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Post by Mirin on Oct 9, 2022 13:29:20 GMT -6
After being depowered and banished, Mirin knew her first order of business was to unlock her magic once more. She was basically non-functional without it! It was her bread and butter!
Sitting at a library table with her book open, she'd go back to the basics as Hecate sat on her shoulder. Reading too, maybe.
"Alright, I almost feel 300 years old again." she'd chuckle, tracing her finger over the symbols in her book.
"A simple fire spell. The most basic spell of all. Let's get it!"
She'd hold her hand out, murmuring words in another language to herself. Her brows would furrow, and...well nothing would happen.
"Whew. They're really locked back there, huh?!" she'd laugh, Hecate pecking her head because she's being noisy in a library.
"Ow! Geez, okay..."
Mirin would hold her hand back out once more, glaring at her palm more intensely.
"Unlock...I demand it..." she'd mumble, reaching inside herself to try and burst through whatever was blocking her access to magic.
"Do it!"
Plip.
A small amount would escape and a tiny flame the size you'd get on a candle wick would appear in her palm. Mirin would stare at it in surprise...then burst out laughing.
"Are you kidding me!? Look, it's so weenie!!"
The librarian would come over, unamused, and kick her out.
Guess she'd have to come back later.
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Basic Magic - Basic Magic is a different force in the world and this skill takes three training posts in a row to learn. Basic Magic gives the user the ability to use Magic Items and use Magic abilities instead of Ki abilities. (Crystal Ball's, Bancho Fan, Power Pole. Abilities like healing energy, transmutation and teleportation.)
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Oct 16, 2022 10:48:18 GMT -6
Alright. It's been almost a week. The librarian surely doesn't remember her.
In fact it's a different person. Excellent.
Mirin sat on her own, palm up, summoning the tiny flame once again. She stared at it a while, trying to figure out how to make it...less stupid looking. More imposing.
Clearly the flow of magic needed to be...unclogged. But she already tried yelling at it. What else could she do?
Closing her eyes, the girl would work on trying to be calm, keeping the tiny flame alive and tracing the magic path to where she thought the blockage was.
Right here. And here. And...here.
Okay there's like ten blocks at least. Nooooo big deal. Once you open enough flood gates, it gets easier, right?
Using her force of will, she'd try to push more magic through. Unsuccessfully as one might imagine. She'd open her eyes to see the flame was still there at least...
"Hecate...what do I do?" she'd ask her familiar. All she'd get is a sad hoot.
"You're right. There has to be a book somewhere in here with a good idea."
She'd extinguish the flame and move on to reading for the day.
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Basic Magic - Basic Magic is a different force in the world and this skill takes three training posts in a row to learn. Basic Magic gives the user the ability to use Magic Items and use Magic abilities instead of Ki abilities. (Crystal Ball's, Bancho Fan, Power Pole. Abilities like healing energy, transmutation and teleportation.)
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Oct 18, 2022 18:25:49 GMT -6
This was it.
She could FEEL it!
She'd found a book about chiseling and she'd been inspired to slowly try and 'chisel' more magic through herself in the days following. She was fairly certain she had succeeded in doing so. Somehow...it just FELT like magic could flow more easily. If she tried to cast a spell...THIS time it would work for sure.
But.
It might work too well. She wasn't sure just how much would rush through, and she was rusty. A library likely wasn't the place to summon something as wild as fire. Mirin had enough respect to do that much.
So she was outdoors, hanging out in the courtyard of the facility she and Hunter had been part of to get noticed.
Cross-legged and leaving Hecate to find cover, Mirin held her palms up and out.
"Fires of hell, I bid you forth...." she'd mutter, controlling her breathing as she reached for the energies she'd grown so used to.
"Fires of hell...I bid you forth..."
The small flame appeared again, not exactly a hellfire. But fire nonetheless.
More. She needed to push forth MORE.
"Fires...of hell...I bid you FORTH!"
With the strength in her words, the energy would spill out, the fire growing massive in her palms and causing her eyes to widen.
"YES! THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!" she'd laugh. She'd raise her hands, the flame lifting upwards and forming into a ball. She'd toss it forward in excitement, letting it crash into a tree that would immediately become engulfed in flame.
"I'M BACK, BABY!!"
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Basic Magic - Basic Magic is a different force in the world and this skill takes three training posts in a row to learn. Basic Magic gives the user the ability to use Magic Items and use Magic abilities instead of Ki abilities. (Crystal Ball's, Bancho Fan, Power Pole. Abilities like healing energy, transmutation and teleportation.)
