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Who: anyone
When: day 38, after noon
Where: in and around the train

[A gentle breeze keeps the afternoon cool. It seems peaceful around now, with the malice pushed back so far, unless you're heading to the island of concentrated malice of course.

It's a good day to relax and daydream.

Distantly you might sometimes hear the tick ticking of clockwork? Or it might be your imagination.

Speaking of imagination, if you think about things too hard you may find your thoughts and feelings shared with those nearby. Or even if you don't think hard at all.

At the mildest this might simply be like your thoughts and emotions being understood by others next to you, either in a vague or explicitly detailed way, but at the most extreme you might project shared delusions. Something like others getting to watch your own memories. Or fantasy sequences. Or inner monologues. Or maybe even blending you delusions with another's.

Whether it goes that far or remains a more telepathic/empathic thing is very random.]

Comments

[schrodingerscockroach]

Oh wow. I would have thought you'd just need to stop casting the spell. Does it happen often, needing to dispel it?

[voreaciously]

[80H raises her hands and water from the beach floats in the air before it takes shape.

It's a chibi Dusk!]

Sometimes, but that is frequently incorrect.

[A blob of water takes shape. It is a bicycle.] Consider: when you peddle on a bike, you generate momentum that carries you forward even after you cease peddling. [little Dusk is peddling hard before stopping, riding it out, the wind in his hair.]

Magic is often the same way with more complex enchantments and evocations, if there is energy present, it can grow unpredictable--the bike steering out of control. [things are looking rough for lil Dusk here! he can't seem to get control oh no.]

Negating the spell is the brake.

[but he remembers brakes exist and hits them and smiles after wiping the sweat off his watery forehead. that was a close one!]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Oooooh.]

[He's listening intently and admiring the intricacies of the puppetry. All done with water and getting all those details.]

That makes sense. Magic is an energy, instead of a machine. Need to control the flow more.

This really is amazing though. You make it look effortless, doing this much. [Gesturing to the chibi.]

[voreaciously]

[her face is still pink]

...It is nothing special really, I have had practise.

[schrodingerscockroach]

So? People need to practice. Even if you have gifts, natural or otherwise, it takes practice to hone those abilities. Talent is a dull blade, takes time to make it sharp. Just a question of how long.

Doesn't make it less amazing.

sair did you even sleep

[voreaciously]

I would agree with you with other facets, but this is truly easy. water is malleable, it is easy to impress upon it different shapes.

I may be trying to adjust my sleep schedule and it's a mess

[schrodingerscockroach]

It would also be easy to get it wrong, isn't it? That's the downsides of easy to work with material, it's also easy to mess up.

ganba dear

[voreaciously]

Magic is about intent. Water is soft, forgiving, it is easy to imprint intent upon it if the mind is clear.

[he's not entirely wrong but she only has her own experiences and though she's worked very, very hard, shaping has never been really difficult for her.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

A clear mind is not necessarily an easy thing to do.

[voreaciously]

That is the purpose of casting spells. They render the caster under a special hypnosis to enable it, but this is like flexing a muscle. Natural. Reflexive.

[sorry dusk this just isn't that special]

[schrodingerscockroach]

I wouldn't call it natural.

[He knows his compartmentalization is a weird thing and that's what it takes to clear his head.]

And you have a tendency to sell yourself short.

[voreaciously]

I do not.

[schrodingerscockroach]

You absolutely do.

You're skilled and you're good at what you do.

That's why I knew I could ask for your help with Clover.

[voreaciously]

I never said I do not possess some skills.

[schrodingerscockroach]

There's a big difference between being able to give someone stitches and heart surgery. And that's practice, and hard work.

[voreaciously]

You would have managed without me, I believe in that.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah, but it would have been a lot harder to do and probably a lot more traumatic and painful. I've yet to hear anyone else actually have proper medical skills.

Being skilled doesn't mean being the only one who can do the thing. It's about being able to do it and when the opportunity arises where it's needed, it can be done. Because not everyone can know everything, that's why teams are important.

You made it easier for my team, including the new kid, and you helped me keep Noon safe. Maybe someone else could have done it, but you made it a lot less painful and far easier to figure out what needed to be done.

[voreaciously]

I exist to be useful, it is fine. If I was, then that is good.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Just because it's what you exist for doesn't mean you're any less amazing.

[voreaciously]

I am not amazing.

[she says that firmly, the blush on her face fading away. if she were amazing then she'd be able to...]

...but thank you. I am being boorish.

[gonna dig a little more]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Well, I think you're amazing.

[And he is genuinely glad to have met her. She helped a lot.]

Eh, met people more boorish. [Just on this train too.]

[voreaciously]

You are easily impressed. At any rate, like who?

[dig dig dig]

[schrodingerscockroach]

I really don't think I am.

Midnight. [Immediate.] Noon can be as well. Sophie and I had a tough conversation topic, so I can't say how she is normally, but if that's her normal.... [Shrugs.]

[voreaciously]

Breeze...Sophie-han has a bit of... [hm, how to put it delicately






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to

put

this]

She can be a little...coarse with her words, sometimes, but she is very nice otherwise.

[lol she puts up with 80H after all.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Oh, I definitely don't think she's a bad person. [Maybe a yandere, but....]

[Dusk doesn't necessarily see A Problem with that unless it gets counterproductive.]

[So yeah.]

But if we're talking people who were boorish to talk to, then she's beating you out from my perspective.