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alt_cedricSo 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
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
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Date: 2012-10-18 01:36 am (UTC)Sheep wool would work, yes, but it might be smart to have a few cotton ones, too, for people with allergies. How many are you looking to have made? Er, do you have a supplier for the Veela hair? Because we don't, and frankly, we've found that's one item with a large counterfeit market. Fortunately, the spider silk is a lot easier to obtain, especially since there are a lot acromantula webs in the Forbidden Forest; Sluggy usually has a good supply on hand. It can be murder to work with if you don't know the trick, but we know a handy unspooling charm that's great for disentangling and controlling the stuff.
Now as for the potion: we could brew something, but there are commercial ones on the market we could use. Forsby's Fixative is one, and Eglantine Engelbert's Elixir of Elegance. There may be some used by actors, too. We have somebody we know we can ask about that.
Any samples your mum can send us would be a big help, thanks.
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Date: 2012-10-18 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-18 02:37 am (UTC)We'll be able to fix the prespelled masks and provide one dose of the fixative for those which would like to spell their own.
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Date: 2012-10-18 02:15 am (UTC)Professor Siz has offered a mostly unused room in the astronomy tower as a workshop for the duration. I'll let her know you two are the people I'm working with so you won't upset her wards.
Would you be willing to let Harry be involved as well? We were talking last night and well it would be good if he and I could work together on a project. He's starting his NEWTS in several subjects and it'll be another set of eyes and hands.
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Date: 2012-10-18 02:23 am (UTC)A few more hands might be helpful. We have two other suggestions: Pansy Parkinson. We know her pretty well, because she's good friends with our brother Ron. AND she knows Marvolo well, so that'd help break the ice, yeah?
Also, we'd suggest our friend Lee Jordan. He's worked a lot with us on some of our other projects. That all right with you?
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Date: 2012-10-18 02:37 am (UTC)How about we meet quickly after your Quidditch practice tomorrow to check out the room and start planning? We can get to work Saturday afternoon.
We'll be showing proper interhouse cooperation for a big event. Seems you're helping me do my job.
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Date: 2012-10-18 02:43 am (UTC)shockpleasure for our brother Percy to hear. Former Head Boy, you know, as he keeps on reminding us.Sounds good. Let us know whether Marvolo and Parkinson are in.