Magic/Support Reserves Meeting, The Preserve, Wednesday Afternoon

[trigons_child]

Raven was just a little nervous to start the reserves meeting. She'd gotten more used to speaking up in class, but talking in front of a group of people who were all looking at her was a different story. A gentle nudge from Karla had been necessary to get her to step forward and begin to speak.

"Many of us here -- not all, I know -- prefer to avoid the fighting for our own reasons," Raven said. "For instance, I am a pacifist, and as an empath, the emotions that arise during combat are often very uncomfortable for me. I will deal with such things when I must heal someone, but I do not belong in the front lines of combat.

"But for those who are engaged in a fight, whether magically or physically, it is best not to do so blindly. When something invades Fandom, we must find out everything about it so that we know how to best repel the attack, and that is where we can provide much needed support. Some of us have abilities to use various forms of divination, be it tarot cards or crystal balls or prophetic dreams. Others are skilled with a computer or are more at home with books, and may have access to information that the rest of us do not.

"Today we would like to talk about what abilities, either magical or mundane, each of us have for researching threats to Fandom. For instance, I sometimes have prophetic dreams of the future, but I know very little about computers. I am just beginning to learn to use one." Just wait 'til she found Rumor Gal fanfic.

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Arrive and Mingle

[trigons_child]

Here's the place to nosh and chit chat. The usual table of treats was there.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Tim filled up a plate with treats. He was a growing boy, after all.

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[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

Harper had finally caught on to the fact that the Support Services had moved to a different day. She helped herself to some treats and looked around to see who she knew and who she needed to meet.

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[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex snagged a couple of treats and kept an eye out for familiar faces.

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[brat_inslayage]

Kennedy, per usual, had taken up her spot at the periphery, arms crossed and expression intent. Research wasn't her strong point or anywhere near her favorite part of the job, and she didn't get the fun prophetic Slayer dreams (as far as she knew), so this was pretty much a non-activity for her.

She was paying attention, though, and keeping an eye out for anyone who seemed to take to the job pretty well, as well as anyone who tended to lean toward Raven's pacifist approach. Had to know who not to try and drag along when fighting went down, after all, and who to go to when the geek stuff needed to get done.

She... might have been formulating ideas about streamlining the phone tree. Oh, God, that was practically organizational. Maybe she took after her dad a little more than she'd thought.

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[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy was of course here and paying attention to everything.

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[awakestheghosts]

Chloe found her way to the reserves meeting for the second week in a row.

She stayed on the edge of the meeting and listened to what others were saying.

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[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda was there, looking somewhat worried.

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[angelo_wings]

Rinoa still felt odd, being here, but the snacks helped. She wondered if it was okay to ask someone for a tarot card reading. Those sounded neat.

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[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter wasn't exactly sure why he was here.

Mostly because he was promised cupcakes. But the vibe of this group unnerved him. It was a little... survivalist, for his tastes.

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[puppy_fair]

Noshing! Zack would so nosh! Mmm, food.

... Of course, he was here for the meeting itself, but he was a growing teenager, here.

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[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana had brought Samuel along and was beginning to regret this. The cat reapply wanted to poke his nose into all of the food available.

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[hotmugofstfu.livejournal.com]

Blackagar lurked hung toward the edges of the group, mostly watching how they all worked.

A defensive group. That could certainly prove to be interesting. As were the 'treats', which he manfully took bites of, ignoring the chemical taste that was in everything.

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[ostianbelle.livejournal.com]

Asuna attended the Magic Reserves out of curiosity and maybe she'll learn something more about magic here?

Discussion: Research and Divination

[trigons_child]

Here's the place to boast about your mad skillz.

Re: Discussion: Research and Divination

[glacial_queen]

"I'm still relatively new to computers and the internet," Karla said once Raven had finished speaking. "But Black Widows are the caste of dreams and visions, and that includes prophecy. Given enough time, I can probably spin a tangled web to try to see the future--but the answers I'll get are usually given in dream-imagery. Not particularly concrete, but it might nudge us in the right direction."

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[life_inshadow]

"I'm pretty good with books?" Tara offered. "I, um, I'm at the Magic Box every week and it's usually pretty quiet so I've read a lot there. I can't see the future or anything."

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[awakestheghosts]

"I'm really good at reading and doing research," Chloe surprised herself by speaking up. It was probably clear from her facial expression that she hadn't planned on speaking. "I usually c-can find things out with research or uhm... other ways."

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[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty good with computers," Tim said. "I could teach people a little about them, if anyone wants."

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[puppy_fair]

"I don't have the ability to see into the future, and I'm really not all that good with research either," Zack confessed. "What I do have, I can only use when I'm already face to face with the enemy."

He held up a finger, indicating that he was going to need a moment, and then went rummaging through his pocket, pulling out a small blue materia sphere a moment later.

"This lets me cast a spell called Libra... Which lets me see how much fight an opponent has left in him. There's another similar materia like it back home called Sense, which could, if I got my hands on it, tell me what the enemy's weaknesses are, too. Maybe I'll pick one of them up, next time I'm back on my world. You never know when you can make use of something like that."

They sold it in Kalm! And Upper Junon! It wasn't like it was a rare commodity or anything.

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[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"I'm probably the smartest guy here," Peter said, bragging because he could. "But I'll be the first to admit that doesn't mean a lot when your knowledge base is fifteen years out of date and doesn't account for things that are out of what I'd consider the ordinary. But I catch on to most concepts fast, making me a good asset if you need research done quickly, and practically."

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[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"I know a lot about random stuff from watching Discovery channel." Diana said with shrug. "And I know how to use computers and the all mighty Google." She considered this for a second. "Is that copyrighted?"

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[ostianbelle.livejournal.com]

"I can do internet research, um, if nothing has changed since 2003 that is." Asuna said, shifting from one foot after another. "But most of my support comes from fighting. Oh, and I have a card where I can speak to another person telepathically but, uh, you also have to have the same card I have."

She... didn't realize how useless she was at this support side of things.

Talk to the Leaders

[trigons_child]

When they ping in.

Re: Talk to the Leaders

[trigons_child]

Raven was there, of course, relieved she had survived public speaking.

OOC

[trigons_child]

I'm not ending the world yet. That comes in a few months.