Feeling...fishy? (open)

[Keinvarii]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/5pev.png] The evening was still young, with a pale dark indigo sky flecked with sparse glowing dots of white fire. The Bank's sand was still warm from the rays of the sun, and the water from the crystal river lapped at it, reflecting the rise of the silver full moon. Insects were still not fully awakened as the spring air was still cool but the hum of frogs could be heard from far away, like a gently chorus to the beauty unfolding in its center. Stone trotted along, leaving thick imprints as she went, her shadow stretching behind her. She moved stealthily, not up to anything in particular. The moon reflecting over her fur turned dull greys and greens into silver highlights and her blue eyes gleamed. The night was young, and it was her time to shine. She finally plopped herself down under the cover of the roots of a gnarly dead tree, shadows obscuring her form. Glancing out she ran her eyes over the scenery, alert for any other signs of life. Seeing none she relaxed and placed her head on her paws. The question remained; what to do next? It had been a while since she had participated in a rough and tumble, but this hardly seemed like an option at the moment. Fish started to jump at the surface of the river to catch their evening supper and Stone cracked a grin. It was always amusing to go fish hunting... She crept up to the water's edge to peer down into the dark abyss, unsuspecting fish continuing with their own hunting. She started to focus her energy, narrowing her eyes in concentration, and pulled a stone from the sand with her mind, shaping it flat surface into a fatal point. She began to spin the rock, a soft whistle rising above the frog's chanting and with her energy sent the rock plunging into the cold water. For a few seconds all remained still until suddenly the newly shaped arrow flew back out of the water...with a fish lanced to its point. Supper time! Wolf Stock

[magispar]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/56Mq.jpeg] Magispar whistled softly through her teeth as she watched Keinvarii raise a stone using her power, fashion it into an arrow, and spear a fish with it. That's some power. She grinned; she was very, very happy that Stone was on her side, and that she had accepted the wolf earlier this morning. She trotted contently towards Stone, having had an almost perfect day of clear skies and warm air and good hunting and no trouble. "That was quite an impressive display," she called as she approached, smiling.

[Keinvarii]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/5pev.png] Stone was about to take a mouth full of delicious trout when she heard Magispar's comment. Impressive? She had never really considered her particular power to be of any interest to others. Not used to receiving complements she mumbled, "Uh, well thanks. It comes in handy I guess." Feeling rather awkward she shifted her weight around, paw-ing at her her catch. Her ears twitched, straining to catch the many sounds of the evening. Fishing was a task she had learned earlier on, though her success rate at this method of hunting had not been high. Fish were tricky targets, moving rapidly in a difficult environment to maneuver in. It had taken much effort and strenuous practice to succeed at this hunting style, and Stone had received many headaches as a result. Glancing at Magispar she offered, "I could catch you some if you wanted. It would be no trouble, besides they are quite delectable." As far as she could tell the Guide was trustworthy, and her positive yet calm mannerisms were easy to get along with. It may be that Stone had made her first friend, and the idea that she was not alone was a strange, yet comforting concept. Wolf Stock

[magispar]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/56Mq.jpeg] Magispar walked up beside Keinvarii, smiling. "'Course it's handy. Powers tend to be. But still, that must take a lot of concentration," she smiled. "Mine's easy," she added, and flexing her mind, she brought a small orb of light into being above the two wolves' heads. "Light's easy to control. But stone's unchanging. It can't be easy to change it." The wolf offered to catch Magispar some fish, and she grinned. "Thanks, but I learnt my own fishy trick at Yvit Cove. See, the essential thing with fish is that they're scared. That's why you don't want to let your shadow fall on the water and all those thousand other things, because when they're scared they scatter." What she was about to do took intense concentration, for normally when she brought light into the world, she let it grow from a dim speck into the size and brightness she wanted. But for the technique she had developed, she needed to snap almost-blinding walls of light into being from scratch. Visualising the result in her mind, she let it grow without letting it be, holding it back with a barrier in her mind. Then with a weak flash, she placed a box of pure, bright light underwater around an area. Fish exploded away from the sides of the box, terrified like fish always were. Then with a stretch of her will and a growing headache, Magispar made the box smaller until fish milled around inside like crazy. Dabbing her paw in as fast as she could, she scooped up three fish, flipping them out of the water and letting them land on the bank. Releasing the light with a grateful sigh, she whipped around and clawed the fish's necks, killing them and stopping them from sliding back into the water. She offered one to Stone, so that they would both have two; "It takes more effort than your way, but I enjoy getting the practice."

[Keinvarii]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/5pev.png] Stone watched Magi's display attentively, marveling at the light appearing seemingly out of no where. It was not often that she encountered something that amazed her, but this use of elemental power was stunning. To Stone, the concept of molding something tangible was rather simple, founded directly in scientific logic. It was just manipulation of molecules. However, to see something unsolid used in such a manner was an unusual technique that spoke magnitudes of the ability of the manipulator. When Magi was done catching her fish Stone almost felt like asking to see more. Instead she grinned from ear to ear in merriment, something that was rather out of character for her. She took a bite from her new fish and said, "Thanks, that was pretty stupendous, how did you learn such an interesting technique?" Being new to the pack she had little knowledge of other members, or their abilities. Despite her trepidation of being in large groups, meeting with 4 or five others seemed a manageable task. She lifted her paw with the old injury to alleviate the pressure on it, the long day wearing on its strength. She did not cherish her weakness, and if her opponent had any skill they would notice the disadvantage as others had done in the past. Wolf Stock

