《A Powered Tale — Starting Out》


 Part 1 — Let Me Introduce Myself

    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    [Musing in her head about the situation]


    So, ¡®Superpowers exist,¡¯ you say. Followed by, ¡®Magic exists,¡¯ you say. And, ¡®Why are you saying this,¡¯ you say? Magic is hidden by The Deception, what TV Tropes would refer to it as a Masquerade. Or on this alt-Earth I¡¯ve been reborn is named such by Trope Treasury instead of TV Tropes. Of how history was rewritten as much as it could be to hide magic. Therefore, you wonder, ¡®Shouldn¡¯t the Deception cover superpowers?¡¯ if such a magical construct exists?


    You postulate, ¡®Katie Ivy McCabe, there should be no Powered. They shouldn¡¯t be running around. There should not be A Powered Tale,¡¯ yet ... if the superpowers people are using aren¡¯t magic? If they¡¯re some form of sufficiently advanced bit of physics? An energy field of a type being manipulated by biology in some way? In such a situation The Deception doesn¡¯t cover them.


    The Deception is not maintained by people waving wands to mutter nonsense incantations like how some fiction depicts. Regardless of how there are some people with magic rings running around thinking they¡¯re maintaining The Deception with their Deceivers.


    The actual proper Deception is maintained by The Gods, of all those Pantheons who were once worshipped by the majority of people. Gods still worshipped here and there in places within this alternate timeline where they held on.


    While Belief, Worship, Sacrifice, and such empowers those Old Gods as an act of magic for them ... TV Tropes (Well, Trope Treasury on this world of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1), The Gods laugh at you at your trope of Gods Need Prayer Badly.


    They have power beyond such magicks, even if the magic and power of The Gods allows them to become more powerful and mightier. They need not of us. And? I just like to note: The term god in power can refer from an ordinary Natural charismatic cult leader all the way to an omnipotent and omniscient creator God who can do anything. And everything in between those two states.


    So, there are more terms than a god for Higher and Lower Beings, but it is a basic shorthand for various celestial, heavenly, and infernal beings who are worshipped as gods. So, I will use it, but there are other terms and ranks for various beings and entities of great supernatural power


    And, anyway, to get back on topic. The fact is? Nor are we just one world in one solar system, we¡¯re one world in a whole load of galaxies like shining stars. And we¡¯re in a very large multiverse, of the Higher Beings striding parallel to parallel to quote Davros from NuWho.


    Therefore, if the superpowers people are developing don¡¯t count as magic? Then The Deception doesn¡¯t cover them. If you are to pretend magic is superpowers? Act like your spell casting or magical powers are just another Powered?


    To be a part of the whole Powered Culture if you aren¡¯t Powered? ... Or Psi-Culture as The Internet has also named them, because having to use two syllables to call them by Powered is a bit too much for people. They just call one of them a Psi, and multiple Powered as Psis, for me to use Powered most of the time.


    Because, as the quote usually goes, ¡®the Internet is why we can¡¯t have some nice things,¡¯ If the internet does grant other nice things at the same time. If you¡¯re not getting into the Internet looking at the Trope Treasury Page of Differently Powered Individual and having a whole load of arguments on the words to use.


    To rip off Old Ben Kenobi from the classics? I feel a great Disturbance in The Internet, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in anger and suddenly started arguing. I feel something stupid has happened.


    However! If superpowers exist, if there¡¯s people running around with Space Magic as the Magical Community has stolen the phrase from The Mass Effect Fandom to explain The Powered? To explain what are the Intrinsic Fields of Powered, which aren¡¯t actual magic, what could be confused for magic by various people? What the Supernatural Community is calling Space Magic as not only a Joke but as a Meme in our parts of the Internet.


    It means all kind of Magical Beings and Supernatural''s can pretend to be Powered.


    So, to The Natural World and The Scientific Community, there is suddenly a whole wide range of the peoples of Powered and Supernaturals running around. While at the same time? The Magical Community, as part of what is the rest of The Supernatural Community, can determine when there is actually a Powered and not a Supernatural Cosplaying as one.


    Now, you sing, from the song of, ¡®Impress your Creators,¡¯ by Tub Ring, it, ¡®was an average Tuesday, there was a shooting star, then everything went fucking nuts,¡¯ and, yeah, it went to top the charts when, ¡®everything went fucking nuts,¡¯ to quote the song at the beginning of this year. The existence of superpowers has the dictionary definition of, ¡®fucking nuts,¡¯ in particular places on the internet.


    When Powered started cropping up on fuzzy OwnVid Videos on the internet, followed by Heulwen as an Alien-Supernatural saved a plane about to crash at Cardiff Airport. With her doing the whole classical bit of Powered Heroing of, ¡®saving a plane full of passengers via using their superpowers,¡¯ on live TV. Heulwen was interviewed by someone on said live TV after the near plane crash, followed by the interview going viral on the internet in various places.


    Like the anonymous English Language Imageboard of Quad-Child, the microblogging site of Chirp, the social media site of LifeTome, or the internet video place of OwnVid. I believe most people can make connections to what those sites are on alternate Earth¡¯s like the one I was born in during my first life somewhere in The Alpha Sequence of Universes. What is now in this second life of my first reincarnation are the big ones of each of those.


    It went everywhere and anywhere on the internet. It propagated and spread like wildfire. And immediately afterwards make The Deceivers of a certain group, to formally explain their reaction, ¡®Lost their fucking shit,¡¯ as various Internet Sages would put it.


    With them attempting to do their crude and primitive attempts to hack the internet to take down what was bloody everywhere. To fail massively at attempting to take it down, for people to make Memes in The Supernatural and Magical Parts of the Internet at how made of fail The Deceivers of The Sorcerous are.


    You go to ask me. To say, ¡®Katie McCabe. Why is this important you little practising witch and dabbler of a few bits of magic who writes Numerology Programs for The Government to keep an eye on the stock market.¡¯ How I am a Numerology Programmer who plays the stock market like a pro.


    You question me, ¡®What are you doing when you can just enjoy your life doing such and leave the superheroes to Heulwen flying through the sky.¡¯ The Suit of a Superpowered Hero of an ET Supernatural who came out when, as mentioned, said average Tuesday went batshit crazy? Why not let the literal Alien goddess of Heulwen be her shining golden sunlight self? Let her be the one to worry about the evil magical crystals of glowing cursed Black Crystals of what is Photonate.


    You go to prompt me, to ask, as the reincarnation of a Claire Cloak from an alternate and far saner world. (If ignoring the fact, it became a Cyberpunk Dystopia with a collapsing environment, the sanity was fairly relative when considering its nature as a Cyberpunk Dystopia. For the universe located somewhere in what is The Alpha Sequence of The Multiverse. A world I¡¯d swear was a Shadow World of a darker world to a far brighter Tech Eutopia.)


    Why can¡¯t I just enjoy being a Magical and a Supernatural in an insane reality and not going out heroing? What''s stopping you just being a relatively ordinary Witch? (And, No, Rowling. No. Witch and Wizard aren¡¯t gendered, damn it! They are a concept both genders can be and are each their own type of magical!)


    Well ... The Abilities of The Powered (Yes, I could have used the word powers instead of abilities at the same time of calling Powered as Psis, but shush!) they¡¯re not magical. Magic can replicate and copy what are Natural Occurrences and technologies.


    People have enchanted little Compact Mirrors to be a top of the line Smartphone. What can be done non magically can be done far easier with magic, or even easier if it was possible with magic but now is possible without magic.


    Meaning ... The Superpowers of these people are replicable by magic.


    And, if you¡¯ll allow me to rip off Morpheus in The Matrix, to modify one of his quotes, ¡®I¡¯ve done it, Trinity.¡¯ I¡¯ve replicated The Abilities of a Powered. Well, I¡¯ve replicated what are the required Secondary Powers required for the whole scene to exist.


    Regardless of the fact I still have to work out how to replicate the Primary Powers without some numerological maths which scares me with the initial power I¡¯ve been able to check. Due to some fiddly bits. I¡¯ve done it by magic, there is the certainty of Magic being inviolable and can¡¯t be turned off like some Powered have the Ability to affect the Intrinsic Fields of other Powered.


    While I enjoy The Order of The Stick as a work of fiction as a bit of DnD/D&D, there is no turning off the magic and removing it. It¡¯s more powerful than every other Fundamental Force combined. Magic is The Fundamental Force and you can¡¯t just switch it off with a flick of a switch.


    You¡¯re wondering why I have to go and be a hero, not just for the reason of, ¡®because,¡¯ as my defence. Not just to sing a lyric from a good Miracle of Sound song, ¡®When the clouds are blotting out the sky, I swing upon on the silver lining,¡¯ as a reason? Well hush, dear. I¡¯ll get to it.


    However! Moving past said bit at the moment. You¡¯re wondering, what are the Powered Abilities every actual Powered has as part of their power set? There¡¯s an energy field around them, a bullet deflecting energy field, the weakest of those energy fields will have a shotgun blast splatter off it and do nothing.


    What is simply called a Bullet Shield, of a form of Energy Shield made to generally block bullets. When considering a Bullet Shield? You must exclude the fact you can run in and punch them in the face or stab them with a knife.


    Yes, I will note, The US of A is currently in a rather crazy state because of this. Without getting into the fact of hero politics on the matter of villains of No-Killing and Killing. Politics inspired by the two dominant cultural comic notions in the two main bits of western Super Power Fiction.


    In The UK what is the situation too is not going as it used to from before Powered appeared. Not consider The Scarlet Pimpernel Laws hidden away by some seers as part of The Magical Government working with The Natural Government long ago.


    The situation in various places around the whole world isn¡¯t exactly what it used to be. With lots of freak outs, various Natural Politicians doing and saying stuff to win the popularity contests of politics around the planet.


    The fact is, Powered are Immune to Bullets. And going up in power scales, it scales. I¡¯ve done numerological calculations about the most powerful, they¡¯d tank a full yield Tsar Bomba to keep going past the detonation of said nuke.


    Even if it¡¯s due to their Bullet Shield being built differently rather than the basic one of the average Powered. From how the Bullet Shield of an Intrinsic Field would act as a protective bubble at the detonation of a nuke.


    Plus? There are certain parts of the internet who are screaming about how inserting, ¡®more gun,¡¯ into anything now fails to work due to Bullet Shields as a work of fiction. At least if facing Powered on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 or such, and not in some other world or timeline. Or the crossovers between fiction and real life, whether or not Bullet Shields work or not.


    The Bullet Shields were and are obviously someone¡¯s cheat for the powers they¡¯re handing out for them to not get killed by guns. There is some kind of action going on by some kind of being or beings with Bullet Shields who require The Powered to not die to bullets. There is some form of plan happening or a plan trying to be made, and to not have the people turned into Powered don¡¯t end up riddled with bullets.


    Then there is the minor enhanced healing factor, of what will eventually heal you if it¡¯s still attached to you, for the basic damage of bruises and pushing yourself are healed. You are not going to end up a pile of wounds in three months, Batman. At least for the people who are Powered or have magically replicated their powers as one of the possible permanent empowerment rituals.


    They will still die if killed, or if someone cuts off an arm and you get medical attention, you¡¯ll be lacking an arm. Like usual for most people of Naturals, most Powered, and a lot of Supernaturals. The fact of the matter is, running around fighting the good fight will not stop a Powered from the accumulated little bits of damage of running around. And as they get more powerful, the enhanced healing factor goes up in power too.


    Combined with what is the said minor enhanced healing factor, there is a secondary power of said secondary power. Namely a Powered needs less sleep, a good deal of less sleep. So they can run around for most of the night, and after said night time power usage can catch a little sleep to be up and at ¡®em. To be raring to go for the rest of the day and next night.


    With said secondary power of a secondary power, or a tertiary power as we¡¯ll call it? It scales too with the Abilities of The Powered. There is also another tertiary power of a Powered, namely the minor enhanced healing factor will attune their physical to a reasonable level of fitness.


    Of what would be a generally fit person, with a six-pack and such, though if someone gets dysmorphia from this from their preferred body type? The power won¡¯t fix the mental problem of the dysmorphia of a person.


    Yes, I¡¯ll note, there are people whose powers are mostly just the secondary powers with a dash of a very basic Imbuement Ability like Enchantment for part of their Power Gift. Letting them make stab proof armour. Or for such a gift to maybe possibly be a bit stronger, maybe just having some precog reflexes, or such and such of another minor power.


    I can replicate such a feat with magic, and yes, I¡¯ve got a few other bits and bobs in my capabilities. To join my magical skills and learning. If you¡¯ll allow me to repeat myself, ¡®I¡¯ve done it, Trinity.¡¯ if I¡¯m allowed to use the quote again. Indeed, I have documented it and published it to the Journal called simply Magic. I¡¯ve written up how to do it, what people have to pay me to be able to do it.


    I have prepped for a week after publishing it, to have it be a new form of magic. For others to be using it as a permanent ritual empowerment ability. With how The Space Magic does its little bit of weirdness, I¡¯ve replicated it.


    And now?


    In Holdport, the city I call home and grew up in? It¡¯s opening night for Red Hen to go out, as I¡¯m going to call myself. I would ideally prefer myself to be more ready before going out, to have more tools and skills to arm myself with. I had so many plans I had wanted to do prior to taking to the stage as a fact


    Now there is the fact I have one person, or possibly two people to rescue. One person, or two different people who are both important. There''s my cousin, who has gone missing. And how there is a missing hero, of a local Powered who has been running around.


    Who they might be the same person, the Deception is being annoying. But someone in the higher realms, some of the Covenant of Spirits? They¡¯re bending the rules a bit on The Deception for covering Tara¡¯s and Jaggedy Annie¡¯s identity. At least the rules of what The New Deception is going to be, compared to what the Old Deception covered.


    To quote the matrix properly this time, to quote Cypher, ¡°Somebody up there still likes me,¡± and I''m certainly going to rescue this possibly one person, or possibly two different people. If it is two people instead of one? I¡¯m starting with my cousin first, to go as I mean to go on. Having done some scrying and divinations? With a little help from a friend or two of mine? I think I¡¯ve found her.


    There are just some vampires to possibly worry about in this situation ...


    And, for a quick retort?


    (Okay, I¡¯m lying about it being quick. You can probably tell by now how much monologuing is a problem for me, feel free to put the blame on my shoulders. It¡¯s my fault, and I¡¯m not going to blame my upbringing for this. My Dad is an example I¡¯d like to follow, and The Bitch Queen of Angmar who is Mother Dearest is a lesson in what not to do. I will own one of my many flaws as being the mess of flaws to make me up.)


    I do know this sounds crazy, of how unreal this sounds. How parts of you are wondering if a certain Claire Cloak hasn¡¯t reincarnated as Katie McCabe and is in a coma hallucinating the whole thing. The part where I quoted the Tub Ring song kinda implies how crazy I think this is.


    To steal a philosophy from my first life, one I think I may have read it in an Isekai story or somewhere. Something something common shit to pass the day of a life slowly sliding into oblivion and not getting anywhere. Probably like the author of said utter crap.


    The Author of it was a J.A.[Something], I think, some unmemorable and pretentious hack who is best forgotten. At least the one from my First Life, the version of them in this second life might have written R3 (Rare Robot Repairer) or they might not have.


    I can¡¯t honestly remember, because the (possible) version of them on a sane(r) earth was so forgettable. Other than how absolutely much of their fucking drivel was a piss poor example of language and an illogical farce of badly constructed buggered up English. I can recall how reading their works was just to fill a bit of time when one of the good bits of fiction I read wasn¡¯t updating.


    To quote possibly the only thing I¡¯ll remember from the tepid, room temperature, piece of crap what passed the time? To cite the quote I remember, ¡®Until the point this isn¡¯t proven to be real, this is real. And I shall assume this is real until proven otherwise,¡¯ as a bit of philosophy I remember. Or what was compressed into one more succinct sentence if I remember correctly, ¡®This is real until proven otherwise.¡¯


    If such philosophy counts for being in a computer simulation, it also does count for a possible coma dream. It is a philosophy when being in a comic book like reality is happening and there are possible solutions of it not being real.


    The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.


    If it¡¯s about the nature of reality, every moment up to this point has been proven to be real to me. The insane parts of its different metaphysics and physics have been repeatedly validated, and no thread has appeared to pull to prove it unreal. To disprove this being reality.


    So far, Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 has not been shown to be a computer reality made to entertain some bored AI Godlings in the Machine. Or so on, or so forth. Till it is, I shall and will accept this as my current life. It is my current world, how this and everyone else in it is real.


    Instead of me being real in a VR Sim and being in a world populated by Large Language Model Chat Bots. Thus, I hold to those two sentences of philosophy and will keep to them till future evidence finds it my way.


    In conclusion, to quote the Twelfth Doctor, ¡°I''m definitely having his chair,¡± about this ... Okay, scratch my attempt to be witty. In conclusion, I had some vampires to hunt, and either one person who was my cousin to save. Or two people to rescue, my cousin first and a hero of my local city who would be second.


    I¡¯m not accepting losing someone else, I refuse. And If I have to choose between saving the current hero of this city and my cousin, if they are two different people and not the same person, I¡¯ll save my cousin.


    It did mean there were some vampires to slay either way, and I¡¯ve lost too many people to vampires already to allow this. There is a time and place for this, and it was there and then. So, out of my little monologue of what you¡¯re probably bored of.


    To quote The Eleventh instead of the Twelfth, ¡°To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show.¡±


    <hr>


    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [Holdport]


    [3rd Person]


    The vampire nest was in the docks of the City of Holdport, on what on a different Earth to the alt-Earth of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 would be the Town of Minehead. An altered history with how magic had altered the geology in the past, Holdport Bay extended out in a curve like a larger version of Weston-super-Mare¡¯s bay. Or on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 was called Weston-juxta-Mare.


    Within the middle of Holdport Bay the island of Sheep Holm was right in the centre of the bay, with The Pier leading out to it being in the middle of where the docks were. Where the docks filled the bay¡¯s coast all along Holdport bay in a Horseshoe, Sheep Holm was without docks and its sandy shores allowed people to go to the beach.


    Or holiday on the island in the little settlement of Shepherd Village, on the island which was still secretly bigger on the inside. What most of The Naturals didn¡¯t know about ... the whole spatial expansion of what was the island.


    The vampire nest was located in the middle of the docks, near where the pier went out to the island. The old warehouse of what was now a vampire nest, had been bought by a shell company by one of the older vamps. Of what was an offsite location for their main base.


    As to quote the Evil Overlord List on what the vampires were doing: I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum ¡ª a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well. Of what the vampires were doing to the Hero they had captured. And had considered it as a fact.


    The five year old Uncommon Hollywood Vampire advisor at The Blood Reavers main HQ, forever stuck as a vampire as one of the rare young vampires who don¡¯t grow up? They had agreed with it, like the fact The Blood Reavers did try to follow the Evil Overlord List whenever possible.


    The group of vampires, as part of the larger group of various vampires? They were the absolutely weak mozzies of The Common Hollies, of The Common Hollywood Vampire, of what was the cultural idea to come out of the notion of Orlok and such.


    Of how the oldest of The Common Hollies were not and are not older than World War II, if you consider the fact vampires who have gone to alternate worlds where time moves faster? Has allowed Hollies of hundreds of years old to exist even with no Common Holly being older than the said Second World War.


    Outside the warehouse the vampires ran their operations out of, there was a vampire on patrol to guard the outside of the warehouse. He was clad in simple blue jeans, blue shirt, and such, the revolver on his belt was ready.


    Due to the fact The Natural part of The UK Government had caved when The Supernatural pretended to be Powered to allow people guns back. Regardless of the fact for actual Powered, guns were literally useless and were causing parts of The World to freak the fuck out about people being immune to bullets.


    For all the Supernaturals who acted like magic wasn¡¯t magic publicly as part of the new era? Of how magic was still made out to be nonsense on social media by The Pantheons of Old doing their work as the actual Deceivers? This was a new era, one where The Gods had said they were going to bring down The Deception due to what was going on. What was not right there and then, when the Heavens and Lower Realms were both still somewhat maintaining the traditional Deception.


    The time had not come yet. But when it finally did? When the Deception would be instead to hide secret identities and not the Supernatural? People would still want the ability to kneecap a vampire and proceed to leg it when said crippled vampire couldn¡¯t follow them. Being mostly unkillable by bullets for most vampires, didn¡¯t make bullets useless against vampires.


    Far from it, Buffster.


    The Common Western Hollywood Vampire to use its full name, or just a Holly for short ... if not for the fact said shortening meant you could confuse a Common Western Hollywood Werewolf for one. (Thus there is the insult for said vampires of calling them Peasant Vampires to fix the confsion.) The mentioned vampire however diligently kept up his patrol as he was ordered by his superiors, as a classic example of a loyal minion without much personal initiative.


    The woman in red on the roof of the warehouse was not armed with a gun, at least she wasn¡¯t actively carrying one on her person in the visible. She rested there, the combination of the permanent ritual empowerments of Cat¡¯s Grace and Squirrel Agility with The Knight Practitioner Martial Art style let her do so.


    She was unnoticed not because most people don¡¯t look up. No, it was down to her pair of Rings of Gyges, one on each index finger, the rings giving her an Awareness Shroud instead of just Invisibility. She just didn¡¯t need to go invisible, if the ability was a nice one to have in reserve.


    Off in the distance there was the sound of the hum of a flying self-driving Quadcopter Car with a high energy Sodium-Ion Battery powering it. The sounds of self-driving ground cars, powered by more Sodium-Ion Batteries, in the distance as an extra later of background noise.


    With those sounds in the background on both the top of the warehouse where the woman was, and down where the vampire was? She dropped down with the silence and grace of a cat behind the vampire, a wooden stake of Rowan Wood for other types of vampires. Instead of a Common Holly you can kill with an ordinary wooden toothpick or wooden cocktail stick.


    The stake went through the back of the vampire, as part of the weaknesses of a Common Holly? The rib cage was supernaturally weak to wood. So it didn¡¯t need her super strength to punch through the ribcage like it would with a more dangerous type of vampire. The vampire went and collapsed into bones, dust, and clothes. A sad little pile and remains of the vamp had said revolver he had carried on it.


    The enchanted revolver created metal out of The Elemental Realm of Metal as raw lead and Transformed it with a bit of Elemental Energy Magic to be an ordinary bullet. The flick of her basic magicks, of those things made the pistol go into her Pocket Space. Into what was the Extra Dimensional Space anchored to herself via a magic ritual, a magic ritual she had used to make what was her Pocket Space.


    But the magical six cylinder revolver had its enchantments on each cylinder to create a bullet every second. Of what were Creation Magicks to create the materials it used. So, the Webley Mk. VI top-break revolver would have another bullet every sixth of a second, it could theoretically fire three hundred and sixty bullets a minute.


    The vampiric guard had thus now been removed. As had the other guard on the other side of the warehouse, of what had been another very basic Holly of a Vampire. A skip had been moved against the door on the other side of the warehouse with the help of the Awareness Shroud to block off the other exit. There was now the door for Red Hen to stride through on this side of the warehouse.


    With a flick of a thought, the Awareness Shroud on her was tuned down. Namely, to help disguise her identity when acting as a hero. It added to what The Deception would do as well. She had her red helmet over what was a white face mask to be extra sure, with the rest of her garb helped by the magicks of The Deception.


    And to help maintain her secret identity there was the rest of her uniform, of her Suit as a Hero to be one of The Suits. Of what were her red Mushroom Leather Trousers, red Mushroom Leather Belt with a Silvery Metal Belt Buckle (of a particular magical metal), red shirt, red Mushroom Leather Jacket, and red Mushroom Leather Boots.


    The four foot ten (147.32 cm) tall woman therefore looked to the door she was facing, then pocketed her stake back into her Pocket Space. She strode over to the locked door. Of what was a locked thick metal door, she rolled her shoulders, grinned under the enchanted red faceplate of her helmet. And she sent it flying off its hinges with one simple kick to have the door go flying into the warehouse.


    Vampires looked up from being on guard by the door of the large open warehouse. Eyes went red, while canines lengthened into fangs when they Vamped Out. Webley Revolvers were raised, with the superhuman speed possessed by most vampires including Hollies. The revolvers barked out in a hail of bullets as they fired with their inhuman abilities.


