Mirror-Forced to All

[spell_on_you]

[The clouds part and the Hunter's Moon shines a crimson red over the sleeping Main Street. Maybe the rest is a little uneasy. Maybe it should be. Three strangers appear in the mirror, the castle behind them, white walls turned red by the moonlight. The redheaded one steps forward.]

Greetings, apprentices!

I see thee all tucked in thy beds as borrowed magic flows through thy veins. Well, no longer! When we come into power, all thy magic will be ours and ye would be our bread and our meat and our servants hand and foot. Whatever we shall need of ye.

Unless of course, thou woulds't like to move ahead of the line....

To die!

[she laughs, full shrieking cackles, as do the others]

I look forward to see thee wriggling like worms on hooks.

Oh, and if thou are expecting help to come from any quarter.

[she holds up three crystal pendants to the mirror, in which apprentices can see a Merlin, Hades and Dreamfinder, small and unconscious within]

Thou wilt not receive it.

And so the reign of the Sanderson sisters begins!

[there is a clap of thunder and a brilliant flash of lightning... and then they are gone. But are not far.]


[you are now entering a dangerous time, apprentices. The blood moon will stay in the sky for two nights instead of one before a massive storm on the fifteenth clears it out. As the month continues there will be more rainy days than not and more nights filled with wild storms.

Also you might find music a bit more addicting than it should be. You might find yourself apprehensive around candy, as if expecting it to bite back. And if you feel as if someone is watching you through a mirror-- it's only because they are]

Comments

[here here]

[guitar_hero]

Well this is going to make things interesting. [don't mind the Doctor hanging out on the balcony and probably not wise to ask how he got there]

Hello, Ze. Care to go on a little reconnaissance before we're turned into actual lettuce?

Re: [here here]

[ticoticosamba]

[He startles but manages to collect himself to glare lightly at the Doctor.]

Spying? Mmm, that sounds much like work.

[He taps his beak.]

Lettuce does not need to do that.

[he winks at The Doctor, getting up and standing near him.]

It would be better to just, kick up our feet? That is the saying.

[here here]

[guitar_hero]

I mean, I don't know.

On one hand, a little spying [he weighs his hands] On the other, destruction and madness. Which would you prefer?

Re: [here here]

[ticoticosamba]

[A quick head shake and he motions towards the living room.]

Eh, how much of the last one would it be?

[guitar_hero]

Who knows? That's the point. [he follows into the living room] But you can't just sit on your tail feathers, admirable as they may be, and do nothing.

[ticoticosamba]

[He didn't say anything until they were in the living room, not a single mirror in sight.]

You are a very stupid fellow. Do you know anything about the magicks??

[guitar_hero]

[....interesting question]

Not really. No.

[ticoticosamba]

[Okay. Ze rubs the bridge of his beak.]

Okay.

Every mage, whatever they are, has a ah..focus. Something that they are enjoying to use for their magic. For me, it is smoke and shadows.

For these...women? We do not know, but! I am very uneasy around the mirrors.

[guitar_hero]

Oohh! Good point! [and he adds an actual point to that] But why stop at mirrors? Wouldn't it work with any reflective surface? A button? A pool of water?

[ticoticosamba]

Those reflect, yes, but mirrors are special. They have all of the elements.

[He gave a small shrug.]

It has earth, water, air and the fire.

[guitar_hero]

Not heart? Not Captain Planet? [he's being facetious. It's his go to in times of stress]

What element is the universe then? I mean the great out there. The space between stars.

[ticoticosamba]

That reference is lost to him, Doctor.]

Haha, why void! Or, ah, I suppose...darkness? Yes, that sounds like the right word.

[guitar_hero]

[a somber look then] Like what's going on right now.

[ticoticosamba]

Yes, there is a little black magic happening, but there is other magic being used. I...am not sure which. Everything feels...strange.

[guitar_hero]

Black magic and...blacker magic?

[ticoticosamba]

Eo...no. It is, deeper. I am not sure what to call it, but it is nothing I would touch in my own world, Doctor.

[guitar_hero]

The deep magic. [he understands it in a sense] Things no one should touch. Like Jurassic Park.