Magical Theory and Practice, Friday, Period 3

[tellmehowstuffworks]

Today's workshop was being held in a classroom. There was a hot Renaissance Faire goth standing at the front of the classroom when the students arrived, and when they sat down they would notice that each of them had a flower and a rock sitting on their desk. "Good afternoon," Yennefer said to her students. "I am Yennefer of Vengerberg, and this is..." She glanced at her notes, and then looked again. "Magical Theory and Practice. Bit of a joke in the class description, I see." Or was it? "Well, we might get to that. We'll see how it goes. For now, I will tell you that while I am new to instruction, I am a sorceress trained in the school of Aretuza, and have been an advisor to the king of Aedirn for thirty years." Yep, she was older than she looked.

"Being as we all come from different realities here, I expect we also come from different magical traditions, and that sticking too closely to what I was taught might be completely useless to you, but I believe that in broad strokes much of that information continues to be true, based on the fact that I have been able to do magic since I got here, so I will teach you starting from that foundation. First, I would like to know what I am working with. Everyone will please tell me their name, so I can check them off this list, and what their experience level is with magic, and a little of how they know it to work, and then we're going to do a little exercise. Any questions so far? No? Good."

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Re: Lift the Rock!

[special_rabbit]

Amaya had a flower. There was a rock. She was supposed to use that flower to lift said rock.

She blinked at the rock a moment, actually did try squinting at it a little to see if she really could just move it with her mind (which she could not and would deny having even tried, thank you), and then sighed, tucking the flower behind her ear for now as she looked around.

"So," she asked, "anyone got a string? Or maybe a good plank and we can just lever the thing up?"

SCIENCE!

Re: Lift the Rock!

[tellmehowstuffworks]

"You're only allowed to use the flower and the rock," Yennefer told her.

Re: Lift the Rock!

[special_rabbit]

"Mmmm." Amaya made a soft, consternated hum, as she never liked leaving a problem unsolved, but problems using magic that she didn't have might just have to remain just that. She frowned at the rock again, wished she had a bigger flower so that perhaps she could create some wind with it or something, but technically that'd be using wind, too.

"And magic," she murmured, before she got to thinking about arguing that Yennifer had said just the flower and the rock. "The flower, the rock, and..." Pardon her while she sounded thoroughly depressed about this last part, "magic."

Even she knew that most wizards tended to use feathers for this sort of spell, not flowers.

Re: Lift the Rock!

[tellmehowstuffworks]

"And magic," Yennefer agreed. "The flower, the rock, and magic. With those three items, and what I've told you of magic, if you had magic, how could you lift the rock?"