#the spell of Summon Group Therapy

[pearls-gone-wild]

When I was in college, I got into the habit of stress-baking cookies, and because I was living in a dorm, this would bring in anyone within the olfactory radius who wanted cookies. That's a lot of people! It was like I'd discovered the magical spell of Summon Group Therapy.

Anyways, when you're not living in a dorm anymore, you have to go around with the cookies yourself, but that's ok, the summoning spells still work, just a little differently as you get into different stages of life.

[halevren]

FHJY Spoilers || my live thoughts as I watch episode 9

i got a new job and I felt sick last night so. I'm watching this very late. it has been tough avoiding spoilers but I Have Done So

TTTAKING OVER TEENAGE REBELLION

hiiii one and all!!! hii intrepid heroes!!!!

i have been told stuff happens this episode. I'm so excited

"You're mad we're not doing drugs."

"I think this might be gorgug's worst day of his life."

so much happened last episode

totally healthy adult activity.

VULTURE

THE SPELL-LESS KRISTEN APPLEBEES 😭😭

THE VULTURE DIMENSION

I love the projections

DOMINATE MONSTER NO LONGER EFFECTING RIZ

THE VULTURE KING

I think Brennan is loving being the vulture king

NAT 20 FOR FABIAN

"IT'S THE VULTURE KING YOU HAVE TO KISS HIM!"

"One answer and it's Riz."

"I'm so glad I died on that battlefield."

A crisp 500 dollar bill

I love this so much

This is so silly

THEY'RE HOLDING HANDS

"Hey, I'll kill you, you fucker." "kiss him!"

VULTURES YAY OR NAY?

"Can you bring his parents up here—" "NO."

"Feels like five"

"You wanna be in our crew?"

Kristen is really trying to get her friends to romance the vultures.

"Are you a God of some kind?" "I don't mind man."

This season is just Brennan breaking the PCs

oh good god

MAGIC ITEMS!

"Summons 1d4 vultures, they are not under your command."

no bring us back to the vulture dimension im obsessed with it

fireball

18 damage 😭😭😭

"I'm going to think about that for days."

FIRST STRIKE HITS REAL ONE

"get out of my yard."

(Brennan rolling too many dice.)

the little fireball that could!

THE ROMAN CANDLE YOU SHOT AT THE BIG BAD

THE BALL GAVE FABIAN ADVANTAGE

Concentration lost 🔥🔥🔥

is Ruben only able to give bardic

BRENNAN NAT 20

what are we making dex saves for.

ZERO DEX SAVE. KRISTEN.

"I'm dead from shame."

ADAINE DOWN? NOOOO

29!!

So many dice for Fabian

"Don't worry I got the ones out guys" Emily 😭😭😭

"I'm actually a huge fan."

so now that grix is destroyed does that mean there's no principal?

Ruben's frantically calling for Wanda

"I'm real right?"

"What happened? I was taking a shit."

"Do you have a warrant? Do you have a fucking warrant?"

Adaine is still dead on the ground

THE IDENTIFY SPELL

grix is untampered with

I miss ayda

29 investigation 🔥

GLOWING STINGERS? GROWING RED? LIKE THE SYNOD?

24 points glowing red

Rage connection!!

"Can we get some hot sauce before we leave?"

HE ATE THE VULTURE FOR NOTHING

"Found another glass of water"

Fabian finally getting his kisses in.

Nat 20 history rat check

SEXY RAT

"You know thats triggering for me!"

Rat stores

"There's not a rat world under the school."

Rat World!!!

BabyBojörn

oh god fig gave Fabian a bardic

sexuality inclusivity for cassandra!

aww..... fabian took bardic from fig earlier...

"You are. Cursed."

RIZ NAT 20!!!!

NOOO YOLANDA

Force damage...

Three hours????

ah yes another use of the identity spell!

"You could multi class into wizard!" "Yeah, add it to the fuckin' pile."

AN UNHOLY LAST RITES

NOOO YOLANDA

There's something under the tree?? glyth???

LUCY FROSTBLADE DEAD BODY

I think Fig's bad luck is genuinely effecting Emily too with all these bad rolls 😭😭😭😭

Did.... Did the rat grinders kill Lucy???????

let adaine use the diamonds. finders keepers

divine intervention........

Kristen will have to work so hard to get cassandra back

spies tongue curse???

"Call an adult?"

"You were such a good teacher, I'm sorry I just got a C..." 😭😭

THIS IS SO HEARTBREAKING!!!

LUCY AND YOLANDA'S SOULS HELD HANDS BEFORE GOING TO HEAVEN. ACTUALLY CRYING

BUD CUBBY THE REALEST EVER

FIG NAT 20

level of exhaustion :(

elmville police departments always on fire

"David..."

AGENT CLARK?!?!?!?

did he just take the dirt like a line of drugs?

one becomes a 10 which becomes a 19

*head in hands* "is it okay if I ask you about your case, mom?"

"So I'm unbelievably wealthy. And me and my friends just discovered the site of a double homicide. So....."

Group IV time, or group shock therapy.

Gorgug putting barbarian first

HE'S DOING ARTIFICER SPELLS WHILE RAGING!!!

"We need a word."

Gorgug talking to Porter is so funny

ok. wait this is actually kinda sweet between Porter and Gorgug

"I feel lucky to have you in my class." 😭😭😭😭

MCAT SIGNED!!!

The Last Stand exam?

KRISTEN MIGHT PASS FAIL?

oh god. 4 stress tokens

I wonder if the intrepid heroes are aware of the 5 stress token

"I'm in a lot of school."

Gorgug looking into building a time machine real as hell

Oh my god gorgug is still on the owlbears

"Okay I think I have to lie down."

I'm going to fight the wizard teacher

"I love my life. Everything is perfect."

"... YOU'RE WORKING?"

AELWYN LONELY ARK

10 CATS??

aelwyn and adaine bonding 😭😭

AELWYN IS WORKING FOR KIPPERLILLY COPPERHEAD???

I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE NEXT EPISODE

[cartoonfangirl1218]

TOH Coven Headcanons

Plant: Plant witches are much like they’re chosen discipline, patient, sturdy, when knocked back down they come back up again season after season.

Just like plants, they have a variety of jobs as herbalists in tandem with the Healing Coven, chefs with the Potion Coven, and coming up with natural weapons and defenses in the jungle of the Boiling Isle. Plus contributing knowledge of the fauna and new discoveries.

They are one of the foremost experts of poisons, love perfumes, etc. and so there is a black market for their expertise as well as a black market for rare and exotic plants though there are societies that are working to keep those plants for science and research.

Illusions: Illusionists are very sociable, like to be in front of a crowd, many are entertainers or work with special effects and such on crystal ball with the Bard Coven. Some have joined companies in making virtual reality games. They also make the best parties/clubs that are like a masquerade/moulin rogue/funhouse/great Gatsby combo.

Though they do gripe about being looked down on as all style and no substance, they do tend to lean to being overly concerned with the appearance/aesthetic of something and forget about the function

Make great con people, what with the whole deception. Big fan of false fronts, and distracting with the right hand while using the left.

There are some forbidden spells like ones that are pre-cursor to the Grom monster and hallucinatory/insanity spells available on the black market. Belos has a supply of his own illusionists to use these in the conformatorium on any dissidents so when he releases them, their accusations against Belos’ civilized orders will be dismissed as crazy talk.

Bard: Bard are the creative backbone working with the Construction and Illusion Covens in filling galleries with art, clothes, and entertainment. And as Raine demonstrated, they bring protest art.

Bards are talented, creative, ambitious, introverted (some), outgoing (some), mad geniuses (debatable), and sometimes all in their heads. But most of all dedicated to whatever craft they choose.

Since they are sometimes just dismissed as artists, they can sneak in anti Belos themes, and motifs into their work and make witches think about the regime they are living in. However, Belos also employs his own bards to spread pro Coven and pro Belos propaganda.

Bards not only can bewitch the audience with their music, but in battle, can disorient them, and deafen them (much as Raine did) and as a classic, cause uncontrollable dancing.

Beast keeper: Beast keeping witches are compassionate, fierce, empathetic, and at times, feral, when some of them get tired of the oppressed society they live in and retreat with their animals in the wild without human interaction for miles.

Just like the plant Coven, beast-keepers scour the Boiling Isle to study and collect knowledge of beasts in their natural habitats as well as bring them back to tame.

Not only do the beast keepers make pet shops and zoos, they also work on the Boiling Isle as defense against rogue beasts that sometimes venture from the wild into towns.

It goes without saying that there is a mythical animal black market among the upper classes that a dedicated group against beast abuse is trying to curb.

Beast keepers also help train palismen and as conservationists since the increasing population build new houses verging on animal habitats.

Healing: Healers tend to be homebodies, they’re compassionate to their patients but also no nonsense when they need to be in order to keep their infirmaries in line.

Though it goes without saying they’re are some that develop a god complex when there is the fate of witch’s life in their hands. And shadier ones will sometimes only help if their exorbitant fees are paid.

Not only do they run the hospitals, heal broken bones and such, but they also work as “mind healers” for trauma, PTSD and other mental illnesses in need of therapy.

The healer Coven also works with the Beastkeeping and Abomination Coven in creating aids for those with disabilities.

Potion: Potion witches are inventive, curious, quick to grasp complex formulas, have a mind for memorization and tend to be multi taskers.

Potions is one of the most diverse and most censored with guidelines to prevent performance enhancement and/or would infringe on someone else’s rights (illegal potions like love/mind control/death/increase energy/increase strength/etc.) Though the enforcement of those guidelines can be waived away with a well placed bribe.

Potions also tend to be a risky business since one needs wealthy backers to fund your experiments in new potions and you need willing participants for your potions or else one can drink them all themselves and hope the results aren’t fatal.

Potions work within almost every Coven from dyes/paint for Construction Coven, medicine for beastkeeping and healing, growth for plants and more.

Oracle: Oracles have a slight tendency to be control freaks, what with their ability to see the future and thus have expectation for how things should go. However, they also can be objective and open minded as they are more aware that the future is open to interpretation and change.

Their balls cannot only see the future but they can scry and see a witch’s current whereabouts and see bits into the past.

It goes without saying, master oracles can summon tremendous power to see the whole past coming from a witch’s possession. Or help control someone’s future but these spells are advance and require great amounts of energy and access to ancient texts.

With their abilities to see past, present and future, they make great stock estimates, judges, historians and have a booming business for the superstitious and overly cautious that want good luck charms to prevent dire fates.

They are also the owners of most of the casinos, cage match betting rings and lotteries.

Construction: Construction witches are disciplined, loyal, hard working, creative and not afraid of hard labor. They can work as house builders and sculptors/jewelry makers to erecting forts, defenses and participating in grudgy games and cage fights.

As Dana said they are sculptors and artists themselves so they can be seen working in tandem with the Bard Coven.

But with their ability to traverse difficult terrain and manipulate it, make them excellent adventurers and artifact finders. In fact, they and the Plant Coven often hold camps to teach witches how survive in the wild.

Construction also makes up a good bunch of Belos’ toughest guards alongside Abomination.

Abomination: Abomination witches are witches with iron wills who stand their ground as they bend and mold their creatures to obey their every whim. Like Darius and Alador, they are creative in thinking of new ideas to bring more potential out of their servants

It is one of the most profitable covens with plenty of opportunities as it acts as the industrial backbone of the Boiling Isle, providing countless servants, disability aids and weapons for battle.

Abominations take a great amount of energy from the witch as not only do they have to bring out this goo out of thin air at times, Abominations are slow and unable to think for themselves so the witch has to do both for it, and use more energy to make it bigger and do more complex orders.

[vampire207343]

Xiao Jia

What if... after the war with the dark lord Sakura Lilian Potter decided to leave the Wizarding world leave magical England to travel and after travel every where on Earth and learn everything he could he decided to travel different realm without any restriction on herself especially now that she's the new mistress of death.

Erza Scarlet, Hyuga Hinata, Rin (inuyasha) are famale Harry Potter.Inspired by the story of Le ciel nuageux, Huang Beiyue by: Lia Angeilique.

