The Aspiring Archivist

TAAron burst into the library, as quietly as he could. With the mental speed of compounded zinc, he was able to make split-second decisions. He braced himself against a wall and took less than half a second to aim before firing 3 coins directly at Karden with a duralumin-fueled Push.

"Fine." TAAron walked away until he figured he would be out of earshot, then sat down in a corner and ate the piece of metal he had been using as a zinc mind. Slipping on a few zinc rings, he burned it, and felt a wave of pure mental speed rush him. Quickly, he diverted the sudden flow into his rings, nearly overfilling them with an excess of Feruchemical power and quickly coming up with a plan as he did so. He was left quite hungry, but he could deal with it. He began creeping back to the library, coins in hand and ready for a fight.

Upon reaching the library, TAAron stopped filling the zincmind. He had bumped into several walls on the way, but his zinc minds were a good deal more full. Burning tin now, be peered at Karden's book, trying to discern the title.

TAAron began to follow. Experimenting, he tried filling his zincmind while walking. The mental shift made him stumble for a moment, but he was able to keep up walking at a normal pace, at least while on a straight line.

"Well, Mr. Karden, I'm not exactly sure. I'm really very new here. I only know about a few other people here. Two named Thaidakar and Lark assigned me to my room, but I don't think they are in charge, exactly. Forgive my digression, but where did you meet Haly? She was going to get her hairpin tweaked, I think. She doesn't exactly look well."

That is very strange indeed. "You never did answer my question, sir. Who are you, exactly?"

"Er, okay. You okay, Haly?" He she was looking a bit odd, her eyes unfocused, swaying some in place.

Gaining this new Feruchemical ability sent TAAron into a furious excitement. I have to show this to Haly! He took his bag and a few brass rings, and ran out the door... and almost straight into a man he had never seen before. "Yes, I am... who are you? Have you seen Haly?" A bit nervous, he burned pewter and held tightly to his very slightly filled metalmind.

Meanwhile in room D55: TAAron stabbed himself with one of the Hemalurgic spikes from the cookies. He was unsure of its purpose exactly, but he knew that it was made of brass, meaning it stored Feruchemical zinc, brass, copper, or bronze. He had a sample of each metal to test for use as a metalmind. He touched the first one, zinc. Immediately, he felt something odd. He could somehow tell that he could use this piece of metal. He did what felt natural, and began to fill it. He began to feel his thoughts slowing down, his mental speed deteriorating. It was like his thoughts were moving through syrup, still forming normally but taking many times longer to reach him and be processed. He stopped filling it, and his thoughts returned to normal. Woah.

I wonder where Haly is, TAAron thought idly. He hadn't seen her for a while now, even though she should have been back from getting her hairpin tweaked a while ago. Unless it takes a long time to get tweaked. That must be it. After all, she had seemed pretty confident in her knowledge of the Beneath, and he was no expert in the branch of magic she was involved in. Who was he to judge how long it should take? He went back to his room again, and to his studies. The spikes he had found in the cookies were proving very interesting,

Okay, thanks. (Sorry, Terris Dominance is a subsection to a different page, I got that confused.)

Regarding this, there is a page for the Terrace Dominance post-Ascension, as well as for the Terris Village on Era 2. Should these pages be merged somehow, or kept separate? Should a separate page be made for the Terris people as a whole rather than the societies for each era?

On his way back from the infirmary, TAAron found something odd. In a dark corner of one of the hallways, there was an overturned plate. He could see cookie crumbs on the floor next to it. Picking up the plate, he reached to pick up some of the debris. "Ow!" he yelped. Something had pricked his finger. Not much thicker than a paperclip, it was about an inch long and extremely sharp on both ends. Digging through the rest of the cookie bits, more carefully this time, TAAron found 6 more tiny spikes. On a hunch, he burned steel and lightly pushed on the spikes. The should have been sent flying give their size, but they barely moved. They're Invested, he realized. The difficulty in pushing the spikes would have had to come from a Feruchemic or Hemalurgic charge. Given their shape, he had a good idea of which one it was. He slipped them into his bag and kept walking.

"Alright, thanks. And thanks for getting my bag. I don't know what I'd do if I lost it."

"Crabs? I don't recall... whatever." TAAron downed the vial. He let out a sigh of relief. "Thanks. I though I had lost by last bead of Lerasium there for a second. I should probably get some stuff for those burns." He stood up. "Uh, where is the infirmary?"

"I'm fine. Just ran out of pewter, is all. Ak. Think you could grab me a vial from my... where's my bag?" He had had it just before they have moved out of the Beneath. He gasped as a burnt hand brushed up against the beanbag.

"You are very welcome. I guess I'd better return to my studies. I have a lot of new material. Feel free to let be know if you need someone for any more shenanigans of yours!" Just then, TAAron ran out of pewter. "AGH!" A sudden rush of pain that he had been holding off since their fight rushed back. He had a feeling that it was even worse now, as he had been used to the total ease and comfort that pewter provided. As it was, he felt suddenly unbalanced and fell backwards into a bookshelf.

"Uh, OK. One, two three!"

"Alright, so how do we get up from the Beneath?"

TAAron smiled. "So are we waiting, or coming back later?"

TAAron took off after Haly, hoping she remembered where to go.

"Okay, glad to! Good thing that monster didn't get to us. Well, go get your hairpin tweaked! ...You're sure you're okay?"

TAAron, who had gotten out first, said "Are you alright? Did you get the sequin?"

TAAron shot a coin behind him, towards the sound of the roars. It also propelled him forwards, and it would have knocked him over if not for his pewter.