Post by Braddoc on May 19, 2008 10:39:30 GMT -5
Watching from the clearing Angel and the mages will be able to astrally assense a few things...
At the beginning of the ceremony you will have been able to see the watcher messengers being sent out into the forest to herald the magics -
There are a couple of dark looks from people here - announcing that you are about to perform something big is not really the way runners are comfortable with - better to explain afterwards - when you have a result !
Meg obviously wants to do this though and you can appreciate that if there are forest spirits out there then the squaddies backed up by a big spirit will be on their turf - only right to announce your intentions rather than barging in unnanounced like a gatecrasher..
on her wrists and ankles are focii - a weapon focus, powerful.
She winds up her magic and locks it to a necklace - from your position in astral yo can tell that the spell is a health spell - odds are that it is a boost Charisma - which takes her presence close to angelic .. in the back of your mind you know you would follow her into hell
The intention is to be able to safely summon a F10 spirit as this is lower than her current charisma, she can charm the birds from the trees so why not a helluva spirit too !
a few minutes later small sprites begin appearing - drawn by the announcements and the 'pretty pretty lady'
off in the shadows larger spirits can just about be made out - there is an interest in this 'happening'
One is a powerful Wolf spirit - shaman maybe gone 'native' - the Wolf totem smoulders. He watches and is alert.
Meg calls the forest spirit - physically little happens, branches rustle, wood creaks needles give off their scent - the forest seems to perk up a lot - becomes supra-real bigger darker cooler.. more 'foresty'
In your spirit-sight the trees themselves take on an aura - tree is overriding but there is a mix of creatures in there- deer wolf rabbitt mouse squirrl birds insects and a lot of intelligent faces - brief images of awakened creatures - essence of the forest becomes sentient.
Meg has woken it and asked for a favour.. an the Forest accepts. Around the military the trees gently bend and sway roots quietly twist in the poor mountain soil - almost immediately a wasp nest is pointed out by one orc
still adjusting the electronic sniffer- detector whatever that gear he is using does. They spray and dig it out then bag the small nest
Off they go sweeping the ground with long rods, looking to their instruments while around them you can see the trees ever so slightly moving their branches to point out a way - leading the troopers.
I expected a massive tree to come striding out the way she said there would be a very big spirit being called up.. one student remarks as you leave the forest for the day's collecting tasks in primo mining sites..
It takes Meg an hour to fully recover - not that she was wiped out by that - you would have said that she had just completed a few hours of heavy training - puffed out more than exhausted.
It gets you to thinking how big a spirit could she call if she really needed to, if that big one seemed straightforward enough..
At the beginning of the ceremony you will have been able to see the watcher messengers being sent out into the forest to herald the magics -
There are a couple of dark looks from people here - announcing that you are about to perform something big is not really the way runners are comfortable with - better to explain afterwards - when you have a result !
Meg obviously wants to do this though and you can appreciate that if there are forest spirits out there then the squaddies backed up by a big spirit will be on their turf - only right to announce your intentions rather than barging in unnanounced like a gatecrasher..
on her wrists and ankles are focii - a weapon focus, powerful.
She winds up her magic and locks it to a necklace - from your position in astral yo can tell that the spell is a health spell - odds are that it is a boost Charisma - which takes her presence close to angelic .. in the back of your mind you know you would follow her into hell
The intention is to be able to safely summon a F10 spirit as this is lower than her current charisma, she can charm the birds from the trees so why not a helluva spirit too !
a few minutes later small sprites begin appearing - drawn by the announcements and the 'pretty pretty lady'
off in the shadows larger spirits can just about be made out - there is an interest in this 'happening'
One is a powerful Wolf spirit - shaman maybe gone 'native' - the Wolf totem smoulders. He watches and is alert.
Meg calls the forest spirit - physically little happens, branches rustle, wood creaks needles give off their scent - the forest seems to perk up a lot - becomes supra-real bigger darker cooler.. more 'foresty'
In your spirit-sight the trees themselves take on an aura - tree is overriding but there is a mix of creatures in there- deer wolf rabbitt mouse squirrl birds insects and a lot of intelligent faces - brief images of awakened creatures - essence of the forest becomes sentient.
Meg has woken it and asked for a favour.. an the Forest accepts. Around the military the trees gently bend and sway roots quietly twist in the poor mountain soil - almost immediately a wasp nest is pointed out by one orc
still adjusting the electronic sniffer- detector whatever that gear he is using does. They spray and dig it out then bag the small nest
Off they go sweeping the ground with long rods, looking to their instruments while around them you can see the trees ever so slightly moving their branches to point out a way - leading the troopers.
I expected a massive tree to come striding out the way she said there would be a very big spirit being called up.. one student remarks as you leave the forest for the day's collecting tasks in primo mining sites..
It takes Meg an hour to fully recover - not that she was wiped out by that - you would have said that she had just completed a few hours of heavy training - puffed out more than exhausted.
It gets you to thinking how big a spirit could she call if she really needed to, if that big one seemed straightforward enough..