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Emmaleigh holstered her wand to listen as the professor explained a galdr. Hearing the next question, the little red head frowned in thought. She had no idea, but it couldn't hurt to guess right? "Is it because you have to repeat the name of the rune with Intaglio? It makes a kind of rhythm when you say it over and over again." |
Raising her hand, Ivory spoke a thoughtful expression on her face. "The art of repetition." Her head bobbed in a little nod as she heard other people elaborate. "The repetition of different syllables and varieties of it versus the repetition of the rune. I would imagine it helps to better focus the intent. In both." Yup, because it improved concentration...maybe. |
Oookay. Runes HAD been awesome until Truebs started confusing her with Galdr and whatever else that was. Lexi looked at her piece of wood and furrowed her brow. Chants. Something. Repetition. Oooookay. She was SO asking Truebs or someone to help her with this stuff after class. She simply chewed on her lip and had a far away kind of look in her eyes as she clearly did not GET it. |
SPOILER!!: Catching up He noticed when the Prof fell quiet and then he saw runes glowing. That was one of the coolest things the boy has seen in a class so far. Well, here at Hogwarts. "Cool." he whispered very low, that maybe no one heard him, unless they were sitting right next to him. Simon wondered who had created those runes and if he could learn how to make them glow. Simon barely got the concept of what galdr was, but he was completely clueless about the next part. The boy could feel a headache inducing at how much he was trying to think of an answer. He was going to need all the luck in the world in this class. |
Satine raised her hand timidly because she wasn't sure if her answer was correct especially after hearing the others, "Well like everyone said it deals with repetition, but does it also have to do with making sure your intent is clear and that you are focused on your end result..." she said letting her words trail off almost like a question. |
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"I, I, I wasn't sure where to go....I don't know any students but my brother. He told me he would show me where the classroom was last night; he said he'd meet me this morning but he didn't, and I've been afraid to ask anyone. I'm really sorry. It won't happen again; I promise," she stuttered, embarrassed. What a great way to start lessons....not only don't I have a clue what's going on, I lost house points! I'm really going to need to be more careful...maybe I'll ask someone else to show me where my classrooms are. Charley had a horrible sinking feeling in her stomach now. She knew she could do so much better. She opened the textbook on her desk and began reading, hoping to glean something helpful from it. |
Bennet contemplated the question a bit deeper, "Well, in addition to the repetition, I think it is probably more the focus aspect of both the 'Intaglio' spell and a galdr. In order for the Intaglio spell to be effective, it required our absolute concentration. I know that as soon as I got distracted, the incantation lost its effect and I needed to begin again. Same goes with a galdr - it needs to be experienced wholly and completely. The entire body, all of your senses, need to be focused one hundred percent on the rune in order to truly experience all that the rune wants to reveal." And the geek is done. |
SPOILER!!: Professor Sebastian looked up as Professor Truebridge seemed to be talking to him. "Thanks, Professor." He said with a mere smile and then looked back down at his wood. Okay, so he just needed to get the runes right without slanting them this way or that, and hopefully they would come out right. Seb listened as Professor Truebridge explained what exactly a 'galdr' was as he put away his wand back into his bag. One part of the Professor's disussion about that topic caught his eye. Singing to the runes? Hah! You've got to be kidding me! He was not singing...or if he had to...it wouldn't be loud. He watched the fehu runes glowing and he put his head upon his hand. This seemed hard. He tried to think of how the Intaglio spell would be similar to the basic galdr. Well he could find the differences, that was for sure, but similarities? He definitey couldn't think of any. |
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They had only been playing, but Patroclus didn't want to get his Snake into trouble, so he softly whispered, "After Class" Turning his attention back to 'The Man' Patroclus could see the similarity and was more than happy to give his suggestion, "Professor, both seem to depend upon the repeatition of intent and focus to garner any results. With Intaglio, we were required to repeat the rune, to ensure that the spell created that rune and that siad repeatition could almost turn into a chant, rather that just a simple spell, just like a galdr." Well that what this boy thougth anyway! |
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Pointing her wand at the piece of wood was much easier business this time. "Intaglio thurisaz, thurisaz, thurisaz, thurisaz..." She spoke the incantation as she ran her wand over the wood, concentrating on her rune. And, what do ya know, it worked this time! The rune finished carving itself into the wood. Pleased with her work, although maybe the rune looked the slightest bit lopsided, Charisa put down her wand and turned her attention to the professor, who was asking a question. Quote:
