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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Apr 27, 2008 15:48:21 GMT -5
"Weeellll... I figured it is a cemetary, so most of the people here probably wouldn't be too bothered if I was here...and once I got stuck in my cat form, I got a little lost, everything looks different from down there. The perspective of a cat was far different from the perspective of a person, so naturally it was normal for him to get himself lost, also considering the calico's terrible luck... "But I used to be a necromancer..." at that comment he looked at his single calico tail, his mother was a nekomata- it was from her side that he inherited his necromancy, unfortunately- when a nekomata loses it's second tail, they lose thier necromancy as well.
Neko was an unlucky cat, what could we say?
Black cats absorb luck from people, giving others bad luck, but giving themselves exceedingly good luck. Calicos are the opposite- all thier luck being given to others and leaving themselves without any luck whatsoever.
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Post by Armond on Apr 28, 2008 3:08:08 GMT -5
"Ah, I see. So that's you, I heard word about you when I joined the academy. Never expected to meet you this soon though, not to mention under such... Unusual circumstances." Armond coughed and decided to try and change the subject, "it's not overly usual with our kind of magic I've noticed. Strange how people can get afraid of something like that, but most of humanity is rather pathetic after all. What kind of necromancy is it that you prefer?"
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Apr 28, 2008 16:58:20 GMT -5
Neko was half tempted to defend 'most of humanity' and say that they weren't rather pathetic, but instead of having such an opportunity, he was asked about his necromancy, "Well... I was taught two- maybe three different kinds, I didn't really keep track of the differences between one and the other. The first one was sharing a steady flow of life force to an undead- y'know... keep them summoned almost indefinately, as long as you're alive. Then the other one was staff magic, y'know- store power in your staff and release it for a summoning... but the best one I had involved seals and stuff." Neko nodded, seemingly quite proud of himself and his necromancy knowlege he'd learned over the course of his kitty-man life. "So what kinds of necromancy do you know?" he asked.
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Post by Armond on Apr 29, 2008 3:28:38 GMT -5
Armond listened with great intrest, it was ages ago he had his last opportunity to speak on a subject like this without getting beat up. He did notice Neko's reaction on his opinion about humans in general but didn't really care. "Well, neither of those. I am rather old fashioned and go with alchemical ways to create them, it's much slower but the results are mostly better. I'm considering learning demonology as well, to be able to create what was called 'unique undead' in Danarth. By the way, while we're on the subject. What's the easiest way to get corpses around here without stepping on anyones toes? I doubt it's as simple as to dig them up, or?"
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Apr 29, 2008 19:53:01 GMT -5
Neko tilted his head to the side, "Well... you need the equation..." He looked down at the ground for a few seconds before he started drawing something in the dirt, "I think it's the easiest way, but it could cause more trouble than anything if you can't sense these things or anything like that... First you need to you're Gate Equalities..." Neko drew out a circle, inside the circle seemed to be three equilateral triangles, all with one thier corners intersecting in the center, tick marks along the outside edge of the circle, making the circle itself almost look like some bizzarre kind of clock. "You have to draw it out in blood of course, but since I'm not summoning anything- I didn't think it would matter." he let his gaze wander out over the graveyard as a thought or two seemed to drift through his head. "Anyways, next you need to have three things to summon your undead with- latitude, longitude, and it's height. It helps if you've got a few of these perhaps logged away or a knack for these kinds of things. Also note I said height- not 'height above sea level' the height is the distance from the Earth's core itself." Neko nodded, tracing some odd figures into the dirt, looking like some kind of Arabic text, though in fact it was far different from Arabic, "If I lose you somewhere, just say so." Obviously Neko didn't think this certain form of Necromancy was too hard, it was just the aspect of how much energy actually initiating the summon needed.
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Post by Armond on Apr 30, 2008 7:20:57 GMT -5
Armond coughed embarrassedly and scratched the back of his head. "I'm afraid you already did, I've learned all I can from all texts from Danarth, where they never bothered to bury corpses. So in my family we've always either dug up the corpses we need ourselves, but mainly used our undead servants to do so. What I meant to ask is whether or not it's ok just to grab something from this place, or if I have to go through some bothersome procedure first or something. I've only been told that this place tolerates necromancers, but I was never given any details before the person that was informing me got to high on mushrooms to help me and walked away to pass out somewhere." Armond examined the stuff drawn in the earth. "I'm not very good at practical magic as such you see, I only pull the necrotropical energies and insert them into a dead body that I have prepared prior to the actual awakening." Well, ok. So there was another way for him to use them, but it was creepy and unnecessary to mention so he didn't.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Apr 30, 2008 16:39:17 GMT -5
Neko nodded, "I haven't heard any complaints about anyone using the bodies here for necromancy... though I think most people got thier undead through other means..." he nodded, "And I guess there's no use in continuing the explanation, huh?" he laughed a bit, looking down at the design he'd traced out on the ground, it was actually the correct location written down in order to summon something, but it would be in vain and rather selfish to even bother summoning such a being, or asking someone else to summon it for him. He looked at the symbols for a few seconds, the damned bird was gone, he wished to have it back, though... oh well. He just smiled as he started to wipe away the writings.
