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Hey, so I'm assuming at least some of y'all found that sparkler thing in your domain? If you haven't already, maybe..... don't touch it? Like at all. Except to bury it or throw it in a trash compactor or something.

Also probably do a quick sweep around your domains and check for anything else weird or out of place or creepy. Or with the Fool arcana. Just a thought.

Selfies might be a bad idea right now too.

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I don't think the Singularity is a floating wad of chewed-up gum that tried to kill me.

[ And frankly, the whole discussion is making Julie uncomfortable in a way that she can't exactly articulate. The blob can't be the Singularity because she doesn't want it to be. The Singularity loves her. It wouldn't watch her in misery for a week just to discard her through... whatever she went through. ]

Kind of? It's built on regular Academic Magic, like High Magic is. Except instead of bringing the gods into it, they apply it to technology and weapons and shit. There's a lot of crystals involved.

[ Hmmm. Julia suspects she could be right, it's the only thing that makes sense, but instead of pressing it she pauses and then reassures. ]

You would know best, I'm sure. It happened to you.

[ The New Magic sounds kind of interesting, and reminds her of some of the tech-adjacent spells they have in her world. It's weird to think that anywhere on this planet has advanced tech of some kind, compared to what little she's seen in Solvunn and not exactly all that much more in Nocwich. ]

I've been teaching people here my type of magic. It's rarer to find people with magical ability where I'm from, so everyone has the capacity here and it's pretty cool I think!

What is your kind of magic?My world didn't have any at all, so it's all new to me.

It's heavily spellwork in pretty much every area you hear about in media. Think Harry Potter (did you have Harry Potter?) but without needing a wand or to say the spell out loud. The only requirement is natural magical ability (like everyone has here) and usually hand gestures. The hands are necessary because they're basically framing a spell to make it work, the real power comes from your will to use it.

So elemental magic, telekinesis, shields, battle magic, light or darkness bending, fixing objects, teleportation, illusions, etc. It's really great.

And people who can do that stuff can just do it? Like they didn't need to go to school or anything?

There is a college for magic users named Brakebills but they're assholes about it. They erase people's memories if they don't pass their test and look down on self-made witches.

Why would you need to pass a test to be a witch? If people can do it, won't they just do it?

But then again, I guess that's what most of Thorne is like. Nott deserves better.

Yeah, they do it, but Brakebills keeps access to most books about it or training to themselves. They hoard all the magical info so it's hard to get a hold of any real spells. And if you're not trained, you can die using it the wrong way, so hedge witches like me always are taking a risk. We still do, obviously.

Why don't y'all band together and do something about it? Bombs are good for that. Just saying.

You're not wrong. Honestly they're very lucky we're all spread out. All it takes is one alumni key and you can walk right in. I guess part of it is knowing you'd be in for one hell of a fight, with people who are better trained and skilled than you are. Marina, the hedge witch who got me started in a lot of ways, was a former Brakebills student. They wipe your memory when you get kicked out, so they held all her memories of magic from her.

This all seems kinda
classist? But also maybe sort of eugenics-y.

What is a hedge witch? Is it a slur? Feels sorta like the n-word. [ Julie, NO. ]

It's very classist. The higher crust of Magicians fucking suck, Brakebills is just the start of it. Think like 1% corruption with super powers.

No, definitely not! Hedge witches are untrained naturally gifted magic users. Brakebills magicians do use the term as an insult because it means we weren't good enough to get into their school and shouldn't exist.

The weird thing is that in other timelines, I was in Brakebills, and it's insane to me to know that other versions of me were probably full out assholes like the rest of them at one point.

It's just weird cause why not take everyone. Isn't that why we made public schools, cause it was good for everyone for kids to learn shit? Going to school shouldn't be harder than getting on American Idol. Sometimes it's weird talking to people here from like, medieval worlds or whatever, and they're so fascinated by stuff that I can't even remember NOT knowing.

Have you ever explained dinosaurs to someone? Like the whole concept of them? Cause I have and it's weird. [ It's also why she has a tiny pet T-Rex in the Horizon. ]

I don't know. They like to control the magical population I guess. We lost all magic recently and things got ugly, as they stored magic by killing and maiming fairy slaves. Magic can be something like an addiction though, when you have it, it's hard to stop. I tried for a while and I couldn't, I missed it too much.

No I haven't. I thought the internet and TV would be hard to explain but I think enough people have been around the block here they're catching on. We have the network to point to at least to explain that part.

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