Nautilus stepped down from Muse as soon as they reached the academy. Muse's remark about not spooking whoever inside was a reminder to Nautilus that even though this was the Guild, use of the so-called special powers by a roleplayer might and would baffle another roleplayer just like what happened to him and possibly some others when Euclid transformed into an eagle all of a sudden. That means now would be a good chance for Nautilus to test what Muse said. What's the most possible one? he thought, contemplating for the most likely feat for him to duplicate. I often roleplay with telekinetic characters, so that might be the most possible one... or flight. I did it many times when I have lucid dreams. But attempting flight might be kinda dangerous, so I think I should go with telekinesis, he concluded.
While most fictional telekinetic characters move their hands around as they move objects, Nautilus's telekinetic characters rarely do hand gestures. Nautilus's telekinetic characters tend to use hand gestures only for feats that are difficult or might harm the user. Most of the other time, the character focuses his sight on the object he wants to move, and thinks of a trajectory that the object will travel. So, Nautilus tried to follow the same lines, believing it to be the most likely one to work since his characters had done them that way. Nautilus's eyes were now focused on a hand-sized stone a couple of metres from the party's landing point, and he imagined a trajectory where the stone would at first move straight up to 5 feet above ground, then follow a standard ballistic trajectory as if it had been thrown instead of telekinetically moved.
Said stone didn't move for even a millimetre at first. Only then that Nautilus realized one thing: he always uses Inverse Square Law as the limits of his characters, although he does not always portray it consistently. Perhaps I should move closer to the stone, he thought. He took a few steps, making himself only a metre or two away from the stone, and repeated the procedure. This time, the stone moved up to the five-foot height he imagined, so much to his own surprise that he actually took a step back in panic, thereby ruining the second stage of the stone's movement and losing him control over the stone, which fell back to where it was. "Did that work, or was there anyone else doing something with that stone?" he asked in both joy and disbelief.
Nautilus decided to try it again for the second time, this time trying not to get panicked. He focused his eyes on the stone again, and thought of the same trajectory. The stone moved up and unlike the previous attempt, Nautilus managed to stay focused. The 'throw' on the second stage of the stone's movement he planned, however, went completely awful. It was not as strong a throw as he hoped, and it was almost 45 degrees to the left of the actual direction he intended. "Wellll... not a good throw at all," he said in an upbeat tone, thinking that as he learned through experience it would get even better. He did not try throwing the stone again for another time, fearing there would be many more of it that he would instead end up practicing telekinetically throwing stones instead of getting the main priority which was to find a place to settle on.