magicalesbian | 5TH ☄ s h o o t i n g s t a r ☄ a c t i o n / v o i c e

[Kari was sulking.]

[Or at least, that's certainly what it was, even if she wouldn't admit it to herself. She's been out of sorts since Beardface went home -- the first time someone "close" to her has left Luceti, after over a year of being here. It felt strange, and she wasn't really sure what to do about it. Should she be sad? Angry that he went home while she's still stuck here? Or should she just get over it because that's the nature of this place? She wanted to go home. She could feel it so strongly in every part of her body. And yet no matter how many times she tried, the magic to take her back to her home world just wouldn't work.]

[On the table in her apartment, the notes left to her by the spirit who possessed her body for nearly a week still sat there, staring at her. A voice in the back of her head that she wasn't entirely sure was hers silently urged her to pick them up. She wanted-- no, she needed to be stronger. And if she had to risk a deal with the devil to do it, so be it.]

[Of course, then she finally picks up the notes and realizes they're written in code.]

[Son of a--]

[Voice - Hoshikyo]
Hello, Lucetizens! Okay, now that I've heard it myself, that's actually kinda terrible... [/ahem]

So, I know that school thing does some kind of class about magic, but I was wondering if there was anyone out there with experience in teaching the more serious stuff. You know, things not related to the filial magic here. Ideally someone with experience dealing with magic that might not come from their own world... but I'm not being terribly picky here.

Of course, I'm not just expecting someone to offer out of the goodness of their own heart or anything. But, I mean, I don't think I have all that much to offer myself, but I'm sure we can figure something out!

[Action - Hoshikyo/Kari]
[Sometime after her journal entry, she reverts back to Kari and goes to the library to get some studying in. She'll need if she's going to figure out exactly what these notes say. Thankfully, it's not entirely code, but the language is pretty heavily ancient. Perhaps if it were written in a nicer hand, it could be picked up by either Luceti's or her own auto-translation power... but for now, it gave her something to do. She's got quite a few stacks of books around her, and no less than 4 open at once. Though every so often, she leans back in her chair with a sigh of frustration. That spirit is a goddamn troll.]

[When she gets too frustrated, she heads over to the battledome as Hoshikyo for some stress-relief. It's been a little while since she's trained proper, so she's a bit rusty -- all the more reason to practice. She'll be focused more on form for her sword fighting, though she may attempt a few tries at magic while she's there.]

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[Helios, huh. She recognizes that name from Rei.]

Well, then maybe we should study some magic together? I mean, my magic's pretty wonky, so most of what I've been doing so far is just trial and error. It'd be a big help to have someone to bounce ideas off of!

Exactly! And about half the things I try don't work for me anyway.

Half is still a pretty good track record! I wish I could say at least half of the stuff I've tried has worked...

[If only she could actually grant the wishes she has to make every time she transforms.]

[Half is probably overstating... but oh well ] In terms of magic from other worlds, some of it seems to require people to have a particular bloodline or species or something, and those I can never get to work. But the more universal stuff I've been able to handle with mixed results.

Yeah, magic is pretty finicky that way. It doesn't help that there are so many different types, and some of it is a lot closer to technology than actual magic... but that's a whole different altogether.

Yeah. So let's pool our resources a little, too.

Sounds good to me! I mean, I've actually got some notes that are supposed to relate to how my magic works, but some of it might have good advice for learning magic in general?

Oh, that could be! I'm looking forward to it! Come on, we could see that stuff, right?

Oh, of course! ...except, I kinda still need to translate it. It's written in some kinda weird code, so I haven't put it to much use yet. But it's getting there!

Oh.

Well then, that'll be our next mission! We have to crack that code to learn the information it contains! If someone bothers to encode something in the first place it has to be interesting, right? Sure it could be a total nerd thing, but if it's magic, it's probably some sort of secret of the arcane.

You mean it, Chief!? [There are sparkles in her eyes. Sparkles.]

Yeah, they've totally got some secrets in them! I mean, they were written by a super old magical spirit, after all. [Casually glossing over that...] I'm lucky that the language is some kind of Japanese, and I can kinda-sorta parse out some of the more simple parts, but the actual code itself is what makes it tough!

Oh, really?! Do you think it might even be some proto-Japanese mixed in with the Ainu language?!

I think Ainu might be a bit of a stretch, but there's definitely a lot of Chinese character using Japanese readings! You know, like old kanji that we don't really use anymore? There's readings for some of the characters to give clues, but it's been taking a lot of looking through old books to find the right meanings for stuff.

[The internet would make this a much easier job, seriously.]

Oh, that's less interesting.

[ FROWN. But... ] I guess that's still something we can work with, probably even easier.

Hey, it's still plenty interesting! Sorta. [If you like reading weird books as much as Kari does, at least.] But I think I'd rather it be easier. The fun stuff will be once we can start actually figuring out how to use the spells written there!

Yeah, that's true, at least. It should be pretty neat.

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