Parsley Sage Rosemary Time Machine

It's a two-person duel of banter and posturing (and capes!) that comes _before_ the climactic duel, and it's just a lot of fun to create two characters and see them each trying to get the upper hand. Mechanically not too complex (some basic rock-paper-scissors, with embellishments) but it does a really good job of creating a tense and dynamic mood, and I think it'd be good even for people who haven't done a lot of free-form RP before.

Tonight, I played a game where we were two allied-turned-rival magicians, and our 'academic' debate over whether or not there was some fundamental bit of reality that could not be altered by magic (and also our unresolved romantic tension) brought us slowly but inexorably to the brink of magical war with each other -- lots of fun to just gradually wind each other up. :)

adaire: i don't think that's true.

hella: it isn't. it isn't true. fero was there and he was a bear.

Anna Hempstead Branch

XXII

I used to think...Number was fixed and still,

Rigid as marble, like an altar cast

In rocklike splendor. Now I perceive at last

Its changing modes of supernatural will.

Now I perceive wild garments floating free.

I hear the planetary music crashing.

Great chorals sway with Bacchic energy.

The churchly cycles move, their mild eyes flashing.

So number within number shines and sings

And with interior energy doth beget

The godlike shapes of many an alphabet,

Bodied in air, with their deep patternings.

Their magnetisms create my flesh anew.

Great Festivals like goddesses advancing—

I know full well if I abide in you