Sakura Lilian Potter left magical England after the war with the dark lord to travel the world and start learning everything she could that include martial art  under the storm Arcobaleno Fon

Who taught her everything he knows and she even found out that she's one of the descendant of Vongola Primo Giotto Vongola, so she had a strong Vongola Hyper Intuition

Which rival Giotto's own when he was alive. And It wasn't long until she decided to start travel different realms, after she learn everything their is in her world that include of studying to be a doctor for 6 years, fashion desgin for 4 years, Music and Art desgin for 7 years. She study for Beauty therapy and make up, Medical Esthetician, Facial and makeup, Cosmetology, Organic skin care for 7 years for each course which took her about 35 years

The first world she travel is in Fairy Tail were she posses the dead body of Erza Scarlett replacing the real Erza.When Jellal arrives, she uses elemental magic spells to eliminate all the guards without exception and takes the lead of the group of slaves in order to escape the tower.The troop of slaves reach the mainland of Fiore and notify the authorities of their experiences in the tower. Erza, his friends and the future Oraccion Seis who were also slaves join Fairy Tail by following Rob, further strengthening the guild which when Lucy arrives will have 9 S-class mages: Makarov, Gildartz, Luxus, Mystogan, Erza / Sakura, Mirajane, Jellal, Midnight / Macbeth and Hot-Eye / Richard.The presence of Sakura in place of Erza will bring about many changes,especially during the arc on Nirvana and the Oracion Seis. She will eventually marry Jellal, although he will never know that the original Erza that he was in love with, had died a long time ago.They will have two children, a boy and a girl, who will also be powerful Fairy Tail mages.They will have two children, a boy and a girl, who will also be powerful Fairy Tail mages. In the end, Sakura would remain in this world for about eighty years, further expanding her repertoire of magic. Plus a fairly large collection of armor and jewelry. Weapons (she replaces Erza, nicknamed Titania the Fairy Queen of Fairy Tail after all!).She organizes the "death" of Erza Fernandez née Scarlett and leave to continue her travel after her husband Jellal Fernandez's death and by then her two children Yuri and James Fernandez already have their own lives and family of their own.

The secound World Fate/Stay night I visit and in which she remained for nearly fifty years. I arrived a few hours after Caster killed his Master and the two women crossed paths before Caster made it to the temple to meet Kuzuki. Sakura decides to become the new Master of Caster, but the witch duo are not very interested in the Grail since Sakura can easily grant Medea's wish on her own. She nevertheless agrees with Caster to wait until it is halfway through the war, so that no one summons another Caster if Medea becomes human. She also summons a Servant Caster-Archer, Gilgameh, with whom she and Medea get along wonderfully. The trio have created with the rich resources of Sakura a good number of magical treasures that the Association of Mages would surely envy. Sakura takes advantage of the war to kidnap Sakura matou, kill Zouken, and visit Arturia after Shirou summons her. On this visit, she will call her "Great Aunt" and give Saber advice on seducing Shirou, even treating her like a doll that she could dress and make up with Medea's help. After the war, Sakura becomes Sakura Matou's teacher and will curse Shinji so that he can't be turned on by women anymore… let's just say he won't be the dominant after she's done with him. Sakura will also befriend Zelretch in this universe, thus refining her mastery of interdimensional travel. And she also learn Shirou's brand of cooking.

The third realm she arrive in the world of One Piece, Sakura visits this world to get away a bit from magic and its consequences, she meets Ace and integrates her first crew as doctor /pharmacist and second cook, then that of Whitebeard with her captain and the rest of her comrades. To protect Ace, she casts the Fidelitas spell on the circumstances of his birth and the identity of his biological father, making Ace the keeper of the secret. She remains for seventy years in this world even marrying Ace in passing, have two sons Portgas D. Alexsander and Portgas D. Charles. She will collect a bundle of rare world swords that she will store in a space pocket that she created with the help of Medea and Caster Gilgamesh. She will use her magic only to heal, teleport and in a discreet way to strengthen herself physically, her fighting style will be especially specialized as a sniper / sniper.

The fourth realm I travel to the world of Pokémon that she explores for three years to capture around fifty Pokémon, before deciding to become the champion of the Jadielle arena two years before Ash begins his journey with Pikachu. As a champion, she specializes in fairy-type Pokémon and thus introduces her opponents to Pokémon from other regions to encourage them to travel. When Team Rocket begins to expand their operations, they help the heroes confront them but don't get too involved in Ash's travels. She is the only arena champion Ash will never defeat in the end, which will change canon as Ash will get her last Kanto League badge in an arena other than his own. Her team as champion is made up of Clefable , Wigglytuff, Mawile, Togekiss, Alolan Ninetales and Diancie. She would date Kanto league master Peter and Johto for a few years, before deciding that they were happier as mere friends. Sakura will remain forty years in this world before giving her position of champion to one of her apprentices and leaving on a journey with all her pokémons.

The five World I visit is the world of Percy Jackson, were I posses the dead body of a baby Lou Ellen Blackstone the demigod daughter of Hecate without no one knowing and decides to pretend to be a demigod in order to join the camp. Sakura will participate in the great battles alongside the other Demigods while taking advantage of the similarities between this world and the one in which she was born in order to a mass as much as possible of normal knowledge. Lou / Sakura will even become a professor at the university during these decades, she end up marring Conner Stoll and they have 1 daughter Hyacinth Stoll. In the end, she will leave this world after sixty years because she was starting to get bored and by then Conner's long dead and her daughter Hyacinth is old enough to survive on her own and have her own life.

The six world I travel is the world of Naruto, I take possession of a fetus in the womb of a Konoha kunoichi belonging to the Hyuga clan, so she becomes Hinata Hyuga, and is quickly recognized as a genius.  She specializes in Genjutsu, Fuinjutsu and Medical Ninjutsu and kenjutsu. She will stop the massacre of the Uchiha clan by revealing, through certain manipulations, part of Danzo's actions.  Just before Naruto leaves the village with Jiraiya She confess to Naruto but he coldly turn her down because of his feelings for his famale teammate Sakura Haruno. Sasuke will not leave the village to join Orochimaru. After Pain's attack, she discreetly resuscitates Nagato in Yahiko's body using the power of the Heaven Feel, and Obito fails to recover his Rinnegans. In the Fourth War, she "heals" (indeed, brings back to life) Neji and sustains the alliance by sealing the Bijus. After the war, she supports Sasuke who is chosen by Tsunade as the sixth Hokage and quickly gives birth to a son by the name of Raiden Uchiha and then 2 years later have a daughter Ayame. Uchiha, after Ayame they have 4 more children, Hikari, Satoru, Himawari and her twin Shinsuke Uchiha. She was train by Tsunade Senju as a medic and taught the secret of her powerful stregth. She stay for 80 years in that world before faking her death and continue her travel.

The seven World I travel is the world of Inuyasha, where I took possession of a fetus in the womb of a woman from the western land and become the human child known as Rin who later become the ward and adopted daughter of the great Dog Demon Sesshomaru the Lord of the West of who taught her how to fight and survive the world. She became one of the deadless human woman capable to weild a sword or any weapon she can get her hands. She later married the last male Demon Slayer Kohaku, they have 1 daughter name Setsuna and a son name Ryota. She collected alot of powerful weapons and she was give many beautiful headpiece, necklace, earring and bracelet during her life time as Rin given to her by her adopt father. She live in that world for ninety years before she fake her death.

The eight world I travel is the World of Sailor Moon, during the Sliver millennium as I took possession of a fetus in the womb of the Queen of Saturn and the younger half sister of Sailor Saturn and Sailor Neptune, she became the youngest princess of Saturn, Princess Rosalinda who was taught to weild her powers. But during the attack on the moon she died for the very first time in all her lives beside her lover and husband Prince Jack of Mercury who died protecting her but before he died he gave her powers to her so that in away he will be with her if she survive or not

Queen Serenity use the Sliver Crystal to allow everyone soul to be reborn but Rosalinda of Saturn wasn't reborn on Earth like the rest of the sailor scouts, she would be reborn in another world and Jack's soul has long gone before the Queen did the spell to reborn them all so Jack wouldn't be Reborn at all. She lived in that world 600 hundrend years .

Princess Rosalinda of Saturn/Sakura is reborn in the world of Feng Ni Tian Xia as the secound daughter of Concubine Fang's daughter Xiao Jia the secound daughter of the Xiao being born a month early than her half sister Xiao Qiyun the only daughter of Concubine Xue.

When Xiao Jia was reborn she retain all her memories and powers and ablity she posses in all her lives. Even all the jewelry that was given to her by her adopted father Sesshomaru, her mother Queen Hilda of Saturn, Father Lord Poseidon of Neptune, her husband Prince Jack of Mercury, and Portgace D. Ace are still with her, which I kept in a different space pocket from all the weapons I collected over the years she was a live along with the gold she collected from all the many life she lived especially the time when she was a Pirate under her husband Portgas D. Ace, spade pirate before later joining the Whitebeard pirates under the capatin of Edward Newgate. She also have another space pocket for her own plant she use all the time to make cosmotic cream and bodywash. She also has under water plants their along with breeding alot of Abalone, and Oyster that includes pacific Oyster, and Geoduck. Which Jia harvest the pearls ever 4-5 years. She manged to harvest Many pearls in just one Geoduck

And she got alot of pearls from two hundred oysters she harvested. From her own Oyster farm she breed over the centuries she's been alive.

Where she want to make a jewelry out of the pearls she harvest. She could sale in the future for extra money to start her dowry for her future. By the time she was 6 years old during her presentation in front of the whole family to begin her cultavition it was discover that she has all the Elements it means she has the talent to become a Summoner, Warrior, Pharmacist, Enchantress. While Xiao Yun was a mere Ice Summoner who's not as talented as Jia but Concubine Xue tell her otherwise.

Princess Royal Huiwen the legal wife of Xiao Yuancheng granted Concubine Fang and her two daughter Citizenship for the kindness to her daughter Huang Beiyue, something Yuancheng forgot to do when he married Concubine Fang who is a former Slave. With concubine Fang being given citizenship which remove her past of ever being a slave that her two daughters would have better chance of marrying up than Xiao Yun since Yuancheng forgot to also give Concubine Xue citizenship when he married her, so if any one try to look at Xiao Yun's background they would discover that she's a daughter of slave maid who became a concubine which no one will ever want to marry.

Princess Royal Huiwen also help with both Xiao Ling and Xiao Jia's cultavtion as well helping Concubine Fang obtain the bone washing pill for both her daughters since they both decided stick with her daughter Huang Beiyue even when it was discover that she unable to cultavite and protect her from their half sibling bullying when she's not their to protect her own daughter that even the servant get to harm Beiyue when she's not around so she provide Concubine Fang and her two daughters money since Xiao Yuancheng ignore Concubine Fang for his other two concubines.

4 years later...

Princess Royal Huiwen  suddenly died even though she was a healthy as any Woman in Nanyi country. Concubine Xue was hoping to use Huang Beiyue to get controll of her land to get her money for her daughter Xiao Yun's cultavition but before Princess Royal died she entrust her two lands to her brother the Emperor should something happen to her, while in entrusting her only 8 years old daughter's safety to General Geng.

Master Xiao Senoir finally realized who's the better summoner out of his two summoner granddaughter who cultavited at the same time, and xiao Yun who's currently 11 years old just became 1 star summoner while his 2nd granddaughter Xiao Jia who is also 11 years old is already a 5 star summoner after 7 years of Cultavition. The one who inhearted his summoner blood more was Jia while Yun berly got any of his summoner blood even though she's also a summoner like her older half sister Xiao Jia who is 5 star Summoner, Gold Warrior and Gold Echantress, and master Pharmacist.

[kittyprincessofcats]

RWBY Volume 8, Episodes 8-12

All caught up with RWBY now! (Except for the premium only episode.)

So, two things first: 1. From now on, my blog will no longer be spoiler free for RWBY! I don’t have premium access, so no spoilers for that, but beyond that, I might now reblog spoilers for everything that’s been released to the public. Blacklist “#RWBY spoilers” if you don’t want to see them.

2. I was going to ask what the spoiler policy in this fandom in general is when it comes to premium access. From what I’ve seen, Youtubers usually wait a week before uploading their reaction videos, which I appreciate – but here on tumblr almost no one seems to hold back. I saw a spoiler for “Creation” before it was released publicly. The day episode 13 was released for premium access, I had to unfollow people for posting untagged spoilers for it. And when I went into a RWBY-related tag for one second, I saw a really big spoiler that put me in a very sour mood because it also happened to be very aggressively worded against fans of a certain character (basically, along the lines of “I’m glad X bad thing happened to Y character because I hate them and their fans”). So, that scared the shit out of me and I ended up looking up more specific spoilers about what exactly happened because I wouldn’t have been able to sleep otherwise. So, from what I’ve seen, this fandom’s spoiler policy is just “fuck anyone who doesn’t have premium access” 😒. Always nice to see people being so considerate.