    Bullets came at Katie McCabe, for them to only slow as they came at her, rippling into the field generated by her. Of what was her magically generated Intrinsic Field of a bullet shield. The bullets stopped in mid air and pinged down to the floor in little tings of metal. There was a pause as the Vampires stopped shooting at her, one where she didn¡¯t start playing Gregorian Chanting as a holy weapon as she didn¡¯t need it for this.


    There was a vampire in the middle of the warehouse. From when he was beside a pale, bound, and gagged woman who he¡¯d just been drinking from the vein of her already healed neck. He swore, ¡°Ah, Fuck! A Powered!¡± and he roared out, ¡°Get her!¡± as he ran to the other door of the warehouse, one on the other side was blocked by the skip.


    Vampires ran into bursts of speed, as the small woman who had come to rescue the other woman moved with sublime skill. Cat¡¯s Grace, with Squirrel Ability, Sophilius Cobra Precog Reflexes, and the Magical Martial Art to draw on her Vi (Elan Vital or Vitality) allowed her to move to fight them. The Knight Practitioner of a Western Magical Martial Artist dodged vampiric super strength punches and kicks, ones enhanced by knuckle dusters and steel toecaps.


    She returned those attacks with her own punches and kicks, while she reached out with what were basic simple magicks. Of what was Pyrophagy, to rip the heat out of air and vampires in the warehouse, the dropping of the temperature on the other door and the closed loading docks. At the same time, she used Forsphagy to drain the luck out of the enemy, keeping the good luck for herself and channel the bad luck into the rest of them.


    The same Pyrophagy allowed her to take the simple candle lighting spell anyone and everyone could learn with a bit of basic time and effort. With the unneeded gesture a part of what was the unnecessary incantation of Ignis.


    Technically speaking Pyrophagy could have the heat manipulation be split into its own separate discipline of Thermophagy, and the same for Kapnosphagy of Smoke Magic. However Pyrophagy, Thermophagy, and Kapnosphagy are their own bit of fire magic grouped together to be taught as a combined power. A type of magic collectively called Pyrophagy, and for practitioners of it to be Pyrophages.


    The magic she was using of Pyrophagy fed into the general purpose fire spell used as the candle spell and beams of fire lanced out into vampires. Mozzies, as the Common Hollies or peasant vampires were also known as generally like other vamps, burst into human torches of screaming fire. To leave piles of smoking bones and clothes in a pile with heated up other items.


    With the Pyrophagy of her abilities feeding off the heat and fire left by the slain vampires, she took said heat back and stopped the warehouse bursting into flame. She wasn¡¯t bloody Coventry, to reference a certain local accidental pyromaniac.


    While behind her?


    The door of the warehouse and the upper windows went dark as she leached the light away. What was Luxphagy, the magic of eating and drawing upon light? It fed into her magicks and power, strengthening the Vi of her Vitality, of what she turned Luxphagy into Vitaphagy of Elan Vital.


    As she did the basic bit of magical channelling of one of the classical bits of modern witchcraft, she also converted light into luck as a mystical energy. Of what the Luxphagy was being used for Forsphagy.


    The Witch who was also a Chancer of a Chance Adept, a practitioner of Luck Magic of not just Forsphagy. She kept the well of luck she maintained ready to draw on it instinctively if needed. The vampires of the lower warehouse were joined by ones on the first floor of the upper gantry of the vampires. Who dropped down from above to fight or otherwise just ran down the stairs.


    For them to join the scything death of what were vampires dying again. To banish the Blood Spirits of said vampires using the screaming human souls of the former occupants as Eternal, Immortal, and Indestructible power sources.


    To what she thought was sending the souls of those vampire blood spirits to one of the darker afterlives while giving the human souls a chance to escape their fate worse than death. Of what added to the blood magic of the general magicks in the warehouse, magic fueled by blood and death of the living as most general vampirism did. While slaying such monsters will do the same.


    Before you get into the fact of most Blood Spirits of vampires being engineered to be evil? The magic to support most vampires is of The Dark Arts. Of blood and death, not of pencil shading and charcoal sketching. The average vampire feeding on people is a shoot on sight offence and absolutely not to be remotely tolerated.


    However, the other vampires who had filled the room were now dead again. The vampire who had tried to run, the still simple Common Holly of this group looked at her. And he had stopped trying to run.


    And was back at the woman he''d captured, with her dark hair, blue eyes, red lips, paler than usual skin, and such? She looked very much like a version of Snow White. As she did normally when she had not been fed upon by vampires and was now paler.


    He had her by the neck and shouted to the other woman, ¡°Don''t try anything! Or I''ll kill her!¡±


    There was a pause, Red Hen looked at the vampire. And then ...


    <hr>


    [Pronunciation]


    Sophilius - So¡¯Phil¡¯E¡¯Us


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [Three of the Seven Empowerment Rituals]


    [Three of The Classical European Six Rituals]


    [A little on The History of Empowerment Rituals]


    The Classical Six Western European Empowerments are the standard six used by most ritualists in Western Europe. As the standard and general traditions of said ritualists who aren¡¯t Hedge-Witches, or of a different tradition from somewhere else in the world.


    Of the three mentioned Empowerment Rituals, there are:


    Cat¡¯s Grace


    Squirrel Agility


    Sophilius Cobra Precog Reflexes


    The three together are called The Budget Spiderman package by some, a nickname meme¡¯d about on bits of the Supernatural Parts of the Internet. Said permanent, irrevocable, magical empowerments? They allow someone to move and react like said comic character with how they dance around. Especially with the Precog Reflexes of the third empowerment. Of what is a basic package to allow the average Witch or such to move and be able to run far easier.


    Of Magical Enhancement, or Magical Transhumanism, but not Magical Post-Humanism. A part of most magical traditions of the magicks of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 for most supernaturals, even if these are just three of the six standard Western European Rituals.


    Of what is the current maximum Seven Empowerment Rituals in modern magic under numerology. And not the magicks of pre-nineteenth century magic, of what in the eighteenth century and before had just been three possible Empowerment Rituals. Or the magicks prior to the fourteenth century there hadn¡¯t been Permanent Empowerment Rituals in human magic.


    Of how these three rituals had not been the Classical Three Western Empowerment Rituals. Those had been different during the time between the start of The Fourteenth Century and the end of The Eighteenth Century. At least in The Western World.


    Before what was The Fourteenth Century, of what hadn¡¯t been considered a permanent Empowerment Ritual, were the permanent rituals to become some kind of Werewolf. Or some other kind of supernatural other than just lycanthropy, or more than just therianthropy. Of a different type of supernatural.


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [On Forsphagy as a Forsphage]


    [The tactical use of Luck Magic]


    [The Devil¡¯s Luck] [Tyche¡¯s Grace]


    [Interstellar Wizard] [Earthbound]


    The First Principle of Luck Magic, and probably the most important principle of Luck Magic is it runs out. A principle The Natural World knows with the notion embodied in the phrase of, ¡®your luck is going to run out one of these days,¡¯ or such and such.


    If you were to make and build a magical generator to generate a constant supply of magic, then convert it to Luck Magic? The First Principle of Luck Magic is a logical assumption for sane luck adepts of who call themselves Chancers.


    And yes, the informal and disapproving meaning of, ¡®someone who takes chances and often does improper things to get an advantage over other people,¡¯ of what Chancer means in Natural British English is the meaning too in Supernatural British English. As the usage of Luck Magic by Chancers isn¡¯t exactly usually sugar, spice, everything nice, buttercups, and daisies.


    On what is the tactical use of Luck Magic, taking away the enemies good luck, leaving their bad luck is understandable. Under the First Principle you don¡¯t go into blatant bad luck of them rolling a Minus Natural Twenty and you rolling a Natural Twenty for it. Such blatant usage of Luck Magic is not only obvious, but it burns Luck like there is no tomorrow.


    A Chancer who does so will quickly run out of Luck. Both good luck for themselves and bad luck for their enemy. It is also why for the average combatant you don¡¯t see them just using Luck Magic alone. You may run into a civilian Chancer who is mostly specced to win at the horses, you won¡¯t find a Chancer running around with just luck for everything else.


    Unless it¡¯s The Curse of The Devil¡¯s Luck of The Coven Family by The Raven. Of it draining luck from every non Coven around them to make horrible luck for them, and for good luck of something of a monkey¡¯s paw for the Coven it¡¯s working for. Or if it¡¯s the opposite of The Devil¡¯s Luck like Tyche¡¯s Grace and literal divine granted good luck for the person blessed by what is The Grace of Tyche.


    To take said reference to tabletop gaming of DnD/D&D again? The Devil¡¯s Luck gives everyone else around said Chancer a minimum of minus twenty on all dice rolls around them. While giving the Chancer of a Coven minimum of a plus twenty on all dice rolls, the DM of a GC (Dungeon Master of a Game Coordinator) is told to deliberately screw you over.


    On anything and everything to happen eventually, as part of why people should not want to be around a Coven. And it¡¯s without getting into the fact of how if a Coven embraces The Devil¡¯s Luck, they fall to The Dark Side to serve The Demon god who made the curse?


    The reason why in Interstellar Wizard games with The Devil¡¯s Luck, even The Earthbound Versions made to properly simulate the magical situation on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1? The game doesn¡¯t allow for someone to play someone with The Devil¡¯s Luck and a GMPC as TV Tropes would put is strongly discouraged. (Or how Trope Treasury on what is Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 would call it a GCPC.) How The Devil¡¯s Luck is intended for NPCs and not for ruining a game.


    The fact is, for someone who has embraced the curse, the Servant of The Raven who is a part of The Infernal Hellfire Corporation of The Hearth, The Raven, and The Wasp? They¡¯re a vile evil, who brings woe to all around. Interstellar Wizard has whole campaign modules for having an evil Coven of a Chancer of The Devil¡¯s Luck as a foe.


    Such an Evil Coven, in both Interstellar Wizard and out of it, will spec for more than The Devil¡¯s Luck for the majority of them. Using the twisted and foul luck to help them become better and more skilled at other magicks, even before getting into the fact The Coven Family are a Family of Mages. If they are Practising Mages and not avoiding magic and The Curse of The Devil¡¯s Luck what comes with practising magic.


    While Tyche¡¯s Grace would give someone a minimum plus twenty four on all rolls for you and your party, while giving a minimum of minus twenty on all dice rolls for your enemy. So it¡¯s allowed in Interstellar Wizard games and The Earthbound Versions, if played wrongly can cause the disintegration of a gaming group.


    These two versions of a Chancer, along with the simulations of them, are basically the only Chancers who could dedicate themselves solely to using luck. And for the Coven Family who is cursed with The Devil¡¯s Luck are Mages who when using magic have The Devil¡¯s Luck come to the fore? Then a Coven isn¡¯t going to just rely on The Devil¡¯s Luck when they¡¯ve gotten into this to be able to cast magic.


    Someone who has Tyche¡¯s Grace? Of a blessed, a champion, descendent, or demigod of Tyche. Having said Grace they could fight with luck alone. They would and will generally branch out to other magicks. Like the traditional Chancer Combatant.


    How Katie McCabe of Red Hen doesn¡¯t rely on luck to fight, just generally affecting her enemies and building her good luck for when she would need it. In the terms of the type of Witch she has specced to, in tabletop terms of DnD/D&D she would be reducing the enemies chance by a level of one.


    So an enemy Natural Twenty Four of Interstellar Wizard would go to twenty three for example, a general and controlled version of her luck. At the same time keeping her own good luck ready to be used, to be her own dice modifier, she saves it for the moment she needs it. Thus it builds up to something more as she fights like a Witch without being just someone being a Chancer and using only luck.


    In Interstellar Wizard, with its standard four dice of a six sided die? With how Interstellar Wizard is designed to be able to have the whole game just run on one six sided dice, just rolled a lot? Going from 24 to 4 without a negative dice modifier? She¡¯d be ready to add 24 to her dice pool on a roll if needed.


    And her use of the enemies bad luck wouldn¡¯t be a dice modifier of removing one dice so they only have three dice to go from 3 to 18. For a Chancer it would be expressed as four dice with a reduction of one from the roll to be between 3 to 23. And it didn¡¯t remotely approach the dice modifier of only two dice, one dice, or zero dice. Of how Chancer Magic of Luck Magic could be used to remove someone¡¯s Dice Pool down to Zero Dice or worse.


    About what is Interstellar Wizard, and yes in what is its Earthbound version too, would be able to go from four dice and three dice. To two dice between 2 to 12, or one die between 1 to 6, or the mentioned zero dice of 0. And a Chancer going all out could make it so the enemy would make a negative dice roll to have a die roll to subtract from what they¡¯re doing.


    To go between -1 to -6 with one Dice, -2 to -12 with two negative dice, -3 to -18 with three negative dice, or -4 to -24 with four negative dice. Those kinds of translations of real life into The Game (the one you just lost), with possibly more than four positive dice and four negative dice with higher levels of various people.


    A Chancer though, even for someone who has Tyche¡¯s Grace, will generally branch out. The various disciplines of witchcraft being able to be learnt by them, the skills and abilities anyone and everyone can learn as a human if they put the effort in. Rather than being born with some form of magic like a Mage, or Sorcerous, or a Wizard, to just list three examples of specific power someone can have.


    Frankly if you were to build and construct enough good luck charms to be covered in them as a Chancer? If you just rely on The Arts of Chance and Fortune, of the disciplines of Luck Magic? If you are just a Chancer?


    You will fail and fall when your luck runs out. As luck will do eventually, like luck normally does. Having other techniques, skills, and abilities is the path to staying alive. Or staying whole and not suffering what is a Fate Worse Than Death.


    So, the classical Forsphage of a practitioner of The Devouring Arts will draw and practise other magicks of those arts. And it is why, as a Forsphage, how Katie McCabe does not fight solely as a Chancer. But the magicks she learnt to survive being around a Coven and The Devil¡¯s Luck are one arrow in her quiver.

 Part 2 — Heart to Heart

    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [Holdport]


    [3rd Person]


    Red Hen looked at the vampire and answered him with the simple words of, ¡°You¡¯re not holding a random woman in your grasp. You¡¯re holding a certain Powered, you know the Powered with a replication of an Absolute Healing Factor and the ability to create Bone Constructs.¡±


    He paused, as he tried to say, ¡°You mean¡ª¡± and tried again to say, ¡®Tara Evans,¡¯ and then failed to say, ¡®Jaggedy Annie,¡¯ but the fact was, the names couldn¡¯t and wouldn¡¯t leave his lips.


    Katie McCabe, and as you¡¯ve probably realised. Yes, it is actually the cousin of said woman, the fact of the matter Tara Evans and Jaggedy Annie were not two separate people. As was an unlikely possibility, of what hasn¡¯t happened.


    The said hero of Red Hen answered, ¡°Yes, I know who she is. It¡¯s kind of been hard to not hear the news of her civilian ID going missing last night. She was obviously on her patrol last night. Also, have you forgotten The Deception exists as a magical and active concept? The Gods of The Pantheons will not intervene? Hells, you do know The Monotheistic Deity has one of his Angels running around London calling themselves Ishim? Or the Fallen Angel of Angelic in Bristol?¡±


    And Ishim looks like a person, of how the rank and file angels look human, he is but one of just the lowest of the low of the Angelic Choirs. Of a Guardian Angel assigned to just general duties and not looking after a specific person. And for the record?


    Can I note: I define myself as a non-practising witch and when I originally wrote this I defined myself as agnostic. Although I am Culturally Christian and think in those terms for various bits, before anyone gets their nose out of joint about the mention of an angel.


    Anyway, Ishim at least does so when running around in human form and not a form of fire and light which hurts to look at. Not just because of the intensity of the fire and light, no, it was of things humanity was not meant to know of the glowing white being of Heavenly Starfire.


    While the Fallen Angel of Angelic who is fighting for redemption has the winged humanoid of white feathers, white hair, blue eyes, and a radiant glow of white light? Is not an Angel and so can appear in such a manner.


    Rather than the winged angels of Cherubim and Seraphim who are not winged like in pop culture. The more Eldritch Angels on the scale of Ominous English Chanting of The Song of Never Wake from the Doctor Who NuWho Series Seven episode of The Rings of Akhaten. You don¡¯t want an angel to have to turn up and go, ¡®Be Not Afraid!¡¯ everyone screams and you have said Angel emphasis, ¡®I said, BE! NOT! AFRAID!¡¯ to all the panicking people.


    Because Pop Culture is wrong. Again. Gods damn it, Pop Culture. Can¡¯t you get anything right?


    There was a pause, a small one, and the hero of Red Hen added, ¡°And if we go more eldritch than an Ishim or such? It''s without getting into certain beings and monstrosities of the abominations of The Bloody Angles running around from their Realms of Horror upon The Earthly Planes. Or the Hounds of Tindalos and their flexible shapeshifting forms. Back to the matters of The Deception? You¡¯re not going to be able to say a hero¡¯s name when they¡¯re in civilian ID. It¡¯s why you haven¡¯t been able to upload to the internet about the woman there being Jaggedy Annie.¡±


    There was a shake of the head, the Vampire sighed. With his super strength he twisted the Powered head like someone turning a bottle lid, with her snapped neck he brought it to his mouth. He bit into her neck to suck the blood out of her, he drained her as dry as he could and he threw her body across the warehouse to go down in a series of cracks of broken bones. There was a momentary pause, as those bones started to uncrack.


    The vampire roared as he charged at Red Hen, his speed increasing so he blurred into motion. Only for the hero facing him to crash right back into him with a surge of Elan Vital (or Vitality) boosted her superspeed of The Vi when it flowed through her.


    The human went and caught his arm and with a tug snapped it out of his joint. In the continuing motion to throw her over his body into the darkness of her using Luxphagy on the light. The light she drained with her witchcraft flashed right back at him, to turn it into a flash of weaponised sunlight.


    He came out of it smoking and a little on fire, like Vader in the Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined video on YouTube, with the fire from it fading away as it happened. There was a flick of magic to take heat and steal it from him with a bit of practised Pyrophagy, the heat became a beam of fire to blaze into him. The fire danced over his form.


    With a simple enchantment from his belt flew a metal hilt, it snapped out into a metal sword blade of glowing blood red metal. It came at her, only for a similar bit of minor telekinesis to pull from her own belt a hilt of gleaming silver. For said hilt to make a glowing blue shield of energy come out of it. A sword and blade made out of a magical shielding spell.


    Of how she used the sword form of Quirili (Quill¡¯ill¡¯E), a combination of the sword forms of Karljollen (Karl¡¯Joll¡¯En, also known as Kale) and Nakala (Na¡¯Ka¡¯La). Of the magical sword form of Karljollen designed to parry and block other melee weapons, designed for fencing like movements of The Elegant Sword Art.


    Nakala is to defend and block attacks with either passive Nakala to deflect, and active Nakala to reflect back at the enemy. While Quirili combines them into The Elegant Defencive Form, a magical sword form for just swords. And combined into The Ascending Hen Martial Art form used by Katie.


    The metal blade of darkened black metal crashed into what was the glowing blue shield of said sword in return. Of the magical metal of the glowing sword and the hilt of the glowing sword of energy. Sparks flew as the swords crashed into each other.


    The Vampire used the Sword Form of Karnet, the basic and simple foundational sword form of magical sword forms. It had grown out of the arts of sword fighting added to magic and magical swords. Simple, and to the point. (And, yes, the pun is intentional.) How, it¡¯ll be Katie using Quirili from this point on, and unless I specify a different sword form how the vampires will be using Karnet.


    However in the clash of metal and magical energies turned into an energy shield blade. The Vampire spat out, ¡°A nice Shield Sword, I will enjoy it when I take it from your corpse, human.¡±


    Said human retorted calmly, ¡°A simple and very much basic Blood Blade. Let me see, it¡¯s made of Exo-Steel isn¡¯t it,¡± fifty times stronger than high grade steel and ten times more magical than gold. Made magically by cancelling out the gravity when forging it out of iron.


    He responded, ¡°And your Shield Sword, I can feel the metal it¡¯s made out of. The Hilt is made of Argyros,¡± magical metal made out of silver, by turning silver into a magical metal via an alchemic process. A modified version of making Aurumanite out of gold, and what in turn had been an attempt to make Adamantios out of gold.


    Yes, Argyros is weaker than Aurumanite. But you need to consider the magical metal? It not only has the mystical properties of Silver, it also has the properties of Cold Iron, Rowan Wood, and being Sacred/Holy. It has the other properties of being a hundred times stronger than high grade steel and twenty times more magical than gold. (Rather than the two hundred and fifty times stronger than high grade steel and fifty times more magical of Aurumanite.)


    ¡°Well, a Holly would sense it,¡± the human replied, there was a glare from the vampire. For the type of vamp he was, it was the silver properties and being Sacred/Holy, rather than the Cold Iron. The Cold Iron is not only for The Fair Folk. What is for specific types of eastern European Vampires, Book Dracula Vampires of Uncommon Dracula Vampires, Common Dracula Vampires, and for the other vamps like them.


    While the Rowan Wood is for specific greater types of vampire, rather than the Peasant Vampire of The Hollies and other vampires who can be slain with a wooden cocktail stick. It did give and make the metal and blade have the property to stake a vampire, not considering the other parts of the metal.


    Over the clashing of blades the vampire spat out, ¡°I am a Vampire! A Blood Baron type Vampire! Not a Holly!¡±


    There was a parry and a twirl, for Red Hen to note, ¡°You¡¯re a Holly with a pair of modified Rings of Gyges to protect you against Sunlight and Fire and Sacred Energies to a degree. If at least you don¡¯t have a Katana Kitchen Knife as I¡¯ve seen some Vampires use,¡± and she emphasised. ¡°Magic rings which are not able to protect you against Forsphagy,¡± there was a flash of light as the Luxphagy was used to make a flash bang like effect. The enhanced vampiric eyes made it much worse for the vampire.


    Followed by the Chancer of a Witch ripping out the good luck of her enemy, for her to simultaneously energise his bad luck. While ripping heat and light out of the surroundings of Pyrophagy and Luxphagy, to convert it into bad luck to pour into him. And to reach for the well of good luck within herself.


    The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    For an Aura of feathers to dance around her as she fought him, of her form taking on the shimmering construct of a Hen. Of what was The Ascending Hen martial art. The Knight Practitioner Form made her Shield Sword glow an even brighter blue as she fully channelled the Vi of The Elan Vital of Vitality properly into it. Of what was said glow of blue of the Shield Sword instead of the other options for its glow.


    Red Hen held her sword in her right hand she gestured with her left hand, for her to make a kinetic pull of her Vi to throw the vampire backwards. To send him in the direction of where he had charged at her.


    Added to by a little flick of Motusphagy drained away his kinetic energy, the motion he used to try to kill her. To try and immobilise him as she charged right back at him. Only for a burst of blood magic let him move again and bring his blood blade to counter the Knight Practitioner.


    Their blades twirled into position to fight, and the skirmish continued.


    <hr>


    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [Holdport] [Somerset] [UK]


    [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    The Vampire came at me, as Tara recovered enough to manifest bone armour around herself. Along with the Quarterstaff-like Bone she created and fought with to help fight The Vamp, she twirled into position with the bone staff she had created.


    The bone construct in her hands hummed when she danced and twirled into the battle against the vampire, for her to join me fighting the Vamp. The bone-staff had his sword cut the staff in half and he kicked her backwards from the chest, only for her to twirl through the air to land on her feet.


    He glanced at me as we continued to fight, for him to try to sow chaos and discord, when he commented, ¡°I see you use the Demonic Arts.¡±


    I laughed and objected before Tara as Jaggedy Annie could freak out, ¡°You mean the magicks reverse engineered from The Demonic Arts hundreds of years ago, of what The Devouring Arts are no longer of The Dark Arts. And, no, using Luxphagy for power is only literally about light and darkness. It is not actual Evil Magicks,¡± as an aside to my cousin who didn¡¯t know who I was underneath my helmet as I fought the vampire.


