Bayezid: Failed Magus Awakening - Symbolic Casting

[19:37] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "AYO WE'RE LOOKIN' FOR A NATURE MAGI!!"
[19:37] Suleiman Gazi says, "Bro... somethin' dinged up on my head."
[19:38] Suleiman Gazi says, "We can't find any nature magis because...."
[19:38] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "Nature magic fuckin' sucks!!!!!"
[19:38] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "Nobody uses it!"
[19:38] Bayezid Gazi says, "Huh. No wonder that old man was the only one using it."
[19:38] Suleiman Gazi says, "Yeah, he's a shit figher."
[19:38] Bayezid Gazi says, "He's old news."
[19:38] Suleiman Gazi says, "I can beat him."
[19:38] Bayezid Gazi says, "Washed up."
[19:38] Suleiman Gazi says, "You need to decide on somethin' else."
[19:39] Bayezid Gazi says, "Wait... "Bio Magic" was YOUR idea."
[19:39] Suleiman Gazi says, "I mean, we ARE talented with bio magic"
[19:39] Suleiman Gazi says, "Just pick another one."
[19:39] Suleiman Gazi says, "Like blood or poison."
[19:39] Bayezid Gazi says, "Blood.... Or poison...."
[19:40] Bayezid Gazi says, "Hmmmm..."
[19:40] Suleiman Gazi says, "Or, you can try to go for somethin' completely different."
[19:40] Suleiman Gazi says, "Like fire or somethin'...."
[19:40] Llneu says, "I am a nature magi."
[19:40] Llneu asks, "What do you need me for?"
[19:40] Suleiman Gazi says, "Uh... my bro was thinkin' about learning nature magic."
[19:41] Bayezid Gazi says, ".... Bro..."
[19:41] Llneu says, "Mhm, mhm."
[19:41] Bayezid Gazi asks, "What is that?"
[19:41] Llneu says, "I'm a fairy."
[19:41] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "It's a flying midget!"
[19:41] Suleiman Gazi says, "No other explanatin."
[19:41] Llneu says, "-I'm a fucking nature spirit."
[19:41] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "Hey, this one's got attitude!"
[19:41] Bayezid Gazi says, "Oh, like that magic the man was talkin' bout."
[19:41] Bayezid Gazi says, "With the tree..."
[19:42] Suleiman Gazi asks, "Spirit magic?"
[19:42] Bayezid Gazi exclaims, "Yeah!"
[19:42] Bayezid Gazi exclaims, "You're magic!"
[19:42] Llneu says, "I am, yes."
[19:42] Suleiman Gazi asks, "Bro, you still sure 'bout goin' nature?"
[19:42] Llneu asks, "Now, what did you need help with?"
[19:42] Suleiman Gazi asks, "Fairy person, would you recommend it?"
[19:42] Llneu says, "It depends."
[19:42] Llneu says, "Nature magic is finnicky."
[19:43] Llneu asks, "What other magics have you learn or do you plan on learning?"
[19:43] Suleiman Gazi says, "He has no idea..."
[19:43] Suleiman Gazi says, "He's fresh outta sewers."
[19:43] Suleiman Gazi asks, "Right brotha?"
[19:43] Bayezid Gazi says, "Ye."
[19:45] Llneu says, "If you want to learn nature magic, I've no problems giving you a trick or two. But if you'd rather see what magics you'd otherwise want to learn before devoting yourself, that might be wise as well."
[19:45] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "You heard the mans!"
[19:45] Suleiman Gazi says, "Or the lady...."
[19:46] Bayezid Gazi says, "Mmmm... Let's see it, spirit-fairy-lady."
[19:46] Bayezid Gazi says, "Teach me your Nature magic."
[19:46] Suleiman Gazi asks, "Wait... ya sure??"
[19:47] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "You saw no one was usin' nature!"
[19:47] Bayezid Gazi shrugs.
(Bayezid Gazi)
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[19:47] Bayezid Gazi says, "Can't be too tough."
[19:47] Suleiman Gazi says, "No, it can't be tough, it just might be unviable."
[19:47] Bayezid Gazi says, "'sides, I'll learn something else if I'on like it."
[19:48] Suleiman Gazi says, "Okay, let's start from the basics."
[19:48] Suleiman Gazi asks, "Do you wanna use a sword or your fists at all?"
[19:48] Bayezid Gazi says, "Well, fists aren't cuttin' it right now."
[19:48] Suleiman Gazi says, "Nature might be incompatable with that."
[19:48] Suleiman Gazi says, "You can train your fists to become stronger."
[19:48] Llneu says, "It's not incompatible with swords."
[19:48] Llneu says, "You'd be surprised..."
[19:48] Bayezid Gazi says, "I'on have a sword."
[19:48] Llneu says, "Fists can work too."
[19:48] Suleiman Gazi says, "We can get you a practice sword."
[19:50] Llneu asks, "If you want to learn nature magic, can I assume you've already found an attunement to biological magics?"
[19:50] Suleiman Gazi says, "Well, razuka are talented with bio magic."
[19:50] Suleiman Gazi says, "I know from meself."
[19:50] Bayezid Gazi asks, "Uh-toon-who?"
[19:51] Llneu says, "A connection to biological magic within your circuitry."
[19:51] Llneu says, "Basically the baseline of using nature magic."
[19:51] Bayezid Gazi says, "No. No to whatever that means..."
[19:51] Llneu says, "Alright then, we'll start this the hard way."
[19:52] Llneu grabbed a ky'iah.
(Llneu)
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[19:52] Suleiman Gazi says, "Alright bro, have fun with yer training."
[19:52] Suleiman Gazi says, "I'll find an inn and rest up."
[19:52] Suleiman Gazi exclaims, "I can escort you outta here later, no worriez!"
[19:53] Bayezid Gazi says, "Mmkay."
[19:53] Bayezid Gazi says, "Rest up, bro."
[19:53] Suleiman Gazi says, "Don't wander outside alone, especially when you think it might be crowded out there."
[19:54] Suleiman Gazi says, "I don't wanna see ya get hurt."
[19:54] Bayezid Gazi says, "I'll be aight."
[19:57] Within the fae's hand lied a translucent mushroom-like plant which came from the shadowlands. Ky'iah, famous for it's properties of being mana-absorbent, was held high by the fairy before she held the plant down to his arm... and the roots slowly began to curl around the Razuka's arm.

