<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=46369.msg2383710#msg2383710">Quote from: Faeylin on 26-10-2009, 22:53:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Lillian Montague</strong>, Library of Avonleigh [Sylria the Elf &amp; Lillian Montague]<br/><br/>Lily giggled at some shared joke as the pair finally entered the library. "Well, the way I've always seen it done...or read about it, actually," she made the confession, before continuing, "is that we all sit around a table of some sort. Kind of like the dining room table downstairs. And we'd need candles. I think that maybe ghosts only show up when it's suitably spooky, or something like that." Sylria was tethered to Lily, their fingers interlaced. "Want to look for a book, to make sure I have it right?"<br/><br/>The library was lit by oil lamps, and the air inside the room was warm and comfortable. Lily let go of Sylria's hand for the moment, and meandered over to the shelves that surrounded the room. "I'll have to show you something in my bedroom later," she murmured absently, "but for now...the seance." Lily chose a volume at random, and started to flip through it. "Toads. This one is all about toads...and frogs too. Do you think we should cook one, or something? Don't they like, boil frogs when they want to tell the future or something?" She shook her head. "Sounds horridly cruel to me." Lillian spent several more minutes flipping through the rest of the book.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>Sylria</strong>, Library of Avonleigh [Sylria the Elf & Lillian Montague]<br/><br/>I blink as we enter the library and shake my head at the description of the seance, and wonder just who had come up with it.  I didn't reply, though, looking around for a bit before speaking in response to the assumption on divinations, my stomach flip-flopping at the thought. "Boil...boil a frog to tell the future?  Who would be so cruel?  Divinations of that type are<em>divine</em>magic, not arcane like I practice.  From what little I know, they require a minor offering and some incense, but I can't be certain.  Depends on the deity, I suppose.  But magic doesn't require such things.  I've learned to cast spells with few to no 'props' to focus the magic.  For example, if I wanted to put a layer of grease somewhere, normally a mage would need butter or some bacon grease, but with proper training, it isn't needed.  Hmm...maybe this book?"<br/><br/>I start looking over the shelves, meandering about as I try to think if I'd seen any books the previous night that might be useful.  After a moment I ask. "What sort of thing in your bedroom?"<br/><br/>((Perception 11+2=13.  Yay me!))