fandomhigh | Fun with Magic | Friday, First period

Class was out on the lawn again today. The muggy, hot, summer lawn. Not that Bob was bothered by the temperature.

"Well!" He clapped his hands together. "I hope you've all had a fun time and learned a bit about what magic can and can't do for you. I realise that mostly we've been using spelled objects or illusions, but for our last class, I won't be the one supplying any of it. Well, except for these."

He nodded at the box Anders had set in front of him, which this time contained ten flags - five red and five blue, each on a stake about two feet long. "You'll be in teams for this one." He mimed cutting the class in half and shoving them apart. "Red team, your leader is Anders. Blue team, yours is Elsa." The colours were completely unintentional, naturally. "The object of the game is to capture all the other team's flags. You can't outright hide your own, but you can make them difficult to find."

He grinned and nodded at Elsa and Anders, then cheerfully turned to the rest of the class. "Mind the cold!"

Didn't every summer class want to end with a massive snowball fight?

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

For the last time (this term)!

Wonder what's so magical about capture-the-flag(s)...until the snow starts!

Fight like it's winter! Elsa and Anders (courtesy of their lovely players) will be providing snow and ice for their teams. Enjoy!

Edited 2015-06-19 04:04 (UTC)

He's still here!

Once he pings in!

Thank you all, and extra-specially

not_every_mage as TA, and this class also

iceolatedqueen! It's been a lot of fun. :)

Lottie Grote

Lottie didn't even get around to wondering about the potential magic of the flags. She was too busy looking thoughtfully at the fact that Bob hadn't interacted with the box of flags at all.

At some point during class, a snowball found itself hurling mysteriously at the back of Bob's head.

Elsa of Arendelle

Okay... Okay, Elsa could do this. As Bob spoke, she was peeling off her gloves, and taking a deep breath, and she could do this. The trick was to make enough snow that was going to melt again after class was through, and she was pretty sure she had that part figured out.

Once Bob was finished speaking, she held her hands up into the air, and the area around her team was filled with falling snow.

...

That actually worked? It actually worked!

This part, Elsa had no trouble with. She made certain the snow kept falling around her team (for now) and stooped down to gather up a snowball in her bare hands.

After throwing it, she realized that, oh, right. She could just...

Create snowballs. In her hands. She could do that, too.

She was learning, okay? She hadn't used some of these tricks since she was seven.

Ada Miller

Ada didn't mind the hot, actually. It was the muggy that bothered her, and she was absently scraping at her skin while she listened to Mr. Bob Sir.

Then the snow started, and she froze. "No," Ada whispered to herself, her eyes darting back-and-forth in alarm. She had nothing to cover herself with, she was just wearing a long, flowing skirt and a tank-top. And it was hot enough out that she knew the first flakes would melt when they hit her skin. She was going to get wet.

This was a disaster.

Ada made a beeline for Bob before the snowball fight could really get underway. "I can't participate today," she said, using the words Duncan had drilled into her in case of a situation where water was going to happen, "--for medical reasons. Can I do something else instead?"

Kaylin Neya

Lottie watched in bright awe. "That is WELL AMAZIN. Are you part yeti?"

Bob blinked at her. "You're not being graded on having fun, or anything. It's not like you need to make up the work; you'll get an A anyway. You have a problem with the cold?"

And then directly through Bob's head.

He stepped back for a moment, startled, then turned and gave Lottie a Look. "I am not on either team, Miss Grote. Kindly refrain."

Lottie pointed forcefully at Bob. "Why can't you touch anything?"

"Cold? No. It's....weird? We overwinter in Arizona, so I never really experienced cold. It's..." Ada couldn't remember her words, so she dug around in her back pocket and came up with a small index card. Yeah, she knew her name today, her age, her roommate, now where was.... oh! "Compromised immune system," she read off, squinting at it. "I can't be cold and wet."

Ada was a lying liar who lied, sort-of, but it was the closest explanation the cousins had been able to come up with besides 'Ada's a mermaid's daughter and WATER IS BAD.' So, not a lie, just not the whole truth.

"You got a way to--" and Ada wiggled her fingers, "--that'll keep me totally dry, then I can deal with the cold."

Bob craned his head to read over her shoulder. That...sounded a little weird to him, but who was he to judge? He shrugged. "Only thing I can do is illusions; sorry. Unless you want a passenger. Which is probably against some sort of teaching code somewhere."

"It rather goes with the whole ghost thing," Bob answered. Honestly, it wasn't like it was a secret or anything. Everybody knew, didn't they?

Bob gave her a pleased grin. "Rather nice to have snow in the middle of summer, I imagine."

Anders

Page 1 of 3

Fun with Magic | Friday, First period

Sign in!

Listen to the lecture!

Fight!

Talk to Bob!

Talk to the TA!

OOC!

Re: Sign in!

Re: Listen to the lecture!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Sign in!

Re: Listen to the lecture!

Re: Fight!

Re: Sign in!

Re: Listen to the lecture!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Sign in!

Re: Fight!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Talk to Bob!

Re: Listen to the lecture!

Re: Sign in!