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Name: Emil Västerström
Date: 03/17
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Hi everyone. I'm looking for some information or whatever. I guess it's mostly directed at witches, but I know some monsters were mages back home too and I'm not going to turn away any input.

Anyway, how do you do magic? Like, using runes or chanting spells or waving your hands around or anything else. The focus or whatever, the thing you do to make the magic happen. What is it? And how did you pick it?

I've tried about a billion different things and nothing is clicking, I need some ideas.

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It's been more than a month for me and I'm still pretty inconsistent. Which is hard to believe, usually I'm awesome at school and stuff.

So instead of a focus you sorta like, commune with your magic or whatever and then it listens to you? That's different. Usually there's like, gestures or something. It's cool though.

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You felt like that, too? I'd been beginning to wonder if maybe Big Brother Ruenti had been wrong when he said that I was doing well in my studies, but maybe it's just too different.

There's more to it than communing, though. That was only the first step. It's more that I learned to make the gestures with my mind. Does that make any sense? It's like pulling the magic out, but instead of using my real hand, I imagine a hand reaching into me. And then I use words and shape the spells and all of that.

I don't know if I should describe the way my magic feels to me, though. I've never heard anyone else describe it the same way, so yours might be different.

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Big Brother Ruenti? Is that one of the instructors at the Coven? I haven't met everyone yet...

I think it makes sense. Mostly. I get the communing bit and the gesture bit, but I think I'm having a hard time connecting that with the spells and the words and all that. I feel like a dummy.

I don't think it would hurt anything, if you explained it to me. Maybe it'll give me something else to try, you know? Whatever I'm doing now doesn't really work, so I might as well try things.

sorry for disappearing! if this is too old feel free to wait for a newer thread

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No, Big Brother Ruenti was going to teach me magic back on my world. He isn't here, but he told me that I was good at learning things. It hasn't really panned out here.

[She definitely understands feeling like a dummy for not being able to get the magic here to work, so she nods to herself before typing out:]

All right. The way that worked for me was to think about it like I'm drawing a thread of the magic out of the core of my body. That at least helped me to move my magic from inside me to something outside, but it wasn't enough to connect it to actual spells.

The magic I had before I came here was alive and had its own feelings, and the magic here isn't like that, so I thought it was like it was dead. Now I think the magic is a little like its alive, but if my old magic was alive like a person or an animal, it feels to me like this magic is more like a plant. It is as though, instead of drawing a thread from myself, I encourage a vine to grow, and a spell is like those wooden shapes that people grow plants on. [a trellis]

It is more like guiding the magic to move where I need it to when I use a spell. Does that make any sense?