Re: The Grand Battle [Round 3! Killville!]
09-19-2009, 12:22 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Draykon.
Amethyst rolled over, her eyes weakly opened. A strange warmth covered her, but it was distant.
Slowly she stood up. Even though her body seemed refreshed, she felt weak. A quick glance at her arm band showed why, the mana storage unit was almost completely empty.
Somehow this meant she had been woken up without the aid of solar energy. A healing spell perhaps? But Emily had...
She looked around. It seemed she'd been mostly separated from the others. Up until now, their starting locations had been seemingly random. If this were the case, their separation was likely caused by the sheer massiveness of this space.
A scan would prove invaluable, but her ordinary strategy of sending the automated crystals would consume too much mana. She would have to launch the scans herself, and interpret the data manually.
She raised her arm, and whispered various commands. As she did, several shockwaves of various energies fired out. After a couple moments of waiting, the energy began to return- having bounced off different aspects of the world. The principle was the same as sonar, but the sheer variety of magical energies returned a much greater variety of information.
She looked at the raw data, now displayed on her armband. The first thing she noticed was the being heading directly for her location, the second that she had almost completely depleted her mana reserves.
Amethyst rolled over, her eyes weakly opened. A strange warmth covered her, but it was distant.
Slowly she stood up. Even though her body seemed refreshed, she felt weak. A quick glance at her arm band showed why, the mana storage unit was almost completely empty.
Somehow this meant she had been woken up without the aid of solar energy. A healing spell perhaps? But Emily had...
She looked around. It seemed she'd been mostly separated from the others. Up until now, their starting locations had been seemingly random. If this were the case, their separation was likely caused by the sheer massiveness of this space.
A scan would prove invaluable, but her ordinary strategy of sending the automated crystals would consume too much mana. She would have to launch the scans herself, and interpret the data manually.
She raised her arm, and whispered various commands. As she did, several shockwaves of various energies fired out. After a couple moments of waiting, the energy began to return- having bounced off different aspects of the world. The principle was the same as sonar, but the sheer variety of magical energies returned a much greater variety of information.
She looked at the raw data, now displayed on her armband. The first thing she noticed was the being heading directly for her location, the second that she had almost completely depleted her mana reserves.
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