[Open] Heat Haze

[nor_iron_bars]

Who: Jail, various bystanders, and you.
What: Installation and maintenance.
When: Throughout July.
Where: Anywhere on campus.
Warnings: Jailbreak continues to Jailbreak.


I. Hot air

[Usually, Jail's own worktable in her room provided enough for her to work with. But some projects required a little extra space. And, well, if you've got the resources so generously provided by an institute as well-funded as Daybreak, you may as well make use of them while you have the opportunity. Hence why you might potentially run into Jail working on something large and complex with a lot of fiddly mechanical parts in the Anvil of Hadur.]

[Which is pretty reasonable and fine. The part that's a little less reasonable is the bit where she's also wearing headphones...]

-can tell your boyfriend, if he says he got beef, that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fuckin' scared of him~!

[And singing along to the music. Loudly.]

[Man, the acoustics are great in here.]


II. Cool breeze

[So, interesting fun fact: up until this year, Daybreak Academy did not have an actual air conditioning system. Mostly due to the fact that the majority of the campus had been built multiple centuries ago.]

[And by "this year" we mean "literally the start of this month", because Jail is physically in the process of installing one.]

[For once she'd chosen to ask permission instead of forgiveness, and had received it for everywhere except the classrooms, library, and belltower.]

[Stupid historic building preservation codes.]

[Anywhere else, you may hear some quiet clanking and sotto voce profanity going on in a steady rhythm somewhere above your head. If so, you can look up to find Jail sitting on the ceiling and tinkering with a newly-installed air vent, defying the laws of both gravity and work safety.]

[On the bright side, if you hang around long enough, you could learn some really interesting new vocabulary.]


III. Summertime

[Wild card, offer your own prompt.]

Comments

[notbornguilty]

Myrtenaster has the highest range of ice manipulation I've ever seen outside of a master cryomancer. It can create anything from a tiny snowflake to a iceberg the size of a building.

[Jail's leaving a surprisingly good first impression on Weiss with all this shop talk.]

[nor_iron_bars]

[Jail is both a trashy crimegirl and a magical nerd. She contains multitudes. Weiss just happens to have activated nerd mode.]

[She chuckles.]

Ice magic, huh? Guess I know what you were doing to make up for the lack of A/C.

Elemental stuff's a solid focus, you can get a lot of power and versatility that way if you know what you're doing. Depending on how the setup works, you might be able to get it to branch out to water manipulation, too- but that's a little more dicey, so you're gonna want to make sure you got a better idea of what you're working with, first. Don't wanna risk breaking something.

[notbornguilty]

Actually, I just brought a window AC with me.

But no, Myrtenaster is unable to control water, a sacrifice made to it's sheer range of ice manipulation. In all honesty, I'm hoping to reach a level where I'll be able to create items capable of controlling other elements to offset my weaknesses. If I'm facing an enemy that's immune to ice, I'll be limited to my sword skills and glyphs.

[Jail being Jail, I have no doubt that she's heard of the Schnees. Weiss may even be talking to the culprit behind the disappearance of some of her Father's priceless acquisitions.]

[nor_iron_bars]

[Look. That vase may have been expensive and magically powerful, but it was also completely hideous. She was doing them a favor by taking it, really.]

Now that I can teach you. Gonna have to sign up for my class if you wanna, though- I ain't giving extra lectures while they aren't paying me.

[If she just went around doing things for free, what would it do to her reputation?]

[notbornguilty]

Oh, I intend to. I plan to get the most out of my time here.

[Look, Weiss doesn't care about some vase. It was tacky anyway.]