With that said, let’s get into my thoughts on episodes 8-12. Under the cut, because unlike some people, I try to be considerate of others who might want to avoid spoilers.

- So, the Hound really was a person. Specifically, a person with silver eyes and that’s probably what happened to Summer. THANKS, I HATE IT. This is exactly what I feared it would be and what I didn’t want it to be. (I don’t want Ruby and Yang to have to fight and kill their grimm-ified mom, that’s too sad, okay?)

- I love that Whitley really came through and came up with a plan for evacuating everyone! He’s a good bean after all! And that he managed to press that button on the computer before running from the Hound? Amazing.

- Willow Schnee being one hell of a mama bear and summoning a thing to protect Whitley was epic. She was so close to breaking down before that, but then her child was in danger and she just jumped into action right away. Protective mom instincts ftw!

- Blake’s talk about how she looks up to Ruby and how she herself lost the youthful optimism Ruby still has was SO sweet! (Also, Ladybug is an underrated ship/friendship and I really don’t get why people say they never interact? Have you all just forgotten volume 1 and how Bumbleby’s first meeting happened because Yang was trying to wingman Ruby who was trying to befriend Blake??)

- Penny fighting the virus from the inside was amazing, she did so well! I also loved seeing Nora encourage her (and echo Blake’s earlier words back to her).

- Unrelated to these episodes specifically, but I tried to think about who my favourite RWBY charactes even are right now, and I find it super hard to narrow down because I love so many of them, but if I tried to somewhat narrow it down, then (in no specific order because don’t ask me to also come up with an order): all of Team RWBY (though Blake is a personal favourite), Ilia, Penny, Salem, Cinder. (But then again, I also love Winter and Qrow and Robyn and... you get it, it’s hard to narrow down. Oh, and of course Pyrrha, but... you know.)

- “Witch” was honestly my favourite episode of the bunch. That one was just so full of epic stuff. (And now I’m wondering if Salem being one of my favourite characters has anything to do with my love for witches. I used to be obsessed with witches as a kid. In every story I read that had a witch, the witch was always my favourite character.)

- Yang and her team sure found a way inside that whale fast! Also, really handy that Ren’s semblance evolved just in time for when they needed it. But hey, I don’t want to complain about convenient plot stuff too much. Sometimes the heroes are allowed to have a little bit of good luck.

- Hazel listening to Oscar and deciding to get both him AND Emerald out of there was amazing! He really does have a soft spot for kids and wasn’t kidding about not wanting more kids to die – we love to see it! I also think it makes for an interesting parallel that Hazel decided to do this right as Ironwood was sending students to fight on the front lines and Marrow was calling it out.

- I really liked Ren telling Yang she doesn’t have to hide her fear behind jokes. Ren being able to see emotions is going to bring about so many more good moments, I just know it!

- Emerald and “Hazel’s” talk with Salem gets so much better when you know “Hazel” is actually Oscar – Emerald has gotten so much better at illusions and fooled Salem herself! That’s impressive!

- It’s really practical that Ren could sense Emerald’s fear. But also, the group really didn’t have the time to discuss if Emerald was trustworthy – they needed to get out of there asap.

- The way Salem spits out the word “semblance” when she talks to Emerald shows again that she not only underestimates these “new humans” and their powers, but also considers them inferior. It’s a nice little detail how just her tone when she says that word says so much about her worldview.

- Yang straight-up running up to Salem and blowing her up was epic. It didn’t last of course, but it was still a super bold and epic move. I’ve talked before about how cool Yang is and she just keeps getting cooler.

- Yang calling Salem out was amazing and epic, too! And when she referred to Summer Rose as “my mom” that made me tear up just a bit 😢. (I really don’t like Salem’s smile when she says “her again”, though. I don’t want grimm-ified Summer, I really don’t want it, okay? keep it far away from me where I won’t have to see it.)

- I’m a bit sad about Hazel’s death, but it was a really fitting end for his character and a really cool way to go out. The way he looked at all of those kids in danger (proving again that that’s what it’s about for him), whispered “No more Gretchens” to Oscar, punched Salem in the face as she was about to hurt Emerald, injected all of those crystals into his skin (which looked epic, by the way), told Emerald to go, fought an epic fight against Salem and then grabbed her and set himself and her on fire, burning her like a witch – it was epic stuff! RIP Hazel, you died as a hero and went out in an incredibly epic way!

- Hazel’s sacrifice must have been super tough on Emerald. He died protecting her (and JOYR) and it worked. She got away from Salem, but only because someone else, a friend, died for her. Not only must it be awful for her to lose Hazel, she probably also blames herself. (And, as I’ve seen others point out, it was probably the first time in her life an adult did something to protect her. Wow. Someone get this girl therapy, please.)

- The whale getting blown up was an absolutely epic moment. From the music to the cinematography, I loved everything about it. (That said, I will miss the whale. RIP coolest villain lair ever.)

- I loved Watts’ speech to Cinder – and I’m saying this as someone who became a huge fan of Cinder this volume. I love her, but I also love roasting her, and a lot of what Watts said was stuff she desperately needed to hear. I honestly didn’t even like Watts before that moment, but that speech might have made me like him just a tiny bit. The way he just laughed when she dangled him from a building, the way he spelled it out for her that her methods haven’t been working and threw her failures in her face, the ending with calling her “a bloody migraine” – Like I said, I’m a fan of Cinder, but that was glorious and cathartic and beautiful to witness. But what makes it really perfect is Cinder’s reaction: The fact that you’d expect her to kill him or at least scream at him, but instead she spares him and just sits down and cries. I really love what they’ve been doing with Cinder this volume and that they’re finally showing her as someone way deeper than just a power-hungry villain.

- In general, let me quickly talk about Cinder, because even without having seen the last two episodes I can already tell you that she’s my standout character / favourite character of the season. (It was Ilia for Volume 5, Salem for Volume 6, Penny for Volume 7 – and now it’s Cinder.) I said back in my post about Volume 5 that I wish they’d do more with her because after becoming rather interesting in Volume 4 they just went back to making her a pretty flat villain – and I officially have to eat my words and apologize to RoosterTeeth right now! This volume proved to me that they know what they’re doing with Cinder and explained so much about her. I’m sorry for ever doubting the writing. I now want to go back and rewatch the whole show while paying more attention to Cinder and I can’t wait to see where her arc goes from here (yes, I want an eventual redemption, and what about it?). This volume is obviously setting up something big for her – I just have no idea what it is. And at the end of the day, she’s still the Maiden of Choice. She’s the key to the Beacon relic, and that’s going to become important eventually.

- Oh, and can I mention, just by the way, that I think Cinder looks amazing? I don’t understand all the people who say they miss her red outfits when this is clearly her best look yet. The black eyepatch, the cape, the earrings, the short hair, the high boots, the shorts instead of a dress, all the black – this is her absolute best look, period.

- I’ve also noticed that the scene between her and Watts is the first time Cinder has referred to Penny by name. She’s always referred to her with phrases like “some toy” or “Polendina’s creation” before, but this time she just called her “Penny Polendina”, then “Penny” again, and asked Watts how she’s supposed to take Penny’s power “if she’s dead” (not “destroyed”, which is what Watts said, but “dead” – something you say about a person, not a machine). I think somewhere down the line, Cinder has started to see Penny as a person and respect her as the Winter Maiden. Maybe it’s because of how Penny won the fight at Amity, or maybe (though this might be wishful thinking on my part) it’s because Penny questioned why Cinder serves Salem and showed her and Emerald mercy.

- Also, side-note: While I loved Watts’ speech, it sure is bold of him to call Cinder entitled when his own villain origin story is getting overlooked for a science project.

- Neo is an amazing little troll and I love her. From stealing the lamp and skipping along the ruins of the whale happily to those texts to Cinder, all of her moments were brilliant and hilarious.

- Some characters not just forgiving Emerald is totally fair and realistic. But, as I said before (and as Oscar also points out), they don’t have to. People think a “redemption” – or let’s just call it switching sides instead of using such a loaded term – has to include everyone’s forgiveness, but it doesn’t. If Yang and Jaune never want to personally forgive Emerald, that’s okay. They don’t need to forgive her to recognize that she’s changed and work with her. And, as Oscar and Ren point out, Emerald’s abilities would be very useful to have on their side. So, personal feelings are fine and all, but right now they don’t have the luxury to dismiss a potentially very useful ally. (And same for Oz, by the way. It’s fine if they’re still mad at him, but they also need his help.)

- Also, have I already said that I’m very happy for Emerald? Because I’m very happy for Emerald for getting out of there! (Mercury’s and then Cinder’s redemption next, please!)

- F*ck Harriet for trying to get Winter in trouble for letting JYR go. I’m hating her more every second. And then she seriously said “Who cares?” about Ironwood’s plan to nuke Mantle? She’s the most unlikable of them all.

- Everyone’s reunions were so sweet! I loved Ruby and Yang hugging 😭. And Yang cupping Blake’s cheek and their forehead touch had me all 🥰 🥰 🥰.

- After he threatened to nuke Mantle, I hope we can all agree that Ironwood is a straight-up villain now. The most infuriating part is that he didn’t even have to do anything! Whitley and Weiss had figured out a way to save everyone in Mantle and the SDC ships to evacuate people were already there. All Ironwood had to do was let them evacuate everyone to Atlas, and then Penny would have opened the vault willingly and Ironwood could have used the staff to raise Atlas as planned. Problem solved! He should have just sat there and ate his food – but he was so pissed about things not going his way (or maybe he just genuinely hates Mantle that much) that he thought sabotaging the rescue plan and threatening genocide was a better option.

- I loved Marrow’s arc in these episodes and how you could tell more and more that his conscience was making him turn against Ironwood. First he questioned Winter when she was going to nuke the whale before JOYR were back, then he seemed shocked when he thought they were dead, then he tried to talk sense into the other Ace Ops after Ironwood’s ultimatum, and then he straight-up called out Ironwood himself. That last one was dangerous though, and he was lucky Winter was quick enough to jump in and pretend to arrest him, because Ironwood was going to just shoot him in the back.

- Speaking of, I wonder how long Winter has been planning to double-cross Ironwood. How long was she already disagreeing with him, but waiting for the right moment to make a move? Either way, I’m glad she was there to save Marrow.

- The Renora confession scene was so sweet and got me a little choked up 😢. I’m glad they sorted out their issues and told each other how they feel. But like I said before, I think Nora’s arc of trying to find out who she is without Ren is really good and important and Ren respecting that was really good and important as well. It was just a very wholesome scene. Also, I like that we got a little bit more backstory for Nora (her mom abandoned her? that’s awful), and Jaune awkwardly leaving the room was hilarious.

- Robyn telling Qrow he’s a better Huntsman than Clover because he chose to do the right thing was a really important moment for Qrow, imo. (And just a side-note: I’m sure most Fair Game shippers are pretty chill – and I’m a strong believer in ‘ship and let ship’ – but a certain subset of them is starting to get on my nerves with how they ignore Clover’s canon character and story (acting like he would have rebelled against Ironwood if he were alive as if the whole reason he’s dead wasn’t precisely because he cared more about Ironwood’s orders than doing the right thing) and how they make every new plot point about their ship somehow (Oscar’s semblance? Better be a time-travel thing so Clover can come back. Staff of Creation? Better be able to bring people back from the dead so Clover can come back.) It’s so annoying.)

- Yang and Ruby’s talk about their mom was really intense. Ruby’s been holding all of these feelings in for so long, so seeing her say out loud what we’re all fearing (that Summer was turned into a Grimm) and seeing both her and Yang break down over it – that was a lot. I loved seeing Yang comfort Ruby and tell her that her plan for Amity wasn’t useless. Their sisterly bond is so sweet.

- Penny asking Ruby to kill her was another really intense moment. The look on Ruby’s face in that moment really said it all. Ruby has been through so much, has lost Penny before, so hearing that request – even though they fortunately didn’t have to go through with it – must have still been a lot for her.

- I really loved Emerald’s cute “newly reformed villain” moments. (“You guys have been getting your asses kicked… some of that my fault” & “I’m just going to be super pissed if you all finally decide to give up the moment I switch sides.”) I’ve said before (in my She-Ra posts) that my favourite part of any redemption arc is the “former enemies, now awkward around each other” stuff, so this was right up my alley!

