Defending Yourself Against Magic | Friday, period 2

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Bob was a weirdly Bob combination of smug and disgruntled this week - on the one hand, the pollen couldn't affect him. On the other...it couldn't affect him, damn it. It was a trade-off.

"This week's lesson's rather timely, as it happens," he told the students once they arrived. "Now that you've all had a chance to learn a bit about magic, you need to learn more about how to fight it. Which starts, once again, with knowing it's there. Influence isn't always as up-front as a rock yelling in your head. If you want to find out something's in your mind that doesn't belong, you have to learn your own mind first."

He waved at the room, which became a dimly green-lit place, with plush cushions and low couches all over and gentle music in the background. "Most techniques to do that are fairly similar and start with meditation. It also happens to be a very good way to calm yourself down. Get comfortable, and we'll begin."

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Calmly!

Listen to the lecture!

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As attentively as you can.

Meditate!

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"Meditation's not something you'll learn in a day," Bob said. "I'll be showing you how to start out; I highly recommend doing it more on your own. If you have any questions, let me know. For now, get comfortable, relax, close your eyes if you like, and listen to my voice."

[Mod your meditation experience! Tips here; he'll mostly be going for calmness and then leaving you to awareness of your own thoughts.]

Talk to Bob!

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He's here!

Talk to the TA!

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If the locker's coughed her up yet.

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I want a meditation room.

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Cassandra Pentaghast

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Meditation? What foolishness.

... Cassandra sat there radiating a veritable cauldron of frustration, which would surely mix well with today's exercise.

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Ada Miller

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Alana

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Merrill

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Ringo Noyamano

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Ringo was frowning. This did not sound like a very useful defense against the island this week. Like, she'd totally try it, but she wasn't expecting much.

Which was probably a pretty important part of it having a chance of working.

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Oh, meditation! Merrill could do this; whatever was affecting everyone else didn't seem to have done the same thing to her -- at least, she didn't think it had. She was distracted on the best of days, so if her mind was wandering now, that wasn't an indicator of anything, right? Just because she seemed to be distracted a bit more this week by people than usual . . .

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