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[yoshua171 Vs. LilyGold] Magic's Essentials

Timore Scarborough

_{Accidental Successes}

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His blade having struck, Timore's features spread into a grin. Then he noted a build up in energies as the eagle was dispersed. His eyes narrowed, though his smile remained, and he shifted the location of his shield, swiveling it around his body in the space of a second. However, the maneuver was still not fast enough as her ability took hold, slamming him with a sensation of weight. It was only a slight increase, but it was sudden and so he, outside of his conscious control, took a step back. As he did so, her weapon was likely pulled from her grasp by Metentis' grip, an act occurring purely by chance. Still, while Timore recovered the metallic serpent struck forth, lunging at her throat from only a foot and a half away. She'd have minimal time to respond, and it would also keep her busy for the moment that Timore recovered.

As he did so, he felt the guilt and weight fade somewhat and he called forth his essence once more, weaving it back up and around him where it had briefly fallen during his recovery from the strange spell. His humming and tongue clicking had stopped, but he resumed it now, the tone and mood of it shifting as he began to weave the emotion of rage out of his necklace and into the essence that surrounded him along with the joy that was already there. He didn't mix the two emotions, as he didn't feel secure enough to do so in that moment.

The other effect that would quickly become evident to his adversary was the effect caused by his blade as the weapon seemed to burn within her, though in actuality it was just an intense sensation of burning it caused, rather than a real one. Additionally, the blade was pulling blood from her body at a steady rate as long as it had remained within her form. Last of all to note was that with Timore taking a step back, the blade had been pulled further into her body, perhaps poking or piercing her lung.

[ShidenBlades Vs. yoshua171] Adversity

No problem. Just posted, I hope it's pretty clear ^_^

[ShidenBlades Vs. yoshua171] Adversity

Kaiu Iouchiryo – Kurohasu

_{Close Quarters}

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Noticing the swiftness with which her quarry responded, Kaiu began to suspect that he was more than he seemed. Not a simple martial artist, but something else, especially considering the chakra she noted gathering to the man's whim. With her weapon swept towards her back she followed its momentum, turning her body so that she faced him as he completed his turn and tried to begin his palm strike. Reading his movements in an instant, Kaiu took a step forwards and to her right slightly, avoiding his strike by ducking under it. Then, as she took her step forwards not only did she slash with her wakizashi, so as to distract his staff, but she also slammed her left wrist, hand angled downwards to turn it into a point, into the space opposite his elbow, her strike moving sideways somewhat. This, if it connected, would likely cause his right arm to move to his right somewhat, likely bending in alignment with the wrist in the process.

As she preformed these actions she created an axis of non-physical, and thus invisible, chakra just in front of herself, near her neck. It began to pull chakra towards itself, though the effect remained invisible as it did so.

[ShidenBlades Vs. yoshua171] Adversity

I shall get a post up today. Sorry, I have a super busy week. 50 hours...though I plan to trim it down to 40 since I don't think I can handle that amount in my current state (all of those are night shift so I usually don't get home till 12:30 and don't get to bed till 2 due to a shower and an hour of downtime).

I have a day off on Thursday, but I'm going to try to get a third day off on Saturday so I have then and Sunday off this week haha. I should've updated you, but I only found out yesterday when I went to work, so yeah.

The Prophecy

Yoshua... hmm... I've been pondering the properties of this spell for a while, and I think there are certain things I'd have to address, at least. The first one would be that the spell - or practically any mind-affecting spell of even basic potency - would ever linger in an area to continue to affect individuals within it over time. Rather, a mind-affecting spell would typically disperse its energy in an instant as it activated its effect, and then latch that energy onto anyone within the area of effect to specifically affect them, not the area around them. There are a lot of different reasons that this is the only way something like this would be practically doable, some very pseudo-scientific in relation to the universe and would take a while to explain, but the most fundamental reason is that the energy it would take to permeate an area with an effect of that magnitude would kill you. Not just the caster, though no ordinary mortal would be able to survive losing that much magical energy, but everyone within the area of effect. The energy would have to be so immense that people would actually suffocate and die. (Spells that affect minds directly with any kind of reliability take huge amounts of magical energy, much larger than spells of other types.)

