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[lone_hater]

[Richter has, over the past day, dragged a fairly large amount of spare word scraps to a nice-sized clearing he found - a parking lot in what looks to be a big city from the 50's

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[ghostshield]

Nick had spotted his otherwise elusive roomie doing this and has been watching with a bit of confusion; the casting of the spells actually CLARIFIES the situation for him.

I get it now. Trying to see how your abilities function in this strange new place, huh?

[lone_hater]

Correct. Everything... seems to be in order. Almost strangely so.

[ghostshield]

That's a good thing though, isn't it? I mean, especially with the "budget cuts" nonsense. It'd have sucked if you guys ended up, I don't know, looking like you were casting poorly generated special effects instead of proper spells.

[lone_hater]

I'm glad that it still works... but it's odd that the mana here can feel different yet function entirely the same.

[syndicated_claw]

*you may or may not notice a certain girl, crouched on a street lamp above and just watching*

[lone_hater]

[Richter does indeed, and glances upward at her, his hands moving to his weapons.]

It's not that interesting if you know nothing of magic.

[syndicated_claw]

*she doesn't make any visible motion in reaction to his suspicious movements*

It's interesting for other reasons besides that...

*because she's gauging your combat ability ._.b *

[lone_hater]

How so?

[therealvillain]

Who-hooooh!! A spellcaster, eh? Pretty interesting, pretty interesting! ... But I'm wondering why you NEED to spell out what you're gonna cast..

[lone_hater]

It helps focus my mind on the spell.

[therealvillain]

True, but it does take the surprise out of "surprise attack", donnit?

[lone_hater]

If I need to do that, I'll use my weapons.