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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:22 pm
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Pride thought about this. "There's wisdom in that," said Pride. "But that's for not-magical things. See, a lot of magic is what you expect to happen. You have to know exactly what you want and somehow spell it out in your spell, and hold the information in mind. Old-style incantations spelled out exactly what they wanted to happen; that and the power of belief caused it to happen. They took forever, like almost entire days, and were almost never successful because you couldn't stop casting without breaking the chain of consequence.
"That was why the schema is such a big deal, you see? Usually, attempts to alter an entire world would fail because it's literally impossible to hold that much information in your mind at once, and casting and keeping every single global consequence in mind would be literal weeks of nonstop casting even with a group of thirteen... Impossible. It was unprecedented.
"But you have to be completely focused. If you're worried about a negative effect that you've read about before, then it's a really, really good chance that negative effect will be read into the spell. So, in the end... I guess my advice would be..." Pride rubbed his chin. "Read up on it if you want, if only to learn what went wrong, if the information's even provided there. But then make sure you counter whatever went wrong in a way you're confident with."
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:14 pm
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Pride gave Preacher a Look. "You know, wikipedia is still a thing on the other side," he said, with some asperity. "Yes, thirteen is magical. It's the biggest prime magical number, actually. Two, three, seven, and thirteen. From there you get into composites. Twenty-six would be pretty ritualistically weak. You'd be better off with thirty-nine. Three thirteens, three threes, and a three in the number itself. So that's fourfold magical."
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