Lancre Witch Trials 2005
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
Tohya StompyWitch opens the bottle, and looks at the water inside. Satisfied, she softly says a few words over it.
Tohya StompyWitch removes her silver ring and holds it in the air with one hand; with the other, she carefully pours a few drops from the bottle. They hang in the air, forming a pool inside the ring.
Tohya StompyWitch gazes into the small pool of water, as if looking for something. Suddenly her eyes flicker, following something that only she can see.
You lean in to look into the pool, but Tohya looks up just before you can see anything. She smiles sweetly at you and blows into the water, reminding it of gravity. It falls to the floor, splashing on your feet.
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
Tohya StompyWitch sits on the ground, gazing wistfully into the distance. It looks like there are tears brewing in the corners of her eyes.
A single tear falls from Tohya StompyWitch's eye, and splashes upon the earth.
Tohya StompyWitch looks down at the drop of water: it is, she realises, everything that she has lost.
Tohya StompyWitch turns around and walks away from the tear, and begins to sing a soft, enchanting song, to herself.
Tohya slowly walks to Unlucky Charlie and kisses him gently, her worries washed away.
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.
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
Tohya StompyWitch opens the bottle, and looks at the water inside. Satisfied, she softly says a few words over it.
Tohya StompyWitch removes her silver ring and holds it in the air with one hand; with the other, she carefully pours a few drops from the bottle. They hang in the air, forming a pool inside the ring.
Tohya StompyWitch gazes into the small pool of water, as if looking for something. Suddenly her eyes flicker, following something that only she can see.
You lean in to look into the pool, but Tohya looks up just before you can see anything. She smiles sweetly at you and blows into the water, reminding it of gravity. It falls to the floor, splashing on your feet.
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
Tohya StompyWitch sits on the ground, gazing wistfully into the distance. It looks like there are tears brewing in the corners of her eyes.
A single tear falls from Tohya StompyWitch's eye, and splashes upon the earth.
Tohya StompyWitch looks down at the drop of water: it is, she realises, everything that she has lost.
Tohya StompyWitch turns around and walks away from the tear, and begins to sing a soft, enchanting song, to herself.
Tohya slowly walks to Unlucky Charlie and kisses him gently, her worries washed away.
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.