a small mix-up...

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SHIELD SPELL

final rituals & a small mix-up

Illyana is ready to execute the shield spell on the mansion which she's been working on for the past couple months. For the final rituals, she needs everyone out of the house for a day, and when they come back they discover some unusual complications...

the shield spell...

The shield is in the shape of a large dome which encircles the entire campus and grounds. Most people will not be able to see or sense it at all, although certain individuals who are particularly sensitive to magic, psionics, or just have enhanced senses may be able to perceive it. It looks like a geodesic soap bubble, smells vaguely metallic, and sounds like the resonances of a singing bowl.

The shield blocks all magic users and demonic entities from entering the grounds, and also acts as a barrier against magic spells and demonic energies. While a handful of individuals were also added to the shield banlist, it does not neutralize mutant powers the way it neutralizes magic.

Additionally, the shield spell stops the following individuals from entering the school: Magneto & the Acolytes, Mr Sinister, Shinobi Shaw, Jean-Luc Lebeau, Bella Donna Boudreaux, Winston Frost, Jack Winters, Jason Wyngarde, and on Illyana’s own initiative after no consensus was reached, Madelyne Pryor.

The following individuals are not affected by the spell despite being magic users or demonic entities: Illyana, Ambrose, Jimaine, Kurt, and Kitty (just in case).

The spell can be turned on and off. Illyana enchanted Kitty's Beholder keychain to help non-magic users perform this simple task. While it isn't difficult to do, you do need some magical aptitude to operate the switch. You can all determine on your own if your character is capable of doing this. Operating the switch does not make you a "magic user" and will not activate the barrier against you.

final rituals & a small mix-up...

Xavier's staff and students get an early start on Tuesday morning as they load onto buses to head into the city for a field trip. Before they can embark, Illyana requests that Manuel de la Rocha stay behind and be her assistant for the day, a job she assures them will be mostly "holding things and hanging out".

The field trip to the city goes smoothly, with staff and students enjoying various tourist activities for the majority of the morning and afternoon. Meanwhile, Illyana is hard at work. At around 4pm, shortly before the others are due to arrive back to the school, she explains to her assistant that the final step in the process will require her to "fold the school in half through a higher dimension". As soon as they enter the building upon the completion of the spell, it is immediately evident that something went wrong along the way.

After scouting out the mansion, the pair return to the driveway to greet everyone else. Illyana explains that her spellwork has caused the mansion to become twisted into non-Euclidian geometries, but happily reports that it is already untwisting itself and should be back to normal soon. Inside, hallways are twisted over on themselves, gravity shifts 90 or 180 degrees seemingly at random, doors lead to places they shouldn't, and entire rooms seem to have been duplicated or gone missing entirely.

Laura Kinney quickly discovers that they are particularly adept at navigating the labyrinth of the mansion's Escherian hallways and takes it upon themself to help the residents get from place to place while the building untwists itself.

Everything in Warren Worthington's room has been slightly rearranged and doesn't seem to be untangling itself as the rest of the mansion does. They'll have to enlist Illyana's help to set the room to rights if they want to use it for anything.

After dinner, Emma Frost is enlisted by the students to help them organize a mansion-wide game of Sardines which lasts almost until midnight.

By 6pm on Wednesday, the building has mostly sorted itself out.

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