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Arcane luggage has a way of drawing attention.
A veritable wealth of arcane tools, implements, power sources and scribed details of arcane matters sequestered in highly regimented fashion within the compartments of the cumbersome backpack, hefted without strain or complaint by one Sam Fairbridge, stolen from him with a two fold mugging. A flash of magic that had made Sam's vision turn to white and all sensation become numbed, claws hooking under straps, wings to fly away with heavy momentum.
Upon senses returning, time languid to Sam during the distancing of their perceptions, they turned about themselves, eyes wide as they ever had been, wide white discs upon a curtain of black. Eyes to the skies, desperately seeking.
A flock of white birds made manoeuvres to avoid the heavy beating of whatever beast did lumber Sam's wares through the sky, remaining silent for fear of being devoured, skulking away. It bobbed as if it were barely able to maintain it's flight for virtue of it's prize.
Sam's gloved hands went to a fold of his turquoise robe. An ornate tube of brass, inscribed with script of elven, set with perfect glass and snapped to proper length and set to Sam's right eye. The other sealed itself, the black curtain of the sentient unseen servant's corpereal influence taking over it's façade of nothingness.
Gloved hands guided clumsy to the flying thief, shock mingling with rising dread with what this all meant.
Thoughts interjected staccato, as if knuckles rapping upon the door of obligations. How irreplaceable a great deal of the wares were, how plans were laid out countless to exploring the world using the implements, books worth more to him than anyone, scrolls that in the wrong hands-
The looking glass magnified the rider of the winged creature, large and terrible for a trembling moment. A figure of flowing robes, sky blue, a staff of barbed vines, rushed away into open sky as it lumbered and Sam struggled with tracking and their thoughts.
Sam was beset by a sudden rush of emotion unfamiliar and scarcely understood. Ordinarily calm and serene, timeless and patient, Sam was no stranger to the hints of emotional flavour that sentience that provided. But in this moment, as Sam did peer at the robed one again, the one that had deprived Sam of their livelihood, their past, their tools of trade and their heritage, Sam felt a rushing emotion that consumed him, set that black curtain to platinum brilliance as indignatation and loss surged.
To Sam, the robed one upon this vast flying beast seemed to be mocking them as they turned to behold the beholder. Smugness in their humanoid face. Victory in their gait.
From within Sam was an emotional outburst emerging through arcane command at the sight, trails of certain destructive energies trailing in arcane geometric grounding, golden light turning to scorching blue as the mage peered through telescope, arcane wit tensing where muscles should be, channelling power never before needed or demanded before.
How dare you!
The thought galvanised the spell as the geometric inscriptions into the savannah ground did alight with arcane ignitation. Lightning convulsed about the pattern, and Sam did thrust out a palm as their bright white eye followed the target.
Sniping at such impressive distance was for cooler minds and for more well practiced hands. The power, while blinding beacon of Sam's outrage, emerging as wild lightning that coursed erratic and unnatural through the sky, lashed as wildly as it had appeared to Sam. Through telescope it was directed, and such practice was dimly received by such overcharged and overextended magic. The telescope glass cracked, the elven script slipped from it's moorings, and Sam limply lowered it, hands now completely unburdened of the electricity they had commanded.
The lightning did creep and cascade, eventually falling to the ground, defeated, short of the thief. Much power was in the strike, and perhaps it could have reached such impressive distance had numerous circumstances not fallen astray.
The sound thundered through the plain, a crackle and boom of the lightning scorching where it had landed as a full stop to the ground to this protestation. A small fire did burn in the dry grasslands, tinder abound muchly in these parts.
The black curtain returned it's dominion, the geometic font of power faded, and Sam shuddered as their emotions, now expressed, became bitter and spent.
Their shoulders heaved as the winged one faded from view.
The telescope was sequestered by instinct, as if it complete the consignment of defeat.
The smoke began to rise. And responsibilities to that came sharply into focus, even as realisations lumbered themselves to Sam's perspective.
Best fix that.
I don't mean to cause disaster.
But...
Sam shrugged their shoulders as if hoisting up the pack out of habit and looked solemn in the bright eyes that turned down at the lack of everything on their person.
A disaster has happened to me.
Sam's robed figure made hurried movement to the scorched earth that was slowly gaining traction in the blaze that sparked to life in the brush, movement calm in gait, hands unsure what to do themselves, speed unusual to them. That familiar weight now gone was a new awful world Sam hoped against all hopes that wouldn't have to be accepted.
