Tear's Big Project, Day 1

[mysterical]

Characters: Tear Grants and YOU
Setting: The meadow on Floor 25
Format: Starting action, reply as you wish.
Summary: This is the first of the two days for Tear's offer of training in magic. There will be closed parts for certain people and a few open sections.
Warnings:  Magic, fighting, Luke and Asch in the same area with pointy things, possible explosions?

[Tear made her way to the meadow thirty minutes early, a book in her hand as she made that way. She looked around at the empty space and grimaced. Why she'd thought this was a good idea, she'd never know, but she was determined to see if she could get the residents of this Tower of Horror to arm themselves in light of the recent problems with the administration.]

Closed for Luke fon Fabre (OU)
[If the redhead looked carefully enough, he'd see the brunette looking off into the distance at the flowers as she waited for the others to gather.]

Closed for Asch the Bloody, Sheba and Xion
[She'd decided to work on the redheads away from one another, but any friends they brought were fine. She'd expected to see the blond after their exchange on the network.

Closed for V/V, AU Link and Zelda
[She couldn't wait to introduce her two new friends to one another. Link had training with bows and swords. Between those, Tear was sure that V/V would find something she could use.]

Open Section for Magic Training
[This was perhaps the most anxious part of the entire ordeal—trying to figure out how the magics of so many worlds worked and to see if those interested could actually learn to use the Seventh Fonon, or if she was going to be spending her night telling them all how to do battle first aid.

Only time would tell, right?]

Open Section for Fighting Training
[As opposed to the magic training, this, this she had no issue with. She was a proficient with her staffs, maces and knives. Besides, she'd learned as a child that anything could be used as a weapon in times of need. And with the many sword wielders as she'd met since coming to the tower, she knew that this would be fine!]

Comments

[etherealblast]

Well learning about how people fight in other worlds is going to interest at least a few people, right? [He shrugs but grins.] It's a pretty fascinating thing to me, anyway.

[mysterical]

[She returned his smile with one of her own.]

So, is there something specific I can help you with then?

[etherealblast]

Nothing really specific, but I was a little curious about those Artes you mentioned earlier, actually. How do they work?

[mysterical]

My artes? I'm not a researcher or anything like that; although, I've read books by some of the greatest minds on the subject.

[She sits down, since she knows that this is going to take a moment and gestures for him to do the same.]

On Auldrant, there are six fon belts that surround the planet. Fonons are what make up everything. There are blood fonons, light fonons, etc. But there are seven extremely important fonons, ones that make up Light, Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Darkness and Sound.

Artes call on the fonons that surround the planet to manifest into physical form to be used. How one does that varies. I have a set of hymns that I learned that call upon a pact that my ancestor made with the planet. A companion has a set of verses that he recites, usually just a line or two, to pull out much larger artes in battle. Then you have people like Luke and Guy, who use battle artes that are shorter and require more danger to use in close quarters.

Do you follow me so far?

[etherealblast]

[Fayt takes a seat, crossing his legs and leaning one arm on his leg as he does, eyes brimming with curiosity. 'Fonons' seem vaguely like atomic particles from the way she described them, but the bit about natural elements like fire or light being involved is a lot different from what Fayt expected.

Hymns.... music? Verses that drew those particles? That was pretty interesting. Unexpected, though verbal invocation was sometimes used with Symbology, he'd never heard of something so distinctive as singing required.] Yeah... I think so.

[mysterical]

[She nodded, willing to continue her explanation.]

So, most of my artes have to deal with the Seventh Fonon, the Fonon of Sound, hence the reason I use hymns so heavily. I use it to heal injuries, protect from attacks and to resurrect fallen comrades. Not only does it deal with sound, but the Seventh Fonon is actually Auldrant's memory particles, governed by the aggregate sentience known as Lorelei.

[etherealblast]

[Particles of... sound, being called by song. It made sense, in some ways. It sounded like these sound fonons were used for similar things that support symbology was.]

Is an aggregate sentience a kind of spirit? And what are memory particles?

[mysterical]

I-I suppose. [Lorelei, she hated just hearing the words spirit and ghost!] It's more like the personification of the actual fonon, if that makes sense?

Memory particles are what make up the Planet Storm on Auldrant. They hold the planet's memory and are made up of the Seventh Fonon. Basically, the Seventh Fonon powers my world through the Planet Storm cycling the memory particles, making the usage of artes and fontech possible.

Anything other than that, and you'd have to ask Luke to borrow the book I just lent him. That's about what I know. Sorry.

[etherealblast]

So when enough of these fonons gather they gain sentient form and thought? [...Whoa. He'd read some of the books in castle Aquaria's library, but this didn't sound at all like what he'd read about spirits called forth by Symbology.] What leads to that kind of formation, do you know?

[And....] Your planet has memories?

[It was all so bizarre sounding, but fascinating too. He wanted to ask more, but he had a feeling bombarding her with more questions before she'd answered his first few wouldn't go over well. He looks a little apologetic as he realizes it.] Ah.. Sorry.

[mysterical]

Well, I've only seen three fonons gather enough to have physical form, those of earth, wind and fire, but they were in fairly logical places—an underground desert, a huge cave system, and a volcano. I can only imagine that the fonons were attracted to places that associated with them and since they naturally drift towards each other, it makes sense.

[She stared at him for a moment.] All things that live have memories. It's just being able to access them.

[etherealblast]

Well to a point, but-- [A planet having memories like a person does sound pretty odd, but that last bit provided a bit more to build off.] Access?

[That was what history, archaeology and geology was for, but he had a feeling that wasn't what she meant.]

[mysterical]

Hm, yes... [She thinks about how Auldrant is set up and then blinks.] There are six fon belts that surround Auldrant for the first six fonons. The Seventh Fonon is actually used to fuel the planet of sorts to make things like fontech and fonology possible. Other than that, you'd have to ask Jade or read some of his books.