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

[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?

[time5kip]

She seemed to have more of a grasp on what she was doing while playing, despite not being herself. Before it was just destructive power with nothing else.

[daydreamshimmer]

So a focus. [Nodding.]

[time5kip]

That looks to be the case. My dad used to keep a journal where he kept track of our progress and how our powers worked. Would be useful to have now.

[daydreamshimmer]

...you can ask for personal stuff from the Spark shop.

I don't know if it'd work, but if it's not just a replica based on memories, and actually fished out from our worlds somehow, it'd be worth asking if you could get it.

[time5kip]

—Does it work even if the item is not mine? I've never actually touched it.

[daydreamshimmer]

[She shrugs.] I don't know, but what's the worst that asking can do?

[time5kip]

It's worth a shot. I'll let you know if I manage.

[daydreamshimmer]

Thanks. And I'll let you know if I remember more about the song magic.

At least there should be some kind of musical incident that happens.