fandomhighdorms | Magic/Support Reserves Meeting, Main Campfire, Wednesday After Classes

In theory, Tara knew everyone who came to a Reserves meeting was her friend. That theory wasn't helping her case of the jitters about leading the meeting as much as she'd like. She couldn't look at the group as a whole, or at Kennedy, or at Karla, Raven and Emmett; she was sure she'd completely lose the ability to speak if she did. She settled for glancing between her notecards and a neutral point on the ground a few feet from the altar she stood beside as she spoke, talking slowly and softly so as to minimize the chance she would stutter.

"Hi," she said. "My demonstration today is mostly for the magic reserves side, so, uh ... support people, if you want some extra chips or something, we have plenty? I'll be done in a minute."

She brushed her hair out of her face, pausing for a moment before continuing. "What we're talking about today is hiding magic. Th-there are plenty of times when you might need to do that, even if you're from a world where everybody uses magic. Say you have a parent or roommate who doesn't like that you're a witch. Or you're in danger and you don't want the people you're working against to know everything you're doing. Or even if you just need to clean up your workspace really fast.

She attempted a smile. "I'd like to hear ideas from the rest of you about what you might do in one of those situations, but first I'm going to show you a spell I've been working on. It's makes all enchanted implements and magical supplies invisible. It, um, was meant to make it so people couldn't see demons. I changed it up a little, 'cause you kinda want to see demons if they're around." She felt like she was babbling, and idly wondered if, as a witch, she'd count as a 'magical supply' for purposes of the spell. Some part of her felt it would be nice if she did.

She shoved that wish to the back of her mind as she poured a little reddish powder from a vial into her palm. "I'm invoking a goddess. The spell s-sounds sort of spooky, but ... a whole bunch of them do. If this works, the book, crystal and herbs on my altar will disappear."

She closed her eyes for a second to focus, then raised her voice again. "Blind Cadria, desolate queen, work my will upon them all. Your curse upon these tools, my obeisance to you." She blew the powder over the altar.

It would be hard to say if she opened her eyes again, since, an instant after she'd performed the rite, Tara seemingly vanished into thin air. Her voice came from above the altar. "That's it," she said, sounding disappointed the book, crystal and herbs were still in place. "... guys?"

[OOC: Up early to maximize time for invisibility! Subthread for post-spell support and recovery here. Edit: Invisible people are free to move around the island, and will return to visibility when the spell breaks no matter where they are.]

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Okay, this was not naked girl in his room with Emmett under the assumption that he'd just interrupted things of a heterosexual nature; this was ... half-naked girl yelling at him that she needed clothes. So just another day in the Honeycutt household when it was his turn to do laundry. Still...

"I did say don't give away all your clothes!" Emmett pointed out while he rummaged through the pile of hats and jackets to find a discarded sweatshirt.

"I did not give away my clothes! My clothes exploded!" Yes, there would be more yelling. There would be yelling until she had clothes on

And her face? Yeah, really red. Almost as red as her hair.

"Your clothes exploded," he repeated as he held out the sweatshirt. "Everyone else turns invisible and you get exploding clothes? I'm not sure whether you lucked out or not."

This was not the first time this happened and it was getting old.

"Invisible would have been a cool new experience," she grumbled then took the sweatshirt and put it on. "Thanks."

"I think you might be out of luck on pants," he said. "I didn't see anybody donating those." He looked down. "And much as I'd like to amuse myself by writing home to tell my mom that a girl got in my pants, they'd be about two feet too long for you."

"But I can't just walk around in my underwear!" She looked at the clothes, "Maybe there's another sweatshirt there I could use as a... a skirt!"

He should probably not scare her with the stories he'd heard about random bouts of complete nudity. "Windbreaker?" he suggested, plucking a blue and silver one from the pile. "You can tie it around your waist."

"I'll take it." She tied the windbreaker around her waist. "Thank you." She was about to bow when she thought better of it and repeated, "Thanks."

"That's what we're here for!" Yes. For people whose clothes exploded. Funny how exploding clothes hadn't been on Francine's list of stuff they were supposed to be supporting.

"Wow. You guys are prepared here." Asuna said. "So its true about the other weird things here?"

"I've seen gremlins, monkey-pony-lizard things, and singing flowers," Emmett replied. "Not that I did much preparation for any of those. I went with hide, hide, and try to teach them something worth listening to."

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