Breakthrough!
Apr. 8th, 2009 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A-At long last! I have nearly completed my goal!
The impossibility of ever making sense of the island's conglomeration of magic initially seemed an insurmountable obstacle; there were far too many cultures and worlds to accommodate. It hardly seemed as if there was even a system at all! Working towards a solution from this angle, of course, eventually proved to be nothing more than an extremely frustrating headache; one would have to eventually account for every single known world's system if one wished to reroute the currents as one desired -- But lo! Upon rethinking my initial analysis of the entire project, a single point jumped out at the brilliant mind of Klarth. The indiscriminatory nature of this magic! It had been noted previously that those with absolutely no previous magical aptitude could simply take a scroll and perform the most elementary of magical feats without so much as breaking a sweat. Though I had somehow managed to miss it before, the obvious conclusion drawn would be that the source of magic upon this island -- perhaps a stream of mana hidden either high above the island or below, or perhaps simply a new source as of yet undocumented in the texts -- did not flow from being to being as I had previously thought! Instead, it seems obvious now that each being can tap into the source individually, and it was only after he had done so that the magic would convert to the system he was most familiar with. Rather than a long, intertwined chain of mana running throughout, each person was free to dip into this stream, a far more efficient system! Going on this principle, it was hardly difficult at all to tap into this stream myself!
Now behold! The fusion of supreme intelligence, craftsmanship, and art -- The Magic Cannon!
Here goes no --
FWOOMPH
.........ow........
*thud*
The impossibility of ever making sense of the island's conglomeration of magic initially seemed an insurmountable obstacle; there were far too many cultures and worlds to accommodate. It hardly seemed as if there was even a system at all! Working towards a solution from this angle, of course, eventually proved to be nothing more than an extremely frustrating headache; one would have to eventually account for every single known world's system if one wished to reroute the currents as one desired -- But lo! Upon rethinking my initial analysis of the entire project, a single point jumped out at the brilliant mind of Klarth. The indiscriminatory nature of this magic! It had been noted previously that those with absolutely no previous magical aptitude could simply take a scroll and perform the most elementary of magical feats without so much as breaking a sweat. Though I had somehow managed to miss it before, the obvious conclusion drawn would be that the source of magic upon this island -- perhaps a stream of mana hidden either high above the island or below, or perhaps simply a new source as of yet undocumented in the texts -- did not flow from being to being as I had previously thought! Instead, it seems obvious now that each being can tap into the source individually, and it was only after he had done so that the magic would convert to the system he was most familiar with. Rather than a long, intertwined chain of mana running throughout, each person was free to dip into this stream, a far more efficient system! Going on this principle, it was hardly difficult at all to tap into this stream myself!
Now behold! The fusion of supreme intelligence, craftsmanship, and art -- The Magic Cannon!
Here goes no --
FWOOMPH
.........ow........
*thud*
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Date: 2009-04-09 04:05 pm (UTC)And as if home and careers class would help convince me to live!Jeez. It's more of a determination thing. You stop doubting everything in your life and just focus on doing what's really important. What you would regret not doing if you died right then. Then you can do all sorts of amazing things to make things right. You get stronger, faster, and with the right equipment you can do other stuff using your Dying Will as a power source.
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Date: 2009-04-09 08:30 pm (UTC)Huh. That sounds . . . interesting. A type of magic catalyzed by adrenaline, it seems -- Perhaps it does have more to do with science than magic.
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Date: 2009-04-10 02:13 am (UTC)Some of it seems like magic to me. This one guy could create illusions and summons snakes out of nowhere... though I don't know if that was because of his Dying Will, his aura, or both. My tutor never bothered explaining the details.
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Date: 2009-04-11 12:50 am (UTC)Yeah, I'd say that's magic. What can you do when you access this 'Dying Will'?
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Date: 2009-04-11 01:13 am (UTC)