staying behind in Nalawi.
WARNINGS: None, but will update if needed.
SUMMARY: Taking in the scenery.


Library
[Books had been a large part of Haise's life in all his brief recollection. It had begun with Arima bringing him books back when he was known only as the number 240. The literature he brought him somehow all struck his interest, and he absorbed both stories and reference information like a sponge, having nothing but blank walls and a stiff cot in his tiny world.

While this had changed when he became Haise Sasaki, and the world had become broader, his interest in books had never died. When he was in doubt, when he needed to know something - he referred to printed word, anytime he could.

And this doesn't appear to have changed at all, as Haise finds his way to Oska's library. He takes in the towering shelves with wide, curious grey eyes, a look one might expect from a child first setting eyes on a theme park. It doesn't take him long to veer right toward those shelves and pick out several titles...and then several more...

Eventually he's stationed at a table and ringed by small piles of books. All these magical matters are completely foreign to him, and Haise is quite invested in studying up and changing that]


Training Room
[Anyone passing by the training room might hear a sharp thump or thud in passing. It's loud enough that something of reasonable size must've hit one of the walls. And that something, upon inspection, would happen to be Haise Sasaki.

After some dabbling he's figured out that he can get customized opponents and terrain, and the scenery looks like a half-wrecked industrial building interior at this stage, broken concrete and shattered windows to suit. His opponent is naturally the same sort of purple figure those more familiar with the training room are liable to recognize, with the difference of a few bonus appendages, and the ability to move along walls at an alarming speed.

Something it demonstrates as it closes distance, seizes Haise by a leg, and slings him across the room again. It begs the question of whether he got an opponent tailored to his own abilities or something that's gone a little bit over his head]


Hot Springs
[After a long day of studying and getting thrown around by what are presumably holograms, Haise thinks to relax. Since returning from Nalawi he's heard about the hot springs, and being just a touch sore he makes the trek up there to loosen up his muscles some. It seems like a good way to conclude the day, especially since he's intent on keeping up a consistent training regimen.

Maybe one a little more carefully structured, he thinks, as the hike is fairly draining on his already low reserves. But he makes it to the artificially created springs soon enough, puffing out a sigh of quiet relief once it's within sight.

He keeps moving until he gets there, a towel slung over his shoulder for propriety's sake...although he's not sure where to change. That thought's set aside when he gets a better look at the water, sparing a moment simply to take in the scenery]


Such a nice view...

[The world seems so small and broken, but places like this certainly are lovely]
grunehexe: (teacup)

Library

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-22 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Even though she was largely bedridden, would be so for weeks, it didn't mean that Sieglinde never left her room now that she's returned from Nalawi. The first week, yes, she hadn't really left her bed, spending most of her days sleeping and treating the inflammation and swelling in her newly rebroken feet, checking to make sure the bones were positioned as best as she could place them, (using others' hands, lacking the strength and stomach for such herself), that if she did things correctly she might be able to walk better than if her feet remained bound.

So she could be less of a burden. Able to help more people. Walk on her own.

It wasn't like she could keep what she'd did from those she knew, either, though she didn't exactly feel comfortable sharing the full reasons, the emotional roller coaster ride she had and still battled with regarding what she'd done. But some people were mercifully respectful of her privacy, and some were helpful, and Haise had agreed to take her to the library. It required far more careful handling than ever- even a jostle of her feet, bandaged and splint tightly, smelling of balms and sharp-scented numbing agents, was painful, but the chairs in the library were big enough that she didn't touch the floor, sinking back into the cushions with Potionmaking Traditions of the Farjyn Witches open in her lap, her own notes scribbled in shorthand German on the arm of the chair, occasionally looking up to see what her company was doing.]


What do you hope to glean from that one?

[He seemed quite intent on it, and she couldn't see the cover or title from where she sat.]
grunehexe: (admission)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-22 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
[That was the thing about learning, wasn't it? Sieglinde understood. How many days had she lost, pouring over the tomes in the Green Manor's library? When she was on to something it was almost manic, how she'd tear through pages, scribbling madly, ink scattered over the floor... She'd scared Masamune more than once that way.

But she couldn't help it. Maybe neither could Haise. At the answer, though, the small witch gave a dramatic sigh, slumping back into her chair.]


It is possibly the most un-uniform thing I have ever encountered!

