The Nineteenth Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, evening
Where: The Mermaid's Beach

Come on, come on heroes...! Come hither!

[ There's a playful giggle and the sound of splashing as the Mermaid's beach appears in the clearing. ]

Let's play a game...!

Comments

[daydreamshimmer]

That narrows things down a lot more.

...how exactly did it feel, to absorb the vital energy? The affects?

[time5kip]

I couldn't move and it was the most painful thing I ever felt. Wasn't pleasant.

[daydreamshimmer]

No, I imagine not.

[She's got a very focused face.] Physical damage or just energy and pain?

[time5kip]

Just energy and pain. Once she stopped I was fine again.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Perks up.] You still felt the lost of energy once she stopped?

[time5kip]

Just a second after, maybe. But I recovered quickly enough. I even used my powers to a capacity I hadn't before, so I'm sure enough they got back.

Vanya was interrupted by a bullet shot next to her ear. She wasn't harmed physically, but the her focus on the sound was interrupted. I think that's what did it.

[daydreamshimmer]

Now that is very interesting. Both energy and interruption. So that happened, but she still released enough power to hit the moon?

[time5kip]

[ Nodding at that ]

All the power she was collecting was released in a beam - hitting the moon itself was an accident. Or so I think.

Does any of this actually make sense to you?

[daydreamshimmer]

Using magic or energy to destroy isn't hard in concept. An out of control spell can do a lot of damage, so finding something to work with is fairly simple. The big thing is just how much she got. That is a lot of raw power and most living creatures can't contain it without....side effects.

But she seems to exist as a conduit, so what's key is finding how exactly she's gathering the energy because once you know that, then it's possible to counter or reverse the flow of energy. Because that's the problem. She was stopped, but she already had what she needed, so it needs to be cancelled out somehow, or at the very least, make sure she keeps control of herself and that power.

There's a few things it could be that comes to mind. How viable a counter is in question.

Is your power likes hers at all? Even if it's not music base, same source, or related somehow could tell a lot.

[time5kip]

I'm not interested in learning how to stop her. I want to help her use her powers. Properly, this time. She seems to use music and you seem to use music. That's all I'm after.

And to answer your question, no. I can manipulate space and time and I don't need any source to do it. My siblings and I all have different powers.

[daydreamshimmer]

Practice makes perfect and being able to counter a disastrous practice is still a good thing to have on hand. And in this case, it could be all connected. Conduits means being able to relate to things outside yourself and the more you understand that, the easier it is to control it.

You're manipulating something. You're messing with the source.

Same parent or is this an adoption thing? Same radiation accident? Drank same super juice?

[time5kip]

[ with the tone of voice of someone who heard this story 7 billion times, kind of exhasperated ]

On October 1 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth simultaneously, despite none of them having been pregnant at any point prior to then. Sir Reginald Hargreeves decided to look for these children and adopt as many of them as he could, to train them into a super hero team. The story says he got six. Vanya was the seventh.

[daydreamshimmer]

....the way you just repeated that was real disturbing.

But same source. That's important.

[Tapping her chin.] Let me get this all down, we're getting to more than I'm going to be able to keep reliably memorized without writing it down. And I need to see what all I remember about magic in regards to the Moon. There's a few spells in regards to that. Not destroying it, but magic reaching it. There's probably differences, but it gives a good base to work from.

[time5kip]

The moon's not important. Don't focus on that.

[daydreamshimmer]

It's a good way to judge scale. If she a straight conduit or an amplifier. And I have a lot of data to work from to get a decent guess.

[time5kip]

None of what you're saying is making any sense to me.

Geez. I wonder how the hell the old man figured this all out.

[daydreamshimmer]

Things about conduits is they could be a one for one thing. They're just about directing energy. But sometimes they can take that energy and supercharge it. Be it something about them, or just how certain forces react. With the element of music, chances are high she's an amplifier, so knowing if she's a one to two ratio versus a one to a hundred is pretty important for how to go about control.

Observation, maybe knowing what made you.

[time5kip]

Too bad Vanya's not here to test it and I have no idea what made any of us.

[daydreamshimmer]

I might see if I can make a scanner.

I'll get some ideas together. For theories and tests for myself. See where things take us.

[time5kip]

[ Logically he knows she's trying to help him out, and at his request on top of it. But there's nothing that irritates him more than not knowing something so here he is, getting cranky and aggravated ]

Do you know how to play any instrument?

[daydreamshimmer]

....

[Closing her eyes, tilting her head down, and thinking. Muttering names of instruments under her breath, shaking her head or shrugging.]

I....know how to use a guitar? Without magic, oh wow, I'm either terrible or amazing at it.

[time5kip]

Earn sparks to get one, then we'll test it.

[daydreamshimmer]

So her violin was necessary for her?

[time5kip]

[ Give him a second, thinking about it. She didn't have a violin when she destroyed the house ]

... No. It wasn't.

[daydreamshimmer]

Did it seem more focused?