Hit Me Baby One More Time (semi-open)

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WHO: Jim Kirk + Samouel Gareth, Christine, Ohgren, Cosima, Korrin, Kain, Inessa, anyone else who wanted to help with the experiments
WHAT: It's time for Jim to run his experiments and beat some leathers.
WHEN: Throughout Justinian, after this post
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Nothing worth noting unless you protest the beating upon of leathers

Thankfully he was bequeathed quite a bit of leather to run these experiments, because there was a lot he wanted to test. He didn't want to run each subsequent test on a previously used leather either - that would skew results, and he needed these as precise and clean and controlled as possible. Not the lab settings he would hope for, but make due with what you got.

Now all he needed were his assistants.

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INESSA

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Inessa arrives on time, as promised. The elven mage has her staff in one hand, the other resting on Garahel. Garahel himself perks up when spotting Jim and barks, wagging his tail. He can help, too, right?

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Kirk looks up at the bark, having been making final notes on bits of paper. The area had several stands with leather strapped to them, placed far enough apart from each other that whatever magic Inessa through would hopefully not hit the next one in line.

"Thanks for coming," he greeted, bending down to give Garahel a head pat. "You too, boy."

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Inessa smiles as Garahel rumbles happily. "You're quite welcome. If you need to test leather against the efforts of a mabari, I suppose he can assist. As for myself, I'm ready to begin at your leisure."

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"It might be a worthy thing to test. I'm sure someone would love to have some mabari proof armor," he chuckled, giving the dog a last scratch before giving his full attention to Inessa.

"Right, so, it's pretty basic. I just need you to hit the leathers with spells of the same power," he explained. "We'll need to do it repeatedly, and as each piece gives out I'll remove it and the targets go down. At the end, the one that's the held on the longest we'll take a fresh piece of and freeze for a study of what it does over time. Sound good?"

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Garahel huffs in agreement before plopping down nearby to watch. Inessa nods and sets her staff aside, as its not ice-element based and therefore not relevant to this particular test.

"It does. I can cast Winter's Grasp, a simple enough spell and one that doesn't need a wide range. It will only freeze one target at a time, though the rest will be chilled. I could cast Blizzard to affect them all equally at once, but we'll need to give more room for that.

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"How much more room?" Kirk asked. Blizzard seemed like the more even handed option for the first few until he had to remove leathers as they were deemed to have failed. At least the stands for the leathers themselves were easy to move. They weren't particularly heavy, just enough to withstand blows.

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At that question, Garahel paces over a certain distance and pauses, barking. Inessa smiles and nods, making a mental note to give him a treat for that initiative. "That should be sufficient, from my point of origin."

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"Mind giving me a hand?" he asked her, going to the stands and picking one up to move it in a straight line down to be even with the mabari. Luckily the stands weren't all that heavy - he had tried to keep them light but sturdy for just such purposes (and because getting them out here otherwise would have been a bitch).

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"Of course." If they were heavier, Inessa would attempt to move them via energizing, but there seems to be no need for that. Once they're all placed appropriately, she nods and moves back into position, gesturing for him to do likewise. Only then does she summon the dark clouds and chill winds that herald a sudden blizzard.

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Kirk crossed his arms as the temperature dropped, watching the clouds roil in. He was somewhat surprised by the necessity of them. He had thought it would be more akin to chilling the water in the air to create the ice, not messing with the weather.

"Uh, is this an extreme form of the spell?" he asked, rubbing his arms. "You don't need to push yourself to very much."

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As the wind blows, Inessa raises her voice to compensate. "I'm not; this is the spell as it has always been cast. The name is quite literal, but it will end soon enough." Not about to dispel it and negate their efforts, she waits for the clouds to fade and the wind to still. Anything in its radius is frozen solid.