Prophecy in Theory and Practice, Class Five, Tuesday (10/02)

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It wouldn't have been Aziraphale's class if there were no breakfast pastries and pots of tea and coffee on the table in the center of the room. Since it was Aziraphale's class, those items were conveniently available for the students to enjoy.

The teacher himself had just finished setting up a display of scrying implements, and turned to the class once everyone was seated.

"As you can see, today's exercise will be in chrystallomancy, or crystal gazing. Before we begin the exercise, however, I want to give you a brief lecture on dream interpretation. You may think it odd that the lecture would focus on dreams while the exercise covers scrying, but really the two are very similar. The same sorts of symbolism you're going to encounter in your dreams is also very often present in chrystallomancy as well."

Aziraphale proceeded to give his lecture on dream interpretation, and gave each student several different handouts and a blank journal.

"Your homework for is to keep a dream journal for the next week. One of your handouts has some good pointers on methods for keeping them. When you come to the next class, I'd like you to bring a written interpretation of one of the dreams from your journal. Now, we'll move on to today's class exercise."

He gave a short talk on the basics of chrystallomancy, and then said, "Now, pair up and choose a crystal or scrying mirror to work with, and do a reading for your partner. Also, please don't forget to turn in your homework assignment from last week."

[ooc: Please wait for the OCD is up and class is in session!]

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[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Collapsey!

Re: Sign In

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana Lang

Turn in Last Week's Homework

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Take a deck of cards with you and do a reading on someone outside of this class. Write down the reading and your interpretation of it.

Re: Turn in Last Week's Homework

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana couldn't even think about the reading. She'd done it on Jim and there hadn't been a hint of any of this. She turned it in and knew she'd just tear it up when she got it back.

Re: Turn in Last Week's Homework

[blessed_twice]

Oooops.

Wyatt raised his hand. "Umm, I kind of forgot to do the homework on account of forgetting who I was. Can I have an extension?"

Re: Turn in Last Week's Homework

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette handwavily turned in her homework having done a totally moddable and handwavey reading on Dick.

Her interpretations were somewhat surprising in the fact that she made most of them up. But hey, homework was done.

Re: Turn in Last Week's Homework

[imcalledandros.livejournal.com]

Andros turned in his completely handwavey reading and interpretation.

Re: Turn in Last Week's Homework

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Neil turned in a complete handwavey thorough reading for his homework assignment.

Re: Turn in Last Week's Homework

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve turned in her handwavily done assignment.

Class Exercise: Chrystallomancy

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

[Feel free to make what you see as vague or realistic as you think would suit your character's abilities. If you stare long enough, anyone is probably going to see something. Interpret it as you like, the dream interpretation links are good sources for ideas.]

Re: Class Exercise: Chrystallomancy

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana just sat at her desk staring into space, not really caring if anyone came over to be her partner or not.

Re: Class Exercise: Chrystallomancy

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt fiddled with his crystal ball, wondering what he might see.

Re: Class Exercise: Chrystallomancy

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette stared long and hard into her crystal ball and after five minutes, she grinned slowly. She was possibly seeing last night in her crystal ball. She was probably seeing the hickie on her neck too. Wait. Two hickies omigod.

Re: Class Exercise: Chrystallomancy

[wannabe-pan.livejournal.com]

Andrew sat down at a crystal ball, tapped it a few times, and pressed his ear against it.

It's totally possible he needs to review his notes.

Re: Class Exercise: Chrystallomancy

[imcalledandros.livejournal.com]

Andros sat down and began trying to see into his crystal ball.

Talk Amongst Yourselves

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

For any chatter that's not going on between partners during the exercise.

Talk to the TAs

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

After they've tagged in, please.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris was feeling a little less flaily than he had been yesterday.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[wannabe-pan.livejournal.com]

Andrew was there, sipping some water and reading through his notes.

Talk to Aziraphale

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

You know he doesn't actually practice any of this stuff, right?

OOC

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Are any of you interested in doing an out-of-class extra credit group (or full class) project? Sometime before the end of October? Please ping me here and let me know!

Re: OOC

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana would. Not at the moment, but eventually. Maybe as a way to keep her mind off of things.

Re: OOC

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt could be. :)

Re: OOC

[practicaldevice.livejournal.com]

Anathema could be convinced.

Re: OOC

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Sure :)