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Oct 31, 2022 19:44:12 GMT -6
Alright she took it back, she was like...partially back. This was a good start. She could tap into magic. But there was something missing. It was like...a lower form of magic.
Icky.
Well, no matter. It just gave her something else to put her energy into.
"Hecate, as I am now I can probably cast a shitty version of Dark Force, right?" she'd ask the owl on her shoulder. Hecate would twist her head all the way around. Meaningfully.
"I could do a bunch of other cool stuff." Mirin just keeps talking.
"Kinda feel tired when I cast now."
Hecate would hoot and Mirin would place the bird on her desk.
"I think I need to siphon."
She'd head outside into a grassy patch then start tracing a runic circle. Clapping her hands together, the circle would light up, and Mirin would squat down and touch it.
Slowly, the life from around her would start to wither, and she could feel herself reinvigorate. As she continued, she could feel herself grow stronger still. The desire to take more and more was difficult to control...but suddenly the energy flow would stop. Mirin would blink.
"Hm...is that all I can store, then? That's no where near the power I could hold originally. There...really isn't a shortcut to this, is there?" she'd sigh loudly.
Well. No matter. She could unblock her magic channels, she can probably expand them with some work as well.
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Real Magic - Real magic like Basic Magic takes three training posts in a row to learn. Real Magic gives you access to using Magic abilities instead of Ki abilities bypassing Ki defenses, but acting like Ki. Magic is based on life and death energy, and illusions allowing you to use healing spells without any power level loss, and death/damage spells for offense. 1/3
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Nov 6, 2022 16:00:16 GMT -6
Today, Mirin continued to just suck up the very life around her. She did it over and over until she was pretty much depleting her own energy. Funny enough.
She found that the more she did it, the more she became used to certain amounts. Clearly her reserves were expanding, just like she wanted.
The trouble was finding new places to do it. It was becoming alarmingly noticeable that in certain places there were patches of dead flora. Dead fish floating in otherwise perfectly fine waters. Power outages.
Did she touch a fucking transformer? Yes, of course she did. The mad woman.
It wasn't until at least a week that she felt a notable difference. But a lot of her trials had fried her brain a bit.
She...would have to stop and rest...just for a few days...otherwise others would notice she was slurring and saying nonsense.
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Real Magic - Real magic like Basic Magic takes three training posts in a row to learn. Real Magic gives you access to using Magic abilities instead of Ki abilities bypassing Ki defenses, but acting like Ki. Magic is based on life and death energy, and illusions allowing you to use healing spells without any power level loss, and death/damage spells for offense. 2/3
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Nov 14, 2022 19:02:34 GMT -6
Mirin would walk into some forested area, hobbling side to side like someone who ate wayyyy too much. Bloated. Slow.
She'd burp into her hand, sweat flowing down her temple.
"Alright...this is...as long as I can hold it all in. It...it has to have expanded by now. I'm literally a human magic balloon. Burp."
Raising her hand, Mirin would start channeling the magic it took to form Dark Force, the orb becoming larger and larger in front of her. The size it would reach was more akin to what she was used to, which made her smile briefly until the orb started to...vibrate?
"Wait. It doesn't usually do that..." she'd say nervously to...herself. Hecate had long abandoned her.
Mirin would grasp her wrist, trying to hold the orb steady through gritted teeth. The wind would blow around her, the energy starting to spill out more and growing the orb more and more.
"That's no good, at this point it'll be out of control. I...I should reabsorb it!"
Fucking genius.
The orb would start to shrink in size at a way faster rate than Mirin wanted, and she felt her body fill with too much mana too fast. Once the orb was gone, she'd double over, holding her stomach in pain.
"Oh Hfil...oh NO...."
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPP!!!
Mirin would suddenly expel the energy in six different directions from her body, apparently creating the burp of the fucking century. While this was all happening, all the seals on her magic would simultaneously break, returning her natural ability to tap into it.
Mirin would black out a bit.
Then come back to on her back, staring at the sky in horror.
"I'm...back...b-bab--urrrp....ugh...."
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Real Magic - Real magic like Basic Magic takes three training posts in a row to learn. Real Magic gives you access to using Magic abilities instead of Ki abilities bypassing Ki defenses, but acting like Ki. Magic is based on life and death energy, and illusions allowing you to use healing spells without any power level loss, and death/damage spells for offense. 3/3
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Dec 9, 2022 11:53:19 GMT -6
Getting magic back had hit her like a truck. She needed to take it slow now, just to adjust and not suddenly explode again.
What better way to relax than learn to fly again! The atmosphere here was really different, but the basic principles should be the same. EASIER even! It was so light and airy on Earth!
