THE CIRCLE - TRAINING GUYS
Mar 19, 2014 1:53:32 GMT -8
Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 19, 2014 1:53:32 GMT -8
By the time Eli came back, Leo had her back pressed to the floor with her limbs
sprawled out like a starfish. She figured this would be a better method to 'feel
the shadows.' In reality it made her look rather silly.
move to her. Whether it worked or not she had no way of knowing, but she was
determined to learn at least one thing tonight. Be it illusions or shadows.
Trileon found herself able to create a weird sensation on her skin, and the affected
area would look just a bit shady, but it wasn't much. Wotta pain! Meanwhile, Eli
and Darren weren't even bothering to join in right away.
Dude looked a little jumpy after his Darren hangouts.
concentrating on the shadows in the back of her mind. She let her body
relax and go limp in the process, her eyes fixating on the ceiling.
'Another day passed and I still haven't had to use algebra.'
'What if birds grew grass instead of feathers?'
'I bet I could eat like, ten whole donuts right now.'
..And what have you. It didn't take long before she
was lost in her own little world..
For most of them, the feeling of a shadow was twofold - there was a proprioceptive
element (a sense of shadows as physical objects one could interact with), and a
sense when they touched you of pressure and temperature changing on your skin,
like stepping out of hot dry air into a cool moist shade. For Eli, there was a feeling
of becoming more airy or ethereal, but he couldn't know it was different, and he'd
given up on trying, for now.
As Trileon tried to space out, she barely managed to keep the cool shadow on her skin.
It was an effort to keep focused on something while losing focus at the same time -
contradictory and tricky. But she managed it. And once her mind was mostly empty,
she returned a little more focus to the shadows... And did find them easier to manipulate!
She could at least pull them over her, making her skin all slightly dusky and cold.
Trevor does not strain to force the shadows' movement, but simply allows them to envelop his form.
Eli regressed a bit in his skillz, as the feeling of the cold shadows had begun to squick him out and
he flinched them away each time they gathered.
Sophie could feel the shadows touching her like standing in water, but it was hard to know
if she was doing anything successfully. Trevor wasn't in a dark corner like Sophie and found
it harder to get a feel for things. Trying to feel out the shadows without forcing them made
him feel a bit like he was sitting in a forest clearing with a cool puddle of water under his legs,
but nothing happened. Eli found it was reeeeally easy to make the shadow feels vanish.
He was back to normal, as much as possible for a dead boy.
Finally Cameron stood up and talked to everyone again.
Darren sat out the hippy circle. Did Eli have the nerve to dodge peer presh?
He joined the hippy deathcircle, as did pretty much everyone except Darren and MIA Vitus.
be the head). Cameron introduced his hot idea.
Cameron wasn't much better than anyone else. He could move shadow around a little,
but it was hard to imagine the ability being of much use for hiding - like wearing dark clothes
would be as effective. But he gathered a little piece of darkness - barely perceptible - over his
palms, and then pushed it out across the floor toward...
((HERE'S HOW THIS WORKS! Describe your guy receiving the shadow, but don't specify who
they received it from. Describe them passing it on, but not who they're passing it onto. In this
way, everyone can check in as available without waiting for the next guy in sequence!
Whoever happens to respond first can be assumed to receive it from Cameron, and whoever
comes next is the person they passed it to, and so on. Your character may or may not use their
hands depending on what you think would look cool or if you think ur guy isn't necessarily very
good at stuff yet. For most people it feels like what I described above - almost like you're hand-
ling a physical thing that is barely substantial, a thing that feels slightly cool to the touch in a
way that makes your skin pressure subtly shift. And then pass the ball! With effort, everyone
in this group should be able to do it. Decide for yourself if you think it happens smoothly or is
a bit of a struggle.))
Leo had cupped her hands in anticipation of the shadow-ball. For a second the weak shadow
slipped through her fingers, but with some sheer will power and a lot of short, scrambling
hand movements, it was assembled again. She didn't wait long to pass it onto Eli...
Eli hurled the thing away from himself as quickly as he could, straight at Sophie's face.
a bit in her hands and over her wrists to get a feel for it before passing it on, which
proved to be a bit awkward. The shadow was as intangible as a low pressure breeze,
and so faint it could easily be unnoticed by a human, if such a person were around.
