Ridcully stood out in a crowd. The red robes, pointy hat, bushy beard, and tall staff (with a knob on the end, as is traditional) would make anyone stand out, and Ridcully was a hair over six feet tall and heavily built on top of that. He was practically a landmark. The Union group could have been told to meet under Ridcully if they got lost.
He had a bearing about him that spoke of a general assumption that everyone was aware of him and would make room for him wherever he chose to go. He was a wizard, dammit, and back in Sanctuary, people paid attention to wizards and gave them respect, or at least the wary caution you'd give a wild animal or a lit stick of dynamite. It worked, somewhat. Many people would just quietly step aside as he floated past to see this city. Not everyone did, though. Normally, Ridcully wouldn't have reacted badly to this, but the fact of the matter was there were no wizards in Gigas other than the ones that had just arrived, so the Gigans did not know. They needed a bit of an education in respect. So when a worker unloading a pallet of goods of some kind dropped his load in front of Ridcully's path, he decided he'd break the rules a bit.
Ridcully struck the ground firmly with the end of his staff and amplified his powers enough to lift both the poor worker and his entire pallet of goods up into the air so he could walk sedately beneath them while they drifted helplessly ten feet up in the air. The people around them backed away in alarm. He allowed the man and his goods to return to the ground once he was safely past with only a mild jolt.
He kept his face neutral, but internally he was pleased. Putting that much power into a spell put a real risk at it going haywire and doing something unpredictable, but it had held. A subtle buzz went through the crowd as the rumor spread. Men in pointy hats had strange and terrifying powers. It would be best to step lightly when they are around.
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He had a bearing about him that spoke of a general assumption that everyone was aware of him and would make room for him wherever he chose to go. He was a wizard, dammit, and back in Sanctuary, people paid attention to wizards and gave them respect, or at least the wary caution you'd give a wild animal or a lit stick of dynamite. It worked, somewhat. Many people would just quietly step aside as he floated past to see this city. Not everyone did, though. Normally, Ridcully wouldn't have reacted badly to this, but the fact of the matter was there were no wizards in Gigas other than the ones that had just arrived, so the Gigans did not know. They needed a bit of an education in respect. So when a worker unloading a pallet of goods of some kind dropped his load in front of Ridcully's path, he decided he'd break the rules a bit.
Ridcully struck the ground firmly with the end of his staff and amplified his powers enough to lift both the poor worker and his entire pallet of goods up into the air so he could walk sedately beneath them while they drifted helplessly ten feet up in the air. The people around them backed away in alarm. He allowed the man and his goods to return to the ground once he was safely past with only a mild jolt.
He kept his face neutral, but internally he was pleased. Putting that much power into a spell put a real risk at it going haywire and doing something unpredictable, but it had held. A subtle buzz went through the crowd as the rumor spread. Men in pointy hats had strange and terrifying powers. It would be best to step lightly when they are around.