- “The girl who fell through the world” was referenced twice now. Between that, the image of everyone falling in the opening, and the lyrics “sometimes it’s worth it all to risk the fall”, I’m going to predict that someone – most likely all of Team RWBY – will fall into that void and potentially end up in a different world.

- The group’s plan to defeat Ironwood, stop the bomb, and get to the vault was amazing all-around. I love the parts Emerald and Winter got to play in it, I love how we saw the plan’s execution before seeing how they came up with it and I love how everyone got to help, even the Schnees and Klein. I also love that the hole Oscar blasted through the ground of Atlas became relevant again.

- The design of the vault and the door are really nice and now I wonder what the other two are going to look like.

- Saving Penny like that was super risky, but they really were out of options. Just the fact that Ruby had to be quick enough to use her semblance and get to the staff before the virus kills Penny… jeesh, that was close.

- Ambrosius is a super fun character! I love that he looked at Penny and said “I’d love to meet whoever did this.” Also, the staff seems more useful than the lamp. The lamp only lets you ask three questions per century, while the staff can be used as often as you want – as long as you’re okay with whatever it previously created disappearing.

- I honestly still don’t completely understand what Penny is now. Is she meant to be human now? Or is she just a being made up of pure aura? How does this work? Ambrosius only created the copy that destroyed herself, so what’s left is Penny’s aura – but she somehow also has a body now? I guess we’ll find out more about what exactly this means later.

- Also, while I wasn’t sure how I feel about this decision re:Penny at first, now that I’ve thought about it for a bit, I think it works. It fits with the Pinocchio story, and I like that they didn’t phrase it as “she’s a real girl now”, but as “this is the girl who’s been in there all along���. Also, Penny saying “wow” after hugging Ruby and then going on a hugging spree was adorable.

- Watching “herself” self-terminate must have been really traumatic, though. Even if that copy was just a robot, it was still a disturbing scene.

- Who shut down communications in the middle of Jaune’s broadcast? I’m assuming it was Cinder, Watts and Neo.

- The whole dimension with the doorways that Ambrosius created looks amazing. (A while before watching this episode, I wondered if Raven could theoretically save Atlas by getting everyone to safety with her portals. It might not have been Raven, but I’m glad I was at least onto something.)

- “Do not fall.” So, about that… they’re all falling in the opening, (and we referenced “the girl who fell through the world” twice now), so I don’t have a good feeling about that. Also, Watts has been dangled from somewhere high twice now, so the third time has to be when he actually falls down.

- And Cinder is there to ruin the plan because of course she is.

[dndarkive]

The Deck of Certain Things, or: The Joke Item That Almost Destroyed my Campaign

From u/astonishingantman: “I created this thing over two years ago as a joke item. One of my players became convinced that I was trying to trick them, and that it was a real Deck of Many Things. His paranoia spread, and the party nearly killed each other over it. After some impromptu group therapy, they decided to leave the Deck be and never speak of it again.

So now you get to use it. Have fun!”

Deck of Certain Things Wondrous Item, Legendary

A set of 10 cards that come in a small box. “Deck of Certain Things” has been crudely carved into the box’s lid in Common.

Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use a d10 to simulate the deck). Any cards drawn in excess of this number have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. Each card must be drawn no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining cards fly from the deck and take effect all at once. Once a card is drawn it cannot reappear.

Once all 10 cards have been drawn, a pair of Gloves of Thievery appear in the deck box, along with a note thanking the Deck’s owner for the fun.

The cards are decorated with shoddy-looking artwork, seemingly scribbled with crayon. They are:

Acorn - 3d8 terrified squirrels are transported to your location from elsewhere on the material plane.

Fireworks - Your weapon explodes into a shower of brightly-colored glitter. It reforms in 1 hour.

Prospector - A wooden chest containing 10,000 pieces of counterfeit gold drops at your feet. The coins show a winking jester on both sides.

Liar - For the next 1d12 hours, telling a lie causes your trousers to ignite, dealing 1d6 points of fire damage.

Honey Jar - Summons a friendly sentient bear named Sigmund, who acts as an apothecary, selling the party potions from his backpack. He vanishes after 1d20 minutes.

Wallflower - You instantly succeed on all Insight checks for 24 hours, but fail all Intimidation checks.

Invitation - An imp appears in a burst of smoke, kicks you in the shins, then vanishes.

Nightmare - All items worn on your person, with the exception of undergarments, turn invisible for 1d4 hours.

Quill - A flameskull appears in front of you, delivers a heartfelt soliloquy, then explodes in a pillar of green flame. All creatures within 5 feet must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d10 fire damage.

Infant - For the next hour your voice is replaced with the shrill cries of a baby. You are unable to communicate through speech or cast spells with a verbal component.

[soysaucevictim]

Week 4 of Spellbound.

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Sept. 5

I woke up around 1PM.

Watched some YouTube and whatnot before I got to making today’s Hello Fresh Meal. Gooey broccoli cheddar melts. Was just about okay. I need to practice my grilled sandwich game more - burned most of it a bit too much (the times given seemed to be an over-estimate for how hot my stove was). Even me who likes food a bit burned thought it was a little much.

I spent a few hours watching Sanders Sides episodes and charting my opinion of the Sides as I go through it. About halfway through.

I did my exercise really late... but still on date/schedule.

First, today’s DD. 40 squat hold side bends with EC. This was pretty breezy work.

Last, Chapter 19 of the SbP. I was to charge the “Lightning Storm Spell“. I kept my rests to about 1′, today. That definitely made the push-ups harder from built up arm fatigue. But I got it done.

Spent time catching up on my therapy journal and staying up obscenely late again. It has probably been a dubious choice working on that the past few days at night...

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Sept. 6

I woke up by nearly 2PM today.

After a bit of YouTube, I got going with today’s exercise early.

First, today’s DD. 2′ bicep extensions with EC. I counted 137 reps by the end. Was a bit of a challenge at that pace but manageable.

Last, Chapter 20 of the SbP. I was to charge “Healing Spell Level III“. I rested basically for max time, today. The climber taps were probably the most intense bit. But also doable. Didn’t go for very slow counts - partly due to time and energy constraints.

Much of the rest of the day was spent chatting, browsing, and watching a movie.

I did manage to get to bed in the yellow zone, tonight.

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Sept. 7

I woke up a bit before 9AM, unsure about whether I had some place to be today or not.

After poking around Ao3 and sketching up another art project, I did my exercise early.

First, today’s DD. 2′ march steps with EC. Pretty breezy exercise and counted 192

Last, Chapter 21 of the SbP. I had to check if I got 3 charged attack spells and 2 charged defense spells on the belt.

I already had the attack spells ready. I just needed one more defense spell, I picked “Levitation“. Rested 1′ and had some fun here - relatively breezy cardio. Glad there was only 10 total jump squats. I especially liked the half jacks!

I spent the rest of my mostly drawing/streaming that Tentacle!Roman picture and chatting. Did get to bed late - about my median for red-zoning. :P

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Sept. 8

I woke up after 8AM.

Spent almost an hour getting extremely pissed off about the printer. Before I was summoned to join a local small group for the 2020 Virtual Suicide Awareness Walk.

The walk helped me get some chill back, if I’m completely honest.

Once back home, spent time chatting and making dinner, before working out.

First, today’s DD. 2′ uneven plank hold with EC (1′/1′). I wasn’t sure if the sleep dep was going to let me get through it. But just some deep breaths and determination was helpful. Just glad I could manage it.

Last, Chapter 22 of the SbP. This chapter was a bit more complicated in terms of actions taken to progress.

Cast a spell to get a guard’s attention. I chose to cast “Increased Speed“.

Cast 2 defense spells, I casted “Deflect“ and “Levitation”.

I then had to cast an attack spell, “Lightning Storm“. Probability rolled success, so I only needed to spend one instead of two spells for the sequence (if I counted it anyways), So I casted “Iron Strike“.

I was then to charge “Time Stop“. I rested a minute between sets, most since the timer on page only accounted for 1′ and I just wanted to get it done. This was apparently an isometric exercise day (i mean, not complaining - I’m not sure I’d be up for much cardio are jostling movements with energy levels and timing of dinner).

Spent rest of day doing some more drawing and chatting.

Did get to bed earlier than yesterday, but still in the red.

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Sept. 9

I woke up a bit before noon.

Got to Seeking Safety Group again. It was nice and fun to be there.

First, today’s DD. 40 raised leg circles with EC (supine). Just about manageable, despite being pretty tired.

Last, Chapter 23 of the SbP. Casted “Healing Level III“.

Charged and casted “Super Strength Spell“. Max rest, was a bit tired, but I got through it alright. Push-up form was just ok.

After dishes, spent more time to finish that Roman drawing. Technically finished it around 6AM the next morning (had to quickly make some changes to it after posting).

Technically, pulled an allnighter, too (got to bed around 8AM). orz

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Sept. 10

I woke up after noon. Definitely grossly underslept for it.

After a bit of Tumblr, I went out to get my laundry done. Then chatted and did dishes, before working out.

First, today’s DD. 40 sit-up punches with EC. It’s always fun to be able to llok at a DD and to be able to go, “I got this (one go, no anchors).“

Last, Chapter 24 of the SbP. Charged and casted the “Dome Spell“. Rested for 1′ in between sets. Brisk and manageable cardio. Only downside/concerning aspect was my left ankle being a bit grumpy about the jacks (even though they’re usually very fun). Gotta keep an eye on that.

Spent some time doing some glitchy .gif involving the Tentacle!Creativitwins drawings (will post it some time later though.)

Did get to bed in the yellow zone, because tired.

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Sept. 11

I woke up around 10AM.

Spent time chatting and shopping before doing my exercise.

Active rest day, so the only devoted exercise I did today was the day’s DD. 50 side bridges with EC (25/25). A bit tough, but doable.

Did some more chatting and set up the new printer I ordered.

I then made today’s Hello Fresh meal. Pub-style Hello Fresh. Bro really enjoyed it and I liked it well enough myself (I was extremely hungry at that point too). Dad was kinda meh (he’s been p down abt food lately).

Did some more chatting, doing dishes, cleaning the kitchen (counters, stove, and microwave), washing some rags, clearing some clutter... and making a lil coin purse. Despite being overtired at that point.

... yeah, another allnighter, got to bed around same time as previous one this week.

[shulto-masusdesus]

the year is indeterminate. its quarantine at the ua dorms. heights alliance. three months or seventeen years have passed - judging by the size of the eldritch being that had begun residing upon midoriya's head during the most recent days, or hours, itd been many an unwashed day. as far as one's memory could go back, it was a hair dye prank gone wrong during their more energetic months. their more innocent months. or yesterday.

someone sneezes. like cthulu hesitating, a burst of motion, and then stillness.

coping methods included but were not limited to: screaming in groups at exactly 1:09 am; coloring; sewing; cleaning; abusing one jirou kyouka's instuments; knitting; gardening; cleaning; taking up osu; taking up writing; taking up drawing; starting a podcast; cleaning; cooking; panicking when somebody coughs; breaking your computer because you logged 7777 attempts on a particularly popular osu beatmap and still couldnt get a full clear; cleaning; gardening; wondering where youre unused underwear went; trying to catch the sock fairy by paying too much attention to the laundry cycles; taking charge of the laundry cycles; cleaning; finding that your unused underwear was being broken down for more sewing material; throwing knives; throwing darts because a knife got stuck in midoriya's hair; cleaning; trying new tea flavors; having nightmares about midoriya's hair; hosting seances; sewing; skipping multiple meals and having thirds of thirds at 11:47 pm; working out; cleaning; meditating; taking out your anger, frustration, and existential horror on your friends (commonly referred to as "sparring", a mutually relieving process for all involved parties); summoning demons; sleeping for 20 hours and saying up for three days afterward; cleaning; overconsuming coffee; overconsuming tea; overconsuming; underconsuming and becoming a Buddhist monk for a day; overconsuming; and much more.

yaoyorozu was a prime source for entertainment once everything was overconsumed, because boredom was the antidote to rational thought on both sides. multiple bands and/or orchestras were started within the period between aloe vera-watering days. none of them were dissolved. many a student learned break beat through sheer boredom and frustration. many of the bands were metal bands, and an orchestra was to be accompanied by screaming vocals.

rabbits could be trained to play drums. six students figured out how to be a one-man band. harmonica solos were played with the soulful sorrow of isolation with the same 19 other people, day in and day out. one student had no semblance of rhythm and his name was todoroki shouto, so he was on stylish triangle, cowbell, or dulcimer duty. he played with passion.

friendships were broken and remade and many students didnt talk to each other for every or any reason between hatred and overfamiliarity sufficient enough to eliminate the need for words. often a day would pass without a spoken word. hell was afoot in heights alliance.

a student named denki was on a month-long probation for the hair dye prank. there were many laughs and some hysterical sobbing over this.

classes continued, however, aizawa sensei was the only teacher anyone saw because keeping as immobile as possible negated the spread. there were many students in this school. and six confirmed cases. one wrong move could spell an entire student body down.

so aizawa sensei hemmed and hawed for an hour or so, and the other teachers actually tried to teach things (kudos to them) but was it ochakos fault that watering the hydrangeas felt more real and more urgent than ancient literature?? no. it wasnt.

so classes were kind of ignored by everyone except midoriya and bakugou because their rivalry kept them alive and sane and it was more fun to watch than to actually participate. iida really, really tried, but even he clocked out for the day at reading aloud over a fucking half-functioning video call. everyone did, really.

sometime during may a disco was hosted in the whole dorm for several days straight and everyone owed aoyama fifty bucks.

everyone who had a birthday was hailed as god, because new things were precious and they had to mentally and emotionally support each other and keep each other from trying to figure out how to cultivate weed from lavender.

all in all, quarantine was taking a toll on all of them and they really needed therapy anyway, but they lived and kept themselves together. mostly.

