ORDER ONLY: back from sherwood
May. 1st, 2011 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_frankFu and steve and me just spent the weekend up at sherwood, and they’re getting along just fine. steve has gotten all excited because of the latest messages from snape, and he says he doesn’t care a toss who wrote them, the potions are sound and should work fine. he spent the weekend teaching some of the interested sherwood folks how to gather belladonna, and some other useful ingredients besides – pennywort and ginger root and wormwood and stuff like that, as well as taught them how to make a few basic healing salves. he’s been passing along basic potions that he's made for the last year or so, but with some coaching, he figures they can make their own as well. they've already been getting together the ingredients for the vanishing powder, but tracking down beetles was a bit tricky. there’s a group just working on potions stuff alone, so steve had his hands full making sure everyone was doing it properly.
fu worked with the team turner’s assigned to sort out detonators, and he showed them a few other fuses that he thought might also do the trick. fu and turner spent a lot of time working together – they’ve got a lot in common, I think. they’re already planning on making up a batch of saltpeter for next time. we also set off a few flour bombs in a field to test them, and they made quite a lot of noise, but I don’t think we’ll know how destructive they’ll be until we test them in a building or something.
davidson’s got five or six in his group that’ve been working on the wandless magic stuff quite a lot these past few weeks and some are really looking good. one woman, Amanda, she’s been at it at least three hours a day every day and she’s got quite an accio on her, and her shield is coming along nicely since the last time we were up there. all of them work on the tai chee stuff as well, because it really does seem to help with form. it’s slow going for most of them – amanda’s the best one of the lot though. she's a natural. I think the fact that it works for her and that other people can see it working has really made a lot of difference so far in the camp. I mean, there’s only so many wands they have to go around, and only so many we can spare, but this seems to have really helped those that don’t have wands from feeling entirely useless.
davidson was interested to get our take on snape, what his motives were, all that. I told him what we knew of it, except for the part about harry and the prophecy of course, and told him we were still sorting out why he was doing what he was on our end too, so we were being careful about it. turner’s all about him, thinks he’s legit, but davison’s a bit more wary. I asked davidson what the news was from inside the camps, and from the farms – whether people were working on similar things there, and he said he’d yet to hear anything definitive but expected as much. it's important that any counter measures they work on not be too predictable, but I think it’s given them a boost up.
fu worked with the team turner’s assigned to sort out detonators, and he showed them a few other fuses that he thought might also do the trick. fu and turner spent a lot of time working together – they’ve got a lot in common, I think. they’re already planning on making up a batch of saltpeter for next time. we also set off a few flour bombs in a field to test them, and they made quite a lot of noise, but I don’t think we’ll know how destructive they’ll be until we test them in a building or something.
davidson’s got five or six in his group that’ve been working on the wandless magic stuff quite a lot these past few weeks and some are really looking good. one woman, Amanda, she’s been at it at least three hours a day every day and she’s got quite an accio on her, and her shield is coming along nicely since the last time we were up there. all of them work on the tai chee stuff as well, because it really does seem to help with form. it’s slow going for most of them – amanda’s the best one of the lot though. she's a natural. I think the fact that it works for her and that other people can see it working has really made a lot of difference so far in the camp. I mean, there’s only so many wands they have to go around, and only so many we can spare, but this seems to have really helped those that don’t have wands from feeling entirely useless.
davidson was interested to get our take on snape, what his motives were, all that. I told him what we knew of it, except for the part about harry and the prophecy of course, and told him we were still sorting out why he was doing what he was on our end too, so we were being careful about it. turner’s all about him, thinks he’s legit, but davison’s a bit more wary. I asked davidson what the news was from inside the camps, and from the farms – whether people were working on similar things there, and he said he’d yet to hear anything definitive but expected as much. it's important that any counter measures they work on not be too predictable, but I think it’s given them a boost up.