Hecate would flap around over her, as if demonstrating how to fly.
"Hecate, conjuring wings is such a waste of time. I've seen people just blast around using energy. I wanna do that!"
The owl would land back on her shoulder and hoot. Mirin would nod in agreement.
"Alright, I already know how to follow the flow of my energy thanks to our Chief guy."
Mirin would concentrate on doing that first, still finding it hard to control. Once she was pretty sure she had...at least some of the qi, she'd let it flare out until she felt her feet lift off slightly from the ground. She'd grit her teeth in concentration...then drop back down.
"MAN! I hate not being good at something right away!" she'd complain. Magic had never been this stupid hard. What the fuck!
She'd try to brute force it again and again, finding it was just exhausting her more than anything. So she had to take a break and sit down. To think and stuff.
Hecate would hoot, and Mirin would tap her chin.
"What about Earth being light and airy? Light...and airy. Light and airy....hmmm..."
Bouncing back onto her feet, Mirin would quickly flare out her energy again, but, this time she wouldn't force it. Rather, she'd let it flow out as it would, finding that she was still lifting off the ground. Then she'd go higher. And then...she was able to move around more!
"Hecate you genius little bitch!" Mirin would laugh.
Her control was going to need work but, bitches, she had liftoff!
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Flying
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Dec 26, 2022 18:32:05 GMT -6
She truly felt so liberated lately! While she was a shade of who she used to be, she wasn't completely sealed anymore...and she could do a shoddy job at flying! Why, she was improving so fast, she might just burst out of her depowered chains!
Anyway, she made promises to certain people that she wouldn't cause deforestation through an inferno so she found a perfectly safe and barren place to really let loose!
Also. With her recent affinity to ice, it was time to make a new spell....
Things started with her raining fireballs all over, laughing gleefully to herself though maniacally is also an acceptable descriptor. Then she fired out dark orbs that swallowed up rocks and the like, making them explode in a satisfying boom!
Before she could feel spent, however, she took a pause in her unleashing of every spell she still had a connection to, taking her gem and holding it in her palm as she sensed the element.
Ice...yes it freezes. Slows bodies. But it also can be SHARP!
Mirin would start to sway to a song unheard, her fingers dancing as she moves her arms in and out as though she were playing an invisible piano.
Yes...she could feel it there. Cold. Hard but delicate all the same.
As her eyes snapped open, she held her hand out, her index and middle fingers the only one pointed out before she flicked them upwards.
From the ground sprouted a large spike of ice that practically grew out of nothing. Anything above it would be impaled, no doubt about it.
Mirin grin more widely.
Ice wasn't terrible at all...
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Ice Needles- Mirin can cast ice in the form of many small needles that deal 10% PL or one large one that deals 15%PL.
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Mar 26, 2023 14:25:16 GMT -6
Long distance teleportation was surely necessary. It had come in clutch before and gained them some much needed time. Learning to do it naturally would be important.
Mirin would trace a magic circle, mostly to set the mood as she sat within it and concentrated.
Indeed, it's dangerous to teleport long distances without knowing where you'll end up. Traveling more would help. For now she'd concentrate on teleporting as far as she could to a place she knew.
Sitting in her appointed room, Mirin would reach out in her mind as she let her magic flow. She tried to remember the magic shop where the lady had given her the stone. That store...in recent memory...was the furthest she'd ever gone. She pictured the empty floor near some object that she remembered, making sure she had space to appear and didn't clip through a table.
When she felt confident, she reached for the family feeling she'd had when she first used the spell and teleported herself there!
Only to be slightly suspended in mid-air and crash through a table of merchandise.
Very well. Her spacial calculations in terms of up and down were a bit...lacking. Likely due to her smaller stature than she was used to.
"Uhh. Leon will pay for this." she calls out before walking out casually.
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Long distance teleportation- Channeling her magic, Mirin can teleport safely to any place she's been before, no matter the distance. It's taxing, however and uses the equivalent of a 25% PL spell.
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Apr 3, 2023 19:24:14 GMT -6
"Burst Knuckle!" Mirin would call out, deciding that she was too bored with creating new spells and wanted to try more Ki control. THAT shit was hard.
Skipping along the halls, she'd just start sending punches at trainees left and right. Some of them took it like champs, cussing her out for being a psychopath.
Others...suffered.
One way or another, considering her stature, she was sort of getting away with her shenanigans.
She'd wind up in the cafeteria where she'd suddenly Burst Knuckle someone's food tray into someone else. Somehow...they blamed each other and a fight broke out. As they tussled, more food was starting to be thrown around and Mirin would start using Burst Knuckle on people, food and trays left and right until it was starting to feel...natural.