[starlite-sin]

Drumbeats

TW: TORTURE, USE OF ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY, BLOOD, AND MURDER. 

Yes this is Amy’s Chapter, and more detail into death. Constructive Criticism is always welcome! 

You will not die here. Fire. That was all Amy could feel. Her back arched off the table as she screamed. She was strapped to the cold metal table with leather straps and a gag was in her mouth, not doing much to muffle the screams. Tears trailed down her cheeks. She tried her best to think of something, anything, other than this. Other than the icy fire searing through her veins. She stopped fighting. She stopped trying. Cables and monitors were hooked up to her, bright lights blinded her, people were bustling around her, checking her vital signs, filling the drip bag

 with more fire ice. She knew how long she had been there, exactly nine months. A little bit after Mark was kidnapped. Would he even recognize her? Her appearance has been altered so much. Her long, soft, brown hair turn thick, coarse and black. Her brown eyes were now a deep shade of purple and she hadn’t been able to shower in a hot minute. Her nails were long and as sharp as iron. She didn’t even sound like who she was. Needle holes littered her thin body. Her bones were much more defined now, due to the lack of food. She realized long ago that whatever they gave her was making her lose her appetite. They wheeled her to another room named ‘Electroshock’. She whimpered as they attached the pads to her temples and forehead. She watched, helpless, as they cranked up the voltage even more than they have ever done. A man came over to her and peered over her terrified form. “Miss Nelson, you have been giving us trouble,” he stated, his southern accent making it difficult to make out. He had a clipboard in one hand. “We need to fix that,” one the last word, he booped her nose with his free hand. She lurched at him, the fear being replaced with anger and hatred. He motioned for his assistant to start the therapy and he stood back a few feet. She had no time to react, to brace herself. Electricity attacked her brain. Her eyes screwed shut, some tears managing to escape. The gag still did nothing to stifle her screams. She begged her mind to take her somewhere else. She saw bits and pieces of her time with Chica. She hoped Mark was taking care of her. She knew he was, what kind of question was that? You Will Not Die Here. The words were a drumbeat, repeating over and over. She had to get out. She had to find the others. She started straining against her bonds, summoning all of her energy and strength they had mistakenly given her, biting down on the gags. YOU WILL NOT DIE HERE! With that last beat, her bonds snapped. She sat up and removed the electric pads and the gag, revealing yellow fangs. Her violet eyes turned even darker with a tint of red as she stared down the doctor. He was trying to alert security. The assistant came up behind her with a taser. She grabbed the boy’s neck and squeezed tight enough to snap it. Before the doctor could move, she was on him, digging her fangs deep into his neck and her nails into his chest. Blood splattered over her clothes. As she made her way into the halls, people started running away. Those she could catch were swiftly killed. Blood lined the walls as she went to the solitary cells, her home since the experiments started. The cell at the end of the hall was making a banging noise, as though someone was trying to break out. She opened the door. A large, furry, animal thing barreled past her, not looking back. Amy found the security office and made swift use of the frightened guard inside. This gave her access to open the rest of the cells. Only a few people escaped. As she looked around the cells, alarms were blaring. People were fleeing and dying. Chaos was happening. And she smiled a deep, dark, wide grin.

Hours passed. People went into the cells. A group of women, one of which she recognized. ‘Stephanie,’ she said in her mind. In her head, she was the same as always, only outwardly she the animal they forced her to be. The others she didn’t know. She rushed past the shorter girl with snow-white hair, she turned and swore. The fight was a blur, she drew blood from one. The tiny one muttered a spell and voices filled her head, screaming, pleading. It hurt. The white-haired girl changed into a panther and swiped at her. That’s when she fled the room. She heard the sloshing of water as the panther chased her before losing her. Or at least fell back. She followed the sounds of more voices. That filled her with a white-hot fury. It was too noisy. She peered into the room. Jack, Nate, Matt, Felix…Mark. Mark was here. The group turned to her. Mark took a step towards her, disregarding Matt’s warning. She was losing control. Fuck. She lost her control. Amy leaped at her boyfriend, swiping with her nails. She got him in the neck and Sean in the arm. Air was knocked from her lungs as Felix grabbed her neck and Matt latched onto her flailing legs. She kicked Matt hard. No. She was pounding and screaming her mind, begging Mark to hear her, to see her, to help her. She wanted to cry. Blood dripped onto Matt’s clothes. She dug her nails into Felix’s arm, making him drop her. She attacked Mark and Sean again, Mark was shoved out of the way, hitting his head on the chair. She was caught again and this time, it was accompanied by a sharp pain in her neck. NO! Ice filled her veins. Not the burning type, but it still hurt, nonetheless. She was screaming louder. She locked eyes with Mark, begging and pain filling them. Amy begged Mark to help her. She watched as he realized what was happening. Her vision blurred. Her body went limp and lost whatever color it remained. She felt Felix drop her and heard Mark screaming with what little life she was clinging to. Then the pain stopped. You will die here.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I kinda want to stick the boys in an urban fantasy setting like the one I’ve been developing for a few years.

Virgil wasn’t born with magic but made friends with a witch and is now a warlock that specializes in rune magic. He knows how to perform blood magic too but only uses it for larger spells. In this universe real, effective witchcraft done through rituals can only be performed by people with a shattered soul. It’s a sort of consolation prize the universe gives them for having to live with the emotional pain that comes with that. Virgil’s soul was broken in increments throughout his childhood through extreme bullying that he never reported to his parents. Like with many other witches and warlocks learning ritual magic and finding a community saved his life. He can see the state of other people’s souls and read what kind of inherent magic they have at a glance.

He’s a student getting a doctorate in the hopes of becoming a research professor at a prominent university. He’s that graduate student that’s also teaching an into to chemistry class to mostly freshmen and walks in to every class one minute late and with a bunch of disorganized papers in hand. A lot of people are surprised he’s trying to become a professor, especially when they see the weird runes tattooed on his arm. “what do they mean?” they always ask. “Some old poem thing.” he always replies, leaving it at that.

His introduction to the underground community was slow because registering witches and warlocks is complicated. Technically they’re not supposed to exist but the government learned long ago they’re not going anywhere so they just have to accept them in if they manage to master their craft.

Logan is an A-class weapons master. A-class is the highest level of natural power one can posses and a weapons master is someone that can summon weapons and learn to master them far faster than any other human would be able to. They also have the ability to enchant or curse weapons. Logan would randomly accidentally curse knives by accident when he was a little kid and the government was monitoring him from a young age because something was detected when he was a baby. When his “little problem” as his mother called it showed up they had people knocking on their door basically the next day.

He’s been taught how to fight and be a killing machine since he was a little kid for two reasons. 1. All magical persons are guaranteed through international law an opportunity to receive mentoring and instruction in their abilities and how to control them and Logan’s abilities are basically only useful if you’re fighting or cursing your uncle’s hunting rifle. 2. Magical persons are actually usually in danger of being attacked or turned into the authorities because most people in the world don’t know magic exists or understand it and A-class persons are especially vulnerable because they don’t always have control over their abilities so able bodied A-class magic users are strongly encouraged to learn how to fight and defend themselves. Logan’s parents took this advice and basically let his mentor shape him into a fighting machine.

He doesn’t like it but he was coerced into joining the marines as a teenager and he didn’t see until he was in the thick of things how much he actually hates the cards that he was dealt in life. It was at about his fifth confirmed kill on a special mission with two other weapons masters that he realized he didn’t want to be there. He tends to not answer questions about all the scars he has. If he does he just claims to be accident prone.

His day job now is working as an editor for a prominent literary magazine. Unfortunately for him he’s still really infamous and his uncle’s hunting rifle still teleports to another room whenever a person with A- blood touches it. His ex-boyfriend broke up with him because he one time conjured a dagger in his sleep and injured both of them in the process. Because of how infamous he is in certain parts of the magical community there’s always someone that wants to blackmail him into helping them somehow. Logan usually ends up snuffing the problem out relatively quickly though. He’s made it very clear that he wants to continue spending his days sorting through poetry submissions and he’s willing to get a little more blood on his hands to make sure that it stays that way. His current interaction with the underground doesn’t go much further than the occasional veterans support group meeting and maybe a visit to the magical clinic to have his energy levels checked.

Patton is a C-level spell caster. Different from a witch or warlock, often called a wizard or sorcerer instead. C-class is the lowest level of magic where inherent abilities are able to be used reliably (rather than just in moments of extreme panic like with most humans) and spell casters are persons with undifferentiated magic that can be directed with helpful objects. Wands, jewelry, magical knives, whatever. Hands only magic is also taught but is less exact unless you put a lot of effort into your training. Patton did not put a lot of effort into his training.

Basically think of spell casters as jack of all trades master of none type of magic. They can do anything, just not super powerfully. They can summon fire, sure, but someone with fire specific magic would be able to easily burn down an entire building while they can maybe light a candle. The most powerful of them might be able to do a flamethrower for a few seconds.

Patton uses his magic for fun, mostly. He works at the magical community center and teaches an intro to history of magic class and a basic magical law course for adults that discover their powers late and parents of magical children. If anyone without an “in pass” (permission to access the underground and granted immunity from memory wipes) asks what his day job is, he teaches adult school. He speaks Spanish and ASL as well as English and just generally shows a lot of love and patience to people being thrown into this world. He’s a supporter of the movement to integrate magic into everyday life and expose it to the world but knows that’s probably not going to happen in his lifetime.

Sometimes his classes will get bored and he’ll ask if they want to see something he’s been practicing and then he’ll try a new spell he’s been practicing with his expensive looking watch that he uses as his casting device and sometimes he causes a power outage. Only sometimes though, as he will quickly remind his boss.

Roman is a B-class charmer. That is, a person with moderately powerful charm magic. He can influence people easily and make them ignore some of the bad things about him and focus on the parts that they like instead. As a rule charmers aren’t usually introduced to the underground or made aware of their status as a magical person unless a friend or family member fills out the paperwork to let them in on their secret or someone int heir immediate family turns out to be magical. The reason is that charming is by far the most common magical ability (they almost outnumber the entire magical population on their own) and can only learn to control their powers to a certain degree. And of course of a B or A-class charmer learns how to control their abilities more the potential of them becoming more dangerous skyrockets. Charmers that powerful are quite rare, but they can’t make an exception for them.

Roman found out that he has this charming ability because as it turns out, his adopted daughter has the ability to control plants. When the scary people with clipboards and neckties and weird looking guns on their hips came to his door to explain to him and his husband that magic is real they also brought up Roman’s own magic. When they explained how it worked suddenly Roman got a horrible feeling in his stomach. Suddenly his whole life made a lot more sense, and suddenly he felt sort of bad for making a career as an influencer (he makes Instagram videos and YouTube commentary videos and confession type stuff, sort of akin to Dan Howell’s old stuff). And understandably this has but a lot of questions between him and his husband and if his husband was influenced by this ability Roman didn’t know he had. He is really conflicted. On one hand, he has something to talk to his daughter about and he’s learning to control himself better and find other people that relate to him. On the other hand, he feels a bit bad whenever one of his videos goes viral now, his husband doesn’t like appearing in videos anymore, and there’s a weird rift int heir relationship they have to get over now.

