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Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #60 on: March 22, 2017, 07:14:20 PM »
>There appears to something rather like a Brightblood jewel standing right outside our door.
>Let's go peek through the peephole

>A Brightblood? Rin starts.
>Aren't they the good guys? Lily asks.
>If Reisen's right, anyway.
>A glance outside shows nothing and no one at eye level, in either direction. In fact, the figure you can see at all is the tip of Hyozan's nose as he sits outside.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #61 on: March 22, 2017, 07:25:36 PM »
>But this sensation is definitely coming from a person, and this person is right outside our door?
>Let's wait just a moment and observe

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #62 on: March 22, 2017, 08:28:33 PM »
>But this sensation is definitely coming from a person, and this person is right outside our door?
>Let's wait just a moment and observe

>Not 'right' outside, 'practically' outside. It is slightly to the right of your door. In fact, as crazy as this may sound, the magical sensation is coming from Hyozan himself.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #63 on: March 22, 2017, 08:39:48 PM »
>Wait, what? What???
>Does anything unusual seem to be happening with the dog?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #64 on: March 22, 2017, 08:43:05 PM »
>Wait, what? What???
>Does anything unusual seem to be happening with the dog?

>You can't get a very good look at him through the peephole, but at the moment, he just seems to be sitting there.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #65 on: March 22, 2017, 09:06:51 PM »
>Well, we can at least open the door to get a better look

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #66 on: March 22, 2017, 09:14:02 PM »
>Well, we can at least open the door to get a better look

>Pushing the door open, you confirm that Hyozan is in fact just sitting there, staring off into space.
>Rather quickly, Rin rushes up to stand behind you, protectively. Who's out there?
>As she asks that, Hyozan turns his head towards you, reacting to the sound of your door.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #67 on: March 22, 2017, 09:41:53 PM »
>Take a look around. Is it really coming from Hyozan? And if so, can we figure out why?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #68 on: March 22, 2017, 09:48:13 PM »
>Take a look around. Is it really coming from Hyozan? And if so, can we figure out why?

>There is no doubt. That line of magic is coming from Hyozan. There's nothing else out of the ordinary; a plane high in the sky heading away from the city, a couple of fairys throwing showballs at each other down the road, and no other detectable sources of magic. In fact you can't even see the magic coming from him with the naked eye. It only registers on your mystic radar.
>You can't be certain. It travels out straight from him for a few feet, then seems to disappear into thin air. It doesn't have the strength to be any kind of attack, or any kind of summoning spell. At least, you don't think it is, anyway.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #69 on: March 22, 2017, 10:17:25 PM »
>It... seems to be coming from Hyozan. I don't really understand.
>Could someone else be channeling something through him somehow? Some kind of remote scrying spell, perhaps?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #70 on: March 22, 2017, 10:29:53 PM »
>It... seems to be coming from Hyozan. I don't really understand.
>Could someone else be channeling something through him somehow? Some kind of remote scrying spell, perhaps?

>From Hyozan? Rin blurts. You hear Lily drop a spoon in surprise.
>You suppose there is a chance. Even with your experience with Breakdown and the others, there's still a lot you don't know about these Jewels and their powers. Even less about the Brightblood variety. But to your senses, it definately feels as though the power is originating from Hyozan himself.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #71 on: March 22, 2017, 11:05:50 PM »
>Let's go back inside, transform, and then see if our enhanced senses can make anything clearer out of this inexplicable happening

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #72 on: March 22, 2017, 11:50:18 PM »
>Let's go back inside, transform, and then see if our enhanced senses can make anything clearer out of this inexplicable happening

>The last thing you wanted to deal with after the Motormaster business was something else that requires you to transform. But there are times when the last thing you want to deal with is precisely what you must deal with. So, closing the door on Hyozan, you return once again to your Magical Lotus form.
>Do you think there's danger? Rin asks after you change.
>I don't think so, not from Hyozan. Lily says easily.
>Rin gapes. How do you figure.
>The little blonde shrugs and smiles. He's a big friendly dog. No way he could be trouble.

>As Rin stares in disbelief at Lily, you focus your stronger senses outward. In your Lotus form, the sensations you register from that magic can be described as nearly pure good. In the same way that Breakdown's power was practically pure evil, the power from Hyozan is its polar opposite. And it IS coming from Hyozan, you are sure of that now. The dog is generating that magic and sending it out. The point where it terminates is a mixture of unusual sensations, but you get the impression of a transitional zone, for want of a better term. As though the magic is leaving this plane and traveling into another.
>You're not certain what exactly this means, but there's one conclusion you can't escape from. For Hyozan to be generating the magic of a Brightblood Jewel, he must BE one of the Jeweled Blood.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #73 on: March 22, 2017, 11:53:23 PM »
>How could we not have noticed this before?
>For that matter, is it even possible for an animal to be a jeweled blood? Hyozan's not a youkai or anything, right?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #74 on: March 23, 2017, 12:08:34 AM »
>How could we not have noticed this before?
>For that matter, is it even possible for an animal to be a jeweled blood? Hyozan's not a youkai or anything, right?