"You may notice your mana getting absorbed as time passes," the fairy assured the youth that it was perfectly normal for that to happen, "but don't worry, once enough is gone is when I'll start actually helping you train your connection to the biological magics." If the statement of them being skilled in such held strong, then he should be quick to learn.

All the while, a neutral expression was maintained by the fae. She seemed either unconflicted by her decision to violently drain his mana with an aggressive death-plant or very confident in her ability to control it.
(Llneu)
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[20:05] Roots entangled the Razuka's arm, and almost immediately it left them physically altered, albeit slightly. Their breathing clearly audible and figure growing lax -- fatigue was setting in with record time!

The fae seemed mighty casual about it! But Bayezid was putting everything he could into simply keeping himself along.
"I think... I... Notice..." He forced himself to belt out...
He was turning pale.

'but don't worry, once enough is gone--...x'xx xxxxx xxx-ually hxxping yxx-...'
The rest of the words were mulling away into a muted abyss, and the Razuka was fighting to maintain consciousness.
Surely, he was of magus blood... But such blood was either thin, or desperately unrealized...

Because without much time to waste...
-THUD-
The Razuka fell, face-planting the cobblestone in the process.
In one's very first lesson, adeath-plant managed to best the likes of poor Bayezid.
(Bayezid Gazi)
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[20:07] ** Bayezid Gazi has inflicted an injury upon Bayezid Gazi. ("Bloodied Nose", "One of the most common types of injuries... Though, it is accompanied with scruffs across one's visage, the realization would be a slightly bented nose. The cartilage was broken, allowing for it to take a deformed shape but worst of all? A stream of blood seeps almost constantly. At least, it's minor...", "Temporary", "Duration: Short (1 day)") **
[20:11] "Congratulations, you completed lesson one."
When was one closest to nature besides death itself?

As he began to turn pale, she continued to count the time in which exposure had been given and checked her nails casually as if nothing was happening at all. Casual was an understatement, she seemed entirely enthusiastic about being able to do this to someone! But after he collapsed, she did the humane thing (surprise?) and uncurled the roots from his arm and pulled it up.

