For the last meeting of the year, Corn has again arranged the seats for the Mysterium meeting in the large Athenaum of the Circle. He is dressed in his Mysterium-meeting robes as he waits for those affiliated with the order - officially or not - to arrive.
The Athenaum is not very large. In one corner is the terrarium with the magic grubs. The Grimoire with the rotes of the Order stands on its pedestal and a few books and notes are on the shelves. Corn's personal computer is turned on, sitting on a desk. There are desks for those that want to study. On the side, there's a metallurgy workshop with several hand-me-town tools, molds, reagents and a furnace. Corn had made sure the Athenaum is warm and well lit, and that there's enough hot chocolate for everyone along with cinnamon buns. There's a small Christmas tree decorated with very edible candy canes hanging from it.
The invitations have been sent along with a reminder to everyone that robes are optional, but they are always an option. Corn has paid extra care in those reminders to be passive-aggressive enough pro-robes without it being too obvious that he was pushy about it - maintaining plausible deniability if someone called him out on it.
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