mayfield_rpg | 5th Record ｢Entrances & Exits｣

[ Action : Sundown : Open ]
[ If one looks upward during twilight tonight, they might pick out an unusual celestial body high in the sky. It isn't a star, or a moon, or a UFO of any sort. But a few hundred or so feet above downtown Mayfield one can spy a bright pink circle of light hovering there, the circular pattern rotating slowly. Staff at the ready, Nanoha is standing on that circle, wearing her Barrier Jacket and channeling magical energy from a source directly below her on the ground. Her friend, Hayate, stands by with her Tome of the Night Sky at the ready, acting as a sort of living battery for the other woman.

But this isn't a magical attack, though it might look like one. For one hour, every fifteen minutes on the dot, Nanoha scatters streaks of magical energy all around her. These "shots" bounce from roof to roof, stretching out until they hit the barriers of Mayfield that loop back around to themselves. Each time the shot lands, it dissipates completely. Bardiche aids this effort by acting as a co-processor for the search, the golden badge clipped to Nanoha's lapel, but even with the three forces at work here, the information returned is... far from conclusive. ]

[ After the hour is up, Nanoha is strained from channeling the spell for such a long time, and though she wants to continue she realizes that there is nothing more to do right now. She dispels the circle and floats down to the ground. When she lands (a short distance away from her starting point) she looks tired and, above all, frustrated. ]

[ Phone : Evening : Drone Filter ]
In light of the recent... glitches... I have been trying to find a weakness in the border of the town. Has anyo— [ There is a jingle and a clank, Nanoha's voice cut off because the base of the phone just fell through the stand it was on and clattered to the floor. Nanoha sighs. ]

If anyone can provide me with any constructive observations of their own, I would appreciate them. I don't think we can afford to waste time in finding a possible exit. I can offer my own data in return.

((OOC: The magic moves fast, so it could be easily missed. It is not hostile and will dissipate on contact with any flying vessel or individual contact, and will not make the same exact pass twice. Could still spook someone, though!))

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[ She doesn't know what to make of that noise, and it is a moment before she can afford to break her concentration. With so many that "salvo" expiring, phased through floors, or otherwise lost, she releases the rest and snaps out of it.

Only then does she turn to the flying creature, giving it a quizzical look. ] What... do we have here?

[Geez this was annoying without any team members. The pterodactyl screeches again briefly before switching to a small insect that laboriously begins to spell out the words WHAT ARE YOU DOING except no one in the world would track the flight pattern of an insect and assume it was trying to communicate.]

Oh! [ And only someone whose senses are being overloaded with information on their surroundings would even pick up the change in the first place. This is a little too high up for most insects (or so she believes) but the idea that something could shift into more than one shape like that isn't exactly common. ]

⌈Data unknown.⌋ [ Chimes her ever-helpful Device, the red orb in her staff flashing with that reply. ] I see it, too, Raising Heart.

[Beast Boy sighs a little to his insect self. Looks like there was only one solution.]

Gaaaaaaaah -- I mean. Dudewhatareyoudoing -- !

[Having switched back into a boy for the three seconds it took to shout those words, Beast Boy laboriously flaps back up as a raven. Hopefully she got the general idea.]

[ ...that's more than a little shocking and, honestly, far too distracting. She pulls one hand from her staff and points to the outside edge of the very large magic circle. ] It would be better if you sat down.

[...Oh.

The raven slowly tests the edge of the circle before descending upon it with as much grace as it can muster. ...Beast Boy has to take a few seconds to recover his lost dignity before he turns back to himself again.]

...Aha. I thought you were, uh. Just floating by yourself or something. Ha.

[ A little laugh. If the transformations — or the idea that she's thinking that she has just made contact with some sort of shape-shifting alien boy — bother her, she doesn't show it. ] It's fine. I don't expect many people would have thought to try it out.

I'm Nanoha. I hope I wasn't in your airspace, but I'm afraid that I'll be up here just a while longer.

Oh, dude, I don't have an air space. I've just got a house down there, ya know.

I'm just up here to ask what you were doing with all the pink laser things.

The pink... Ah! [ Nanoha nods in understanding. ] This is a searching technique. My magic gather information as it travels from point to point, searching out the strange disturbances that have been occurring across the town.

I'm hoping that, by overlapping and repeating the search, I can find a pattern.

...The pattern is that things are disappearing when we're using 'em or touching 'em.

[Duh.]

I meant something greater than that. Also, I was checked if that degradation applied to other rules of Mayfield — such as the strange effect that prevents high altitude flight. [ Which they are hovering just a few meters away from, by her estimates. ]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guessing that the answer's 'no', and also that there's probably no pattern. Mayfield doesn't make things that easy.

So far, you're right, but I'm not done yet. [ It's unlikely that it can be felt, but there are wisps of magical energy flowing up from the ground below. Her friend, Hayate, has her book open and is reciting some form of basic spell, but the gathered energy instead is being pulled in by Nanoha.

Before her, a sphere of that same pink energy is growing steadily. She hasn't moved into position with her staff just yet; this is just the preliminary effort. ] In a few minutes, I can try again, and see what has changed.

[Ooh, shiny. Beast Boy will watch her pull off the glowy magic stuff with an impressed look on his face - it was nice seeing some magic that wasn't designed to jinx him into submission for once.]

Want me to get out of the way so you can finish up?

It isn't unsafe here, but it might be bright if you're not careful, and I won't be much for conversation once it starts. [ So he can stick around and wait a few minutes while she channels it to get a look from ground zero, or not. His call! ]

This is kinda cool. Think I'll stick around if you don't mind!

[Beast Boy will transform into a hummingbird and flit off a short distance away to hover in place.]

All right then. [ And Nanoha will just release her energy when it's built up, the same as before, no matter how strained she might feel afterward. If she was covering a smaller area, or doing this in shifts, it wouldn't take such a massive toll on her... but it's not like her body appears to be in any danger. It's just tiring.

—tiring and, ultimately, futile. ]

[Beast Boy watches without comment as she works her magic once more, not sure when it's safe to resume conversation. Whenever she's been paused for a while, he'll flit back to the magic circle and turn back.]

How's it look?

[ She sets the end of her staff down heavily on the circle and leans against it, shaking her head. ] This place... whoever constructed it did a good job in hiding... its structure.

Yeah. It's kinda like being trapped in a snowglobe, 'cept you can't see out of it and the bottom parts loop back to the other side and there's no snow and also it's not really all that pretty.

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