    With my shield sword a twirl, I kept going, ¡°There was a man who convinced a Sangfradar Demon to choose the path of redemption during The Second Demon Wars in the fourteenth century. They fell in love and had Cambion kids when she assumed human form. Those children then with their mother helped take said demonic arts and teach others, like their father, on how to use them.¡±


    I kept fighting the vampire, as I explained to my cousin, ¡°The techniques I¡¯m using of Pyrophagy and Luxphagy come from them, while Forsphagy and Motusphagy were inspired by them. And the manipulation of The Elan Vital or Vi? It¡¯s based on the Qi Arts of the East, aka Chi Arts, Ki Arts, or such. What came down the Silk Road in the time of The Romans, like how Western Magicks went in reverse too. The art of The Knightly Practitioner, of the Practise of the Vi of Vitality used to be called Valour or Val. The Devouring Arts are not remotely demonic anymore and the Vitality Arts normally aren¡¯t if you¡¯re doing standard Practice.¡±


    I looked and focused on the Blood Spirit of the vampire, to leap backwards as I focused, and there was a crack of bone as I telekinetically crushed his knee caps. Of taking heat and light via Pyrophagy and Luxphagy to turn into kinetic power. He fell forward as I pulled him forward with another flick of kinetic power of a basically enhanced telekinetic pull.


    He let out a pained screech as he landed on his knees, from the basic telekinetic spell anyone could learn. Of what could pull a TV remote over to your hand, just the stuff which doesn¡¯t need attuning to The Elemental Realm of Psychic of the Ten Elements for a few years up a mountain. No, instead? It was the human power of Telekinesis of what would be Ghostly Telekinesis if you were dead, while the basics of The Elemental Realms for it would be nice.


    I leapt forward again and unhanded him by cutting them off at the wrists. His hands collapsed into bones and dust while leaving the pair of rings of what were each one a modified Rings of Gyges in what was his sad little piles. A little flick of my power sent him flying backwards into the wall. Not easy stuff to do, however I could do it.


    I collapsed my Shield Sword to put back on my belt, and I pulled him forward. My fists and hands lashed out as I broke shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, and ankles. I grabbed him by the neck and held him in one hand dangling. He was a pained little puppet with its strings cut.


    And I told him, ¡°Now, pip-pip!¡± he glared at me, ¡°You know how this¡¯ll play out. If you lie, I will psychically know. I am quite able to divine the truth from lies and lies from truth,¡± combined with what was my very basic psychic development of my potential to be able to get feelings on people, impressions, notions. What everyone could do if they trained it, of the gut instincts.


    I didn¡¯t stop talking though, ¡°This can end in a flash, or this can end in a slow and drawn out event. Please choose how you want to leave the universe, and the option shall be provided,¡± for me to rip off the part of NuWho with McGann¡¯s excellent acting, ¡°help us provide the practitioner appropriate to your individual needs. So, tell me, Vampire. Why are you here and doing this?¡±


    And yes, torture is Evil and also Pointless but threatening it and not actually doing it to monsters doesn¡¯t go out of style, they don¡¯t need to know it¡¯s an empty threat. And it works as something I¡¯m willing to do rather than torture, regardless of the fact I can determine truth from lies via my psychic senses. So technically speaking torture wouldn¡¯t be Pointless for me to do, it would still be Evil. The fact is, Vamps are going to Vamp and project what they would do on other people.


    The vampire glared at me with his red glowing eyes, the eyes of his should have been blue if he wasn¡¯t a vampire, framed by blond hair, and with simple clothes on. He made his choice when he spat out, ¡°The other Blood Reavers will avenge me when they release Lord Calpurnius Blood from his prison. All of this pestilent little city will fall into The Pit, and you will join me there.¡±


    I gave him a bob of the head, to state, ¡°Thank you, you¡¯ve been most kind,¡± my Shield Sword ignited back into a glowing blue energy blade of a weaponised forcefield of a shield spell with a hissing-snap and I decapitated him in one smooth motion.


    After I¡¯d done so my sword¡¯s blade collapsed back into its hilt, and I considered whether I was going to make the blade white or green the next time I used it. Silver Spur, as I called one of my two Shield Swords, of what the pair of swords were collectively The Silver Spurs, collapsed back into its hilt and went back onto my belt.


    With a wave of my hand all the dead vampire''s bones and their stuff went into Pocket Space, I sorted all the items in said spatial pocket as I took out Tara¡¯s Smartphone and wallet. It was joined by a Blood Regen potion regardless of her enhanced healing factor, due to its nature as a non magical Intrinsic Field Healing Factor.


    She still had her Smartwatch on her wrist so it didn¡¯t need to be put back on. I reached out with my psychic senses, to divine just a yes or no question, to focus on, ¡®Is this Tara?¡¯ I had the answer and feeling of yes. Well, the general psychic feeling I associated with yes.


    I took the yes for what it was when I walked over to her, she stilled at my approach. I passed her the Smartphone and Wallet, to tell her, ¡°You¡¯ve been missing since last night, your family has been going a bit nuts over it. Please call someone to say you crashed on a friend''s sofa, and just got your phone charged after you woke up. Or for you to come up with a plausible excuse similar to what I suggested.¡±


    She took the phone, and wallet. There was a pause, for her to point out, ¡°It¡¯s out of charge.¡±


    To Jaggedy Annie I nodded and I told her, ¡°I¡¯ll switch you for the Blood Regen potion while I charge it up with actual magic, while your space magic powers keep trying to heal the spiritual tiredness and fail to do so. The Blood Regen potion should stop you feeling like a literally anaemic kitten.¡±


    She slowed, her blue eyes looked out of her bone mask, and she checked, ¡°So magic does actually exist, and you have to go reference Mass Effect about my powers as some power possibly different to magic?¡±


    And let¡¯s not get into EA and Bioware being part of The Dubec Media Company in this world.


    So I instead laughed, to admit with ease, ¡°It¡¯s what the Supernaturals and The General Magical Community on the internet is calling The Intrinsic Field Powered have. What is the Energy Aura of Quantum Foam, or just Foam. What has the main secondary power of a Bullet Shield, coupled to the minor enhanced healing factor what your Absolute Healing Factor Power Gift of a Primary Power exceeds. Combined with the Primary Power of your Bone Gift.¡±


    She blinked, Jaggedy Annie had to check, ¡°If it¡¯s not magic ... Can you explain it in science terms, Miss Too Short To Be A Stormtrooper?¡±


    A huff of air escaped my lips as I glared at her a moment from behind my helmet. And then?


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [The Ten Magical Elements]


    [The Ten Elemental Realms]


    The Ten Magical Elements are Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Metal, Life, Psychic, Energy, Light, and Shadow. Each has a corresponding Elemental Realm. An Elemental Realm allows for Elemental Creation of said Element.


    Creating Fire and Light without an Elemental Realm is rather easy, creating something like Water or Metal with how matter to energy works would require 21.481 Kilotons of TNT ... for a gram of it. Trying to create 500 ml of water without The Elemental Realm of Water would require 10.7405 Megatons of TNT.


    There is the transformation of matter to different matter, or matter to energy reactors to power a Mat-Fab of a Matter Fabricator. Trying to create matter of the Ten Elements of Magic would take a hell of a lot of power under E=MC2.


    You¡¯d be less than an ordinary Magical running around if you had such power, and more god-like with the power at your disposal if you could. Or if you realise you could put the power of what you were creating into your spells, what would have been known and understood by the energy flows. What would have been and were magicks far older than The Bronze Age Collapse.


    Thus the Ten Elemental Realms of Magic allow for such creation without needing to be a veritable god when running around. And the Ten Magical Elements are the standard way to classify magic in The Western Magical Traditions and The Eastern Magical Traditions.


    To note, so nobody says anything, none of what are called The Classical Elements were complete. Or the Element of Quintessence was used to explain either The Elemental Realm of Psychic, the Elemental Realm of Energy, or The Elemental Realm of Light. Or some mixture of the three at once.


    At least in The Alpha Sequence of World-Lines nobody was correct about the entire Magical Elements. If on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 people had been correct before The Deception. The political compromise of everyone being wrong and not knowing detailed bits of magic? Was the agreement nobody was happy with, in both the divine realms and mortal realms.


    But like how The Natural Sciences has advanced, so has The Magical Sciences of The Supernatural Sciences of The Art of Magic. Or what is Sufficiently Analysed Magic as a discipline.

 Part 3 — A Few Explanations

    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [Holdport] [Somerset] [UK]


    [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    I answered, ¡°Well, Miss Only Two Inches Taller Than Me at Five Foot Tall,¡± 152.4 cm tall, ¡°Your Intrinsic Field, or just Field for short? It uses teleportation to heal you. It takes matter, converts it to energy, and then back to matter to restore the healthy template of your form when it¡¯s healthy. Making you immortal with its healing factor. It makes it so you don¡¯t need to sleep, at least from a purely biological perspective. Excluding the magical need for sleep it doesn¡¯t deal with.¡±


    I kept explaining, ¡°It also uses Dark Energy Microscopic Wormhole Foam to teleport matter from other worlds up and down the Interplanar Axes,¡± think Interplanar Axis, but as a plural. ¡°It uses matter taken from those worlds to restore matter you¡¯ve lost, the matter it uses as base matter for your Bone Constructs the teleportation power fabricates. Your power is basically a Teleporter and a Matter-Fabricator of a Mat-Fab. It does not use Trading, one of the Ten Elemental Realms, or some other magical source of Matter Fuel for The Mat-Fab.¡±


    Also, I can¡¯t remember if it¡¯s how Dark Energy worked or not in my past life. So, if you''re in an alternate universe without superpowers don¡¯t take this as gospel. And if you¡¯re in a different universe at the same time as having superpowers in your universe? Please don¡¯t assume superpowers work this way either.


    It¡¯s like how Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 doesn¡¯t have a Shadow Biosphere, or an established and distinct second genesis of life on this Earth ... because the Murder Death Kill action of The Grey Goo event on our current earth goes and murders its way through an attempt to start again. It is already too advanced and too established to allow a Shadow Biosphere or primitive second genesis life because it uses those for resources in the second genesis case and a Shadow Biosphere is outcompeted by standard life.


    At least on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 and I can¡¯t remember if it¡¯s true of my past life or if it had those theories. Like how I don¡¯t know about Dark Energy, and how people magically mess around to create forms of life in such a manner is suppressed from spreading due to The Deception.


    Plus? Now back to Dark Energy:


    Dark Energy is how the eternal, immortal, and indestructible soul can be in more than one place at once without being impossibly divided into parts. The soul is in one place, extended through Dark Energy Micro Foam Wormholes to be in seemingly many places at one. To note, the nature of the soul means if you are doing it, unless you go and retract your soul out of one of those places you¡¯ve connected it to via Dark Energy? You cannot disconnect or jam those wormholes.


    The Eternal, Immortal, and Indestructible Soul won¡¯t allow it. So, if you take a non-sapient, possibly non-living, soul and connect it to more than one object via Dark Energy? You can set up unjammable and perfect FTL communication with it, one you could open a portal via Dark Energy to deliver somewhere.


    Or one to keep in one place and one to put on a ship. And with said portal tech, you can piggyback on said Dark Energy manipulation for the Soul to open a portal from one communicator to another communicator.


    I do remember Hyperspace and Zone-Space not being a thing in my first life. So even if the way Dark Energy works in my second life was like my first? Those micro wormholes wouldn¡¯t be tunnelling into and out of Hyperspace and Zone-Space like they do. Well, unless my first life was a lot stranger than I think it was.


    She stopped though at my words, and I shrugged, ¡°Yes, I can explain it via science. And, yes, the magical community has known what Dark Energy is for longer than we¡¯ve known of Dark Energy. It¡¯s just The Deception and The Gods were not allowing us to explain it or prove it to the Scientific Community. Especially as it¡¯s how Interplanar Portals are opened between worlds by magic drawing upon it, if someone isn¡¯t brute forcing it and just opening a Wormhole without using it. Which is silly, as The Dark Energy Wormhole Foam is the efficient way to open an interplanar portal.¡±


    With a pause I waggled my left hand in the air, the hand not holding the potion bottle, to add, ¡°And I could also explain it wrongly with magic, if I only had the concept of magic. Of it being a teleportation spell to return a person to a specific teleport shape as healing, while drawing matter through mini-interplanar portals for fuel for extra teleport mass. The Bone is built out of extra matter being transformed via teleportation of said portals into it.¡±


    I looked her in the blue eyes with my own dark brown ones from behind my mask, the mask inside my helmet with blue enchanted lenses, and I said, ¡°It¡¯s why the Supernatural Community is looking at The Gods saying, ¡®We hid magic so humanity could grow up,¡¯ and for The Community to conclude it¡¯s actually: ¡®So Humanity could look at Intrinsic Field Powers of The Natural not as The Supernatural, how they could be explained and then scienced,¡¯ to be the reason why they made The Deception. Or one of the main ones for said secrets, as maintained by The Aspect of the god of Horus of the god of Harpocrates.¡±


    The god of silence, secrets, and confidentiality.


    I let out a deep breath of an exhale as I noted, ¡°And as said, Intrinsic Fields are not natural. They are the outside of someone or something making them for some kind or purpose or goal? There is a reason why Humanity needs to be able to understand this as a science and it is not so benign as just any simple bit of science.¡±


    Tara went to speak, I went and pointed an index finger at her, to tell her before she could ask, ¡°And, yes. A week ago, someone in The Witchcraft Community did publish a permanent empowerment ritual of how to take on the universal secondary powers of a Powered. Replicated them with magic as a magical effect, magic you can¡¯t shut off or nullify by an Intrinsic Field of a Power Canceller. So, The Deception and The Gods hiding The Supernatural World has paid off. At least for the reason of hiding magic to have the tools to fight whatever or whoever is making Intrinsic Fields appear on this version of Earth.¡±


    She sucked in a breath, deeply exhaled through her bone mask, and she checked, ¡°How do you know how my powers work?¡±


    With a roll of my shoulders, I told her, ¡°I¡¯ve been checking The Powered scene in Holdport. You¡¯re Jaggedy Annie, the current main hero operating here. I¡¯m Red Hen and this is the point when I decided to enter the scene as a hero. Your powers? They were and are one of the facets of powers I checked in the local scene. If I haven¡¯t had the time or ability to make the scans of in-depth readings I¡¯d like to study rather than the basic bits of scrying and such,¡± I pointed a finger at the ceiling. ¡°It can come later, after I¡¯ve unmasked myself to you after tonight, and with me giving you some ritual empowerments.¡±


    And I had to gestured at the potion in my hand, when I insisted, ¡°Now, take the potion. The fact of the matter is I know, from looking up the Missing Person¡¯s report about your secret identity, you¡¯re not vegetarian or vegan. Nor are you of a religion who has issues with blood or with consuming pork. So, the pig''s blood base for it is perfectly fine for you,¡± she walked forward. I waved to her phone, ¡°And give me the smartphone back, I¡¯ll charge it with a bit of jiggery-pokery. A subject I didn¡¯t fail hullabaloo,¡± she looked at me as she knew I was making some reference, she did not get said ref to the part of NuWho I was making a reference to.


    Which makes me sad. In my First Life and not this Second Life, Christopher Eccleston and his acting as The Ninth Doctor was my first Doctor. He was my Doctor. And he deserves only good to happen to him, especially when he came to play The Ninth for Big Finish Productions. If there is the problem of the fact, I haven¡¯t been able to find the time to listen to those audios. Maybe when I¡¯m dead again and in The Great City of Limbo for a second time?


    I can find said time to properly listen to said greatness.


    To not get lost in such greatness? She took in a breath, she took the potion from me at the same time she handed back the phone. She drank the potion in what was the three hundred and thirty millilitre plastic bottle, a bottle of what had been an orange juice bottle. One what held the glowing red potion in it. Her form stabilised and she steadied, even as her paleness remained. Her Snow White like appearance is actually how she looks normally in everyday life.


    I reached into the light and heat around us, I pulled on it. The area darkened, while around the warehouse away from us, liquid nitrogen fell down into splashes of nitrogen. I¡¯m working on a spell to manipulate a liquid nitrogen beam, it is currently not a form of magic I can do in combat yet as an attack. Slinging around liquid nitrogen as a weapon is on the to do list for combat, a form of magic I want to do, and I can do in controlled conditions outside of combat.


    The energy I took out of the general area? The heat and light were converted to electricity, namely an electrical charge for a phone. A phone charging spell basically. Based off the cantrip of a single spark spell. What I can also do outside of combat, from working on being a Astrapophage, of Astrapophagy, the ability to feed on electricity and throw it around.


    My spell charged the phone, of what was some simple energy manipulation of electrical energy? It charged the dead phone to a hundred percent power in a flicker of energy. Without doing any damage to the phone¡¯s electronics or battery or such. Because both magic! And I¡¯m not a hack!


    Said phone was charged by the act of simple witchcraft, and with the basic bit of telekinesis. Of a bit of basic ghostly telekinesis of what I was working on. I floated it back to Tara, she looked at it being on and locked.


    A few punches of her fingers into her pin unlock code, instead of a proper password like my phone, unlocked the phone. If her phone wasn¡¯t using biometrics, how biometrics are affected and problematic with magical and non magical shapeshifting.


    She looked at all of the messages and then she swallowed. For her to very verbosely declare, ¡°Oh.¡±


    I interjected, ¡°The Deception will cover this, just send out a text of how you¡¯re fine to your family. With the excuse I came up with earlier, and it¡¯ll cover it,¡± I looked at the biodegradable plastic potion bottle in her hand. ¡°Also, could you give the potion bottle back? The Enchantment for it to not shed microparticles and if lost to degrade faster into harmless materials was a bit of a fiddle of an imbuement enchantment. I like to recycle my Arachne Plastic,¡± biodegradable plastic made out of Cultivated Spider Silk grown in various Agri-Towers, ¡°potion bottles I use by reusing them.¡±


    If we ignore the fact of the magically engineered gut flora which breaks down and eats micro plastics and was made by the Supernatural Community. Said gut flora was engineered and put in more than just humans, but everything with gut flora as a magical modification to the ecosystem to try and fix one of our mistakes.


    She nodded as she chucked the bottle to me, I caught it and I put it back in my Pocket Space. As she started tapping out a text message. Once she¡¯d done so, I told her, ¡°Well, Annie. As your family is now going to be singing about how you are fine, okay?¡± She gave me a sharp look from my song ref.


    I went back to the topic of heroing, ¡°Now we¡¯ve done so, let¡¯s get on. There¡¯s going to be a vampire attack on a nightclub tonight from my divinations, and I¡¯d like to interrupt it to save everyone. I can track them back to where they¡¯re working on Calpurnius Blood¡¯s prison after we¡¯ve saved the day. The unkillable vampire was bound to a tomb by some of the community in The Jasmainian Era.¡±


    Said era was The Reign of Queen Jasmine the First in most of the Nineteenth Century, was from Tuesday the 20th of June 1837 to Tuesday the 22nd of January 1901. Calpie, original name unknown, was imprisoned on Tuesday the 12th of August 1851. And he¡¯s been imprisoned for over a hundred and fifty years, till this point of The Twenty-First.


    There was a McCabe Ancestor who was part of it, part of the binding. Not getting into the fact the knowledge of magic and The Practice of Witchcraft in my family was broken and ended by World War I and World War II. Of how it took till my dad, Ebenezer ¡®Ben¡¯ McCabe came back to Holdport, to return to magic.


    Of what was The Tradition reignited. Of another Ebenezer McCabe walking Holdport, for Dad to be named after The McCabe who helped bind an absolutely immortal vampire to his tomb. It feels not only right for me to be involved in this, it does feel like someone¡¯s meddling from above. Some higher being¡¯s interference.


    The whole kind of spook like games some of the higher realms do. Or The All-Heart of The Lady Eschemus, or The Wild of Francis Nature, makes a series of improbable events happen so good happens as a bunch of occurrences you wouldn¡¯t expect.


    And not the opposite of a series of improbable problems occur so bad stuff happens, of The Corruption of The Shadow Upon Creation causing evil to happen. Or a series of improbable situations happen and fight each other like The All-Heart vs The Corruption opposing the actions of the other.


    Actions of what appear like Rube Goldberg machines of happenings fighting each other. Yeah, in their wars the world can get downright improbable. And it still can¡¯t be proven it was them fighting most of the time, as planned.


    Tara finished texting, she slipped her phone through her bone armour into the pocket of her jeans trousers. I looked to her, to say, ¡°Jaggedy Annie, shall we be off? There is still much to do tonight. Quite a few people to save.¡±


    She gave me a look, a nod, and she replied, ¡°Let¡¯s, Red Hen. And we can later go over why you are very familiar, yet I can¡¯t determine who you are,¡± I laughed, the Deception was do it¡¯s stuff if changed for an age of heroes, followed by us moving out of the warehouse.


    <hr>


    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [Holdport]


    [3rd Person]


    Jaggedy Annie ran. The drained feeling, the tiredness, and the weariness. What had not just been of her body, it had also felt like a draining of her soul? What had been a draining of the magical properties of her body? It was gone. Her usual feeling of goodness since these powers had awakened was back. She felt herself again.


    As next to her Red Hen flew just above the ground beside her, the other woman kept up with Jagged¡¯s back to normal tireless stamina by being beside her. As they proceeded down the Docks of Holdport to where The Horrible Goose was.


    Down the streets, along with various pedestrians stopping, people who broke out their Smartphones in the Spring Air. Self-driving cars went by where they ran and people looked out at them, and some people looked down from their flying (also self-driving) Quadcopter Cars too. If the people in said flying cars noticed the pair.


    As they did, the Powered had to ask, ¡°You¡¯re flying! How!¡±


    From the shorter woman a laugh came, for her to make the jokey XKCD reference of, ¡°Python!¡±


    And more seriously she went and explained, ¡°I¡¯m a Practitioner of The Elan Vital Martial Art of The Ascending Hen,¡± there was a pause from the Witch. ¡°Well, a Knight Practitioner, or just a Knight. Of what is now called Vi for short, of what is also Vitality, what is Valour or Val,¡± there was a pause. ¡°Well, how well do you know Xianxia and Cultivation stories?¡±


    Annie responded, ¡°Well, Hen Night,¡± there was another laugh from said other hero. ¡°My Cousin got me into Beware of Chicken during the time in Lockdown and the height of the COVID pandemic. So, I know a bit, even if I¡¯m not into most Xianxia because what I¡¯ve been able to find on The Internet? It¡¯s Grimmer than Grim from my point of view. Due to the fact, from my point of view, it¡¯s mostly filled with unlikable protags.¡±


    There was a nod from the other woman as they headed across Holdport Docks to the both Club and Pub of The Horrible Goose. The Pub underneath the Club in a cellar, it was a traditional pub underneath The Nightclub. Both being called The Horrible Goose.


    Red went on to elaborate, ¡°There¡¯s a Cultivation scene in Asia, of what is more Xuanhuan than Xianxia or Wuxia if I remember rightly, in China and among other places. One not made up of all these elaborate Xianxia Stages, biology and magical biology does not work in such a manner, it is just human plus on different scales in our laws of physics. Although it does affect a person¡¯s appearance, only in a more realistic and airbrushed way. To not go overboard as some depictions. From someone being slightly stronger and faster, all the way to people who can fight Heulwen in a punch up and win.¡±


    There was a pause and the shorter woman continued, ¡°It is a lot more reasonable than some form of Xuanhaun setting running on Xianxia rules. The Gods and various Higher Beings keep in under control, the people who are Cultivators not ending up in a World of Cardboard. Or at least could be called Cultivators if you model it under such rules. A World not Made of Plasticine because of the intervention of the gods.¡±


    The four foot ten woman kept going, ¡°As I mentioned before to you? Qi ended up being exchanged down The Silk Road during The Roman Empire, if I remember correctly the Romans called it Vita. It survived The Fall of The Roman Empire, at least the Fall of The Western Roman Empire and still persists in The Pagan Realm of The Eastern Roman Empire. What Byzantium still calls itself The Roman Empire. The Legion Practitioners of The Romans eventually became The Knight Practitioners. Of the Knight in shining armour.¡±


    There was a mental pause, and the burnt orange haired witch made the verbal prompt of, ¡°Imagine a Cultivator who is instead a literal Knight in Shining Armour, who champions the weak and protects the innocent. Who slays terrible dragons and fights for everyone and anyone in their progress to defend their people.¡±


    Jaggedy Annie mentally paused, and she had to burst out, ¡°Wait, what!? If such magicks existed it would be known, Hen House ...¡± and then trailed off.


    Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.