[magispar]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/56Mq.jpeg] Magispar let her power go completely with a quiet sigh of relief, returning to whatever abyss in her mind it went to when she wasn't bothering with it. Looking up, she caught the wonder in Stone's eyes and grinned. She was proud of her power; she knew she was more skilful than most. Simply weaving light into shapes was easy enough, though; you just messed around with lots of orbs and beams placed near each other. Some of the other techniques she'd had time to fiddle with during her lifetime- especially the more unusual ones she'd seen in her travels- took far more skill, concentration and practice. There were still things she couldn't do that she'd like to do. One day, she promised herself silently, vacantly scraping at the ground with one paw. Jerking back to reality, she watched Stone grin and felt one of her own spread across her face. She didn't seem like the kind of wolf to grin often, and Magispar was glad to be one of the few to be her friend. She wielded her other magic almost unconsciously; it was a magic granted to many, but only a few in strength. She knew this too, and was proud of it. "How did I learn it?" she chuckled, hearing Stone's question. "Well, longish story. The short version is that I saw some alpha in a pack once doing something similar on my.... travels. Then I experimented a little when I and Phoenix were at Yvit Cove and worked it out myself." She smiled. "I can tell you the longer story if you want, but it might take quite a while. What I'd much rather spend the time doing is hearing how you learnt to shape stone like that." Magispar noticed Stone's injury as she lifted her paw and politely ignored it, though disappointed inside that perhaps she had found a weakness in the formidable-seeming fighter. "I mean, I've seen Stone Lupuses throw rocks around and occasionally cause an avalanche or two, but never shape stone into something useful. It's a neat idea. Perhaps we could experiment with a few powers, you and I and the rest of the pack," Magispar suggested. "There's some pretty cool stuff you can do with powers like light and rock and fire that nobody thinks of. Everybody only thinks about using the powers for war and hunting. But we could do all sorts."

[Keinvarii]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/5pev.png] Stone listened to Magi's story, bright interest shining in her eyes. Upon being asked how she developed her own abilities Stone had to pause for a second. How had she come across hers? To be sure it had been a long and occasionally painful process but her technique was not definitive in nature, really more of a trial and error journey. Thinking back Stone could say that finding her powers had been her drive to live after her fall. And so she replied Magi's question, "My ability manifested itself during my fall off a sea cliff after being separated from my pack. It softened my impact, though my memory of the incident is faint. You might say from that point on it became my fascination, and in order to survive without a pack I had to improve my power wielding skills. From there I just kept at it, and after several headaches I have managed to develop what can be described as flying teeth." She chuckled at the analogy, Magi must be thoroughly confused now. "I should like to meet the other pack members, their powers sound rather interesting too. I must say, the thought of combining strengths never occurred to me, but there is much wonder as to what we could accomplish. Do you think there are many others in the area?" She could not smell much past the cool night air, but surely there would be other lurking about somewhere. Wolf Stock

[faye]

OOC: Would any of you mind if Faye joined?

[magispar]

(OOC: Well, I don't mind... Stone's thread though.)
(this is probably my last post before The Dreaded Exam Absence)

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/56Mq.jpeg] Magispar smiled at the opportunity to show off some more. "We have Phoenix who's got fire powers, she's a Fighter like you. Then there's Toril who's got earth powers, and Nazirah who's a Lumen with light. And then a few others. I came up with some ideas while I was having a little quiet philosophy session with myself earlier," Magispar grinned. "Say, if you got a load of rock, and then Phoenix melted it. We'd be the first ever pack to be able to control lava. Anybody ever attacks us, we just get some lava and flow it down a hill towards them. They won't like that," she continued confidently, "they really, really won't like that. And with my light powers and your rock, we could... say... put a little dam in the stream so a part of it ran off, and then you trapped it with rock walls and then got rid of the dam so we just had the pool. It would stay clean 'cause it would be surrounded by rock, not earth, so the soil wouldn't be contaminating it. Then I could make a little orb of light and hang it in the air over it, and we could maybe get Phoenix to heat it a little, and we'd have a night-time bathing pool. For some reason that idea has a huge appeal to me even though it would be a lot of work for something completely trivial," Magispar shrugged. "I just like the idea. I dunno. There's all sorts... but maybe the best way is to just take you to meet them all," she finished. She grinned and bounded a few steps, leading the way- having finished her fish by now. "Come on. We should go to Kytalae Hollow, there's bound to be somebody there," she called back. "And you could show me some of the new members you accepted.... a lightning lupus, for one, by what I saw in the sky? Probably good if I meet them all at some point!" she joked.

[Keinvarii]

ooc: on a side note, would you like to join in on the post meeting up? I thought we could all post in there so that everyone gets to meet one another instead of continuing in feeling fishy. It may be easier that way, perhaps more organized. I let Evelyn and Faye know, so hopefully they'll be there. I should mention in to Toril and Phoenix too actually...

[Keinvarii]

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[atrb=background,http://i.imm.io/5pev.png] The ideas that Magi proposed were rather ingenious, and if given some time perhaps she could add on. With the increase in power her new Lumen friend had given her, she would be much more useful for such excavations. At the mention of meeting up with everyone Stone nodded her head enthusiastically, she couldn't wait for the new members to meet Magi, they were an interesting bunch to say the least. Perhaps the meeting would offer a good time to explore the other wolf's plans further? Before following the other wolf she let out a howl into the clear air to let the other members know about the meeting. She could only hope the mix match of individuals would get along. She had been in the Alliance for such a short time, but already she felt like a true member of the pack, helping to move it on up higher. Grinning she trotted off after Magi, this meeting promised to be quite a curious affair, hopefully with her new social lessons it would go on without a hitch on her part. Besides, she was looking forward to talking with her two new friends again, who knew this social thing could be so rewarding? Wolf Stock