[open mingle]

[badfeyth]

WHO: Anyone helping with prom renovations!
WHAT: An open mingle log!
WHERE: District 4, Science Discovery Center Planetarium
WHEN: Anytime until December 2!
WARNINGS: Please warn for content in individual headers!




An open mingle for threads relating to prom setup and the planetarium renovations!

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Possible renovation activities include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Ripping out and disposing of a couple of rows of chairs in the planetarium to make room for a dance floor
• Laying down flooring for the aforementioned dance floor
• Clearing room for and rigging four stations where food can be prepared
• Kitschy photography station design
• Installing light fixtures, darkness shutters, and other aesthetic additions provided by Kaveh
• Playing toolbox dodgeball (IF YOU CAN DODGE A WRENCH...)
• Impromptu caber-tossing match feat. lumber somebody probably intended to use for something important
• Assorted various OSHA violations

Anyone is welcome to drop in a top-level, just please warn for content as needed on individual thread headers!

Comments

[justscribing]

[That's fascinating, actually, and makes Alhaitham think of that book on curses he has borrowed from Ghost: magic with expectations so precise that one can circumvent its intentions with some rules lawyering.]

Does that apply even if you specify the barrier to things that are a threat?

[excaliburden]

Um... to be honest, I haven't tried! I wasn't always very precise even back home with that sort of bounded field, and usually the idea was to keep everything bad out...

[So she never tried to leave it just to experiment with it.]

But I suppose it should work, logically.

[... Presuming Altria's magic doesn't perceive herself as a threat, which would be rather existential.]

[justscribing]

You must have an innate sense of when your barrier is and isn't active if it drains mana. We could test it now.

[excaliburden]

Oh, yes, that's true.

[Setting up a barrier like this should be practically nothing, but ever since getting here, it takes a lot out of her--no wonder, really. She's back to being as weak as she used to be, if not more so...

Regardless, she dismisses the current bounded field with a wave of her hand, scrubs at her face, and takes a deep breath, putting her game face on.]

Right, okay...! One bounded field, keeping out only threats, coming right up...!

[She focuses, and she feels... a bounded field of some sort click into place. Alhaitham will find that he's able to walk through this one, this time--and while the barrier is invisible, there is a somewhat noticeable difference in the air between inside and outside of the barrier--because Altria is far from the most precise and detail oriented of mages.]

[justscribing]

[Alhaitham waits, watching, as if Altria's movements will inform him any more just how her powers work. It seems not unlike Visions, that innate ability to control with mild gestures and will.

Once the new field is up, he steps forward. Pauses, cants his head, and then turns to walk back out of it.

He does this little circle two more times.] Interesting. It's passable but I can still sense what area the barrier has covered.

[excaliburden]

[He points it out nonchalantly, and she goes a little red, shoulders drooping.]

... A really, really good Bounded Field shouldn't be noticeable at all. So you have no idea if you walked into one or not.

[...]

But I feel like what I can do here is pretty limited...

[justscribing]

Everyone is restricted. But since the entire venue can't be covered, it could be better that everyone can sense when they are within the barrier. Even those who don't have much experience with this sort of magic.

[She's abashed because it's lacking. But Alhaitham doesn't point this out for comfort--it's pure practicality that they're dealing with people with many different experiences and only as much power as they can scrape together.]

[excaliburden]

Oh... that's true!

[She perks up at that, even if he wasn't trying to comfort her. At the very least, it helps to know that her own inability to provide a more impressive Bounded Field isn't a hindrance.]

In that case, I think this'll work out just fine! Whewwww, what a relief.