[Not even an exaggeration, that. Ever since ALASTAIR had gifted her the ability to learn magic despite the differences in worlds she has been struggling to decipher exactly how things were done, but with each world differing as it did... Rin's magic couldn't be cast like Laedo's, or Magnus' like Aqua's...]

Some people draw from an innate source, but some from the blood and some from a more intrinsic energy, and others draw from around themselves, and some channel it through objects and others by verbal command triggers-

[She threw up her hands a bit helplessly, but for all that it sounded like she was complaining... It was fascinating.]
grunehexe: (legs crossed)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-23 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm...

[That was a difficult question to answer with someone who wasn't a magic user themselves, or someone like her, who may not have had true magic most of her life, but had been raised to think she had, studying since she could walk.]

There are similarities between some... perhaps you could describe it as "disciplined" and "undisciplined" magics?

[She waved a hand as she thought of how to phrase it, gesturing in the air.]

Those spells that rely on ritual to cast, runes, or verbal triggers... and those who cast their spells using only willpower or emotional fuel?

[Did that make sense?]
grunehexe: (bandages)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-24 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Mostly, yes.

[This was actually one of the first opportunities she'd had to discuss her theories on the nature of magic as a whole as opposed to simply listening to someone explain how magic in their world worked, so she was sort of glad to have Haise there as a sounding board of sorts. She had endeared herself to several magic users and was attempting to learn from them... But connecting it all-]

I would hazard the guess that in general, the undisciplined techniques are more so when it comes to raw power, but only when you consider how much a single person is capable of. Disciplined magic seems capable of far more complex spells, and also allows for group casting...
grunehexe: (examination)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-24 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
I do not believe such a thing could be answered without bias, perhaps... I prefer the discipline sort myself, but it is what I was raised on. Spells to produce certain effects with certain potions and invocations... It is more formulaic. It makes more sense to me.

[And even though her magic spells had been only science in the end, she'd been raised considering them magic, which made ritual forms of magic easier for her to grasp by far than the more instant driven sorts.]

If it were a battle though, against another magic user... The undisciplined style may have the advantage...
grunehexe: (gaze)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-24 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It may be best not to consider that final.

[Sieglinde tapped the edge of her book with her quill, lips pursed thoughtfully.]

Many a person has joined ALASTAIR's ranks only to later be gifted with some magical spell- most I've encountered have been basic healing spells, but. They arrive in the form of a scroll and do not require a spell to be cast, merely the will. Some of my disciples are such people.
grunehexe: (look on)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-26 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Not initially, no... but usually ALASTAIR's spells are very narrow in execution, perhaps for that exact reason. They can only be used in precise ways- one element, for example, one degree of healing.

[She'd begun herself, that way.]
grunehexe: (quieted)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-26 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
No. The scrolls have very well-defined parameters. It does not grant an actual ability to learn spells, merely the ability to use a particular one.

[That she was pretty clear about, shaking her head a bit.]

The experience could be of use if one were to somehow gain the ability to cast magic of their own later, but. They are not connected.

[Though she's telling her own story, she speaks as if it isn't.]
grunehexe: (considering)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-27 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Human beings are quite innovative in general... they create technologies and devices to compensate for their weakness against the natural world... in some worlds, they develop magic.

[Sieglinde leaned her cheek against the heel of her palm, pursing her lips in thought.]

Do you want magic for yourself?

[She supposed she couldn't blame a person for such things at all.]
grunehexe: (serious face)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-06-29 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps you should ask ALASTAIR's ranked members?

[She had heard of people wishing for things and receiving them, as well as those who simply received things out of the blue.]

Anyone with a healing spell is useful to keep work off my hands, so I am in favor.
grunehexe: (looking)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-07-01 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
They keep to themselves, but they can be contacted over their devices either way.

[She tapped the emerald studded cuff at her ear, the form her magitek device took... but she definitely couldn't reassure him as to those people's actual ability to be sensible.]

I shall look forward to your efforts, should you acquire them.

[But until then... she's going to get her nose back in her book.]
grunehexe: (peek)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-07-03 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
[In person, at least, she understood them to be, yes.

At the question, though, she peeked over the top of her book, cocking her head.]


To enchant them, you mean?
grunehexe: (introduction)

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-07-03 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that will depend on the spell and the world in question... some people don't use anything at all.

[She moved her book, moving her head her to look about the library.

Where had that section been...]


Wands and scrying tools and the like, yes?

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