Research and Testing

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

1. Negi hadn't expected the spells to work out the first time around, especially when he was doing something as legitimately time consuming such as building a test broom for Cedric to try out later. He had obtained the materials easily enough, and had gone through as many spellbooks as possible on the creation of a flight-worthy broom.

Back home, a broom was used via the natural magical power of a mage, and was a very basic spell. Here however, he was working on imbuing the power of several flight, protective and wind barrier spells into a single item, and was running into trouble keeping the ratio of spells at a tolerable level.


2. Later on, Negi was taking a break, wandering through the city and trying to clear his head. He was still stuck on the broomstick problem, and he was bouncing a ball he had found ages ago off walls, and watching it ricochet around the buildings.

"If only I can get the spells to balance and stick, without having to be renewed several times," grumbled Negi. "I need some kind of insulator first..."

(ooc: choose your scenario 1 or 2. tags'll be slow obviously so bear with me.)

Comments

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

"If it were that simple really. I want to make sure that it is both safe, and comfortable."

Negi tapped his chin thoughtfully. "I need to combine both of those, as well as a fairly standard flight spell."

[saint-sami.livejournal.com]

"...maybe instead of trying to combine both of those, how about you combine one with the flight spell and use the other afterwards?" Sasami suggested. "You can't get both and expect the main part to work, right?"

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

"... There's an idea," said Negi, making a few swift mental calculations. "If I were to combine the wind barrier spell as well as the flight, then it should be able to compensate for the flight spell while in transit. The rest of it is placing a spell for comfort after that and a few extra things so that it doesn't shake itself to pieces when flying faster..."

[saint-sami.livejournal.com]

"See? It was all a matter of readjusting!" Sasami said. "Though, I have to ask - why a broom?"

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

At that, Negi laughed and rubbed his head. "Cedric and the others are used to brooms. So I figured I'd make some of them."

[saint-sami.livejournal.com]

"Cedr-- Oh! Some of the new people!" Sasami said, figuring it out. "Well, that was nice of you to do that for them!"

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

"Thanks! With any luck, I won't have to worry about the composition of the brooms till much longer." said Negi. "The aerodynamics need to be fine tuned after I get it flying."