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[wiccecraft]

[ Caleb is outside! On a bench, in the afternoon light, holding his phone selfie-style to take this video, which means it's a little off center but there you have it. ]

Hey everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate.

I was wondering if people would be willing to talk to me about magic. If it even exists where you come from - if it doesn't or it's just a myth that's cool too, we can still chat - how it works, stuff like that. I got here at the beginning of the month and I've started working at Gramarye Magic Reseach so I guess you could say I'm curious? Magic seems to have different rules in different places for different people.

[ Okay, that was a lot to get out all at once. Caleb takes a breath and smiles. (It's not a bad smile.) ]

Even if you don't know the rules or you just want to lament about a lack of fried turkey or something, we could talk about that too!

[ He gives a little wave to the camera and shuts it off, but there's an addendum in text added to the video post in about 3 minutes: ]

PS - if Chase Collins gets himself arrested or on someone's shit list, can somebody let me know? Thanks.

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video; @b.potts

[tutee]

Magic doesn't exist where I'm from. Or really, what people think might be magic is really aliens and science and things. But I've met people here who can use magic, and I've been thinking about trying to learn some.

[ She knows in the world of Harry Potter only certain people could do magic, but it doesn't seem to work that way for Taako and Lup and Lucretia. ]

[wiccecraft]

So aliens are common but magic is non-existent? Good to know.

[ Don't mind him he's just taking notes. ]

And some people can teach magic, here?

[ video | un: trickster ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ Hmm. ]

Gramarye has extensive resources on magic. I made sure of it. As for myths, most humans consider me one.

[tutee]

Well, most people don't know about the aliens, or they learn and then they forget.

[ The Doctor would have something to say about the nature of the human mind and how it wants to perceive things as normal. ]

Theoretically. I haven't actually found a teacher, yet.

video; →actualwizard666

[wiccant]

Goes without saying I'm sure, but you're free to ask me whatever.

( all things considered and all. )

But it definitely has different rules for different people.

[wiccecraft]

I saw the library, it's pretty impressive. I'm just curious about people's experiences, I guess.

[ Trickster, huh? Loki did say something about there being more than one of him. ]

Which myth, if you don't mind my asking?

[wiccecraft]

Is the learning and forgetting thing because of the nature of aliens or just...one of those 'we can't handle it so we're forgetting it' kind of things?

[ Look, he's already halfway to the Doctor's hypothesis on the subject! ]

That's pretty cool, though. Do you know what kind of magic you want to learn?

[wiccecraft]

Confirmation is always good! I do want to talk more about it, though. Like...the learning curve, in your case, if you wanna.

Doesn't have to be over the phone, though.

[dothelokimotion]

[ It had better be. Loki worked hard on Gramarye and he is very possessive of it. ]

The Norse mythos.

[tutee]

A bit of both, I think. Like, before I came here, the world had been taken over by these aliens called the Monks. They rewrote our history, made us all think they'd always been there, even though they'd only been there six months. Then when they left, it was like they were never there at all. Everyone just went back to life as normal.

[ That's a pretty solid example of how humans just choose to forget. ]

I dunno, really. The basics, to start?

[wiccecraft]

Oh wow.

[ Cue Caleb being rather impressed and also concerned that he may have annoyed a Norse god. They're not down for that, from what he remembers of his studies. ]

Did you build Gramarye then? I just started there.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Wow is still not a sentiment he hears often. ]

I did not. But I was the first to begin work there.

[wiccecraft]

..that's crazy. Did they get chased off or did they just decide to leave?

[ Look, he's nosy! And this sounds like an interesting story. ]

Basics are probably good; I wonder what the basics even are for teachable magic.

[wiccant]

It'd be easier to explain in person anyway. But sure, I can tell you about it. It's nothing exciting.

[tutee]

We made them leave. Me, and some friends of mine.

[ She would tell him more but it's been a while since Chris watched the episode so she doesn't really remember what happened... ]

I wouldn't know where to begin. Making pretty lights? That seems pretty basic.

[video | un: edward.elric]

[alchemyfreak]

[okay, he'll bite. Normally, it's not something Ed would do - lumping alchemy in with magic outright - but trying a new approach wasn't beyond his scope, either.]

My world doesn't have magic, but we do have a form of science called alchemy. A lot of people from different worlds consider it to be magic, not sure if that really counts for what you're going for, though.

@none

[eraze]

Define 'magic'.

video; @crimson.duelist

[verflair]

Magic is quite common where I come from. I myself am a mage.

[ He is also a cat man, if the ears didn't give that away already. ]

[wiccecraft]

That is pretty awesome. Are you, like, a super hero now?

[ Pfft no worries. ]

I guess it would be, yeah.

[wiccecraft]

[ But it's a good sentiment! Awe is always good. ]

Then you've definitely got seniority over me, Norse [ airquote ] mythology [ /airquote ] aside. Not that it would take much; there's no real study of magic back home, at least not anything that doesn't have people assuming you're gonna wear a tin foil hat too.

[wiccecraft]

Nah but it's different and I have no idea where to start, so I might as well start here.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki nods slowly. ]

I am aware that Midgard has a dearth of mages at this current point of time. They prefer their science to the possibilities of magic.

[ Dr. Strange exists, but Loki pretends he doesn't. ]

[wiccecraft]

Ok, that's interesting.

Back home alchemy is like...a subset of magic? One with scientific method but it involved transmutation and things like that which aren't possible through standard academic sciences.

Is that similar to alchemy, for you?

[wiccecraft]

[ Switching to text just for you, buddy. ]

That which is powered by the supernatural as opposed to the 'natural' world accessible to all.

[wiccecraft]

[ At first, he thinks they're a hat, and then one twitches, and Caleb's eyebrows go up.

That's...different. ]

Did you learn or inherit the ability?