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In Paraasilan, Esmaar, a pair of roommates are about to break a rule that, compared to the one about running in the corridors or even the one about unlicensed teleportation, is there for a good reason.
In unison, they complete their shared spell.
Joy in Elcenia
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"Okay, then it's yours for the duration. You can will the ward on the door to admit or keep out anybody who you want to let in or not, although I and my husband - he's the headmaster - can override if there's ever a reason. Korulen will bring you your gemstones when she's found a spell for them and conjured them up. The lift will take you to the cafeteria if you want to go there for non-gemstone food and I've keyed you to it. If people hassle you, you can tell them to talk to me. If you need to talk to me, all you have to do is think 'Keo' loud and clear and I'll pick it up and," <we can talk, like so. Any questions?>
"You're welcome. There's also a library, if you get bored," Keo adds, and she lets herself out.
joyfulnoise
Ooh, a library! Libraries are pretty neat. Joy takes another look around his room, tests the comfiness quotient of the beds, and then goes looking for the library. (He guesses he can get a lift to go there.)
A lift will go there!
The library: has books.
The library: has books.
joyfulnoise
Books! Are any of them about interesting stuff? He'd better look at a bunch to find out.
They're about all kinds of stuff! This funny square planet's got all kinds of countries, and magic, and animals, and history, and there are books on it.
joyfulnoise
Well, then, Joy is going to read about a lot of stuff.
And possibly lose track of time a little.
And possibly lose track of time a little.
People look at him, but don't bother him. Except Korulen, who spots him before she leaves to deliver the gemstones.
"Oh, you're here - I don't know what kinds you like so I conjured a bunch of different ones," she says, dropping a clinky bag of rocks next to his stack of books.
"Oh, you're here - I don't know what kinds you like so I conjured a bunch of different ones," she says, dropping a clinky bag of rocks next to his stack of books.
joyfulnoise
"Thanks!" he says, and he reaches into the bag and pulls out a stone and munches on it. Nom nom. "Mffis is really good! Can I learn how to do that?"
"Probably not. I can check if you have a channeling capacity?"
joyfulnoise
He shrugs. "Okay. What's one of those? Is it the thing you need to have to do the magic that makes gemstones?"
"Yeah, you need one to be a wizard. The spell isn't huge but if you don't have a CC at all you can't cast."
"Most anyone who's from here, but in theory at least people from other worlds wouldn't have them."
"I go look up a spell that's usually used to see how much of one you have, and cast it on you. I'll go find it." Off she trots.
joyfulnoise
And Joy goes back to reading his increasingly large stack of books. (He keeps finding new things to look up!)
Korulen comes back and casts a spell and says, "Sorry, nothing."
"Yeah. They taste okay, even conjured?"
"Okay, good." That seems to be that. She wanders off.
or-coincidence
Meanwhile, in a very different library, a tiny blue unicorn is preparing a spell. She double-checks her parameters, squints at her scroll of notes one last time, then lets it snap shut and drop to the floor while she concentrates. It should work fine, as long as there aren't any dragon-like creatures close enough to Joy for it to get confused about; she's fiddled with the targeting as much as she dared, and can't refine it any farther without compromising safety measures.
And... cast.
There is an enormous puff of faintly glittery red smoke. Blueberry squints into the cloud, then clears it away with a little subtle telekinesis.
And... cast.
There is an enormous puff of faintly glittery red smoke. Blueberry squints into the cloud, then clears it away with a little subtle telekinesis.
lialen
A beige mammalian biped who is wearing clothes and has red eyes and appears to have been sitting before he was violently removed from his chair falls to the floor. "Ack!"