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driftfleet2016-08-09 11:57 pm
complicatedliar) wrote in driftfleet2016-08-09 11:57 pm
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Who: Loki
Broadcast: Video to everyone
Action: Iskaulit
When: Now!
As I have said I would, I shall speak of magics. Or rather the basics of one particular form of magic. Attend well.
[Loki has set up the video in his gym, since it has sufficient space and mirrors.]
What mortals oft times call magic is but science of a higher sort than they have capacity to comprehend. All is but working change upon the ordered laws of the universe with strength of will and an understanding of how and what to manipulate.
Light shall be our example. [Because everyone already knows he can do illusions. This is giving nothing away, really, because knowing the mechanics of what he does won't make it less impressive.]
Light is a substance in constant flux of state. It exists simultaneously in many forms until it is directed one way or another.
[He begins to write equations in the air with light, his handwriting precise and very angular, explaining as he goes. People who are very up in their mathematics and quantum physics will be able to recognize portions describing the wave-particle duality of light, though Loki seems to be describing a great many quantum states beyond that.]
Understanding this, one might manipulate the light that exists in this room to reflect far differently, or refract in new ways.
[He goes through a series of demonstrations, first building a delicate model of a horse from light that runs, then revealing an invisible object and describing mathematically the illusion that allows light to seem to pass through something solid. Then step by step, he builds the room into a section of forest in Alfheim, which seems to stretch on into the misty distance despite the apparent dimensions of the former room.
It's quite a show, but perhaps more interesting is his expression as he works through all of this. He's genuinely enjoying himself, perhaps the most relaxed most people have ever seen him.]
And the mechanism of all of this?
[He smiles remembering the day he had been taught this by Frigga.] We are made of the same stuff as light. We must only remember and become part of it once more.
[And with that, he seems to disintegrate into green and gold miss. The video ends.
But he's around his place in the Iskaulit if anyone wishes to seek him out, or can be called upon for questions. And later? Buy him a drink at Crowley's bar.]
Broadcast: Video to everyone
Action: Iskaulit
When: Now!
As I have said I would, I shall speak of magics. Or rather the basics of one particular form of magic. Attend well.
[Loki has set up the video in his gym, since it has sufficient space and mirrors.]
What mortals oft times call magic is but science of a higher sort than they have capacity to comprehend. All is but working change upon the ordered laws of the universe with strength of will and an understanding of how and what to manipulate.
Light shall be our example. [Because everyone already knows he can do illusions. This is giving nothing away, really, because knowing the mechanics of what he does won't make it less impressive.]
Light is a substance in constant flux of state. It exists simultaneously in many forms until it is directed one way or another.
[He begins to write equations in the air with light, his handwriting precise and very angular, explaining as he goes. People who are very up in their mathematics and quantum physics will be able to recognize portions describing the wave-particle duality of light, though Loki seems to be describing a great many quantum states beyond that.]
Understanding this, one might manipulate the light that exists in this room to reflect far differently, or refract in new ways.
[He goes through a series of demonstrations, first building a delicate model of a horse from light that runs, then revealing an invisible object and describing mathematically the illusion that allows light to seem to pass through something solid. Then step by step, he builds the room into a section of forest in Alfheim, which seems to stretch on into the misty distance despite the apparent dimensions of the former room.
It's quite a show, but perhaps more interesting is his expression as he works through all of this. He's genuinely enjoying himself, perhaps the most relaxed most people have ever seen him.]
And the mechanism of all of this?
[He smiles remembering the day he had been taught this by Frigga.] We are made of the same stuff as light. We must only remember and become part of it once more.
[And with that, he seems to disintegrate into green and gold miss. The video ends.
But he's around his place in the Iskaulit if anyone wishes to seek him out, or can be called upon for questions. And later? Buy him a drink at Crowley's bar.]
Loki is collecting the elves
You are the first to speak of 'magic' in a manner which follows my own understanding of it so closely.
There are worse collections to have
[But here is a genuine smile.] Ah, it gives me hope to know I am not the only one who understands it thus.
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It is a curious thing, how many truths seem to cross worlds.
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Some cross, some do not. I think it more unusual that you find my studies in line with your own.
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Is interest in illusion so unusual? It is an exceedingly useful tool to have at one's fingertips.
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[He laughs.] My methods have been unusual relative to those of many others. And illusions are a rarer sort of magic. Everyone seems to favor the splashy, explosive nonsense.
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The more noticeable sorts of magic have there uses, certainly, but I have always enjoyed the art of illusion. And I suppose you might say that my family is naturally inclined to subtleties. Foresight runs strong in my line as well.
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[He sighs quietly.] My mother was much gifted with foresight, herself.