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tongueamok| Hello, this is Carlisle. I mean, it's not Carlisle as in I'm actually answering you right now, so if you're trying to reply to me at the second, you should probably save your breath because I'm not really here. This is some kind of a recording of my voice, but this is my communicator. I'm going to assume these devices are as common here as they are in other places — not my world, but others, ones more technologically advanced than where I come from— so if you'd like to leave me a message, then you may do so here, or er... Right. Here is fine. So just leave yo— [beep] |
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Date: 2016-12-24 09:00 am (UTC)Right, [just going to move right along and pretend that that's not happening a few inches from him,] glyphs. I've brought brought a few of varying strengths, but seeing how you at least know a thing or two about magic, I assume you will know what it feels like when you use it. Energies tugging and such.
[He reaches into his satchel and retrieves a few pieces of paper with some odd circles and crude symbols. His handwriting leaves something to be desired.]
Do you have healing magic where you're from? Or any kind of mending, really?
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Date: 2016-12-24 02:18 pm (UTC)Glyph-based stuff is entirely outside his wheelhouse, but that don't mean he can't learn. Somethin' to be said for imaging and the like, but most monsters produce the kind stuff they have natural. Energies tugging sounds a pretty obscure way to describe it.]
Sure. We got green magic - good for healing and defense and the like. Just never learned much about it myself. For monsters, magic's about as natural as breathing. [Or, uh, whatever the equivalent is for a monster lacking lungs. But, y'know. Details.]
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Date: 2016-12-26 08:16 am (UTC)The natural acquisition of magic does not necessarily translate into control, but I suppose that comes next.
[After setting one of his pieces of paper atop the counter, he rounds it to the other side and grabs a glass. After a second of hesitation, he hits it on the countertop, leaving a sharp crack all the way down it and a huge chunk shattered from its side. He uses one of his other sheets to sweep the pieces onto the glyph on the paper.]
Can you control how much magic you expel, Sans? Or does it constantly flow through you like blood?
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Date: 2016-12-26 04:26 pm (UTC)[A flatly, decidedly unhelpful response as he watches Carlisle mete out some misplaced sense of justice upon a poor, defenseless glass. A second later, he inclines his skull faintly as he elaborates.]
Both, essentially.
[He opens his phalanges, and a small collection of knucklebones form in the air, hovering there harmlessly before they dissipate.]
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Date: 2016-12-29 07:59 am (UTC)... Right. At least if this glyph goes horribly wrong, neither of us will end up dead. Probably.
[He gestures to one of the little arches on the paper that leads off the main circle.]
What you'll do is just put your hand here, and the glyph will do the rest. Ideally, the glass fixes itself. Not-so-ideally, it either doesn't do anything or it explodes from too much energy being drawn into it all at once.
[Hence the 'probably.']
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Date: 2016-12-29 08:08 am (UTC)[For the first time, Sans sounds interested rather than simply lazily amused. It's an intriguing aspect. He'd been figuring it was something rooted in the organic or the magical - something utterly dependent on the knitting together of fibers or blood vessels or the magical fabric that comprises a monster's whole being.
A glyph drawn, and then you channel your energy. Makes sense.
Sans complies, reaching to place his hand on the location designated. He pauses, phalanges hovering an inch or so above the paper.]
Is it somethin' that feeds off my energy naturally, or am I channeling something?
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Date: 2016-12-29 08:33 am (UTC)[He trails his finger along the minuscule symbols drawn between the two main circles.]
Normally, a glyph will only pull how much energy is required to activate and complete its task, but as this is a test, I have inscribed it to pull from you until the glass is fixed. If your magic is compatible with that of my world, it should take only a minimal amount, at best, to mend it. And if nothing happens, then I guess at least I didn't waste any time writing a lesson plan.
And if you're very compatible, or you don't know how to cut off the flow of your own energy, I'm expecting the glass will be too fixed. If it starts glowing white hot, I recommend you pull your hands off the glyph and duck.
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Date: 2016-12-29 08:43 am (UTC)If it goes all pear-shaped and he dissolves into dust on the spot, well - Carlisle did warn him and all. Decent of him.
