004 - Knight Fencer F - Fifth of the human category

[radiantwingedone]

Who: Duke and OPEN! + Specific people he'd talked to about this (Zelda, Serph, Estelle)
Where: Around town, edge of the forest, wandering.
What: Testing a spell + thought bubbles
When: Monday (12th) midday-evening
Style: Action, willing to swap if you change!
Status: OPEN. but slightly complicated.

[ Despite getting thoroughly distracted with magic and Zelda, and then gardening with Serph and Cielo, Duke's managed to get his spell to be more or less working. It's nothing particularly fancy at the moment, it moves at barely faster than a walk, glows softly in all colors and none, and homes in on who he wants to get a message to. He follows it a few yards away, enough for it to be somewhat clear he's tailing the ball of light, but not too close. Like that guy at the theme parks who would control the talking trashcan, only a bit more conspicuous.

Which means for those people who noticed him working on his spell on that accidental video the other day, there may be a softly glowing ball floating toward you wherever you are. It bobs for attention at about head height, flickering lightly. This close, the interior of the globe seems to have a bunch of fluttering letters about inside it. (Think the way the Unknown fly about. Only they're the Terca Lumireian rather than pokemon)

After a few bobs, the ball of light produces a line of letters proclaiming "Contact needed".

If, when, Zelda touches the sphere, as directed, Duke's voice, a little mangled in the way of an imperfect recording comes from it - and a transcription of the words, in a dull red Terca Lumireian, start spiraling about its surface, but that doesn't seem to be the intent. "Apologies if a poor time. You wished to know when in testing, and thus it is. Simple commands; repeat will do as stated, record will give you until you tell it to end and return. Needs the and to connect so far. Return will send it back. Any sound will do; still testing. End an-" He's got a bit of fine tuning to do, yep.

If, when, Serph touches the sphere, Duke's voice is still slightly mangled. "A test; you had wished to know when testing occurred. .... Garden is starting well? Commands are; Repeat, meaning clear. Record to start doing so. End and return to send message off. Currently no refinement, such as editing, will add later End an-" He also needs to work on that ending, just a little.

If, when, Estelle touches the sphere, it shimmers faintly peach colored. Duke sounds a bit.. awkward, like he's not sure how to talk to Estelle. Forever awkward, Duke is. "... You wished to know how progress went. Simple, currently. Commands are; Repeat, meaning clear. Record to start doing so. End and return to send message off. ........ End an-" ... Yeah, just forever unsure and awkward. ]

[ If anyone pokes the ball of light before it asks for contact, they will be rewarded with a harmless flare of light and a burst of static-y noise. That's all it does, aside from continue toward its target. Maybe it will do more if it's repeatedly poked?

Duke's ignoring the bubble that trails him, so he's not aware that it's a nice pearly shade like his hair, and.. spewing math. Everywhere. All sorts of math, all shapes of math, scribbles of math and neat and clear lines of math. once in a while, bright red INCORRECT gets to sit atop the math, rather the way that someone would do these crazy math things on a white board. ]

((OOC: Overly complicated feeling/looking, but Duke has a glowing ball that's giving specific people messages. He's slowly tailing the ball, so anyone can see it floating about town, with him following. It doesn't seem that good with directions.... His messages are for recipients only, but anyone near to the person getting the message will hear.))

Comments

[zelda_hylia]

[Zelda is actually hiding within the forest when she gets the message, so the spell doesn't have far to travel. Her mortification over the thought bubbles fades as she reaches out to touch it as directed.]

Very interesting... Record: Is this message clear? End and return.

[Don't mind her, she'll just follow it right back to its source.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Oh. Reply. That was fast, and he hadn't even left the forest yet.

And a Zelda that was following it. The bubble behind him interrupts its string of math with her name as he notices her... and goes back to math as he listens to the reply.

