Mao's Battlebook: Entry 001 ♪ action

[blazing_heart]

<sub>[Hey Luceti!

There's this one redhead, who's walking around the village as if he was looking for someone. He doesn't really seem lost, but judging from clothes he's wearing, he's obviously new here.

After a moment of searching though, he scratches the back of his head and makes a thoughtful look. It seems he won't find his friends here. But they're okay for sure, so there's nothing to worry.

And so, instead, Mao turns around and walks up to the first person he sees.]</sub>

Excuse me! Can you tell me where am I?

Comments

[blazing_heart]

Huh? And why would I want to know where they stash their food?

_{[but he grins at the comment.]}

Don't they?

_{[I was probably thinking of something else while typing that orz Not in RM3! And Tales of VS! ....But yeah... he's not from those...]}

[accepted]

I don't know really, not sure what else you would want to ask a bunch of animals. What you would talk to them about?

[just scratching his head.]

They look like nicely decorated sticks. With handles on them. It would probably hurt to get hit by one.

[/pat pat Precisely! But Caius isn't from them either. So he doesn't even have a hi-ougi... And if Tempest is anything to go off of he can't jump either.]

[blazing_heart]

I've never really thought about that...

_{[he pouts a little.]}

They're not sticks. And yes, it would really hurt if you got hit by one.

[accepted]

There you go then, if you have to ask them something might as well as about their food.

[raising an eyebrow.]

Go on then, hit me. [this will end well.]

[blazing_heart]

_{[he blinks.]}

Huh? _{[no, this will not end well.]}

[accepted]

Hit me. I'm curious about how strong those tonfa things really are, so take a swing at me or whatever it is you do with them.

[Waving his arm guard in front of his face whilst he speaks. It's cool, this giant hunk of metal on his wrist will protect him.]

[blazing_heart]

If you're sure about that.

_{[And with that he hits with his weapons.]}

[accepted]

[Bringing up his arm guard to block the hit.]

Was that it? I'm sure you can do better than that!

[blazing_heart]

_{[Mao hesitates a little, but hits again. And this time the hit is better, but probably still far from being anything really impressive. Mao relies on spells most of the time, so he isn't exactly strong physically.]}

[accepted]

[Taking the hit with his arm guard, though Caius takes a step back after this second attempt.]

That's better, you should try and land all of your attacks like that.

[The possibility of Mao being more proficient in spells hasn't even crossed his mind.]

[blazing_heart]

_{[Mao pouts.]}

You don't have to teach me how to fight.

_{[he makes a bored look.]}

I usually focus on casting spells during battles, so I don't really get to use my weapons often, you know.

[accepted]

Sure I do, if you can't even land a proper strike that is-- [Oh wait, spells.] You cast spells? With tonfas?

...How does that work? Don't you need a staff for that? Though I suppose two sticks are kind of like small staves.

[blazing_heart]

No, I don't need that. Why would I need any kind of weapon to cast a spell anyway?

[accepted]

Well that's... True, actually. Guess you don't need a weapon to use spells. It just seems most people that use spells who I know all use staves.

[Except for the Pope, but he was all sort of evil and stuff and totally an exception.]

[blazing_heart]

I know only one person who uses those.

_{[He nods more to himself than anything else.]}

The weapon doesn't matter at all when it comes to casting spells.

[accepted]

If that's the case does that mean I could start casting spells whilst using a sword? Not that I'd want to, but if I did then I could, right?

[blazing_heart]

If you knew how to use magic, then yeah.

[accepted]

Can't be that hard to learn a basic spell or something like that, right? Then I could learn to cast a spell and attack with my sword at the same time.

[blazing_heart]

I don't know if it's that easy in your world, but in mine you have to be a Force User to learn any kind of magic.

_{[and you're not one. He can tell.]}

[accepted]

Some magic in my world needs you to learn priseputh incantations to use the magic in the air... And that's all I know about using spells on my world. [But like hell can he be bothered to remember any incantations. There's also Life Magic but that's way too different for this conversation.] Never heard of Force Users before, so I doubt myself or anyone else from Areulla is one.

[blazing_heart]

To learn... what?

_{[though he isn't really all that surprised there aren't any Force Users in Caius' world.]}

[accepted]

Priseputh! Like I said, it's just some words you say to harness magic which can be used for lots of different things. I've never bothered learning any of it myself.

[blazing_heart]

Huh? Is that all? You just learn some words and you can cast magic just like that?

_{[it's more complicated in his world!]}

[accepted]

Yeah, that's all. [...] I think. There might be more to it than learning words and studying priseputh, but if there is Rubia or Arria never told me.

[--plus priseputh really isn't all that well explained so!]

[blazing_heart]

Well, in my world if you aren't a Force User you can't use magic. Though, only Gajuma could originally use Force, but since that one incident Force awakened in a lot of people.