Magic Reserves, Wednesday Afternoon, Preserve Near The Cabins

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

There were no biscuits today at the Magic Reserve. Oh no, none to be seen. Just in case people thought that they were trying to poison them before.

Instead there were brownies. With a very tasteful sign that proclaimed them purchased from J,GoB.

It was necessary.

"Hello and welcome to the Magic Reserve," Merlin started, looking around. "Whether you're new or--um--always been here. Welcome anyway! We're part of the other two reserves that you may have already heard about. but we deal with more, er, or the less physical aspects of fighting. Precognitive dreams, floating things about with our minds, writing things in the air or healing with spells. Everyone is welcome here."

He turned toward his fellow leaders to see what they had to add because, well, he wasn't the best at getting everything important into a speech. Unless it involved Arthur.

"Oh! And I'm Merlin, by the way."

See?

"I'm Tony," Tony said. "If you're new, you might come from somewhere where magic isn't allowed or isn't believed in. Fandom's different. We don't think you're evil or crazy, I promise. That said, it's up to you how much you want to share today."

Karla stepped forward and waved. "Hi, I'm Karla; thanks, by the way, to everyone who came out and supported the bake sale. Anyway, today we've got a few things planned. First off are introductions; yeah, it gets old, but knowing who we are and what we can do is important. So, name, age, whatever you're willing to share about your powers, and then anything else you'd like you add. We're not picky."

Then she pointed over to another table. This one had nothing on it save a candle and a lighter. "For our non-introduction activity, we're going to ask you light the candle. Any way can; any way you want. So let's start!"

Comments

Arrive/Mingle

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

With the non-terrifying food.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[bitchprince]

Arthur actually convinced himself to sample a brownie this time.

Purely for academic purposes. But he was there.

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[trigons_child]

Raven was there, defying the forecasted emo on the radio last night.

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[life_inshadow]

Tara took a brownie and leaned up against a tree. She ended up sharing bits of the brownie with the hedgehog perched on her shoulder.

"I don't think chocolate is good for you," she told Kennedy-the-hedgehog softly, but she didn't seem inclined to quit feeding her. Kennedy's fault for being so cute.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah nibbled a brownie and settled in, looking around for new people.

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[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt was glad to see the sign on the brownies, and happily grabbed a few.

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[thatsamilkshake]

Francine... eyed the brownies. Hopefully Merlin at least would realize that was a brownie thing and not a bad cooking thing.

The fuzzy bunny in her arms did not eye the brownies. It just looked very, very grumpy.

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[angelandwitch.livejournal.com]

Paige had heard about the reserves and decided to stop by to check it out. She felt old being with a bunch of teenagers, but she sipped her coffee and looked at the crowd, wondering if one of them was her charge.

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[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana poked a brownie and after deciding they were safe for consumption, did so. With a lot of energy.

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[furnaceface]

Jono was there, hanging around the edges again. His arms were crossed over his chest and he was glaring.

Yes. He still hated introductions, why?

Light the Candle

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Use magic, use the lighter, hope the sun gets strong enough to cause the wick to burst into flames...

Re: Light the Candle

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin was one of the leaders and put up the post, so of course he was going to light the candle to let any new people know it was okay to use magic here.

"Bærne," He muttered, watching the wick flicker to life with a fire.

Re: Light the Candle

[life_inshadow]

"Tara Maclay," Tara said softly, then patted the hedgehog. "And this is Kennedy. She's usually a person. Um, I'm sixteen, sophomore, pretty normal witch powers, I guess? And I can see auras. Oh, and, uh, at home I call myself a Wiccan but n-no one here does, so."

After fumbling through that, she was an anticlimactic dork about the candle part of it and used the lighter. She knew a fire spell, but it required a couple of extra elements she wasn't carrying, and she wasn't sure her control on it would be precise enough to light the wick and not a nearby tree, and her paranoia about getting it wrong kicked in.

She singed her thumbnail on the lighter for her trouble.

... Best witch ever. She quickly retreated to the fringes of the group.

Re: Light the Candle

[wantstodirect]

"I'm still Tony," Tony said. "I'm eighteen, a senior, just a wizard, nothing fancy." He called the candle to his hand, then the lighter, then used the lighter to light the candle.

Re: Light the Candle

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Dinah Lance, I'm a senior, not magic, just telekinesis and touch-telepathy." And dreams she really didn't want to be reminded of right now, no. She zapped a lighter to her hand the way Tony did, then lit the candle.

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[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt waved nervously. "I'm Kurt Wagner, I'm 16, and I don't have any magic. But I can, um..."

He looked around, still not 100% convinced it was okay. Then he shrugged and disappeared in a puff of smoke, reappearing next to the candle. It took him a few tries to work the lighter, though, and he almost dropped it in his nervousness.

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[thatsamilkshake]

"I'm Francine, and, um. This is Katina." Because she'd growl if an entire club full of new people started calling her Katchoo without permission. "She's not usually here, but she's not usually a bunny, so. Um. Anyway. I didn't do that; I don't really have any active... anything. Just sometimes I dream or have a feeling about stuff, and it turns out to be true."

Girl holding fuzzy bunny. Girl not getting near fire. See previous sentence re: fuzzy bunny. "And um... I'll bake somebody cookies if they light the candle for me?"

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[trigons_child]

"My name is Raven, and I am a healer and and empath," Raven said. "I am able to sense pain and emotions and take them into myself and dispel them. I also have some small skill with sorcery." She looked at the candle and whispered a few words, and the tip of the wick began to glow. It wasn't on fire, and it didn't radiate heat, just light.

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[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"Diana, I can do a lot of stuff." Diana said cheerfully and twisted the possibilities around the candle to make the wick heat up enough to catch on fire.

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[angelandwitch.livejournal.com]

"Hi, I'm Paige, and I'm one of the new teachers," Paige said. "I'm part witch and part white lighter, which is a kind of guardian angel for witches."

"Candle," she called, and the candle appeared in her hand in a shower of white lights. "Lighter." After she had the lighter, she lit the candle and passed it on to the next person.

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[furnaceface]

//Jonothon Starsmore. Eighteen years old. One of my abilities ought to be bloody obvious right now if yer can hear me.// He stared at the candle for a moment. Hesitated. And then gave his head a shake. //Here's the other.//

His hand went to his face. His fingers grabbed at the bandages and gave them a light pull.

Just enough flame to light the candle curled outward from where the bandages had been moved, and the instant the flame was lit, Jono was pulling the bandages up again, shoulders bunched a little, and he was making his way to the outskirts of the group again as though somebody had lit him on fire.

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[bitchprince]

Arthur... didn't have any powers, but he did have the power of looking firmly royal with lighter in hand as he lit the candle.

"I'm Arthur Pendragon," he announced. "I am nineteen years old and a senior. And I am not a wizard or a sorceror; I have no powers or magic in me. But I am a leader of the fighting reserve. If we are to manage anything at all, we must make an effort to understand each other, and to labour in the spirit of cooperation. And for that," he finished, cracking a slight grin, "You'll have to suffer my presence here every week. Thank you."

With that, he bowed out.

Talk to the Leaders

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

There here. They're queer. Get used to it.

Re: Talk to the Leaders

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

And Merlin most certainly was there. Sans baked goods.

Because he'd learned his lesson there.

OOC

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

...I woke up far too early in order to get coffee.

Re: OOC

[bitchprince]

Dork.