"It's similar to the Intaglio spell because it involves a chant and the repetition of that chant," she said. "Which, I suppose, is meant to channel the focus of whatever purpose the chant serves?" Yep. Question mark ending. |
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"Hi, I'm Charley. That sounds great. My brother can be terribly unreliable. What year are you now?" she responded, blindly pulling one of her many bookmarks from her bag, which sat on the floor next to her, and slipped it into the textbook, closing the book carefully. |
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..... Emily put her hand up slowly, unsure of her answer, "Well it's similar in that we need to concentrate on the meaning and magical properties of our runes and it's intent." she said. |
So far behind... Sal and Truebs Marie had no sooner shoved Salander and Professor Truebridge was there telling her to sit down, get to work and to... apologize to Sal. "But he sprayed water in my face. Why should I apologize to him?" She said still not realizing that it had all been an accident. Feeling the tears start to sting her eyes she started to sit down. It was then that she realized she had actually knocked Sal to the ground. Oops, she didn't mean to shove him that hard. Guess he'll know not to spray her with water again though. Even though she was about to lose it and start crying at any minute now, she couldn't help when a small smile started to appear on her face as she watched Salander pull himself off the ground. Oh, and he was apologizing to her. Crud, that meant she should apologize too didn't it. "I'm sorry too... for knocking you on your bum." She still wasn't sorry for using him as a towel though. He deserved that since he was the one that got her wet. Hearing Sal's next words though made her look at the boy like he was nuts. "Vacuum me up. Nah, I'll just use your robes some more." She said as she reached out and grabbed his robes to dry herself off a little better. "There all dry." She said letting go of his robes. "You can do something about this though." She said pointing to her hair that was still a little wet in the front. Hearing Truebridge as he continued to walk around the room Marie decided she better actually do something here. Maybe the class would go faster if she did the work instead of sitting there moping and wishing for it to be over. Grabbing the goggles that Sal tried handing her earlier she finally put them on. She then pulled on the gloves... after removing her wand from its holster, and grabbed the semi-dry piece of wood laying there. Okay now, what was the incantation she was supposed to use. Being in her little mood she had totally missed what the instructions were. Not wanting to call the professor back over for fear of him taking points away for not paying attention she decided to just watch the others for a few minutes. After seeing some of the other students complete the task she grabbed her wand and the piece of wood again. This was going to be easy. She was good with her wand... that wasn't the problem in this class. How the runes actually work, now there was the problem. Pointing her wand at the wood she began. "Intaglio Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro..." She repeated as she traced her wand along the wood in the shape of the rune. Looking at the finished product in front of her she felt pretty good that she got it done on the first try. Looks like she got done just in time too since they were now moving on to the next method of doing this. She listened as Truebridge explained. Then asked what a... galdr was. Ha, she knew that one. That was that crazy word Jimmy had taught her about in their last study session. Raising her hand she said, "A galdr is when you sing to the rune, like... chant the magic and activate whatever channel the magic is intended to flow through. Its Old Norse. Means Incantation, or spell." Now if only Jimmy was still in class he would know that she had been listening to him and that he was a good tutor. Huh, how was a galdr the same as intaglio? "Um, with both you need a clear intent to cast the spell along with repeating the incantation over and over." Yeah, that one she wasn't so sure about. She hadn't gotten that far in her study sessions with James yet. |
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Ah. Her came the discussion. Listening to the discussion that she wasn't well-versed in, she scribbled notes in her journal. Eyes going to Ivory when she gave a response. Totally gonna be study buddies. |
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Kurumi flew to her notes and added the details the professor had given before thinking about his next question. "Well, when I first used the Intaglio spell, I didn't really have a rhythm that I was keeping and I ended up making my piece of wood fly across the room...and smack Adam square in the face." She paused for a moment as her cheeks flushed beet red. "With this particular spell, it seems like you almost need to sing it to keep the spell from getting out of hand and making the piece of wood fly across the room or start on fire." Kurumi's eye widened and a giant light bulb turned on inside her head. "Professor, is that why you have music playing in the background? So we could keep in pace with it while we performed the spell?" |
