Epic Clash - COMPLETE!

Originally posted on MSPA by suomynonAyletamitlU.

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Spender dropped his pretense of rhythm again the moment Asteira stuck her neck out, but with so many things happening around him, he didn't have the time to jump to Thomas' defense--which seemed to go well enough, as after a moment, she reappeared, with only a light-headed Thomas to show for it.

Spender, however, used that moment to ready a trap, and when she reappeared, he threw down an energy net, pinning her against a brass wall.

Asteira struggled against the net, but somehow, she couldn't phase through either it or the wall behind her. As Spender moved forward, though she saw a ripple in the space around him, as though some sort of field were in place around him.

When that field touched her, she suddenly saw and felt things--thoughts and feelings, but not ones connected to a person, more like facts and analysis.

She saw and felt his fear, and could almost see his thoughts. And the moment she recognized it, it changed, as though he were seeing her own thoughts in return. Time seemed to move in slow motion, but she reached for those thoughts of his, as though they were dangling in front of her. Just before the field collapsed, she grasped them:

She can possess not only people, but everything with an "inside", like those robots.

But my holography has an "inside"--because it's a spell; it's fake.

And this whole world is fake...

Everything here has an "inside".

Is she really capable of--?

Spender ripped the analysis field out of existence with a yell. An attack coin rolled down the inside of his sleeve, one he was only dimly aware of having requested, but just as it brushed his fingertips, even before he could cast it, he saw what he knew shouldn't have been--Asteira, even still bound by the spell, seemed to possess the brass wall behind her, but only for a moment, slipping out of sight and out of the net.

He cast the spell anyway, throwing the firebolt into the brass plate, but the hole it blew open merely revealed her on the other side, laughing a cruel laugh. Then, she vanished.

"Shit."

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Okay, what I mean is this:

Any single thing--a solid piece of glass, or whatever, but not where it meets anything else--is possess-able. What Asteira is capable of doing with a solid piece of metal, I dunno, but it is artificial matter--she may be able to turn into a golem or something. Now, if it's two pieces of metal bolted together, that is not "a single thing". An entire island is not "a single thing". But maybe she could get creative.

Reference for holography having an inside (fighting Euryale); specifically, the holographic wall turned to wax, and Spender said: That (turning to wax power) needs... eye contact or some other way to get inside of (him). Or, in other words, it was getting "inside" his spell.

I know, I did a terrible job explaining it, too technical, I'm sorry, but I was thinking about it back then. So any object he creates out of holography will be similarly possess-able. Not necessarily the fireballs and whatever, but anything that seems like it's an object.

Is this too complicated? [img]images/smilies/what.gif[/img]