I need a new character, although I can keep on RPing without one (Ghosts are useful for that kind of stuff).
Entry 002 - Day 1
Just thinking: magic can do a lot of stuff. It should be able to help me out here.
Um. Okay, what kind of magic should I use...
Writing everything down should probably help.
Okay... So, Red is enchantment magic, adding new properties to pre-existing object; say, causing a sword to be on fire, or a pickaxe to never break. Necromancy is also considered a Red magic, as you're "enchanting" a corpse with movement, although it also involves Purple for giving the undead "AI" of a sort.
Purple is mental magic: memory spells, mind control, telepathy, and most illusions fall under Purple magic. It's also necessary for any variety of life-making: golems and zombies both require purple magic to do anything more than stand around, and Forumechs should be able to work with good Purple magic.
I know that all of the theory for the 'mechs is correct, but reality clearly needs to catch up with it, first.
Speaking of the Forumechs, they're... well, they should be largely dependent on Yellow magic, my personal specialty. Yellow magic is essentially combining magic and physical objects to make something that is greater than the sum of its parts. While typically associated with magitech, Yellow is really anything where you can make an object do magic. One good way to differentiate it from Red magic is this: Red makes a flaming sword, Yellow makes a sword that shoots fireballs. Of course, due to this distinction, Yellow magic requires any practitioners to also have some knowledge of other magics, or else have somebody else to provide the magic (a reason that most Yellow mages are best known for the construction of channeling devices like wands and staves).
Blue - Arc's main magic - is "metamagic": magic that affects other magic. It allows you to do such things as redirect other people's magic or improve pre-existing magic. In addition, anyone who can use Silver magic needs at least glimmering of Gold Blue magic.
Er... Somebody might one day read this. I should probably explain what Gold and Silver mean. Just as magic is categorized on effect, it is also categorized on source. Gold is magic that is inborn into a person. Silver is magic from the environment, and is typically associated with ley lines; it got called Silver because it was discovered that silver - the metal - is the most useful for conducting magic. Bronze is magic that has been "gifted" to somebody, usually by a deity of some variety, although sometimes by a very powerful mage that specializes in Blue.
Most practitioners of Blue are scholars of magic, although some, like Arc, can use it to great potential in more practical circumstances.
Yellow is typically seen as a complimentary magic to both Blue and Red: Yellow and Blue are both the manipulation of magic through different methods, while Yellow and Red both imbue objects with magiphysical properties.
Green magic - Purple's compliment - is any direct magical manipulation of the physical world. Transformation, teleportation, and telekinesis all fall under its purview.
Orange magic is Blue's official counterpart; it is any type of disruptive, or "anti", magic. Despite the negative connotations, it is most commonly used in magics that protect, as it is most effective in shielding against magical interference. Magical wards are almost universally Orange.
Grey magic - typically divided into Black or White magic - is anything regarding creation. White magic is used to refer to healing done with this magic, while Black refers to combat magics - the creation of fireballs, lightning strikes, ice storms, and so on. However, Grey magic is also used in the creation of portals and pocket dimensions (such as my workshop) as well the fabrication of resources.
Alright. How can this help me?
Well, the pocket dimension that I put the workshop in was a solid one that had a perfect grid of ley lines. The workshop itself was designed with silver inlays to channel those into a fixture on the ceiling; that's what I use to power most of my things. I don't think that I'll have any issues with not having enough raw magical energy, though I'll have to make sure that whatever I use can channel the amount of energy I put through it.
Now, I know that at least some magic items can be used by ghosts - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to write these entries. So far, the only thing that I haven't been able to interact with were the items I shielded with Orange; those hurt to touch, so I'll want to avoid them. At least I was able to confirm that Aciero's shields were working; no 'mech possession for me. *sigh*
I do, however, have access to the devices I used to generate this dimension and the portal I use to get here, as well as the comm link I have set up to the Orchestra - how I'm recording all this. I've also got the Ironwood trees - apparently, they all have a residual "spirit" of actual trees, so I have spectral wood to work with for anything that I need to make.
I'm thinking that I'll need to make use of some Purple magic in order to resume communications with any survivors. After that, I'm thinking that I'll either need to make a body with Grey magic - which will require some work, as I neither have natural Grey magic nor a machine yet capable of using it for that purpose - or else find a willing host that I can possess. Thankfully, captured ley lines are relatively easily converted into whichever Color magic you need, although I'm still not entirely clear if making an entire organic body from scratch will work very well.
Contacting Arc, while not essential, would certainly be useful; his skills as a medium would be allow me to bypass the Purple magic part.
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I'll try to see if I can locate Imic. He's probably still out there, drifting around, trying to figure out what happened.
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