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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 16:56:28

Tundra continued with his studies while listening to Cosmic, this was something he found rune magic rather handy for, one could have a conversation that was practically impossible to trace, ofcourse it did make a huge mess of extra security measures come into place everywhere once discovered but he still  it worth it, the comment about maybe making a stronger rune made Tundra grin slightly. "The charm with this rune is the difficulty in tracing it since it uses a very faint and spread out flow of magic, if I made it more durable the connection would be easier to discover though. And I will keep an eye out for that, you do too, it's likely something simple-looking like a bracelet, horn ring or similar so be careful, and I would also be happy to help in this project of yours, despite my fairly high rank among rune users I haven't really had the chance to use it in cooperation with others over tools or similar. He replied telepathically while correcting a few more of his notes, even going over a book or two that he felt he hadn't looked at properly.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 16:24:48

Yeah, oh and maintaining it between someone else and him is easy peasy in terms of power drain, but the more people he connects that way the more the drain ramps up since everyone would hear everyone normally. And another thing I feel I should mention is that he is able to cast runes vocally, though channling it like that is pretty straining on his voice so he at most should be able to cast about 15 runes this way, less if he has a dry throat, has a cough or something along those lines.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 16:09:54

It is rather suspicious though, oh and I hope the rune isn't powerplaying, the AI can probably notice the magical signature if it looks hard enough at the room.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 16:08:21

(Timezones makes some RPs excessively difficult to follow, is all there is to it really.)

Tundra looked back up from his notes and at Cosmic, looking a little worried. "No, just been working on perfecting my understanding of the language, still a ways to go but I shouldn't be too far away from understanding it." He said while stepping over to Cosmic and giving him a light nudge with his hoof, leaving an almost invisible rune there. "There, I set up a telepathic rune between us just so we don't risk the thing hearing us, just think of what you want to say and I'll hear it. Anyways have you found anything more about that "bug" or whatever it was called is? The source might be mentioned in a latter journal or something similar if you've found one"

(Telepathic rune, creates a telepathic connection between the caster and whoever the rune is on, in this case Cosmic, can be traced magically but can't be listened in on and has a very discreet signature, is fragile though.)

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 14:55:53

Tundra frowned as he read the last few pages, the hoofwriting seeming particularly bad there as he could hardly make out the words aside from the occasional ones, he got a really bad feeling about it though, leaning a little towards Cosmos to whisper to him. "Gonna assumed "bugged" means not behaving as they should, this could be really bad if we don't find out what exactly this error is." He said before returning to finalizing his studies, while he couldn't help much with the issue himself due to his lacking technological knowledge he could at least learn the language even better to see if he could help translating.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 14:40:40

Tundra looked up from his studies as the changeling approached, unlike most ponies he didn't really mind changelings, he even had made a rune or two that their kind could store energy in more efficiently. The journal interested him quite a bit and he too was rather curious of it's contents. "Yeah, I'm rather interested in what this could tell us, also I might snag a word or two from that that I've missed while doing so." He responded while looking at the book with a hint of excitement in his face.

(Seeing as Tundra has done a lot of research and is going for a full understanding of the language he shouldn't have too much trouble reading the thing, maybe have to guess on a couple words, other than that I think he should do decent.)

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 14:01:13

Tundra sighed. "Blue took your punishment as she felt she was responsible for the squad's actions, which means that YOU are hindering her from studying this place's language or doing much of anything, if you spend the time she so generously gave you outside the room by napping I will personally slam you from wall to wall so you won't be able to leave the room for a week!" He said, ending almost in a shout as he was rather annoyed already, morning grumpiness not quite out of his system.

Not long afterwards Tundra also entered the library, immediately heading over to his notes and resuming his studies of the language, though more making minor corrections than anything else as he didn't have more literature to use for studying it, he did seem to be writing quite a long list over weapons though.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 13:23:28

Tundra shifted his stance a little as the roar came from the communicators, not showing any surprise if he was surprised by the sudden loud noise. "Morning, it seems we don't have Atlas anymore, and Cosmic, what do you mean it views us as foals? Wait...that would explain the playground yesterday..." He said, finishing almost in a mumble before blinking as Blue walked into her room and Starlight came out. "If you mean the city, no, it's impossible right now and I doubt I could set up a teleport rune as I have no idea what the distance is. Also Blue took your punishment for you, you should work on your anger issues, anyways we should head to the library to look into the language some more."

