The Harsh Reality of Questing - catch'all

[futhark]

Who: Caster (Cú Chulainn), Alex Benedetto, Archer (Emiya), Oda Nobunaga, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, princess Zelda whoever else wants?
When: second and third week of May
Where: Outer City, Haven, Coven
What: Wilde Quests #1-2, Full Moon meeting, some Coven lessons of various disaster levels
Warnings: Will be added if necessary

｢Note: prompts are added in comments, so let me know if you want anything in particular, wildcards also welcome ｣

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for Zelda - Coven, May 19+

[futhark]

[ Procrastination aside, time to Actually Cram a bit. The Coven library is a place to behold, a place of arcane knowledge and SILENCE PLEASE. Caster finds himself there initially just traversing one or two aisles, that soon turns into one or two floors, starting at the piles and shelves full of books. A nerd paradise. ]

Where to start.

[ He muses to himself. Most of the titles either unreadable or not telling him much, but his interest, for now, lies in some basics of the runes. A familiar topic, a familiar alphabet, might as well start there, right? Eventually, he decides to go at random taking the book and finding a seat at the reading table (why do they always come in pairs? it's not like you can chat here). Spoiler: it ends in a minor disaster

The timeline of the events goes like this:

- the book is put on the table, with a dusty thud
- Caster reaches to turn on the magitech lamp
- the moment light is turned on, the table turns out to be... covered in piles of near-identical copies of that book, albeit with very slight differences in font, cover images, titles, etc. ]

Oh— Hell, no...! [ Caster groans seeing this sudden multiplying. Was that an illusion book, or what- also sorry neighbor, that table is suddenly drowning ]

rolls in here a million years late

[sageprincess]

[Engrossed as she is in her own studies, Zelda hardly takes any note of the musings of someone else searching through her part of the library. It's easy enough to ignore them, so long as they remain relatively quiet.

Except they don't remain relatively quiet at all.]

What the--

[The princess hops out of her seat and away from the table as it is consumed by books, watching with bewildered horror as her own notes are buried as well before springing into action. Drawing some shapes in the air, she shouts--]

Shield! [And a shimmering wall grows to surround the growing pile. A wall that may or may not bump into Caster a bit as it forms. She's still learning, okay.] What-- What did you do?!

I've been blessed

[futhark]

[ Not only first the pile of books grows right before his eyes but next moment he gets knocked away with a wall. He takes a step back and knocks over the chair that he was supposed to sit on. OF COURSE, it makes a noise, and few robed figures raise from their study-spots to give a slightly annoyed "shhhh"

It's normal to make disasters, just do it quiet!

The problem starts when the book seems to multiply slowly along the walls of the Wall. ]

Nice save, phew... [ He at least makes an effort to keep his voice down now. ] How long can you keep it up? Once it goes down there will be a tower— if it's a Conjuration spell.

[ If it's Illusion then at least they would be safe but if it's not. Congrats, looks like you found yourself one of those pesky "Training" books ]

[sageprincess]

I-- I don't know...! It is not as though I've had the opportunity to be tested in such a way!

[She's been waiting until she's had the basics down pat before trying any practical tests! It seemed only natural at the time! The barrier seems to be holding for now, but Zelda's luck is absolutely not good enough for that to last for long and she knows it.]

Either make it stop or find someone who can!

[WHO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BEING LOUD WHEN IT'S PANIC TIME IT'S ZELDA--]

[futhark]

[ They might be getting more intense SHHHH this time, and probably a muted giggle somewhere from behind the shelf. Yeah. Definitely. They had walked into some silly beginner trap. ]

Think, ugh— [ Should have not napped through the lectures. Should have not- there was this other school of magic, the one about banishing and blocking things. Isn't that "Shield" spell coming from it? ]

Got, it. Abjuration! We can try dispelling it! [ That's not something he got a lot of practice in, but at least the simple dispel magic was part of the classes. ] Let me know when you're ready to take the shield down.