Magic Questions (cw: truth champagne)

[wickedestwitch]

So. Quick questions.

How many Witches or Wizards do we have among us? I suppose Mages count too, but that seems a less formal term to me and 'magic users’ is a bit broad considering some of what some of us can do.

I'm asking because my own magic is… unpredictable and irreversifyible in it's outcomes.

Flying monkeys were an accident.

[Which is probably one of the oddest statements to hear anyone say outside of context.]

Before anyone yells, I'm a trained Witch and well aware of the risk and dangers of magic. I went to college for it.

I don't want to invade anyone's toes when it comes to specializations within a subset of this color magic. I just… don't want to sit back and be rescued all the time like some silly damsel in impractical footwear and a tiara.

...also if anyone could bring me more of that fuzzy water in Liminal I would appreciate it.

Comments

[reallymean]

Couldn't you learn to defend yourself without using magic? Even if you do learn something more predictable, it won't always be a good idea.

[wickedestwitch]

I could, yes, but we have enough people to hit things around.

Besides, I can already swing a broom well enough to get away from someone.

[neverfeltthatway]

I'm not sure about other kinds of magic, but I would say there are slightly upwards of fifteen color mages among us. Not counting those who only know cantrips, anyway.

...Flying monkeys? [Sounds like there's a story behind that one.]

I could bring you some, if you want. Where are you right now?

[wickedestwitch]

I say cantrips count, learned magic is learned magic no matter how small.

Yes, flying monkeys, Chistery isn't the only one of his kind.

I'm in the library, one of the study rooms.

[vrepit_no]

Witches, huh. I don't have any magic. Can't say that I'm interested in having any either. But there's a difference between the power and the person, so, as long as the person is resplonsible with their magic and doesn't use it to harm others, then that's ok.

[Someone else may be a little drunk too. ]

Flying monkies, though? Like that old vintage film?

[wickedestwitch]

Some magic is... harmful by nature and there's no two ways around it. But sometimes harming can help... like wildfires. There's also a whole thing of combat magic here but I'm not touching that.

Yes, flying monkeys. They didn't exist in Oz until the Wizard conned me in to making them.

[wholeheaded]

You know I'm... okay, yes, I'm a Wizard now I suppose. Violet color magic and wind elementalism from Bando and a truly ridiculous number of cantrips. If you want to learn any of that I can help out, cantrips are really handy for quick fixes.

And... dunno if you're interested but I've got a good replication of Quadling moons-shine in my rooms, otherwise I can bottle some fuzzywine.

[wickedestwitch]

And Oz will be blessed to have a proper Wizard instead of that lying charlatan twisting everything around for his own gain.

[She... has Opinions now.]

Oh sweet Ozma, I haven't had that since I spent a snowstorm with a group of Oxen. The cold didn't bother us anyway, though we did bother the family of Squirrels who'd taken shelter nearby.

[awitchdidit]

I am a Witch myself, of course. I suspect different worlds may define it differently, though - even different cultures in my world use the word differently.

It's interesting to me that your magic cannot be undone, though. My own speciality is "Endless Magic", the ability to act, undo that action, and redo that action endlessly. It seems your specialty would be the opposite.

Of course, my transient endlessness mostly translates to manipulating Liminal matter here. I've also picked up a smattering of other methods while traveling, like Yellow Magic, Akuryuu Illusion Magic, and S. Tech. Frankly the places we go to are a veritable buffet of mystic knowledge, even in versions of modern Earth, which normally frowns on the supernatural.

[wickedestwitch]

I think we can at least agree that Witches have a skilled grasp or a form of magic as a definition.

It's... Transformation Magic. Giving Monkeys wings to fly, turning someone in to tin. It's just rarely the same specific outcome twice with the same spell.

Earth is ridiculous anyway, at least from my understanding of it.

[thornsofmalkav]

I need to learn S.Tech at some point. Alcuin can't be the only one covering our bed... room with shoujo flowers.

[unconventionalelf]

I... have some magic training, though I am still just an apprentice to a mage back home. And here... Apparently I can cast, but it really tired me out and I was really scared when I cast my fireball during the jaunt. [ She is embarrassed about that]

It was only a burst of light though, not the usual willow-the-whisp I can conjure up.