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 12:58:28

It's suitably ambigous, though due to the forum's rules I doubt we can really find any traces of him, pity, could make for an interesting introduction to a more dangerous arc.
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Ah I think I get a bit of what the "error" is, and that is dastardly, also the post filter is paranoid.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 12:56:44

Tundra seemed on the verge of bursting into laughter as he heard the AI's response to where Starlight was, though the delayed response about Atlas quickly ended his rather humored expression, particularly when the population of the city had declined by one pony. "Guess we're gonna eventually have to find him....or what's left anyways...." he half mumbled before looking at the AI again, spending a moment thinking before speaking. "Starlight I think has some sort of anger management issue, would it be possible to let her out and let an AI give her some anger management assistance later?" He tried to negotiate, unsure if the AI would really go with it or not, wouldn't hurt to try anyways, even if only to tell her to just calm down for a while.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 12:31:58

By the time Blue had ordered everyone to meet in the residential area Tundra had slept for a while, long enough to be woken by the order through the communicator he'd just dumped on the table, it took a couple minutes of grumbling, falling off the bed twice, an entire lemon and a few runes made for waking him up before he felt awake enough to go to the entrance of the residential area, smelling faintly of lemon.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 11:53:13

(A time out was the first thing I thought of when I saw that reaction, hehe. Well now we know it's possible for the city to teleport ponies around, well, the ones that don't have some form of magical protection anyways.)

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 10:37:30

Eh don't worry, we'll be fine, bye.
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Aaand it seems you're back on, ah well, right now only Starlight's able to do much, oh, checkmate and maple too, but neither of them seem to be online.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 10:23:08

Hmm, should we do a timeskip till when someone wakes up maybe?

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 09:49:53

One thing, the news about blue access being for children hasn't really been spread if I remember correctly, that could be fun for characters to just randomly find out.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 09:38:40

It could be a bit amusing to just suddenly have happen though, and it doesn't really intrude on the space of other rooms, it just sorta expands it, might confuse the AI a little.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 09:33:45

The AI might have trouble negating the runes if it tries, sure it might have knowledge about rune magic but it can't really logically know of all rune development since the city was lost, it might've also missed just how...explosive, his magic can be too, so if it tries to negate it in the morning there might be a boom and a slightly singed Tundra as a result.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 09:21:50

Inside his own room Tundra was sleeping peacefully, the only sound aside from his calm breathing being some runes written on the walls humming quietly, supporting the bending of space allowing his room it's increased size. He hadn't even remembered to turn off the room's lights or bothered to pull the cover over himself, his cloak compensating for the latter just fine while the former didn't really seem to affect his sleep before it automatically turned itself off.

(Oh and his cloak has huge sentimental value to him, wouldn't advise the AI to try to remove it, if it even can do so.)

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city (OOC and Sign-up)

2014 Jun 10, 08:31:29

Heh, now Blue has a basic understanding, Cosmic has advanced and Tundra is going for a complete understanding of the language, that last one might take a little while to perfect but he's probably pretty much got it down by now.

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Canterlot Archives / Re: Atala, the lost city

2014 Jun 10, 08:24:31

Tundra absentmindedly waved to Blue as th unicorn left, he himself would likely stay up for several more hours as the pile of nots next to him just grew bigger, finally stopping at about twice his height before he closed the last book he was reading and put it back. Instead of just going to bed though he went straight to the projector, looking up even more language-related info that he might have missed, determined to learn the language completely. Eventually finishing up a few hours after Cosmic, his notes filled with translations, meanings, gramatical rules and comparisons to other languages, even including proper pronunciations, after making sure his notes were finished and categorized for ease of reading he too went back to his room, pretty much going out like a light the moment he hit the bed.

(In case people are wondering how he was staying awake he's basically just using a rune to negate any and all effects of tiredness on himself, he'll turn it off when done, the AI might get a little confused watching him though seeing as he stays up for so long with no apparent signs of growing tired.)