John’s efforts at dowsing while the café (before being rudely interrupted by Anton) had highlighted a few hotspots of concentrated magic. Two of the largest were a building downtown - which the tourist map had labelled as a nightclub - and another place in the theatre district.
He’d check out the nightclub later, but the combination of magic and theatre inextricably brought one family’s name to the forefront of John’s mind - Zatara.
There were other popular and famous stage magicians of course, but few blended real magic with stagecraft in quite the way that the Zatara family did, but it was John’s history with that family that gave him pause. Before anything else, he needed to know if she was here.
Taking a cab to the edge of the theatre district, John decided to walk the last couple of blocks and was immediately aware of promotional posters stuck to bill boards and plastered like layered mosaics on boarded up shopfronts.
~ See the AMAZING & MYSTICAL ZATARA SIBLINGS! ~ Join ZATANNA & ZACHARY ZATARA as they perform SPECTACULAR MAGIC in their first-ever joint live shows!
Their shared residency begins soon at The Majestic Theatre. Box office now open!
The some of the posters had clearly been up a while, as they were torn and peeling at the corners, so John had no idea when the shows had started, but the concentration of magic suggested that they were still going on... or something was.
Finally reaching the theatre, the place was a hive of activity. Work men in high visibility vests and hard hats were carrying timber and tools into the building through a side entrance, and the sounds of construction were coming from inside. John had spent enough time around the Zataras to know that they often changed their shows, adding in new elements, tricks and sets to make sure things didn’t get stale (and to promote repeat attendance). It was likely these guys were working on something similar... and something big by the looks of it, which might explain the high concentration of mystical energies.
Whatever was going on, John wanted a closer look. Taking off his trench coat and rolling up the sleeves of his shirt, John lit his cigarette, grabbed an abandoned hard hat and cast a cantrip under his breath as he followed a couple of workers inside. Some people looked his way, but quickly diverted their attention as the effects of the spell made them lose interest almost immediately.
John chuckled to himself. Sometimes it was more useful to be boring than to be invisible. With his Cloak of Disinterest firmly in place, the Laughing Mage started his exploration of the building.
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