A Plague on Both Your Houses

[fightingofthespirit]

Who: Klarth F. Lester, Celena Vantari, Korra, Georik Zaberisk, potentially Garviel, anyone else from Rome
What: Let's cure us a plague
Where: Rome, the University
Warnings: None

The clock is ticking.  Even with Georik's suggestions, more and more fall to the plague daily.  A group of great potential has been gathered in Rome, courtesy of one dictator with the penchant of kidnapping anyone who so much as mentioned the word 'plague' over the crystal network.  Having worked steadily for the last several weeks, they may be close to a breakthrough...

((You may post!  No posting order needed!  Just respond whenever you want.

You are also welcome to start your own threads for one-on-one RP about anything else related to the plague - experiments your character might have done prior to the main discussion that you'd like to thread, fieldwork with patients, or just relaxing and talking with other researchers, etc.  Whatever you feel like posting, go for it!

At this point, I believe it is safe to say that the plague will be cured through a combination of Klarth's incantation of earth mana in combination with Korra's waterbending, Celena's amplification device/reading of the incantation itself, and Georik/anyone else's follow-up treatment.  We have permission from the mods to carry this out, although we will need to go from kingdom to kingdom to cast the spell.))

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MAIN DISCUSSION

[fightingofthespirit]

Fifteen minutes earlier, a crazed and delusional half-clothed Professor Lester (well no he was fully clothed just missing his hat which, as any true summoner knows, is practically going naked) had run down the halls screaming about an emergency meeting in the main dining area.

When everyone has gathered, they will be privy to a tale of epic adventure. Klarth stands in front of the group and begins to pace.

"The hour is late. Three past midnight. Having gone without food or sleep for the past 54 hours, the great professor wonders if perhaps, he was overexerting himself. How could a single man alone hope to conquer a disease that had felled hundreds? How could a single man alone dare to snatch at the workings of the universe it self and bend them to his will?"

A thrusting forth of the palm.

"But lo! Never should he have doubted himself so! Ladies and gentlemen... I present to you, the finest work of the famous scholar, Professor Klarth F. Lester!"

An absurdly large book is thrown to the ground.

"The incantation to cure the plague, all one hundred sixty eight thousand words of it in basic Dagarian, rune-script, and just for good measure, the language of the Summon Spirits."

"Haha! Whoops. I forgot to bring it up, we actually don't have our own language. I made up all of those symbols off the top of my head."

"............"

Klarth inhales. "Now, there are still quite a few problems yet to be resolved, but I do believe this is a groundbreaking first step. Ms. Vantari, Korra, Dr. Zaberisk... How does your work progress?"

Testing

[curiousredsoul]

After the meeting had finished Celena had set herself to understanding and learning the incantation and spell that Klarth had spent time and effort to bring to fruition. Testing the way that the incantation affected the flow of manner, learning how the spell worked so that when it came time she could test it proper with the device she had created for the purpose.

The next day, once she was sure of her understanding of the spell she send a messenger to each of those involved in the meeting should they wish to observe the initial tests of the spell with the device. She had set up the device within a large practical hall within the University. Desks and tables around the room arrayed with various tools and books strewn about, although all the tables had been cleared for a good fifteen feet from the center of the room. In the center of the hall sat the device, seeming deceptively small at first, given the range Celena had put some design consideration into portability.

The device itself only measuring three feet in diameter by a foot thick at first, seemingly consisting of a top plate and a base plate, each embedded with crystals at geometric points locations, seemlessly blended into the designs, around the outer edge of the base plate seven identical crystals that glowed red with inner power rested in grooves though were seemingly able to be removed. The top plate itself smooth with a rune covered surface which seemed to indicate that something be placed in the center.

Crouching down once others were present, Celena placed her hand atop the device, the crystals glowing to life as she stood back as the top plate began to separate and rise, to rest at table height, tilting forward towards her even as the seven crystals around the edge of the base rose from their holders and began to orbit at head height nearly ten feet from the device, each spinning slowly.


"Now, shall we begin?"