Can I help with this team? I’d like to wear a funny hat!
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I’d like to volunteer for this team!
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Volunteering!
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Okay, I know we don’t have the full spell yet (hopefully that’ll come from Ascender today fingers crossed), but I think we need to start working out how we’re going to deal with this spell. Do we want to add physical components (items like the callign the coners spell? Everyone wear tinfoil hats?)? Do we want to write stories to keep in mind while we recite the spell?
Ideas?
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The story of The Lantern of Low Hollow is a story about a man and his wife. Perhaps we should consider cobbling together a narrative more closely related to us, something that more of us can relate to on an emotional level so we have more to draw on in experience, memory, and feeling. Things that influence the strength of our magiq. Something that enhances the spell, without necessarily changing it, because we don’t necessarily know all of the elements of the spell that make it work precisely the way it does.
Of course, for this to be truly effective, we need Ascender’s half of the spell. But we can start brainstorming.
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We have the first part!
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So I think the obvious choice is candles. They need to be unlit apparently so new candles. What else should we add?
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Sounds like a writing implement, preferably of the paper/pen variety for whatever we hear…
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And at that, I have to be out of this group. No candles for me I’m afraid.
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Osh. We don’t have to light the candle right? Can’t have lit candles in a dorm room.
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Maybe depending on how things go, we can have some people do the candle part and some on paper/pen duty. Or maybe a new battery-powered candle would help so long as we have others doing real fire?
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officially volunteers for this team, after bouncing around giving unsolicited opinions for days
Here are my thoughts: This spell seems to have been designed, originally, for one person to perform. Obviously we don’t have nearly enough power to do it that way, but I think if we have at least one lit flame, we can still pull it off and have other casters contribute their power to the spell another way.
I also like @Deyavi’s idea of coming up with a story, eapecially since the original spell seems to be preceded by a sort of journal entry.
My biggest question is, how can we incorporate multiple casters? Who’s gonna be the one to volunteer hearing the Storm in their head? Or will it manifest another way when there are multuple casters?
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The concept of a grounding hex, or Calling the Corners is that 6 people cast a spell that protects 1 other person doing something else. I think we could incorporate multiple casters the same sort of way. We have one ‘Lantern Bearer’ and everyone else is focused on bolstering that person.
To geek out a bit, think of it as load sharing. There are too many voices, and too much strength in the storm, but if each assistant caster agrees to share some of the load then we can handle it.
Or think of it as braiding together many smaller ropes to make one unbreakable lasso the Lantern Bearer will use to hold onto the Storm long enough to hear and control it.
Apparently I’m in a metaphor creating mood today.
If we want to go down this path (and I’m not saying we have to, I’m just offering suggestions.)
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We need a story that the Lantern Bearer will tell the Storm to get the Book of Briars for us. (That’s the other groups task.)
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We need some way of the other casters to bolster the Lantern Bearer. If you can’t do flames it could be something symbolic like shining a flashlight in their direction, or turning out all the lights in your room except for one small light and say something like ‘I offer all my light to make our Lantern shine stronger’, or something more complicated. Heck, each individual caster can do their own symbolic means of strengthening the Lantern. There’s strength in variation and Chaos.
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The Lantern Bearer (protected by the Calling the Corners done earlier) will then make contact with the Storm and try to hear and control it. Who will this be? Well there’s a problem. I believe the spell says ideally you have to be in proximity of it to do this. We may to need someone to call out the storm, then stand there near it.
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We tell it the story created in Step 1 to bring back the Book of Brairs.
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We send it to collect the Little Red House from wherever it is (Hopefully we can talk Deeds or Cole into putting it somewhere away from innocents.)
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Once it returns and we confirm we have the Book we tell it another story to convince it it’s time to rest and disperse. By bringing us the Book it’s made us, and Nate’s father extremely proud forever and it can take a long deserved rest.
Totally easy… Just 6 mindblowing steps… I think I need to lay down.
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So… Am I allowed to “Mountieefy” the spell? Or is there something I can do in the mean time?
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Anything i can do?
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Alright, Mountaineers. With T minus 3 days til the big day, we have some decisions to make and some spell prep to finish.
I’ve made a list of preparations that have been suggested, plus one or two I just thought of; let me know if I’ve missed anything:
- acquire an unlit lamp/candle/light source for every co-caster
- write a story/journal entry personalized to the Mountaineers to precede the spell; formally adding a Basecamp context to the spell may help bolster the power of our intent
- work out how/at what point to incorporate the energies from Operation Gladitor, if they haven’t been spent already ( @Augustus_Octavian spelled this out in that thread; I may have another detail to add)
- nominate a Lantern Bearer, or figure out how to possibly co-cast the spell
- look for other sources of magiq that we can break down or repurpose to add power to the spell. (Seriously, I am heckin’ nervous about facing down the Storm like this. As much strength as we can get is great.)
- make hats. Seriously, I don’t think this could hurt.
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These hats should most definitely be made from tin foil, haha. 
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And in the shape of crowns for our Royal Tinfoilers 
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Ok so I found a Tiara, can I just cover it in tinfoil for my hat?
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Since the other teams seem to have everything covered, mind if I join in? I can help light a candle at least? 
I know some ideas have been bounced around, but I wonder if it’d be good to decorate the area around the candles? We could make a kind of element themed shrine around it to help bolster the connection to the Calling of the Corners aspect.
Also, for folks who can’t have an open flame in their home, might I suggest flameless/led candles? They’re battery-powered candle-shaped lights. They look just like a real candle, but the “flame” inside is a light bulb. 
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