Re: G Building
(People seem generally ready to continue. I'm going straight on to lunch period now. Grace is toying around. If this looks tl;dr to you, the bottom three paragraphs contain the part more relevant to other characters.)
(G Building Rooftop.)
Grace had managed to weasel out of class a few minutes earlier than everyone else, and didn't waste any time on moving swiftly onto G Building. She bounds up the stairs and comes up onto the roof. Closing the door behind her she walks forward and stares upwards into the sky. She should have plenty of time to do this before anyone might wander up.
Grace squinted at the sun, trying to figure out just how this was going to work. She hadn't put much thought into the details of how big this thing would need to be, intending on just winging it. If it didn't work then it didn't work, and she could always try again latter. She looked all around the surrounding country side, beyond the school grounds, up stream and along both walls of the valley, and down past the town and out to sea. Then up to the clouds. She'd been waiting for a day like this, with a nice thin layer of low could to focus her spell on. Even so, she wondered if this was low enough, and suddenly felt like she might be biting off more than she could chew. "Meh, here goes..."
She ran the parameters through her mind first. Casting high and wide. She only wanted a few seconds. The barrier would sit in the lowest layer of clouds above the school, and as wide possible. She'd start it out weak, and see how strong she could get it. The thing she was trying to make a barrier against? Well the Sun of course. Why not. She'd been entertaining this little defiant fantasy for a while now. The valley the school rested in was ideal really. Comparatively, it held a nice amount of ambient mana that suited her spell perfectly. With one last check that no one else could see her, she begins her spell.
She looks down again and closes her eyes, holding her arms outstretched to her sides, palms flat to the ground, and flung her mind out. She seeked out and felt for the mist like energy she was looking for, gradually travelling further out, searching wider and drawing as much as possible from the valley. She wasn't pulling it towards herself. She wasn't experienced enough to hold that much mana inside her. This was where part of the unique Vasser technique came in. She winced at the weight of the mana on her mind, feeling a little queasy for a moment, she shook the feeling off and began to 'weave' the loose mist together. Rapidly mouthing strange words in silence, her hands remaining still, but now glowing quite visibly. The majority of the casting was mental, controlling the flow of magic within her body was more important than any somatic motions. She concentrated intently for several minutes as she carefully prepared her weave. Any significant flaw at this stage would tear her spell apart. Continuing to the next stage, anyone attuned to magic and the flow of mana would instantly notice something very unusual, as the vast portion of the valleys mana begins to rise up and away from the earth. Due to the manner of the spell, trying to locate Grace as the focus would be very difficult. At this point any other mage could easily vandalise her efforts so far and prevent the spell, but she felt that was unlikely to happen. The mana continues to ascend upwards, finally coming to rest in the clouds. Grace let out a sigh for getting this far, and opens her eyes to look up once more. There was still nothing to see of course. Yet. Changing her words grace raises her arms and begins tracing lines with one finger against her view of the clouds, the other hand clenched against her chest. She shapes the weave into the biggest barrier she's ever cast.
Slowly but surely, the barrier forms. While it may be invisible, the effects are plain to see, if not readily explainable. The entire valley darkens, taking on a rather strange light since the sun is still vaguely visible high in the sky, but the surroundings looking as if a rogue eclipse is occurring. Grace grins widely at the sun, glaring directly at it without consequence. Pushing the spell as far as it will go the school darkens to near to night time visibility. It all lasts only some ten seconds, before the barrier begins to fail. "Aww, well that didn't hold too long..." Grace mutters as an irreparable crack shoots across her construct. Before she can even prepare to dispel the barrier herself, it violently breaks open, going all at once. The light suddenly breaks through and everything is back to normal. Grace watches for a while as the invisible glass like shards of her barriers residue break up and fall back down to earth and disappear. None the less, it was a success, and better than she had expected. With zero material components or special preparation too. She reckoned if she had access to her fathers resources she could make it last for weeks. She was happy.
The timing couldn't have been better. Should have been just in time for all the students leaving for lunch break to see. "Time to get some milkshake and look for reactions. I wonder if... woah... I..."
Grace's sentence trails off as a sudden dizziness rushes through her. Her vision blurs, legs buckle, and she goes tumbling over onto the tiled rooftop, unconscious before she hits the floor. Perhaps she over did it after all.
(Feel free to have any character pop up, but there's no special need for an emergency rescue or anything.)
