#{.......sweet jesus i did not realize how chatty kalim is when you get him going}
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oasis-makcr · 2 years ago
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Yeah. I mean, I'm still mostly paying attention to make sure I'm not missing anything! Because if I stopped paying attention altogether, I think Jamil would be a little disappointed in me. Of course, he might be disappointed to know I'm blogging instead of taking notes anyway, but. 🤫 He doesn't know I have a blog yet.
Oh! Right! Sorry, I keep forgetting sometimes that not everyone knows what blot is. Blot is the natural side effect of casting magic; the more powerful and taxing the spell, the more blot a mage generates! The point of a magestone is that it will siphon the blot from your body, which gives you more room to cast spells, and it lets you have a visual indicator on how much blot you've generated, because the stone will dim in color the more you do. Blot creation is sped up when you're more stressed and upset, so it's very important to have a handle on your emotions when casting!
On the upside, blot naturally dissipates so long as you're taking care of yourself and not pushing yourself past your limits! That's why it's best that you don't cast magic without a magestone; you don't know how much blot is being generated without one, and not being careful with that can lead to overblotting, which... is bad for just about everyone involved. It makes you more powerful at spellcasting and changes how you look, oozing caustic ink, but once you've overblotted, you burn through your magical reserves, and if you aren't knocked out before that happens... you'll die. It isn't supposed to happen very often, but... we've been having a lot more cases of overblots lately in just this year than in say... I want to say the past century, maybe?
Yeah, I think so too! I might have to ask the juniors about it, I'm positive that I've got a lot of juniors in Scarabia (our dorm!) that I could ask about it!
That's true... I'm sure there are a few censuses I could look at for better statistics, but I know I'll forget about doing that in a few hours. That doesn't particularly surprise me, though! I'm sure I probably have a biased view on mages because I went to Royal Sword Academy for a little while before transferring to Night Raven College, which are two of the most prestigious schools for mages, so I know I'm definitely used to being around people who are REALLY powerful mages. I'm sure there are plenty more mages who probably don't have the natural reserves for stronger magic and I just haven't... thought about that until now.
Hmmm... no, I think there are some magical batteries! If I were in Ignihyde, I'd definitely have a better answer; Ignihyde's whole dorm thing is that they're all really skilled with making magitek and being genius inventors and that sort of thing, at least a lot of the time! I know Idia made himself an android brother and he's capable of casting magic and existing on his own! Idia's one of the smartest mages and inventors I know, he can make just about anything if he puts his mind to it!
Not that I know him that well... he's usually holed up in his room and tries to avoid physically going to class or housewarden meetings or anything... I've been slowly convincing him to join some of my movie nights though!
I think so, too. I think it's better to be compassionate more than anything else, but I know a lot of the founding families disagree with that... though I think part of it is because we all have a lot of power and are more or less part of the government, so a lot of them probably see compassion as a threat. I think... if I had to choose... I'd like to meet the Vipers! Jamil's ancestors! They've worked for my family forever, and... I'd like to know why. The real reason why. Depending on how far back I went, though... it'd be incredible to meet the Sorcerer of the Sands! Wanting to meet one of the Great Seven in person might be pretty obvious, but I think it'd be really interesting! Especially since you only hear about him but you don't hear as much about say... the Sultan, or the Princess? Or even the Djinni?
I guess it comes down to "I think sometimes our knowledge of history is lacking and I'd love to see things as they were actually happening"!
And since you're ahead, the class becomes boring. I think I get it. And I can't complain since that means I have someone to talk to now aha.
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I guess my first question is "What's blot?" since that sounds sorta fundamental to whatever magic you're using - and I guess that must be the "modern magic" in your Abbreviated Spellcasting Long Name class haha. I dunno. Certainly evolution of language sounds like it might be related given the class name, but I've never been able to use magic myself, so I can't really tell you. .·°՞(≧□≦)՞°·.
I feel 1-2 out of 70 is still a lot. Then again, people who can use special powers in my world probably amount to close to 1 in 10000-100000 people? And most of them only have powers equivalent to lighting a tiny candle or bending a spoon.
Oh, so Magitek still relies on personal reserves. So there's no way to replace a personal reserve with something like a magical battery or something?
Niceness is a virtue, I think. The world would be a better place if there were more nice people. Ohhh, whose family's ancestors do you want to meet - like what sort of things would you want to learn?
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