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Who: Heroes, possibly suffering
When: Day 16, Late Morning through Afternoon
Where: Aurora

[Well, that just happened! Many people on the train are now doubtlessly the worse for wear, physically and psychologically. How are you sorting all of that out?

Alternately, maybe you have enough Sparks for a memory and you're playing it on the big screen? Or you're testing out a new power?

Or maybe you have something else in mind? Mingle away!]

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Go ahead. I don't know how that works though, so be careful? If you touch the magic, they'll probably take that badly.

Edited 2019-03-17 00:06 (UTC)

I'm just going to see how you're mimicking muscle tissue.

[She gets closer, but doesn't touch, leans her head around to see if there are visible fibers connecting bones to each other to move them or if its just one big undifferentiated cloud.]

[the second skeleton stops its pacing, returning to Eliza's side to join its twin. both of them stare back, on edge.]

Can you tell that just by looking? If you want that, I can just draw you the sigils and programs I used in their summoning circles.

That would be even better, actually. I'm used to working with things whose original raisers aren't very cooperative. I've gotten good at figuring out what's what.

[if anything, the magic on them resembles more of a net than a cloud or articulation. it’s tightly woven, keeping the general shape of a live dragon, and the individual bones have their own bright gilding too. both dragons are connected, somehow, to Eliza, with magic passively shares back and forth between them]

It might not make any sense to you though. From what I can tell so far, our magic systems are pretty different— Like I need to use iconography for my spellwork, I can’t just will something into being.

[but she wanders a bit down the shore, scooping up a stick to start sketching in the damp sand]

I just want to learn everything I can.

[Emilia comes over, lifting the hem of her dress up above the sand to watch.]

Good thing I'm on the teaching team, then.

We can get sparks for this.

[Pleasantly surprised.]

Good.

Convenient, right?

[taps the two symbols she's drawn in the sand]

For starters, do either of these symbols mean anything to you?

[Emilia gestures to the second one.]

That looks like a holy symbol from my world, but the first one isn't familiar.

Like this?

[scratches a ⊕ next to her symbol]

There's a lot of similar-looking cross signs, but the first two symbols I used are for marking "center of gravity." I've noticed a really big difference in my skeletons' motions if I check that their movements correspond to the weight of their original body, rather than to their current lighter weight.

Mm, like - no, not quite, but I guess it doesn't matter. The way we do it automates most of this, we let the old soul remember how to...walk on its new legs. I suppose.

Oh sure, a lot of what Isildur and Isolde do is from their own instincts. I use these icons more like a shorthand or a citation mark— If I was summoning a pigeon or something quick, I wouldn't want to bother writing the whole formulae. But for my familiars I did the whole script, and used these more as key marks to keep everything extra secure, like writing everything into the circle and then linking it to a sigil written on the bones. They're very old, they have their own magic that needs their weights to be right to work comfortably, and they were meant for familiars, so I didn't want to risk any wiggle room. I like to double-up spellwork and natural soul operations when I can.

[scribbling out some of the formulas in the sand: some mix of physics, Latin, and assorted symbols]

Mmh. I should tell you I never really got to go to school for this. I've been trying to teach myself out of books, but most of what I'm assigned to do is work on things someone else already raised that just need to be repaired.

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