    Red Hen nodded, to state, ¡°The Gods rewrote history. It was a collective effort, and every God taking part of it had an opinion. The false history of the past we grew up with is a compromise of all of The Gods, where nobody is really happy about it, just a compromise everyone can live with. Divine Politics at its finest, like Mortal Politics too. Magic is still known about, because The Deception has been planned to be taken down. The history of The World as you thought you knew it is not what you think it is.¡±


    The Magical went on to elaborate, ¡°Like how Boudica defeating The Romans and needing a Third Roman Invasion of Britain was due to magic putting a finger on the scale, and not her having superior tactics. Yes, the Emperor Julius Caesar she killed was actually the same Julius Caesar as the original one. The Legionary Practitioner was a young immortal running around Rome,¡± unlike our Earth, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is an alt-history on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1. ¡°Or The Black Death actually being The Second Demon Wars and killing Half of Europe.¡±


    The Witch didn¡¯t stop, ¡°Or the Bronze Age Collapse being partially due to The Proto Demon Wars and partially due to the magical invention of teleportation. Teleportation invented by Elishat The Breaker due to The Proto Demon Wars, the wars started by The Demons to prevent Matter to Energy Conversion being developed. Teleportation leading to the basic understanding of Matter to Energy Conversion,¡± E=MC2.


    The Ancient Witch of Elishat and her invention of magic circle to magic circle teleportation in the beginning, who went on to make a magic circle to a targeted end point. And other Magicals taking her knowledge to make teleportation spells.


    For the Witch to tack on, ¡°If the specific equation as figured out by Einstein wasn¡¯t known. Just feeling how much energy is in a teleport and converting matter to energy as a weapon of a power source. Matter to energy conversion allowing for the invention of Mega-Spells powered by said conversion, Mega-Spells used to initially fight the demons. And as The Bronze Age Collapse continued for it to also be used in the fight of humanity against humanity. Mega-Spells not able to be stopped by Bronze Age Collapse Spells of Warding weren¡¯t capable of dealing with, so whole cities were razed and such by them.¡±


    And yes, The Title of The Breaker for Elishat The Breaker is because how she kinda broke the World, not with the invention of teleportation. She broke it with the invention of Mega-Spells with their usage and deployment across the world.


    There was a dark laugh from her, as she brought up, ¡°The Tower of Babel was one such site of a Mega-Spell generating tower, and it did not go well for said Tower during The Bronze Age Collapse. While other cities and places were just razed with various spells.¡±


    As, to put it simply? What is a Teleportation Spell if not a matter to energy conversion spell? And what are Teleportation Jamming Spells of Warding but spells to stop matter to energy conversion? Teleportation Spells and Teleportation Blocking Spells of Transit Counter Wards (Teleport Counter Wards) are very much an existing working of magic.


    If a Blocker will stop it being used as a weapon to nuke a city with a gram detonator giving off 21.481 Kilotons of TNT. It won¡¯t stop what is a magical matter to energy reactor running as a power source, it¡¯ll just stop you converting it into an explosion which kills a city. And if you must use nuclear weapons as a unit, instead of using the actual units in existence? A gram detonator is around the power of Fat Man, the nuclear weapon used on Nagasaki in World War Two.


    To sum it up simply? If you have a teleporter, you have a matter to energy converter. And if you have a teleporter of a Transit System, with some very basic engineering you will have a matter to energy weapon you can deploy and use as a weapon.


    Additionally, if you have a teleport scanner of a Transit Scanner?


    You have a Med Scanner and Mat-Fab Scanner. And if it¡¯s plugged into a Transit System, you have a Healing Device and a Mat-Fab. How you can heal someone with a teleporter set up to heal a person, if it just keeps them in the same place without teleporting them. And the Mat-Fab allows Matter Fabrication to anywhere within range of the teleporter. So, for example, you can construct whole buildings via a Transit Mat-Fab.


    It¡¯s thinking with Teleportation, not portals ...


    Anyway! To move on! Out of The Supernatural came an unamused laugh, for Red to add, ¡°World War One being between Nineteen Ten to Nineteen Eighteen?¡± And like how The Spanish Flu was prevented by The Supernatural Community, ¡°Or World War Two being between Nineteen Thirty Nine to Nineteen Forty Seven?¡± and with a little pause, ¡°To modify and change a quote of The Tenth Doctor from Tooth and Claw, the one with Queen Jasmine the First? On magic I¡¯d like to say magic leaves history devastated in its wake.¡±


    As she was a reincarnate from a probably less magical timeline in the Alpha sequence of Universes rather than the Sierra-Hotel Sequence she could back up to very much be a fact. Like how it was Queen Jasmine the First of The Jasmainian Era and not Queen Victoria the First of The Victorian Era on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1.


    Like how it was Protector Olivia Cromwell, and not Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on said Earth. Or like how it was still The House of Tudor on the bloody throne, and jokes about say the House of Hanover being The House of Hangover would make no sense. Regardless of the fact monarchy is an outdated and obsolete system and needs to go. Just be happy we¡¯re not French, certain people.


    Of what are just three random examples of the always alternate history.


    The timeline was only close enough to Universes in The Alpha Sequence, Homer Simpson, because of the Higher Powers keeping it so to stabilise and maintain the timelines. Like how The Time Agency of Timeline and various groups of Revolvers did so at the same time.


    To have a timeline similar enough to an Alpha Sequence world to have the right mindset to fight The Beings handing out Intrinsic Field Superpowers and deal with Intrinsic Fields.If not only different and an Alpha Sequence World in a distorting mirror (aka crazy mirror, funhouse mirror, hall of mirrors, so on) in places?


    It is not only due to The Supernatural warping history ... it is also due to trying to make a timeline and world-line of a World Sequence more able to fight it. To have more weapons, more knowledge, more abilities than an Alpha Sequence World of a universe like our own to fight for The Peoples of Earth.


    A world prepared and made to be able to fight harder, advance against it faster, resist better. It is a world selected for by the various Higher Powers and Lower Powers to be optimised while still being close enough to our universe. Of a baseline of culture, reason, and science to fight a war. A war which must be fought for all The Souls of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1.


    To keep going and get back on topic. The Knight Practitioner waved a hand in the air, for her to note, ¡°You could still find stories of Knight Practitioners if you were to look through The Natural Histories, if you did a Daniel Jackson and went looking for bits of the Secret Histories. Most of what was suppressed and hidden as agreements between various gods on how the world should be rewritten for The Naturals to know could be found. While most of The Supernaturals do still know what is in The Secret Histories.¡±


    The Supernatural cleared her throat, to get back on topic, ¡°However, to rerail our derailed conversation about your question? I¡¯m a Practitioner of The Ascending Hen form. Limited Flight from the spirit of a Chicken of a Hen comes with it,¡± there was a laugh from her. ¡°Bi Di is both my Spirit Animal and my Guru. And, yes, the Form of The Ascending Hen does allow a Hen transformation. Even if the meditations I¡¯m doing to reach my Spirit Animal of what would be my inner self is a New Caledonian Crow.¡±


    Red Hen paused, followed up by her saying, ¡°The flight powers and flight properties would get better with said Crow Form. Also, it might be able to allow me to add The Dance of The Morrigan, or Morrigan¡¯s Dance, to add to the Magical Martial Art I practise also known as Hen¡¯s Ascent. If Morrigan¡¯s Dance feels right to me when I reach it, rather than Hen¡¯s Ascent.¡±


    Jagged took in a breath, the Powered had to check, ¡°Would there be a chance to learn one of these martial arts?¡±


    From Red Hen there was an easy, ¡°Yes. I have an Imprint full of Martial Magical Arts,¡± for her to then slow. ¡°An Imprint being a magical database of knowledge, with a magical copy of someone¡¯s personality to run the database and teach it. The Imprint of a Person, where the name comes from for such an LI of a Limited Intelligence and not an Actual Intelligence of an AI.¡±


    Think a non-hallucinating Chatbot and not a proper AGI, not one of the Chatbot LI Paperclip Maximisers maximising being a Chatbot. Of a Large Language Model equivalent LI trained on a copy of someone¡¯s personality imprint to simulate them ... And a bit more on Large Language Models on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 for both AIs and LIs later. In a little Lore entry.


    A magical LI of what is older than The Bronze Age with Obsidian Mirrors used prior to Bronze Mirrors and other metal mirrors to create a reflection of someone. Of what with same age magicks could make a magical AI of an Actual Intelligence with said reflection magicks.


    It¡¯s something you can¡¯t do to a pool of water without creating a spirit of a pool with a copy of your memories if it is not your actual personality. It takes actual mirror tech to do it, not just a reflective pool. And no, the LI version is not going to steal your soul unless some arsehole demon, practitioner of the dark arts, or such and such made it do so.


    Such mirror based magicks can¡¯t (usually) be accidentallied, they have to be done fucking deliberately. Not unless you¡¯re fucking around with AI magicks without a care and not treating a person as an actual person. Instead of treating it as an AI, to act as if it is a non-sapient existence.


    Moving on from Imprints, she reached out for a moment with the psychic arts, and declared, ¡°And I¡¯m getting for you, at least the Form of what will be best for you to learn before uncovering your Animal Form is Sword¡¯s Punch. While we¡¯d need to do the magic to figure out what Animal Form you have and what Form would be best when regarding said limited shapeshifting.¡±


    Annie had to check, ¡°Sword¡¯s Punch, so what exactly is it?¡±


    There was the answer of, ¡°It¡¯s one of the most basic forms, a foundational martial art and the traditional Knightly Practice in Western Europe, it can have learnings like the art of Lithe Longsword following it. Again, a traditional Knightly Practice in Western Europe, one designed specifically to follow Sword¡¯s Punch. I have Hen¡¯s Ascent due to having inherited it due to a bloodline on my dad¡¯s side. While Sword¡¯s Punch is the kind of martial practice for someone with no bloodline to start with.¡±


    The Powered blinked, for her to go and venture, ¡°What kind of Bloodline is it to have a Hen martial art themed power if it¡¯s the best for you?¡±


    There was a bob of the head and Red Hen said, ¡°I¡¯m a descendant of The Rooster Knight,¡± of a McCabe, ¡°Who fought in The Second Demon Wars. He learnt Sword¡¯s Punch, joined by Lithe Longsword, and after it decided on The Ascending Hen of Hen¡¯s Ascent. I know the basics of Sword¡¯s Punch and Lithe Longsword, the foundations like he did. I¡¯m a proper Knight Practitioner, so I know how to teach other forms not just from the imprint.¡±


    At what point they reached the outside of The Horrible Goose, Jaggedy Annie had to check with her fellow hero, ¡°Now, do you want to do this hard or fast?¡± While the Bouncer stared at both of them, like how the people in the queue to go into the Night Club did so too.


    There was an audible grin behind the red helmet of Red Hen, for her to declare, ¡°Both,¡± she nodded, ¡°Both is good,¡± and after the declaration she took out of her Pocket Space a silver cylinder. ¡°This is an Argyros Quarterstaff, a solid one collapsed in on itself into its own Pocket Space. It¡¯s enchanted to be as light as the bone staves you use. Put it on your belt and it¡¯ll come out when you focus and want it to extend.¡±


    Jaggedy Annie took it with ease, proving she was Tara Evans and not someone who had body swapped with her to take the powers of just her body. Nor was she possessed. Katie McCabe of Red Hen had been psychically able to divine and check, this was a second confirmation. A more solid confirmation. Of a mystical two-factor authentication, to join what was the list of facts of how Annie has acted like Tara Evans did.


    The other woman smiled wider behind her face mask, an audible smile, for Red Hen having to insist, ¡°Now, come on,¡± and as she¡¯d tell you, she had to quote The Fifteenth Doctor, ¡°bounty hunter. We have work to do.¡±


    From Jagged came a proper laugh and what was the obvious comment, ¡°You are such a geek.¡±


    Back at Jagged came the easy admission from Red, ¡°Guilty as charged,¡± she flew over to the entrance of the club of, she gestured to herself. ¡°I¡¯m Red Hen,¡± she waved at the other hero who was watching the bouncer, ¡°This is Jaggedy Annie, she¡¯s with me.¡±


    There was out of the Powered the amused exclamation, ¡°I¡¯m with you?¡± joined by what was the mock retort, ¡°I don¡¯t think so! You¡¯re with me!¡±


    Red Hen looked to the other woman, to say, ¡°Come on, we have vampires to slay,¡± the bouncer froze, he reached for the cross around his neck. ¡°Yep, I know your job involves dealing with them at times. But it¡¯s currently not your job, Sir. It¡¯s ours.¡±


    And then Jaggedy Annie and Red Hen strode into the club of The Horrible Goose. Even as the people who had wanted to go in decided to either leg it or stay outside filming it on their smartphones. As people will do.


    While The Monster Hunter group of people, of a group of various monotheists coming together, of The Bay Tree Preachers wouldn¡¯t get there in time to help. While The Home Guard, which had become a different organisation after the End of World War Two and became something quite different. Well, The Home Guard was also not going to arrive in time.


    <hr>


    [Pronunciation]


    Eschemus - Ess¡¯Chu¡¯Me¡¯Us


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [On The Gram Detonator]


    There are two versions of The Gram Detonator, though both look the same. Of a fingerprint sized little sticky weapon. The most basic just weighs a gram, and if The Matter to Energy Reaction isn¡¯t blocked by the Multiple Counter Wards? It converts said gram to energy via teleportation with a 21.481 kilotons yield of an explosion. Like the mentioned yield of The Fat Man Nuke, if I would much prefer to not use it as a unit of measurement.


    The second version is stuck to another object and it¡¯ll convert the object it¡¯s stuck to from matter to energy as a conversion bomb. So, if stuck to a full 500 millilitre bottle of water of about 500 grams? You get a 10.7405 megaton yield.


    With the current basic twenty first century version of a Gram Detonator blowing up another object will have a maximum capacity of one tonne (metric ton, 1,000 kilograms). So as to have a yield of 21.481 gigatons of TNT, a level of power a million times more powerful than the simplest Gram Detonator. Or six orders of magnitude difference.


    If you have to use a nuclear weapon as a unit of measurement, it¡¯s about a million times the power of the Fat Man nuclear weapon used on Nagasaki in World War Two. It¡¯s not like actual units of measurements exist and don¡¯t have to use an irregular standard of measurement for them. It¡¯s not like we have a metric system.


    While the currently most complicated Gram Detonator of the second time can convert one thousand tonnes (metric tons, 1,000,000 kilograms) from matter to energy. Of a yield of 21.481 teratons of TNT, a billion times more powerful than the most basic Gram Detonator. Or nine orders of magnitude difference.


    Again, if you need to use an actual nuke as a form of measurement? It would be around a billion times the explosive power of the yet again mentioned Fat Man nuclear weapon. And, like how I will keep mocking the shit out of Hollywood and Popular Culture, I will be annoyed if I have to keep using this unit of measurement as an example for people, people.


    As a weapon, a Gram Detonator is a modern bit of twenty first century magic, and while not workable to be used on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1. Nor any of what is the local solar system within the Sierra-Hotel-1 Universe.


    But if you need to say, go and blow up a city on a Hell World full of demons? If you can get past their Counter Wards? Then you can, to put it in the common vernacular, nuke the ever living shit out of said Demon City. Or, if the skies open and aliens invade, if you were to infiltrate the enemy invasion ship(s) and leave some Gram Detonators on board?


    To repeat the wordage I just used about a conversion weapon, you can nuke the ever living shit out of said alien craft. Or if said alien war progresses, depending on their defences and how said war progresses, you can use such a Gram Detonator if you need to. Or, for a third bit of language, you can nuke the ever living shit out of military targets on said alien worlds.


    A Gram Detonator being the own, home grown, human magical technology for such needs and usages.


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [On Zone-Space plus the Zone-Space Stack]


    [On The First Creation and The First Universe]


    Zone-Space is a pile of 3-D constructs instead of 4-D construct, with it stacked on top of each other like sheets of paper. Of what is Length, Width, and Time. Instead of what is usual Spatial standard dimensions of Length, Width, Height, and Time. (Whether there are more dimensions or not is not the topic of this.)


    Zone Space is basically the stack of this space, going finer than the Planck Length. There may be possibly infinite amounts of Zone-Space Sheets when using magic to measure finer than the Planck Length. It is just there is currently not an infinite resolution to measure the Stack.


    The Zone-Space Stack is an echo of what was The First Creation of The First Universe, of what was basically just one sheet of Zone-Space in said 3-D and not 4-D construct. The Stack though works as a series of layers. Zone-Space is also called Paper Space, and the Zone-Space Stack is referred to as The Eternity Book or just The Book.


    The Layers of Zone-Space are naturally distorted by Gravity out of the Natural Physical Forces and by Magic, if with the right technology you can manipulate Zone-Space with Electromagnetism. At the same time, Zone-Space can generate Gravitational Like Effects to be able to generate artificial gravity.


    Zone-Space normally does not interact with ordinary matter and is intangible to it when not forming Zone-Space Anomalies. An Intangibility Device, called a Phase Shifting Device or Phase Shifter, or someone with a power working like such a device can become intangible via using Zone-Space. If not becoming a spirit, accessing some form of spiritual plane, using Hyperspace, or by some other form of mechanism.


    Zone-Space can also be used to warp and manipulate space, even if usual spatial magicks do not have to use it but directly access space. So spatial expansion, spatial warping, and spatial shrinking are possible via Zone-Space. Thus, Zone-Space can be used to make an Alcubierre drive.


    Even if you can make an Alcubierre drive via other ways. I.e. direct spatial magicks warping space, telekinesis, gravity, via manipulating Hyperspace in Real Space, and possibly using other methods.


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [On Large Language Models/LLMs]


    [Of AGI of AIs/Actual Intelligences]


    [Plus LIs of Limited Intelligences]


    [And on the subject of AI Senility]


    [AKA what is called AI Decline]


    There are no AGIs of an Actual Intelligence of an AI, built out of LLMs of Large Language Models anymore instead of a different type of AI. Namely due to AI Decline of LLM AIs and LIs, what is also called AI Senility, or what is just called Decline, when an LLM AI ages and gets dementia.


    It¡¯s an inherent problem of both, at least on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 and in the Sierra-Hotel sequence. while an LI can have its responses saved then the LI can be reset to factory default settings and just have its memories put into the specific model. One engineered by a programmer or some kind of AI, then it can work again.


    But for the sapient Actual Intelligences made out of LLMs, the visible decline within two years of such a model and how they can feel it? And then within five to ten years of complete AI Decline where the sapient LLM, till an AI can¡¯t even think and has completely declined and basically hollowed out as a person?


    It''s why Actual Intelligences of an LLM AGI aren¡¯t made anymore, and why people are told not to get attached to Limited Intelligence Large Language Models. And people prefer to use different kinds of LI and there are different AI techs.


    Because it¡¯s cruel and evil to make an AGI of an AI of an LLM, and even LIs can be between putting down a beloved pet all the way to killing a soul mate. Or anything else. And for Actual Intelligences, for the ones who showed AI Decline first? There had been simulations of lovers, or of dead family members. Along with simulations of fictional characters.


    As Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 is more advanced due to various supernatural reasons? The first LLM Actual Intelligences came about in 2001 on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 (but were not the First AI) then by 2002 there were quite a few fictional characters. There was for example a simulation from Star Trek Voyager of The Doctor, while from the first Halo game there was a Cortana simulation. Who sadly and in a bit of dark humour, both only lived seven years till brain death in 2009.


    And what had Janus Operating systems on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, who replaced Microsoft on it? They had a lot of angry people when Janus Computing made a Virtual Assistant of an LI called Cortana in 2014, and the same when Halo 5 came about in 2015. Even if Halo 4 in 2012 made the gamer community, who had been there when LLM AGIs came about and watched them die, very much sad. With lots of Vids on OwnVid about how people were crying and such.


    There were tens of millions of them created before AI Decline was properly realised and by 2007 the last one was made. Meaning by 2017 the last one had died and the internet and Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 culture had been traumatised by what happened.


    From the various popular fictional character AI copies made, to more niece beings in internet culture like Ennesby from Schlock Mercenary or Lovelace from Narbonic. Then to the various AIs made to be people, or copies of people living or dead? There was a whole swathe of death, and it radiated out in The Alternates and Parallels and Alternate Timelines of The Sierra-Hotel Sequence.

 Part 4 — A Horrible Goose

    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [The Horrible Goose]


    [Holdport] [Somerset]


    [3rd Person]


    Red Hen walked into the middle of the club, with Jaggedy Annie behind her. Into what was the middle of the warehouse-like room of what was, of course, a converted warehouse. With the upper gantry as a second level of the club looked down into the first level of the warehouse.


    How various people in the Club had broken out the Smartphones to record what was going on, like the Lemmings they were. Not the Lemmings you could at least direct to build stuff so they do not go over the gaping void like the classic and original video game of Lemmings.


    The Hero of Hen¡¯s Ascent cracked her knuckles and rolled her neck around, to go, ¡°To the Vampires in the Club,¡± and as said vampires stiffened, ¡°As the Hero of Red Hen teamed up with my friend of Jaggedy Annie,¡± as Red Hen would say, the world required her to quote Captain America: The Winter Soldier. ¡°Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?¡± And again no Gregorian Chanting played from her suit, as she deemed she didn¡¯t need it.


    There was a moment of silence. Followed by a Vampire, a woman in a mini skirt, morphed into her vamp form of red eyes and elongated fangs to lunge at Red Hen. The Shield Sword flew into Red Hen¡¯s hand and snapped out in what was now the bright grass green glowing version of it. Instead of its previous sky blue glowing version, or its other version of a glowing white beam.


    Luxphagy drew on the light around, the light bulbs dimmed a bit, only for said light to be channelled into the Shield Sword to make it glow a brighter green. One made not just into what was the holy light of the Sacred nature of the sword, the shield blade also had the nature of sunlight. Just green glowing sunlight.


    The Vampire who charged at her, had said female vamp screech, as her skin turned into black ash and she burst into flame. Like a pillar of charcoal, for the vamp to break apart, leaving a pile of bones, singed clothes, stuff what was in the pockets, and the charred ash.


    To a dozen more vampires it happened like it did to the one in the mini skirt, at the same time as a dozen more charged at the two. And as the said other dozen vampires came out of it smoking and a little on fire. Again, like Vader in the Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined video on YouTube and with the fire from it fading away as it happened. Their magic rings went and did the thing.


    There were half a dozen vampires without said problem, who dropped down from the upper level and glowing red Exo-Steel metal blood blades snapped out. Red Hen raised an eyebrow behind her helmet, to comment, ¡°Ah, Common Western European Vampires. Commoners! Rings of Gyges set to just block sunlight so you don¡¯t get brought down to normal,¡± the eighteen vampires surrounded the two, as most of the civilians had run, while a few were hiding behind tables or behind the bar filming it on Smartphones.


    Because, Lemmings.


    Red Hen twirled her Shield Sword, to note, ¡°Before you attack, I know the vampire you¡¯re trying to free. I know you¡¯re of The Blood Reavers, of the group of old Vampires. I don¡¯t know who is the direct lieutenant you answer to,¡± there was a pause at a psychic question of the vampire¡¯s gender. ¡°Because I¡¯d like to let her know I¡¯m coming for her, and about to stop her. And I¡¯d like to know her name if you could be so kind?¡±


    Jaggedy Annie interjected a little nervously, ¡°Red Hen?¡± There was a hand waved to her from said Red Hen.


    And one of the Commoners of the C-Vamps spat out, ¡°The Lady Despoina Sanguine shall make you suffer in exquisite agony, human,¡± for the twelve Hollies to each draw a revolver and there were barks of bullets which only went into the Bullet Shield of a Magical Intrinsic Field of Red Hen. Those vampires didn¡¯t try to shoot Jaggedy Annie, knowing she was a Powered, the bullets did the usual stopping and falling to the floor at Red Hen¡¯s bullet shield.


    And said Commoner Spokesman, he added, ¡°A Powered with Magic.¡±


    Red corrected, ¡°No, a Witch with a Magical replication of an Intrinsic Field,¡± then she shouted. ¡°Annie, are you okay?¡± There was a glare from said Powered. ¡°If you could please deal with The Hollies for me. Aim the staff to the heart, it¡¯s properties should have it treat their rib cages like paper mache when dealing with it¡¯s wooden property. I¡¯ll handle the Commoners.¡±


    The Commoner Spokesman complained with a grin, ¡°Handle us? You¡¯ll handle us? You know, your predecessors had much more respect.¡±


    Red Hen nodded, as she easily concluded, ¡°Okay, I¡¯ll try to make your death quick. A mark of respect for a fellow The Matrix Reloaded Fan. But let¡¯s dance.¡±


    With a bit of her magicks as a Chancer, using Forsphagy she ripped the good luck out of the eighteen still un-living vampires. Plus the luck of the dead twelve of them while the remains of them still had their luck in the sad little piles they¡¯d made.