A circle about "sound quality". Followed by an underscore, then more math as he thinks of ways to fix that. Broaden range? ]

Clear enough. May need to fix. [ There's a checklist, and fix sound quality just got added in as 1. ]

[zelda_hylia]

[Zelda's thought bubble is behind her. She's trying to keep it out of view, but it seems like she mostly thinks in the equivalent of full color video. She's trying to not look at Duke's thought bubble, but the image of him wearing glasses and at a chalkboard pops up over her shoulder anyway.]

It also cut off the end of your message slightly, though I am not sure if it did so with mine? Mine was shorter, after all. Is there a time limit for how long you can speak before it will cut the message?

[radiantwingedone]

... Shouldn't be. [ He notices the glasses and chalkboard over her shoulder in peripheral only, so there may be a moment where a pair of glasses with ????? appears in his bubble, but it's mostly math again. ]

Cannot see how it would be useful, time-limit. [ Unless emergency, but even then scrawls across and he puts the thought aside, causing his spell to repeat - and yep, it cuts off mid "and". once more. ]

... End causes recording to end in a delay... perhaps because it requires the and to ensure it was the intent to end the recording... [ alter so that entire 'end and return' is cut out? mathmathmathmathmath... ]

[zelda_hylia]

Ah, I see. It probably would be for best to alter it. The way it is, it's a little unclear as to if the message actually ended or not.

[Zelda wishes that she could help more with the equations, but while she can understand them after some study, she can't build them just yet. A smaller version of herself is surrounded by Duke's math tangle in her thoughts, scowling at it determinedly as she tries to sort it out.]

I don't think that a time limit would be particularly useful either, I was just curious if there was one.

[radiantwingedone]

With the way it cut off, can understand why would seem as such. [ A little box called time limit preventing a handful of letters from fitting inside the ball. ]

Alter it to cut off directly after "end", perhaps, so it is clear the message is done. [ And then piles and piles of more math - oops, he thinks that equation really won't work, it got chucked off his little mental chalkboard there.

A bird nearby, Zelda can see the good morning call of the bird register in his thought-bubble before sound quality. Tangent taken. This starts out with a math problem and then goes into altering it. ]

... decrease absorption of noise aside from the speaker, however, how to indicate what and what alone to capture... [ Person touching the sphere? Not accurate enough. Circle and strike through. ]

[zelda_hylia]

[She recognizes one of those formulas as the speed of sound. She is so excited Duke, you have no idea!]

Maybe if you changed the area that captures the sound into a cone-like shape, the speaker could... well, just talk directly into it?

[Like the telephone she saw in the book in the library! Nevermind that the one she saw was a hundred years old.]

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

*Not far from Estelle's house, there is a certain redhead, walking around almost... Sort of aimlessly.

And then, she sees the small, glowing orb before she sees Duke. And starts to follow it, first with her eyes, then just kinda following along. Quite possibly right in front of Duke without even noticing him.

You may want to get her out of the way if you want to keep observing it...*

[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke's not so sure that he needs to. Rita's a bit short, after all, and its somewhat entertaining.

Rita, you do realize that's one of his spells that you're following about. No? Well this will be... an interesting array of expressions.

.... if she ever noticed him tailing her. Well. He wasn't tailing her. . . .

Duke totally didn't form a second one of these spells, just for the light, in a way that would cast his shadow over Rita. Notice him here yet? ]

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

*And Rita totally didn't respond with a sudden, disturbingly strong punch direct to Duke's solar plexus on reflex.*

... !

[radiantwingedone]

[ Okay, so that hadn't been a good idea.

Duke manages to throw an arm in the way, at the very least, so it's more of his arm hitting his chest to cause injury than the small point of the young mage's fist. ]

Lesson learned. [ Now he knows how absorbed Rita can get in studying something.

He's going to stay out of their combined arm reach now. ]

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

What are you doing?!

[radiantwingedone]

Following my formula to ensure it works. [ Studying her reaction to that. ]

[bufudine]

[It's a good thing the sphere reaches Serph before he speaks to the Stationmaster and takes the elevator to the surface. He stops at the sight of the sphere, and once he realises why the letters within it are familiar, he gives a curt nod to the Stationmaster and steps away. From there, he pokes the sphere on instruction and listens to the recording.

