Galactiga Pointe - Wednesday Evening

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi sat on a rock waiting for her friends with the crystal ball wrapped in it's dark silk cloth in her lap.

This was the same rock she sat on with Greg before he left and it put her in a very thoughtful mood.

This visit was certainly not a happy one either, but hopefully have happy results in the long term.

To cheer herself up as she waited, she sang.

Pastime with good company
I love and shall until I die.
Grudge who likes, but none deny,
So God be pleased, thus live will I.
For my pastance:
Hunt, sing, and dance.
My heart is set!
All goodly sport
For my comfort.
Who shall me let?

Youth must have some dalliance,
Of good or ill some pastance.
Company I think then best --
All thoughts and fantasies to digest.
For idleness
Is chief mistress
Of vices all.
Then who can say
But mirth and play
Is best of all?

Company with honesty
Is virtue -- vices to flee.
Company is good and ill,
But every man has his free will.
The best ensue.
The worst eschew.
My mind shall be.
Virtue to use.
Vice to refuse.
Thus shall I use me!

[[ooc: cut to them what know who they be.]]

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia walked up with the notebook holding all her current notes. As usual, her mallet was in her backpack. "Hey, Pippi."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Was sitting there as Nadia walked up, nodding her head and bouncing her foot to the beet of her song.

She began singing different words that were normally sung to a totally different tune but still fit the tune she was singing perfectly.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
the skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day,
for a three hour tour, a three hour tour………
The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
the Minnow would be lost; the Minnow would be lost.
The ship took ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
with...

"Hey Nadia." Pippi said.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia grabbed a pen and sat down with her notebook on her lap and her backpack with her mallet within easy reach. She looked out at the water for a long moment without speaking.

How easy it would have been for her to end up a ghost to haunt somebody. . . .

"Any new information?"

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe showed up as promised, carrying a messenger bag across her shoulders and neck.

"Hey guys."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia smiled a bit sadly at her. "Hey. How's Bel doing?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hey Phoebe. Ya, is he okay?"

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe bit her lip and then sighed. "He's stressed and worried... he's falling apart, a little bit. Lana..." Phoebe shook her head, face pale. "Her ghost..." She sighed sadly.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia quietly put stars next to Bel and Lana on her list to show confirmation that they did have ghosts. "Well, we're going to help them."

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse arrived as promised, hands shoved into his pockets as he looked up. "Hello."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hey Al." Pippi said smiling at him. "C'mon over here and pull up some rock."

[nadiathesaint]

"Hey," Nadia smiled at Alphonse. "How are you holding up?"

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"Well... trying not to think too hard about it, and failing spectacularly."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe gave Al a faint smile. "We're going to find a way to fix this." She nodded determinedly.

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," he nodded. "I'll try to help out too, if I can."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You're helping out just being here Al." Pippi said putting her hand on his arm.

"We should probably get this started before we lose all the light. I brought some candles though." she indicated the backpack sitting next to her.

[nadiathesaint]

"Good idea. What do you need me to do?"

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe started pulling a couple of jars and a curved stick -- okay a wand -- out of her bag and then pulled out a small leatherbound book.

"I have the stuff for the protective circle."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Okay, if Phoebe needs help with the stuff for the protective circle Nadia then you help her with that. And if something bad shows up, mallet it and run for help. I don't think we'll have a problem though, I don't know much about ghosts so it doesn't hurt to be safe... Al? All you need to do is sit here with me."

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse nodded and took a seat beside Pippi, looking a bit warily in Phoebe's direction. He was used to hearing magic screw up more than it worked. "Okay," he said. "If there's anything else I need to do, let me know."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe pretended not to notice the change is Al's emotions. Instead she looked at Nadia.

"We need to draw a circle in the sand around the working area so I can use the salt and the powdered charcoal to fill it in."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia nodded and picked up a stick to use and started drawing the circle. She was left to guard duty, but she could handle that. If nothing else, she could watch and take notes on anything that happened.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Okay, this is pretty simple." Pippi said to Al as Nadia and Phoebe went to work. "I'm going to hold the crystal ball and you put your hands over mine. And I'll try to get it to show us what we want to know. It'll start glowing and get very bright, you might not get to see what I'm seeing, but you may hear something so keep your ears peeled... It's no big deal. I'm told" Pippi gave a look at Nadia, "That it's a rather disappointing display."

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"I can do that," Alphonse said. Then he looked over his shoulder, "What's the protective barrier supposed to do?"

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe gave a tired smile. "When doing magic of any kind, you should always put up a protective barrier because you don't ever know what might try to interfere. I figured that it was even more important this time with the other spirits or whatever already being here." She traced the circle Nadia had made in salt and then with the powdered charcoal. She left a small space open and motioned Nadia inside the circle with them as she opened the leather bound book.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia stepped into the circle, tucking her mallet into the waist band of her jeans and setting herself up to watch.