Unusually, I had another dream within the same setting, but I only have fragments from this one. Piecing them together with what we've already got, t gives some more detail for the Hot Springs episode... mainly that whatever the episode conflict is, it sets up a character-disguise for Keiu as a human mage, and possible suspisicion in genre-observant audiences that (as the new student introduced a few episodes in) she's actually a spy, though nothing onscreen should be directly suspiscious - all she does is cast a flight spell to generate wings on her human form and get away.
The fact that it generates a pair of parrot (or Plume Dragon) like wings doesn't mean much, because Kennan knows about this spell, and if he'd been studying his utility magic the way his mother keeps telling him to he'd have known it himself and could have used it in the first episode - it creates a pair of energy fields in the form of functional wings from the caster's shoulder blades, with the form being up to whatever the caster visualizes, even insectile or mechanical.
This also gives some additional ammo for Miyou's worries about whether he's attracted to the smaller girl for the Valentine's Day time period, in a varient of the 'helping him with homework' ploy (Kennen forced a laugh before admitting, "I'm not too good at magic, but that would have been useful a month ago...") It requires some prescise gestures, but is otherwise quite simple - Tsuchi and Miyou with their ki-powered martial arts should have no trouble learning it by midseries, but unless your opponent is also airbourne or as big as the series finale bosses it gives no real advantage, espescially to novice flyers, since the wings get in the way of drawing an arrow or getting a good throwing motion, and ranged attacks are mostly for the second line since enemies won't helpfully stand there and watch you charge one. Well, an enemy spellcaster might use their own in reply, but any melee fighter knows that the best way to fight an energy blast is to run up and punch the user while it's charging, or throw a knife/rock/etc., anything to disrupt their concentration... and of course, chopping the heck out of a sitting target nicely disrupts their concentration.
- CD Make with the stabbitty pointy death!What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
The fact that it generates a pair of parrot (or Plume Dragon) like wings doesn't mean much, because Kennan knows about this spell, and if he'd been studying his utility magic the way his mother keeps telling him to he'd have known it himself and could have used it in the first episode - it creates a pair of energy fields in the form of functional wings from the caster's shoulder blades, with the form being up to whatever the caster visualizes, even insectile or mechanical.
This also gives some additional ammo for Miyou's worries about whether he's attracted to the smaller girl for the Valentine's Day time period, in a varient of the 'helping him with homework' ploy (Kennen forced a laugh before admitting, "I'm not too good at magic, but that would have been useful a month ago...") It requires some prescise gestures, but is otherwise quite simple - Tsuchi and Miyou with their ki-powered martial arts should have no trouble learning it by midseries, but unless your opponent is also airbourne or as big as the series finale bosses it gives no real advantage, espescially to novice flyers, since the wings get in the way of drawing an arrow or getting a good throwing motion, and ranged attacks are mostly for the second line since enemies won't helpfully stand there and watch you charge one. Well, an enemy spellcaster might use their own in reply, but any melee fighter knows that the best way to fight an energy blast is to run up and punch the user while it's charging, or throw a knife/rock/etc., anything to disrupt their concentration... and of course, chopping the heck out of a sitting target nicely disrupts their concentration.
- CD Make with the stabbitty pointy death!What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows