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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...
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.
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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Do you prefer jumping in pre-, mid-, or post- spellwork?
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SCENES: Emma & Open
Her perch for all this is in the main living room, and she's seated on a couch that's sort of on the ceiling. If she thinks about it too much it gives her a headache, so she simply appreciates the odd and new experience as she sips at some tea. On seeing one of the other X-Men she tilts her chin up in greeting. "We need to teach some of them better investigative skills."
SCENES: Illyana & Manuel
True to her word, she has been doing her best to explain each step of the process to Manny as she works. It’s just after lunch time, and the majority of the morning has been spent on two tedious tasks: triple-checking the perimeter of the spell to make sure 169 silver medallions are placed perfectly equidistant from each other (which takes her three hours on its own) and reciting an incantation from memory which is comically long thanks to the six-page list of names Scott had asked her to include (which she manages in a single attempt that still takes a half hour).
While she can tell him what she’s doing, she often struggles to articulate why it needs to be done. She’s also made no mention whatsoever of her offer to let him read her emotions while spellcasting. As loathe as she is to admit it, she’s a little nervous about executing the spell. She’s done this kind of work plenty before, but this is a particularly large and complex effort, and she knows the X-Men are skeptical about her ability to complete it. Recitation and geometry aren’t particularly emotional endeavors anyway.
This next thing she needs to do is emotional and intuitive. But as she glances over her shoulder at him, an unpleasant pang of embarrassment goes through her and is immediately redoubled by the idea of him perceiving it. Again, she disregards the idea of offering. Her soulsword materializes in her hand as she lets a heavy sigh out and rolls her neck.
“I am almost done now,” she informs him, then spins the blade in a decorative flourish before amending: “Well. More than half-done.”
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SCENES: Illyana & Manuel
He still doesn't know if he'll ever be able to make sense of all this...but he's certainly going to try to comprehend the fundamentals, at least. It will just be an irritating splinter in his brain if he doesn't.
When the woman looks back at him and summons her otherworldly blade, he glances up from his writing with uplifted eyebrows. At her rapidly changing estimate, though, his lips twitch into a faint smirk.
"Do not rush on my account," he returns dryly before prompting, "So. What is next?"
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SCENES: Illyana & Manuel
But Illyana doesn’t know what goes into note-taking. Her studies in Limbo had been much less formal and more self-directed. Oftentimes when Belasco had wanted to teach her something, he would provide her the necessary textbooks to figure it out and then ignore her entirely until she succeeded on her own. Reading and writing had never come easily to her, though, even before her abduction, and it had never occurred to her to hand-write notes for her own reference back then. She’s been trying to surreptitiously sneak glances at what Manuel is writing in his notebook, but the spell is taking nearly her full concentration.
“I must summon the arcane energies which will become the shield,” she says after a moment’s pensive consideration, and then nods, apparently pleased with her own summary. Then her gaze flicks over to meet his. “You’re not getting bored or anything, are you?”
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