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Who: Koios, Roxas, anyone who volunteered
What: Roxas Rescue
Where: Mirror Earth (New York)
When: the afternoon of June 1st, 2010

Koios was tired of waiting.

They'd never said when they were going to come get the kid, and he was still stuck here with the brat. It didn't help that he didn't really like kids. Or that little Roxie here didn't seem to care much for him, but that couldn't be helped. He didn't like much of anyone but Sora and his girl, from what Koios had seen.

He leaned back in chair, head tilted just enough to balance a pencil on his upper lip. He didn't have anything to do today; the place he was pretending to work at was having some technical difficulties - and they weren't his fault, thank you; the place seriously needed to update their machines - so it was a day off. He'd figured he would just watch the kid, make sure nothing broke into the apartment and took him, like a Heartless or something.

It was a bad decision, Koios decided. Roxas was snoozing the day away on his mattress, and those refugee kids were nowhere in sight yet.

This was all so boring. At least torturing talking to the kid was something vaguely entertaining.

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Re: Back up Team

[megafire.livejournal.com]

Peter sat back in the back-up Gummi ship. He, too was reading, reading a book he had read several times before, which meant that he wasn't reading just for the sake of reading. He was, in fact, training. What he was training amused him somewhat, since he was training exactly what the main character in the book was also training. That was splitting his mind. It was a tough task, definitely, reading while trying to cast Reflect, but he had to do it if he wanted to succeed at his goal.

As for the mission at hand, Peter hoped he wouldn't be needed. He had signed up to feel important for a change, instead of just hiding in a castle while everyone else was fighting to save Radiant Garden. The fact that he was hiding in a castle didn't bother him that much, it wasn't like he could've done much anyway. Right now, though, he wanted to show the others he was willing to help. The problem was that he wasn't able, at least not in his own mind, to help at all. He knew Reflect and Reflera and was almost done studying Reflega, but they served only to keep himself safe, not to actually help anyone else. His fighting prowess in general wasn't noteworthy, the only thing he really had going for him were his mind and his mouth, but he didn't know if either of them would help at all.

His Reflect spell failed again. He was thinking about too many things, and he decided to give up on the mental exercise for now and just looked around the ship.

Re: Back up Team

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Back-up Team apparently translated to Book Club. Song was reading too.
She'd borrowed the book from Yen Sid. An old volume on magical theory, most of it information she'd already gathered from combing the Radiant Garden library. Still, she'd caught a few new tidbits so far, and was fairly hopeful that she'd learn more. Every little thing could make a difference. The ultimate goal that all of her magic training was leading up to would not be easy. She just had to hope it wouldn't be impossible.

She looked up, though, when Peter put down his book ended his attempts at spell-weaving that she'd been vaguely aware of. "Can't concentrate?"

Re: Back up Team

[megafire.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." Peter sighed. "It's hard enough trying to concentrate on two things at once, but when you start thinking while doing it? Bloody nightmare." Peter's worry about this disappeared soon after he had gotten that off his chest. "Although, I've got time to practice."

Re: Back up Team

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"Too bad you're not a woman. We're supposed to be good at multitasking." It was an attempt at a joke, but her tone was too bland. In a way she was feeling quite a bit like Peter right now, not sure how useful she could really be on this mission. The chances that they'd need a negotiator or an emergency dream dive did not seem particularly high today.

Hence the small talk. "That was Reflect you were working on, right? I wonder if I should learn that one. It might make several people feel a bit better..."

Re: Back up Team

[megafire.livejournal.com]

Peter gave a chuckle, there wasn't much behind it though. "Yeah, though what I'm mainly working on is casting Reflect while doing something else," he explained. "Reflect itself is only really useful when you're already planning to get into trouble." At least, for now it was. Peter couldn't really wait to see if Reflega was powerful enough for his experiment to succeed. If it did, it would open a lot of doors.

Re: Back up Team

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""I wonder if there's some kind of general shield spell that would work against both physical and magical attacks," she mused as if simply speaking a private thought aloud. "If not, I'll just have to improvise."

She smiled a little sheepishly, embarrassed at focusing only on herself. Egotist she was, but at least she recognized it.
"What sort of situation do you imagine needing that kind of skill for? It usually only takes a moment to pause what you're doing and cast a spell like that."

Re: Back up Team

[megafire.livejournal.com]

"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.

Re: Back up Team

[creepy-son-of-a.livejournal.com]

Seph had not intended to join the conversation but, he was getting bored.

"Reflect works on both. It only lasts a moment though," he muttered quietly.

Re: Back up Team

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

"Maybe I'll just go with a strengthened bubble spell then," she mumbled back. She'd only been half serious in the first place.

She was still focused on Peter, though, giving him a look that said she hadn't yet gotten enough of an answer. "I can see how that would take some work, but I'm still trying to picture how it would be useful. Why bounce a Fire off of a magic shield when you could just shoot the Fire directly at what you want to hit? I can see how it might work as a surprise tactic, shooting a spell past an opponent so that it bounces and hits them in the back, but that would be such a spur-of-the-moment tactic that even with the skill to do it, would you even think of it in time to use?"

She wasn't criticizing him. This was Song's game. She was testing him.

Re: Back up Team

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"I don't like whoever I'm shooting at to see me, and if I can cast spells around corners, it'd be pretty useful." Peter hadn't even though of taking it at criticism, being lost in his own world. Right now he was probably the weakest refugee around, but if this worked and he got a haste spell to boot, that would change dramatically. He smiled at the thought of it.

Re: Back up Team

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That tactic had also occurred to her, but she hadn't spoken it for what seemed to her like the obvious counter. "If you can't see around the corner, how can you be certain what you're shooting at?"

Re: Back up Team

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Seph settled back into a thoughtful silence. Peter's ideas about uses for the Reflect spell were imaginative but, not particularly practical. He would need to be able to cast two spells at the same time with accuracy. Which he knew wasn't impossible. Aria regularly did so in order to try combining her spells but, she had been practicing magic for much longer and still had dangerous backlash from some of her attempts.

Re: Back up Team

[megafire.livejournal.com]

Peter shrugged. "Peeking around the corner. I won't expose myself too much, that way." But that wasn't the hardest part, of course. Peter figured it would be hard enough to make two spells at once, especially if one of the two was cast in an unusual way, but that was only complicated further by the fact that the two spells actually worked against each other if he were to try this.

"It'll take a long while and a lot of training before I can do that, though," Peter admitted. "But every step, no matter how small, is one in the right direction." That sounded way too corny, even to him, but it'd have to do.

Re: Back up Team

[megafire.livejournal.com]

After a significant amount of silence, Peter came to another realisation. "You know what's odd? We're the negotiators, right? Yet we sent in the assault team first. That's the wrong way around, isn't it?"

Re: Back up Team

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"It's not exactly like that," Song said. "The hope is that there won't be any fighting or negotiating. The guy said he would give us Roxas. If he's on the level, the other team should be able to just get the kid and go." She glanced towards the front of the ship. "Either way, we should hear from them soon."

Re: Back up Team

[megafire.livejournal.com]

"True," Peter admitted. "But if things do go wrong. Our area of expertise isn't really useful." If only things didn't go wrong, it would make things a whole lot less complicated. Then again, Seph was on their team. He hated the fact that he was actually getting worried now.