Though he already memorised the contents of the message, Serph thinks it's a good idea to test everything.]

Repeat.

[Does the sphere repeat the message with the exact same (bad) quality as before?]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Yup. Same message, same bad qua-

Well, actually, the repeat is a teeny tiny bit worse. Hmmm. ]

[bufudine]

[Noticing that!

Hmmm, let's have the sphere repeat again. Multiple times. While he'll stop before the sphere's message becomes totally incomprehensible, Serph is interested in seeing how many repeats the sphere can handle before it shows sign of significant scrambling.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Eleven times, it seems.

at this point, the spell itself is looking a bit frayed as well, and Duke is making his ever-calm approach. ]

..... [ ? in the thought bubble. What had... ]

[bufudine]

[At Duke's approach, Serph turns. Ah. He'd been planning to send the sphere with a request for Duke's location, so that he may find him and speak in person. But it seems that isn't necessary.

Serph nods in greeting, his thought bubble an image of still waters, a representation of his calm state of mind.]

In response to your message, the garden is doing well.

[His bubble ripples to show the rose bush, more trimmed than when they'd planted it, and some of the plants in the mugs sprouting. His bubble ripples again to show the sphere Duke has created before rippling back to calm waters.]

Your formula has relayed its message, though with interference throughout. Numerous repetitions causes message degradation.

[He gives a nod in the sphere's direction.]

Repeat.

[radiantwingedone]

... Good. [ Duke's bubble registers some slight surprise, then all sorts of math - probably the formula in question - before the repeat

All that math stops showing up, mid character, at the garbled sound. ]

....Hmn. [ Whole formula, specific part of the formula, circle with red like an incorrect problem on homework or a test. ]

Interference, first time, likely background noise. Perhaps something within the replay.... [ More math. All sorts of math. ]

[redcladidealist]

[Whoa. What is that? Lloyd's own thought bubble fills with little question marks when he spots the floating light. Curious, he follows behind it, lengthening his stride to catch up. It doesn't seem to be doing anything but floating, moving along at a leisurely pace. Lloyd extends his gloved fingers, cautious but fascinated.

Poke. Poke poke.

An exclamation point fills his bubble when light flares and a noise fills the air.]

Whoa!

[But that seems to be the only thing that happens. Nothing bad. Just a ball of light bobbing along, playfully lighting up when touched. Grinning like a kid who's found a new toy, Lloyd reaches out again.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Teen-in-red you are not impressing Duke with your intellig e n c e ...

Oh, he remembers you from that Curse. He's not going to mention that, although the thought bubble behind him flickers with a Lloyd-knight image for a moment. ]

..... [ Duke's not sure if he should interrupt. This could be somewhat valuable data, can the spell stand people ... bothering it.

Also, he wants to see how long it takes Teen-in-red to notice that 1), Duke's also following that spell, and 2), Duke's directed the spell to start going in circles. ]

[redcladidealist]

[Lloyd follows the first loop without comment, probably not even noticing the circular path. A little musical note appears in his bubble as he pokes the light again, somehow giving the impression of a happy hum in his head. On the third time around, he finally notices... oh. It's that guy again. Still following the light, Lloyd casts him a curious glance.]

Oh. Hey. You noticed this light-ball thing, too?

[radiantwingedone]

Correct. [ Lets try a spiral that goes smaller then larger. ]

[redcladidealist]

[He grins.]

Isn't it neat? It lights up when you touch it!

[The thought bubble suddenly forms a light bulb that lights up, even as Lloyd's expression brightens with an idea.]

Hey, watch this!

[He abruptly stops following the light in favor of speeding up, anticipating its path - hey, he had been paying attention - then plants himself right where he thinks the light will go. Will it keep going and run into him? What will happen then? Or maybe it'll do something cool, like dodge him! He can hardly wait to find out.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Amused with how easily he is amused, Duke's fingers twitch.

The ball jumps over the teens head as the bubble behind Duke scrolls with a bit of math.

It continues its spiraling. ]

It's supposed to