[Krsqk]

Arthur grabs a stick, pops his food on the end, and burns it in the fire a moment. Smacking loudly, he munches on it with obvious satisfaction.

Arthur "Mmmm, burnt blandness--there's nothing quite like it! Hmm, Jack, it does seem our variants are different. Mine is not physically based--it actually temporarily imbues the target with force magic. The advantage is that much greater strength or speed can be achieved than with a standard physical enhancement. The disadvantage is that the side effects on mages not skilled in force magic are pretty severe, and non-mages can be disabled for up to 10 or 15 hours."

Arthur "D, was it? Did you say something about a silence spell? Could you speak up, I can't hear you very well. Ah, that's much better. Could I impose on you to repeat your question, Narp?"

Narp gladly repeats it, with many embellishments and additions to the history of the mad emperor.

Arthur "I guess you could say that I'm doing the weather magic, though it would be more accurate to say that it's being caused by me. I don't actually decide the what, when, or where of what happens. In fact, I can't seem to find any tangible link between myself and the occurances. The closest I can come is Last night when I started coming here, and the storm formed over this mountain; or maybe the lightning bolt that destroyed the boulder. I was going to destroy it, but the storm beat me to it. I was so surprised I nearly forgot to form the vortex at all."

Arthur "So, no, I don't have good control over it. In fact, until these recent habitat changes, I didn't have any weather magic. My best guess is that the skill was transported into me from the same causes as the land changes. In fact, I have seen in the past day and a half at least a dozen animals or plants which seemed to possess some rudimentary magical abilities, or at least attributes. Two or three were potentially dangerous, such as trees with fire magic, or carnivores with time magic. I have tried to draw out the magical energy without harming the possessor; but in every case, it resulted in the death of the creature."

Arthur "If it were only a matter of learning to harness the magical energy, it would be simple to learn this new skill. Instead, it might be more of a curse."

Arthur turns and takes a seat near the edge of the firelight.

[ June 21, 2003, 06:51: Message edited by: Krsqk ]