Exactly what is says on the tin, Bay12. My employment being in limbo thanks to important documents being routed through
Omsk Timbuktu the Australian outback i have no bloody idea how they're routing this and my attitude to societal approval firmly settled in "
as long as my house isn't being burned down, who gives a shit" I decided to become a wizard. The wizard my local area needs, but doesn't exactly deserve. I have a vague idea of how wizardry operates from a myriad of sources, out of which I of course cherry picked what was plausible and what wasn't in accordance with my own conscience, and earlier during my life me and a friend of mine have already irresponsibly fucked around with spirits - which made me believe that this can be plausibly done, if on the most shallow of levels. I also may or may not have something chained to myself, but who knows about that?
The first step of a proper wizard is the attire. If I can't do anything more than this, then at least I'll be able to pretend I'm a wizard, which is good enough in most aspects. I wanted to start with the hat and go from there, going with a more or less stereotypical image - robe, hat, staff. I have no idea what should go for footwear, but I'll probably go with sandals (which are easy enough to make or simply purchase).
eHow has a good enough information store for the robes, but I haven't decided on what material I should use. Perhaps I could make two or three for different occasions and weather conditions later.
So we've got this. I thought I'd use three layers - blue felt, starched linen, blue felt again. Can't go too cheap on this, so we're using real felt instead of the polyester alternatives, but no store near me (or even the local equivalent of ebay!) carries such felt in any bigger amounts than 10x20cm strips. If circumstances force me to, I'll buy out all the colors of said strips and be well on my way to become the most fabulous of wizards. That, or at least in the top ten. I look masculine enough for it to work that way I guess.
Took a slight inspiration from Gandalf here, hoping it'll work gloriously, but I'll make a smaller one first (one that fits my head) to see if the design holds up at all. The plush will be stuffed into the upper part of the hat and covered up with a layer of fabric hoping it'll flop about, I might use less starch in the center to achieve this effect.
I don't have anything drawn up for the staff, since I have no idea how to translate my thoughts into drawings decently here, but the plan's as follows - grab a ~70cm wooden shaft of about 15cm diameter, put a steel core inside to increase weight and durability then stick some sort of orb on top. Thought of glass and acryl polished at a jeweler's for a glorious effect. I honestly don't know how the staff should work like and this is where I'd love you to step in if possible. :3
Other than this, there's the actual business of
being a wizard. You know, spells and such. I don't expect myself to ever be shouting EI NATH at things, nor does that make sense, but I'm fairly sure there's a world beyond this one that's sort of accessible~ Forces beyond what I could plausibly know and all that. Call me silly, but I'd be willing to try it again.
cue xantalos giving me a thorough manual on how to do something which ends up with me and the rest of the world getting eatenSo... yeah. Thoughts, advice? Perhaps someone else here dabbled in what I'm trying to do here? The quest to wizarddom is a path not really tread by the most sane people and as thus I
don't have any fairly reliable sources...