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.

Comments

[gatheringstorm]

Aw, Kirk. Korrin will be nice and not make him struggle for air, at least this time. "Hm...I could cast Chain Lightning if you want? That'll him them all, one after another, with the same potency. Or summoning a lightning bolt, but Chain Lightning is flashier."

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"Chain lighting would be best, I think. I'd rather them all be hit as individuals than by a single bolt," he decided, tapping the tip of his quill against the small table he had managed to set up to host his recording utensils. "As the leather's fail to stand strikes, I'll remove them, so you'll have less targets as this goes along."

He gave her an excited smile. "Let me know when you're ready."

[gatheringstorm]

"I'm ready now. Stay where you are." Korrin doesn't waste any time, striding ahead until she's well within range of her targets. Then she unleashes a blast of lightning, slamming into the first piece of leather before arcing to the others in rapid succession.

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Kirk squinted against the flash, raising his arm to shield his eyes even as he tried to peek beneath the shadow of it to see where she struck. It was an impressive spell, no matter how many times he saw it. When the last stars had faded from his eyes, he pushed off his little table and went to inspect the leathers, wrinkling his nose.

"Maybe I should make note of how much each one smells when charred..."

[gatheringstorm]

"'Terrible' about sums it up." Korrin wrinkles her own nose, waving away any resulting trails of smoke that reach her. "Need a minute before I switch to Lightning Bolt or whatever?"

[universal_charm]

"Yeah, let's let that clear out," he coughed, his eyes watering now. He moved back towards his table, waving his hand in front of his eyes as he reached for his quill and scratched at the paper. "Feel free to have a bit of wine or some crackers if you like."

[gatheringstorm]

"Don't mind if I do." While Kirk writes down whatever, Korrin follows his suggestion and goes to pour herself a little wine. When she's had her fill, she straightens and summons some wind to help clear the air a bit faster.

"Let me know when you're ready for me to zap them again."