Sans closes the gap, settling his hand down on the paper. For a moment, there's only stillness. Then there's a minute shiver and - hey now, it feels kinda like throwin' up a line of bones. Only instead of thrusting out an attack fully materialized, it's like watchin' it build itself up piece by piece. It's the same way green magic works, in principle, but simply released via another mechanism.
Like opening a door.
His HP goes untouched. He's got plenty of magic to accommodate the fixing required, and it don't hurt. It hums the way magic does when it's being actively used, but that's something he can well tolerate.
The glass starts to piece itself together.]
I thought I hit this back! My bad!
Date: 2017-01-08 09:01 am (UTC)Good. Good good good. And you're not dead after all, so I suppose we can call that a, ah.
[And then the glass starts glowing along the cracks that had just been fixed, extraneous magic starting to seep through them. That's likely what he meant by it being 'too fixed.']
no problem!
Date: 2017-01-08 07:37 pm (UTC)All right-y. Guess now we know to cut that flow off before it gets to be too much of a pane.
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Date: 2017-01-09 08:34 am (UTC)Probably comes from being made of magic. These kinds of glyphs aren't really written for beings who are made entirely of the stuff.
[The ink on the paper starts to bubble, evaporating away with the excess energy. Carlisle doesn't seem terribly concerned -- that part must be normal.]
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Date: 2017-01-09 08:47 am (UTC)[That ink sure is reacting to the aftereffects of it, though from the way Carlisle just up and lets it happen, Sans can only assume that it ain't much to worry about. He plants an elbow on the counter, heel of his palm rising to meet the rounded edge of his skull that constitutes a chin.]
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Date: 2017-01-09 08:53 am (UTC)Yes, actually. There are loads of people where I come from who are excellent glyphcrafters, but haven't any magic in their blood to actually activate them.
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Date: 2017-01-09 07:19 pm (UTC)Interesting. And the ink is...a conduit, I'm guessin'?
[The visual representation - once the glyph is used up, it fades out. Makes sense, don't it? And now he's gotta wonder if it's somethin' that has to be readily definable as "magic" - or if it can be somethin' else.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 11:31 pm (UTC)[But that's when things start getting really complicated.]
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Date: 2017-01-11 12:03 am (UTC)[Not as simple as the way monsters can pull the magic out from their SOULs and fingertips, but he was never real great at that anyway. An alternate method ain't so terrible, in that case.]
I'd, uh, be interested in learning more, if that's not too much trouble.
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Date: 2017-01-11 12:10 am (UTC)[Should be.]
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Date: 2017-01-11 01:57 am (UTC)["It should be all right" is one of those phrases that goes up on a famous last words tombstone, but...eh, it'll probably be fine.
And then Sans laughs, 'cause nothin' says "lightening the mood" like a quip about human law systems.]
Don't worry. I won't hold you liable for any screw-ups on my end.
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Date: 2017-01-11 02:15 am (UTC)[He slides off the chair and gathers up his papers.]
Regardless, I'll come up with some plans for lessons. Don't expect to learn everything all at once.
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Date: 2017-01-11 02:19 am (UTC)[It's forgivable, maybe, that Carlisle don't quite know just how much Sans bases his system of morality on accountability. And if nothing else, he's gonna hold himself accountable.
Sans scrapes his stool back and crams his hands in his pockets, winking.]
Yeah, yeah, all right. I'll pace myself.
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Date: 2017-01-11 09:26 am (UTC)[But perhaps Sans will heed his advice. He tucks his things away into his bag.]
I'll alert you when I'm ready to start lessons, if that's all right. I cannot say I'm the best teacher for this.
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Date: 2017-01-11 06:47 pm (UTC)[He's got no call to believe Sans, and that's fine. But he weren't lying. There's nothing appealing in rushing things whatsoever. Now a certain determined little kid, on the other hand...
Well, that's for another time.]
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Date: 2017-01-13 02:33 am (UTC)[At least, unlike with Emily and glyphcrafting, it won't be someone inadequate teaching someone who has much more of a natural talent for such things, to the point where she surpasses him in a week. He gives Sans a nod and departs for now -- time to write up some lesson plans and hope this isn't just one more thing he's a failure at.]
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Date: 2017-01-13 03:06 am (UTC)Either way, he tosses Carlisle a farewell wave before he buries his hands in his pockets and ambles on out of Delight's.]