I’m sure you’re wondering now how they all meet. Well, Virgil and Patton are old college roommates and Virgil is staying with him while he goes to grad school because graduate students make not a lot of money and as great as witchcraft is, it unfortunately can’t make money out of thin air.

Roman is taking Patton’s class with his husband. The husband stops going in the middle of the class and Patton senses something’s up. He invites Roman to have a friendly coffee and Roman ends up spilling everything that’s been going on and probably his coffee too.

Logan shows up at the university from time to time to go to poetry readings or talk with people in the literary community or see a lecture and Virgil catches a glimpse of him on one of his visits and thinks “Oh. An A-class with a cracked soul. That’s some valuable blood for potions and such.” and he proceeds to worm his way into Logan’s life to try and convince him to let him bottle some of his blood. Unfortunately for Virgil he ends up liking Logan so much that this request becomes more and more awkward sounding as time goes on and eventually he gives up on the idea. Logan deduces what he wanted when Virgil reveals that he’s a warlock and then shrugs and goes “I have plenty of scars already. What’s one more?” and then there’s a weird visit to Patton’s house where Roman and his husband are having an informal bit of couple’s therapy and Virgil is thinking about taking Logan int he back room to do some bloodletting which is being delayed because guests are here and Roman and Virgil hate each other immediately of course.

I could take all of this two ways. Magical friends living a weird everyday magical life and doing weird everyday shenanigans, or some weird dangerous event happens like someone killing off witches or Roman’s daughter getting kidnapped, forcing Logan out of retirement and Virgil into using some of those weird bottles of blood he’s been holding onto. Big or small. Who knows? Not me. This is just an outline for the au who knows if I’ll actually do anything with it

[madebyleftovermuses]

We’re Being Punked, Pedro

Hooded people are never a good sign

The statue is alive! And murderous!

Ric trying to figure out the knife

Its Gaulish

Dorian asking where Penelope and Lizzie responding lady cramps and then proceeds to say “a disharmonious group makes for an uneven flow”

So, Ric just summoning his three daughters

The three of them have community service

Lizzie trying to get out of community service and throwing Josie under the bus

Master’s in library science? Is that actually a thing? It really is

Lizzie curious what Hope did

Dorian trying to hand Kaleb the trash picker tool, but he doesn’t want it

I hate Lizzie bossing Josie around

Damn, Josie, that was cold, but she did throw you under the bus, so she deserved it

Kaleb is living for the drama

Lizzie bossing MG around and he is doing what she says

Eat the rabbit, Raf don’t complain at least its food

Landon it’s a knife and Raf is right it doesn’t have conscious thoughts

“nothing better” “a burger. A burger would be better”

“I don’t see you pitching in” well, I don’t see you pitching in either, Lizzie

Kaleb doesn’t think its fair they got in trouble and thinks they are better

Dana flirting with MG in front of Lizzie

That was a dick move, human!

Don’t be angry with the cute little Pedro

Pedro is so freaking cute!

Hey, look the gargoyle…I’m guessing it isn’t the good one who save the city at night

Everyone gets therapy

Apparently, Dorian never misses an appointment

“And if my translations are correct, whoever wields it has the power to save the world. Or end all life as we know it.” well pick the less scary one and pray that you are correct

Maybe, Ric should give his therapy appointment to Lizzie

Don’t get mad that Josie and Hope are sisters in solidarity you chose not to pick up trash

I can see how Ric is to blame for this but you should have done what he asked

Listen to the cute kid! Believe the little cutie

No, it’s not behind you its behind him

SAVE PEDRO!

“Did you say ‘gargoyles’?” yes, Dorian! Now isn’t the time for stupid questions

Josie has been busy

Hope, it isn’t nice to call people dumpster fires….tv shows on the other hand that’s ok

So, they take jabs at each other…they are basically like sisters

Hope you’re supposed to stab trash not your foot

Hustling people using wolf skills

Raf is like no way can I do that in 10 seconds

Whoever that is, they were looking for Raf and Landon

Found the gargoyle

Stabbing didn’t really go your way

“MG has the hormones of a teenager and the impulse control of a preschooler” ❤

Lizzie always has dibs, kind of unfair

Ah, Hope is in trouble because of the black magic

Sensitive is one word for it

Aw, Hayley used to come by the school

Of course, Ric would have sent flowers after her death

Of course, they don’t teach Freya’s type of magic at school

They actually got burgers

Shit someone wrote “Run, wolf or DIE” on a five-dollar bill

Landon looking around like they are in the forest with them

Landon looks happy to see Hope

Me thinks Landon really likes Hope

Something is wrong, Lizzie is in trouble

MG straight up saying Dana is hot

Using compulsion on Dana

MG doing the right thing

“also remember I'm a really cool dude, with super dope football skills, and I crush it all day, every day.” ❤

Just tell Raf why you wanna go

Shot in the neck…both of them

Who is the guy with the arrow through him?

Its Jeremy!

Kaleb feeding on humans

Oh, we’re not supposed to eat the locals

Gaulish, Ric’s favorite language

Josie took down the containment spell

There still werewolf hunters?

Of course, Jeremy works for Ric from time to time

Don’t kill Landon for hiding the note

Yes, they do Landon. They want you at the school

Why didn’t the gargoyle hurt Ric?

Destroyed the motherfucker

Josie pissed that Ric jumped in front of Hope to save her not knowing what Ric did

The gargoyle seeing Hope, Josie and Lizzie as evil

Hope finally taking Ric’s advice but he needs to take his own advice

Ric telling the school the truth about what is going on

Dorian asking for a raise

Dana and Sasha defacing the Salvatore School why?

How did Sasha get that far that face?

Why the fuck killed Sasha and Dana?

[livvywrites]

worldbuilding [tmq]

Magic

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It got long, so it’s under a readmore~ 

Where does it come from?

Magic comes up from Eldora’s core and exits through places called wellsprings. Wellsprings are sacred spaces, usually watched over by nymphs. Nymphs are elemental spirits, corresponding to earth, water, spirit, fire, and air.

Because the nymphs’ elements correspond to different divines, that separates wellsprings by divines.

Life is represented by plant nymphs, and usually one will find tree nymphs watching over her wellsprings. Her wellsprings tend to be deep in the forests.

Death is represented by spirit nymphs. Spirit nymphs are quite rare. His wellsprings are generally found near the entrance to mountain caves. These caves are often quite unremarkable—or so it seems. These are actually exit points for the River of Souls, which is what the Reapers travel to enter Eldora.

Hope is represented by air nymphs. Her wellsprings are found near the mountaintops, or other high places. You can tell when a wellspring is there by the clouds that gather—so thick that you can walk on them, if you like…

Fear is represented by fire nymphs. Her wellsprings are generally found in or around volcanoes. Sometimes they can be found in the desert as well, or more tropical climates.

Order is represented by rock nymphs, though his element is actually time. His wellsprings are found in or around mountains and eventual quarries/mines.

Chaos is represented by water. His wellsprings are found mostly in the ocean, making them difficult to visit. However, there are a few oases of his in the desert.

These wellsprings, when people know they exist, are often marked as visits for pilgrimage. Temples are set up near them and offerings are made. People go to the nymphs for counsel, as well, though be wary not to disturb their domains.

Magic is thicker near wellsprings, and these are considered magical hotspots. The people of Eldora have a sixth sense when it comes to detecting magic, and so it’s easy for them to tell when they’re near a hotspot. The feeling is quite pleasant! Except, however, when you go underground. Because magic gets thicker the further you go beneath the surface, the presence gets stronger, and then it becomes uncomfortable. People say it can even drive you mad…

 Who can use magic?

Everyone!

However, not everyone can use it at the same level. There are two kinds of people on Eldora: Those who are born with internal magic and those who are not.

Those without internal magic have no special name, because they’re just people! They make up 55% of the population! However, they can still pull magic from the air, though they can cast little more than small spells called cantrips. Cantrips include:

Witchlights (also called magelights)

Basic glamours (changing hair & eye color)

Basic lock and unlocking spell (this can be keyed to different magical signatures, as everyone’s is unique, like a thumbprint!)

Those born with internal magic are called mages as an umbrella term, but there are specific subcategories we’ll cover in a bit. They make up about 45% of the population. They can pull from the air as well, but because of their internal magic, their range of spells is larger.  These internal mana spells have three properties, intelligence, mana reserves, and willpower.

Intelligence simply means your knowledge of the spell. A spell is made up by different pieces, better known as runes*, though runes are mostly unspoken. (However, they’re very important for enchanting and creating new spells.) The more you understand the pieces, the better you can tighten the spell, and so you lose less mana.

Mana reserve is how much magic you have. Everyone has their own limits, which fluctuate until you hit what’s called “spiritual maturity.” Spiritual maturity is different for each race, and given I’m still working out ages, that will not be included here. You can drop a spell if you don’t have enough power for it, but it creates magical backlash which can cause harm to you and those around you. (As well as the area around you.) You can pull magic from the air to help supplement your mana, but depending on where you are, there may still not be enough magic to fuel the spell. Mana reserves cannot be changed nor increased… except in the case of Slaeyr, who do have a way to increase their mana, but it’s forbidden to attempt it.

Willpower is a little more complicated to explain. In my (unpublished) notes in the past, I’ve likened it to stubbornness, but this is a very simple way to look at it. (Though simple isn’t bad!) It has to do a lot with how in tune you are with your mana. How well you understand your limits and how much control you have of your mana. People with low willpower are more likely to have their spells fizzle, even if their intelligence is really high! However, willpower is something you can improve through constant practice and discipline.

((*this name is subject to change))

 How is magic used in the world?

The biggest, most wildly used type of magic is enchantments. Enchantments are made by inscribing runes on a surface. This is usually done with a special, magically imbued type of ink. However, it can also be done with needle and thread (as in the case of armor and clothing enchantments). Once the enchantment is written and activated, even if the ink fades away, the enchantment remains. If the ink has faded, a caster can view the enchantment in a variety of ways, some of which I’m still coming up with. A mage can simply use a little of their own mana to “poke” the spell. As long as the connection remains, they can view the runes glowing over the anchored object and judge what the spell is.

An anchored object is the focal point of the enchantment. While other objects may have enchantments that link to it, this the center of the enchantment. If it’s destroyed or the enchantment removed, the entire thing falls apart. (Sometimes with negative consequences, if the original enchanter built traps into the spell.)

Enchanted objects get their power in one of two ways. Some have a constant link with their enchanter. This is rare, and usually only done with small enchantments. (For instance, Talitha has an enchanted pen that draws from a barrel—yes, a barrel—of ink. The pen draws from her when its empty, to magically refill so she doesn’t have to pause in her writing.) The other way is more common and involves drawing its power from the air.

If an enchantment is too big, this can cause a dead spot, a place where there is no magic in the air. This is a disturbing feeling for most magic users. Those with internal magic are generally fine, but those without aren’t overly fond with dead spots.

 What kinds of magic are impossible?

The only one I’ve come up with is bringing back the dead. However, time travel and mind control are strictly forbidden. The Slaeyrs also forbid the stealing of mana.

Time travel was researched, but the researchers didn’t get too far before they were visited by one of the divines spirits—probably a Reaper, as they’re often on Eldora (invisibly, usually) anyway. They were warned away from the research, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still happe n behind closed doors.

Mind control and other mind altering spells are definitely still practiced, by a subcategory of mages called sorcerers, though the slang term for them is hexers. Mind control also includes most love potions.

Mind reading and dreamwalking are considered gray areas. While not strictly forbidden, they are discouraged—though the latter has been used in therapy before.

Mental bonds are common among the Slaeyrs. The Syndicate (Knights, Rangers, and Circle of Magi, though more guilds join after the events in The Martyr Queen) uses temporary mental bonds to send telepathic messages on the battlefield/among quest parties. Slaeyrs, on the other hand, typically have a group they just… keep them forever with.

Some types of magic are specialized. People (though more often specific races) are born with it. Anyone can make a glamour, though it takes a lot of focus and weaving to make a realistic one. And even then, you can’t change your height/weight. Or, rather, you can—but it breaks the illusion if anyone bumps into you.

 What are the different subcategories of mages?

There are illusionists, who specialize in illusions. Some focus on more realistic ones, while others prefer the stylized ones. Some people look down on the art, dismissing it as frivolous. Others praise it highly. It’s used to supplement plays, dances, and even just create street performances. It’s also used by people who prefer stealth, for glamours, but also invisbility.

