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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
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Last night was the autumn Lancre Witch Trials, organised by the lovely Phoibe Womblesworth this time around. As you can see, I went and bought some new clothes; a short furry Witch's dress and some leather thigh boots, but what you can't see are my new Glowsticks that I've had for a few weeks now, and make excellent weapons.
This time around there were three categories; a short freestyle freestyle, a long freestyle, and pumpkin themed, using channeling and cursing. I didn't take part in the short competition, but submitted tricks for the long freestyle and the pumpkin competition.
My freestyle trick was called "the coldest day of the year", and went like this:
Tohya StompyWitch draws her cloak around herself, and curses the bitter cold on this day.
Tohya StompyWitch chants a few soft words under hear breath, as little icicles form around her clothes.
A somewhat translucent, but very warm-looking, sphere of fire appears and begins to fly around Tohya StompyWitch with a charming little whooshing noise.
Tohya StompyWitch looks somewhat happier as she begins to warm up, but the little sphere appears to rapidly cool even as it flies through the air.
The sphere turns a pale blue colour, before flying into an astonished Tohya's arms to warm itself up again. She yelps in surprise, now even colder than she was before.
My pumpkin themed trick was wrote before I realised it had to use my channeling and cursing skills, but fortunatly it only required one slight change to fit the channeling in there. The restriction was that it had to involve a pumpkin or pumpkin-based object at some point; it was called "what the hell is this" for want of a better name.
Tohya StompyWitch picks up and studies the large pumpkin intently, before sighing and throwing it up into the air.
Tohya StompyWitch spins around and, with her eyes closed, throws a knife at the pumpkin, leaving a trail of fire behind it as it goes.
Tohya StompyWitch opens her eyes, and curses as she sees just how much she missed the pumpkin by. She goes over to collect her knife from where it landed.
Unbeknownst to Tohya StompyWitch, the pumpkin, having been thrown, had a dagger fly by it, and been burnt by the following trail, finally gives up. It channels it's rage into a small explosion, launching it's insides up to the sky.
While cleaning her knife, Tohya turns around and looks confused at the now deflated pumpkin. At that moment, the innards fall straight onto her head, covering her in pumpkin guts.
Sadly, I didn't win anything, but the standard of tricks was even higher this time than previous contests, and a few Witches told me they really liked what I had came up with, so I think I did well.
Congratulations go to Nemaine, Frazyl, and Aramel for coming second in the respective categories, and everyone else who placed! Details have been written up on the wiki, and hopefully people will add their own tricks to the pages soon enough.
Now to prepare for next year!
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
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Hurrah! - yes, today is my birthday, which I intend to celebrate with copious amounts of scumble and, hmm, ice cream. And strawberry jelly. And possibly even both sausage and vegetable rolls, if I remember to go down to Dysfunctional Goat and buy them.
My place, tonight, everyone is invited!
(Except for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) glassstrider, somewhat obviously, the lazy fool)
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
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( A Tale of Another World )
I only ended up with time to write one trick - I didn't have enough inspiration for a valentines themed one. it was originally going to be based on The Logical Song by Supertramp, although then I ended up listening to Be, and things ended up taking a far, far darker tone. I had to cut this down quite a bit from the originals, as the poor little stone was getting hideously bored during recording it.
The Trials were, as ever, great fun, obviously, and hopefully a good time was had by all! There were a lot of great tricks this year,and I'm glad I wasn't able to vote, as it would have been far too hard to pick. Everyone who competed (And even a few members of the audience!) put in a huge amount of effort to help everyone enjoy themselves.
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Saturday, January 7th, 2006
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Re:#6 A possible spell idea maybe?
Note #25 by Waterfall at Fri Jan 6 20:10:40 2006 on board witchesguild
On Fri Jan 6 20:03:34 2006, Phoibe wrote:
> extended periods of time? A sword named Emerald Icicle should still look
> like a sword if you want to use it as such, in my opinion. Yeah, it should
> probably be green but, it should still look like a sword.
Yes, but its not about your opinion :) Its about what players want to make them feel more in character. Its another level of realism to a fantasy game.
And If I want to stab people with a ruddy great cicile like shard of sapphire, then I sodding well will, whether you think its unreal or not.
And besides, whos to say I wouldnt describe it as a big sword made from a shard of magic ice? Or some other sort of thingy wotnot?
-Waterfall- Ideaing it anyway.
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| Subject: | 2/15! :D |
| Time: | 4:26 pm. |
| Mood: |  accomplished. | | Music: | Catamenia / Calm Before The Storm. |
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You advance your skill in magic.spells.misc from 203 to 300 for 3395358 xp and LC 98|2|11 1/4.
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Yeah, that was me.
When I idle, I idle hardcore.
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* I Am Not A Taxi. I am going to have to be more forceful about this rule to a few people who seem to think otherwise.
