>>6113791#Icarus
=Metrics=
Vitality 12 // Stamina 8/12 // Focus 12
Action 9 // Speed 2
=Stats=
Will 10 // Health 10 // Grit 10
Sense 10 // React 9
Lethality 1d6 // Threshold 1d6
=Kit=
-Equipment-
Weaver's Whip
=Secrets=
#Iconotheurgy12
#Analysis12
#Wards13 (Base 10)
#Rope13
=Traits=
!Through Clenched Teeth 1
!Of Edges and Insights 1
!Threshold DR 1
Icarus recalls reading a paper on the theoretical applications of layline tension.
Long a point of vexation for students of the Arts, the transmission of any medium via wards exerts a myriad of invisible pressures upon the meshwork. Overtime, or if forced to endure extreme loads, these pressures can induce cracks and fissures in the material which the wards are engraved onto potentially threatening to compromise the entire network.
This paper posited, that these by-products of wardcraft could be harvested and put to productive work - via an array of modifications ward composition, and copious layers of heavy-duty insulative warding. The practical example provided - and centerpiece of their study - was a flameless furnace. Supposedly, a choir of theurgical scholars had managed to continuously channel the surrounding atmosphere into their experimental meshwork pattern, harnessing and redirecting the accumulated invocational pressures built-up within the mesh to compress the air into 0.5x0.5 meter space around a loaded crucible. Compressing a greater and greater quantity of air down until it began to shine with a reflection of the Empyrean's brilliance and melt the ore that had been loaded into the crucible.
Only 5 individuals had reportedly died in the ensuing resonance cascade, with most fatalities being undergrad assistants standing outside of the choir's protective wards.
Now that's all well and good - assuming the findings aren't fraudulent - through it does make Icarus wonder.
Could the same principle be applied to a immaterial medium - like a concept or a condition?
>2MP: Step [3]x1, [5]x1. Icarus slowly clambers up the chunk of crumbling masonry to access the higher section of the roof.>1SP: Step [4]x1. Tentatively Icarus eases his way further onto the roof.>3AP: Icarus inscribes a Major Ward onto the stonework of the tile which he is standing on. The spiraling hexanodal design paired one-way correlation bypasses is optimized for one-way transmission of immaterial qualities into a vessel with the recursive insulation rerouting cumulative channeling pressures inwards concentrating the channeled qualities to an extreme degree. (SeeImage)>1SP: Step [5]x1. Icarus quietly skulks further towards the center of the roof.>3AP: Icarus inscribes a Major Ward onto the stonework of the tile [4]x1 of his current position. Clearly only a fragment of a larger ward.>3AP: Withdrawing the shard of stonework he pilfered from the ruin's base from a pocket, Icarus begins etching an extensive ward mesh across its surface, creating an arrangement specialized towards arrest and retention of metaphysical qualities. 