She sort of poured the shadow onto Trevor.Earlier on, Trevor was conserving energy, using only the gentlest persuasion on his
surroundings. Now he exerted a little more energy, and when he took hold of the small,
slightly unstable darkness he manipulated it to swirl around his fingers delicately, free-
flowing like ink in water.
However, the weak shadow could be felt more easily than it could be seen, and to those
across the circle from Trevor, it almost looked like he was merely entranced by the move-
ment of his own digits. Still, it gave Trevor some satisfaction to feel the control over it,
and also told him this was a power that would not burn through his blood quickly. He
felt like he could do this trick all night. How fun! He commanded the wisps to slowly
slither across the floor to Courtney.
((New colorful edits added by yours truly - Kristi.))
((Take note of edits to all posts above - Christopher.))
Courtney could barely see the shadow, but could at least make out that is was in a much
more chaotic form then when it was first sent into circulation. She struggled to pull it
together. She was finally sorted it out.
...and she sent it back to Cameron!
The guys practiced this for a while, and the more they sent it around, the more
shadows they added, until it really did resemble something of a dark orb. At last,
they moved onto climbing. The ceiling wasn't super-high, but for newbies that
was probably a good thing...
((You can use previous threads of wall crawl stuff as
inspiration to continue if you do so in my absence.))
Trevor pressed his main points of contact gently against the face of a wall. It was an
action more expected of a spiritual traveler at a holy site. After a couple moments he
felt the gravity rearranging and the pressure from his nose to his mouth, his chest to
his stomach, and on each of his forearms and knees increased dramatically. His feet
remained on the floor, but they no longer were holding him up.
Trevor pushed himself up with his palms until he was on hands and knees. Paused.
Lifted his feet into a crouching position, his upper body still taking half of his weight.
Paused again. He then allowed his lower half to take the weight and very slowly lifted
himself into an upright crouching stance, followed almost immediately by his feet and
leg muscles lifting his body into a full standing position.
If anybody happened to be watching it was a sight free from logic. Trevor's body was
horizontal with the true ground, only over a foot above it. Trevor had familiarized him-
self with this new plane, but he was unable to take more than a few steps forward with-
out feeling like he was going to fall. He crouched back to where his fingertips, at least,
were still in contact with the surface. He would be able to move more confidently on
all fours.
(( Edited for the greater good! -Kristi ))
The million glenmark question tho, had Eli gotten his nerve
back for using powers, or was he still on a Darren trip?
Eli slipped away from the deathhippy demonstration and back to the surly corner.
sprawled out like a starfish. She figured this would be a better method to 'feel
the shadows.' In reality it made her look rather silly.
She tried to feel around for any shadows nearby, and did her best to will them to
"Okay, I got it this time.."
move to her. Whether it worked or not she had no way of knowing, but she was
determined to learn at least one thing tonight. Be it illusions or shadows.
Trileon found herself able to create a weird sensation on her skin, and the affected
area would look just a bit shady, but it wasn't much. Wotta pain! Meanwhile, Eli
and Darren weren't even bothering to join in right away.
Cameron-
"For us new guys, the shadow stuff works best if we stay perfectly
still in a dark corner, y'know? But since we aren't trying to hide
right now, practicing out in the open seems better because we
can see what's happening."
Darren-
"..." Darren flopped in the corner.
Courtney-
"All I can do is just make my
hand a little shady. This is silly."
Cameron-
"Just keep at it a little longer. Like, get stupid, space out,
maybe not thinking helps. Try to feel it more than anything."
Cameron- to Eli,
"Hey, dude."
Eli-
"Hey, Cam."
Dude looked a little jumpy after his Darren hangouts.
Leo began to fill her head with pointless thoughts, while still vaguely
Cameron-
"Hey, you wanna, like--"
Trileon-
"Space out? I got this shit."
concentrating on the shadows in the back of her mind. She let her body
relax and go limp in the process, her eyes fixating on the ceiling.
'Another day passed and I still haven't had to use algebra.'
'What if birds grew grass instead of feathers?'
