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Zhang Liao Wenyuan ([personal profile] 800isenough) wrote in [community profile] rukhgate2013-01-15 11:21 am
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[Rukhs. Dungeon Gates. Magicians.

Magic.

He could barely wrap his head around these terms, to acknowledge their existence as real and fact. Not just some slight of hand or a cheap charlatan's trick. No, there were flying carpets, magic spells that could lift a man of his feet and send him flying in one direction if he resisted, a strange crystal that pushed back when he carefully placed his hands on the smooth surface, and the alien architecture and foreign words that he had to accept as his reality now.

They called him an Indigo Mage, a Strength Mage. He glanced down at his hand; a warrior's hand, covered in calluses and skin hardened and toughened through war and training. Flexing his fingers, he frowned, closing them to form a fist and straining to find his Qi; the energy that brought forth strength from within. But where there was once something, now there was nothing. It was like reaching for a tool, no, it was like trying to move an arm or a leg, only to find...nothing. It was as if his access to his Qi was blocked.

He leaned his head back on the wall he was resting on outside his assigned room 107, closing his eyes in an attempt to block out the sounds and sights around him. He might appear relaxed, but his other hand gripped his twin axes tightly, an indication of the distress and inner turmoil he was feeling. He was still trying to come to terms with all that had happened back home, still searching for answers to the questions that burned within him, a quiet, intense flame that consumed his every being, and now that he was here, in Magnoshuttatt, his problems only multiplied. Quietly, he muttered to himself.
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Can the way of the warrior lead me home, when I'm no longer the warrior I once was?

[Maybe you overheard him? Without his Qi, his senses had been dulled and it was more difficult to notice people, especially with his eyes closed like that. Or perhaps you're wondering why he's just standing outside his room like that, still wearing the Chinese armour he arrived in. At any rate, he looked like he needed someone to talk to.]
greatcleavage: (talky man)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2013-01-15 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[Roy had only been passing by idly, but hearing that question -- one he'd pondered himself, albeit in different form -- made him stop to answer it.]
fearlessherosheart: Confused Tazendra (skeptical)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2013-01-16 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that is nothing a bit of practice will not return to you.
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[personal profile] righinn 2013-01-16 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Why not try a different way, then?

[ as if many of the foreigners in Mangoshutatt who were unfamiliar with magic prior to their arrival had a choice in the first place; but her mother always did advise her children to at least give something a shot before dismissing it outright. ]
greatcleavage: (confused)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2013-01-16 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Roy blinks, then steps forward to offer a hand.]

Roy Greenhilt, apparently your erstwhile roommate, now.
righinn: (pic#5517550)

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[personal profile] righinn 2013-01-16 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Och. [ Merida returns the frown with a roll of her eyes - the relentless barrage of scoldings had somehow managed to track her down even in Mangoshutatt! ] You sound like my mother. At least before I accidentally turned her into a -
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[personal profile] righinn 2013-01-16 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Erm, never mind.
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[personal profile] righinn 2013-01-16 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyway, the only suggestion I've gotten from the residents of this country thus far is to enroll in the Academy - so I'm thinking that we should be able to get out the same way we got in: magic.

[ which could either work perfectly or go horribly wrong.

her bets are on the latter, but until she finds another lead, that is the only trick merida's got up her sleeve.
]
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra, a hand on the side of her face, looking intent (interested)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2013-01-17 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Concern and interest, my good man. Though I may be trapped in barbarian lands, at least there are those who are passable warriors.
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[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2013-01-17 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Tazendra bowed back]

I am Taznedra Lavode, Baroness of Daavya.
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra (Default)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2013-01-17 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Naturally, as I am of the House of the Dzur. It may not be known in this land, but all those born to that House are warriors.
greatcleavage: Credit: <user name=great_cleavage site=livejournal.com> (sigh)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2013-01-17 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He should have just bowed, Roy realizes belatedly, but he hadn't been in Azure City for so long that he'd completely failed to make the connection. So instead he demonstrates a handshake convivially enough.]

Believe me, I get where you're coming from. I'm not any happier about being forced to take involuntary levels of sorcerer than anyone else here.
righinn: (pic#5517545)

[personal profile] righinn 2013-01-17 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, I know. [ at least this time she can expect to be spared from the story of the three princes whose kingdom collapsed because one decided that he would rather be the sole sovereign than share the power with his brothers as their father had dictated. ] I was only answering a question.

Aye, that's the ticket. I don't like it myself, but what other way is there to take on a force as unpredictable as magic?
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra (Default)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2013-01-18 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I prefer the sword, though I was caught without my own when I was so rudely thrust into this land. Thus, I am left with only my wand, and a knife that had belonged to one of my foes.

[her wand is more of a staff, but it does look suitably magic]
fearlessherosheart: Tazendra waving and smiling (happy)

[personal profile] fearlessherosheart 2013-01-18 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
I had been captured myself, and my captors were not so foolish to leave me with a weapon. Especially after the struggle they had in my capture.

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