Artifact 01: Colorblocks

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

[ Sitting at a small, wooden table with a tall umbrella, Angela seems to be enthralled with something. The something sits on the table in front of her.

It looks like a collection of painted wood blocks, the kind of thing a baby would play with. They are currently arranged to look like a small cluster of houses, complete with angled roofs and chimneys. Suddenly, she lifts a hand, and knocks all the blocks down.

This would be disappointing for anyone admiring the block sculpture, but only briefly, as the blocks immediately start to build new houses, all on their own. ]

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[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

It's an artifact. I'm not sure what it was used for. Maybe it was for kids. [ She takes more blocks, isolating them with her hands. They build their own building. ] Or it was just an experiment. Maybe they were hoping to create self-repairing houses or something.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

I could see why someone would want something as useful as self repairing houses. It would save a lot on construction costs over time.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

A fortress that could repair itself would be quite an advantage. [ Strange how she jumped from houses straight to fortresses... Child of war? Nope. ]

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

[Gives her a measuring looking but doesn't say anything.] That would be. Depending on who's attack I can imagine it being very unnerving for them to watch.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

[ That look makes her scoot backwards a bit. ] It would be. And you wouldn't have to worry about risking any lives in order to patch everything up.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

That's true. The lives that would be saved would probably be worth it. People in my world are probably trying to come up with something similar, only using science instead of magic.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

Science? You mean golem-making?

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

Kind of like that I guess. Only it's more to do with machines and technology than magic.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

Machines are pretty useless in my world. Magic is much easier to control. There's a man who builds golems somewhere in Fa'Diel, but I've yet to find him.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

I almost want to say it's the opposite in my world but we have the Dying Will Flame, and that's something I'm not sure how to classify.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

What is it?

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

[There's no reason for him to lie about it, nor does he really want to lie to her.] The Dying Will Flame is emotion, that's the simplest way of explaining. It's fueled by the feelings of the person using it and their resolution is what gives it power.
[He holds up the hand that he wears his ring on] You need a ring like this to channel it through. [In demonstration, he concentrates and a small flame ignites on the ring before dying.]

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

[ She shrinks back when the ring lights up, but when it doesn't harm her, she inches closer again, peering at it. ]

So you're an empath? That would explain the sulking.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

Empath?

And I was not sulking!

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

A magician with powers tied to emotions.

Oh, I see, then you're normally found hunched over at the bar looking depressed.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

I'm not a magician.

I was drinking and let it get the better of me, that's all.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

Not a magician, just a drunk. [ She smirks a little. ] That's a shame, you're kind of cute.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

[Looks slightly offended] I don't make a habit of getting drunk. Everyone is just entitled to indulge once in a while.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

Particularly when they're sulky, right?

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

I was not sulking! [Which just makes him even more sulky]

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

See? There you go, pouting again.

[buckingbronco.livejournal.com]

[Tries to regain a more neutral expression] I am not.

[whitestlotus.livejournal.com]

Are so.