Witch Trials!
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!
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!