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By and large the confrontation with Ryan was awkward, although Ancia was at least proud to know it wasn't due to her, well mostly. She still couldn't figure out why she felt so much in control, a lot more confident then ever before when interacting with people. It had to be more then just a state of mind, the difference was just way too drastic Ancia wasn't even sure if she was still herself and not someone else. God so much has already changed in such a small amount of time in the last, maybe five minutes of becoming knight.
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Ancia covered her mouth in an attempt to suppress a yawn, might have been a bad idea staying up well into the night. They're going to be going into combat of some kind, especially with Dora actively hunting down a warlock. Ancia spent hours brushing up on tactics from whatever records and research she had on hand. Now these were from historical battles that involved thousands of professional soldiers rather then a handful teenagers who probably never even been in a fist fight, the concept was the same and still could be useful to have. Otherwise not much had happened, the school day was business as usual nothing to do with magic at all. Ancia did try to reproduce what happened with Ryan the last day, but no luck. At the end of the day the group arranged to meet up at the cafeteria, a quick telepathic communication with Dora told them that the lair was found, guess having a refresher on strategy wasn't a bad idea after all.

Ancia didn't want anything to do with Julia, seriously long as the gloomy girl kept to herself Ancia would be completely content. Sophia was eager to get a move on, which didn't seem to be a bad idea. Ancia nodded and stood up from the table, "If Julia keeps out of our business then I say we leave her alone, the less involved she's with us the better. Besides we got a job to do, come on let's go."

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Honestly I think that it makes a whole lot more sense to deal with Julia when she's right there.

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Quick question, are we on route to kill that warlock or still at that table?

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Heh yeah maybe you can think of it that way. Also this is the first time I'm trying to use her wish, nothing big here but I wanted to put it into action. What I decided on is leader mode activates under one of two broad conditions, either from mentally preparing or from entering real combat. The second one doesn't need explaining, although what I mean by preparing is Ancia actively tries to think how she should act. So say someone surprises her by jumping out of a closet and screams ohgabooga, Ancia didn't have any time to prepare so for whatever happens next she's basic Ancia without the leader persona. Anyway just wanted to give some insight on how all that would work in case anyone wanted to know.

Andreemea: New Tomorrows

Yo popping in to say hi, waiting for a good time to post.

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Ancia gave the scythe a flourish, "Well part of my magic is about reshaping my weapon, figure some affinity came into play here. Still don't quite know what it is but somehow this scythe is flawed unlike my spear, visually it looks fine just a feeling I got. So you have a..." Ancia paused racking her brain for an answer, "Oh uh those are called Guandaos right? Seems we are polearm users then kinda interesting that for all purposes we are using different weapons despite how similar they are." While not said so Ancia had a feeling that each knight wielded their own unique weapon more so since she hasn't seen two of them with the same exact one. She looked around at the others, Tracy the more-new-then-the-others newcomer had gauntlets although of course being more than just armor, they had some nasty looking spikes on them. Again Tracy was proving to be extremely straight forward. Ryuu had a bow, some ranged killing power from him could be great help in the future. Ryan had some mini-scythes or something? Ancia sighed why do people like using these weird weapons with names she can't know, mental note to ask him later. Before moving onto the others Ryan had a bit more to show, using his... scythe things, he spun them rapidly from them born a dragon, eastern snake like one glowing in bright red before turning yellow then finally dissipating

Ancia was impressed, the show was great despite its length and considering like everyone else Ryan barely had a grasp on his magic. Ryan looked at the group expectantly as if hoping for a response, the guy is the nervous and quiet type so of course displaying such flashiness could be uncomfortable. It dawned on Ancia that other then Felice she hasn't really talked with anyone yet plus her wish still resonated within her, while there hasn't been a chance to make good on it yet right then was a good opportunity. Ancia motioned to Felice to follow, one it seemed rude to suddenly walk away from their conversation and two more people is better right? She started walking towards Ryan, and on the way Ancia had no idea what to say, had to be careful not to screw up by saying something terrible. When she stopped standing before Ryan a calm washed over Ancia, like a sudden but light burst of wind fell over her. She couldn't describe it, but she felt different with a much clearer head, words flowed easier among other things.

