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Lost King
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“Well,” began Tash, “I really don’t have much I can say about it. I’ve just sort of been able to talk with cats for as long as I can remember. I had a…well, a friend I guess.” He paused.
The furry handle sticking up from behind Tash’s back wandered into the sight of the older man. Pieces were starting to come together. “Now that you mention it, I do recall my little girl coming home one day a good couple of years ago frightened half to death. She was saying something about a man out to take over the world, sounded like nonsense, and then she started talking about a little boy with a knack for magic and an odd ability to talk to cats. This boy wouldn’t happen to be you, would it?”
Memories from the past flowed back into Tash’s mind of that fateful day. It had truly been seven years since he had last spoken with Daskal. It had been seven years since he had seen Magenta before she eventually popped up out of the blue. It had been seven years since he had even been in Varrock. Almost an entire decade of his life had been spent on the western side of White Wolf causing him to grow so incredibly distant with the side of the world that held his past, but now was not the time for him to get nostalgic.
“Yeah, that kid was me,” Tash paused to look away, “from a long time ago. So what about that map you have?” He had a job to finish, and another one to start once he got back.
“Right, right, well let me try and find some table space to roll this out on.” The man sputtered around the room attempting to find a shred of space that wasn’t already occupied with books and papers. The lack of area finally led him to throwing the scroll onto the ground and rolling it out there. “Here, come down and we can start browsing.” Tash got down on one knee to observe the map. “Alright, if you look here,” the man pointed to a circular looking mark on the paper, “this is Falador. I use it as a reference since it’s rather central to what locations I had found.”

31-Oct-2010 01:20:14

Lost King
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The map itself sprawled out in all directions with marks denoting everything from the swamplands beyond the River Salve all the way over to mountains west of Ardougne. Of course, the artwork was rather shoddy, but what with it being written by a mage instead of a proper cartographer, they would just have to deal with it.
“To the east of Falador you can see where we’re at,” he slid his finger across the map over to a circle a little ways over from the Falador circle, “it’s not exactly to scale, but this is supposed to be Varrock. Now if you look beneath the circles I’ve marked them each with different rune combinations.” Scribbled underneath the Varrock circle was what looked to say “1 x Law, 1 x Fire, 3 x Air”.
Tash rose back to both feet. “Well that is the combination I used to get here, but how exactly did you come across these in the first place? I mean, I figured out that law runes affected movement, and in conjunction with air it could be used to adjust different objects positions in the world, but how does the whole fixed teleportation system work?”

31-Oct-2010 01:20:57

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“You’re a self taught mage, aren’t you?” The man turned to look over all of the books in his humble little home. “I’ve devoted much too much time into the study of magic, and sure, I’ve learned how to do my fair share of violent magic coupled with a housewife and halves amount of mundane spells, but it’s usually all been done with the accompaniment of some book or another. For you to even grasp the use of law runes without having any proper education in the subject is truly phenomenal.” The room settled into a silence. “Oh, right, the reasoning on the runes. Well, it was in a book that I first came across notes on advanced uses for law runes and the whole of teleportation. There was an overview of the use of law runes and how they affect the ‘law’ of an object, perhaps its physics would be a more proper term, but it explained the movement of other objects through space using a law and an air rune and why an object the spell is cast upon would bring it to the caster. It’s due to a lack of direction, or a lack of binding. From there I discovered other notes on different areas of the world having their own sort of ‘attunement’ to elements. I believe the first one I actually got to work was to the area around Seer’s Village.”
This conversation was becoming immensely intriguing to Tash’s young mind as he had never actually begun to think how a teleportation spell would work for transporting humans to other locations. The fact that there was a combination directly to Seer’s was also a great thing to hear.

31-Oct-2010 01:21:28

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Magenta’s father laughed. “It’s actually a funny story about how I found out the combination. I had already known and used the object transport spell, and trying not to get ahead of myself, I decided to experiment further with air runes. I knew full well that if I wasn’t starting to get results around about seven or eight air runes I should stop and keep myself from causing an overload, so with bated breath and shaking hands I tried it with one law and two air. Moments later after opening both of my eyes in hopes of still having a body I saw that nothing had happened. I hadn’t even moved an inch. I felt rather tough from there and clapped together a law and three airs with no hindrance at all. Of course, that one didn't do anything either. So now I was a little distraught and thinking that maybe I was being too basic with just a law and air runes, so I tried a law and four air and still got nothing. I had reached the halfway mark and was feeling pretty low, so I slapped together a law and five airs, and boy…well, I really didn't know what to say at the time. It was...quite the experience.”
“Yeah, I felt it too,” clarified Tash recalling his own teleportation experience. “It really isn’t some feeling you can just explain. One second you’re in one place and the next the entire world changes around you, like a breeze just kind of picked you up and put you down somewhere else. But the combination for Seer’s seems so weird when compared to the others.” He looked down at the map. “Varrock, Falador, and Lumbridge are all a law, an elemental rune and three air, why is Seer’s not four airs? The equation seems off.”

31-Oct-2010 01:22:38

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“That was something I found peculiar too. Admittedly, after discovering the Seer’s teleport I tried it with a water rune and only one air rune. Nothing happened so I figured I would need five, but that didn't do anything either. From there it was guess work until I got to three and ended up in Falador. Feeling good about myself I tried that same combination except with an earth in place of the water and ended up in Lumbridge. I felt that was the common equation and tried it with a fire rune causing me to land back here. After rolling the idea around in my head for a couple of days to try explain Seer’s combination, I eventually just went with assuming it’d need an extra bit of air due to it being the same element. I decided against experimenting with other types of runes until I had more information though.”
“I think I understand your reasoning.” Tash shuttered at the thought of what using a body or cosmic or even a blood rune could do to the caster. “Oh right, when I was asking your daughter about your teleport spells she said that the Varrock teleport was the first one you discovered, what’s up with that? You said Seer’s was the first you found.”
“Oh, right,” the man chuckled, “I told Magenta that to try and be impressive. Telling her I got it on my first try just out of shear luck sounds a lot cooler than all that guess work I did with my hands shaking and knees clacking.”

31-Oct-2010 01:23:04 - Last edited on 31-Oct-2010 01:23:34 by Lost King

Lost King
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Yeah, two days short of an entire year without any posts. You think I was lying about finally getting around to updating? Well let me say this. I'm really lazy.
Plus there's this whole TGP rebirth invasion thing so I'm all, "Welp, gonna post then." So ya', enjoy.

31-Oct-2010 01:25:24

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