Room 232, Saturday Afternoon

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Yesterday's attempt to create wards had been unsuccessful, so Tony was in his doorway again with a different brand of cough syrup. He had his laptop open to the protection runes, but it had a glamour that made it appear like he was playing a game of spider solitaire.

[Door and post is open! Let me know if you cross the threshold of his room.]

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter just so happened to be passing by when he noticed Tony. He also noticed the cough syrup and the paint brush.

"Door get a frog in its throat?" Peter guessed. Hey, stranger things had happened in Fandom.

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Tony frowned at the rune he'd just painted and added an extra squiggle. "No, it's a magic thing. I'm trying to put up protections on my room."

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"From sniffling, sneezing, aching, coughing, stuffy head, fever and inability to rest?" Peter asked. Again, weirder things had happened.

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"Also demons, homicidal shadows, malevolent ghosts and evil Egyptian mummys," Tony said.

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"Clearly I need to start shopping at your pharmacy," Peter said.

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Tony grinned. "The protection spells I have require ingredients not of this world - like, literally. I'm doing a little creative substitution."

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"In a way I'm relieved," Peter said. "Because I was starting to wonder what trying to drink two tablespoons of that would be like."

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"Nah, it's just normal cough syrup." He finished up another rune and capped the bottle. "Okay, I'm going to try and activate them. Might want to stand back."

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Peter did so, though he watched to see what would happen.

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Tony took a couple of deep breaths. He focused on his place in the world, found the runes, found his power and fed his power into the runes. The runes glowed red. Power stretched out from them, crossing the doorway and forming a net of soft red light covering the doorway. Then the runes melted into the doorframe and the light faded. Tony tested it, and he could still feel the power there, even with the visual evidence gone.

"Yes!" He pumped his fist. "It worked!"

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"It was a pretty good light show if nothing else," Peter offered. He gestured towards the doorway. "Can I?"

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"Sure," Tony said. "It shouldn't respond to you."

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"I'll take that as a positive sign," Peter said. He went to cross the doorway. He didn't feel any difference when he passed.

[talon-wraith.livejournal.com]

On his way home from work - which had no set opening and closing and had him severely confused - Myn stopped by to see Tony.

"Hey, Tony..." Myn trailed off, eyeing the bottle of cough syrup. "...What are you doing?"

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Tony put the cough syrup and paintbrush away in his desk. "Just this project. Experiment. Thing," he said. "How's it going?"

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"It's, well, going?" It had been a day of not-quite-getting-it. This just added to the pile. "I wanted to stop by to," Myn paused, sorting out why he had come by this way. "To see if you feel any more prepared for class this coming week."

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"A little," Tony said. "Though I doubt it'll last once class starts. How about you?"

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"A bit better than before. Sometimes it helps to discuss things with someone else, since everyone has a different take on it." Myn eyed the bottle of cough syrup, then gestured to the door from his position still outside. "Can I see your experiment with pharmaceuticals?"

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"Step inside," Tony said. "I'll show you."

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Donos stepped into the room, glancing over his shoulder and up at the doorframe.

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Dozens of cherries appeared from nowhere and rained down on Myn.

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"What the--!" Myn jumped, trying to get away from the falling fruit. "What is that!?"

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"It's my early warning system," Tony said. "I'm still working out the kinks."

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"You rain things on people and their startled shout warns you?" Myn asked, brushing a caught cherry out of his hair. "It sounds like there's a kink in there somewhere."

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"Well, for one, it shouldn't be set off by regular people," Tony said. "It's to let me know if anything supernatural's trying to sneak in."