Magickal Crafting and research -- Kazoo day 3

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Who: Raven azrthmtrnznthos and YOU
Where: Kitchen car and standard car
When: Kazoo day 3
What: Raven's doing research and brewing magical things.
Warnings: Do not try these recipes in Real Life? Raven is a professional (and not real).


Having the locker in the armory car helped Raven with her storage, considering she'd been buying magical supplies. And she'd probably buy more, soon. While she'd rather use her own trunk for storage, the truth was there was really no room for it in her room. So her books, along with her candles and her box of dried-herbs in bottles, had been moved to the locker.

Today, she had decided, was a day for some magickal workings. One of her books on healing magic out, she was consulting it for recipes and spells. It was held aloft, while she was in the kitchen, as Raven was careful to keep the pots she used separate from the general stock. Afterwards, she'd defintely have to give them a good scrub, but it was worth it in her mind. So you might catch her with small jars and bottles, a pot of boiling water (or two or three) and a levitating spell book.

Or you might catch her in the standard car, with small bottles of dried herbs and some fabric scraps, as well as 2 more spell books. With a loose circle of 5 candles around herself and her work, levitated and lit by magic. If anyone tries to approach too closely, she'll stop them before they can break the circle.

Comments

[helborn]

Casper ambles through the train, trying to spot anything interesting gong on. He misses the ability to have a wider space, and he can already tell he's going to have to adjust some pillows and stuff to compensate for his leg on the folding bed.

The sight and smell of candles from all the way down the car catches Casper's attention and he approaches with Bob on his shoulder, curious. He spots the herbs and spell books and before Raven has to lift her hand he stops and waits to be acknowledged. If she's in the middle of a spell, he doesn't want to mess it up.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Can I help you?" She asks, from the center of the circle. Is she sewing? Yes, yes she is--taking those fabric scraps and making small sachets.

[helborn]

"Oh, um. Sorry. I was just curious as to what you were doing... it looks like some kind of ritual circle though, so I didn't want to enter and mess up whatever it was that you were doing." He hasn't had much luck with magic circles, himself... but in fairness he hadn't known what he was doing.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"It's not as formal as a full ritual, but it is a circle, yes." Raven responded. "I'm making sachets to help people on the train."

[helborn]

"Ah. ... Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. I can leave if I'm bothering you... I'm just exploring, since I'm new."

Kitchen

[deage]

"Oh boy, more... magic."

Enter that little girl again, looking over at the levitating book and boiling water. Or, well, the pots. She's not actually tall enough to see the boiling water inside of them.

"What are you cooking up?"

Re: Kitchen

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Infusions." Raven replied in her deadpan tone. "You have a problem with magic?"

[deage]

"I do, but only that it's something I don't really have a chance of.... understanding." She likes quantifiable, understandable, explainable phenomena. That's why she's a bio-chemical engineer.

Not that most people here know that. Seven-year-olds aren't that.

"What kind of ingredients are you using?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Herbs and water, honey in one of the recipes too."

[sciencegirl]

She comes across the accidental demonstration in the standard car as she's passing through, and Entrapta's known enough sorcerers to try and not break circles.

"Excuse me! Sorry." She lifts herself up high on her hair, and tries to "step" far over without disturbing anything. But... seriously, wait.

"What are you doing?... and can I scan you while you do it?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Fortunately, Raven's circle is not so large that it takes up the car. That'd just be rude, and more than she needs. It's probably about a 5ft diameter. "I'm making herbal sachets." Raven replied. "And no."

[happyends]

Madoka finds herself often enough in the kitchen that there's no way she wouldn't run into Raven while the other was carrying out her little.. experiment? Magical brewery?

Whatever it ought to be called, Madoka is pretty sure that Raven is not just doing some regular cooking the moment she walks into the carriage. Her gaze, surprised and wide-eyed, moves across the levitating spellbook towards the pots on the fire.

Before it slowly lands on Raven.

"Raven..? What are you making?"

