thefarshore | [Video] How dare you, goblins

Date posted: June 12th, dawn
From: Yoon

[He is so mad. So very, very mad right now. He doesn't remember how much he loved books beforehand, but he does know that he has all of two personal belonging here - his satchel and his feather hairpiece. That means anything not nailed down, he doesn't mind taking. He found those books, that made them his.

Until the goblins came.

He had the sense to go back to bed after they woke him up in the middle of the night, but he can most certainly scream while preparing breakfast.]

Of all the things to jump into my bed in the middle of the night and take from me... Books? Not even books that teach you fundamental skills! Puff the Magic Dragon, a children's book, clearly; The Giving Tree, which is also more art than words and not even diagrams; and some kind of book that actually had pieces that jumped up at me off the page.

The books were lying on the ground! Clearly whoever lost them didn't care that much about them! So I picked them up and brought them to my god's temple! What was wrong about that?!

If anyone has books that they don't want anymore, I will gladly take them off your hands instead of throwing them on the ground!

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... Why would I lie about something like this?

I said 'dream', not 'lie'.

[A light sigh.]

But fine, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Had you seen these creatures before? Do you know where they went?

Same difference.

[To him.]

No and no. I'm not exactly a fast runner.

[He rolls his eyes... but he's not here to argue semantics. Even though he totally could.]

Well, perhaps the books belonged to these wheel-sized creatures. [What sarcasm?] I'm hardly pleased about losing mine, either, but at least I was able to take some notes.

What kinds of notes would you take from children's storybooks?

[Because that's all he got, so he's running on the assumption it was nothing worthwhile. He just wants to HAVE books.]

Mine weren't children's books. ...Actually, I suppose two of them may have been, but the third was a spellbook.

[Which is why he didn't so much as glance at the other two, except to determine that they weren't spellbooks. Priorities.]

[His attitude does a heelturn.]

Book of spells? Like... like that Border thing?

[He's not used to having this kind of power at all, but books about the topic- now we're talking!]

Only one spell. Similar to a borderline in that it's unique to shinki, but it was called Silence. According to the text, it does exactly as the name implies.

[He sighs again, and shakes his head.]

How anyone could possibly leave something of such value lying on the ground is beyond me.

Exactly! I feel the same way!

[He huffs and crosses his arms even though it's difficult to see in the video.]

You think a spell can cause a whole room to go silent? Like... a loud shout to get people's attention?

[He's not a spellcaster oops.]

No. [Obviously not a spellcaster.] As I understand it, the spell was designed to be cast against individual targets. Using it to silence an entire room full of people would prove extremely impractical.

Like... make it so someone can't talk then.

[Slowly getting the idea.]

And there's no way to stop it?

Yes.

If there is a way, I'd like to know of it. [Being unable to speak is not good for a mage.] The spell isn't as straightforward as a borderline, though. Certain conditions have to be in place for it to work.

Wow, it is really complicated...

[He's starting to worry it's too hard, but shakes himself out of it. He can't fight with a sword, but he can try to protect himself and his god. Maybe one of these spells will actually be able to heal.]

Mm. I'm hopeful that I can find another copy in the library.

[He grimaces.]

..Although not very hopeful, considering the abysmal state of disorganization it's in.

... They have more than one copy of something as valuable as a spellbook?

[Of course his perspective is skewed a fair bit, but even as a shinki he's really only expecting low-level skill training to have multiple copies.]

That remains to be seen.

[A sigh.]

Even if they don't, I read it carefully and remember it well. That, and my notes, will suffice.

Okay. That makes more sense.

[To be continued in their other thread then? Plus a meet-up?]

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