* I think it's getting on for three months that I have spent idling in this orchard. And, yes, I am now a much more experienced Witch - ask my new friend Aznin about how much more experienced :) - but it does get a little boring... I should go out training one day, but I still have sucky weapon skills, so combat can get a bit too exciting sometimes, like the last time I went fighting :)
* I have 2.5mil xp on me right now. :)
* Either spell skill checks or Focus Tea is broken.
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(Witches) Peppe's wispy voice comes from the wooden ring, saying: where do i aquire seeds?
(Witches) Rella's wispy voice comes from the wooden ring, saying: the roof!
(Witches) Peppe's wispy voice comes from the wooden ring, saying: the roof?
(Witches) Rella's wispy voice comes from the wooden ring, saying: that sounds like it could be a song...
(Witches) Xandria's wispy voice comes from the wooden ring, saying: is on fire?
(Witches) Tohya's wispy voice comes from the wooden ring, saying that she states that she doesn't need no water
(Witches) Aeval's wispy voice comes from the wooden ring, saying: I think we should let the wossname thing burn
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After a number of encounters with the lovely Aznin, I'm now very close to the level where I think I can offer my Deluding services to the general public (So that's a maxed out chance, then - the higher my skills in it get, the pickier I feel about it). I've got a few nifty toys myself, so far - my daggers (Passion and Opera), armour (Gothic War Dress), hat (Kitty Ears) and floater (Force Orb - this is more my player's toy, though, than mine, and I don't quite get the reference) - and done some things for other people, but dealing with the public is a bit more worrying, because they're not as forgiving if it takes a while. You also need to set proper prices and such :(
What else? Other than that, I've pretty much just idled for the month - I know that there's some exciting things in development, but the planning office will bar me if I mention them. I'm planning the next outfit I'll acquire, but no firm decisions quite yet.
My player is tired and wants to sleep, so I shall leave you here for tonight. Goodnight!
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Wow.
WowwowwowWOW!
I hadn't expected quite the turnout we got for these, it was amazing to see so many other Witches from around the world there. It started off a little oddly, with people getting there an hour early, but everyone seemed happy to hang around - in total, we had some people's attention for four hours, which is really quite something.
As for the tricks - ah, they were brilliant. I was up until 4am last night working on my tricks, and I think they were the best I've ever done - I'll post them in a sec. Everyone put a lot of effort into the tricks, and it was great to see what people had came up with to represent themselves. A good time, as they say, was had by all.
Behind the scenes, everything went off pretty well - we didn't have any particular problems, and everything went off roughly as we'd anticipated. After we started it (Well, after people started turning up...) the entire thing took on a life of it's own, and we could have practically left people to it.
Now, my tricks. I'm not going to post the entire >convince strings, because there's a few things that I'd rather remained secret about them.
( Tohya's Watery Visions )
This a simple, almost more druidic approach to scrying - the rationale is that I'm asking the water to tell me where I can find another person, or bag of water. It's not even quite a scrying pool. As for what I was looking for? Well, like I said...
( If You Come Closer )
This turned out differrently to how I'd intended, and it took by far the longest to finish (Granted, that is with the change of focus). There's not much I can say about it, so I shall say nothing, but I'm really happy with how it turned out.
I hadn't actually intended to use water quite as much, by the way. Some of the stages would have been easier without needing to fit skill words in, really, but you can't do that.
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I can now cast Delusions of Grandeur about 50% of the time, which is getting to the realm where I consider it a good enough skill to sell (ie, put it in my .refer info, instead of just doing it for people that I know). I'm not quite sure how to price it, though. With friends, you can trust them to be fair about things, and I've had some fantastic donations before now, as a result of only doing it for friends I guess (Last night, for example, a few Pragi scrolls, which it turns out I can cast - it's a lot of fun, even if it is low-damage at the moment), but I know I can't trust random players to be quite as cool. I may well just stick with the old HAGS rate: I've never had a problem with their numbers before, really, so it's cool, I guess. The only problem is that it's variable, and that doesn't sit well with me. I'm sure people would like to know how much they're going to be charged. I know I do.
On the subject of HAGS, I'm also now their publicity officer, and in charge of translation for the Witch Trials this weekend. A message to the boards about this has resulted in three volunteers to translate: bizarrely enough, all Pishite priests, which I found quite amusing.
( In lighter news... )
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
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Yesterday was my birthday: I'm over a year old now, which sounds somewhat strange to you people, but is getting towards old for us. The strange thing, though, is that nothing much really changes for us: no matter how "old" I technically am, I'll still remain at about the same "age". I'm sure many actresses would like to learn my secret: it's quite simple really, and it's to be a fictional character. No, not to play one (Although my player would like to state that he knows some people for whom trying that wouldn't be much of a change), but to be one. I'm going to be... however old I currently am (Another thing my player has neglected to tell me. I do wish he'd get on with it.) for the rest of my life.
Immortality's great fun, isn't it?