"I think I get it." she'd grin, panting heavily from the useage. Around her chaos erupted.
Ahhh. Felt like home.
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Ki Control - Able to use more Ki without as much fatigue.
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Post by Vo Lang on Apr 3, 2023 20:51:01 GMT -6
Burst Knuckle now causes Mirin to be able to gain of sudden burst of speed moving her at +45% her PL in speed in any direction before using the ability.
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on Apr 12, 2023 8:36:48 GMT -6
AN EGG.
She has no memory of getting this, but, Hunter had one too and he just straight up ate it.
Her?
She had more plans.
Hatching it before deciding on eating it. What if growing it like an earth turkey provided a better meal? Honestly Hunter was so simple-minded. A fool, if you will.
Not her.
"Hecate, eggs hatch through heat, right?" she'd ask, observing the shelled object. The owl would just kinda hoot and Mirin would nod sagely.
"Good thing I used to roll with Hellfire back in the day."
Like 5 weeks ago.
"Here we go, not too hot, but not too wimpy!"
In some sort of makeshift nest and furnace, Mirin had placed the egg in comfortable before shooting fireballs at it! Then she'd run off, cut some wood, run back, put it in the furnace to replenish it, and then fire more fireballs.
For hours.
"I gotta...make sure to be consistent." Mirin would huff and puff, her arms starting to feel like noodles from the deforestation she was up to, as well as feeling weak on energy from constantly recasting Hellfire.
"Hecate has...has it even moved?" she'd ask, crawling over to the egg. In her fatigue she'd just lay next to the furnace and watch it.
Lil buddy....come to mother....
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Post by Vo Lang on Apr 14, 2023 18:14:58 GMT -6
the egg now has a molten glowing series of veins around the shell.
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Post by Mirin on May 3, 2023 10:08:55 GMT -6
So it didn't hatch.
Sounds like it's too early then.
Feeling incredibly motherly...somewhat instinctually?? Mirin wrapped the egg into a blanket sling, stuffed it in her clothes and created a large bulge. Like a glowing pegrant woman. Very pregnananant. Mutti.
Hoot.
"Hecate, I watched many videos on the picture screen. I was told to Youtube things I didn't understand and that the Wiki thing is not to be trusted. I'm well educated in the care of the egg baby."
She'd ingested information on egg hatching and pregnancies so she was likely to get them mixed up. At least none of it would be destructive for once.
"You have to talk to the baby so it will know you love it." she'd nod, rubbing her stomach-egg gently.
"Today, little baby, we will go through the training regime together! We will do all things together!" she declared.
What followed was a workout unlike she'd ever done. The added weight and how much the egg was in her way made everything so much harder. Sit-ups? Nightmare. Pushups? Nightmare. Squats? Not terrible. More weight but the egg wasn't in her way. Planks? Easy, actually. The egg held her up.
In any case, she was a sweaty mess by the end, laying on her back.
"I hope...you followed the workout too, lil baby..." she'd huff and puff, as if it was doing pushups in its shell.
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Mirin
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Post by Mirin on May 22, 2023 19:26:22 GMT -6
Motherly instincts still engaged, Mirin would sit in front of a pile of cloth she'd fashioned into a messy nest that her egg sat upon.
She needed to...protect the baby.
To do this, she needed a protection spell. She was realizing she couldn't cast one just off the top of her head anymore so she'd actually have to create one. What a pain in the asssssss.
She'd start scribbling in her book, writing out highly complex equations that...absolutely no one would expect from her. It all flowed from her hand like silk, the writing beautiful and terrifying all the same. Then, she'd pause.
"A barrier...a plain energy barrier....boring..." she'd mumble.
"Maybe more like...a barrier that can absorb an elemental property. It'll give it more opportunities to counter an opposing force better."
She nods to herself, scribbling down more ifs and buts and ors.
Then she'd put her hand on the floor. Felt like...metal? Good.
Speaking incomprehensibly, a round barrier would surround her egg, then, seemingly suck up part of the floor. A patch would go missing and the barrier would suddenly be metallic. Mirin would grin! Then look at the empty spot where her floor had been.
"Oh. I guess it can't produce its own. It has to steal it from somewhere."
So. A water shield without access to sufficient water wouldn't work. Good to know.
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Barrier Elementa- Mirin can cast a barrier that eats up one elemental property. Element must be available in area to be used and the area will 'disappear' once taken. If the element of the barrier is stronger than the element used against it, it has the strength of 20% of her PL. If it is weaker or neutral, it has the strength of 10% of her PL.
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