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As the students came into the Danger Shop for today's class, Abigail Irene pulled a bag from near the door and brought it to a table she had already laid out.

"Today, we will be working on the most important principal of magic.

"Practicality."

She opened the bag and pulled out a number of wands which she placed on the table.

"I would like each one of you to choose a wand. Don't worry. You don't need to know which woods are good for what. These wands were made entirely for this exercise here and will only be required for today's class. That said, I should like you to keep them when you leave today, either as a memento of an interesting class, or as a reminder.

"Once you've chosen your tool, I would like each of you to assign a single spell to your wand. Just one spell, one magical effect. And no 'do whatever I say' spells, as that has been safeguarded against.

"Once you've done this, I have set up three challenges for each of you to complete. You must complete these individually using only the abilities of a normal human being and those given to you by your wand.

"Any questions?"

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Swish and flick?

It's not too long.

And assign your spell. Say it out loud and the Danger Shop's program will do the rest.

A busy market street with stalls on either side; a woman walks past you, her head held high. The next minute, a thief slips by and snatches her purse, running off in the opposite direction with her things.

"Stop, thief!"

She looks right at you.

"I need my purse, please!"

Upon a battlefield now, each side entrenched in well-made positions. Bullets fly every few moments and the sounds are unrelenting, almost maddening. A man sits next to you, bandaged heavily. Your mission, given to you by the doctor at his side?

"You need to go and retrieve some medical supplies from the enemy entrenchment. We're all out."

A fancy dress party, with men and women in clustered groups all around a massive hall. Down one way is a darkened corridor with moving shadows. If you look on one wall, it bears a note.

"Get down the hallway."

But there's a very gabby and important woman in front of you as well as a number of other party guests in your way.

When they ping in!

Was to be found during any of the simulations in the southwest corner, which was right near the door to the Danger Shop. She was certainly available during and after class for any questions.

YAAAAAAY. *flops for now*

Savannah Levine

It takes a few moments for Savannah to choose her wand, but finally she decides on one made of Rosewood.

"Knock back spell," she said out loud. What? It was the one she used most.

Savannah is here.

Molly Carpenter

Molly genuinely had no idea what she was doing, so she chose a wand at random, with no clue what kind of wood it was. Something light brownish.

She said quietly to the wand, "Invisibility, please."

Dōjima Yurika

Johnny Storm

"Flame on," Johnny said, assigning his wand a spell.

But, yeah, he lit up and immediately extinguished his flames, looking sheepish.

"No, problem lady," Johnny said and points his wand towards the fleeing man where he sends a fireball shooting towards his backside.

Okay, fireball came from his hand, but it was the same difference, right?

"Not a problem," he said.

Johnny was seriously trying to be a normal human being here. It just wasn't working out for him.

He lit up and entered the enemy camp on fire. This challenge? Piece of cake.

"Yeah, you want to move?" he said to the very gabby and important woman in front of him.

The fireball from his hand shorted out, according to the programming. Even if the wand and he had the same abilities, she'd been strict enough with the programming to prevent cheating.

The purse snatcher continued running past a few stalls and the prerequisite two-men-holding-glass.

Nothing would light on fire, however. It was as if he was a normal person to the soldiers and especially to the guns pointed at him.

She pouted terribly and stood firmly in his way.

"You're terribly rude tonight, you know, or have you had too much to drink? I can call a porter. Just a moment."

And she moved to hook his arm.

"We have a drunkard here!"

Which turned quite a few heads towards them and more than a few of the gentleman looked prepared to help the lady if necessary.

"Oh, come on!" he rolled his eyes and ran after the dude.

"Get out of my freaking way!" he yelled and ran around the idiots with the glass.

He sent another fireball for the guy, and another, only this time after yelling, "Flame on!" Of course this now meant Johnny was on fire.

It might have been stupid for him to give his wand that particular spell.

He might be a normal guy to the soldiers with guns, but Johnny was still on fire. Anything directed at him would melt. It's not like he could help it. It's who he was.

He went to locate the medical supplies.

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