"Sir, with all due respect, this song like chant, isn't it similar to all types of spells. All magic has a rhythm to it. A body and flow if you will. So this specific enchantment is similar to Intaglio because like the spell it has a rhythm. Now we are just more aware of it because the rhythm is more crucial to the performance of this chant, sir. Is that what you meant by your question?" The tiny redhead asked still a little embarrassed by her question on what the galdr was. |
Chris followed the professor's gaze around the class, and noticed something...different about a few of the runes around the room. She couldn't put her finger on what it was. They had ti be fehu if it was happening as he chanted...or she could just be crazy. "I think that... the reasoning and passion behind carving the runes is the same. You had to have something behind the wand moving across the wood in order to carve with Intaglio. You had to know why you were carving it. You have to know that it's a specific rune you're carving, not a random set of lines. To carve with galdr, you still need to know that," she said, amazed at herself for saying so much in respone to a simple question. In a class. With other people around. Listening to her answer. Just the thought made her sink lower in her seat, just in case her answer happened to be wrong. |
Text Cut: Mia and Matty "I like that Firefighter Salander..." he smirked, and flexed his arms this way and that goofily. He snickered when Mia said they were overreacting and points to the Hufflepuff boy "He's right, I'll take whatever point increase I can get too."He looks at the boy, and does the Saylen squint. He doesnt remember ever meeting him before other than this class "You gotta name kid?" Quote:
Text Cut: Marie ... and Towel Boy. At least as far as Marie was concerned. He stood a little firmer now as Marie used his robes again as a towel. Then she pointed to the front part her hair that was still damp. Salander hesitated, not quite sure what a blow-dryer spell would be, but "Ok I'll dry that up-- Tergeo!" he cast as the spell sucked up the rest of the dampness from her hair-- and left it standing up. :blink: Theres something about Marie innit? Text Cut: Truebridge :blink: again Salander hadnt a clue what a galdr was other than the fact that it got the lad thinking about flying all of a sudden. When it was explained he looked up at the glowing runes around the classroom. Wow.... are they supposed to make their little wooden carvings glow like that? His eyes returned to the Professor when he asked the next question. Huh."Well, Intaglio is a spell that carves the rune onto the wood.... so singing a galdr probably does the same thing-- grates the runes onto the wood." Well all that singing will be grating on someones' |
Luin sat in the front of class, listening to th professor. As she looked through Chapter 5, at the runes, she quickly memorized all of the runes and their meanings. She though about which she would want to carve, deciding on Kenaz mainly because of the magical use of it being a study aid. She put on a pair of gloves and goggles when the professor instructed them to do so and start to try to carve the rune into the block, "Intaglio Kenaz kenaz kenaz kenaz..." after awhile she had the rune on there, although she took a few tries to get it perfect. She then holstered her wand, hastily writing down the meaning of the word galdr as the other students answered. That was one thing she didn't know and she would have to go back and make sure she had it down soon. Luin's hand went up almost as soon as the question was asked, as she was eager to have a good impression on all of her teachers, "As with Intaglio, there is a repetition involved and you have to focus on what your purpose is." |
Rearranging a little :) SPOILER!!: Truebridge & Arya Tilting his head to the side, Sabel listened to Truebridge's reasoning and point. It was very valid and deadly true. One of the best ways to hide ill intent was to make it appear beautiful. A lot of creatures did it, some of the most beautiful being the most poisonous, so it only made sense that humans had adopted that practice and idea and put it to use. Either way, Arya's rune was still very beautiful in his opinion. Quote:
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Tucking his wand away, he couldn't help but smile at hearing the spell was much like a song. His eyes flicked to Arya with memory as he gave her a little nudge with his elbow. Perhaps they could sing together, like they did before. At least they had practiced tuning their voices. He had to pull his attention away from her to glance up at Truebridge in consideration of the question. Answering with a response about creating the correct form, or a decently similar one to the original, as Truebridge had explained to him didn't seem like the grandest idea though the point was valid. Still he raised his hand to forward a similar, yet slightly different idea. "You still have to create the image. Although it's through a mental projection by which you trace the lines in your mind's eye, the practice of the movement and its pattern is the same as the movement of your wand when preforming Intaglio." |
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Emmy raised her hand tentatively. "Um, well, the repeating of the rune's name over and over is something like a chant, and a galdr is a chant...? Is that right?" she finished nervously. |
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