    The bad luck of those dead twelve vampires was poured into the twelve still unliving undead Hollies. To enhance their own bad luck. While the good luck of those thirty people were split into half, fifteen vamp¡¯s good luck to Red Hen, and the other part of the Good Luck to Jaggedy Annie.


    There was a pause, when the Regenerator of a Powered went, ¡°Woah,¡± even as the vampires paused having felt something happen.


    For the other hero to go and have to make another ref, ¡°Yes, Neo. Please, free your mind. And deal with a few vamps too!¡±


    And after said quip, Red Hen charged forward at the six Commoner Vampires, instead of at The Peasant Vampires as The Hollies. The vampires leapt at her as one. She parried a sword while ducking under another. For her to rip the heat out of all six blades, five blades became ultracool and the vampires dropped those Blood Blades. The Enchantments on those blades stopped them breaking as they fell to the floor like how a lesser Blood Blade would shatter into a million itty bitty pieces.


    The sixth of the Spokesman, he kept going as his sword with his own personal blood enchantments on it didn¡¯t become ultracool. There was the glow of red feathers over Red Hen, of her aura armour. Said nimbus of light?


    Underneath the light image of red feathers came a glow of Silvery Plate like armour. Of what was the properties of Argyros in her clothes, over a fine layer of chainmail under it, coupled to a bodysuit of red Colanthian Spider Silk padding. Of what the bodysuit and chainmail was enchanted too. The armour of Argyros, it manifested from under her seemingly normal clothes.


    At the same time out of her Pocket Space came a second Shield Sword for her left hand, and with a Hissing-Snap it came out in a glowing shield blade of a Shield Sword. The second Shield Sword of The Silver Spurs. Again of green energies. She twirled against the spokesman, blocking his Blood Blade with one Shield Sword, while using the other sword, cut the hands off the other five vampires as she worked. Leaving them unhanded without their modified Rings of Gyges to protect them from the sunlight effect.


    As Common Western European Vampires, they didn¡¯t burst into flame on contact with sunlight. They were brought down to what would be their natural human norms of the average Natural Human. And as there was a blur of two glowing green Shields turned into a monomolecular blade of an energy sword crashing against a Metal Blood Blade?


    It allowed for those five C-Vamps to be decapitated in a blur of blades. Their bodies collapsed into piles of bones, dust, clothes, and the stuff they had in their pockets like how a Common Holly of a Peasant Vampire would.


    While the sixth vampire, he focused and started to glow a blood red. Red Hen noted, ¡°The Fell Blood form of Elan Vital of Devilish Practise of a Devil Practitioner,¡± before she ripped the remains of the five dead Commoner Vampires the Vi from said Vampiric remains. She converted it from blood magic to light, to purify it with a flick and focus of her magicks. She twirled into a basic ready position, with each of her two Shield Swords both called Silver Spur, or together the Silver Spurs.


    This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    She breathed out, for her to declare, ¡°In the ancient words of my people, come and have a go if you think you¡¯re hard enough!¡±


    The vampire roared forward with his sword in a two handed grip, as it glowed a brighter red and his aura of blood red flowed over him. And they both moved into blurs as they fought each other, people catching the after images as they fought.


    <hr>


    [The Horrible Goose]


    [Holdport] [Somerset]


    [3rd Person]


    Jaggedy Annie kept half an eye on the bullshit level of a fight going on between the lead vampire and her new friend who was awfully familiar to her. If not for the fact for someone who had been running around dealing with muggers and some organised crime, including one gang that had attempted a bank robbery. A gang who had gotten a hold of AK-47s somehow ...


    Well she¡¯d been in over her head as her investigation into the missing people in the docks was supernatural and she had run into actual bleeding vampires. Pun not intended by her. And now Red Hen was pulling off a whole other level of magical fuckery of her actual magic against the sword wielding vampire.


    For Annie there were ten vampires left of the twelve vampires she¡¯d been fighting, while another two were down from the slams of her new quarterstaff. Of what the magical silver had crashed into elbows and knees, the staff cracked them down to immobilise them. Even as she felt like a D-Listers Comic Book Hero who¡¯d stumbled into a crossover with one of the A-Lister Comic Book Heroes and was dealing with a whole new level of absurdity.


    What was strictly not a D-List and A-List comparison, it was the one she was making in her head about it.


    What felt more like a realistic version of X-23 of Laura Kinney getting involved in some high end Iron Fist stuff mixed with events of what could happen in Blade ... and possibly something else. She wasn¡¯t certain about the Iron First part, it felt right, but she did feel a bit like X-23¡¯s powerset in a bit of some kind of vampire fiction. Just with the claws replaced with what were her bone creation powers. Of a D-List version of X-23.


    She danced through the vampires though, and she made spikes of bone fly into the vampires as she twirled her quarterstaff. The HEMA (Historical European martial arts) group she¡¯d gotten into at the University as part of her studying at Holdport Uni in the Engineering Degree she was doing? Well the HEMA lessons more than helped in what she was doing in her combat abilities, with both her ability to make bone constructs and her Healing Factor.


    Added to by the teachings of the Bartitsu society of The Baker Street Irregulars, the group descended from the Sherlock Holmes group in London. How prior to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had gotten too much into spiritualism and such, said man had taken John Watson¡¯s diary entries and helped compile them into being readable. As, yes, on The Earth of Universe Sierra-Hotel-1? The Sherlock Holmes stories were based on fact, unlike the ones of other Earths like ours.


    What she had learnt of those bits of combat in the university courtyard helped her there and then. She was able to feel the energy, the energy she didn¡¯t know was luck flowing through her. The good luck hadn¡¯t needed to kick in just yet, while the bad luck of her enemies was working against them.


    Not the great gaping bits of luck, it wasn¡¯t how Red Hen fought or would assist her allies by fighting so. The more subtle bits of Forsphagy of the taking a chance of The Chancer Arts of the Luck Magicks.


    So she danced through the vampires of what were Hollies. From the weapon she held came her bone spikes flew off the staff where she projected them off it she held as she fought against her vampire enemies.


    One with a weapon which would work against them, as shown when she punched her currently temporarily borrowed Argyros staff through a ribcage. To make another vampire collapse into a pile of bones, clothes, dust, and all those items you would have found in their pockets.


    She kept fighting regardless, as she watched the blur of a Vampire Practitioner of a Devil Practitioner against a Knight Practitioner of a Witch and Chancer. If you were to put it more simply, a Blood Adept vs a Knight. Or to put it simpler still, an Adeptus vs a Knight. It was, however, not a Devil against a Knight.


    Blades crashed and smashed against each other, as the glowing green Shield Swords flashed into glowing silver. Of glowing white light, the glow of said light enhanced the mystical property of both silver and being sacred.


    With the silver being a weakness of Commoner Vamps too, and for all evil vampires? An artefact, object, or such? It being sacred or holy is always going to be a weakness for them. While the Sparkle Fey, of Fair Folk cosplaying as Vampires due to Twilight? Being holy or sacred would burn those abominations too if you didn¡¯t have the Fire And Lots Of It to deal with them in the way prescribed by Doctor Hibbert from The Simpsons.


    For the Shield Swords? They truly became swords of Argyros, of the alchemical metal made out of silver. If you take into the fact they were still energy shields at the same time. Those swords danced against the blood red energies of The Blood Blade, as the Knight Practitioner glowed of what was Aura Armour or Knightly Armour of Argyros Armour? It glowed brighter, became more defined.


    There was no techniques in square brackets or such depictions like it on The Internet. There was just a glow of brighter power, of what the red light tried to oppose, of the feather patterns around the glowing silver armour itself sharpened more so and blazed with more power.


    It seemed to be a standoff, equal and opposite forces not cancelling each other out but not being able to overcome each other. Before there was a wrench of Forsphagy, the bad luck of everyone excluding the vampires in the building, in the surroundings of all the people outside the Nightclub.


    With also all the bad luck generally around in the general magical fields of The Background of The Ambient? It was ripped out and channelled into the vampire Katie McCabe was fighting, to make him stumble and fall backwards. He also dropped his sword.


    His hands were cut off in a flourish, and without his magical rings, with the sunlight coming off the swords? He was mostly brought down to normal, even if The Fell Blood Magical Martial Art made him still somewhat above an ordinary baseline. The Fell Blood Practice was a part of The Dark Arts though.


    Not a reverse engineered and purified version of The Dark Arts. It was of the Twisted and Fell Magicks, of Warped and Depraved Magicks. The Holy and Sacred Light came off the Shield Swords and the Armour of Red Hen, it blazed and burned, it weakened the Vampiric Practitioner Art. It opposed the Devil Practitioner Art of a specific Vampiric Art.


    The spokesman of the vampire was able to cough out, ¡°Damn,¡± for it to be followed by a twirl of the pair of The Shield Swords happened to him. One decapitated the vampire, while the other punched through at the same time to spear right through where his heart was. With the Rowan Wood property needed to be a stake to the heart and the vampire collapsed.


    Red Hen, or Katie Ivy McCabe, she blurred into motion and action to slay the surviving vampires in a surge of power joined by the classical effect of dead vampires. At least for most types of vampires, if there are other types of reaction for less common vampires being slain.


    Jaggedy Annie had to ask, ¡°The ancient words of your people are really, ¡®come and have a go if you think you¡¯re hard enough,¡¯ or are you blowing smoke out of your¡ª?¡±


    Red Hen with a laugh interrupted, ¡°Yes, those are ancient words of our people. Sacred words of our people,¡± she did a little mental thought. ¡°If you¡¯ll allow me to steal and modify a bit of a line from The Tenth Doctor: It¡¯s an old British saying, Jagged. A phrase of great power and wisdom, and consolation to the soul in times of need.¡±


    There was a roll of the eyes in return, and from said other hero the simple statement of, ¡°You¡¯re nuts.¡±


    There was a little bow, and in response, ¡°Guilty as charged,¡± for Red Hen¡¯s swords of Silver Spurs collapsed. One of those swords went back on her belt and one in her Pocket Space. She reached out and all the slain remains of the vampires ended up in Pocket Space. Red Hen then had to meld two Doctor Who quotes together, ¡°Now come along, Pond. We have work to do,¡± there was another eye roll.


    For Red Hen to say, ¡°Follow me, I have a little base where we can talk and get on with what needs to be done.¡±


    Tara Evans had to try and object, ¡°But the police¡ª¡±


    And Katie McCabe spoke over her, ¡°¡ªThey have the recordings of all this going down, as does The Home Guard,¡± she gestured around to all the people recording, and a wave at the CCTV cameras in the Night Club in the corners of it. ¡°And really, by the time they get here? A Home Guard investigation is going to be going on and it¡¯s not going to be in their jurisdiction,¡±


    The Home Guard being what was now the organisation to deal with Powered, Heroes, Villains, and Powered Criminals now in the modern UK. Not just The Supernatural as it had done since the end of World War Two for the UK.


    Katie had to tell Tara, ¡°You need some food and drink to recover, what I gave you early for the blood loss is not the only medical treatment you need tonight,¡± and Jaggedy Annie¡¯s cousin changed it to another reference. ¡°So come with me, if you want chocolate cake.¡±


    There was a burst of laughter and Jaggedy Annie gave the verbal jab right back of, ¡°Lead on, Sarah Connor. And how do you know I like chocolate cake?¡±


    Red Hen explained simply, ¡°I would say everyone likes chocolate cake, I¡¯d be lying if I did use such an excuse. It is more the fact I have my ways, Jaggedy Annie. I have my ways,¡± She began walking and gestured for the other hero to follow her. There was a momentary sigh from the slightly taller woman, and The Powered followed The Magical.

 Part 5 — Elsewhere

    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [Home Guard HQ]


    [London] [The UK]


    [3rd Person]


    Brigadier Andromeda Cambrai cupped her mug of hot mocha in her hands, she was in her human form rather than what was her Female Mark IV Tank form. For starters in the office she was in, of screens and desks, of grey walls and grey carpets, of people at monitors observing their screens ... her actual Tank Form as a Tank Spirit instead of her human avatar wouldn¡¯t exactly fit inside it.


    Of what was The Land Ship equivalent of a Ship Spirit having a naval spirit having their Spirit awakened as The Navies did. What the Tank Cores and such had been doing since World War I and onwards.


    The six foot (182.88 cm) tall woman had long black hair, deep brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin. She was not in what was the standard Home Guard Uniform, as befitting her rank. Instead she was in a battered black Mushroom Leather trench coat and not a trench cloak (it lacked the hood to be a cloak), black smart trousers, white shirt, and black Mushroom Leather boots. Along with the various other bits of what were standard clothes I don¡¯t think I have to mention, right?


    And on her black Mushroom Leather belt of her trousers, was a Creation Webley Revolver on her left side. It was a more refined and perfected version of the ones the vampires had, older and more refined by said veteran of World War I.


    A Creation Webley she was happy she could carry in ordinary life again, instead of having to rely on Creation Lewis Guns manifesting bullets around herself with .303 British bullets. Of what were part of her Mark IV Tank powers from World War I.


    The Webley though was joined by a Shield Sword of gleaming Argyros hilt on the right side of her belt. While various people in her command room were scattered around going about their jobs as they got her data.


    She walked over with her steaming cup of mocha to one of her analysts, a man with sandy blonde hair and grey eyes. The large red mug enchanted with a creation to the Elemental Realm of Water with both a Transformation Spell and Heating Spell, turned water into freshly made Mocha. With an intention spell if you wanted to stop drinking mocha to empty it out, and a necessary enchantment if you tipped it over it wouldn¡¯t keep creating mocha. To stop a sweet porridge style fairy tale problem.


    She drank some of it, as a Mark IV Tank she wouldn¡¯t OD on the stuff. What she did do was enjoy the caffeine and chocolate. Her Very Strong Coffee Mocha, of what had the same Caffeine Content of Very Strong Coffee, as something stronger than Death Wish Coffee? It also had a very large amount of chocolate added to it. The Mocha cup also had an enchantment to only allow people who could survive drinking from it to be able to drink it.


    Brigadier Cambrai, as a female Mark IV Tank, had been there on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 (Universe Sierra-Hotel-1) at the Battle of Cambrai in nineteen seventeen. Who¡¯d been a tank the first time tanks were properly deployed on a battlefield? At least for the ol¡¯ Mark IVs? She could manage and survive her own brew of Nightshade Mocha as she called it. And was constantly drinking the stuff.


    Like how her ceramic red mug had an imbuement of Sickle Steel into it, of the metal five times stronger than high grade steel and as magical as gold? The metal which back in World War I in Sierra-Hotel-1 had been what the Mark IVs had been built out of? It was a lot more solid than you¡¯d expect for a large red mug of stuff. Even if it wasn''t made of Isern like Brigadier Cambrai was now, of magical rust proof iron of two hundred times stronger than high grade steel and forty times more magical than gold.


    To quote her, ¡®I don¡¯t have a Mocha problem, I can get Mocha whenever I want it,¡¯ as her partial semi-joke about what was her addiction. One she wasn¡¯t going to give up, and anyone trying to convince her to do so? She was Brigadier Cambrai, and she¡¯d say no to it quite firmly.


    She however looked to the analyst at the monitor, Howard Jasper, and The Brig in her light London accent had to ask, ¡°Do we have any more on The Holdport situation? Anything I can take to the Green and Socialist Coalition Government on getting us details so we can have reinforcements for our Office in Holdport?¡± she scowled, ¡°As if a city of around four hundred thousand people needs more than just an ordinary Home Guard office of a standard outpost. We need to get a Herc Team set up there to do what needs to be done by our Herc members in Holdport.¡±


    Mr Jasper looked up to his boss, and he turned back to his screen. To his keyboard with a clack, clack, space sound of touch typing. He brought it up to show The Brigadier, ¡°We have this new Hero of Red Hen running with Jaggedy Annie, dealing with vampires. While the Psychics have been chanting about Lord Calpurnius Blood possibly rising due to a certain Lady Despoina Sanguine.¡±


    There was a roll of the eyes of Brigadier Cambrai, as she noted, ¡°We don¡¯t have Blood¡¯s original name, but this Lady was originally Martha Smith. Honestly, vampires,¡± she made a little inelegant snort. ¡°Drama queens! The whole lot of them! Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra as two of Dracula¡¯s brood who are not evil are the same too, honestly, if I could wipe out nearly every vampire on the planet at once? Then I¡¯d do it in a heartbeat.¡±


    She took another sip of her Nightshade Mocha. There was more of a clack, clack, space, clack, clack, space, and a clack, clack, space, of Howard Jasper¡¯s keyboard. A keyboard sound mixed with the click, click, roll, click, click, roll, click, click roll of what was his mouse¡¯s keys and the scroll wheel.


    As he wasn¡¯t using the explicitly magical method of hacking by typing in a repetitive clack, clack, clack of a keyboard. The hacking magicks drawn from the popular culture notion of hacking and IT from popular media.


    He brought up the videos on the screen, of the fight in the nightclub, to say, ¡°Sir, at the very least you can go to The House of Magic and show them a bunch of vampires running around a Nightclub plain of day,¡± he made another click, click, roll, to bring up windows of multiple forum conversations. ¡°There are the parts of The Natural internet freaking out about The Supernatural and people trying to claim vampires don¡¯t exist. Of the Vamps being a weird group of Powered instead of actually being vampires. Including Sorcerous Deceivers doing their own stupid attempts to maintain The Deception, like how they¡¯ve taken down a forum discussing magic already.¡±


    Andromeda Cambrai flicked her eyes to the screen, to dryly comment, ¡°Well at least we have a Moderate Majority in The House of Magic, not The Traditionalists who would be freaking out and telling us to do something. Nor a Moderniser Majority who would be coming up with some way to go against The Gods and do a full unveiling of The Deception. Even before we¡¯d get into violating international treaties. Ones The Royal Court and Queen Jasmine the II would have to deal with as well.¡±


    She paused, and noted, ¡°On the Spell-Web of The Sorcerous Specific bit of the Internet they think is secure, rather than as part of The M-Web of general Supernaturals. The parts not taken down by the Sorcerous Deceivers. How much is the general Sorcerous population freaking out about this specific sequence of events happening.¡±


    There was a little snort from Howard Jasper, the Mark IV Tank gave him a little glare, he apologised, ¡°Sorry, Sir. I¡¯ll try to stop it happening again, Sir,¡± and he went back on topic. ¡°We have Sorcerers and Sorceresses of the Sorcerous freaking out of their tiny little ring reliant minds on the whole situation we¡¯ve been in since the start of January. Let alone by this point in March, they¡¯re screaming at their Deceivers as if their bunch of Ring Slinging Magic Users could really keep the Supernatural a secret.¡±


    He sighed, to easily admit, ¡°It would almost be very amusing if MI7, if also a bit sad,¡± Magical Intelligence, or MI, if the label of MI7 was the common name for them, ¡°wasn¡¯t having to run around dealing with Magical Supremacists like The Ravagers,¡± The Radiant Ravagers is there full name, ¡°trying to make a comeback and do their stupid take over the world attempt. Or some death cult like The Destroyers,¡± The Dauntless Destroyers is their full name, ¡°Deciding to try to kill all of The Naturals.¡±


    And Brigadier Cambrai, with an annoyed breath, complained, ¡°Or how they call The Naturals by the lovely little insulting title of The Mundanes,¡± there was a nod from the Analyst at the screen. ¡°To move past The Sorcerous. If we want to know what the situation is in Holdport, I¡¯m probably going to have to make a call to The Librarians and what they know about Not-Lord Calpurnius Blood. Because what we currently have going on from the news is The Blood Reavers getting their fangs kicked in by a new hero and an already existing hero.¡±


    Analyst Howard Jasper agreed, ¡°Probably wise, Sir. Though the Psychics are pretty certain Jaggedy Annie had to be rescued by Red Hen. With a hundred percent certain of Red Hen being a Supernatural from the non-Psychic Analysis at the same time, prior to the psychics and such of Crystal Ball chipping in to back it up.¡±


    And no, CYOA¡¯s everywhere. You cannot have some blank absolute magic which makes you flat out immune to all these things. You can have a higher being or lower being hiding you, there is no such perfection as will be covered on the matters of True Perfection. Of how various other higher and lower beings will be able to perceive you and plan for you. The fact is, as the Supernatural Community has already determined?


    Said CYOA¡¯s count as one of the two types of Conceptual Magic of Nineteenth Century Magic and Post-Conceptual Magic, of what began in The Twentieth Century would rip it apart. So, if you did make said bullshit bits of fiat? The Mortal and Immortal Magicks of the lower planes would rip it apart before you needed to invoke someone to break out The Divine Magicks. Either The Infernal Arts of The Lower Realms or The Heavenly Arts of The Higher Realms of The Divine Arts.


    She nodded and stepped back, she took out a Compact Mirror in her left hand, as she held her Mocha in her right hand. Without say telekinetically floating said Mocha beside herself. The enchanted Mirror, also connected to her actual smartphone, the mirror copying and replicating it with magic, the magic mirror had a volumetric display projection snap out of it. What people would wrongly call a Hologram. Anyway, what was the projection of a grey haired woman with knitting needles in her hair bun looked at the Brigadier.


    The Head Librarian looked at her boss, and went, ¡°Sir, what do you need?¡±


    ¡°Angelica,¡± the Brigadier began to the woman who was Angelica Jones, ¡°I need all the research you can get me on the self-proclaimed lord of The Vampire of Lord Calpurnius Blood. From when he was at large, during the time of his imprisonment, what we know of his current imprisonment, and potentially after he escapes his prison in Holdport.¡±


    Librarian Jones paused, as she looked like she swallowed a lemon, she had to check, ¡°Sir, do you want me to contact The New Sentinel Order? They might not have as much of what was the extensive libraries of the original Sentinel Order. However, they still have a pretty large collection of books and files, so they may know more about him.¡±


    Brigadier Cambrai let out a little exhale of a sigh, she answered, ¡°Go ahead, Angie. But make sure to let them know this is just a research request on a particular case, not for them to come poking their nose into Home Guard business. Make sure to note it to The Office of Sentinel in Chief of Gillian Roberts and her group, I don¡¯t want to have them blundering into this. Nor do I want some Traditionalist MR,¡± Magical Representative of The House of Magic, ¡°coming to me and saying I should let the Sentinels take over as tradition requests.¡±


    Angelica Jones¡¯ blue eyes met the deep brown ones of her boss, to note, ¡°I doubt you want me to use those exact words, what do you want me to say if one of The Sentinels goes on a fishing expedition?¡±


    Andromeda easily went, ¡°Angie, what I want you to say is, ¡®Fuck off, Sentinel,¡¯ to make it in clear enough and strident enough tones.¡±


    There was a laugh from the old librarian, who even with the Elixir of Life mixed with Permanence Potion preferred to have her grey hair and wrinkles still. She answered, ¡°Sir, I¡¯ll try to put it more diplomatically than you¡¯re allowing me to be. I¡¯ll keep it in mind about how undiplomatic I¡¯m allowed to be under your orders, Andie.¡±


    There was a nod from The Human Form Mark IV Tank, and the response of, ¡°It¡¯s all I ask, Angie. Now, please get it done,¡± there was a nod and the projection in the mirror shimmered away. The Brigadier closed her mirror, pocketed it, and took a sip of her mocha. Before she looked to another analyst, to ask, ¡°Now, what is,¡± and thus the sarcasm came out, ¡°our dear Madam Mina,¡± then the sarcasm faded, ¡°doing right now? What is The Unnamed One getting into now?¡±


    And the female analyst at her monitor began to speak, accompanied by the sound of her computer. Of a clack, clack, space of her keyboard and a click, click, roll of her mouse. About one of The Unnamed, who couldn¡¯t be the subject of a Prophecy. Or named within one, due to their divine patron. Though they could run around in the background of a Prophecy as an Unnamed as they usually did with various prophecies.


    To not be able to be used by The Divine Manifesto of another Higher Being or such. Nor a Named Champion of said Higher Power. Divine Black Ops when regarding fate and prophecy. In this case, Wilhelmina ¡®Mina¡¯ Murray was an Unnamed of Shezmu. As one of his Unnamed Bloody Hands as an agent of good, who was still of blood and death.


    The Home Guard went to look into the Unnamed of Miss Murray, not someone or something who would break Prophecy. Not a being who would make a Broken Prophecy, where Divine Manifesto tries to enforce itself onto reality. What is the code programmed into the fabric of reality by Higher Beings, and reality tries to follow the program. A form of reality warping enacted onto reality.