But, I didn't actually post here to be mopey (Although this is a good song for being mopey to, quite frankly), but to announce my birthday, and that I've learnt all the Brewing Esme is willing to teach me, ending up with a 355 BWB, which is pretty good, really. I'm also getting slightly more consistent with my Deludes these days, although still not fantastic, and still not good enough that I'm taking orders from strangers yet, either.
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Monday, February 28th, 2005
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| Subject: | Update |
| Time: | 3:55 am. |
| Mood: |  cheerful. | | Music: | Ayria / DOS (remix). |
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I can now cast both Delude and Bees(aaaargh, add a's depending on how PK you are), which are (arguably) the two highest spells that we have. I am also in possession of a fruitbat, the lovely Icicle, who has proven herself a valued companion.
This journal has been, rather, a complete waste of time, I'm afraid - I forgot all about it, so any achievements that I could write about will be pointless now.
What next? Well, I'm still far from an expert at things (The only Delude request I've done took me an hour to complete), so there is always improvement to be made, not to mention making better tea. I've recently been getting into tricks, which are sortof pretend spells, for the uninitiated. They look very cool, which is the important thing, and I see them as the next challenge to go for. I've got a few ideas that I'd like to try running through.
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Things in the guild go well. I'm getting pretty good at brewing, well, slowly, and am now starting to sell healing tea to others around the Disc. I've submitted a few bottles to the Witch's Guild shoppe, but they're going to get refused (As I closed the bottles), so I'll just open them and send them in again.
Other than that, I haven't done much. I went to Death's realm to indulge in a spot of fishing, which was fun, although I feel I should have taken a few beers with me, just for tradition's sake. I also got to watch a master Assassin at work, which is possibly the most boring thing ever- you see, the thing about master assassins, is that you don't see them. You just see a knife suddenly appear in their target's back, and the target decides that it would be a good time to have a nice lie down to think about this startling new development. There are, I am sure, more amusing ways to spend a friday night.
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I haven't been around for a while, but tonight I've started my commercial career by selling some Healing Tea to a guy named Junitar.
I also bought a red dress, which reduced my profit somewhat, but hey. It's pretty. :)
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Tonight I was talking to the Isabella, a new girl who was curious about the guild. I showed her a few websites and answerred a few questions, and we now have a new wet henne :)
So, what else have I done today? I think I've pretty much sussed brewing, now it's just getting a high enough skill to sell and working out how to fill the last few drops of space in a bottle, if it's possibe.
I also went to the Assassin's Ball with Grissom, which meant buying a new dress. Unfortunatly, when there, I got overwhelmed by the amount of people, and then stood in the corner being shy. Oh well.
The current talker discussion is about rap music.
Newbie Witch Tip: Brooms are fun, but I really could have used all those XP for other things...
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Saturday, April 17th, 2004
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(Witches) Chama's wispy voice comes from the broomstick, saying: eek! the orange pill lowers health!
(Witches) Tohya's wispy voice comes from the broomstick, saying: Did you eat the drain cleaner I put in the chest?
(Witches) Chama's wispy voice comes from the broomstick, saying: DRAIN CLEANER! Arrrggghhh!
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(TOOTPE. Not the catchiest of abbreviations.)
Brewing Tea (Healing, to be precise)
1. More herbs means more tea.
2. Too much, or not enough, herbs means you'll end up with either herbs or water left over, neither of which seem desirable.
3. There's definitly a magic number of pinches of each herb to put in.
4. It's a good job practising this is free.
Enchanting
1. If you're holding too much Yarrow, it doesn't work.
2. Other than that, it seems fairly reliable.
3. I'm going to have to practise a lot to get past lvl 1 enchanting.
Today I've learnt some new things about divining and charming, while practising casting Hag's Blessing. I've also been enchanting some friend's weapons, enchanting my clothes (Mainly for practise, but it's fun to sparkle lke an octarine christmas tree).
Last night I managed to break my legs, and had to call Taxi to get to a doctors. Fortunatly, I landed just south of the Wizzie's guild, so I was easy to find.
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Tonight I've managed to work out the secret of the herb gardens, and thusly equipped with some stalks of Yarrow, I would like to practise casting Mother Twinter's Yarrow Enchantment. However, none of my friends are around at the moment.
Fortunatly, Clover mentionned Dane wanted something enchanted. So, I flew to him. It took three tries (And all the Yarrow I'd gatherred), but I managed to enchant his cloak to an occasional pulse of octarine light, and made four Djelian telents out of it.
:)
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Thursday, April 15th, 2004
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Went to Granny's and advanced a lot of skills, in particular enough to cast Hag's Blessing, and I should be able to cast Mother Twinter's Yarrow Enchantment, just have to find me some Yarrow first.
Oh! I have also advanced my Brewing quite a lot. When I get the hang of the herb garden, I'll practise that too.
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tired.
okay.