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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2015 15:09:34 GMT -5
She was getting frustrated, it was obvious she really could not come to terms with failure, it was not something that anyone liked but to someone who had never or rarely ever experienced it, it must be ten times as bad. She sighed, she really was taking it rather hard.
Jonathon stood apart from her, he was unsure how exactly to comfort her considering he'd never experienced any sort of comfort from any of his teachers and trainers nor from anyone else since he was eight. And considering the amount of time that had passed since any person had shown him any sort of compassion, the feeling was but a distant memory to him, yet here he was needing it rather greatly now. He had no idea how to comfort a person.
"Fickle? It is like anything, you practice and you will improve, then it will become easier, that is how everything is and magic is no exception."
As they had already ascertained she had the end result and she had the proficiency to use lightning, it was the creation of the lightning that was the issue to her, maybe things would trigger for her if she tried a different way.
"Try a different method, imagine lightning, what lightning does to objects, to people, if you can think of a time when you've seen it's effects, then use that as a reference, magic is different for everyone and so it is possible that my method does not work for you."
Jonathon once again himself attempted a barrier, if he was going to pass on and practice his magical theoretics then surely he should also do the practical.
It was an action now that he performed with almost mechanical efficiency, or rather it would be if he could actually get it right once or twice, that would be lovely. He felt the power course through him before it spluttered into existance
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He felt it this time, it came into existance in front of him, a strong solid barrier, quite possibly the best he'd made so far, it came in at his side as he had willed, meaning he could still see his student and it wouldn't obstruct anything, he still wasn't completely sure where they stood.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 11:39:09 GMT -5
Guinevere raised an eye at the man. Imagine what it did to people? Did he need to be shocked again? The thought was quite amusing, and a wry grin spread across her lips. Zapping people could be fun. Very potentially dangerous, but fun. Easy to find her too, after she had been about shocking people. Best to do that in private. With such twisted thoughts in her head, she tried again. Rather thinking about the transfer of energy, opposed to the nature of the thing itself. It worked that time, as the ball of lightning just pulsated in her hand, after seeming to just fizz out for a short moment. She almost cheered, but settled for an inner dance. Her inner monologue was swearing in the most colorful of ways. A happy colorful swearing, with lots of little happy trees. That danced. It felt good to watch the ball pulse in her hand, but it had to come to an end. It felt a little draining to maintain it. Not in a way that she would collapse, but it took effort to maintain. " It feels good."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 12:23:53 GMT -5
He looked on as once again she failed, how exactly she had managed it so much was beyond him. He had told her that failure was natural, and it was, but he hadn't expected her to be so unable to do it herself, it was amazing how she had yet to produce even the slightest success, at this stage he'd settle even for having his hand shocked again just so he knew that she did in fact have some capability inside her.
"I have no idea why it will not work for you. It is probably just the lack of time spent on it more than anything, it's not going to work for you overnight, it took me years to get to the stage that I am now, and in fact I still fail as much as I succeed so I'm not even perfect now. It may be due to the environment, or the fact of comfort. It is usually easier to start out at something in a place where you are comfortable and can concentrate rather than out in the middle of a field."
Jonathon himself could feel a slightly chill, he wasn't exactly warmly dressed for this endeavour, wearing a simple tunic and trousers of not particularly thick material, then again up until now he'd been busy, but now that he'd stopped he had realised. No matter, for now he just needed to keep his mind on the matter at hand and ignore the wind or the chill.
"I can't really explain how I do it, for me I use a different source for most of my magic, I use the same process that others do but a different source and I don't know if that will effect things at all. The people who taught me were more concerned with teaching me the practical elements rather than the theory behind it, but I picked that up along the way anyway."
Jonathon once again tried, his practical examples didn't seem to be giving her much help but if she could gleam anything from them then it would be worth it, plus it gave him a chance to work on his own skills.
