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🕑 Added 2022-05-01 17:16:47 +0000 UTCGo ahead and give me suggestions for spells that have been industrialized! If it's good, it might find it's way into Perry's repertoire.
In order to establish the rules, I'll explain how my magic headcanon works in this universe.
Magical ingredients have an Essence inside of them, and you activate those essences by performing a specific ritual. When the essences mix, they create a magical effect.
Modern magic (his moms) is all done internally off the cuff using symbiotic spirits that can produce these Essences on demand. Unfortunately, Perry is restricted to the old, slow way of performing magic, BC his dad is a jerk.
To get a spell, you need one or more magical ingredients, and a highly specific ritual to convince the ingredients to mix.
Examples:
The growth spell. Unicorn dung and glowstone. each have an essence inside them. one is triggered by invoking the name of the unicorn, the other is triggered by applying sunlight. Once both are triggered, the essences mix and become magic.
Paralysis dart: Suggested by someone (and I liked it)
dart goes in, has a hypodermic needle at the tip which allows blood to backflow into the hollow dart. Inside the dart is somnus lotus pollen (or whatever) that when mixed with blood and formed into a specific phrase or design, will render the owner of the blood unconscious.
In the above example there is 2 essences, the blood's and the flower's, and the ritual is mixing them and making a pattern with them. all of which can happen inside a tiny hollow dart.
Summoning ritual: slightly more advanced.
A specific creature can be summoned by putting a certain combination of magical ingredients in the center of a hexagon made of a material they find anathema, with burning candles at the corners, and their name repeated X number of times, or some such.
INdustrialized version: The hexagon is made out of silver chains, the candles are barbed anchors topped with phosporous or some other metal that burns regardless of the environment. The entire 'summoning circle' is fit inside a cannister that loads into a cannon.
When the 'summoning circle' is fired, the chains spread out to form the hexagon, with the phosphorous candles are lit upon firing.
when the anchors hit whatever surface they've been fired at, they clamp down and the ritual is completed when the magical ingredients land in the center a fraction of a second behind them. And whatever eldritch being has been summoned begins to climb through.
Boom, instant summoning spell using what is normally a bulky, slow, immobile ritual.
I hope that gave you guys some ideas. I'm keeping a few other ideas under my hat. can't spill all the good stuff right away.
Gods do exist, and there are things they like/dislike, but I'm not sure yet if they're discrete entities, or just thought-forms.
Anyway I want MOAR ways to streamline a magic system by mechanizing it. Just two or three isn't gonna cut it!
Comments
John Anastacio
Shell corporations can be created from seashells. Layers upon layers of shell corporations can be used to disguise or conceal Perry's identity from investigators. Actually there can be a lot of cheap garage tinker documentation magic that can be done with simple paper and ink and maybe signatures in blood. Apply the concepts of bank accounts, shell corporations, living wills, cease and desist orders, spam mail made from luncheon meat, etc. to magical ends. Documentation magic can be powerful, but I dunno if you want to go down this route. It's kinda dry.
John Anastacio
Cheap roach motel that imposes a sympathetic bond on roaches within with all roaches without that have a significant degree of consanguinity. Roach motel then slays roaches within, causing a cascading curse effect that slays roaches without. The sacrifices can then be used to deposit lifeforce with lifeforce banks that Perry can call upon for healing, and/or summon demons. Lifeforce banks can be created from cheap plastic piggy banks. Perry invests a single drop of blood into them, and then creates a lifeforce bank account in his name that anyone with the correct documentation can deposit into, including roach motels.