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Post by Armond on May 1, 2008 7:27:47 GMT -5
"Yes, I believe it's not much use really." Armond said as he watched Neko wipe away the doodles on the ground. "Thank you for trying though, I appreciate it." He gave a nearby crypt an examining look, it was pretty nice and big, had a bust carved above the entrance which was tightly sealed. The name P.Sherman was readable just below the bust. Armond guessed it was roughly fifty or sixty years old, but he didn't really know much about the local architecture so it might as well be younger. He looked around until he found a shack that most likely held anything a ground keeper might need. "Excuse me for a moment," he said and went over to it quickly, forced open the door and went in for a moment, coming back out carrying a shovel and went back to Neko. "I might as well get some work done while I talk. Once I get the first one up it'll be easier." He started to dig in a grave, but not the one he'd been sitting on though as it had some recently placed ornaments and he didn't feel like doing anything to it as long as someone kept it nice. "So, I'm pretty new to this place. And as I said, the guide I had went on drugs so I didn't get much out of him. Mind telling me some about the area?"
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 2, 2008 18:26:37 GMT -5
"Well..." Neko paused to think of what possible information he might be able to bring up, "If anything looks harmless- it's probably waiting to bite your head off, if something looks mean- it's probably waiting to bite your head off too, and supposedly you're not supposed to feed the cannibals- though I haven't even seen any while I've been here." Neko shrugged, there weren't really any cannibals at Twilight Moon Academy, it was just an ongoing joke between the staff of the place- though it brought up lots of confusion at times and sometimes even fear. Not like it mattered, it just gave the staff all the more reason to keep the joke going. Yes, we know- the teachers and administracion and miscellaneous other people were rather very much a group of cruel bastards.
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Post by Armond on May 3, 2008 3:03:14 GMT -5
Armond patiently worked himself into the earth, it was dry and pretty easy to dig but it also filled up kinda fast so it would take a while to get everything away from the coffin. He pondered what Neko has said and tried to think about it clearly. "Ok, so everything here is mean and there are some cruel people correct? I do have doubts about the cannibals if you haven't seen them though, I hear you've been here for a while. Or is it just that you don't get around enough to see them?" He asked with a voice clearly stating that he found the job boring no matter how pleasant it was to be back in business. The start is always the hardest part, as he used to say whenever he was about to give up.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 9, 2008 6:28:29 GMT -5
Neko shrugged, "There's a lot of campus to get around to seeing and I'd imagine that even some of the more senior students haven't even seen most of it." The statement was true enough- TMA was a really exceedingly large school and it could be imagined that someone could get lost and wander for almost weeks while still staying on the school grounds, a thought that was intimidating and amusing at the same moments. The cat-human tilted his head to the side slightly as he watched Armond digging before he bit into his thumb briskly and began writing the symbols onto the ground silently, the same symbols as before, but with different writings, and it seemed that as soon as he was done writing something, it seeped from existance... still he kept with his scribing till he decided that he was satisfied with his work. Now the words appeared on the markings, it looked like he had written entire paragraphs in the small circle- kinda odd if you'd asky anyone. "Why don't you try this? It'll take less time..." He motioned to the necromancy seal he'd drawn up for Armond, the precise work and mathematics of the situation now already done for the necromancer, "And if you need help, I can teach you how to use them." he seemed to believe that his method of helping was indeed helping quite alot.
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Post by Armond on May 12, 2008 9:08:40 GMT -5
Armond put the shovel in the ground and looked at the edges of his hole. He'd barely managed to get half a feet down so it would probably take him a few hours of constant digging and then he'd be preoccupied with his hurting hands afterwards to reanimate anything by then. He leaned the shovel against the tombstone and stepped out of his shallow hole and watched the seal carefully, nothing he couldn't copy after a few tries at least. The trick was in getting it to work. But then again, 'work' was a keyword in this and learning this would save him alot of physical work at least.
"Sounds like something for me, I guess. I think I can learn the seal without to much bother, but I will need to learn how to use it though, as I said: I'm not very good at magic really, I'm mainly an alchemist and surgeon if anything."
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 12, 2008 15:56:00 GMT -5
"All that means is that you need more practice." Neko shrugged, "Don't worry if you don't get it right on your first shot, it's a short distance seal and I tried to keep it as simple as possible." he certainly was a helpful little cat person, he probably could be useful if someone needed a group of summons, employ the being to write out seals for you and then all one had to do was instill magic in them... yes... Neko could be very useful if someone decided to assign the task to him.
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Post by Armond on May 18, 2008 9:58:45 GMT -5
"Uhm..." Armond said sheepily, still not sure about how to do it. The only thing he had learned that was actual magic this far was how to draw out energy out of something dead and insert it into something new with alchemical processes. The only exception to that was when he inserted them into himself, but he preferred not to do that as it let him experience the persons death himself for a minute. Some necromancers from Danarth had actually enjoyed it for some reason or another, and actually had sought for more ways to die. Armond didn't, and wouldn't. It was altogether rather scary according to him, and he doubted that he'd find it useful for any reason whatsoever. "Uhm..." He repeated. "Could you just use that magic to dig one of this fellows up instead? It's not that I don't want to learn, but right now I'm mainly eager to get one of them standing again. And then maybe you can show me while he or she dig up some more afterwards?"
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on May 18, 2008 15:18:03 GMT -5
Neko looked towards Armond for a few seconds with a confused look on his face, "If you use the seal... it'll summon one of the dead from thier grave and they'll be right here... there'd be no need to dig anything or anyone up..." he nodded slowly, hoping that he had cleared up any misunderstanding there might have been. He paused for a few seconds before scribbling a few more little strange notes into the symbol on the ground and inscribing another circle around it, obviously it was an action spawned from some kind of afterthought.
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