Re: The Grand Battle [Round 4! Pop-up Land!!]
10-18-2009, 02:56 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Aryogaton.
"Well this is mildly awkward." Aeon said as he steadied himself on the broom. Amethyst was already several meters above, patiently waiting for him to adjust himself.
"Shall I conjure a more suitable vehicle?"
"No, I'll get used to it." Aeon said as he joined Amethyst in the sky, flying as if he had been using the broomstick for years. At this height the entirety of the field was visible. Overall, the shape of the field was rougly circular, with all forms of natural life poised towards the crystal. Eximo was busily vacuuming up what ever it could find. However, it moved erratically, as if being distracted by an outside force. Nathan was kicking a mangled and writhing mass whose screams revealed it to be Lutherion.
Aeon turned his attention to the environment. The sky was an unexpectely rough blue, significantly lighter and darker in some places. At the edge of the field there was a ring of trees, presumably blocking escape. However, something was strange about them.
"The trees..." Aeon murmured.
"Yes?" Amethyst replied, assuming he was talking to her. She had been looking at the crystal in the center.
"The perspective is entirely wrong. What we should be seeing is the tops of the trees; the rest should not be visible. Right now it looks as if someone took the image of a tree at ground level, rotated it, and simply pasted it on our views."
"I have noticed a similar phenomenon with the crystal."
"What?"
"There is no depth to it. Regardless of the angle of which you view the crystal, it appears with the same image, as if it is a two-dimensional sheet that is turning to your perspective," Amethyst noticed Nathan literally bouncing Lutherion off the crystal, "though its three-dimensional properties do not seem to have any anomaly."
Aeon looked down, towards Nathan. As Lutherion hit the crystal and bounced back, he let a continuous scream. However, when he was in very close proximity to the crystal, its power seemed to temporarily overcome the necromancy, changing him into the fully alive 'Luther' for a brief moment. His screm oscillated accordingly, changing back and forth between the genuine human scream of pain and that familiar lifeless voice.
The crystal itself was also affected. Although it did not seem to show and visible signs of damage, a strange shockwave was created with every hit. The shockwave had no intertial 'force' as a normal one would, but rather the grass and flowers within the ring momentarily wilted and withered before resprouting a fraction of a second later to the crystal's power.
Nathan didn't seem to notice any of that.
Spoiler
"Well this is mildly awkward." Aeon said as he steadied himself on the broom. Amethyst was already several meters above, patiently waiting for him to adjust himself.
"Shall I conjure a more suitable vehicle?"
"No, I'll get used to it." Aeon said as he joined Amethyst in the sky, flying as if he had been using the broomstick for years. At this height the entirety of the field was visible. Overall, the shape of the field was rougly circular, with all forms of natural life poised towards the crystal. Eximo was busily vacuuming up what ever it could find. However, it moved erratically, as if being distracted by an outside force. Nathan was kicking a mangled and writhing mass whose screams revealed it to be Lutherion.
Aeon turned his attention to the environment. The sky was an unexpectely rough blue, significantly lighter and darker in some places. At the edge of the field there was a ring of trees, presumably blocking escape. However, something was strange about them.
"The trees..." Aeon murmured.
"Yes?" Amethyst replied, assuming he was talking to her. She had been looking at the crystal in the center.
"The perspective is entirely wrong. What we should be seeing is the tops of the trees; the rest should not be visible. Right now it looks as if someone took the image of a tree at ground level, rotated it, and simply pasted it on our views."
"I have noticed a similar phenomenon with the crystal."
"What?"
"There is no depth to it. Regardless of the angle of which you view the crystal, it appears with the same image, as if it is a two-dimensional sheet that is turning to your perspective," Amethyst noticed Nathan literally bouncing Lutherion off the crystal, "though its three-dimensional properties do not seem to have any anomaly."
Aeon looked down, towards Nathan. As Lutherion hit the crystal and bounced back, he let a continuous scream. However, when he was in very close proximity to the crystal, its power seemed to temporarily overcome the necromancy, changing him into the fully alive 'Luther' for a brief moment. His screm oscillated accordingly, changing back and forth between the genuine human scream of pain and that familiar lifeless voice.
The crystal itself was also affected. Although it did not seem to show and visible signs of damage, a strange shockwave was created with every hit. The shockwave had no intertial 'force' as a normal one would, but rather the grass and flowers within the ring momentarily wilted and withered before resprouting a fraction of a second later to the crystal's power.
Nathan didn't seem to notice any of that.