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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie  Ruffling his hair as he sat up, he nodded to the professor and wrinkled his nose. "Yeah...I'm okay," he yawned slightly, pulling himself from the floor and quickly hurrying to find himself a seat.
Taking out his textbook, and rubbing his nose from time to time while also checking to make sure he wasn't bleeding, his eyes tried to focus on the words that had appeared on the board...but his baby blues were watering a bit too much to be able to see. But at least he could still hear? The fall hadn't effect that. Soooo...moon scrying. Er...water scrying...
It was only then that he noticed the moon...and it was full. Wait...it had just been full like...two weeks ish ago when they had been observing mooncalves....
Color drained from Derf's face almost instantly. Were they...in...the...Upsidedown? Right now he was too tired and delirious to see how absurd that notion was and was stuck in place just STARING at the moon.
Scrying....water...."....mirrors...." he ended up saying aloud, because he DID know that mirrors were an evolved form of water scrying. It was a relief to see Derf sit up, ruffle his hair and answer her. For a moment there Laurel had been pretty worried. "Good, let me know if that changes." Derf seemed fine though when he hurried to find himself a seat, but then again why did his face turn ash white at her mention of the full moon? Shaking her head she decided to focus her attention to what he did say. Nodding she said kindly "Yes, that's correct Derfael! Take 3 points! Scrying with mirrors is a practice that has evolved from water scrying and is younger in origin but would have similar reading results." Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Although, couldn't they do scrying anytime of day? Apparently not, as Professor Vance pointed out the full moon present.
Methods similar to scrying? "Isn't ... couldn't gazing into a crystal ball be similar? Or maybe even a form of scrying?" Just different medium used, instead of water. Although, had the fifth year known what had happened recently to the stock of crystal balls, she probably would not have been so haste to mention that as an example. Skylar spoke up next to guess at crystal balls. Turning her gaze to the snake fifth year Professor Vance answered "Yes, yes crystal balls or crystallomancy is also a very similar practice. Take 3 points too! Crystallomancy is another form of scrying that has also been created from water scrying." Now she wondered if the other students would offer up the rest, time would tell. Quote:
Originally Posted by hermygirl Anyways, seemed like they were going to be covering some sort of water scrying by the light of the moon tonight. Well, as a fan of Astronomy, Sam might be able to get behind at least one part of that. First though, other forms of scrying.
Mirror and crystal ball were both good answers. And Sam knew another one. "I believe you can scry using fire too, Professor," she answered, raising her hand. Samantha Tyler offered up a third answer that Laurel too could fit into the good answer category. Eyes landing on the eaglette she smiled "Yes, you're right Sam. You can scry with fire too. Take 3 points too. The method is called Pyromancy which you've might have heard and read about in your textbooks. Pyromancy is like a sister form to water scrying."
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Originally Posted by sarahlooo Stifling a yawn, Natalie considered the art of water scrying, of which she knew very little. She supposed it was like any other scrying, but maybe the water was reflective enough to see images clearly, like in a pensieve. But her thoughts were vague and some other answers in the classroom seemed just as good as hers, so she stayed quiet and tried to keep her eyes open. Laurel turned her attention to Natalie since it seemed like she was about to say something but she had only raised her hand to stifle a yawn. She waited some moments to see if that would spark Natalie to add to the discussion but the snakette remained silent. Hopefully she'd offer her thoughts later on. Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo As for the scrying.....she didn't know. Most times she didn't know the answers in Divination and tonight when the hour was so late and her mind was on her potion, she was even less inclined to know. Jessa was usually vocal like most other students of her house, but not tonight. It made Professor Vance take notice. Maybe Jessa just needed a little time to get into the lesson since it was pretty late in the evening? She hoped so since Jessa usually had good ideas and opinions. Quote:
Originally Posted by lazykitty Ronan had zero clue as to an answer, since the ones that came to his mind had been said already. So, simply sipped his coffee and took notes. Which was kind of hard in this lighting, but had to be done. Also, didn't scrying require full attention? How were they supposed to do that with half the class half asleep? Oh well, he was too tired to think about that. Ronan remained just as silent as Jessa and didn't offer any answer either but he at least appeared busy scribbling down notes and sipping on something from a mug. Furrowing her brows Professor Vance called over. "What are you drinking Ronan? Not a potion right?" They had rules about those. Quote:
Originally Posted by RachieRu To be honest, she wasn't too sure about the question, and she remained quiet for a few moments trying to think about an answer that at least made sense. This was going well. She was totally on her way to pass the owl. Eventually though, she did still her hand in the air. "I Agree with Sky!" The girl murmured with a smile. "I'm pretty sure gazing into crystal balls is a form of scrying" which would make sense, since it was a similar medium since they were both kind of reflective. Harriet or Hattie rather as she prefered to be called chimed in with an answer next which was a repeat of Skylars previous answer but Professor Vance wasn't going to turn down any answer. Turning her head to face the yellow and black robed badger she smiled "Yes, your belief is right Hattie crystal ball gazing is another form of scrying that also uses reflective mediums. Take 2 points!" Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonhare Maisie sleepily raised her hand. “Tea,” She said. “You could look into tea,” She really wanted a cup of tea.
Trying to wake herself up, she dug her fingernails into her palm. The pain raised her out of her stupor. Maisie checked she had her books and pens. It wasn't easy to spot Maisie's hand but Laurel did eventually. Beaming over at the young firstie she said "Good answer Maisie! Take 3 points! Tea leaves is definitely a similar method that also uses water as a medium." Retaking her place in the center of the room Professor Vance began her lecture which hopefully would make the drowsy more alert. "Water scrying is a very common divination method that has been practiced since ancient times and roughly speaking it's interpretation of visions you see in a medium of choice. The objective has usual been personal guidance, revelation or prophetic. All forms of scrying has always been viewed as a prominent means of fortune telling."
"Any basin of rock, pool , pond, fountain or lake can be used as a reflective surface for the water scrying readings and something we hopefully always have access to is water in some shape or form. There are many variants of divination methods that appear similar to water scrying like those you've mentioned here in class like scrying with crystal balls, mirrors, pyromancy and tea leaves. Other methods similar are hydromancy that you all tried practicing last school year by the lake or spheromancy, captromancy, and anthracomancy to name just a few."
Laurel paused her to give all the students some extra time to take notes since she knew it was late and they were tired. "As I said earlier we are tonight going to water scry in the light of the full moon. Can anyone tell me why they think it's best to scry in the full moon light?" OOC: Question 2 is up! Give a guess as to why your student think its best/most optimal to scry in the light of the full moon. All answers are welcome both right, wrong and weird. I'll move on in about 24 hours at approx 6.30 pm
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