Color magic? And.. what's a college? Sorry, my world is not as advanced as it seems most of the others here come from. [ Because she doesn't want someone boasting flying monkeys to think that she is just stupid]

[wickedestwitch]

Why would you set off a fireball? Someone could get on fire.

Color magic is a type of magic from a jaunt that we can learn, it seems to be divided by archetypes that correspond with colors.

Colleges are schools for more advanced learning.

[rustyhonesty]

I have three different kinds of magic. Champion magic from Questing Country, blue color magic and Creation magic.

[wickedestwitch]

Well, I know I can't use Champion magic. I was an Oracle back there.

Blue does seem a rather useful sort of magic, though I don't think it fits with mine very well.

What's creation magic?

[haveabiscuit]

I'm the headmistress of a school for witchcraft and wizardry.

I should really learn Color Magic so I actually have something available to teach here.

[thornsofmalkav]

You should, dude. Maybe Indigo? It's the most academic of the colors.

[elevatoravatar]

I was an attendant of the Velvet Room. Not a traditional mage, but one who presides over power.

While currently I only have domain over one persona, and I have not tested my ability to create more, I can use the magic that is at the hands of Thanatos without issue.

[wickedestwitch]

I'm not entirely sure if that makes you a Witch or not.

[starshaper]

Umm, well I'm what some people would call a magical girl, but I'm not sure if that counts.

...Color magic, what's that?

[wickedestwitch]

... what's a magical girl?

Color magic seems to be a school of magic that's divided in to colors of the spectrum when it comes to archetypes.

[thornsofmalkav]

I learned color magic here a year ago. I think I'm currently Liminal's one and only Rose Mage? Anyway, I'm good to teach cantrips and my color.

And, uh, a Witch of Beatrice's kind too, although since most of the magic from her world just translates into Liminal Space stuff here it's mostly by dint of me having a mostly academic but quite thorough understanding of the way the magic of her world works.

(And if anyone asks me how, to you I say that Bea's autobiography is available to read in her library if not the library and reading it was how I learned her magic.)

[wickedestwitch]

Well, I'm not sure I need to learn the cantrips? I am a Witch after all. I was trying to avoid it because.... well, I'm green but that is what I'm feeling drawn to.

There's no shame in having a knowledge of magic, knowing lets you know how to apply it later.

[eldritchwheelies]

I'm a computational sorcerer. I know the mathematical theories behind my world's magic, which mostly involves invoking on algebraic inequalities between matter and energy.

I generally need to spend hours drawing magic circles on a chalkboard, which is a pain in the ass... or I can just use an app for that and do it lightning fast.

[wickedestwitch]

...what's an 'app'?

The rest of that makes a lot of sense, actually.

[psychic protection II]

[comebewe]

[there's a slight hesitation before Matthew responds. Coming so soon from being Matic, still in the middle of grieving for that world's Elphaba...it made hearing Elphaba on the network now a little jolting]

I can't teach you my magic. Sorcery isn't something you just can decide to learn; you have to already have sorcerous tendencies. And then you damn well need to learn it.

[he pauses; the next bit comes out as a reluctant admission]

And it is...not always going to be useful. Not while Travelling, anyway.

[psychic protection II] forever

[wickedestwitch]

It sounds a little similar to mine, if it's... dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

I think you're a fine Wizard, Matthew. Even if your magic isn't always useful. Your heart's in the right place.

[acapriciousthing]

I can't use as much sorcery as at home.

[A bit of an understatement giving she's nigh on omnipotent at home]

I can still do a few things that didn't get reduced to manipulating Liminal Space.

[wickedestwitch]

What sort of things? Not that manipulating liminal space isn't impressive.

[leftbehindagain]

...You know, I'm not sure how Personas would factor in. Or the elementalism business from Bando, for that matter. I'd call them both magic, at least.

I guess technically you could teach someone to use a Persona, but neither way to get one that I know of is particularly pleasant, and I definitely wouldn't wish a bout of yelling at yourself on anyone. The elementalism's a lot easier to pass around, though I'm not sure I could explain one that isn't water.

[And Elphaba may not be into that one for Reasons.]

[wickedestwitch]

I don't think I've seen elementalism at work, I'm not bothered by a bit of water. I've flown through plenty of rainstorms.

[givetheslip]

...your world offers schooling in such matters?

[She shouldn't even be surprised anymore.]

[wickedestwitch]

Yes, it does for those with the talent for it.

Do they not have Witches where you are from?