'I bet I could eat like, ten whole donuts right now.'
..And what have you. It didn't take long before she
was lost in her own little world..
Trileon-
". . ."
Cameron-
"Eli, I had this idea of something to do here, if everyone
can get it down. The guys that are tryin' here, we'll go a
little longer, then try it out. Wanna practice first, or..?"
For most of them, the feeling of a shadow was twofold - there was a proprioceptive
element (a sense of shadows as physical objects one could interact with), and a
sense when they touched you of pressure and temperature changing on your skin,
like stepping out of hot dry air into a cool moist shade. For Eli, there was a feeling
of becoming more airy or ethereal, but he couldn't know it was different, and he'd
given up on trying, for now.
As Trileon tried to space out, she barely managed to keep the cool shadow on her skin.
It was an effort to keep focused on something while losing focus at the same time -
contradictory and tricky. But she managed it. And once her mind was mostly empty,
she returned a little more focus to the shadows... And did find them easier to manipulate!
She could at least pull them over her, making her skin all slightly dusky and cold.
Sophie stood beside one of the bookshelves and closed her eyes, trying to absorb its small shadow.
Courtney-
"Mm... Dang. Not much better.
Whoa, Trileon's all shady."
Cameron-
"Cool."
The second Leo felt the coolness on her skin, her concentration was
broken and she sat up with a triumphant fist-pump. She was positive
this would send the shadows away, but she was to excited to really care.
Trileon-
"Hells yeah! Fuckin' finally!"
Trileon-
"Court, please. Call me Leo."
Courtney-
"Don't like your name? I was not aware of that."
Trileon-
"You could say that? Eli gets it. It just sounds cooler."
Eli-
"I mean, they're both pretty fancy, dogg.
But yeah, one's more ruff and that's what
you're about."
These Two-
*existing*
Trevor does not strain to force the shadows' movement, but simply allows them to envelop his form.
Eli regressed a bit in his skillz, as the feeling of the cold shadows had begun to squick him out and
he flinched them away each time they gathered.
Eli- Darren-
"Too creepy, I can't do it..." *nods approval*
Sophie could feel the shadows touching her like standing in water, but it was hard to know
if she was doing anything successfully. Trevor wasn't in a dark corner like Sophie and found
it harder to get a feel for things. Trying to feel out the shadows without forcing them made
him feel a bit like he was sitting in a forest clearing with a cool puddle of water under his legs,
but nothing happened. Eli found it was reeeeally easy to make the shadow feels vanish.
He was back to normal, as much as possible for a dead boy.
Finally Cameron stood up and talked to everyone again.
Cameron-
"OK, can everyone come back together and sit in a
circle? I think we're as ready as ever to try my idea..."
Darren-
"Fuck naw."
Darren sat out the hippy circle. Did Eli have the nerve to dodge peer presh?
Eli-
"Ummmm... it kinda creeps my shit out, but..."
Cameron-
"It's the least scary thing I've done in a few days. Sit."
Eli-
"Alright, alright. I trust you, man."
He joined the hippy deathcircle, as did pretty much everyone except Darren and MIA Vitus.
Leo flopped down next to Eli.Peeps formed like Voltron (& GZA happen to
Trileon-
"Let's do this."
be the head). Cameron introduced his hot idea.
Cameron-
"Alright. We pass the shadow. Someone gets some shadows together
and holds them where the next guy on the right can reach, and that
person tries to grab it and pass it to the next, and so on."
Darren-
"What if somebody can't do it?"
Cameron-
"No coaching from benchwarmers, bro. I'll start."
Cameron wasn't much better than anyone else. He could move shadow around a little,
but it was hard to imagine the ability being of much use for hiding - like wearing dark clothes
would be as effective. But he gathered a little piece of darkness - barely perceptible - over his
palms, and then pushed it out across the floor toward...
((HERE'S HOW THIS WORKS! Describe your guy receiving the shadow, but don't specify who
they received it from. Describe them passing it on, but not who they're passing it onto. In this
way, everyone can check in as available without waiting for the next guy in sequence!
