week 4

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[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[tacomeme]

Well, if they can run that well, they probably don't need to really fly much, right?

[scourgingstars]

No, but that would be infinitely more fun.

[tacomeme]

[He laughs brightly at that]

Yeah, I guess it would be.

[scourgingstars]

That would make things so much easier. I could just drop magic flasks from midair or something like that.

[tacomeme]

...that's a little terrifying. But what if a flying creature knocked you right off?

[scourgingstars]

I might have a few tricks for midair recovery.

[tacomeme]

[Too OP, nerf plz]

Oh... wow now I'm kinda jealous.

[scourgingstars]

[sorry you're the less Extra jrpg, takumi]

Being the king of Lucis has its advantages.

[tacomeme]

Hoshidan kings don't get anything like that... I mean, we can use Dragon Veins and the Divine Weapons but...

[scourgingstars]

Divine Weapons...? We do have the Armiger, but I doubt what you're talking about is similar. Dragon Veins definitely don't sound familiar at all.

[tacomeme]

Dragon Veins are a type of magic only the royal blood lines can use. It allows us to reshape nature in small ways. Like drying up a river for a short time, or making a small area of healing. We can't control what a specific bit of land's effect is though. Each one is tied to just one element.

As for the weapons, I actually kinda got mine today too.

[He picks up the toy bow- if it wasn't plastic it'd be beautiful. Bronze and white wood, with sculpted wings on the grip and elaborate swoops on the ends]

Of course they weren't gonna give me the real thing.

[scourgingstars]

[what the hell though that's so cool]

Of course not--handing over the real thing would be too simple. [...he said, glancing to the ring on his hand.] Even as a model, it looks like it must be a magnificent weapon.

[tacomeme]

[His chest puffs up a bit]

It really is. And if they have the talent for it, and the bow approves, my son or daughter will wield it someday. My brother, Ryoma, has the sister weapon. The Raijinto. It's a sword- and the reason I even learned to wield one. I had it in my head that THAT was the weapon I wanted...

[He shrugs]

But... nothing could replace the Fujin for me. I can make this usable with Mai's power but it's not really the same...

Though, you mentioned Armiger... is that a weapon?

[scourgingstars]

That's quite interesting--I'm familiar with the idea of a weapon choosing or rejecting a wielder, though your methods sound a bit different than ours.

As to the Armiger, it's more an arrangement of them. The broad idea is that of manifesting weapons from thin air; it's how our entire army functions. We do have an armory, of course, but anything the Crownsguard would ordinarily carry is instead pulled from that space when it's needed.

[Ardyn gestured vaguely as he spoke, halfway resembling the motion of curling his hand around an invisible blade.]

For royals specifically, there's more to it. I am only the second king, but the general idea of it is that the descendants of the Lucian line can be given the skill and knowledge to wield their predecessors' weapons. I can manifest and use both my own sword and my father's, for example.

[things ardyn doesn't know: the armiger may be slightly more of an arsenal now]