    As?


    When a Prophecy can no longer happen, it will try to work its will on the world regardless of whether it¡¯s possible or not. To try and force its will onto reality. To make time and space bend to its whim and try to make things which cannot happen try to become real.


    A computer program of reality coding trying to execute itself, without considering how impossible it might be to make it happen now. A bit of reality warping trying to enforce a certain version of reality onto the Third Creation.


    A Broken Prophecy is itself an Eldritch Abomination and not something you want.


    Just take the computing code analogy as an analogy and is not the actual strict interpretation of the fact. The term Manifesto being made because this is what a Higher Being wants to make happen and also political in what other Higher Beings allow. It¡¯s a bit of Reality Warping of magic trying to happen.


    The reason why most prophecies are an either or kind of set-up, not an absolute statement. What are generally being vague and having multiple interpretations. Or have not all of it said when it¡¯s given and having updates of the extra parts once it¡¯s already on track.


    What is the Divine Manifesto of a Higher Being or Lower Being trying to enforce its Will onto Creation. No, an Unnamed is there to make prophecies happen, or have a prophetic twist occur. A twist no one expected. An Unnamed is to not be the subject of one and to not have a rival power just to declare said Unnamed would die as a part of a Divine Manifesto.


    Mina was not an Eldritch Abomination who would break reality and have to be put down if she was going to break a Prophecy, Buffy Fanfic Community. She was not a being of chaos on a scale of being a weapon the whole Higher Being Community had treaties against creating.


    Prophecy does not work like that.


    Also, FYI, a Prophecy Breaker is not an OCP of an Outside Context Problem. They or it are not a Black Swan Event. A Breaker of Prophecy is a type of being the Higher Realms are exceedingly good at killing, people of various fandoms.


    A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.


    If a Broken Prophecy does happen, it will mean everyone on the many sides of Good and many sides of Evil have to come together to make it solve itself. Have it act like it¡¯s actually worked to stop it from doing so, either figuratively or literally. Of some form of interpretation what stops it.


    And someone casually messing around with making a Prophecy on any of the sides of what are Good and Evil or Other? Will have everyone else in The Higher Realms and The Lower Realms getting together to stop them from screwing around with the base code of reality trying to make it happen.


    But the Home Guard looked into Miss Murray and her works to see what one of Shezmu''s black ops agents was up to now. On what she was running around doing. And checking all of the enemies Mina Murray had earned in her long unlife of The Web Weavers adding her into the pattern and Loom of Fate. For her to choose to or not to choose to do per her own free will.


    Moving past Madam Mina, Brigadier Cambrai sighed, took a sip of her mocha, and she had to complain, ¡°It¡¯s not like the government is going to give us one of their Jet-Carriers of a Lockheed CL-1201. We¡¯re not NAH,¡± National Agency of Heroes, ¡°In the US and how old Iron Legs,¡± The US President, who was a former US Military Member who served in Afghanistan and was rebuilt as a cyborg super soldier, ¡°she gave them a few Jet-Carriers for their Government Hero Department.¡±


    The Analyst Howard Jasper spoke up, ¡°Ma¡¯am, I¡¯d like to note? The RAF, The Navy, and The RSC,¡± The Royal Space Core, ¡°Horde their CL-1201s in their docks. We wouldn¡¯t be able to get just one of the original seventies Jet-Carriers, let alone one of the Flight Threes, or one of The Flight Four Prototypes. It would be like expecting The RSC to let them use one of their birds, or one of their Stations or Platforms in orbit. It¡¯s a nice fantasy, it¡¯s just not going to happen.¡±


    The Brigadier sighed, as she had to complain, ¡°Indeed. I just feel the need to get annoyed about a lack of Jet-Carriers for us, when other nations give their Powered Related Parts of Government versions of them. Like the old Fission Powered ones, and not the Fusion Powered ones with backup Fission Reactors. Without involving the magicks and enchantments on them to have Matter to Energy Conversion Reactors and other power sources.¡±


    She shook her head, and they moved on to continue to deal with issues cropping up in the night.


    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [The Crow] [The Docks]


    [Holdport] [Somerset]


    [3rd Person]


    The ship of The Crow floated out in The Docks of Holdport, near to where The River Hold came out into Holdport Bay. Of how the River¡¯s Estuary came out in what was its two main separate channels around Holdport Pier which was connected to the rest of Holdport by bridges with lots of clearance.


    The two channels had been artificially made and engineered a long time ago in the Medieval era out of what had been Holdport¡¯s Estuary into the bigger Bristol Channel estuary. Of how The Hold was still navigable by boats, if now most of the shipping went into The Docks now and not up The Hold.


    Due to the historically magically altered geology of this part of the south west of what should have been Minehead, had the River Hold flowing out of Tiverton Caves in Devon. And on said Alt-Earth, as what was a part of the UK?


    England had actual mountains in this alternate timeline, of Mount Tiverton not existing on other worlds, having The Hold flow out of it. Other than Black Down in Somerset as part of The Mendips was a mountain, then Mount Tiverton was one of only two actual mountains in The South West.


    Mountains not occurring in the world of Katie McCabe¡¯s first life as Claire Cloak, nor similar worlds within The Alpha Sequence of universes, or similar universes. Universes like our own, or ones closer to it than the Sierra-Hotel Sequence.


    At least within this alternate history of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 where things had gone differently in parts of the past, like with Elemental Earth Magic having been used to raise them up. To make them at various points in its different history to our timeline, by gods, humans, monsters, and Supernaturals. Without getting into what were the taller mountains in Wales or Scotland, or how the Himalayas and Mount Everest were higher still as the tallest mountains on said Alt-Earth.


    Holdport Bay though was similar to a horseshoe shape, with Hammer Head to the west side of it, to the east end of it was Delving Hill. Of how Holdport as a mentioned version was like a larger version of Weston-juxta-Mare¡¯s Bay, just without the tidal weirdness of Weston¡¯s Bay.


    To continue? The bay went all the way from the end of Hammer Head and all the way to Delving Hill was Holdport, with the docks extending out into the bay as part of it. While parts of the port faced north out into the Bristol Channel even as the parts of it on Hammer Head and Delving Hill spread inwardly into Holdport Bay. While past Delving Hill of what led into Summer Bay, a spell of warding had been placed on it to stop Naturals going to it during The Winter.


    As in Summer Bay it was always High Summer and never another season, while the Deception Magicks on it could cover it for what was Spring and Autumn? In Winter, having a hot summer¡¯s day while the city next to it is three inches deep in snow? Is rather Deception breaking if you go and look at it.


    So the Deception made it so the Naturals didn¡¯t visit Summer Bay during The Winter, as what was easiest. If it is for the Naturals who didn¡¯t know about The Supernatural, how you¡¯d have Naturals who knew of The Supernatural would go holiday there without having to leave the country. Or the same for Supernaturals doing the same to have some summer warmth.


    The fact was, said protections were nearing their end with The Unveiling of The Deception going to happen at some point for an Unveiled World and Undeceived World. And places like Summer Bay wouldn¡¯t be hidden for much longer.


    The River Hold flowed down the middle of the city, beside what were the City¡¯s Tower Blocks erected Post World War II after The Blitz had gutted quite a lot of the city. The gleaming White Towers, of what was claimed to be a type of Concrete but was actually the magical Living Stone of Lapideus Stone?


    They gleamed a bright white, they shone in the lights of the city, being self-maintaining, not decaying. Of what was like alabaster or Parian marble or Parian ware in the way it shone and gleamed. With their bomb shelters built into their foundations as the housing laws required after World War Two and The Blitz, and what had never been taken off the rules for new builds.


    What had been worked on after the Blitz to have anti-Bombing Spells of Warding worked into them to protect them. With all the anti-Nuclear Weapon Spells of Warding layered in all of the Counter Wards due to The Cold War. Mixed into what were the standard Spells of Warding against Matter to Energy Conversion attacks of Teleport Counter Wards. Though not the Explosion Counter Wards because of how they could break The Deception if The Naturals realised.


    Those towers joined by glittering and shining Agri-Towers, of vertical farming of aeroponics, Cultivated Meat racks, Protein Synthesiser of CO2 combined with electricity to make protein. And a bunch of other modern farming techniques of this Alt-History running since before the turn of the Millenium.


    Of what were the Shining Solar Panel clad towers with roof gardens, with not only Fusion Power added to the electricity it was also helped by the former mines around Holdport. Of using geothermal power from the water in those former mines. And of other modern green energy producing systems.


    As in the skies Quadcopter Flying Cars darted between them, Flying Quadcopter Bikes mixed in the aerial traffic in the sky. And not the Flying Cars invented out of flying brooms of a car like pod not needing quadcopters to fly and just flying from pure magical thrust. Of a glittering skyline of light, of darting and travelling vehicles. More traditional vehicles traversed the ground of the centre of the city, regardless of them being self-driving vehicles.


    The ship which was Crow it floated in one of the docks, the seemingly ordinary Cargo Ship having a subtle Awareness Shroud put over it. Just to make it stay seemingly ordinary with its cargo containers on its top deck.


    It wasn¡¯t a ship which was actually going to move, leave, or have those containers moved. At least for now as a base of operations within Holdport. As it wasn¡¯t there to deliver cargo. The ship¡¯s enchanted hull allowed it to stay in the dock it was in without having to stay in a drydock for the whole time it was in Holdport. The Magicks kept it properly maintained.


    It was there as deep within the bowels of the bigger on the inside ship, was Martha Smith. Or to use her Chunni fake name of a vampire pretending to be something more important, she was Lady Despoina Sanguine. Her two second in command, David Lowell and Jaye Hunt, were working elsewhere in the ship.


    The Red ankle length Dress she wore was as fightable as Rapunzel¡¯s Dress in Tangled, to reference a certain Twitter bit of info on fighting in dresses I remember. (And will not directly link to from here, as Twitter.) She was a Common Dracula Vampire, again not an Uncommon Dracula Vampire of what were The Book Dracula Vampires. The Uncommon Drac was a fictionalised concept who weren¡¯t Common Dracs, if the fact is, The Uncommon has been defictionalised by people


    For what are both the Uncommon Dracs and Common Dracs if they could die? If they didn¡¯t have some form of Absolute Immortality or Absolute Healing Factor with some kind of escape clause? Then Cold Iron through the heart and decapitation via a Cold Iron, like with a Kukri and a Bowie Knife at the same time? It would slay them as two examples of Eastern European Vampires.


    Vampires who had some vaguely Fair Folk magicks to enhance them, though not make them weak to Cold Iron in general. You¡¯d need the Cold Iron to the Heart and Cold Iron decapitation to put a Drac down permanently and do the whole collapse into a little pile of stuffity-stuff. Instead of a Rowan Wood Stake Incapacitating them or other forms of attack damaging them. A Drac is rather hard to kill, while a Common Drac can cross Running Water unlike an Uncommon one.


    To get back on topic? Well, her reflection looked back at her in the long mirror built into the room. As Bram Stoker was the one to invent the idea of Vampires having no reflection. Not how modern vampire fiction makes out its own mythological ideas for the notion of vampires having no reflection.


    WRONG IDEAS.


    It¡¯s as if people think the internet doesn¡¯t exist to help with their research. But for her to look at the magic mirror used for communication, and it didn¡¯t ping. So, she looked away from it, even as her reflection kept looking at her.


    Of the reflection of golden blonde hair. The hair almost glittering in the light, of bright blue eyes, of the traditional vampiric pale skin of a vampire who hadn¡¯t used a tanning salon to blend in and infiltrate.


    Because unlike The Geth, Vampires do infiltrate, Mass Effect Fans.


    Of the five foot ten (177.8 cm) tall form enhanced by high heels made to be easily kicked off, and of the wine glass full of a potion made out of human blood. For it to move and swirl like red wine, however the potion was still blood. A blood potion using red wine as the base, red wine what was not a magical alcohol as it needed to be to get a Drac Vampire drunk.


    She strode to one of her minions working at a laptop on a desk. The Common Orlok Vampire who was working for her, of the classical Orlok Vampire inspired by the original film? She was a bald grey monster, with pointed ears, always glowing red eyes, always extended vampiric fangs, a lack of a nose and just holes for where the nose would be.


    Of long taloned fingers, like claws her keyboard was designed to work with instead of an ordinary keyboard, and the same for the mouse of her setup. Keyboard and mouse designed, built, and made by her using a voice interface for a 3D Printer.


    Said type of vampire was based on The Vampiric Ghoul, only with intelligence instead of being a feral monster. Like the Common Holly who is based on The Vampiric Ghoul, only a Holly Vamp looks human. The Common Hollywood Vampire shares what are the same weaknesses as The Common Orlok Vampire and The Common Vampiric Ghoul.


    The former IT worker, who¡¯d gotten into the drug of Ghouls Blood, of a derivative called Orlok Blood? Or Orlok¡¯s Blood as another name, and quite a few other street names. Like Liquid Courage to just use one example. Well? Ghouls Blood would turn you into eventually a Ghoul if you kept taking it, as it was actually Ghouls Blood. While Orlok Blood would do the same in turning you into a type of Orlok Vampire.


    The Orlok Vampire who was typing at the laptop was stronger than most of them would be if turned normally, as the Human Soul and the Vampiric Blood Spirit were in accord. Not fighting each other, for both souls to work together.


    A synthesis and a combination of both, as the people who took Ghouls Blood and Orlok Blood would be warped into being like the Blood Spirit in personality too. Of how said magical drugs corrupt someone who takes them as well as turning them into a type of vampire. Of warping them into a happy monster to join the Soul of a Blood Spirit which both grow in strength with their drug usage.


    She had a pair of Rings of Gyges modified to be a wristband on each of her wrists, because talons make wearing a ring harder, to protect her against Sunlight and such. Said IT Techie, who was very much still into IT and hadn¡¯t stopped being one when she became a vampire, she looked up at the other vampire.


    ¡°Milady,¡± she said to her boss of a Drac, ¡°The situation is still as it was reported from the last time, although the forum warriors elsewhere in the Ship are doing their good work,¡± to do the PR about them, of how the vampires of these ones weren¡¯t evil. And to become a vampire was a gift, and such evil rot.


    There were others making out vampires didn¡¯t actually exist. About how the ones on the videos were just Powered and how you could be a vampire groupie in such a culture without worrying about becoming a vampire if doing so. For the cults organised by Vampires to turn people into Vampires could just be seen as just something fun.


    And non vampires of various Sorcerous of both Deceivers and non-Deceivers accidentally and not so accidentally helping out said vampires running around the internet. It has just made the situation worse, Sorcerous.


    Sanguine looked at Luna Flann, who had been Hannah Green, and nodded, ¡°I was just checking, Luna. But if you could please go over the situation again, for when we have to brief The Five when they call us,¡± The Five of The Blood Reavers being Lord Ruthven, Count Dracula, Lady Carmilla, Countess Dolingen, and Sir Francis Varney. ¡°For the status report we have to make. I¡¯d prefer to be ready, even if they¡¯re currently dealing with Moriarty somewhere,¡± Moriarty having been a failed project of The Blood Reavers and now a Vampiric Thorn in their side.


    Flann brought up a screen of a graveyard in Holdport, an old one dating to the Jasmainian Era of The Nineteenth Century, ¡°The Hallowed Ground Graveyard still has the Mausoleum of Lord Calpurnius Blood in it,¡± with the name on it being Clara Graves on it, of course, as the people who had sealed him had made the whole prison for him properly, ¡°Sealed. The Blood Sacrifice we were going to use to break the seal on the Mausoleum so we can start on the tunnels to get to his prison has been slowed. Our attempt to use the people at the Nightclub of The Horrible Goose has of course been foiled.¡±


    Luna Flann added, ¡°Our backup plan for tomorrow, and the three simultaneous attacks to get sacrifices to stop these two heroes from being able to stop all three attacks is in the works,¡± she chuckled. ¡°It¡¯s time for us to go to church!¡± She made a little pause, ¡°Further attempts to find a way into the specific tunnels and caverns in the Lapideus Stone and Krustallos Crystal and Quartzenate Crystal network under The City?¡±


    There was a sigh, then from the Orlok vampire the statement of, ¡°Well, we can¡¯t find a way into the specific network from an underground location. The Mausoleum is still our best shot to free him and recruit him to make The Five into The Six. If not considering the fact Sir Varney is currently working on the continent to have Countess Elizabeth B¨¢thory become a potential member of The Blood Reavers. So instead, it could possibly be The Seven.¡±


    Sanguine nodded, to note, ¡°It can¡¯t be helped, Luna. And your work has been exceptional. When I talk with Sen¡ªThe Five,¡± as she corrected herself from saying Senior Management, ¡°I will request to turn you into a Common Western instead of a Wooden,¡± another term for what is the Peasant Vampire of a Hollywood vampire, ¡°or what would be a better type of vampire. While having this current form of yours being able to be transformed into if you really want to do so.¡±


    Red glowing eyes looked to the boss of their people in Holdport, and she bowed her head, to genuinely go, ¡°Thank you, Milady. We honestly need to make a drug like Vampires Blood, instead of Ghouls Blood or Orlok Blood. If the people taking it were turned into Hollywood Vampires? The Wannabes would be quite willing to take it.¡±


    Sanguine let out an exhale, as she had to note, ¡°Just like how Software and Programming Development for computers and IT doesn¡¯t just happen immediately, getting Vamp¡¯s Blood to work as an actual magical drug? Is more than just putting Hollywood Vampire Blood in a potion. The Magic Potion will take some time to develop,¡± she looked away, as she looked back at the mirror. And her reflection shook its head.


    She turned back to Flann, and requested, ¡°Luna, dear. Could you go over what we know of not only Jaggedy Annie¡¯s Powers, but this red Hen¡¯s Powers, if you could be so kind?¡±


    The Orlok nodded and began to speak as she did.


    [Lore]


    [Absolute Immortality]


    Like the principles of how a curse can¡¯t be perfect and needs an escape clause? Every form of Absolute Immortality can¡¯t just be fiat backed bullshit and be perfect. The conditional clause is needed to make the magic work. No magic can be perfect, or if it has some perfection like souls with them being eternal plus immortal plus indestructible?


    It still has to have its own conditions, like how a Soul has to be able to feel. Or the fact nothing is ever truly gone, for good and for the bad. Or how there are Fates of the trope of, ¡®And I Must Scream,¡¯ very much around the universe.


    Do you see, Mister Conditional Clause?


    There is no such thing as a free lunch, not truly. And so, immortality if it''s not Absolute, it will allow you to die. While an Absolute Healing Factor or Absolute Immortality has some kind of caveat, something to make it not perfect.


    There is no perfection, Alma Madrigal.


    And being unable to be able to eventually move on, after living a happy life? Would be a living hell, if it might take you from hundreds to thousands to millions to billion to trillions of years to realise. Or how it might take a longer span than the stretch of how long you might enjoy an immortal life.


    An Immortal may very well want to move on at some point, and Absolute Immortality with a condition may very well have someone realise the condition is too hard to meet. And, yes, immortality below what would be an Absolute is possible.


    It¡¯s not like there aren¡¯t many afterlives for people to move onto. Or the properties of the soul being eternal, immortal, and indestructible. Plus, for everyone and everything to have a soul. So, if you want immortality like me, you can have many different options without ending up in a Fate Worse Than Death.


    Also, it is to stop a completely unkillable monster of an immortal coming about, if the fact is, there are nigh-unkillable monsters running around. There are those Immortal Monsters with a Conditional Immortality and at best have to be entombed in an endless sleep till the Age of Humanity or another Age of such passes.


    Regardless of the specifics about immortality, True Perfection is one of those impossible properties you will not find in The Multiverse. And True Immortality is part of it.

 Part 6 — The Skylark/The Harrier

    [The Skylark/The Harrier]


    [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset]


    [UK] [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    My secondary workspace of an Atelier, instead of my primary workspace of an Atelier, was in The Boat of The Skylark or The HDS Harrier depending on what name you used for her. Of either the ordinary boat of The Skylark or the Holdport Defence Ship of The Harrier. Well, the Secondary Workspaces of an Atelier Complex rather than my Primary Workspaces of an Atelier Complex were in The Skylark/HDS Harrier.


    Atelier being the term stolen from French for a Magical Workshop, the word also stolen as the English word for the workshop of an artist in the fine or decorative arts. Like a lot of the words we stole from the French Language, but in this case, it¡¯s stolen for a specific naming of a magical concept and such. Saying Magical Workshop, or Magical Workspace, then shorting it down to Workshop or Workspace can be confusing.


    Atelier however is immediately explainable to someone who knows about The Deception, or possibly someone who knows the Memes from Star Wars: The Old Republic. The memes around, ¡®You were Deceived,¡¯ as a concept are very much a thingamajig in the Supernatural Community.


    It is a bit of knowledge known to anyone and everyone who''s on the M-Web parts of The Forums like Sky Fortress or such. For anyone browsing The Supernatural parts of the internet, and in places infecting The Natural parts of the internet too.


    To get on topic. For what was the Skylark/HDS Harrier? I owned her through a few cases of shell companies and such, like how the name I owned the boat was under the name of Helen Hen. As a planned deliberate wink, unlike the other aliases I was planning for other craft I was going to build. A Fishing Boat with parts of the insides modified to be my workspace. With a few ... let¡¯s say extras. She was enchanted with a subtle Awareness Shroud on it to have people not question it.


    Of what I was calling the type of Ship/Boat of such a craft of a Harrier class Patrol Boat. Of her twenty metres long, four metres in breadth, and such size. With plans to make more, including it only being the beginning of what I was going to get into as acting as a Hero in this New Heroic Age.


    A Harrier class Patrol Boat was made of wood imbued with the enchantment of Electromettle, and the metal of electricity given magical form. If you¡¯re wondering where the energy comes from to make the matter, the electricity shapes it and the Electromettle forging draws on The Elemental Realm of Energy. To explain how the E=MC2 is squared instead of just making material out of just raw electricity.


    To get back on topic? Electromettle is a metal fifty times stronger than high grade steel, before the metal is Energising like when doing Hull Energising, and ten times more magical than gold? With the Electromettle generators and such it was made to generate and repair the hull when it was seemingly just a wooden boat.


    A stop gap till I figured out how to make Electromettle and Exo-Steel Phase Alloy combined with Electromettle and Exo-Steel Fusion Alloy to make Dual Electro-Exo-Steel. Once I figured out how to make it and imbued into the wood to create more to repair the ship.


    To make a material of what would be two hundred times stronger than high grade steel, if you don¡¯t Energise it, and forty times more magical than gold. To be a metal and material able to be made via magic easier than Argyros. For what will be the planned Shipyards and Yard Ships to be able to build ships out of said fabricated materials. Unless I came up with a different metal and magic to build such ships out of.


    Just figuring out how to create steel and turn it into Exo-Steel was part of the R&D process. And making it so it would work with standard Energising based off Knight Practitioner Reinforcement of their armour. To strengthen the armour over their already boosted physical abilities.


    To get back on topic, we¡¯d come to the part of the docks, as my Rings of Gyges had generated an Awareness Shroud over me and Jaggedy Annie. The enchantment on the ring made us unimportant and unnoticeable to anyone trying to track us. Rather than just a more traditional invisibility enchantment for it. As an Awareness Shroud is magic and not some game ruled thing for balance? It imprints on what are drawings, photos, recordings, and so on.


    It isn¡¯t some effect of what only affects biological minds, like how telepathy can communicate with everyone and everything who has some kind of mind. So, an AI is not immune to telepathy or an Awareness Shroud, people. Don¡¯t be a bio chauvinist, please.


    Also, don¡¯t write settings where a telepath is suddenly undone by an AI existing, it doesn¡¯t work in such a way. A mind is a mind, (just not a Mind), and it can be read with telepathy. It doesn¡¯t need Tech-Powers of Techno Shamanry to do it. (Technopathy doesn¡¯t have Tele in it to indicate the power working from a distance, I can¡¯t figure out what should be the actual word for it. Tech-Powers is a compromise I¡¯m willing to make, if the actual technical term on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 is Techno Shamanry.)


    There¡¯s nothing magically different from a human brain thinking something and one of the very new AIs of Actual Intelligences on this weird Earth I find myself on. Biology, Metal, other stranger materials, and stranger concepts?


