alt_cedric

The owled packaged arrived from my mother. She sent a couple bottles of both Forsby's Fixative and Eglantine Engelbert's Elixir of Elegance. She also included some others Pence's Permanent Portraiture and Lasting Landscapes, though she says the last are know for being for their specific specialities. There's a whole line of different potions specializing in different artistic styles which she didn't include since it didn't sound like what we needed. She also sent along her favourite potion recipes for as she put it 'the artist in the field' mostly for sketches and 'the struggling artist' with a note that it has a much shorter duration and incredibly cheap ingredients.

I was checking the stores earlier today for the ingredients we discussed. There are only two spools of spider silk. One was collected under the new moon and the other is rather old. I think we should make a short expedition into the edge of the Forest to collect some fresh. If you are up for it, I'll let Mr Milland know we'll be going into the edge of the forest sometime tomorrow.

Could you let Lee and Pansy know? Only being able to message two people is awkward.

So Halloween Feast.
I'd like to do something interesting and novel for this Feast and am looking for some partners to work with on preparation. I'm hoping we will have access to some of the school supplies, I've asked Professor Siz to ask at the staff meeting tonight. What I want to do is make masks that serve as magical foundations for illusions. We make the mask so that it takes visual (and if we get it really right audio) illusions. Because we're building a generic foundation they'll last longer than if you just cast it on yourself, but not as long as a custom build Illusio Persona. We'll set some of them to be badgers, lions, ravens and snakes and let others set theirs how they want. I think I've got the basic stuff to start with, but it's always so much easier to work on a project when you've got someone else to talk through problems with.

I'm thinking normal sheep wool for the base. I know it would be better to have polar bear fur harvested under the Aurora Borealis but that's so not in the budget for this quantity of cloth. We'll probably need to stitch strands of something magical into the masks to help hold things together, Veela hair or dew soaked spider silk maybe? Then cast the illusion charms and a potion to fix it. There's all sorts of variations that artists use in portraiture and such. I'll owl my mother and she can send me a couple different samples to experiment with. I know she has lots sitting around and has so little time for it these days with the little ones around the house. We'll have to provide the potions with the masks or if we can get away with a commercially available one tell everyone which to use.

I'm coming to you two because I know or can guess just how much of the very creative mischief over the last seven years is yours and I think this would be just your sort of play. What do you say?

~CD