h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*a large, black room really, but quite often takes the shape of whatever illusion is being performed*

*Aaliya enters*

~~Would all illusionists wishing to be trained please report to the Illusionist Training Room~~

*Isca enters*

um, is this the place for my training
am I too early

No, Isca, you are right on time.

I am Aaylia, the High Lady Illusionist. This is the training room.

Create an illusion for me, the one you're best at. Make me believe it.

yes milady

*Isca looks nervous but determined.
She mutters an incantation and it is as if a moonbeam was shining into the room.
She steps into one of the shadows it creates and fades from view.*

Well done, Isca. But what's creating the shaddows? This is a bare room apart form you and me, add more detail into your illusion.

*begins to add her own illusion over the top of Isca's*

*darkened trees form and create shaddows from the moonlight*

Hold you illusion while mine works around it. Tell me if this proves too hard for you to keep. Create you own atmosphere, trees, the objects that are forming your shaddows around mine and around the shaddows. Adjust the shaddows to suit your new illusion.

*Isca nods and thinks for a moment.
This time the moonbeam comes through a window instead of from nowhere and furniture casts shadows*

< i take it you responded to my post 3 posts ago...>

*Yareina Vered enters the room quietly and casts her gaze to take in the surroundings. Her familiar, an ocelot, pads silently at her side*

Hello, fellow illusionists. I got the call to come to training, but didn't know if bringing my familiar was required....

Hello, Vareina. I am Aaylia Tias.

I'll be training you.

Tell me, can you see any faults in this illusion?

*Isca is altering her illusion to match what Aaliya has added. She nods to Yareina but concentrates on the illusion*

Isca, how are you feeling? Is this draining you? How much more detail can you sustain?

Well, if it's "as if by moonlight" then it isn't moonlight.
And:
(a) "piece of furniture" cannot create more than one shadow

no, I'm fine Aaliya
*beads of sweat are forming on Isca's forehead as she tries to work more and more details into the illusion*

<Also, Rose, can you keep all non-character talk in < > please?>

Well done, Isca. Leave it there, if you will. Just keep holding the illusion as it is.

< what's rose's character's name again? V-somehting?>

Ven<-something>, add you own detail around the illusion. Build on it. It is like a stack of cards, be careful where you build, if it falls it will hurt yourself and Isca.

*Isca concentrates on maintaining the illusion of a moonlit forest*