[ the first birb yields nothing, though it is very cute!
as soon as they draw the second bird however, a flurry of glitter rains down on them, an image of a puffin briefly appearing in the air, along with two handwritten scrolls:
Chronicle 599
The discovery of radon prompted a flurry of scientific inquiry and innovation, and yet – it still wasn’t quite enough. There are always more questions to be answered, more mysteries to be unlocked, and more dangers still as of yet unknown; a prospect both exciting and intimidating, especially when it comes to applying the same spirit of exploration to magic. The Junimo are magical, but they are also sentient, and that may be the greatest mystery of all.
For countless fortnights, I’ve dedicated all my time to locale transference – or, in laymen’s terms, teleportation.
What does teleportation have to do with the spirits, you ask? Well, everything, even though a human may not be a spirit for the majority of their existence. It's a simple feat for me to transport myself between locations in town, or from my laboratory to the basement – this is where the Junimo are concentrated, and their magic and the magic of the soil support just about anything I want to try on home grounds. But to travel long distances in the blink of an eye (outside of the town, or even outside of the country or further) is nigh impossible, given the geographical, metaphysical, and magical energy requirements. But only nigh impossible is still a problem with a solution. Without getting into the finer details (see Chronicle XXIII), the magic the junimos utilize is one that can catalyze a self-sustaining reaction under the right conditions – magic, after all, differs from science in its ability to occasionally grant miracles, the ability to seemingly create something from something entirely different, or from nothing at all.
Getting the Junimo’s cooperation is normally as simple as planting seeds and producing a harvest. The difficulty at present comes from the runic circle needed for the spell. There are countless runic languages and an infinite array of theories for runic array structures, configurations and optimization; it makes it incredibly difficult to find the best combination to use for something so specific as ‘resonating with the Junimo in Puffin Town on Puffin Town soil and with Puffin Town energy, in such a way as to awaken their hidden potential’. This is especially difficult when even I do not know the extent of that hidden potential. Still, I’ve found something stable, and that is already a lifetime accomplishment. Long distance teleportation, universal transference is within my grasp at last.
I don’t plan to use it, of course. At least, not for anything big; I am a mere small town wizard, in the end.
the second scroll is comically shorter than the first:
Chronicle 607
The only limiting factor now is getting the junimo to stay in place long enough to initiate the spell. They're skittish creatures, prone to fleeing at the first sign of danger, or even boredom.
((on an ooc note, i'll say that i can totally see an upside down bird with a top hat on in this one.)) ]
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as soon as they draw the second bird however, a flurry of glitter rains down on them, an image of a puffin briefly appearing in the air, along with two handwritten scrolls:
Chronicle 599
The discovery of radon prompted a flurry of scientific inquiry and innovation, and yet – it still wasn’t quite enough. There are always more questions to be answered, more mysteries to be unlocked, and more dangers still as of yet unknown; a prospect both exciting and intimidating, especially when it comes to applying the same spirit of exploration to magic. The Junimo are magical, but they are also sentient, and that may be the greatest mystery of all.
For countless fortnights, I’ve dedicated all my time to locale transference – or, in laymen’s terms, teleportation.
What does teleportation have to do with the spirits, you ask? Well, everything, even though a human may not be a spirit for the majority of their existence. It's a simple feat for me to transport myself between locations in town, or from my laboratory to the basement – this is where the Junimo are concentrated, and their magic and the magic of the soil support just about anything I want to try on home grounds. But to travel long distances in the blink of an eye (outside of the town, or even outside of the country or further) is nigh impossible, given the geographical, metaphysical, and magical energy requirements. But only nigh impossible is still a problem with a solution. Without getting into the finer details (see Chronicle XXIII), the magic the junimos utilize is one that can catalyze a self-sustaining reaction under the right conditions – magic, after all, differs from science in its ability to occasionally grant miracles, the ability to seemingly create something from something entirely different, or from nothing at all.
Getting the Junimo’s cooperation is normally as simple as planting seeds and producing a harvest. The difficulty at present comes from the runic circle needed for the spell. There are countless runic languages and an infinite array of theories for runic array structures, configurations and optimization; it makes it incredibly difficult to find the best combination to use for something so specific as ‘resonating with the Junimo in Puffin Town on Puffin Town soil and with Puffin Town energy, in such a way as to awaken their hidden potential’. This is especially difficult when even I do not know the extent of that hidden potential. Still, I’ve found something stable, and that is already a lifetime accomplishment. Long distance teleportation, universal transference is within my grasp at last.
I don’t plan to use it, of course. At least, not for anything big; I am a mere small town wizard, in the end.
the second scroll is comically shorter than the first:
Chronicle 607
The only limiting factor now is getting the junimo to stay in place long enough to initiate the spell. They're skittish creatures, prone to fleeing at the first sign of danger, or even boredom.
((on an ooc note, i'll say that i can totally see an upside down bird with a top hat on in this one.)) ]