176/An Exchange of Notes

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**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student guids Acala and assists with carying the food up to her office, opening the door and navigating the stacks of books in the viscinity of her desk, and begins clearing space on her desk for the meal. She pulls out some parchment as well and several quills and inkwells. Reaching into one of the many shelves of the room she grabs a bottle of wine and two glasses, setting them down and pouring a healthy ammount in each, "I hope you dont mind the mess, I'm always so busy and sometimes the referencing gets a little crazy," she smiles "Please, take a seat."

**Acala (7) has posed:**
Acala closes the door and looks around, before sitting down, back to the door. As he sits down and looks around, golden light outlining his form. He turns back and a solid golden circle, surrounded by another circle flickers to life on his brow. "I don't mind. I think it looks quite homely, if perhaps a little dim." He glances down at his arm and notices the golden glow. "Oh dear" He glances up at Student, in order to see what her reaction might be.

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student turns after having set the glasses down and filling them to see Acala, his caste mark glowing on his brow through the layers of clothing and bronze skin. "Well," she says still in forest-tongue, "I wasn't expecting this and lunch with a sorcerer," and then sits down, motioning for him to sit as well.

**Acala (7) has posed:**
Acala relaxes visibly. "Well, now that my ways are obvious... What do you know about alchemy?" He asks, before dipping some bread into soup, and taking a bite.

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Doing likewise she follows by taking a sip of wine, "Well, Alchemy is not exactly my specialty, I deal mainly in pure sorcery, but the lines there blur, so I think it would be best if we started with what you are trying to accomplish. You mentioned a sort of 'Rebirth' earlier?" She seems pleased by the food, and takes another bite of soup soaked bread.

**Acala (7) has posed:**
"Mmm. My current body has been permanently scarred, and the cause of the scarring has lead to further complications that threaten my lifespan if I don't do anything about them." Acala says between bites of bread.

"So I'm going to take another poison, arsenic and some other materials and use it create a solution which will dissolve most of my body, except for the heart. Using the heart and my soul as the central point"

He pauses to take another bite of food. "I'm going to reconstruct my body out of stone, metal and the four humours which will be provided by my own body, alongside other animal material which will be necessary."

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student stops eating and begins to take notes based on the details that Acala is providing, she nods and murmurs for him to continue as, with quill and parchment, begines to lay out what she could see as necessary to such a ritual, attempting to offload as much strain from the caster to a subordinate sorcerer, who would be there mainly for assistance. "Hrmmm, bend the flows like so" she mutters as he continues.

**Acala (7) has posed:**
Acala leans over and looks at the notes. "Like that, yes..." He pauses. "Hadn't even thought of that" he says, gesturing at a quickly scrawled circle and some Old Realm symbols. "But the important part is finding the womb for the Rebirth. So if you take on the role of the mid-wife, you'll have to be standing outside the Womb and maintaining the circle and the terrain might be rough so we'll have to adjust for that. Otherwise, you'll get caught up in the working and I'm not sure I can rebuild both of us"

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
She hrmmms as she considers the dilema, but with a few quick strokes she add several outer circles and then a third much larger circle adding notes in old realm for demarcations, outer shell, and methods for balancing it. Each of the three smaller outer circles providing Anchors (one such anchor being Student herself), and the others being materials to reinforce the arcane barriers separating the currents of essence safely, to protect Student from such deliterious effects and the ritual itself from interruption). "Hrmmm, a coccoon of sorts... what to use..." she murmurs.

**Acala (7) has posed:**
"I was planning on using Chiaroscuran glass dust over a shell of quicksilver" Acala responds. "And then use sorcery to bind the quicksilver into form. The essence of the cave should help if I can find it." He's still looking over her should and examining her notes. He taps one of the symbols for the anchors. "That's going to have to be a mineral and that" he taps the other anchor. "Would be best served by being a vegetable and then we have a representation of what the Great mother brings forth. Animal, Mineral, Vegetable"

He pauses and takes a sheet of paper and a pen and begins making his own notes in a combination of Old Realm characters and Alchemical symbols. He creates an eight-spoked wheel around the symbols as well as a sunburst and a half-moon at either end. "This is going to be the basis of what's inside." He says. "The cocoon will be here in the middle of the wheel."

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student nods and adds more notes, "Perhaps some moonsilver in the mixture of chiarosucran glass and quicksilver to help them bond more efficiently," the symbol for moonsilver is included in the calculations of the shell and she adjust some of the formulae accordingly.
    Then continuing her notation she scetches out some other details for the time and date of the ritual including the use of the full moon and adding some additional elements of Luna's nature into the pattern that Acala had detailed, "Including recognition of her in this could only assist in such change," she approved. Its interesting to note that the time and date would indicate a day that the moon could be seen during twilight.

**Acala (7) has posed:**
"Well, the womb already has to be in a Lunar demesne so I don't know about the moonsilver. But the full moon makes sense, as does doing it that day. Let's just hope the Silver Lady feels like keeping up her usual patterns" He remarks. "Beginning at twilight is good as well..." He leans back. "Maybe we should invoke Venus as well. And there are myriad gods of health and birth which might be helpful as well."

**Student Eternally Rising (56) has posed:**
Student nods, "Yes we'll have to do some research on that front, contributions to such gods included as part of the ritual are surely going to help, even a passing nod of approval would help grease the weels of such a working, softening creation's resistance to this change." She delights, seeing that he was also as skilled as she at such things. "I'll have to show you my project later, but this is an excellent start to yours. I can see you have put much time in it," she nods.
    Then looking at the clock blinks, "Oh my, I'm going to be late, It was wonderful to meet you Acala, please drop by any time, we work well together, and I'm glad for the enlightened company."

**Acala (7) has posed:**
Acala glances at the time, and checks to ensure that the glow of his Anima has faded. "Oh I will, and then we will discuss your Working. Until then." He stands up, inclines his head and leaves the office with his half-full platter.