The following is from an isekai PbP RP.
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Andromeda was resting. Staring a the inn's ceiling, in their room.
Truly, shadow control, such scientifically impossible nonsense... and it
wasn't just blatant photonic manipulation, she herself could do that -
with plasma, and even easier with magic.
She'd checked her armor for her base assumptions, and fortunately it
seemed it wasn't meaningfully weaker from the inside. She hadn't dared
to test it's limits, it would do fine, for now.
Classical elements... Well, you could see anything as anything. Life as
chess. Spacetime as a rutabaga.
She thought. She looked at her outstretched palm, then closed her hand,
except for the index finger. With her other hand, she wrapped all but
the tip, and focused.
There was a reason she didn't blow up every circuit and wipe every hard
drive when she walked past them, back on Earth. Her body was essentially
electromagnetically shielded, unless she chose otherwise. It did make it
a pain to see through, though. Even for her eyes.
A slight hum appeared, and a sharp hiss, from the electromagnetic
energies she was using.
"This was kind of like using a tourniquet", she reasoned.
The precise electromagnetic configuration at the tip of her finger gave
up, and she watched through it.
She could use a plasma field to generate an optic lens.. but she needed
to practice her magic. So. She began using her amateur magic skills. She
felt the weave, and took the part that flew through the fingertip, and
spread it out. not by much, but a darker, ten times larger image of the
fingertip appeared in front of Andi's eyes, and their natural ability to
see the EM spectrum.
Earth, she though. It was hard to tell, but she could see the magnetite
and silicate cilia, as her cell wriggled, stressed. There was titanium
there too, calcium, of course, and more. then she focused on the liquid
nitrogen and ammonia channels.
Water, ice.
Then, she looked at where she knew an ion channel went. Air ions...
hydrogen, others. helium.
Air.
Then, she gazed at the near surface region, and excited it, until plasma
started forming
Fire.
How did that one student, Vesper, what was her first name like to say?
All models are wrong, some are useful.
She sighed, and allowed the fields and the magic lens to dissipate.
The lens, though....
She'd once, after her mother had died, flown as close to the sun as she
could.
When she'd been somewhere around Mercury's perihelion, the sun's energy
had felt pleasant.
At about half that, it had started to be too much, but her body had been
adapting.
At what she'd estimated to be less than 20 million kilometers, it
started to get to be significantly too much, and she'd stopped before
she was 15 million kilometers away, turning back. She had gone to
Mercurius's shadow to check the astronavigation data, and then,
slingshotted herself back towards Earth.
Technically she'd been the closest satellite for the sun, until 2018,
when the Parker solar probe broke the record. Had taken a while, though.
Accelerating and then decelerating...
Sunlight. Magic lenses.
The weave wasn't a field. This was significant. That meant that if you
picked the right "threads" and their interactions, energies didn't
dissipate the same way.
Tomorrow, she thought. Tomorrow I'll look for an easy job I can take
with the Dai-Ken-Shi trio.
