"Right now? Yes, it would take only a second." To show that he was fully capable of doing so, Peter casually cast Reflect. As casually as he could manage, anyway. "But that's only if I use Reflect in the way everyone else does." He had practically rehearsed the explanation of what exactly he was working on.
"Because, right now, Reflect is just a shield for a person and that is pretty dangerous, because if it fails while protecting you, you're pretty much screwed." He nodded, more to keep himself going than for any other reason. "So what I'm trying to do is cast reflect somewhere else, and that takes a lot of effort." More than he had thought it would take, anyway.
"But that's not all, casting reflect somewhere else is nothing but a neat trick to show off to other people, it isn't really useful," he explained. "Where it gets useful is when you've got another spell to bounce off of it, like a fire spell. Problem is, keeping a Reflect spell standing in a place where it's not really supposed to be while casting something else to bounce off of it, yeah, that'll take a lot of training." Once he could actually manage either feat, that was. He was still relatively new to this whole thing, and, so far, he only had experience with Reflect and its more powerful variants. He didn't even know what casting fire was like yet, but he was sure it wasn't going to be as easy as he hoped.
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Re: Back up Team
Date: 2010-06-03 10:55 pm (UTC)"Because, right now, Reflect is just a shield for a person and that is pretty dangerous, because if it fails while protecting you, you're pretty much screwed." He nodded, more to keep himself going than for any other reason. "So what I'm trying to do is cast reflect somewhere else, and that takes a lot of effort." More than he had thought it would take, anyway.
"But that's not all, casting reflect somewhere else is nothing but a neat trick to show off to other people, it isn't really useful," he explained. "Where it gets useful is when you've got another spell to bounce off of it, like a fire spell. Problem is, keeping a Reflect spell standing in a place where it's not really supposed to be while casting something else to bounce off of it, yeah, that'll take a lot of training." Once he could actually manage either feat, that was. He was still relatively new to this whole thing, and, so far, he only had experience with Reflect and its more powerful variants. He didn't even know what casting fire was like yet, but he was sure it wasn't going to be as easy as he hoped.