"Now that your circuitry has been sufficiently drained,"

Mused Llneu, "we can move on to the next process! Hurray!" Cheering as if the boy wasn't already on the verge of unconsciousness, the Fae strongly lacked a sense of when was too far for somebody considering she was hardly human. It would take far too long for her to have her mass amounts of mana and magic power drained by a mushroom, so she overestimated the poor Razuka.

Would she admit that mistake, though? Nope! And now, she pulled a strange mint-green stone out from her pockets and dropped it into one of his hands rather willingly. What was it?

Auguria, of course!

Also offered was a mysterious blue powder, which he was free to take. What it was, the world may never know.

Until he took it, maybe.

"This rock is naturally attuned to nature magic," the Fae would have noted, "Focus your mana through the rock and let it flow through your circuitry. If you can't feel your mana enough to let it do so, take the blue powder I gave you for support."

No, it was not violet veil. Promise.
(Llneu)
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[20:19] They were on the ground for a while... Head ringing by this point.
Was he actually grasping any of this? Was this teacher truly pushing him along the path of success?
At least the draining sensation came to an abrupt halt... The warmth of the air against his skin was all the satisfaction he truly needed right now...

That, and perhaps something to ease his bleeding nose...
Picking his head up revealed that the sanguineous streams covered the bottom part of visage wholly now.
'the next process! Hurray!'

It was all he managed to make out of this thus far. He wasn't quite quickly rising up to his feet... Nay, he was struggling from the knees, still seeing triple with arms wading by his sides to keep from falling over again.
Whatever was handed over, was grasped... Barely.
Whatever was said was heeded, agonizingly...

'Focus your mana through the rock and let it flow through your circuitry'
A bloodied face scrunched up -- growing irritated by the principle of this now. His hands were extended out before him, clutching at the Auguria offered...
As he opened his mouth to speak, Llneu answered his question:
'If you can't feel your mana enough to let it do so, take the blue powder I gave you for support."'

The blue powder was accepted...
Whatever it was.
(Bayezid Gazi)
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[20:22] Bayezid Gazi asks, "Nnnnn--... Now what? How you use the blue stuff?"
[20:22] Bayezid Gazi asks, "Eat it?"
[20:22] Llneu says, "Just take it by-"
[20:22] Llneu says, "Yeah."
[20:22] Llneu says, "It's ingested. "
[20:31] The auguria is put down by the bloodied child, struggling to keep themselves upright. Their mana reserves were dangerously low, with the blue powder being offered now being the next reprieve...
However it was supposed to help.

"Welp… 'Ere goes nothin."
Both hands take the blue powder to unceremoniously stuff it at his bloodied face, getting residue caked up on his lips and cheeks alike. Some chewing, and swallowing before --
*COUGH* - *COUGH* ...

"Am I supposed to be feelin' somethin' o-"
That's when it happened...
Like a tingling in his veins -- as if ants had crawled up and under his clothes, tingling at the skin with their thousands of collective legs. The occasional agitated participant in their incessant march, nibbling at him -- pinching him with a ferocity that wrought consciousness back to the fray nearly as swift as he slammed into the cobblestone.

"WOAH! WOOAAH! What... What is this?! I feel fuckin' incredible."
The dizziness never stopped, but the pain was overwhelmed by a sense of... Empowerment! He felt like he could take on the world... Run forever! --and with this newfound supplement to his previously vanquished reserves? He took to the Auguria once more, intense expression mired upon his face: Determined...

And with fingers tightly wrapped at the material... Quivering under his enthusiastic strain...
…
…
…
…
Any minute now...
…
…
…
The seconds felt like hours...
And he was standing there, trying so desperately to understand how to make the feeling inside of him... Do something…
Anything.

It couldn't be that hard, right?
… Right?
Beads of sweat were pooling at his forehead and...
…
(Bayezid Gazi)
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[20:33] Bayezid Gazi ponders, "Am I doing it, right? Did I do the attunement thing?"
[20:33] Bayezid Gazi ponders, "Why does it feel like... I'm not doing it right?"
[20:33] Bayezid Gazi buzzes, "No! Maybe I did it! Maybe this is what attunement feels like!"
[20:34] Bayezid Gazi thinks, ""
[20:34] Bayezid Gazi exclaims, "I... Think... I... Got it!"
[20:34] Bayezid Gazi did not infact, have it.
(Bayezid Gazi)
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[20:39] Llneu says, "...You're still struggling."
[20:39] Llneu says, "Hold on a moment."
[20:42] Bayezid Gazi exclaims, "I'm not strugglin'! Go on, test me!"
[20:52] "Let me show you what beats at the Heart of a fairy."

