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[Anastasia]

Fort save.

[Nephrite]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+43 : 8 + 43, total 51[/blockquote] mettle

[Anastasia]

You sing - and you feel something. Something gathering, as sheer, overwhelming pain assaults you. It's like you just carved your own middle out, causing you to fall to the ground in thrashing agony. The world is darkness and pain, "Moore, heal yourself," Xandra's voice penetrates it, commanding.

300 points of damage, full.

[Nephrite]

Don't have to tell him twice!

A feeble gesture as he calls on healing! Twice, in fact!

2x Heal for 300.

[Anastasia]

Uuuugh.

You feel better at least, vision clearing as you find yourself curled up on the ground, gasping.

[Nephrite]

He takes a moment to get his bearings and get his breath back.

He takes another moment, then another and another.

"I can't tell if that actually worked or not..." He admits as he flops back into the grass.

[Anastasia]

Xandra merely gestures ahead. On the roof sits a single blade of grass, as if plucked from a field.

[Nephrite]

"...I can't say I'm very impressed with the work so far." Moore says as he reaches out to grab the blade of grass. "...Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on myself, though."

[Anastasia]

"You should not be. A typical mortal can only speak a few words. What you tried is unthinkable - these words brought about everything in the beginning. It uses yourself directly to create like that - not the Weave, not the power of your mind, but yourself." Xandra explains, "It is orders of magnitude harder than any of those methods - but it is virtually free of shackles otherwise."

[Nephrite]

"Well, I suppose I'm a step closer, if nothing else." He says as he shakes the grass in his hand. "I'll have to work on the return on investment, though..."

He takes a breath.

"Hmm... so does that mean there's still one more, or did I miss the target so far that I managed to hit something else completely?" He asks with a bit of a laugh.

[Anastasia]

"One more," Xandra advises, "Do you have an idea?"

[Nephrite]

"So there's literal creation and then using them against something that's the antithesis of creation..." Moore says to himself quietly. "If it isn't using them to augment something like I've already done, then... hmm... ..."

Three ways... one, two...

He takes a breath and considers.

"I... the only thing I can think of is somehow combining those two things -- both creation and..." He sighs as he falls back against the roof. "Destruction...?" He asks quietly. "Hm..."

He blinks, then sits up. "Creation... spells?" He taps his chin. "Can it augment things that create something else, maybe?"

[Anastasia]

As a matter of fact, it can. That's in the standard uses for the feat. Go check the BoED for more information.

[Nephrite]

You'd think I'd have checked there first, wouldn't you? Whoops.

Moore flops back onto the roof. "The only thing that comes to mind is using it as some sort of destructive force -- the other cycle of creation, after all. I may have to do some thinking on this."

[Anastasia]

Xandra comes and sits next to you, "There's no hurry," she says, "Chronias is neither slow nor fast - it is at the speed it needs to be. Have faith and patience, the way will reveal itself."