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vatheon2013-01-10 04:02 pm
redcladidealist) wrote in vatheon2013-01-10 04:02 pm
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25th Combo - Rune Crest
Who: Lloyd Irving and castmates/CR who would be aware of the Rune Crest stuff going on
Where: Winespring Inn and forge
When: Today, morning and evening
Style: Either!
Status: Closed... ish? If you feel you have an IC reason to stop in, feel free!
Note: Please mark in the subject whether you are tagging before or after the making of the Crest. The actual forging of the Rune Crest is going to be handwaved to help simplify things.
Before
[Anxiety flutters in Lloyd's stomach as he carefully gathers his tools. Today is the day. He doesn't think he can prepare himself any more than he has. He doesn't feel prepared, though, especially not when he knows he's going to have to remove his own Key Crest. Before he'd become an angel, that wouldn't have been a problem. A Key Crest applied before an Exsphere was attached ensured that the Exsphere never rooted itself so deeply that the bearer's mana became irremovably entwined. He'd taken his Exsphere off before, to no ill effect, and if he'd wanted to, he could have removed the Key Crest after that. It would have hurt, sure. Key Crests weren't meant to be easily removed. But it wouldn't have done anything worse than maybe leave a scar or two.
Now, though... Now he can't remove his Exsphere, not without risking his already unstable mana going out of control. With his angelic transformation, the Exsphere has become too much a part of him. Unfortunately, the Key Crest has to come off so that they can attach the Rune Crest to it. For however long it takes him to do that, he'll be a ticking bomb. They'd made plans to help prevent the worst, but still! Worry eats at him. If the worst happens despite everything...
He swallows. I should go warn Mat.]
After
[One breath. Another. He's not sure if it's safe to feel relief yet. Sitting on the porch of the inn, Lloyd closes his hands. Opens them.
They're shaking.
Another breath. And then another. How will he know? How will he know if the Rune Crest works? Afternoon light glints off the newly forged metal, the runes carved in it both foreign and familiar at once. He knew a lot of the basic runes, learned from Dirk since he was three, but some of these he'd had to copy from Colette's crest, had to trust Dhaos's word that they were good. If even one stroke of a rune was off, though, how would it hold if he ever had reason to really put it to the test? What if something went wrong?
One breath. Another breath.
I'm scared.
At the same time, though, he was strangely elated. The advanced metalwork that he'd just done...
I made a Rune Crest myself!]
Where: Winespring Inn and forge
When: Today, morning and evening
Style: Either!
Status: Closed... ish? If you feel you have an IC reason to stop in, feel free!
Note: Please mark in the subject whether you are tagging before or after the making of the Crest. The actual forging of the Rune Crest is going to be handwaved to help simplify things.
Before
[Anxiety flutters in Lloyd's stomach as he carefully gathers his tools. Today is the day. He doesn't think he can prepare himself any more than he has. He doesn't feel prepared, though, especially not when he knows he's going to have to remove his own Key Crest. Before he'd become an angel, that wouldn't have been a problem. A Key Crest applied before an Exsphere was attached ensured that the Exsphere never rooted itself so deeply that the bearer's mana became irremovably entwined. He'd taken his Exsphere off before, to no ill effect, and if he'd wanted to, he could have removed the Key Crest after that. It would have hurt, sure. Key Crests weren't meant to be easily removed. But it wouldn't have done anything worse than maybe leave a scar or two.
Now, though... Now he can't remove his Exsphere, not without risking his already unstable mana going out of control. With his angelic transformation, the Exsphere has become too much a part of him. Unfortunately, the Key Crest has to come off so that they can attach the Rune Crest to it. For however long it takes him to do that, he'll be a ticking bomb. They'd made plans to help prevent the worst, but still! Worry eats at him. If the worst happens despite everything...
He swallows. I should go warn Mat.]
After
[One breath. Another. He's not sure if it's safe to feel relief yet. Sitting on the porch of the inn, Lloyd closes his hands. Opens them.
They're shaking.
Another breath. And then another. How will he know? How will he know if the Rune Crest works? Afternoon light glints off the newly forged metal, the runes carved in it both foreign and familiar at once. He knew a lot of the basic runes, learned from Dirk since he was three, but some of these he'd had to copy from Colette's crest, had to trust Dhaos's word that they were good. If even one stroke of a rune was off, though, how would it hold if he ever had reason to really put it to the test? What if something went wrong?
One breath. Another breath.
I'm scared.
At the same time, though, he was strangely elated. The advanced metalwork that he'd just done...
I made a Rune Crest myself!]
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[Why is this so hard to admit out loud?
Maybe because it feels like... like sayings it's possible that things might go wrong somehow means he's not confident enough to make sure they don't. Like he's admitting that he can't always live up to his own idealism.
But he knows he needs to be real.]
I mean that there's a chance I could turn into a monster if I don't make the new crest right. [He shakes his head. It shouldn't take me more than a few hours.
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Who is he kidding? Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather after all.]
I'll come back in a few hours then. If you could turn into a monster if you don't make this thing, whatever you're doing might involve magic.
[Which means he's gonna steer clear of here for those hours. No magic, thank you very much.]
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[Lloyd hasn't quite cottoned on to Mat's aversion to magic, so he sees nothing wrong with telling the other what's going on.]
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You're going to... Just leave me out of all the flaming magic. None of it will affect the Winespring, right?
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Well, no, it shouldn't. We're just casting it on me, and on my crest while I'm forging it.
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Alright. Keep yourself safe, boy.
[He goes to grab what he doesn't want in the inn on the chance that magic does leak and leave.
He'll be back after those few hours. Save the question about his reaction until then.]