There are healers. Healing is one of the most difficult arts on Eldora. It requires many years of study and discipline. Rarely you’ll meet someone with an innate gift to heal others. Healing also takes a lot out of the caster, and can even age their appearance temporarily. (Or permanently, if they don’t take enough breaks.) Healers have to keep a constant watch on their diet, remembering to stay hydrated and to consume a lot of protein.

There are enchanters, who focus specifically on enchantments and other kinds of anchored spells.

There are necromancers. Most often they’re associated with raising skeletons and zombies to fight with them, but their magic is a little more nuanced than that. Necromancers help ghosts that are stuck on this plane move on—either by pushing them with their magic or fulfilling a last request. They also can summon ghosts temporarily for people to talk to, to get closure—though this requires more planning, as the rituals are quite intricate.

There are summoners. These people summon creatures from the divines planes. Most often you’ll see people summoning from the Forbidden Realms, which doesn’t belong to any of the gods. These are usually wraiths—not dead people, though the name may imply such. Some people have tried to summon Reapers and other direct godly creatures and bind them, but… it doesn’t usually end well. Summoners are often accused of having too much hubris.

There are elementalists, who focus their studies on the different elements. Slaeyrs are all elementalists by default, given their connection to the divines. These are usually used in battle, but it can also be used in agriculture.

These are the ones I’ve thought of indepth so far—this list may change and grow, and I’ll bring this post back when/if it does <3

I hope you enjoyed! If you have a question about Eldora’s magic system that I missed or would like me to expand on something, leave me a reply or comment on a reblog—or just come directly into my askbox! I’m always happy to answer~

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ECLIPSE & FULL MOON ENERGIES for July 16th~ The Light has Returned & The Deep Dark is Revealed

ECLIPSE & FULL MOON ENERGIES for July 16th~ The Light has Returned & The Deep Dark is Revealed

By Universal Lighthouse

The Light has returned, All the Deep Darkness is Revealed.

These Energies feel intense, even causing the smallest emotional issues to arise. They are coming to the surface for us to cleanse and free ourselves of unneeded ego during this transformation. This is not just happening with ourselves this eclipse and full moon, but with all of the earth. On the global front, Everyone will experience this shift into higher Light. With more Light within and surrounding our bodies, it will increase our vibrations as well. this is why it is important During this transformation that we change our own personal thoughts, words, and actions to be that of only Love.

This eclipse is important if you are working on your spiritual growth.

This is the Energies needed to help you bring more Light into your life and into your physical form. This light brings positive change that transforms us, our body, mind, and soul into the Higher Light.

By letting go of all the negative you allow space for this Light to take it’s place within your heart.

For example: By letting go of a negative thoughts that may judge others, we can replace those thoughts with ones of kindness, giving, and oneness.

When we stop our negative thoughts, words, and action against others, we stop the old programming of fear, hate, and separation, and allow the Light to Transform us into the Higher consciousness, of Oneness.

This eclipse and full moon is the Last one this Galactic Year

The Galactic New Year is on July 26th, 2019 and Begins the Journey of The White Magnetic Wizard Year!

This Full moon is “closure” indicating the end of our old Ways of being, and the Eclipse is signifying new beginnings, and the New Way of becoming

This new Galactic year, is opening the door for the remembrance of our Ancient selves.

The Galactic New Year is on July 26th, 2019 Begins the Journey of The White Magnetic Wizard Year!

The Galactic Frequency of this Year invokes the Powers of the Wizard, the Shaman, the Heart-Seer. The Magnetic Tone of this Year calls us to sensitize to the Unity of All of Life ~ recognizing all moments, all beings, all circumstances as aspects of the Indivisible Essence of All That Is. As We are Each an expression of Totality, We Each Embody a Unique and Essential Purpose in Serving our One Life. The Galactic Affirmation for this Year is:

White Magnetic Wizard: Kin 14 “I Unify in order to Enchant Attracting Receptivity I Seal the Output of Timelessness With the Magnetic Tone of Purpose I am Guided by My Own Power Doubled.”

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So...

The "Adventures of Silverwing" would have hit the shelves about the time Twilight was still in Magic Kindergarden or just after beginning her time at the school for gifted unicorns. In any case, you could consider the series as their Tolkien or Verne in comparison to Daring Do's Indiana Jones and Harry Potter.

The series was a smash hit, especially among the academics who found the author's breadth of knowledge to be just as much a mystery as the story itself.

Not that most ponies would be aware that the first edition the public received is in fact censored. If you can imagine the rumors that Daring Do's adventures are in fact real as of later days, you can imagine that with Silverwing's account, this detail was far more obvious in the original edition.

By the time frame of season one, there are only known remaining copies of the original set with one being in the restricted section of the Canterlot Royal library... and the other being eventually added to Twilight's collection post-coronation.

_

There used to be other copies, but they were quickly snatched up not long after a series of incidents, such as small group of stubborn unicorns used the notes and diagrams from the novels to summon a human. While I can say that it was successful if the intent was to bring a human to this world, but their hopes of meeting the mysterious nearly hairless bipedal apes would be very quickly dashed when a very confused pony popped out instead.

The remaining copies were hunted down and confiscated not that long after... albeit not without the former human getting a considerable amount of time in therapy.

In the end though, most copies of the Adventures of Silverwing are lacking the components that made the original copy of the series almost legendary among theorists and scholars alike.

Not that the censored version in its reduced form is entirely lacking juicy information. You just can't use it to cast any crazy, potentially world-ending and reality breaking spells while using it as a reference.

_

When it comes to by the time of G5 or counterparts, while the series is still likely printed even by that era, the idea of the books carrying secret knowledge has pretty much reduced to nothing more than an urban legend or rumor.

Not that it matters as much, all those years of published books, spin-offs, movies, games, and more likely would have rapidly altered perceptions of the series at large.

[be-a-snake-stab-your-brother]

Deep Listening - Cut Scene

So this was originally supposed to be the opening to Deep Listening chapter 3, but a) Tony Stark just tried to take over the whole damn chapter and b) it turned into more of an angst-fest than I felt appropriate for the tone of the story on the whole. I still like the content, however, so I’m posting this as a “cut scene”/”outtake.”

A quick bit of background: Loki and Thor are in NYC post-Ragnarok. (IW never happened.) Loki is trying out music/sound therapy (which Stark likes to refer to as “recorder group”) as part of the deal that will allow him to stay out of custody on Earth. He has just recently punched Tony Stark in the face. It may have had something to do with Stark provoking Loki and inadvertently touching on his “I’m a Jotun” angst. Of course, Loki doesn’t always have the best coping mechanisms. 

Oh yeah, and Lokes is a terribly unreliable narrator. But we all knew that already.

Excerpt under the cut as it gets a little long.

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“Loki…“ Thor’s brow furrows in warning. “Enough.”

The God of Mischief opens his arms in a dramatic motion, his smile wide and gleaming.

“Come now, Thor! If our archer lets loose, if for some reason he succeeds in - what was it? ’Putting an arrow through my eye’ - why, brother!” he exclaims, his features brightening in feigned epiphany. “We could be twins, couldn’t we?”

Loki claps Thor hard on the shoulder, the hollow slap resounding through Anthony Stark’s high-ceilinged metal palace. He pulls close, as if to confide a great and possibly illicit secret, wrapping his lithe limbs around Thor’s upper body in a sinuous, serpentine motion.

“We could propagate Odin’s disastrous ruse further,” he hums. "The one-eyed king and one-eyed prince, giving succor to our people in their time of need - ”

“Shut up, Lackey!”

Oh gods -

Loki doubles over, wheezing. The god holds out an arm, using a nearby couch to steady himself.

Norns, where in the Nine had she been hiding?

Across the room, Stark howls in delight. “I like her!” He raises his glass to Valkyrie in salute before turning to Thor. “Who is she again?”

“The demise of your treasured liquor cabinet, I imagine,” Loki gasps, cradling his throbbing midsection.

“Whatever, Reindeer Games, I - “

Stark’s eyes widen at the sound of a bottle being uncorked.

“Hey! Iron Maiden! Unhand the scotch!”

Thor rubs his face in frustration as Stark hurries across the room. The engineer's concern for his wares seems to trump Loki's temporary, embarrassing discomfort, and the god doesn't know whether to be relieved or insulted.

Loki glowers at his brother, but Thor’s attention is focused on the motley court of mortal heroes. The situation reeks of a foul, not-so-distant memory of another one-eyed king, and Loki is overwhelmed by the sudden urge to rip open the dark green cuffs of his dress shirt, to pull his too-stiff collar from his neck.

“Friends. If you please.” The room stills, and Loki is all too aware of the resentful stares aimed at him. The god twists his hands together, a sick euphoria building in his chest.

“I will not lock my brother - who is a prince of Asgard and my most trusted advisor - away in some dark, Midgardian dungeon over a minor disagreement.”

Thor’s words are quiet, in sharp contrast to Valkyrie’s shouts or Stark’s boisterous jabbering, but no less powerful. It’s a strange contrast from the man of a few years ago, and Loki still expects his brother to lay down his hammer and bellow demands at all who come near him. (But Thor has changed, hasn’t he? And yet here you are, once again at the mercy of a King of Asgard.)

“Loki has proven his allegiance,” Thor continues. He scoffs at the statement, in equal parts surprise and disbelief. Loki gingerly pokes at the spot in his midsection where Valkyrie’s fist had landed, smoothing out the fabric of his shirt. Thor has graciously left out the part of their story where he made yet another attempt at betrayal on Sakaar.

“Come on, Point Break!” Stark grouses from behind the bar, now resuming his attempts to wrest the half-consumed bottle of scotch away from Valkyrie. “He’s unstable! Recorder group is obviously a flop, terrible reviews from the press, zero out of ten points from the Asgardian judge.”

Thor tilts his head to the side, his features clouding at Stark’s jumble of words.

“The point is - we had a deal. He,” Stark juts his chin in Loki’s general direction, his hands still occupied by the futile effort of relieving Valkyrie of his rather expensive alcohol, “rehabilitates and we don’t lock him away. It’s been over a month, and he’s been through four god damn therapists. And for what? So I can be attacked in my own home by the god of bullshit again?”

“He’s not going to change! Crazy is as crazy does. Yesterday an alien invasion, today the eradication of an entire fucking planet.” Stark laughs, a hiccup that belies no humor, nor levity. “I can’t wait to see what he has up his sleeve for an encore.”

Loki throws up his hands up in disgust. Of course his brother had relayed that detail of their little adventure. How Thor had entrusted Loki of all people with the most vital part of his plan. How he had summoned Surtur with his magic and the Eternal Flame, how Loki had escaped the fire demon’s wrath, supposedly with only his own cunning and wile.

Thunder peels in the distance. “Ragnarok, Stark, was the only way to defeat Hela. And I will not have you making light of the demise of our people or my brother’s valiant deeds.

Stark stares at Thor, bitter retort spelled in bold in his tight grimace. The silent argument seems to last forever, Stark’s brown eyes against Thor’s cold blue. But the engineer breaks contact first, letting his head fall back with a heavy sigh. He stares at the ceiling, placing his hands on his hips. (He has long conceded the bottle to Valkyrie. Loki does not think even the Iron Man’s suits could have succeeded in that task).

“God damnit," Stark mutters.

The engineer keeps this posture, neck exposed, eyes searching the complicated patterns set in criss-crossed silver beams. Loki watches his pulse, oddly fascinated by the erratic flurry of heartbeats, the shallow breaths under the perspiring, damp skin.

“Fine,” he announces to the ceiling, letting out a grainy, loud breath. He stalks away from the bar in a flourish of irritation and kinetic energy.

“I guess I’m running a halfway house for intergalactic convicts. Just what I’ve always wanted.” He points at Thor. “Don’t say I never did anything for you, Point Break. And you!” Stark spins, his movements now animated again, his voice returning to its usual playful, irreverent inflection. “Go ahead! Drink my scotch like it’s shitty beer. What the hell do I care?”

Valkyrie smirks, taking a generous swig of the amber liquid.

Stark rolls his eyes.

“Are we in accord, Man of Iron?”

“Yeah, yeah, fine. Halfway house.” Stark waves Thor off with a series of spastic hand gestures, as if he is swatting away a thousand flies. “But keep your brother on a short leash, okay? I’d like for the planet to be here next week. I’ve got dinner plans, you know.”

Loki glances around, curious as to the reaction of the other Avengers. Banner recused himself early in the proceedings, muttering something about moral ambiguity. Barton, perhaps the party with the most reason to want to see Loki shuttled away forever, remains perched atop of one of Stark’s bookcases, his bow strung, arrow trained on the god’s head.