After all, Madoka can't really tell what it is, other than just 'not food'.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Hi Madoka." Raven says, a subtle wamrth in her voice. "Infusions. To go in tea or water, and help people in various ways. The one I'm working on right now is to help cure toxins and poisons, or things like sepsis in the body."

[happyends]

"Oh, so they're a little like potions..?"

She's gotten used to those by now, after all, through how much they've been used on the last few missions. Even though what Raven seems to be making here is a little different - but the effect seems similar, intending to try and help cure people of things.

Madoka slowly steps closer, perhaps wanting to take a closer look.

".. Do you think someone might get poisoned?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"A little. Potions are slightly different. These you want to dilute with water, so it's more like medicine doses." Raven explained, moving her book or anything else so Madoka could look. There were dried herbs portioned out, along with some basic ingredients like honey, salt, and sugar too. At least some of this was in the boiling pot already and Raven was carefully monitoring how it all mingled together.

"I don't know, but it's better to be prepared. It'll also help if we're in medical and a body has sepsis."

[happyends]

Now she's glancing at the ingredients, it does look a little less magical than potions. She actually recognizes this stuff - or most of it, anyway! Maybe it's more similar to coughing syrups than potions then, especially with the explanation Raven is giving right now..

"Hmm, it's good to think ahead!" Especially when they're in a situation where just about anything can happen. The train has proven how weird it can get at times with everything that happened at the end of last month.

Madoka smiles at the other girl. "You're so responsible, Raven."

kitchen

[blitzcheer]

Really, Tidus just came into the kitchen to get a drink. Simple, easy, see if there's anything other than water maybe, or stick with that if he has to. But when he comes into the kitchen and, seeing it in use...

"Phew, is everyone cooking for fun nowadays?"

It sure smells...herby in here? But he hasn't missed the 'cook' in question, if surprised to see who it is today.

"You cook?"

Re: kitchen

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Nope. But I don't have a better place to make these." Raven responded in a matter of fact tone. "We don't have anything like a chemistry lab, other than some bare basics in Medical, and I'm not really doing chemistry either."

[blitzcheer]

He's letting himself more in to be nosey, since she hasn't said anything against it yet. She's talking about chemistry, but not doing chemistry?

"Is this...magic?" Tidus goes for. He knows she's something magical, and that's about it.

Can he go over and look inside one of the pots... that's totally safe, right. Don't you take a peek inside boiling pots?

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Yes, and yes you can look." Raven seemed to read his mind or intention. On the counter she had dried herbs, along with some more mundane portioned out ingredients like salt, sugar, or honey. The boiling pot itself was probably not very exciting, filled with various leaves and small flowers. Raven was stirring it slowly in a very precise manner every now and then.

[blitzcheer]

It may very well be by the way he's walking himself over to the pots with all the stealth of a curious dog. He hadn't even thought to ask, looking momentarily surprised by her permission.

But there he goes, looking into one.

...

That sure looks like a bunch of stuff.

"Huh." Huh. Yep. That's about as far as his thoughts can go for this. "Sooo...what's it do when you're done?"

[firewalled]

Rich is surprised to find Raven in the kitchen, based on the little she had said she'd been able to make, and his curiosity quickly gets the better of him.

"Hey! Are you trying to make..." he starts, before he leans in and takes a whiff of one of the jars, recoiling immediately. "Okay, that definitely doesn't go into soup."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Hello Richard." Raven responds, tone as calm as always. "It doesn't, although I suppose I could make an infusion that does. It might be easier to get help making the soup though, and I just help add the magic."

[firewalled]

Rich finds himself wincing immediately. He knows that the last time he'd seen her was when he was younger, but he hadn't expected his full name to be used just because of that.

It used to be nice to be called that. Now... "Rich is good, please," he manages with just the barest hint of strain in his voice. "What exactly is that infusion supposed to do?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Sorry, Rich." Raven said, and meant it too. "This one is just going to be a basic healing spell. Nothing big, but like for minor scrapes and bumps and bruises. If you take a bad fall and twist or sprain something, maybe break it, for example--you'd use this."