Aeyliea
A veritable wealth of arcane tools, implements, power sources and scribed details of arcane matters sequestered in highly regimented fashion within the compartments of the cumbersome backpack, hefted without strain or complaint by one Sam Fairbridge, stolen from him with a two fold mugging. A flash of magic that had made Sam's vision turn to white and all sensation become numbed, claws hooking under straps, wings to fly away with heavy momentum.
Upon senses returning, time languid to Sam during the distancing of their perceptions, they turned about themselves, eyes wide as they ever had been, wide white discs upon a curtain of black. Eyes to the skies, desperately seeking.
A flock of white birds made manoeuvres to avoid the heavy beating of whatever beast did lumber Sam's wares through the sky, remaining silent for fear of being devoured, skulking away. It bobbed as if it were barely able to maintain it's flight for virtue of it's prize.
Sam's gloved hands went to a fold of his turquoise robe. An ornate tube of brass, inscribed with script of elven, set with perfect glass and snapped to proper length and set to Sam's right eye. The other sealed itself, the black curtain of the sentient unseen servant's corpereal influence taking over it's façade of nothingness.
Gloved hands guided clumsy to the flying thief, shock mingling with rising dread with what this all meant.
Thoughts interjected staccato, as if knuckles rapping upon the door of obligations. How irreplaceable a great deal of the wares were, how plans were laid out countless to exploring the world using the implements, books worth more to him than anyone, scrolls that in the wrong hands-
The looking glass magnified the rider of the winged creature, large and terrible for a trembling moment. A figure of flowing robes, sky blue, a staff of barbed vines, rushed away into open sky as it lumbered and Sam struggled with tracking and their thoughts.
Sam was beset by a sudden rush of emotion unfamiliar and scarcely understood. Ordinarily calm and serene, timeless and patient, Sam was no stranger to the hints of emotional flavour that sentience that provided. But in this moment, as Sam did peer at the robed one again, the one that had deprived Sam of their livelihood, their past, their tools of trade and their heritage, Sam felt a rushing emotion that consumed him, set that black curtain to platinum brilliance as indignatation and loss surged.
To Sam, the robed one upon this vast flying beast seemed to be mocking them as they turned to behold the beholder. Smugness in their humanoid face. Victory in their gait.
From within Sam was an emotional outburst emerging through arcane command at the sight, trails of certain destructive energies trailing in arcane geometric grounding, golden light turning to scorching blue as the mage peered through telescope, arcane wit tensing where muscles should be, channelling power never before needed or demanded before.
How dare you!
The thought galvanised the spell as the geometric inscriptions into the savannah ground did alight with arcane ignitation. Lightning convulsed about the pattern, and Sam did thrust out a palm as their bright white eye followed the target.
Sniping at such impressive distance was for cooler minds and for more well practiced hands. The power, while blinding beacon of Sam's outrage, emerging as wild lightning that coursed erratic and unnatural through the sky, lashed as wildly as it had appeared to Sam. Through telescope it was directed, and such practice was dimly received by such overcharged and overextended magic. The telescope glass cracked, the elven script slipped from it's moorings, and Sam limply lowered it, hands now completely unburdened of the electricity they had commanded.
The lightning did creep and cascade, eventually falling to the ground, defeated, short of the thief. Much power was in the strike, and perhaps it could have reached such impressive distance had numerous circumstances not fallen astray.
The sound thundered through the plain, a crackle and boom of the lightning scorching where it had landed as a full stop to the ground to this protestation. A small fire did burn in the dry grasslands, tinder abound muchly in these parts.
The black curtain returned it's dominion, the geometic font of power faded, and Sam shuddered as their emotions, now expressed, became bitter and spent.
Their shoulders heaved as the winged one faded from view.
The telescope was sequestered by instinct, as if it complete the consignment of defeat.
The smoke began to rise. And responsibilities to that came sharply into focus, even as realisations lumbered themselves to Sam's perspective.
Best fix that.
I don't mean to cause disaster.
But...
Sam shrugged their shoulders as if hoisting up the pack out of habit and looked solemn in the bright eyes that turned down at the lack of everything on their person.
A disaster has happened to me.
Sam's robed figure made hurried movement to the scorched earth that was slowly gaining traction in the blaze that sparked to life in the brush, movement calm in gait, hands unsure what to do themselves, speed unusual to them. That familiar weight now gone was a new awful world Sam hoped against all hopes that wouldn't have to be accepted.
Aeyliea