In reply to Magnus (msg # 433):

The greater distance and the small size of the target make it harder to do, but you feel that the greater safety is worth the bother.  Within a few minutes, you get a small flame licking at the stick in the ground.

Success.

A few minutes later you hear a holler from Tyler.  It sounds happy, so he's not hurt himself, so that's good.

I smile when I hear Tyler celebrating.
I'll select another small stick to serve a a target and then go to Tyler.

I'll comment
"Sounds like you where successful. What did you make?"

Once he explains, I will say
"I had some success myself. Let me demonstrate pryokinesis."

I will set up the small stick I selected and then use it to show Tyler Pryokinesis.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 435):

"I was thinking, I and a lot of others have to carry things, so---"  He holds out a stick, stares at it, and then reaches out and touches a rock.  Still holding the tip of the stick to the rock, he raises arm, stick, and rock into the air.

"I think you could carry boxes to the ships with this."

Your attempt also works.

"Clever, very Clever. That will be useful to pretty much anyone."

I will help Tyler learn pryokinesis. Afterwards, I will say

"The next thing that the Dragon suggested was Teleportation. Basically removing yourself from one space to appear in another in another without going though the space in between."

With that, I will attempt to teleport by twisting the space around myself into a bubble that is separate from the main space. I will move the bubble about ten feet in hyperspace. Then reconnect back to the main space.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 437):

The bubble you're in is wobbly and liable to collapse at any moment, so you quickly move and drop back out into normal space.

I look around after I reenter normal space. How far did I travel?

In reply to Magnus (msg # 439):

About ten feet. It felt like it might go bad, but it stayed on target.

"Well. That was dangerous. I could gave gotten lost in hyperspace... Tyler, how are you with geometry?"

In reply to Magnus (msg # 441):

"Um, I can measure a rug or carpet for a room well enough, or fill a box with other boxes with some effort."

"Hmmmm... How to explain it... Imagine a sheet of paper that is infinatly tall and wide but also infinity thin. This is called a plane in geometry. Imagine a point. It has zero dimensions because it has no length, width or height. A line would have one dimension since it has length. But no width or hight. Therefore this infinitely wide and tall plane has two dimensions. And our world has three dimensions because it has length, width and height.

Now imagine creatures that live in that plane. They are as flat as the plane since they have no thickness. What do you think a creature like that would experience if you plucked him out of his plane and showed him the three dimensional world?"

Basically I'm trying to explain 4 dimensional space so that Tyler can learn how to teleport like how I did it.
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In reply to Magnus (msg # 443):

An hour and a half later, with a number of confused expressions on his part, a budding headache on yours, and a couple amusing mistakes on his part, and he has it.  You gain +@1 to Teaching.

He then teleports successfully.

"Congratulations on learning to teleport. The final thing the Dragon suggested was to 'ask the rocks what came before.'
Which suggests that events leave some sort of psionic impression in the objects that the event happened near. The wording suggests contacting rocks in a area.
It might be easier to contact a single object. Can I borrow one the objects you carved?"

Assuming that he let's me borrow one.
I will produce a mass of psionic power and gently hold the power near his object. Questioning the object and coping the information contained within.
Seeing gow it was made.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 445):

You ask and suddenly you feel a voice in your head.

Be a rock.

Time passes and other bits of rock are shoved into and integrated into the rock.  It loses bits of itself, and become more This Rock rather than That Rock.  Its heated almost to melting, and merges with another rock, and becomes the New Rock.  It finally breaches the surface and wonders for a very long time why there is nothing pressing down on it until another rock tells him of this wonder called Sky.

Its broken in half by a heavy foot.  It learns to be the new self.  Time passes, and then a strangeness happens.  It is picked up and ...carved.  Is that a word?

Hello, are you intelligent watching one?

I reply with my thoughts
Yes. Are you the spirit of this carved rock? If not what are you?

In reply to Magnus (msg # 447):

I am this rock.  I can say that for sure.  The rest is philosophy?  Am I just the rock, or am I a spirit attached to the rock? What precisely do  you mean by spirit?  By the way, you feel strange.

Well. By most people's definition. Spirit refers to an Immaterial Being. The exact definition usually depends on the religion of the person. I think I will consider you a spirit because I don'tthink that you are using the physical matter of this rock to think. Unless my understanding of the world is sorely lacking.

Anyway. What do you mean by I feel strange? Can you describe the sensation yo me?

It's hard for me to say what exactly I am.  Its not the type of thing we rock think about much except when we're breaking apart.

I don't know. Different. I've touched a lot of rocks and trees, and birds have landed on me, and they all felt one way, and you another.

That is understandable I guess.
The major difference between myself and the others here is the fact that I am originally from another world. So that might be the source of the Strange feeling.

...Do you feel pain when you are split and broken apart?

In reply to Magnus (msg # 451):

Pain? No. Its more of a strangeness as I reunderstand myself.  Otherwise, I think I would feel pain every time the wind blew.  Perhaps not.  You say, not of th is world.  Are you from some other rock fallen out of the sky?

Not Really, World is a bit of a slang term to describe another dimension.

 I am not sure exactly how I got here. But my classmates accidentally broke a electronic device with something called scriff inside it. And it shocked me and knocked me out. When I woke up I was in this dimension instead of my home dimension. I'm fairly sure the dimensions are different because my home only had technology. While this dimension has magic,  psionics and many other sentient species besides humans.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 453):

Electronic?  This feels right like you are strange in a way that makes sense.  Let me think. Yes, ah.......time passes.....yes, way back, when the Dragons were young, and I was a very large chunk of rock that stretched across much of the planet, I rememember, a girl appeared out of nowwhere.She felt like you did too.  She vanished after a time, I do not recall how.

A single rock that covered most of the planet? Sounds like a continent. It also sounds like it was millions of years ago. What can you tell me about this girl that appeared out of nowhere?

In reply to Magnus (msg # 455):

She walked like you do, and now I remember, she could make things move like you do.  But she never talked to me.  She did talk to someone else, who I sensed at times, but could not see.  Now I remember more, one day, a great wind arose, and it was even enough to rip chunks of me off from me, and when all that noise was gone and the sky was clear again, she was gone.

You have to understand, I was a very large rock, and so there were many things of interest happening on me at the same time.

Hmm, back then I was much thinner in history, but broader in space.  Now I am much thicker in history, but thinner in space.

I understand. I have a vague idea of the scale you awareness was operating on.

Talked to someone you couldn't see? Did she mention their name? Did she mention her name?

That must have been some wind to rip rocks off of you.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 457):

We're still not big on names.  Yes, there have been a few other winds as big since then, but not many.