[open] december will be magic again

[kingsroads]

Who: everyone!
When: the evening of D15
Where: A small meeting hall on the moon, close to the portal to the carnival
What: a whole bunch of show-offs meet up to show off their magic, people interested in magic come to learn about said magic, and other people show up to see if something inevitably gets set on fire. (aka mage club)
Warnings: none so far, will edit if needed.

The meeting hall is a large open space, with hardwood floors and a rustic decor. A few chairs and tables are scattered around, though there aren't enough for the amount of people who'll hopefully show up. Some food has been set out: mostly finger foods (tiny sandwiches, fruit, veggies & dip) though there are some savory options and plenty of home-baked cookies, courtesy of Rin. Drink wise, there's water, hot chocolate, hot tea, and a few bottles of wine because tipsy magic sounds like an awesome idea and this is what happens when the alcoholic makes the dinner menu. Aside from the food table and the few tables, there's not much of anything in the room: plenty of open space for showing off or getting out of the way of someone who wants to show off.

One of the doors of the meeting hall leads to the outside. There's a wider, 'backyard' sort of area with plenty of room for people to cast magic as large and impressive as they want. A fire pit stands outside also for warming your hands and other fire-based magic. Please don't set the building on fire.

This is all very informal. If pressed for details, Strange would have told anyone to just come whenever, stay as long as you like, and so on and so forth. The emphasis is on learning about each other's magic, displaying one's skills and talents, and helping anyone who wished to learn magic decide on a path for them to take.

Showing off is just a given.

( ooc: This is an open mingle log! Feel free to make your own top-levels & tag around! )

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[atouts]

"Not terribly," Childermass admits with a shrug. Although, if the point of the spell was to make it harder to detect, he wouldn't know. The magic he knows, it's all cobbled together from what he could teach himself in secret.

But there's a story for another time or maybe even for no time at all, considering. 'Self-taught' can be a dicey thing to admit when it comes to something like magic.

"It only convinces anyone who looks at me that there's nothing here, but if I interact with anything outside the spell or make too much noise, it'll end it, just as it did when I answered you."

[chronosynthesis]

Perhaps because the focus of the spell is spread out between multiple minds, rather than one target? That's the line of thought Syrlya is considering, or that it could just be an extremely basic level--and thus weak--spell. Syrlya's regime had started hard, so he had little time to fool around with half-baked spellwork.

Which leads him to his next question. "Do you need to focus on the spell to maintain it, or does it hold itself provided you do not become obvious?"

Syrlya's main focus may be on magical systems and regulation, but let it never be said he isn't interested in ways to improve his own magic. Invisibility is stronger and removes the visual risk entirely, but it does require attention on the spell to keep it going more than a few seconds. That makes it too easy to miss details, even as practiced as he is.

[atouts]

Now there'a question he actually has to give pause over and consider, head tilting a little to one side and brow furrowing, gaze drifting off for a few seconds. Childermass knows he doesn't pay it all that much mind once it's been cast, but surely it would shatter should he become too distracted. He is, however, not a man often distracted when he has cause to misdirect attention.

So in the end, he returns his gaze to Syrlya and shrugs a bit.

"Not consciously, I suppose. I only need to let it settle once and then not again until it breaks, but seeing how I must take care not to become obvious in the first place, I think I may be maintaining it on some level if only because it never truly leaves my thoughts. I admit that I have not experimented with it much..."

As he's no reason to and hasn't actually ever had other magicians to discuss anything with in-depth back home, not until very recently and even then, that's been such slow going.