Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Oct 21, 2008 15:54:52 GMT -5
"To be honest i have given it thought before, but short of bending light i haven't seen much other illusions with water. I've used water to mask myself before, completely invisible, but not unheard..." He thought back to helping out Tempest and shuddered as he remembered what had happened to break his concentration. He looked up at the teacher expectantly and continued.
"Though i'd be willing to bet a person that has used illusion much more often would have more creative uses, right?"
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Oct 21, 2008 17:38:14 GMT -5
Gerro disappeared momentarily, flickering to a spot a yard or two away, though he never stopped playing. "I do," he agreed, "but most of my magic works directly through your head to disrupt information, while yours would intercept it. Making yourself invisible is a good start. It means I don't have to teach you so many tedious exercises. So here is a question. Can you make yourself invisible while making it appear you are doing no such thing? I did not teleport. I just moved, and you didn't see me."
"It requires two things. You can to create a semblance of yourself, and you must conceal your actual self. Do you think you can do this?"
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Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Oct 23, 2008 11:59:00 GMT -5
"It sounds difficult... basically i'm making a copy of myself while making myself invisible... right?" Cyndon thought about how he might start doing that. He pulled two orbs of water out of the air and started thinning them out. Just enough to cloak himself like that time before in the fields. Though instead of using the first one to become invisible it began to shimmer a little as he worked with the second orb to actually cloak himself. He walked out from behind the copy, which was wavering obviously and the cloaking was only partially working, making him look pale and ghostly. The copy of him disappeared as the water dropped away and the cloaking failed simultaneously.
"Not perfect... really challenging..." He muttered as he tried to regather himself. Trying both things at once had been a bit of a tax on his mind, leaving him a little lethargic. Finally he regained his composure and asked:
"Was that what you even meant? Besides that, for a first try i think i did pretty well... just need to practice more."
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Oct 23, 2008 20:13:31 GMT -5
"Terrific and fantastic, Cyndon," Gerro said enthusiastically, actually talking this time and letting his flute rest in a pocket. "You have a quick mind for learning. Not only will this skill be helpful to you upon acquiring it, it is also an exercise in your stamina and control. Your enemy should not be able to detect the slightest hint of movement from any angle, so you will have to manipulate the water carefully when you leave your doppelganger.
"Also, there is no need to rush. Speed and perfection will come with time. Make sure you have both phases set before you preform it, and feel free to experiment. I don't have any abilities with water, though, so I can't offer you better advice than that. But here..."
Gerro lifted his flute again and played a dipping tune for perhaps twenty seconds, bringing a tingle to the air. "That should restore your energy. I don't need a student fainting again."
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Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Oct 27, 2008 12:38:34 GMT -5
"Thanks... I'll have to practice that a little more. And yeah i tend to be a fast learner when people give me something to think about. To be honest i had never even given a thought to making a doppelganger until you had said something about it." Cyndon felt the effects of the song almost instantly as he stood a little more steadily. 'This teacher is great!' Cyndon thought to himself as time went on. 'He would definitely be able to help a lot of people, a great companion to have should anything bad happen around here, heaven forbid.'
Cyndon began to wonder how much more time they had left, and not paying attention to time he figured that a lot had passed, naturally. He shuddered to think that the class would be over soon, because he had actually enjoyed his time. He also wanted to learn new things, though he already had to practice quite a challenging technique as it was.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Oct 27, 2008 16:41:02 GMT -5
"If you have any other ideas, I'm happy to help you, but in the mean time..." Gerro leaned forward, his smiling face intent. "Have you seen any hot girls around? Preferably over sixteen, but I'm patient." Apparently the sprite did not see the student-teacher taboo as particularly imposing. He sat on the floor and leaned back on his hands contently.
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Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Oct 27, 2008 16:58:46 GMT -5
Cyndon gave his teacher a queer look as he heard the next conversation. He hadn't really been paying much attention to anybody else in that sort of focus. He laughed a little, then a little more, and soon it almost seemed hysterical. Suddenly his laughter cut off and he looked back at the teacher.
"Well, that was unexpected... However, sorry, i'm not that well acquainted around here..." He laughed again as he brought one of the water orbs back from the air and twiddled it around, working on his control of water and basically killing time. Soon he had split the orb into three smaller orbs and began to juggle them.
"Though i have to admit there have been... a couple of people that i've looked at myself, i don't think they're your type... or that age group now that i think about it." He continued as he turned the orb into about 10 needles and sent them flying at an imaginary enemy, flash freezing seconds before they connected. He had thought up the idea in the past, and at best he could only make the 10 needles as far as he knew. He had also neglected to mention the fact that one of them was a girl that he had never seen again afterwards, and the other would have been absolutely out of the question for his teacher.
