Exile on Main Street

[Huitzil]

"Uh... okay. You might want to wrap some rubber bands around the handle or something, so we can tell where it is."

He stretches his arms, then gets up. "Okay, I think that about did it. Ready to try?"

[Bjorn]

"I was ready before," Bjorn points out drily.

He then goes through the same set-up: choosing a place, extruding the shield, setting himself.  Then he nods at Paul.  "Ready when you are."

[Huitzil]

Paul nods. He hears the lyrics in his head again, as that's the only mental bridge he knows of to manifest the power. He imagines the "volume" to be low, lower than before, so low that it seems Mick Jagger is whispering about a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis, perhaps because he was still in her room and he didn't want to wake her.

Then he imagines pushing on Bjorn's chest, imagines reaching out and giving him a shove, and even imagines the feeling of his arm rising to do it, but he doesn't actually move at all.

(I'm using my TK at 10 STR to try and push Bjorn. Not really an attack, just a push.)

[Brian]

Huitzil:  It's like trying to push the planet.  Nothing happens (though, this takes a bit less out of you) except for the color scheme of the shield changing to a bit more yellow than black.

Bjorn:  Your shield appears to be anchored to the ground, and anchoring you there, as well.

Dracos:  Lines of yellowish force are reaching out of Paul's aura, like he was wearing a suit of helpful Shoggoth plate.  They're pushing at the shield inneffectually,

[Huitzil]

If Paul had his arms out, he'd drop them to the ground in a show of exertion. "Well, that didn't work. Or it did work, I guess. Anyway, whatever shield you have blocks my telekinesis.

"I wonder how it differentiates? I mean, kinetic energy is kinetic energy, and I don't think the shield would block something like a really strong gust of wind. Maybe it's the same way it can tell whether something is normal fire nor not-normal fire. Whatever, I don't know shit abotu this anyway." That said, he sits back down on the deck.

[Dracos]

"It's obvious actually.  It's magic.  It stops the weaves of magic."

Dracos

[Huitzil]

"Magic? I dunno if it's that... I mean, I don't remember really 'weaving' anything. I think if it was magic, it would be different."

He pauses.

"Then again, I also thought that if I could lift shit with my mind, I'd know, and look how that ended up. Maybe it's all caused by tiny gnomes, and the shield just blocks gnomes from getting in. We don't know, really."

[Dracos]

"I can see it.  It extends off you, a sort of yellow wave heading towards his shield, which changed color slightly when it encountered yours and stopped it.  That's entirely the uniting effect.  It's the magic itself it stops."

Dracos

[Huitzil]

"You can see it? Weird. I can't even see it, and I'm the guy who does it. This is all really, really fucked up. But as long as you're here, I want to try using it to shove something at Bjorn, and see how it affects that."

[Dracos]

"That likely wouldn't stop the object once in motion, but would stop the magic if you tried to hold it within the shield from without."

Dracos

[Bjorn]

"I'd tend to agree with Drac," Bjorn says, the shield still glowing about him.  "I'm willing to try, but I'll bet that if you pushed a mattress at me, you'll stop being able to push once you reach the edges of the shield, but the mattress will keep moving.  Just like how I didn't get burnt by Ashnod's fire, but I was choking on the smoke from the fire he lit in the Workshop.

"But, Drac, you said you could see something you thought was Paul's TK?  And it stopped at the shield, you say, and that makes sense, given that we all saw the shield change color.  So here's a question: how big can I make this shield?"

And that's exactly what Bjorn sets about doing.  As he pushes it out, though, he tries to imagine it growing more along the ground, and as little upwards as possible -- a disc expanding about him, rather than a sphere.  Probably don't want to freak out the neighbours.

[Brian]

Bjorn:  Your shield appears indifferent to your input.  You do know, from practice, that you could extend your 'mindboard' around other people, so it seems reasonable to assume you could extend your other protection as well ... but it does not appear to visibly effect the shield you're seeing now.  Also, when Paul stops pushing, you can lift your feet again, and don't feel like something's anchoring you down.

[Dracos]

"Hmm, I have a thought."

Dracos walked around to the opposite side of the shield from Huitzil.

"Bjorn, mind testing having two different powers hitting your shield at the same time?"

Dracos

[Bjorn]

Bjorn stops trying to extend the shield, and turns his mindboard in.  "Go right ahead.  If you feel up to it, Paul, try shoving a little harder, too."

He grins, suddenly.  "If I start spitting blood, though, stop please?"

[Dracos]

Dracos laughs and sends a very strong This message has gotten through. to Bjorn's mind.

Dracos