Magic in the Making Exhibit

Magic in the Making Exhibit
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Location Type:	Public Space
Grid Locale:	Pikarigaoka, Penguin Park, Penguin Park - Museum
	A temporary exhibit taking up the third floor of the Art Museum at Penguin Park, featuring art from five extraordinary museums, all centered around a single topic: representations of fantasy and magic in art, throughout time and space. Pieces from Le Louvre, the British Museum, Seattle Art Museum, the National Museum of China, and the Museum of Islamic Art, along with those temporarily loaned from private collections, have been selected by art historians and curators alike to make for a stunning, three hundred and fifty piece exhibit that will travel much of the world, starting from 2025 through 2030. The museum is laid out in such a way that the stairs and elevator open up right next to each other - this is beneficial for the exhibits security, as all visitors are, upon arrival to the third floor, greeted by one of the museum's staff members, who will promptly explain that visitors have to let their bags be examined, as the museum is taking the security of the art very seriously. Anything that could be damaging to the art - from lotion to lip balm to nail polish to hand sanitizer to pocket combs to nail clippers to heavy objects like a pocket watch or sharp edged items like a set of keys - risks being confiscated. All confiscated items (or bags, if one elects to just give up their whole bag) are placed in a plastic container with the owner's name written on it, to be returned upon exit from the exhibit. A limited number of people is allowed within the exhibit at one time - around fifty at the maximum. The exhibit is organized by style and era, starting from the most ancient of pieces to the most modern. There are different security measures for each piece - from glass cases, to protect sculptures, pottery, metalwork, and jewelry, all on pedestals to better view them from a 360 angle. Paintings, silk screens, woodblock prints, and more are mounted on walls, with ropes to keep people from getting too close. There have been multiple rooms appropriate for the exhibit's use, with even the hallways having art pieces on display. All of the art work is extraordinary, a true collection for the ages, but those with an awareness of magic will notice something else: that many of the works of art seem to depict true magic, in recognizable forms.

Associated Logs

Title	Date	Scene Summary
It Started to Get Weird Five Mahou Ago	April 6th, 2025	The Art Museum at Penguin Park is hosting a traveling exhibit, one showcasing magic and fantasy in various historical artforms. Only... the more the visiting mahoujin look around, the more they start to recognize signs of true magic, depicted in this collection. Is the history of magic on Earth stranger than they knew? Is the Fade what they thought it is? And... who did organize this exhibit, anyway?
Just Normal Between Us	April 12th, 2025	Madoka and Sayaka take a trip to the suspicious art museum exhibit to catch up on things. They talk about relationships, the future, and magical matters. They reiterate their mutual support for each other, and trust in one another no matter what happens.
Are Heists Best Served Cold?	April 14th, 2025	After "The Cat and the Spider" gets retrieved during 2471/Forgery and Principles, it finally finds its rightful place, and the demon plaguing it vanishes completely thanks to Snow Angel Mou Fubuki, the Princess of Sarek, Magical Rocket Girl Red, Goldenweb Yorotsuchi, Sailor Moon and the Shadow Shogun.

Title	Date	Scene Summary
BBpost: AM@PP To Host New Exhibit, Entitled Magic in the Making: Representations of Fantasy Through Artistic Expression in All-Star Collaboration with Five of World's Greatest Museums	March 26th, 2025	A news article, describing a traveling exhibit on the subject of magic and fantasy coming to the Art Museum at Penguin Park.

