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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:56 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:08 pm
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The trailer had lost the holiday decorations, though a sparkly heart bobble headband was still hanging on a coat hook, and the curtains had been changed to light green with little white daisies. There was also an increasing amount of paper and books laying around, each of them littered with sticky notes. Some were distinctly school work, but others seemed tied to their shared concerns. Very prominently was the book in question, its title clear form where it sat on the table: The Cagemaker's Conundrum
A bookplate on the inside over read: To Liam, with love. VTH. Unlike the other notes in the house, the post-it tabs weren't in America's looping girlish handwriting.
"Professor Noor gave it to me when he was talking about his class, after he brought up cages and such." She needed to ask Sunny too, the offer to help not at all forgotten but put aside until PAX was okay. One could you please save me/us/this person at a time, right?
"It was written by Miss Vivien. She was a little girl in the veil when I met her, but grew up to be his fiancee." A story that very clearly didn't have a happy ending.
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:00 am
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"Her father was ... Cam Rylan in that time, wasn't it?" The firefighter, the one that was with Lucas? Jeremiah remembered him from a few different instances but he had not seen him in some time. Not since the world was reborn.
His fingers delicately brushed against the spine of the book, the cover of it, and he sighed. There was a serious lack of happy endings because he knew, without a doubt, that before the cage - before all of this - that had also been the case for himself.
"I'll admit that my knowledge of magic has grown," there was so much more available now, "but whatever way that I can help clear things up, I will." Certainly, if this was about cages it was something that they could benefit from.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:29 am
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The Cagemaker's Conundrum Chapter 4: Why Cages? Caging a living being is a horrific act. The focus of your spell work will never recover from this violation. In many cases where a human person was caged, the world was observed to forcibly reset in a manner unknown to most of the populace; we only know of this effect because cage makers tend to take copious notes. Where this did not happen, the results echoed that of Phineas Gage's impromptu lobotomy. The focal point's personality and abilities changed, and not often for the better...
Quote: This entire chapter seems to be an attempt to dissuade people from caging living beings for any reason except the most dire, and focuses very much on consent as a tenet of magic use. It makes repeated reference to this work being mostly a study of theory, or intended to be used on non sentient creatures, such as species of wolf or computer viruses. An entire passage about not creating a cage for human beings, no matter how degraded by magic, is highlighted in two different colors.
Chapter 9: Materials and Methods It is a fact well known that using coerced materials for your spellwork is unwise. This can cause nullification or worse, backfires. Both results consume both materials and power, without giving any net positive result. Unfortunately, the very nature of a cage implies lack of consent or at least lack of knowledge on the person or being to be caged. Steps must therefore be taken to ameliorate the innate risk of using coerced or outright stolen materials...
Quote: The writer goes on to list the ways to counteract stolen materials. It seems to divide down the line of biological materials (best counteracted by something of the caster's, but overall to be avoided; trickery is the best route here, apparently) owned materials (best counteracted by using an object to which you have a claim or could feasibly have a claim) or created materials, such as a photograph taken non consensually (the weakest form of connection, to be avoided if any other method is available; the more definition available the better for the casting).
An old, folded magazine advert falls out of the far pages. It had previously been wedged into the pages of the index. It is yellowed and fragile, but might be able to stand up to examination...
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 12:44 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 7:48 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:59 am
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