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Once again a barrier came into existance, it was rather good looking if he did say so himself, once again to the side as he wished to have an unobstructed view, "For me it helps to picture what I want to do, and then I go deep inside myself to reach my power, take hold of it and then produce what I am trying to. It seems as though you have figured out yourself what works for you. It does feel good though, and it only gets better with time."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 15:59:31 GMT -5
Being somewhere comfortable? That was almost laughable. Her old home had many eyes and ears, how would the new one be any different? Unless she forced all staff from her home, then she may have some privacy. Well, just a little as it was. Guinevere wasn't afforded any easy position to be just left alone. Her family had owned the plot of land she stayed on for generations. So many of the citizens knew where she lived. Even in being evacuated from her home, many knew where she had been staying in the mean time. Not an easy position is having time to breathe and cuss a little, let alone practice the forbidden art of magic. Not that magic itself was forbidden, just her having it without being a registered mage. Which she really did not find fair. Guinevere needed a secret lair. He had just provided the insight for her to start thinking of how to accomplish such a thing. " A place to practice would be a nice start." Edging her words with the slightest bit of sarcasm. She looked at her hand again. Placing her mind into forming the ball again. With quite a bit of internal bickering, she reached into the core of her self. That was the easiest description she could come up with. Passed the flowery, flirty, and political speech her personality was enslaved to. Sure her inner monologue spewed and reveled in the filth left behind sarcastic musings. This was awfully deep, and sharply cheesy of her to be preforming this sort of an exercise. For whatever reason, this time it worked. Again. The ball cackled in her hand.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 12:22:26 GMT -5
"A place to practice is useful to us all, I've lived purely off using these plains for my practices, I've barely managed myself, somewhere more secure would always be more useful." Jonathon said to this woman who he'd somehow ended up teaching. He was doing this to further his own means, or rather that was what he kept telling himself, but really he didn't know why he was doing it. Maybe it was some deep repressed feeling of wanting this woman to learn in freedom, for her to not be moulded as she was taught or crushed into one particular image in the same way that he was.
Jonathon shook his head to clear the thought from his mind. No. He was doing this for himself, there was nothing more to it and nothing less no matter what way he looked at it, he was doing this for himself to gain favour, for himself to further his own goals. Nothing else.
"At least now you are achieving some form of success, you seem to be grasping the basics fairly well now that you've got the grips of it."
Jonathon considered his standing, as it was right now he could only utilise a few types of magic, shields and the Dark Arts seemed to be his speciality, the issue was that he couldn't use his Dark Arts in public as whether or not he was a legal mage Dark Arts were still illegal magics. He would need to broaden his magical library, and this woman gave him a perfect chance to do just that.
If he allowed her to come to a content point in this magic then he could possibly convince her to help him, if he was lucky she could teach him how to use her lightning magic, although she was new to the utilisation of it herself so that could be hard. For now he would just continue with his own lesson and wait for the results.
"It's the same with anyone, once you've got the basics you can try as you like but there is never a complete guarantee of success."
It seemed that even to Jonathon as he continued to practice it was becoming much easier for him, he could now call up his barrier with nowhere near as much difficulty as before, now it seemed a lot easier as he had become more adept in the usage of his own power, it was a rewarding feeling to now be able to use his magic more freely.
Jonathon concentrated on the space in front of him, specifically on the barrier that he wanted to fill it with, pulling away the power necessary to make it before throwing it out into the world as another one of his barriers, on comparison with his original barriers this one looked considerably stronger, it was definitely more solid.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 16:58:26 GMT -5
" As you have shown." Saying it in not a sarcastic way, that would be gleaned from the words alone. But in a blunt and direct way, she had seen him fail. It was a mere fact, and something she thought little of speaking plainly about. This wasn't a time for completely pretty and flowery words, no this was meant to be educational. Not a matter of court. Which she couldn't say she didn't miss. As often as she never seemed to escape from the city, she missed it. It was home. Guinevere focused on her hand again, trying to pull forth and maintain the ball of magic once again. Once wasn't enough, she would likely keep trying until she could do it every time. Fuck his method of preaching it would never work every time. She would train herself until it did. She never accepted such a narrow mind frame, yes it might take years but it would happen. It fizzled, But that was also expected. It was really beginners luck, even if that luck had taken a couple of times. She needed somewhere to practice first. That was easy. Just getting the supplies to Viktoria, and her own abode finished. That was the hard part, waiting.
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Post by Azuloth on Apr 21, 2015 17:09:10 GMT -5
Guinevere learns Thaumaturgy I +1 Stat point.
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