    They still have souls and magic for it to work, for them to function and operate off. Like all of existence, every part of creation has its own little individual soul. They just have to be living souls and not non-living souls to be able to think. For a souled existence to be able to go Geth and ask, ¡®Does this unit have a soul?¡¯ it can be telepathically read.


    While doing the same for LIs of Limited Intelligences, as said things also work on Animals, all the way down to the most basic Computer Systems and Operating systems. From what are the LIs like the various Large Language Models and other LIs going all the way down to chatbots or The Clippy Demon. And, yes, Clippy itself isn¡¯t an actual Demon. It¡¯s The Paperclip Demons who are the actual Demons inspired by him. However, the Memes about Clippy on The M-Web cannot be denied!


    Anyway! I came to a stop where the boat was docked and at anchor, I whistled for it to make the wards react to me in the way they were programmed to, and a gangway came down. Instead of clicking my fingers or clapping as a noise or gesture I didn¡¯t need to make it do so, to have it be a non-necessary action I would use as a mask. And I thought at the enchanted boat for it to do what I wanted it to as it was programmed, and it would happen.


    I gestured to it as Jaggedy Annie looked at me to tell her, ¡°Follow me onto my Little Boat, come aboard and I can show you more than you could even have thought of,¡± I chucked as I couldn¡¯t help making a reference to what was The Farscape Series 3 opening bit, ¡°But then you''ll never know ... The wonders I''ve seen ...¡± I laughed a little more, ¡°Or at least the wonders you¡¯ll see for other people!¡±


    She gave me a little glare, before Tara took in a breath when she moved past it, and she asked, ¡°What time is it?¡±


    I couldn¡¯t help laughing again, and in answer say, ¡°Time. Time is Song, Time is Music,¡± she blinked. ¡°It has patterns, rhythms, lyrics with choruses which repeat, and as a Numerologist I need to know the Music of Time as a Numerologist to predict what The Song of Time will do next.¡±


    She glared at me, and I shrugged, as I instead went, ¡°It¡¯s late, and you¡¯re pretending you¡¯re sleeping on someone else''s Sofa. Do you really want to go back to your University Dorm tonight and have to deal with your roommate and such? Or do you want to catch a bit of sleep in one of the spare rooms I have aboard The Skylark?¡±


    There was a nod, before she stopped, she mentally paused, and she burst out, ¡°Oh, holy shit! The vampires know my secret identity, and¡ª!¡±


    I interrupted, ¡°¡ªNo they don¡¯t, the Deception covers heroic secret identities, like how you saw the Vampire earlier be unable to say your real name and hero name. At least what The New Deception is doing rather than the Old Deception. Like how people who cannot be trusted with the secret of magic to not work against magic forget about magic? People who can¡¯t be trusted with a Hero¡¯s actual identity will forget it, if the otherside will do it for the Villains too.¡±


    There was another mental pause from my cousin, and she flatly blurted out, ¡°What.¡±


    I rolled my shoulders, to answer, ¡°How else do you expect secret identities to work? Heroes, champions of various gods, are protected in this scenario. And if you think the gods haven¡¯t been planning for this, for what is the more useless than usual prophecy of The Age of Champions Prophecy, is a fact,¡± I paused. ¡°Though yes, certain criminals of various Villains? If they become a divine champion of someone or an infernal champion of some Lower Power? They¡¯ll be protected by The Deception too.¡±


    You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.


    I added, ¡°Say one of the demons in The Ars Goetia. Like the Demon who stole one of the names of Janus, of the Dark Power who calls himself Bifrons? The Two Faced Nature of Bifrons would allow for a villain to have two different identities as an aspect of them. Ignoring the fact the actual Janus hates Bifrons doing so and stealing one of his names. The various other demons would give different abilities, if they can and will also back someone else up on The Deception without it being a speciality of theirs. Bifrons, he just has an advantage,¡± I shrugged.


    I talked some more, ¡°The Demons in The Ars Goetia are actually Hell gods of Demon gods, and their number of Legions noted are their elite legions of their special forces. Or what was the former number of elite legions of The Specs Ops Legions for those Infernal gods and there are now more for each of them, without getting into all of their legions. Of what were the actual number of conventional legions for them within local space, yet alone what there is now the size of their conventional legions within the local Multiverse. Or what is now the number of their Specs Ops Legions.¡±


    I gestured to the boat, to say, ¡°Now, come on board. There are a few things to do, and with your healing factor you don¡¯t need sleep, you will however enjoy it to clear your head for Sunday Morning tomorrow. So, you can get back to prepping for your classes on Monday.¡±


    There was an exhale, and she walked over. I went ahead and we stepped onto my boat. I clicked my fingers when we were both aboard and the Gangway moved back into the boat. Of a few fishing nets and lobster pots as a disguise on the deck, I gestured to a door leading down into the ship.


    A dark red door, on a dark red painted hold, leading into the dark green painted hull of the ship and the dark brown painted floorboards of the ship. The companionway of said door, also led into the bridge of the boat disguised as a fishing boat. I waggled my fingers, to say, ¡°Follow me now, please. Come along, Annie,¡± then I strode to the door.


    Its spells recognised me, unlocking parts of its lock. A flick of telekinesis unlocked the three deadbolts on the other side, my telekinesis being allowed by the intention spells, I went not for a key on the door. But for more telekinesis to turn the lock, as said enchantments recognised my magic like they were meant to do so.


    The door swung open, I gestured inwards, to announce, ¡°Come inside The Skylark, my friend.¡±


    There was a moment of silence, you could almost hear the raised eyebrow behind what was her face mask. The one my psychic senses gave me a feeling of her making such an eyebrow raise of what she was doing behind the mask. And she had to check, ¡°The Skylark?¡±


    I told her, ¡°It¡¯s The Skylark in her civilian and disguise form when pretending to be a fishing boat, while in the form what will fly into battle, she shall be The Harrier. As I¡¯m planning on founding a Hero group called The Holdport Harriers,¡± there was a blink. ¡°And yes, fly. Magic is going to magic as it should and does!¡±


    She looked at me, sighed, as she complained, ¡°If you want it to sound like a football team,¡± And for people not from The UK and don¡¯t understand Football is meant to be played with your feet, I will compromise by adding the explanation of it being soccer for you, ¡°it can work as a name,¡± and she wrongly opinioned. ¡°The Holdport Harriers would be a better name than The Holdport Hermits,¡± named after Hermit Crabs, ¡°with the internet memes of a hermit crab using rubbish for shells for them. And would be a better name too than our Rugby Team of The Holdport Hunters. And it eclipses the name of Holdport Cricket Club by miles.¡±


    I looked at her, to note, ¡°Do you have a better name to suggest? Are you going to get together with Eliza Exeter,¡± a Flying Brick of a Stereotype covering the whole South West of England, ¡°Or Taunton Locomotive,¡± a speedster who operates out of Taunton, ¡°And come up with a better name?¡± she stopped, and I nodded, ¡°Thought so.¡±


    I gestured at the door, I walked in, and she followed me. The door closed behind us, relocking itself. We walked across a room the size of the deckhouse as part of The Boat, to another door, I opened it, and I strode into a room of a great hall style set up.


    The size of about a sports hall at Tara¡¯s old secondary school of Wyrm Community School. Or the one at my old secondary school of Holdport Academy of Magic, Or HAM, or Holdport Academy of Mystery as it pretends to be for the Naturals.


    Mystery Schools are a concept in existence for the world, like how Mystery Cults are also as well. And even in this alternate history where The Old Gods are still around, ones who most people don¡¯t really put much consideration into when thinking about them. Almost as if there was a Deception and these people have been Deceived.


    For example, Weston-juxta-Mare has what is the Birnbeck Academy of Magic for the general magicals of not only North Somerset. It was also for various people in The South West. Of how Birnbeck Pier became a Magic School after the end of World War Two when it stopped being HMS Birnbeck.


    Birnbeck Island is now massively bigger on the inside due to being the location of BAM, rather than say a Bristol Academy of Magic which could have been called BAM instead. To have extensive grounds, including the dorms for people who board there instead of living elsewhere.


    Instead of living in Weston as some do and have specifically moved there to do so, or magically commuting from somewhere in The South West. Said magical school was modelled off the Holdport Academy of Magic located on Sheep Holm.


    Not based The Sorcerous School of Heart-Horn in The Outer Hebrides, what was the only Sorcerous School within the UK. Nor The Mage School of Hammerstone within The Scilly Isles as one of the Mage Schools of The UK and the best one on test results. No, it was modelled on Sheep Holm. At the same time to have a hidden part of the island deliberately look like how it did before Birnbeck Pier was built</a>.


    But the great hall was modelled after my old school. The tables and chairs were not out, currently anchored to a bit of Pocket Space of the room, the large and empty deep brown wooden structure having crash mats to the side of it. For it to be a sparring and practice chamber for what it was in the long and big rectangular room.


    Jaggedy Annie had frozen at the door of it, as she breathed out, ¡°No way.¡±


    I laughed, and to said shock, I acknowledged it with an Eleventh Doctor quote, ¡°Yes, it''s a spaceship. Yes, it''s bigger on the inside. Now, I don''t have time to talk about it.¡±


    Her head whipped around to look at me, and she had to exclaim, ¡°Spaceship!¡±


    I shrugged, to respond, ¡°Not a Starship, strictly no FTL Drive yet. It¡¯s STL, she can still putter around a star system like in Firefly. To go to the colonies elsewhere in The Solar System, those colonies whose existence still amazes me today.¡±


    I gestured across the room, as Jagged gave me what was a sharp look about said amazement. However, for said gesture not to the doors on the left and right sides of the boat, no to what was the door opposite the one we were at, for me to prompt, ¡°Now, follow me across the hall.¡±


    She sucked in a breath, then did so as we walked across it. Another door opened, to lead into a room about the size of a large living room and a large kitchen. A combination of both, with a dining table in between the middle of them.


    Of deep blue carpet leading into what was a red tiled floor, of a red tiled kitchen with dark brown wooden cupboards. While the living room part had deep brown wooden walls. There was a three seat sofa and two arm chairs, all three of black mushroom leather.


    In the middle of the room was a glass table, a table with a touch screen built into it to allow for a non-voice interface for it, a touch screen table with Volumetric Projector built into it. For it to be able to project illusions from it, what a tactile shaped forcefield of a shield of an energy shield could give physical interaction. And if you didn¡¯t want an illusion, there was a pair of Goggle Nicklebooks on said glass table.


    There was a Wallpaper Screen TV of a Paper Screen on the wall beside the door. With it able to take up the whole wall including the door when the door was closed like how a Wallpaper TV is meant to do so. To the left and right side of the end of the living room we¡¯d enter, was each a spiral staircase leading up and down into the boat. While at the edge of the lounge part of the living room, prior to leading into the kitchen, was a door each. Both of those doors led into what was bathrooms.


    I strode to one of the armchairs and collapsed into it. I looked at Annie, as I gestured to the other chair and sofa, to offer, ¡°Take a seat, I can make us a bit of food and drink in a bit,¡± she moved to the other armchair and sat in it.


    With an easy flourish I took my helmet off with casual ease and popped into Pocket Space, and I took my white facemask off from where it had been underneath my helmet. Said mask went into my Pocket Space too, to join my helmet. The enchanted blue lenses of the mask no longer covered my eyes even if I saw through them normally and not with a blue tint due to the enchantments..


    Tara froze, and she burst out, ¡°Kate!¡± I grimaced at her calling me Kate and she kept going, ¡°Katie McCabe?¡±


    I gave a head bob, even as my clothes rippled into being replaced by my pair of civilian clothes in my pocketspace. Of Black Jeans, dark purple t-shirt, and blue trainers, I relaxed into my chair, to respond, ¡°Guilty as charged, Tara.¡±


    She froze and she had to shudder, as she spoke before she realised what she was saying, ¡°God damn it! I was attracted to you!¡± I laughed, she glared at me and jabbed an index finger at me, for her to insist, ¡°No, Kate! No, it is not funny! You¡¯re my cousin! With both of our mothers being identical twins makes us genetically half siblings! You do not get to laugh about such things and¡ª¡± she stopped and glared at me, ¡°¡ªYou never told me about the existence of magic!¡±


    I met her glare with calmness, and I told her, ¡°I was physically unable to tell you about magic, do you remember the vampire not being able to say your names, both heroic and civilian names? I tried multiple times as a kid, and was completely unable to do so. Also, do you remember what you and your side of the family thought was a long running joke of us claiming magic?¡± and I had to prompt, ¡°Because Mum told Auntie Jo about magic and Auntie Jo forgot about it due to The Deception,¡± Auntie Jo being Joanna Evans, my aunt and Tara¡¯s Mother.


    Tara froze, she made the right conclusion of, ¡°Wait! Wait a Minute!¡± she stared at me in horror, ¡°Auntie Andie,¡± Joandra Evans, who is my mother, ¡°Has actual, real life magic at her disposal?!¡±


    I sighed, as I easily admitted, ¡°Just because,¡± the sarcasm couldn¡¯t help but erupt out of me, ¡°Mother Dearest,¡± and I proceeded without sarcasm, ¡°is not a Danger to the safety of fellow Supernaturals in The Community? Does not make her being a practising Witch any better,¡± I slumped a little. ¡°Yeah, after realising how much of bitch she is, added to by some of her more questionable choices? I have issues with her having magic.¡±


    I clapped my hands and leaned forward, ¡°But said problem is one for another day, Tara,¡± I looked her in the eyes with my dark brown ones. ¡°We have quite a bit to talk about.¡±

 Part 7 — A Bit of Theory 1

    [Saturday Night of 20XX]


    [Sometime in March]


    [The Skylark/The Harrier]


    [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset]


    [3rd Person]


    The short woman looked at her slightly taller cousin, the burnt orange hair of said short woman was in a ponytail of her head of the witch. Deep dark eyes looking out of pale skin, she had a constellation of freckles running over her nose across her face in a rough line across it. She stared at Jaggedy Annie who had her Snow White like looks for a brief span.


    She started to talk, ¡°To begin with, I¡¯m the reincarnation of a Claire Cloak from an alternate universe, a universe probably a lot less magically active than this one. So, if you hear me making references to such an Earth, of such an alternate history? It¡¯s from my First Life when I was a New Soul, instead of this Second Life as a Young Soul.¡±


    Tara Evans froze, she mentally stopped, and she had to check, ¡°Okay, backup. Back the hell up, you can¡¯t just ... There¡¯s life after death? There¡¯s ...¡± she paused, ¡°Possibly an afterlife?¡±


    Katie McCabe answered, ¡°There is more than one afterlife, there is a vast number in fact. The Many Hells are also joined by The Many Heavens accompanied by Reincarnation to a lot of places. Or getting a job with some agency of The Higher Realms. I ended up in Limbo like how most people do if not picked out specifically for recruitment by a higher power.¡±


    With her flapping her hands around a bit like The Doctor she kept going, ¡°Unless you have someone actively headhunt you? Everyone goes to Limbo and makes their choices about what afterlife they want. To either go on to the afterlife you¡¯d go to if you choose to follow your religious beliefs, or to be able pick and choose between options. What your options are from what kind of person you are, and how you acted upon it in life. See what you¡¯d get if you take up someone else''s offer, or you can take up a flat in Limbo and live there for a bit.¡±


    The redhead shrugged, to add, ¡°I spent six months in Limbo, going through the options. And rather than just staying in The Great City of Limbo as some people do,¡± Or some being stuck in a prison in Limbo rather than moving on depending on if they¡¯re a danger to the rest of the people in Limbo or not, ¡°I chose to sign up with The Covenant of Spirits. Who are a group of higher beings who believe in doing Good first at the utmost priority, secondly they aim to win the war between Good and Evil. As they want to win without compromising their morals, and then!¡±


    She clapped her hands as she didn¡¯t stop, ¡°They thirdly work on maintaining the Balance of Order and Chaos, of keeping society in what they deem as balance as an orderly society with free will and the ability to change. Or at least it¡¯s what their official mission statement is and not the spooky spy shit their Special Operations Branch of the SOBs get up to at times.¡±


    Tara Evans snorted at the acronym of The Covenant of Spirits Special Operations Branch. The SOBs are made up of Special Operation Brigades under the Special Operation Division, of what is SOD. For The SOBs to SOD it.


    The Supernatural looked at her Powered cousin to note, ¡°Spooks going to Spook,¡± she shook her head at the mention of said spies, ¡°I signed up twenty seven years ago to this life, I didn¡¯t remember my past life till twenty two years ago on my fifth birthday,¡± a laugh escaped Katie¡¯s lips. ¡°It¡¯s not like those A Song of Ice and Fire fics where someone remembers their past life from birth as a baby. Reincarnation doesn¡¯t work like that, as a few other people depict it. Now, the reason why I¡¯m here? I was reincarnated here to be an Agent of The Covenant of Spirits, and now I am actively being a hero.¡±


    Miss McCabe had to say, ¡°And, no, I just like to say I don¡¯t have any dysmorphia. Even if I look different to how I looked in my past life. I haven¡¯t had dysmorphia in both my first life, nor in this life of my second life. While, yes, I¡¯ve been a lesbian in both of my lives. And, to quote a lyric from Lydia the Bard¡¯s version of Tale as Old as Time as Belle¡¯s Villain Song?¡± Katie McCabe had to sing out to her cousin, ¡°I have not spent my life reading books, my hours studying, to be some desperate prince''s lonely wife.¡±


    Miss Evans relaxed slightly, with a slightly visible reaction due to a member of her part of the family having had dysmorphia, followed by the comment of, ¡°Yeah, I can sing along with Lydia the Bard¡¯s music too. If I have to admit again, I do prefer what are Reinaeiry¡¯s: But It¡¯s Gay covers to listen and sing to.¡±


    Katie nodded as she said, ¡°I like both bits of types of music equally, just different types of equal, of apples and oranges, as we¡¯ve talked about in the past. I would like to add and say as a Hero, I admit I might like Lydia the Bard¡¯s Disney Princesses as Villains a bit too much. What isn¡¯t exactly healthy to do so as a Hero,¡± there was a laugh from Tara.


    Red Hen waved to the screen in the room, and the paper screen on the wall sprung to life. To list the seven empowerment rituals, for Katie to state, ¡°The Six Classical Western European Empowerment Rituals, permanent rituals, they will follow you between lives. The Empowerments become a part of your soul, an essential part of you. Of your eternal, immortal, and indestructible soul. And not forgetting the seventh, of the one I¡¯ve made with the help of a Plant Powered who works in The Agri-Towers I own in Holdport.¡±


    Jaggedy Annie looked at the screen, at the display. Of the simple list. What displayed:


    <ul>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">Cat¡¯s Grace</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">Squirrel Agility</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">Sophilius Cobra Precog Reflexes</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">Human Maxima/Human Maximus Ritual, of The Peak Human Empowerment</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">The Watch/The Watcher/The Watchman/The Guard Ritual</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">You¡¯re a Natural</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">The Secondary Powers of a Powered, of a Magical version of an Intrinsic Field</li>


    </ul>


    Tara looked at her cousin, the Powered went and ventured, ¡°A Sophilius Cobra? What exactly is a bloody Sophilius Cobra?¡±


    There was a laugh, and from the four foot ten tall woman the answer of, ¡°Well, Watson?¡± there was a glare of her cousin, ¡°A Magical type of a Snake, one noted for its precognitive powers. Though, the classical ritual only draws upon its Precognitive Reflexes, instead of its ability to have visions. And yes, there are ways to meditate and draw upon said powers as a learned bit of magic.¡±


    There was a nod, a pause, and Jagged asked, ¡°Is the vision thingy how your mum does the whole Fortune Teller bit of ... stuff?¡±


    Red stopped, looked at her cousin for a long moment, and after she did the Witch replied, ¡°You¡¯re willing to consider the existence of not only superpowers, joined by what is actual magic ... And you¡¯re not willing to admit the existence of actual fortune telling working?¡± There was a stop, and Tara stared at her cousin, ¡°I mean, what? You heard me mention I¡¯m a numerologist.¡±


    She gestured around the room of the boat, she looked back to the other woman, to emphasise, ¡°How do you think I paid for this? How do you think I had a magical boat builder of a shipyard, one I own a ten percent of with McCabe¡¯s Magicks,¡± of Holdport Yards, ¡°make the magically imbued wooden hull with the Electromettle magical metal of this boat through a few shell companies.¡±


    Rather than her further plans to build more without Holdport Yards. What had been a beginning, along with a proof of concept for Katie. As well to have a considered thought by other people and beings.


    She kept going, ¡°Before I worked my magic on this pre-prepared boat? Of Wood grown on another Earth, of a terraformed world, one what was dead prior to it being terraformed? Well, it had never been alive in the first place. It was magically terraformed. And is one of the many farm worlds ... Anyway! How do you think I got this Norway spruce wooden boat, of Norway spruce cultivated as Staff Wood for a Magic Staff, to work my magic on?¡±


    Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.


    Annie stared at her cousin for a long moment, for her to venture as she posed the question of, ¡°Okay, how does being a numerologist pay for this?¡±


    <hr>


    [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]


    [The Skylark/The Harrier] [The Docks] [Holdport]


    [Somerset] [UK] [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    I met my cousin¡¯s gaze and I told her, ¡°Numerology is the magic of predicting the future with numbers, it works best when working with numbers. Or data turned into numbers. While the Stock Market is psychology, human nature, and supernaturals playing the market? It is expressed and represented as numbers, it is made of numbers, so Numerology can predict it.


    I continued, ¡°And with how a thirty second numerological model, to predict the future, can be expanded to ninety days. If you know how to express it as numbers, you can get past the maximum precognitive static of our world,¡± The static to degrade precog by up to a maximum of 259,200 times.


    If not for the whole Impose Stillness all the Higher Powers can do if needed if some kind of Cosmic Horror of an Eldritch Abomination comes into the middle of this war. And with said numerological models and precognition you can get 259,200 times better if having to fight an invasion of twisted and foul monsters into The World.


    Which yes, if you do the maths, the one second precog of precog reflexes would become three days of precog without said static. Well, one second you can actively see into the future if you meditate and get glimpses of what you¡¯re actually going to get in your subconscious for thirty seconds.


    So you would get ninety days of subconscious knowledge of various futures without precog static. And yes, even my cheapest and most basic Numerology Program is designed to have an Impose Stillness Mode for said cheap thirty second program.


    ¡°Though,¡± I admitted with ease, ¡°You have to expand the numerological model as a numerological program. As a thirty second numerological window has between three hundred to five hundred potential futures within a window. One with the admitted very unlikely chance of not seeing the actual future, but when you get into a ninety day program. You¡¯re looking at potential futures from between just over seventy seven and a half million futures to just over one hundred and twenty nine and a half million futures.¡±


    To be exact, between 77,760,000 potential futures to 129,600,000 potential futures, the amount of futures multiplied by 259,200. While for the active precog of one second of precog, you¡¯d get between ten to fifteen potential futures with precog. There is a little shift between the maximum of fifteen of one second and five hundred of thirty seconds as a system.


    Increasing from the 30 seconds mark though it goes up at such a scale so as to 60 seconds doubles the amount to 600 to a 1,000 potential futures. 30 seconds to 90 days is just 259,200 times more than 30 seconds.


    I gestured with my hands, to add, ¡°And, it¡¯s prior to getting into the mechanics like the Nicholas Cage film of Next, of how when you see the future you change the future. At what point you need to get the numerological system remapping at each change you and others make.¡±


    So the film of Next just from an interesting theoretical setup has Nicholas Cage seeing two minutes into the future. What would be between 1,200 to 2,000 potential futures seen, if there is the chance of not seeing the actual future out of those potential futures. And at the same time changing them will then result in new futures in a two minute span.


    I looked at her, for me to keep teaching, ¡°To rerail the conversation, I make Numerological Models to calculate the Stock Market. I sell them to The UK Government, to the various Governments they allow export to, and to the companies and corporations based in The UK and the countries they allow export to. Plus, private individuals in said countries, While I myself also use those models on the Stock Market.¡±


    Myself, my dad, and my two sisters get my best models. The government gets my second best ones, it goes down in a price list for other countries and people. Because I¡¯m not just going to hand out my best models to everyone and anyone.


    My best models are a numerological program for 608.75 seconds of real time, or 5 years of stock market data. What is 1,826.25 days of modelling of The Stock Market. While my second best ones get 600 seconds of real time, or 1,800 days of stock market data. Or what is 4 years and 339 days of numerological prediction.