The gemstone heart.

Magic began to overflow from the small being, more than most present in the square could produce in pure quantity and force simply due to being a fairy in the first place. And with that, she made sure her attunement was forcibly shifted into the nature part as flakes from her wings fell and attached themselves onto his skin; each one a remnant biological magics which flickered and died before slowly absorbing into the boy's circuitry.

Before long, her own nature mana was attempting to run through his circuits and essentially attempting to shift his own now-cleansed mana circuits using the cobalthine-produced powder in order to shift it's attunement. She was no teacher, but her methods were effective if not extremely harsh on the recipient in a way which could be potentially quite dangerous.

"As for what you took?"

Thinking over it for a moment, the Fae simply would have given a sly smile, "A little concoction I started working on recently. A type of medicine made from ground cobalthine crystal and luminite which is supposed to assist in your circuitry and give it a little boost while cleansing it," the Fae would have explained to her new Razuka companion!

"Now don't stop trying! You can do it!!!"

She seemed very confident in the Razuka being able to push through the training!

(Llneu)
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[21:05] Dizzied.
Bloodied.
Foolishly oblivious...
And callous to anything in his environment -- clutching tightly to that piece of Auguria in his possession as though his life depended on it.

Flecks of light were flickering around him, near him...
What was this?

The fae explained the substance, but the sewer-rat hadn't the slightest inclination towards alchemic studies -- It went right over his head.
'Now don't stop trying! You can do it!!!'
Such would be words to live by...

His mana by default was not attuned, and with it being bolstered by a foreign substance? And soon enough, supplemented by a spiritual entity's own channeling through his body? It felt inevitable.
Teeth grit, arms flexed, vascularity convulsed and...
AND?!

A subtle waver at the air -- as though... Heat? Nay, the refraction of light surely... Mana was certainly welling to the surface, but it was translucent at best and horrendously inefficient: The telltale of an inexperienced fledgling at casting magics of any sort.

One thing was certain, he was no prodigy...
Something was achieved, but the surging of mana amidst this 'high' took a visual cue! Even highlighting his silhouette a faint sapphire...
But as swiftly as it'd come...
It'd go.
...And with it, came fatigue.

Tiredness...
And irritation...
Impatience even..
"DAMN IT!"
Reflexively in their spite, they pelted the Auguria at the cobblestone, before storming a short distance away... Only to pace back from where he stirred.
He'd failed... And like the child he was, succumbed to his own tantrum.
"I had it! You saw! I could feel it!" He admitted, "--but then I.... I'lost it."
A stomp at the ground and...
A sigh.
(Bayezid Gazi)
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[21:16] He was beginning to get a hold of it! Holding her breath, Llneu could only hope that he would manage to bring forth the mana he so desired. Unfortunately, it didn't prove to be a very fruitful attempt even if it was the best that he could do. The fae's profound silence after it's fading proved a moment of clear disappointment through her previous excitement, simply floating over to put a hand on the Razuka's head.

"Good try,"

Encouraged the fae. "We'll let you take a rest now, though. All that circuit stimulation I gave you will probably have worn you out a lot faster than you would be otherwise, so go join your kin in finding a place to stay for now." She concluded, "You can come look for me again or try and find your own way of getting your mana flowing. Either way, feel free to let me know whether you need my help again or when you figure it out."
(Llneu)
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[21:21] Surely, he could pout... and he certainly wanted to...
But that feeling, so close yet just out of arm's reach.
It taunted him too much to simply claim it lost.
He could've gotten it...
He knew it.
He couldn't just -forget- that feeling...

"I'm... I'm gonna do it." He managed for the fae.
"I'll train every day... n' every night, if I haf'to."
He stumbled off, a bloodied mess...

Likely to find somewhere to hang around with the extra coin in his pocket until his bloodied nose eased a bit...

Maybe clean himself up while he was at it too.

(Bayezid Gazi)
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