>He never displayed any kind of magic before. And he has no visible jewel.
>To you knowledge, he isn't a youkai. As to whether or not animals can be Blood, you don't know enough about the Blood to say for certain one way or the other.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #75 on: March 23, 2017, 12:18:41 AM »
>Let's focus a little more on where this magic is going. Can we deduce anything else about its destination? Or what it is, for that matter?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #76 on: March 23, 2017, 01:30:00 AM »
>Let's focus a little more on where this magic is going. Can we deduce anything else about its destination? Or what it is, for that matter?

>There's definitely a barrier of some kind that Hyozan's magic is passing through. But it's not one you've ever encountered before. It's a field that seems somehow to be a mixture of both Blackblood and Brightblood energy. Exactly how that could be, you have no idea. The two are polar opposites to each other. You know enough to know that they shouldn't be able to be mixed, but in that field, they are. And they're doing a very good job of deflecting your magic. It will take a more focused scan to gain any useful information about what lies beyond, assuming you can scan beyond the barrier at all.
>As for the magic coming from Hyozan, it too is a unique kind of power. A passive kind of energy. The true nature of it eludes you at first, but as you focus your senses more upon it, you have the sensation that there is whispering going on within the magic. The effect is akin to listening to a conversation through a door. You suspect this may be some form of communication spell.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #77 on: March 23, 2017, 01:33:24 AM »
>Could we try to 'listen in' to it? Ideally, subtly?
>If so, give it a shot

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #78 on: March 23, 2017, 01:11:57 PM »
>Could we try to 'listen in' to it? Ideally, subtly?
>If so, give it a shot

>In your Lotus guise, yes, your senses should be able to make sense of the whispering noises. In theory, at least.
>Focusing your senses even further, you proceed to, metaphorically speaking, press your ear firmly against the door to make out what the folks on the other side are saying. Even with your Lotus-enhansed senses, it's still difficult to make out anything in the way of details, though you have the impression that they are not speaking in any language you've ever heard before. At least, one of them isn't. The louder voice, presumably Hyozan, may be using a form of communication unique to his species, or perhaps it is a form of speech unique to the Blood. Either way, it's something you can't understand. The other voice, the one Hyozan is speaking with, is less distinct than that, and even less comprehensible.
>And then the line of communication seems to ripple slightly. All of a sudden you feel a rush of power and a loud noise echoes through your mind's ear. Your senses are repulsed, and violently. As though someone on the other side of the door very suddenly threw the door open, and knocked you back in the process. A powerful, booming voice fills your mind: HUMAN.
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Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #79 on: March 23, 2017, 04:14:11 PM »
>Guess that wasn't subtle enough....
>Did this seem to come from Hyozan, or somewhere else?
>Does the voice sound angry with us? Or just, well, loud?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #80 on: March 23, 2017, 06:11:10 PM »
>Guess that wasn't subtle enough....
>Did this seem to come from Hyozan, or somewhere else?
>Does the voice sound angry with us? Or just, well, loud?

>Evidently not.
>As best as you can determine, it's the other voice, the one you believe Hyozan was talking to.
>Both.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #81 on: March 23, 2017, 09:01:18 PM »
>Oh dear....
>Um... yes?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #82 on: March 23, 2017, 10:06:23 PM »
>Oh dear....
>Um... yes?

>SOME WOULD BE IMPRESSED BY YOUR SPYING. I AM NOT. the distant voice thunders in your head.
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Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #83 on: March 23, 2017, 10:14:17 PM »
>It was not my intention to intrude, merely to ascertain the nature of this unusual magical resonance.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #84 on: March 23, 2017, 10:54:04 PM »
>It was not my intention to intrude, merely to ascertain the nature of this unusual magical resonance.

>A second voice intercedes, You can't blame her for being cautious.Not after fighting Blackbloods. This masculine voice is much less intense than the former, a bass growl that, despite its gruffness, conveys a kind of warmth. Hyozan's voice. ... Man, that's an odd thought, still. And if she could hear us, maybe that means she could he-
>SPARE ME. the fist voice roars, no less loud to Hyozan, but slightly less angry. I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE HUMANS ON THAT SIDE. BUT WE WILL JUDGE FOR OURSELVES.
>There comes a dull roaring sound, like a torrent of air flowing through a room, and the loud voice is gone, the communication line between it and Hyozan abruptly severed.
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Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #85 on: March 23, 2017, 10:58:54 PM »
>Do we sense anything else changed? Anything about this impending 'judging'? Or does this other presence seem well and truly gone for the moment?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #86 on: March 23, 2017, 11:04:06 PM »
>Do we sense anything else changed? Anything about this impending 'judging'? Or does this other presence seem well and truly gone for the moment?

>It is gone, and has left no detectable trace behind. The only thing you sense is the residual power from Hyozan, then that fades out as well.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #87 on: March 23, 2017, 11:05:26 PM »
>To Rin and Lily: Did you catch any of that?

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #88 on: March 23, 2017, 11:09:49 PM »
>To Rin and Lily: Did you catch any of that?

>The two women shake their heads. We saw you wince a couple of times. Rin says, concern plain to see on her face I was worried.

Re: Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Baykuren - Episode 4, Part 5
« Reply #89 on: March 23, 2017, 11:17:44 PM »
>Hyozan was... talking to someone. Someone loud and powerful and distant and not very pleased to realize I had noticed them.
>Let's see if we can get some response by trying to talk to Hyozan directly: I apologize for interrupting your conversation. I... hope I haven't made things more difficult for you somehow.