Romanov has materialized from nowhere in her signature black bodysuit, leaning against the bar. She seems neither displeased nor distressed. (Loki does not miss the raised eyebrows of Valkyrie, who practically leers in her direction.)

Thor crosses his large arms over his chest, expression dour.

“Very well. Asgard thanks you, as I’m sure Loki does, as well.”

He most certainly does not, but Loki knows well enough to hold his tongue.

The engineer gives an insincere, tired smile. “Alright. Mission accomplished, yay team,” he adds weakly. “Hey Clint, you can come down from there. Geez, how are you even - nope, forget it. I don’t want to know.”

“Do I still get to shoot him?”

“Not today, Legolas. If he punches me again, he’s all yours.”

“Great. I like those odds.” Barton jumps from the bookshelf, glaring at Loki as he strides out of the room, flipping an arrow in his hand. Romanov rolls her eyes and joins Valkyrie in raiding the liquor cabinet, bottles clinking like chimes. The show is over, the trial concluded, and now Loki is nothing but a footnote to the rest of the evening. (Thor does not deign to look at him, does not say a single word before leaving the room. Something close to despair claws at Loki’s gut.)

He falls into the corner of the nearby couch.

Villain. Hero.

Savior of Asgard. Destroyer of Asgard.

He is all of these and yet none of them.

Loki of Nowhere, Loki of Nothing.

He stares out the large windows onto the harsh lights of Midtown Manhattan. How quickly the mortals have rebuilt their concrete and steel metropolis. How quickly everything has changed since he last stood in this room.

Loki allows his head to rest on the back on the couch, long raven hair spilling over the side. Too long, he muses, wriggling his head as if to test the weight of each strand. He has been meaning to cut it for some time now, but fears he would not recognize his own reflection if he did so. (But all mirrors are lies anyway, aren’t they, Laufeyson?)

The god shudders, pushing aside the thought. No, the hair had been a purely practical matter. Cutting it would have necessitated dropping the glamour of Odin’s visage, and even a second’s lapse would have been one too many, knowing what hunted him.

He wonders how many seconds it has been since Thor’s return to Asgard.

Norns, he is exhausted.

[dnd-drunks-n-debauchery]

Recap/highlight reel of Friday’s session

Brought to you by @nevergonnarollagain aka Cookie (16/04/2021)

The session picks up from where we left off last week; Rosania making the decision to go check out the mines to try and get the diamonds there instead after finding the jeweler's business style to be rather unsavoury for her liking. 

Most of the group stay behind at Hallow to look after Jayfice's body and get some rest, but Ned, Quint, Javier and Harmony all accompany Rosania to the nearest mountain to locate the mines.

As we approach a mining town near the mountain, Rosania pauses briefly to look at the sky. It's a calm day, weather wise. Blue sky, a few fluffy clouds, bright sun...so when lightning suddenly strikes about 200 feet ahead of them, creating a fairly large crater in the ground, naturally it catches everyone off-guard.

Quint lets out a scream but quickly collects himself, leading the way to go look at the crater. Rosania hurries after him while the others hang back a little, with Javier keeping just ahead of Harmony in case things get nasty.

As the group draw closer to the crater they spot a wood-elf approaching the crater from the direction of town. Quint calls out to them but they don't respond, and as Quint nervously scans the area he spots some giant spiders moving around. Rosania also looks around but doesn't register the spiders as her mind is on other things.

The elf walks right over to the crater and peers inside, only to suddenly get shot by a bunch of arrows. They fall over unconscious and the shooters are revealed to be two skeletons on the backs of skeleton horses. Two other skeleton riders accompanying the two who just shot the elf shoot at Quint and Ned, while the spiders come racing over with skeleton jockeys of their own who shoot at Javier and Harmony.

Quint is the first to react, shooting the closest skelehorse and rider with his crossbow. The spine of the skeleton snaps in half, but the ragged old t-shirt it's wearing prevents it from falling apart completely.

Rosania is next to take action, pulling out her wand and summoning the thorny whip which she swings at one of the spiders since it's closest to her. The spider dodges out of the way, however a quick glance at Quint is enough to determine that he's upset at her trying to attack it.

Rosania isn't the only one to notice how upset Quint is; Harmony, who seemed about to attack one of the spiders as well, catches sight of Quint's displeased expression and quickly changes target, instead shooting a beam at one of the skeleton horses and disintegrating it.

Javier stares dully at the monsters and casts Fireball at them, wiping out all of the skeletons and skeleton horses. The spiders survive but are half-dead, and Javier rolls his eyes and pulls out his fire rapier, activating it ready to fight.

Ned warily eyes up the situation and thinks for a moment, then casts Moonbeam. What looks like a giant eye opens in the sky above a couple of the spiders and shoots them with a huge beam that comes shooting out of the center.

The spiders panic and break formation, cartwheeling around everyone and stopping in front of each person.

Quint attempts to cast a spell to speak with the spiders, but they seem too panicked to listen to what he has to say. He notices the elf again and casts Spare the Dying, stabilizing them for now.

Rosania turns to the spider in front of her, gripping her wand tighter. She's not exactly a fan of spiders, so to have one this big standing this close to her was...unnerving to say the least. She manages to keep calm however, swinging her wand-whip again and this time landing a hit. The spider falls to the ground but isn't quite dead yet, and she reckons another blow would finish it off.

As much as she doesn't want to upset Quint, Harmony knows she doesn't really have a choice by now. She blasts the spider in front of her, killing it instantly. 

Javier glances quickly between all of the spiders. Since Harmony's already killed her spider, Rosania seems to have things under control in regards to her spider and Ned can handle himself, he runs over to Quint and attacks the spider in front of him with his fire rapier, finishing it off. 

Ned grabs one of his axes and swings at the spider in front of him, cutting its head in half. He spots the spider in front of Rosania and, realizing it's still alive, directs the moonbeam to target it instead. The beam delivers the final blow, and everyone relaxes a little.

Rosania stares down at the spider in front of her for a moment then silently puts away her wand, glancing over at Javier and Harmony as she does so. She's concerned about both of them, and despite having only been part of the group for a short time she can tell that something's not quite right with how either of them have been acting. 

Quint, meanwhile, turns his attention to the unconscious elf. Sure, they’ve been stabilized, but they need healing. He scoops them up in his arms and starts hurrying in the direction of the town they came from, and one by one the others follow him.

We walk into the town and there's no-one around. All of the windows and doors are shut tight. Quint calls out to announce our presence and one of the temple windows opens slightly, and the person inside asks who we are.

Quint explains that we mean no harm to the people here, and that we rescued the elf in his arms and brought them to be healed. The person at the window moves away and opens the door, although there's rope tied to the door so that it can be quickly pulled shut if needed.

We all walk over to the temple and head inside. As we do we notice that everyone in here seems to be elves, and that the one who'd been talking to Quint looks pretty old. Since Quint is a human and Javier and Rosania are both elves the elves who were here don't pay much attention to them, but they all seem pretty surprised at the presence of Harmony and Ned, what with them being a tiefling and a dwarf respectively.

The doors close behind us, and the room is plunged into nearly complete darkness. The only light is from a small handle-hole in the window, which isn't enough to properly see by. This wouldn't be an issue were it not for the fact that Quint has no darkvision what with being a human. He awkwardly asks if someone can light things up, and about a quarter of the elves immediately conjure various light spells. The room gets so bright that some of the elves have to dismiss their light spells.

The elf who opened the door asks Quint what exactly happened, and he explains that the unconscious elf was walking towards where the lightning had struck, looked in the crater and got shot by skeletons on skeleton horses. The elf sighs and comments that Avadele (the unconscious elf) was probably trying to pet the skeleton horses, and asks someone to go fetch a Truth spell scroll so that they can ask Avadele when they wake up. 

He leads Quint to the altar and has him place Avadele down on it. As one of the elves comes over with a Truth spell scroll, he heals Avadele and they wake up. As Avadele wakes up, the head elf casts the truth spell and asks them what happened. Avadele pauses for a moment, then responds by saying "There was a horsey and I went to go pet it, then lightning struck and big needles stuck into me. Then I was here." The other elves in the room exchange glances and roll their eyes, clearly expecting an answer like this.

Quint tells Avadele that they were shot, and they respond in confusion by saying they didn't see anyone with spell-shooters. Quint asks if they know what arrows are and Avadele nods, which is when they catch sight of the arrows which are still sticking into them. Before anyone can stop them they break off all of the arrow staffs, much to the horror of Quint and unsurprised looks between the other elves.

As a few of the elves start conjuring Mage Hands and using them to remove the arrow heads still embedded in Avadele, Rosania walks over to talk to Javier. She asks if he's ok and he just looks at her, then quietly says that he just wants Jayfice brought back to life. She nods sympathetically, then decides to go through with her plan and asks if they might need therapy after they come back.

Javier pauses for a moment, but tells her that aside from the missing leg and injured arm, theoretically they should be fine. Rosania explains that she's asking because she's not sure how traumatizing being dead would be, since she's never been dead before. Javier agrees, muttering about how he's never actually been dead before either. He tells her about a therapist he knows and tells her that if she's looking for therapy he highly recommends that one, and Rosania nods to herself and comments that "Therapy can be very useful" before walking away.

It's as she's walking away that she realizes Javier's wording. "If you're looking for therapy." She stops walking and blinks a few times, then turns and looks over at Javier, who's moved to the side and is currently sitting on the floor, leaning against one of the walls. Does he think she was trying to get therapy recommendations...for herself?

She rolls her eyes at the idea and turns away from him. She doesn't need therapy. Sure, a camping trip on her own to get over her feelings for her best friend that ended up being three years of isolation and only ended when she accidentally became a druid was weird, and turning into a...dinosaur, as Jayfice called it...every time she got extremely scared was probably a little concerning, but she was fine. Nothing another camping trip wouldn't fix, anyway.

As she reaches this conclusion, the head elf walks over to her and rests his hand lightly on her head. She realizes that he's just trying to heal her and allows the contact before silently pointing him towards Javier. She wasn't attacked during the fight so she doesn't need healing, and as soon as the head elf turns away she turns and walks towards Harmony.

She asks Harmony how she's feeling, and Harmony explains that she's feeling ok since the head elf healed her. Rosania nods and asks how she is mentally, and Harmony admits that she's a little shaken up after everything that's been going on, but is more worried about Javier. Rosania nods sympathetically and says "If you ever need to talk about it..." but trails off as she's unsure of what to say. Harmony thanks her for the offer and heads over to Javier, sitting down with him and running her hands through his hair as he snuggles up to her.

Despite neither of them watching what she's doing, Rosania feels it'd be a little suspicious if she just asked them how they were and not the others. She walks over to Ned and asks how he's doing and he tells her he's ok, and satisfied for now she walks over to ask Quint the same question.

Quint seems calm enough as Rosania approaches him, but when she asks how he is, the full gravity of the situation hits him. He starts panicking, rambling about how he didn't expect any of this to happen and asking why the fuck we even need diamonds in the first place. 

Rosania has no idea what to do. She can feel her own fear starting to bubble up in her chest, which only escalates as she wonders what the hell she's going to do if she turns into a dinosaur in here. Thankfully though, Harmony has also noticed Quint's panicked state. She quickly brings the group together and casts Calm Emotions, and a state of calm falls over everyone. Quint stops panicking, Javier and Harmony seem more at ease, Ned looks calmer than before, and Rosania feels pretty relaxed herself as the emotions just seem to dissolve. 

The head elf comes over to check up on us himself, and Harmony reassures him that we're fine now. Quint asks if we can stay here at the temple for tonight, and he responds by saying that if we're happy with sleeping on the pews since all of the rooms are filled up, then that's alright with him. 

Later that night, Rosania and the others start to make themselves as comfortable as they can on the pews. Rosania's mind is buzzing as she tries to relax, thinking over both Javier and Harmony's words. Since it seems that Harmony may share her concerns about Javier's mental state, she makes up her mind. As soon as Jayfice is brought back to life, she's going to get Javier some therapy, no matter what.

Satisfied with this conclusion she slowly slips into her trance, only to be jolted out of it again by a loud noise coming from outside. It's loud, and annoying, and...familiar. Her mind kicks back in as she tries to work out where she knows it from, and as the others start sitting up and looking around she realizes what it is.

It's a signal horn.

(cue dramatic cut to black with text that reads "To be continued..." since that's where the action ended)