Ancia started off with a small wave, trying to keep casual without appearing intimidating given her reputation, "Have to say that show was amazing, had something to do with your magic right?" Ancia held out her hand in greeting, "By the way know we don't talk much so might not remember that we share classes, still I know I've seen you around." Woah everything she was doing was way out of character, by now Ancia expected to alienate Ryan beyond belief, however quite the opposite. She didn't understand why she was able to interact so well, still you don't look a gift horse in the mouth right?

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Looked like two more potential knights showed up, although pretty late considering most of the group already signed their contracts. Still Qubus didn't seem to mind too much, the same perhaps couldn't be said for Dora. The guy seemed to be another shy one kinda like Ryan, on one hand its nice to have some better gender balance really there were not that many men in their group, on the other hand he didn't seem like much, guess time would tell how he does. The other one fortunately introduced herself as Tracy Robertman, lots of energy and pretty straight forward with getting started, that's great all things considered Ancia could like Tracy here, an attitude like hers would be welcomed really. Qubus didn't waste any time in getting the wishes done, the boy who turned out to be named Ryuu had a simple wish, love from the sounds of it. Still the way Qubus worded the wish sounded odd, "Biological gender of your interest?" Qubus had an odd way of wording so could be nothing. Tracy's wish was direct as herself, just wanting to be faster not much could be said about that.

Ariamis said
"So about our weapons-""All right, now we're getting to the good stuff!" Sofia jumped in the air due to sheer excitement. Dora smiled awkwardly."Our most important magical ability is the generation of weaponry. Each of us has a signature weapon we can visualize in a heartbeat and use like a master thanks to our magical intuition. You know the one, the one weapon you always imagined using. You just picture it in your mind," she said as she closed her eyes and spread her hands."Then you focus magic to the palms of your hands...and release."And just like that, a mass of yellow ribbons burst from Dora's hands and instantly took the form of a pair of exquisitely crafted golden crossbows. They seemed to faintly shine in the waning light of sun. She pointed one of them at the sky, and took a quick peek through the iron sights."Now you try it. Remember: focus magic, then release."

Ancia nodded, Dora's quick lesson made enough sense, sounded like there was not a lot to summoning a weapon. She closed her eyes, instinctively she knew what her weapon was without thinking about it, for a moment she held the image in her mind. In Ancia's right hand her spear steadily materialized, first appearing in a dull blue then taking its full shape. The spear was long, maybe half a foot taller than her at least, if Ancia were to guess the shaft had to be made out of pine or some other hardy wood. The spearhead was forged out of tempered steel, the metal formed into a deadly sharp point. In the end its not like the spear would break like normal anyway, given the magical nature of the weapon.

Ancia grasped her spear in both hands, it was light not like what she expected, not that she would complain about it. She proceeded to experimentally stab the air in front of her it felt satisfying, a grin was plastered on her face. Next was to take it further, Qubus said her magic cost for modifying weapons was lower, saying so meant it was possible to do in the first place. A good place to start was as if she was summoning the spear again, Ancia closed her eyes still the image of the spear was present. She had no idea what her limits were, best to start simple. In the mindscape she shortened the shaft, taking off about three inches, next she turned to the spearhead itself. She molded the head into a cylinder, blunt and simple, then she extended one side until it resembled an axe. Ancia wasn't done yet, her last modification was to extend the axe shaped head farther out and curved it down.

Ancia opened her eyes again, her spear shined its blue hue like when it was summoned. The changes took the same order as she imagined it although much quicker. Now finished the new weapon properly materialized into its final form, this time being a battle scythe. Ancia felt somewhat drained, not much, at least she thought so she couldn't quite tell how much magic she used. On top of that unlike the spear her new scythe felt flawed in some way, not in appearance just something else indescribable. Maybe she made some kind of mistake when forming it, clearly she needed some practice. Ancia turned toward Felice waving the scythe, still uncharacteristically grining wide, "This is pretty awesome right?"

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Yeah even better we're all pretty dedicated to keeping the RP going, hope we can maintain this momentum for a little longer.

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TheHangedMan said
Okay then! So how do you think I should do my opening post?

Well my suggestion is pretty much just show up, that's what everyone else basically did. Also our characters have the possibility of having some history together, like my character Ancia knows Onenote's Felice and Rusty4297's Ryan just from being in class together, so if you want to and think it makes sense to know someone then do it.

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Well part of what I want to know is how do we gauge what is considered a larger or smaller drain on magic, I know we got general guidelines, but otherwise it does feel a bit ambiguous. Man lot of questions are being asked, sorry if its getting annoying at this point.