Currently Discovered Exhibit Pieces

1. A piece of papyrus depicts a young Egyptian woman wearing a spotted kalasiris and an object shaped almost like a simple star - many lines, extending at straight angles, with a spotted circle at thee end of each line - in one hand.
   The woman is Khepri, a warrior blessed by the gods, and is described in the papyrus as 'The Ladybug Goddess' despite her having been a mortal. The papyrus' tale describes Khepri's battle to stop the Pharaoh Akhenaten from sacrificing an innocent woman to Ra in an effort to resurrect his deceased wife, the Princess Nefertiti. According to the description, the story is believed by Egyptologists to have been spread by the enemies of Akhenaten, who sought to discredit his rule in the years following his death, given that the pharaoh's name and legacy were destroyed in backlash to his dismantling of traditional religious practices.
2. Among the older sculptures is one of Hercules, wearing a lion's pelt, a carved ring with a lion relief on one finger.
3. A sculpture of Cleopatra, as a young woman, standing in clothing distinct for the time period. She wears a jeweled headdress, though many of the jewels are missing - taken by grave robbers, the museum description suspects. A ring on her finger greatly resembles the shape that Homura and Amy's soul gems take as rings, though the sculpture is worn enough to make determining if there are runes difficult.
4. A silk painting featuring a man sat astride a horse, looking down an expanse of scenery, all very typical and normal, save for the egg floating beside him, with a wise, miniature of the man inside, gesticulating with a miniature sword.
5. A sculpture of Alexander the Great, with the description: 743 BCE -- Discovered in Roman ruins, this work is a copy of a Greek piece, as was the fashion of the time; depicted is King Alexander of Macedonia, with the traditional far-off gaze and planted spear commonly used to symbolize the legendary conqueror. Of note is the inclusion of a small being sitting on his shoulder, whispering into his ear. It is thought that the being is meant to symbolize the influence of the god Ares on the ancient king's campaigns.
6. Reine des Papillons ( alternatively titled Femme Noble Parmi les Papillons), a life-size painting of a young white woman in a long white sleeveless dress, with her dress and hair blowing in a breeze. She is standing in a dark forest with greenish light coming from the sky behind her. There is a gold tiara on her head in the style of a fifteenth century French women's headdress, and one arm is spread out to the side, while the other is reaching up to touch one of a kaleidoscope of glowing sea-green butterflies. The painting itself is an oil painting on canvas, set within a large wood frame, decorated with carvings of laurel leaves.
7. A large, standing ceramic urn, with a plaque that says it is from Venice. The figure depicted on the urn wears a tiara with a certain, Device-y look.
8. A painting by Basil Hallward. In the painting there is a woman close to her forties standing inside of a cave dressed just like Veronica, a russian blue cat on her shoulder. No artificial light shows in the panting, and yet it is as bright as day, many natural formation of crystal releasing a silvery-blue showing all over the walls. She is depicted opening a door of a house inside the cave.
9. Multiple paintings of Jeanne d'Arc, including:
   One depicted wearing a soul-gem ring.
   One depicted with a chara.
   One depicted in a red-and-black spotted tunic over her armor.
10. A painting depicting a small contingent of fairies, each different in the task they were performing. One painting, another dancing, one posing dramatically with a blade-of-grass sword. All around a child holding a basket filled with eggs.
11. A reproduction of a temple mural, featuring Baibai, the fairy of Cure Suzhen. It depicts a time when Fuhai's husband was abducted and she commanded the floods to invade the temple.
12. Three photos of three paintings, all of them sharing the same characters: one showing the Witch of Delays looming over a girl, one with the Witch of Delays getting kicked by the Legendary Pretty Cure, and the last one is about the Witch of Delays pushing back against the whale of the Marine Heart Ring. They are weirdly angled, like whoever originally described the scene was doing so from a very low point of view, despite the first one being on the ground already.
13. A painting divided in three parts, showing a scene underwater: the top part shows a woman dressed in white, holding a scepter from which brilliant white light is cast, and the bottom part shows shows a regal man looking down, and in between them a group of demonic creatures.
14. A painting entitled The Witch and her Kin in French. One of the more horror-themed paintings in the exhibit depicts a girl in a henshin much like Starfall Omen, a Barrier Jacket to those who can recognize it, but the face is not that of the Starfall of today. The girl is holding the Nightmare Chain high in her left hand, and holds the hand of a child with her right. Fire burns around them, with monsters that look not unlike youma dancing amongst the flames. There's an open wound where the Devicer's heart would be.
    The child is a young brown haired girl that doesn't quite look like Lana. Not enough to be recognizable through the Veil, but if one knew her henshin secret they might be able to connect the dots. Weird coincidence, right?
    The story associated with the painting is that of an orphaned girl who made a pact with an evil spirit to protect herself and her sister, the other depicted child. She became known as a witch, and summoned horrors of myth to do her bidding and destroy her enemies. As she grew in power by feeding off the fear of her victims, she became a destroyer of the weak and a monster in her own right. The wound in her chest is symbolic of the way that she was finally slain by an unknown 'spear maiden of light'. After the witch's death, her sister disappeared along with her staff. Legend has it that the sister, whose name has been lost to time, inherited her power and fled into the shadow world, never to be seen again.