IC action: Collaborations for turtle moving

[oceantier]

Characters: All planning to help move the turtle! (Sign ups still open here.)
Date: ICly, mid-October to mid-November
Location: All over the turtle
Situation: Preparations need to be made for moving the turtle.
Warnings/Rating: None.

Feel free to use this log as a catch-all for characters meeting up with one another to build things, collaborate with team members and across teams, conduct diplomacy, consult maps, talk through issues, test spells, etc. for anything related to preparing to move the turtle! It may be a good idea to indicate the time of month for your prompts.

As a reminder, the new resting place for the turtle will be anchored on undersea mountains off the shore of Tavimbi. Nothing is known about the place except for the fact that the land itself is mountainous.

This log is NOT the actual move! That will be posted mid-November -- 16th or 17th.

Comments

[radiantwingedone]

Ah, so that explains what those are.

"... Thirty six forms of airbending...." There's a hint of a smile. It might be the tilt of his head making it look like he is, but that would be the intended appearance anyway. "I would have to make quite a few more spells to match that, I think. I will keep in mind that you are most likely better prepared with just air than I will be."

[12goingon113]

Aang both stands up taller, and yet still seems to shrink slightly, at the praise.

"Can you do that? Make more spells, I mean."

[radiantwingedone]

Well, it isn't likely he would hear it often from Duke himself so. No need to shrink further.

Duke nods slightly. "I have... One I am very certain no one has, another I am reasonably sure. Two more, that I am fairly sure that I have seen another use but I believe they learned on their own, or got to the same result from a different starting point." He won't say anything further on one of those, and to dissuade any asking, he moves on.

"The other term for spells, home, is formula. It makes it easier to alter and make your own spells, as most have enough flexibility normally to change a little."

[12goingon113]

"It's that way with bending too. I didn't...technically master all thirty-six forms, but since I created a new one, the Monks let me pass."

"Zuko told me his Uncle Iroh invented the bending form that lets you redirect lightning from watching waterbenders."

[radiantwingedone]

See, Duke would have thought altering lightning would be a combination of wind and fire, but that was just how it worked for him.

"Sometimes it works out, learning from watching and making something that way." ... Of course, failing to redirect the lightning would.. be disastrous so it was a good thing it worked out.

But after he thinks a second more, how water interacts with lightning makes it make sense. "... Although sometimes its a little hazardous..."

[12goingon113]

"No kidding. Iroh already knew how to bend lightning when he developed the form, so that probably helped. I can't imagine asking someone to shoot lighting at me so I could practice the technique."