Whoever happens to respond first can be assumed to receive it from Cameron, and whoever
comes next is the person they passed it to, and so on. Your character may or may not use their
hands depending on what you think would look cool or if you think ur guy isn't necessarily very
good at stuff yet. For most people it feels like what I described above - almost like you're hand-
ling a physical thing that is barely substantial, a thing that feels slightly cool to the touch in a
way that makes your skin pressure subtly shift. And then pass the ball! With effort, everyone
in this group should be able to do it. Decide for yourself if you think it happens smoothly or is
a bit of a struggle.))
Leo had cupped her hands in anticipation of the shadow-ball. For a second the weak shadow
slipped through her fingers, but with some sheer will power and a lot of short, scrambling
hand movements, it was assembled again. She didn't wait long to pass it onto Eli...
Trileon-
"Yo, incoming!"
Eli-
"Gah! Get it away from me!"
Eli hurled the thing away from himself as quickly as he could, straight at Sophie's face.
When the shadow came to Sophie, she received it with open palms, letting it shift
a bit in her hands and over her wrists to get a feel for it before passing it on, which
proved to be a bit awkward. The shadow was as intangible as a low pressure breeze,
and so faint it could easily be unnoticed by a human, if such a person were around.
She sort of poured the shadow onto Trevor.Earlier on, Trevor was conserving energy, using only the gentlest persuasion on his
surroundings. Now he exerted a little more energy, and when he took hold of the small,
slightly unstable darkness he manipulated it to swirl around his fingers delicately, free-
flowing like ink in water.
However, the weak shadow could be felt more easily than it could be seen, and to those
across the circle from Trevor, it almost looked like he was merely entranced by the move-
ment of his own digits. Still, it gave Trevor some satisfaction to feel the control over it,
and also told him this was a power that would not burn through his blood quickly. He
felt like he could do this trick all night. How fun! He commanded the wisps to slowly
slither across the floor to Courtney.
((New colorful edits added by yours truly - Kristi.))
((Take note of edits to all posts above - Christopher.))
Courtney could barely see the shadow, but could at least make out that is was in a much
more chaotic form then when it was first sent into circulation. She struggled to pull it
together. She was finally sorted it out.
Courtney-
"Sorry, if you don't mind..."
...and she sent it back to Cameron!
The guys practiced this for a while, and the more they sent it around, the more
shadows they added, until it really did resemble something of a dark orb. At last,
they moved onto climbing. The ceiling wasn't super-high, but for newbies that
was probably a good thing...
((You can use previous threads of wall crawl stuff as
inspiration to continue if you do so in my absence.))
Trevor pressed his main points of contact gently against the face of a wall. It was an
action more expected of a spiritual traveler at a holy site. After a couple moments he
felt the gravity rearranging and the pressure from his nose to his mouth, his chest to
his stomach, and on each of his forearms and knees increased dramatically. His feet
remained on the floor, but they no longer were holding him up.
Trevor pushed himself up with his palms until he was on hands and knees. Paused.
Lifted his feet into a crouching position, his upper body still taking half of his weight.
Paused again. He then allowed his lower half to take the weight and very slowly lifted
himself into an upright crouching stance, followed almost immediately by his feet and
leg muscles lifting his body into a full standing position.
If anybody happened to be watching it was a sight free from logic. Trevor's body was
horizontal with the true ground, only over a foot above it. Trevor had familiarized him-
self with this new plane, but he was unable to take more than a few steps forward with-
out feeling like he was going to fall. He crouched back to where his fingertips, at least,
were still in contact with the surface. He would be able to move more confidently on
all fours.
(( Edited for the greater good! -Kristi ))
The million glenmark question tho, had Eli gotten his nerve
back for using powers, or was he still on a Darren trip?
Eli slipped away from the deathhippy demonstration and back to the surly corner.
Eli-
"Holy shit, do you see that K-Horror biz going on over there?"
Darren-
"Doin' my best not to, but yeah... I don't know
what to say, dude. Gotta warn 'em some time."
Eli-
"And this is the craft end of the crew... The real artistes are off on their own,
probably learning firsthand. Man, I can only imagine that miserable scene.
All the girls! They're gonna cry..."
