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Alan Samuel Cole's Journal
Sugar & Spice
Downtime
Early experiments
The next morning I woke up with my mind on fire. The old lady never showed back up, but now i understand what she meant when she promised me magic. I'm seeing the world in a whole different way. I can feel, hear, taste time itself, and I'm more certain than ever that i have a home to get back to because my time is different than everything else's. It's the wrong... color? flavor? no idea how to quantify it yet but I'll fucking well find out.
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It's been a few days and I'm playing with this new energy. I'm trying not to rave like the madman I've been labeled anymore, but after digging around online I'm finding that at least here there's a lot proven beyond the boundaries of mundane science. I'm reading, I'm learning, and I'm experimenting. Let's see where this goes.
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Okay, breakthrough of some kind. I've found some meditative techniques, mental exercises that let me push on this new force. It's clumsy, but if I strain I can, well not so much move them through time as move time through them. It's weird, but the only way I'll grasp it is to approach it logically, experimentally. for now, at least if something like that lava monster comes at me maybe I have a defense...
"Mankind is dead, so says Emperor Grungo!"
Downtime
Research and insight
Now this, I know how to do. This magic stuff might seem weird, but deep reading and research is in my wheelhouse. Looking for ways to make manipulating time easier, I'm getting into the value of symbology as a shorthand for the mind. Seems it reduces the strain of holding magic in your head. but the symbol needs meaning, either to you personally or to the magic you are trying to perform. In my case, timepieces should suffice.
I need another job though, something to give me that inspiration back. I can work on refining this, sure but I'm never going to get anywhere real without another hit of whatever it is these jobs give me. So next time, I have to push the envelope. Get over this cowardice and press forward. To get home i might have to break some eggs or even some skulls and make sure I get mine.
Child of the Maize
Charlatans
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
― Criss Jami
Nowadays you can't go a day without some phony prophet trying to peddle their wares to you.
Driven by the increased interest in the supernatural, charlatans from palm readers to televangelists are everywhere. And while the vast majority of witches, psychics, magicians, hypnotists, cures, potions, faith healers, and clairvoyants are complete fakes, they do make a living.
As the saying goes, "it's easier for an actor to make it in alternative medicine than Hollywood."
Most people scoff at these clearly-phony supernatural services, yet those same people often buy into at least one scam.
The most dangerous charlatans are the self-styled monster hunters who carry a mall-ninja arsenal and guns with silver bullets. Most have never encountered anything supernatural and do absolutely nothing besides burn some sage and patrol the area for a night or two. Even so, those who are superstitious, fearful, or desperate enough will hire them to solve the problems they simply don't understand. In some cases with disastrous results.
For Contractors, charlatans are red herrings and obstacles. Clumsy fakes that conjure a smokescreen of misinformation and escalate the situations they're in.