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[Comrade P.]

UltraValican
((I do hope you do noot expect me to write actual books ))
This book tells about al the forms of directing magic currents, their forming, dispersing, focusing and redirection ways. Research is made in the area of directing magic currents in any thing possible, incuding animals and humanoids. It also says how to find magical currents in nature and redirect them rather than use your inner resources, which is extremely complicated and requires spells and enchantments on user you have no idea about. That is what you got by opening tomes in random places.

Patrick Hunt
One of Nephelaim is sent, you head to another city. It is not in siege. It is already conquered.

[Patrick Hunt]

(( Wow elves are seriously incompetent how many armies did the fail to stop that they lost the war in 3 weeks? ))

Offer Sellgun a bonus to stay while we find a city thats not conquered.

Use the radio in my car to use the standard Elven military channel and find out which cities are still safe.

[UltraValican]

Try to focus on the chapters and sections in the book concerning directing magic flow

[Caerwyn]

Set up a perimeter, get people ready and alternating between resting, fixing the vehicle and keeping watch.

[Rolepgeek]

((AHEM.

SARIBOUS, LAND OF THE CARIBOU. Pronounced like Caribou but with an s on the beginning and end (no 'k' sound though).

Decently sized island, about 70-80 miles long and 17-18 miles wide(though this varies widely), maybe 130 miles from shore. Dormant(as in, it shouldn't erupt for a few thousand years by all current accounts) volcano in the center right-ish, pretty heavily wooded. Mediterranean climate, has it's own government, more or less, but it's basically a really big city-state. Home to a lot of hermits and such, the government is very open to religious freedom(and the magic of the priests who can work it, as well as their obsessive hiring and protecting of mages, is what allows them to survive in the big bad world), overall a pretty nice place. Mostly. Not all is well, as it's got valuable resources below it, and an abundance of mages(unsurprising), so people kinda want to invade but are scared to at the same time. Very much a throwback to a more serendipitous time. Population of around 30,000. Fairly assorted mix of races; government is pretty lax with census taking, so just know it probably matches the basic mix of people throughout the world, but with larger minority populations. Prosperous, has been for a long time. Home to the priest Jaster is in debt to...))

[Comrade P.]

Patrick Hunt
[1] Sellgun is hardly holding himself. He makes you offer: you pay in the very next city you find or he leaves. I'm not writing in direct speech here because my foul language is not rich enough to say exactly what he says.
You switch the radio on. You listen it for an hour, maybe, just to understand the situation. Looks like men successfully performed blitzkrieg. Capital has fallen, Beletran is in siege, most the supply routes are cut, some strategic regions are under their control. All the country suffers covering bombings from their brand new invention - Air Fleet.
So, you guess that the nearest stategically important military base is right across the country from you, and you have to go through occupieв territories. Or evade those and lose a week more.

UltraValican
You open first tome and begin reading. It is written in some old dialect of Common, but you are fine with reading it, thanks to your education.
First kind of dividng of this knowlege is: magic current direction may be continious - when you direct it on some traectory that begins and ends in sorcerer, and destinated - when the magic essence has a destination point.
It can also be divided in two major categories: direction through material, which may be destinated or continious, and direction through space, which is mostly continious. Directing magic flow through material is used for enchantments, ward-creating, connection-establishment and basically includes any action with material object that doesn't changes it, though it may add new properties to it. Directing magic flow through the space is mostly about gathering different information about outer world via magic methods.

Caerwyn
Five isn't too much to dispose, and you have no brilliant ideas about fine re-ambush places here. Alexander does. Since the only one who is able to fix the car is Urast, he does that. You stand at the cliffs and look out for any incoming threat. [4] Noone shows up, but Urast finishes only by evening.

Rolepgeek
((Thanks. Still waiting for actual action. Or I missed it?))

[Patrick Hunt]

Take the safer route and head for that city.

[UltraValican]

Continue reading about destinated magic

[Rolepgeek]

((Didn't have much to respond to; I'll figure something))

[Caerwyn]

Settle into continuing the journey, questioning the guy when he's able to. Just ask him about stuff, anything. Be sort of friendly.

[Comrade P.]

Patrick Hunt
You ride and ride and ride and ride... [5] And get at the city of Worean finally. A few days before estimated date. What now?

UltraValican
Destinated magic current transgering is mostly about enchantment, of course. All the ways of direction through material are different kinds of enchantment. But still, there are some ways of destinated direction through space. Those are battle-spells of bolt-firing class, mostly. Through a complicated form of spell-composing (a structure that must be imagined to cast) allows pulse-like attacks of various types.
Overall, it seems that a иззл is a feww biased - it tells mostly about combat-magic.

Caerwyn
You get away from this wicked site with a whole pile of guns collected from corpses of unfortunate bandits. The truck is shaked intensively on shabby half-forgotten road, slowly waking your prisoner.
Being-nice politics doesn't work on your prisoner - the only thing you have learned from his crude speech with an awful accent is that his a big man among his fellas and they're comin' up yer asses. ((Maybe you should remember Al Capone in that matter - with a good word and a gn you can do much more than just with good word))
The sun slowly sets. The silouette of the castle is already seen, but entering at night...

Rolepgeek
Former private guard stnads up and heads upstairs, returning with his poor belongings gathered in one small sack. His rifle is in case of fine oak wood, however, and his longcoat may look quite used but it is surely tidy. He looks like if he could get to that island immediately.

WhitusOpus
You and your companion have just accomplished a small buisness and now you are free to go anywhere in the city with your pouches full with singuluses.

[Patrick Hunt]

Put in the merc paperwork, put each company through at double what they charge, then give Sellgun his 1/5. Find out the rank of the commanding officer.

[UltraValican]

Study the application of destinated magic in combat afterwards read about the primary form of enchantment

[Rolepgeek]

Jaster chuckles, watching the man. "We won't be leaving yet, friend; in the morning, I promise you. Come, sit, and we can keep our old bones warm by the fire."

[Comrade P.]

Patrick Hunt
You have already learned to turn your papers into cash, so you just make the procdure. One of points that is required to be filled is the requster name. All the papers are usually filled by quatermaster, so you proceed to the drill. And then it comes to another comletely usual point:
 - Name?
 - Harberad Therden.
Quatermaster stops for a second. Than continues writing. You finish the procedure in usual order and turn away to go back to your car.
You notice some figures following you. There are eight of them, all watching you from different directions.

UltraValican
Destinated magic used in battle mostly refers to direction through space - the other way is combat enchanting.
You learn that your beam is not very effective - to use it, you unconsiously mind that all the projectile is filled with essence of attack. You may use that beam to make continious cuts in thick material, that is the most effective way, for the longer distance between you and target is, the more energy it takes you to cast beam.
As for bolt-type attacks, the most effective way is concentarting on your concntrating focus - tips of your fingers, for example -  your very target and type of damage you want to deal: burn, cut, strike, explode.
Pulse-action and covering-action spells are quite effective, but take much more of your inner forces and are harder to cast. Brute force explosion is still easy, but it may instantly decrease your inner forces to absolute zero.

Enchantment is mostly about your imagination - all you have to do is fill the object with essence and shape it's nature. It is limited only by the properties of material of you are enchanting that are most completely described by phrase "magic capasity".

Rolepgeek
He seems to be relieved about that. But that expression just glimpses on his face.
 - Arright, let's have another drink and then have a good nap before long road! One last beer for me, eh?
He sits at your table, his rifle-case on the left of him.
 - So... I told you my story. Maybe a bit words of yours?