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[Supernerd]

Gaal'garot starts running towards the creature, intending to dodge by bolts by moving diagonally and to the left, then moving diagonally forward and to the right.

Thanks to the creature's choice of defensive moves, the rock was on the ground just below it. Gaal'garot would be able to retrieve it easily as he closed the distance. His plan now was to go through the motions of a throw to see if he could get the creature to try to dodge it without actually throwing it. If that worked, then he would actually throw it at the creature's new location. If it didn't work, he would use it defensively against the bolts as they turn back towards him.

Gaal'garot wondered if perhaps he could commission a big old ball and chain to use as a weapon somewhere. This rock... Rocked!

[TricMagic]

Zzp-ck
Boom/!

The Fog ignites. Thankfully, you're no longer in it. You reach the rock, and hear the creature moving toward the area of the explosion. Something feels off.

[Supernerd]

Gaal'garot decides to go with his instinct on this one and decides not to touch the rock after all. Its probably loaded with funny ether or something now.

For now... He would use his Blood Devilry to see if he could find a motivation for the creature's current actions. He would also pay attention to see if anything or anyone else was in the vicinity; he wasn't exactly being quiet.

[TricMagic]

..Electric, Fire... This feeling is like the one that appeared around the human Drivers and Blades. Is it doing something similar?

Also, the rock is fine, if starting to get a bit crumbly.

[Supernerd]

Gaal'garot decides that it is much more likely that actual blades are in the vicinity. He would prefer to learn a bit more about this world before engaging more of them in combat, especially when he could easily sneak away in the dead of night.

He didn't need to hunt this particular monster. He was going to take his leave and he was doing it now. The creature was probably either trying to move away from something, or towards something. Gaal'garot would quickly and silently move away in a direction that was neither where it was coming from or going to. There were more than three kinds of creatures in the desert and the night was still fairly young.

Though he might return a bit later. If he was right, which he usually wasn't, then the blades might just unknowingly do all the tricky hunting stuff for him.

[TricMagic]

You leave through the nearest exit.(which also happens to be the same ceiling tunnel you used before.

Deadly Tornado
Fusion Combo triggered:Electrofire Storm

And just in time too. The entire fog mist in the cave lights up in the area, before lightning races along deadly winds.

fwsh!

You make it out into the desert. The Moonlight paints an interesting picture of the events behind you.

Apparently, Ether types can build up in the area, and later be used by the group that created it. You can actually feel the individual types for a second, before it finishes the reaction.

The area there now feels a bit empty, though Wind Ether appears to have built around the area. The creature seems to be moving away.

[Supernerd]

Wait... Wind Ether... Gaal'garot recalled that he actually got quite a lot of blood from a creature that can use wind ether to fly, and he was able to distinctly identify a buildup of wind ether.

Perhaps it was time to try another test. Gaal'garot would search through the blood memory for information about how to use and collect wind ether from the blood of the bird. If an area is saturated with Wind Ether he wasn't ruling out the possibility of being able to fly, if only for a short time.

Gaal'garot was briefly unconcerned about the possibility of blades being in the immediate vicinity, which would be very good news for any blades that were actually in the immediate vicinity.

[TricMagic]

Blood Devilry, Upgrade Collected.[/b]

You have gathered the Blood of 3 creatures. Requirements met.
Gained Perk, Ether Sense-
You can now sense the base Ether in the world around you. This is a skill all animals and nearly all blades have, to one degree or another. You can also better imitate creatures you've drained, now that this is available. {Note that Blades will still be able to pick you out if you do anything a human can't. And some Blades can still pick you out.}

You have drained the Blood of three monsters with Ether Collection. Perk Acquired.
You can now gather the Ether around you, and use it if you have any skills that require it.

The effects of Moonlight have shifted. Moon Sense is no longer required. Can't fight the Moonlight has been disabled for the rest of this Moon phase. You can now gather ?? Ether beneath the Moonlight for this phase only.

[Supernerd]

It seemed as though Gaal'garot had already accomplished what he had set out to do. Additional hunting would not be immediately necessary, though he would be able to do very little with this new ability without suitable blood.

He pondered on this for a moment. There were eight different moon phases, and also eight different varieties of ether. Perhaps each phase of the moon had a corresponding ether type. This meant that he had a new moon quest of sorts. His next goal was to learn what kind of ether he could absorb. He would start by determining if it is Wind Ether; which would be trivially easy to do at this moment.

He would also take note of whether he was standing beneath the first quarter moon or the third quarter moon, and he would also check to see if he could sense other types of ether in the vicinity.

[TricMagic]

Wind Ether is now being gathered from the wind current.

It is currently the Waning Moon phase.

You also try and see what happens with the Moon.
?? Gathered. You don't quite have the knowledge to determine it, but it does seem to be reacting somehow. No further data.

[Supernerd]

Gaal'garot continues to ponder. While the exact nature of the ether is unclear, he does know a few things about it. The first thing is that its not the same as Wind Ether as he can distinctly tell what wind ether feels like right now. Its almost certainly not fire or light either because he would have a (probably negative) reaction to that which would be quite obvious.

Also worthy of note, is that the moon actually provided a specifc kind of ether directly, and did not simply permit him to absorb it from places where the ether was present. In theory, this meant that he could make unlimited use of a specific kind of ether so long as the moon was in the appropriate phase and in the sky.

It was time for a test. He would attempt to use the bird's Wind Ether Flight ability. First he would attempt to do it in his normal form. Since it required ether to work, that meant that his shape shouldn't matter. In theory at least. This is why he is testing it now instead of in mid battle.

[TricMagic]

You try to use the gathered Wind Ether to Fly.

Calculation, Wind Ether Lv4 required.
Wind Ether Lv1. Failure.

The Wind Ether is dispersed in a violent burst, damaging you. Internal organs damaged.

Thankfully, your regent fixes it somewhat quickly.

What you learned. That there is a reason for their forms. That, and you're nowhere near flying on your own.

[Supernerd]

Ether Lv. Gaal'garot had no idea what that meant, but he would need to ponder that calculation. For now, he would stop his experimenting and explore a bit more. There was still plenty of time before daybreak after all, and this particular cave wasn't perfectly safe for a prolonged rest.

Apparently he was using ether in a very irresponsible way; which would probably seriously maim or kill a normal person. While he wasn't meaningfully harmed from that, he figured he should at least learn a little more before trying that again.

[TricMagic]

Direction?

[Supernerd]

Gaal'garot feels that he no longer needs to stick to the desert. He heads north to the mountain range.