He ended by regathering the water into a sphere once more and dissipating it into the air, effectively replacing the humidity that had been taken away.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Oct 29, 2008 21:02:08 GMT -5
"Ah well, that's a shame," he lamented, swiping green hair from his eyes with a lazy stroke of his hand. The pretty girls were all taken, and the cute ones were usually too young or innocent. As for the hot ones, well, you never knew what they had, and no one wanted to collect diseases. But Cyndon, while not a girl unfortunately, seemed to have a lot of skill already. Gerro, a lover and not a fighter, was not sure what he could teach him. "You have a lot of neat tricks there, Cyndon. Might I ask where you learned them? And maybe if the bell doesn't ring in five minutes I'll google some more ways for you to water your enemies into defeat."
"Or maybe we could just do some exercising. I promise not to take any more icicles to the chest."
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Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Oct 30, 2008 12:00:22 GMT -5
Cyndon chuckled a little in response to the joke, and then began talking about how he had learned some of the moves he had shown.
"I learned how to pull water out of the air from Magic class earlier, actually, and also how to put it back was born out of that idea as well. The ice needles were an idea i thought of back when i first started using water and ice. As for making the water turn into ice, it was another idea partially fostered by magic class and something scientific i had heard about the motion of molecules. There are other things i've been known to do like an ice shield, made out of a dome of ice, obviously, and the frozen spear that i impaled you with earlier... what else..." He was really having a challenge thinking of abilities that he had used in the past that hadn't yet been shown, but nothing was coming to mind. In truth there was only his Final that he hadn't told the teacher about, but he knew there was something missing in the back of his mind.
"Other than that i can't quite place the last one i'm thinking of..." He finished while grinning a little. He knew there was probably all sorts of things he could think up in the future, but for now that was about all he did.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Oct 31, 2008 14:08:26 GMT -5
"Hey, if you can do ice, why not go the other way? I'm not much into the academic field, but ice is when you slow down water until it locks into a solid form. So why about speeding it up and making steam? It's not only perfect for lowering visibility and making more illusions, but you could also heat it up to a scalding point, right? Of course, it would probably take a lot more out of you to put energy into water instead of taking it out for ice.... I'm just speculating. You always need something up your sleeve in case your last trick fails," the sprite said with a nod.
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Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Nov 3, 2008 13:17:47 GMT -5
"That's true. That's very true... It would be a great idea to have all three forms of water brought together, though i also admit i can see how it would be challenging." Cyndon was enjoying thinking about more uses of his powers. He thought it was great that he found someone that was really quite the inspirational thinker. Though he continued to think about the aspects of heating the water up. It was true; it takes a lot of energy to heat up just a small amount of water, though he figured it could easily work after figuring out the method.
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Nov 10, 2008 20:57:20 GMT -5
"You ever think of what you're going to do when you get out of here? Most students want to be more than the local butcher or accountant, if you catch my drift. If 'hero' was a profession, that would be half the kids here. So what about you? Going to stop droughts with your rainpower? Flood forest fires and freeze tyranny?" he asked with a whimsical expression. Maybe it was because he was really losing ideas with this master class, but he wanted to get to know his student too.
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Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Nov 10, 2008 22:23:51 GMT -5
Cyndon smiled as he heard what the teacher asked. It had really been appealing to him to be a protector. It made him feel light-hearted to think about all the people he could save with his abilities... but he also knew how bad things could get.
"I want to be a person able to protect those i like and love. I want to be able to defeat those that want to keep others down. I absolutely HATE seeing people lord positions and fear and power over everyone else, and I want to fight it all away." Cyndon started his heart felt speech about his ideals. He never stopped to think about what he had said, and it was obvious ((OOC: at least for me)) that there could be many holes in his ideas. As he went further into his speech he started feeling more and more impassioned, and it almost seemed like the air around them was shuddering.
((OOC again: he's shaking the water in the air without knowing it, not exactly a "holy crap, run!" moment, but still somewhat of a wondersome thing... lol wanted more to do? i suppose we have something for another 2 or 3 posts now...))
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Post by Ladd Russo of the Russo Family on Nov 11, 2008 20:43:12 GMT -5
"It's best if you go Batman for that kind of thing, though. There's a fine line between 'vigilante' and 'well-intentioned murderer'," Gerro cautioned. "Let the courts deci--- hey whoa..." Gerro felt like he was being battered by the air, a curiously submerged sensation. "Errr... you okay?"
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Cyndon
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If the Great aren't Strong, and the Strong are Great, then the Strong aren't Strong. - Michael Lynch
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Post by Cyndon on Nov 13, 2008 10:36:28 GMT -5
Cyndon began to feel the vibration in the air as well and as soon as it had been noticed it stopped. It had felt as if a great pressure was set and removed all at once. As he snapped back to reality he looked back at the teacher with a slightly worried look on his face.
"I certainly hope it wasn't me doing that..." He shuddered to think what was next to happen if he were to get too riled up in the future. As he looked around he noticed a slight layer of water in patches on the floor, as if the water in the air had condensed and fallen like rain, though there was none on either him or his teacher.
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