If it did latch onto individuals and functioned by having the energy focus on those people, then the above issue would be dealt with. There is another thing about mind-affecting spells, though: the energy fed into casting the spell is depleted a lot faster if the target(s) try to resist the effect, and the stronger the will to resist the spell is in the target, the more energy will be required to even affect it at all. It would take an awareness of what one was trying to resist to be able to do so, though. Simply knowing that one's mind was being affected by magic would not be enough to allow one to resist such a spell; one would have to be able to identify how one's mind was affected, in this case mainly by curbing aggression. If one knew this and did not want to be affected thusly, then additional energy would be drained in order to subdue the target's will, which would shorten its duration... or, if the spell proved insufficient to do so, simply render it ineffective.
So really, there'd be no guarantee that any kind of effect would linger at all, even a discomfort when performing aggressive actions. That said, an effect like this would probably be pretty hard to identify... one would probably notice that one was being manipulated, certainly, but recognizing how one's mind was being affected would be difficult, which would make resisting it similarly difficult.
For the same reason I imagine that anyone affected so strongly that they would not even stop someone trying to kill them would either have to simply not want to defend themselves, or be exceptionally susceptible to mind-affecting magic (an example of the latter would typically be very weak-minded individuals, such as often witnessed in late-stage piaan-addicts).

@Dark Jack

I can modify it so that the "area of effect," is more like a detection field. It detects how many people are in the area (unless specific people are targeted) and then directs the available magical energy to them as needed to fuel the spell (but only the amount of magical energy allotted to the spell, obviously).

However, what I am getting from this is that the spell would still be quite effective meaning that logically Ixion and Morgan should have had more trouble breaking out of its effects, correct? Mostly considering the fact that I'on primarily used his hands to weave the runes, rather than say the words super loud. He was mouthing them and I don't recall Ixion or Morgan being able to read lips (correct me if I am wrong). Plus, neither of them would've been paying much attention to him while he was preforming the spell due to what was going on within that time frame.

So...since neither of them would be privy to the exact nature of the spell and due to some of its effects being rather nebulous/difficult to immediately notice, logically the spell should be much more difficult to break out of. This on top of the fact that since it'd be implausible for the spell to truly be an AoE, practically all of the energy would be directed towards, Ixion, Morgan and the masked Sister as they are the ones who are in it. The blue haired sister would get some too and maybe a few of the fleeing inn customers would, but they'd also be even less likely to resist the spell given they shouldn't have much reason to at all.

Since the inngoers are a non-issue the spell would prioritize the people closest to I'on and would only give those at the perimeter of the "area," a brief wave of calm, after which the spell's energies would focus on the people in greater stress and who are also attempting to resist its effects.

Also, for future reference, I think I may just come directly to you and/or Shienvien when making spells. I'd rather avoid having this sort of discussion again (mostly because it causes people to have to edit when it could've just been done right the first time).

[Always Lonely] Naruto: Continuum [Always Open]

Accepted. Put him in the character bin. We'll talk later about his status with Shuurei.

[Always Lonely] Naruto: Continuum [Always Open]

I'm not okay with the ice blade as that is a KG, but the rest look fine since they have limited elemental abilities rather than broad ones. If you could remove the ice blade, this will be accepted.

The Prophecy

So fun fact about this spell. It's not going to fade, which I did describe in my post. This spell was not directed at one person. Its effects are going to last several minutes, which is why I'on felt the mana go out of him like that. So while his instincts could snap him out of the relaxed state, he will return to it unless he constantly pulls himself out of it and that's just part of the effect.

The rest of the effect makes anyone within the Area of the spell (which is within the building and slightly surrounding it) try to avoid aggression or violence. Also, the effect doesn't just cause relaxation (related to the word "calm," in the spell), but also reduces stress levels. I also specified that this spell is effective enough that it has caused things fighting I'on in the past, to become totally passive and stop attacking altogether (and continue to be passive while he killed them. Though for a short period of time).

This isn't something like his spell back at the gate that he tried to use to calm the situation (where he literally just said "calm,") where you can easily brush it off. This is a powerful, quite effective spell, that is effective even in a combat situation of high stress. While the initial calming/stress relieving effect is stronger than the sustained effect, the overall effect is still strong enough that it should stop Morgan from just throwing Ixion off of him so roughly.

Like...he'd feel immensely uncomfortable the moment he tried to throw him. He'd feel fine when he grabbed and stopped Ixion's arm from moving the blade to his neck.

I...actually should've addressed this earlier when Ixion approached Morgan and very aggressively pressed a weapon to his neck. He's free to do these things, but it's going to make him feel more uncomfortable than Morgan would feel with a blade against his throat.

Edit: Shien, Jack, tell me if this is going overboard at all or exceeds what I already described in my post in regards to the spell's strength and effects. Though I am almost certain that it is this effective.

Edit p2: I do say that I am quite happy for I'on that his spell, nonetheless, managed to help keep Morgan at a manageably sane level xD

[yoshua171 Vs. LilyGold] Magic's Essentials

You forgot about the blade flying through the air, tip first, at her back. She's not using wired right now either so unless she has another way of noticing it, it's probably going to hit her.

Also, she's a bit unfortunate in regards to Testament Crashing. Timore doesn't have much guilt in him, but there are a few things he might feel guilty about. So it'll weigh him down a bit, but not a lot.

[ShidenBlades Vs. yoshua171] Adversity

Yes, I think I understand now. Thanks lots ^_^