Darren-
"Fuck man, life's so real... I'm hella sorry. Didn't
think of what that would mean for a buncha artistes..."
Eli-
"Nah, it's cool man. I feel bad for those other kids mostly.
I was gettin' paid for doing other people's ideas anyway.
I could keep doing that, don't gotta have s-soul... to do that..."
Eli-
"Man, I don't wanna draw furry shit anymore..."
Darren-
"What're we gonna do with ourselves, bro? I guess...
I don't usually feel this bad about it either."
Eli-
"Hey, don't be like that, dude... Listen, we'll... figure something
out. Gotta-- uh, there's gotta be... a way... to do things. Right? All
we have to do, is find out what that is. And do it. No problem."
Darren-
"Wow, you're really young. Some problems don't
have solutions, some things never get better, m--"
Cameron-
"What is this sad-sackin' nonsense?"
Eli-
"We're just uh, we're just feelin' death, bro. Shit is real..."
Darren-
"Yeah dude. Stop bustin' my balls here, ya teacher's pet."
Cameron-
"Eli, come on, I know you're better than this
crusty geezer. And you, I thought you were in
a janglecore band, not Suicide Ride."
Eli-
"I dunno man, I don't want to be a bummer... But all this stuff
is just pretty creepy and weird, isn't it? It's like the dark arts...
That can't be good. Like, for our souls..."
Cameron-
"Are you for real? We're still us. Like, that idea of
a soul - anything other than the basic-ass idea of some
ghost in tha machine - is just a mess of religious stupid."
Darren-
"If vampires exist, if supernatural shit exists, then god
has to exist to, and this shit is against Gaaawd, man."
Cameron-
"Oh fucking hell, ugh, pleeease stop saying that shit."
Eli-
"I liked those Hail Dorein memes and stuff but it feels kinda creepy
now that it um, starts to seem like that stuff could be real. Are we
monsters, dude? I mean, I guess, obviously we are.
But like, monster monsters?"
Cameron-
"Duuude, seriously. It's just basic shit. If you're already
walking around without breathing, what difference does it make
if that walking around is on a wall?"
Darren-
"You just keep tellin' yourself that, ginger grease."
Eli-
"You think so? But like... some of these vampires are creepy
murder freaks. Could that happen to us? If it could, how?
Could doing monster stuff make us more monstery?"
Cameron-
"I had some pretty big conversations with that Demetri
the other night, and, like, yeah, the old vampires are kinda cold,
but he's less creepy than the organized crime dudes you see in the
news. That's after, like, five hundred years. Don't trip, please. We
need to be able to get through this shit together, I think."
Eli-
"Yeah... yeah, you're right. I dunno if I feel comfortable doing
that stuff myself right now, but I'd like to help you guys..."
Cameron-
"Fine, chill here with the guy who puts the dirt in
dirty blond. Just don't take his shit too seriously."
Darren-
"Squeak off, squeaky clean."
Eli-
"Hmph..."
{originally}
((Take note of edits to all posts above))
Darren could barely see the shadow, but could at least make out that is was in a much more chaotic form then when it was first sent into circulation. He struggled to pull it together.
He was flailing and losing it, when Courtney reached in to try to sort it out.
...and she sent it back to Cameron!
The guys practiced this for a while, and the more they sent it around, the more shadows they added, until it really did resemble something of a dark orb. At last, they moved onto climbing. The ceiling wasn't super-high, but for newbies that was probably a good thing...
((You can use previous threads of wall crawl stuff as inspiration to continue if you do so in my absence.))
((Take note of edits to all posts above))
Darren could barely see the shadow, but could at least make out that is was in a much more chaotic form then when it was first sent into circulation. He struggled to pull it together.
Darren-
"Aw shit shit shit..."
He was flailing and losing it, when Courtney reached in to try to sort it out.
Courtney-
"Sorry, if you don't mind..."
...and she sent it back to Cameron!
The guys practiced this for a while, and the more they sent it around, the more shadows they added, until it really did resemble something of a dark orb. At last, they moved onto climbing. The ceiling wasn't super-high, but for newbies that was probably a good thing...
((You can use previous threads of wall crawl stuff as inspiration to continue if you do so in my absence.))