No hard feelings! It was probably all just a matter of us not knowing each others characters well either in or out of character yet, compounded by the fact that it's difficult to convey tone via text. I'd assumed the would have let each other know what sort of skills they possessed, but it's perfectly reasonable that Ori didn't explain herself well and magic is weird and Lydia might not be familiar enough with it to know what the hell the chatter mage was talking about.<br/><br/>I don't think plans going haywire are necessarily a bad thing really, particularly if it lets everyone showcase their particular skills. In fact I think the near-catastrophe was probably way more entertaining than the scene would have been if the plan HAD been salvaged.<br/><br/>Just so everyone's clear any teasing from Oriana is strictly in character and she probably means it affectionately anyway. I pride myself on being a very nice person (despite the whole...rape kink monster porn thing...<insert awkward laugh here>...) and would never make OOC snipes at someone in character, and I'm really sorry if it came off like that.