Fireshard 1:The Meaningless Holiday [video]

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

[Today, as a lot of the Visitors may have noticed with only a passing glance, is September 19. For Faris, this date holds no real significance.

But there was no escaping the fact that someone, somewhere, knew about International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

And a lot of the people that did had found her.]

Anyone mind tellin' me why everyone's tryin' to do really bad impressions of me today?

Comments

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

Black, white, red, or blue? 'Cause you don't really look like any o' those.

[...yes, that is a question.]

[dontcallmeerky]

... Um, what?

[Erk has absolutely no idea why she just asked him about colors.]

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

What kind of mage? Black, white, red, or blue?

[dontcallmeerky]

I wasn't aware mages came in colors. I'm just... a mage.

Well. Technically I suppose I'm a sage now, but it's mostly just a semantic distinction.

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

Oh.

Well, black mages use attack magic like Fire 'n' Thunder, white mages heal, reds do some o' both, and blues use monster powers. I'm not really good at any of 'em. Could've been, though.

[dontcallmeerky]

In that case, I suspect I probably started as a black mage and ended up a red one. Your black mages sound like what my world just calls "mage" - we use anima magic, nature magic that mostly draws from the elements. But most spellcasters in my world pick up some healing as they study more.

[If Faris really gets him started on the mechanics of magic, they could be here all day.]

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

[That remains to be seen.]

Oh yeah, there's also time mages but that one's more obvious. Really the only thing I can do I'd call magic-like are geomancy and ninjutsu.

[are those things even related...]

[dontcallmeerky]

[Fortunately, strange words are an effective derail.]

What in the world is ninjutsu?

[Behold, Fire Emblem - the one European fantasy game that doesn't have ninjas.]

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

[The Assassins sure try to be like that, though.]

Kinda hard to explain, really. Not opposed to a practical demo, o' course, but the trick where I make sure the next few attacks don't hit me's a bit hard to show off.

[dontcallmeerky]

[Point.]

Hm. Sounds useful, at least. I certainly don't know anyone who can do that.