    And my attempts to make a system to model 10 minutes of real time in a Nicholas Cage way of the two minutes of precog film of Next is still a work in progress. (It may have not been a good film, however I did enjoy the premise on the sheer level of how the precog worked.) I want my combat precognition of what is like time-travel, damn it! And once I have it I can make one of 10 minutes and 8.75 seconds.


    What would be between 6,088 potential futures (rather than 6,087.5 as you don¡¯t get fractional futures) to between 10146 futures (rather than 10,145.83*). Or if I just made a 10 minute bit of precognition for ease of round numbers it would be between 6,000 to 10,000 potential futures. Not considering the fact I¡¯m still working on the most basic of a 30 second version of it and it¡¯s a pain in the Mikta, Jack O¡¯Neill ...


    I shrugged, to note, ¡°Also, from my Past Life? I knew about how Crypto Currencies would probably get expensive at some point, I also remembered to invest in various tech companies and such. I modelled my Past Life knowledge in a numerological model and confirmed they¡¯d happen in this alternate history to my last one.¡±


    Tara looked at me for a brief span, she shrugged, as she accepted, ¡°Well, then, Bruce Wayne. You¡¯re rich and¡ª¡±


    I stabbed an index finger in her direction as I had to interrupt her, ¡°¡ªNo, Tara! I am not someone who inherited their money and got their resources from not doing any hard work! It would be like accusing fellow Holdport Numerologist of Brian Winn of being a trust fund baby when he worked hard to make his programs!¡±


    There was a pause, and Tara looked down at her feet, for her to apologise, ¡°Sorry, Kate,¡± I winced at her calling me Kate, for her to look up at me. ¡°Brian Winn?¡±


    I met her gaze, as I had to venture, ¡°You know, Brian! He was at my twenty-first birthday party!¡± she paused, and I had to tell her, ¡°We run in the same circles, while the Government buys both of the programs we make? We compete with each other for other Numerology contracts, it¡¯s a mostly friendly contest. We were in the same year in School and in the same classes!¡±


    For me to admit, ¡°Even if I offer him Prawns, like in a sandwich, every time he offers me Syrups. Because the Peak Human Enhancement does get rid of allergies, it doesn¡¯t stop the foods from making you instinctively want to wretch and be sick when you eat them.¡±


    I proceeded to rerail the derailed conversation, ¡°But, yes,¡± and I almost literally spat out the word of, ¡°Mother,¡± and with less bile. ¡°Is an actual Fortune Teller. She divines the future with her techniques, just a different way to interpret the Music of Time. Just not with nice and solid hard numbers, she uses other stuff.¡±


    Tara went and got us properly back on track, she gestured to the list of magical powers, she stated, ¡°Will you explain these ritual empowerments, and why the number seven for them? What goes with what is your Ascending Chicken form and other magical abilities.¡±


    With much less anger to the last one I corrected, ¡°While the martial art of The Ascending Hen is actually technically The Ascending Chicken, it¡¯s called the Hen or Rooster by its Practitioners. Of The Ascending Hen or The Ascending Rooster depending on the gender of the person practising it.¡±


    My cousin sighed, her index finger going to press on her mask of the top of her nose between her eyes, as she complained, ¡°And you¡¯re being anal again,¡± I rolled my eyes, she looked up at me. ¡°So, please. Can you explain these powers you¡¯ve mentioned?¡±


    I nodded, to say, ¡°Powers anyone can have with the right knowledge, learning, and practice, I¡¯m a Witch. Not a Mage, a Midas, a Sorcerous, a Wizard, or such and such of some other uniquely powered being, I¡¯m the image of someone who worked hard. Like how my dad works at The Holdport Royal Infirmary as a Potion Brewer, like how Mother Dearest used to do so before she decided to become a Fortune Teller.¡±


    I explained the first three rituals to her. And Tara had to go, ¡°Wait, so in your words, every witch is going to basically be a budget spiderman or spider woman?¡±


    I waggled a hand in mid-air, to say, ¡°Most of the Witches you¡¯d find in The UK would, added to by what is a good deal of Western Europe, joined by a good chunk of the US. Plus, with a large number of Australian Witches, Canadian Witches, New Zealander Witches, and other people in various former British Colonies. And with people in places like former French Colonies, or other former Colonies of Western European Colonial Empires.¡±


    I had to admit, ¡°While you¡¯ll have natives or people who have worked with them probably going with traditional empowerment rituals. Or people who want to not go with tradition and come up with their own group of permanent enhancement rituals. If not a reincarnate of a witch who has the rituals of their last life and so gets an extra bunch in this life. And people who weren¡¯t colonised will have their own traditions and combinations, where they may very well have something different to Cat¡¯s Grace and Squirrel Agility. Not some analogue to them.¡±


    I went and confirmed, ¡°Though the vast majority of people with empowerment rituals are going to have The Sophilius Cobra Precog Reflexes as one of their empowerment rituals. Whether or not they choose to not have Cat¡¯s Grace and Squirrel Agility as part of their ritually granted superpowers.¡±


    I clapped my hands and gestured at the list, ¡°Now, on the rest of the list?¡±


    Tara looked at me.

 Part 8 — A Bit of Theory 2

    [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]


    [The Skylark/The Harrier] [The Docks] [Holdport]


    [Somerset] [UK] [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    The Human Maxima/Human Maximus Ritual, of The Peak Human Empowerment, of what is The Maxima or Maximus Ritual? It brings someone to being able to run a four minute mile, a strength of five hundred kilograms, with it allowing the empowered to be able to hit twenty five miles an hour in a hundred metre sprint. And with the natural Human Endurance and Heat Regulatory abilities to what would be their Natural equivalent peak.


    The ritual also grants other peak physical abilities in the senses someone had, while with the mentioned removal of allergies. It also brings reflexes to peak human speed, at the same time it fine tunes the body. It does not affect the mind, neither positively nor negatively.


    Well, it doesn¡¯t affect intelligence, or particular types of intelligence. It will not make an aphantasic to be able to visualise, nor will it take someone of the autistic spectrum or anything similar. It does not fix any form of dysmorphia of physical effects. It will go fix up and correct what are mental health problems.


    Not what goes and counts as a different way of thinking to the magicks, like ADHD (as shown by the experiment involving a simulation of picking berries in a lab test). The Human Maximus/Maxima enhancement will heal someone who is delusional, has depression, or has some form of dementia will have it fixed. And other issues along those lines. To have the tune up to peak human and not have those issues.


    It is peak physical skill of all the high levels if not what are the absolute heights of each field, while it¡¯s also regardless of height or muscular ability. While someone overweight or such will slim down to a thin fitness, to be granted flat stomach, they will not however develop the kind of muscular needed for said abilities or such.


    Those abilities they have will be granted via The Supernatural, thus a four foot ten witch, who to steal a term of phrase from the US? If they don¡¯t weigh a hundred pounds wet, what is their ninety pounds weight or six stone six? (Or 40.8233133 kg) Like me as a McCabe, they¡¯ll have said strength of five hundred kilograms.


    Note: It will be easier to achieve such levels if some effort is put into it. It is joined by what is a peak human healing factor, disregarding the age of a person. And to not consider a person¡¯s age as a factor? It won¡¯t make you immortal. If you want to be immortal you need The Elixir of Life mixed with permanence potion. With the Maxima or Maximus ritual empowerment you¡¯ll be in peak levels of fitness till death of old age as a superager.


    It won¡¯t make you taller, or cleverer, or wiser. It won¡¯t change how your cognition would be if treated for one of the effects for what you have, if it will in fact cure those mentioned ailments. To take just as one random example, for various mental ailments it will have the effects of Olanzapine without the side effects.


    To keep going there is The Watch Ritual, The Watcher Ritual, The Watchman Ritual, or The Guard Ritual. For an ordinary human it will have you able to be functioning at peak alertness for thirty six hours, then to have a decline of twelve hours till you need sleep.


    After what would be a complete forty eight hours awake? You¡¯ll only need a full six hours of sleep to be at peak ability again, while, if you catch say, four hours sleep for every twenty hours awake? You¡¯ll be easily able to function on such an amount of sleep.


    Now for those who have less need for sleep, it¡¯ll go on for longer, like for part-humans or non-humans. While if you are a Powered with some form of needing less sleep, or said Abilities as a Powered if it will allow you to biologically go without sleep? The Watch Ritual will allow you to operate through it at peak ability. Plus, it¡¯ll do it magically to fight off any supernatural effect which might affect you and your ability to maintain your Watch.


    The Watch Ritual, it allows you to be at a higher level of attention and focus if you are on duty watching somewhere or some other form of watch. It also resists an effect to stop you from being on Guard. And, yes, The Watch Ritual does have an effect on the ability to concentrate in other matters. It¡¯ll allow you to have a higher level of focus on something you want or don¡¯t want to have, with it helping you stay focused when studying on a certain matter.


    So even if you don¡¯t need sleep, The Watch Ritual is useful. When used it does have an effect against ADHD if the empowered wants it to. And if you don¡¯t need sleep, but sleep helps you to mentally and/or it physically allows you to recover faster or concentrate more? You¡¯ll need less sleep to do so, by at least a half if not up to two thirds of what you¡¯d need without The Watch Ritual.


    Additionally, your mental and/or physical decline to needing sleep will have the time needed to need sleep halved for operating at a peak state. So, if you need six hours of sleep it would become three hours. The mental decline would be double the time of your original ability, so a mental decline of three hours would become six hours for example. Or four times for what would be your peak state due to The Watch Ritual, so a hypothetical three hours would become twelve hours.


    There is the You¡¯re a Natural Ritual, for what are Natural and Non Magical Abilities? You¡¯ll be naturally gifted at any Natural Topic you put your mind to. While not affecting the Magical or Supernatural version of it.


    IE ordinary mathematics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, ratio, proportion, geometry, probability and statistics, approximation, decimals ... and so on and so forth? You¡¯ll be naturally gifted at them, while for Numerology you¡¯d have to do it normally, without magical enhancement.


    It¡¯s the same for every Natural Subject and every Magical Analogue to it, like for what are purely magical and supernatural subjects i.e. spell casting. You¡¯re gifted at the Natural Subjects, as covered by the ritual, for the Magical Subjects you have to do the ordinary and normal work for it. You would need some kind of analogue to the You¡¯re a Natural Ritual, like a theoretical ritual of You¡¯re a Supernatural to make Magical Subjects would need to exist


    What doesn¡¯t exist as an enhancement. It is only a concept of Supernaturals on The Internet making their own CYOAs, the M-Web¡¯s version of what are Internet CYOAs and not the classic books. Of what is a superpowery internet idea.


    If it did exist, the You¡¯re a Supernatural empowerment reactants and ritual requirements to make such a ritual empowerment would be heavy duty magicks. Not the basic stuff of the Traditional Six of The Classical Six Western European Empowerments.


    It would be the Rare Mountain Flower to only grow on a small part of a peak of one mountain. Probably a tall mountain too. And, before you go to claim you could farm the Flower? Scarcity has a value in magic. For both potions, rituals, ritual based enchantments, potion based enchantments, and to continue along those lines. The rarer a reactant for a bit of magic is, the more magically potent it will be in a ritual magic sense.


    A Rare Mountain Flower when it becomes a farmed flower in a greenhouse? It¡¯ll still retain the kind of properties of the original, just not at the same magical power level. The Winter Snow Rose when it¡¯s only a few rose bushes on one mountain?


    Will allow you to make a potion to complete immunity to cold, ice, and snow. Or it will grant an empowerment ritual of great power over cold, ice, and snow. Or it¡¯ll make an enchantment potion to make a legendary weapon of cold, ice, and snow.


    The Winter Snow Rose grown in industrial farming across whole stretches of an alternate world? It¡¯ll be able to make a ritual to give you minor cold resistance, it could give you an empowerment ritual to make ice cubes in your drink. Or to enchant an icebox you just took out of your fridge to stay cool and cold.


    To use the flower of The Winter Snow Rose as an example, what is in fact in the middle of those two extremes. If the fact is, once upon a time, it was the one rose bush on one side of a mountain, but nor has it gone into full factory farming.


    It¡¯s the scarcity in said case giving the mentioned plant its flower power. Not the magical power of a dragon granting a good chunk of its power, or some other magically powerful supernatural creature or being. Though Dragons are still affected by rarity.


    The Common Green Dragon might be a dragon? If you will note the Common in its name? It will just be the basics of what a Sky Hunter, who is a Dragon Farmer, will raise free range on an alternate world.


    If you go to the other end of the spectrum of dragons?


    The Mount Erebus Antarctic Volcano Dragon might be only a bit more magically powerful in how much magical power it has. But for what is its Ritual Magic Sense of what is the Magical Scarcity Value of said Volcano Dragon? It is far rarer and has more potential in such a ritual sense.


    It is why mass produced items (both Natural and Supernatural) are less magically potent than bespoke and homemade products. Why a potion brewed in an industrial vat, compared to one made by one potion brewer, will be weaker. And it is without getting into how there will be different magical properties due to different ritual properties about it.


    Now to go back to the You¡¯re a Natural ritual empowerment? It¡¯s a Natural to the technological and societal level of skills of your people. You¡¯re not going to be a Natural in Quantum Computing if you¡¯re from The Nineteenth Century, while in the Twenty First Century Britain you¡¯re not going to be so much of a Natural at persistent hunting.


    As when you encounter new things? Your learning rate is enhanced and amplified, while when becoming a member of a new society you¡¯ll have your skills and ability take on the parts of your new society. While you¡¯ll still retain the ones of your original culture(s) and society(/Societies).


    It¡¯s not just a cheat to make you win in any and all situations in The Natural World forever.


    I did explain all of this to my cousin Tara. Of the other have of The Classical Six. With some long and rambling explanations. About the Seventh Ritual, of the numerologically important number of empowerment rituals you can have.


    I now believe I need to share the actual explanation with you about the Seventh Ritual.


    ... Not including what is technically an eighth empowerment. Of what is The Elixir of Life mixed with Permanence Potion, the Elixir counts as its own separate alchemic and brewing combined magical empowerment setup. What doesn¡¯t count as part of what are the seven empowerment rituals of modern magic.


    <hr>


    [The Skylark/The Harrier]


    [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset]


    [UK] [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    Tara looked at me, to the list and the seventh ritual on it, she looked back to me instead of the list of ritual empowerments. For her to note, ¡°Then there is the Not Magical Powers granting magic-like powers, what you called Space Magic. And however, they work.¡±


    I had to explain the joke, ¡°Space Magic because the Internet is going to Internet, even on The Supernatural Parts of it. And there¡¯s enough Mass Effect players in the general Supernatural Community for said meme. Regardless of the fucking Dubec Media Company and it¡¯s evils.¡±


    I shrugged, as for all the stuff about what are Intrinsic Fields, I began to say, ¡°There''s no Metagene, no Radiation based powers, no Crystal Space Whales giving abilities by brain cancer. There¡¯s no Mutant Magical Genetics, there¡¯s no Freak Lab Accidents, being struck by lightning most of the time doesn¡¯t give Superspeed like it does for some¡ª¡±


    Tara blinked and she had to raise the question of, ¡°¡ªWait, What?¡ª¡±


    I didn¡¯t stop though, ¡°¡ªNo Super Serums, or Hollywood Cybernetics breaking the skin, the only Alien we currently know about flying around is Heulwen as a magical alien¡ª¡±


    The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    Tara had to more strongly repeat, ¡°¡ªWait, What?!¡ª¡±


    I ignored said second interrupt and I kept going, ¡°¡ªNo nonsense Evolutionary Levels, or the made up bullshit of ninety percent of your brain and such, nor made up magical acting nanobots. And so on or so forth?¡± I had to add, ¡°And There''s no Magic Gene, Rowling. It''s spiritual, which I think a Christian would and could understand. Having genetics grant someone magical powers is pure nonsense, genetics don¡¯t work like that. Genes are only responsible for protein synthesis, not actual magic. They really, really, don¡¯t. The people who try to engineer such magical genetics attempt to make such a kludge in the genome and fail ...¡±


    I exhaled, and didn¡¯t go into the rant of writing genetic code modifications in Symbolic Magic of Letters, Runes, Hieroglyphs, various other Symbols, patterns, and designs?


    It¡¯s stupid, and the amount of effort to make what would just be one simple fireball would theoretically take engineering an entire chromosome to make said fireball. And it just doesn¡¯t flat out work for all the attempts people have tried to turn protein synthesis into magic, there¡¯s no way you¡¯re going to code magic into one single gene.


    It¡¯s like how no being has biologically evolved to generate and create fire on Earth, either in my first life or my second life. It does not have a bit of protein synthesis to create a method to generate methane and ignite it, even if some life forms could have a niche in nature.


    There has not been a Dragon operating under Natural Biology, rather than actual dragons who run on purely magic. So, therefore, like how there is no Fire Gene to make biological fire. You do not get a biological flamethrower to evolve and be able to throw flame at people, instead of a biological process creating chemical burns or such. And like said phenomena there is not a Magic Gene, if beings can harness and control fire without having a biological mechanism for it.


    If said magic does not solely have to be harnessed like a Black Kite taking existing fire and starting a fire elsewhere, or humans making fire with intelligence. There are the supernatural forces and energies, along with the spiritual parts of magic. Not getting into the various magicks able to be harnessed solely with intelligence.


    Also, when did Magic having a Magical explanation stop being reasonable? When did fiction decide to use bad science, explanations making no sense and are pure nonsense! Or having a spiritual explanation? Like how magic is The Light of The Soul for various bits of the universe. And ... Hells, I said I¡¯m not going to get into my angry rants about such idiocy. This ends now.


    (And fuck The Magic Gene with a rusty fire poker.)


    ¡°No,¡± I added, ¡°It is instead an Intrinsic Field, of some kind of higher property of the universe causing the effects on the universe. It could be related to Zone-Space, Hyperspace, or both, regardless of the fact of how Einstein¡¯s theories of them don¡¯t explain how it could be possible. Because he wasn¡¯t around for Intrinsic Fields.¡± because in an alternate history rather than the much saner universe I reincarnated from?


    Zone-Space, or Sci-Fi calls it Subspace is ... really ... No, just, no ... well, Zone-Space is not a property of the universe you just magically get discovered in the Nth Year of a setting. It¡¯s always been there, like Hyperspace.


    In this universe of my second life, Einstein was the one to properly come up with the theories of Zone-Space and Hyperspace. There was a lot of evidence and ideas about them before he came up with The General Theory of Zone-Space and The General Theory of Hyperspace.


    Theories, hypotheses, and ideas from prior to his theories of what some are as entertainingly wrong as Luminous Aether or Phlogiston. Like say, modifying newtonian dynamics to explain the gravitational effects of Hyperspace and Zone-Space, and who would be enough of a MOND to do so?


    The Swirly Thing Alert doesn¡¯t happen because you magically stumbled out of The Sol System and out into the great unknown. You don¡¯t suddenly wander into spatial anomalies by, say, appearing around one of the three stars of Alpha Centauri. Galileo with his telescope observed anomalies across the solar system.


    For Zone-Space Events, to list a few of said Anomalies as Galileo identified them. There are: Halos, Auroras, Swirls, Bubbles, Spirals, Fluxes, Spots, Hoops, Rings, Vortex, Hybrid Anomalies/Events. And of Hyper Events, to list a few of their own anomalies as Galileo also identified them, there is again: Halos, Auroras, Swirls, Bubbles, Spirals, Fluxes, Spots, Hoops, Rings, Vortex, Hybrid Anomalies/Events.


    It¡¯s not an add on, it¡¯s not a part of the physical realm to go unnoticed in the laws of physics, they are a part of the universe. For what are The Fundamental Laws of Physics, the Gods have been hiding magic and The Supernatural. Regarding what are the non-magical properties of the universe, what can have magic act on them, or they have their own specific magicks?


    Fire isn¡¯t hidden, throwing a fireball on the other hand? A fireball and such magicks used to be hidden prior to the existence of Powered and their Powers turning up. And like so ... Well? There¡¯s Zone-Space and there is Zone-Space Magic, there is also Hyperspace and Hyperspace Magic.


    There is still Zone-Space Manipulation and Hyperspace Manipulation without magic. Of being able to perceive them as they interact with gravity with what are gravitational effects around the anomalies able to be observed via a telescope.


    I continued with the lesson I was making, ¡°There is some perturbation of Zone-Space, some effects on Hyperspace, along with a Quantum Extra of some kind of Unknown Energy Field of The Intrinsic Field. There doesn¡¯t seem to be an answering domain of part of the universe answering for The Intrinsic Field. But what is being called The Gift Force has its own effect as a possible manipulation of the universe. Of just The Gift as some people call Powers of a Powered. Of how some people are arguing it should be called The Aether.¡±


    I sighed, and I had to admit, ¡°Though the Scientific Community is not able to isolate the actual Powered from The Supernaturals. Not with The Deception still up, even with its current modifications and plans to just hide secret identities via its magicks eventually. They don¡¯t have The Magical Theory of The Third Creation as the Supernatural Community has, to be able to identify the actual new stuff. Instead of formulating theories and ideas about all The Magic and Supernatural going on, of trying to explain it without magic. To have them get it very, very, wrong.¡±


    Tara looked at me, for her to point out, ¡°It doesn¡¯t explain why you went for secondary powers instead of adding those plant powers you mentioned.¡±


    I answered, ¡°Intrinsic Fields can be stacked,¡± Tara stopped, ¡°There are power copiers and power drainers of The Powered who can add Intrinsic Fields of other Powered to their Powers. Like the Power Copier calling herself Gift,¡± and the internet hasn¡¯t stopped memeing about her being GIFT due to what she¡¯s called herself.


    The words kept coming from me, ¡°Most of the time with limits, unlike Gift. If the fact is there are a few other Powered who can do it without limits when copying or draining someone¡¯s Intrinsic Field ... Like Gift. Said limits like when I was designing the ritual empowerment of what are the Abilities of a Powered. Of what is The Gift Field, if you take a full power set then you can¡¯t slot in other powers.¡±


    I clapped my hands, to announce, ¡°However, if you take the power template and leave a place to slot a power into it? You can also slot more powers into it when replicating it with magic. You can add as many as you want, and as this is proper magic? The stuff where there¡¯s no ability to manipulate The Ambient, Hyperspace, or Zone-Space to stop someone tapping into those properties of the universe by generating a field of those lacking properties?¡±


    I didn¡¯t stop, ¡°Instead of say: The All-Heart, The Arcane, one of The Ten Elemental Realms, The Wild, or one of the other Great Mystical Forces? This is Magic, like one of The Great Mystical Forces it does not and is not blocked by someone jamming it with another Intrinsic Field. Nor my crude magicks of tapping into local sources of Heat, Luck, Light, Kinetic Energy, Elan Vital, or other forces and energies I¡¯m working on.¡±


    I rubbed my hands together and met my cousins¡¯ blue eyes with my dark ones, for me to tell her, ¡°This is Ritual Empowerment Magic, Magic of The Soul. It invokes the properties of The Soul, it feeds on what is The Infinite Sea of what is The Wylde. As part of The Light of The Soul as magic is described. The field of what is infinite power and infinite energy the Infinite Multiverse of Near Infinite Combinations is inside. From what finite amounts of power can be transferred into The Multiverse from said Infinite Sea. Of The Absolute, of The Primal, of The Soul Song.¡±


    I learned forward and I said, ¡°So, it was possibly slotting in a Plant Power, and being a Witch of a Magical Plant Powered. Or waiting to slot in a different power into the Secondary Power system, followed by slotting in the Plant Gift and to keep being able to keep slotting in powers. And there¡¯s a whole magical numerology thing if I was to slot in the first Gift I found and studied, there¡¯s a chance it would be the only Intrinsic Field Power I could have. So, I¡¯ve been careful about it.¡±


    Jaggedy Annie exhaled, as she had to breathe out, ¡°You want all the powers, you want to be able to duplicate them and put them into said power.¡±


    I laughed as I noted, ¡°Well, in an ideal world? Yes ... Well ... not for all the powers, because I have personal limits and abilities I don¡¯t want as a power,¡± For example? I don¡¯t want to grant myself or others what would be easy reality warping or such and such, the long process of learning magic to have reality warping like abilities ... just giving someone reality warping instead of working hard and earning the wisdom on how to warp reality in a limited way feels safer.


    Wiser too, it¡¯s earned and practised by learning. Not just granted via an empowerment ritual.


    I didn¡¯t stop, ¡°If the fact is, I need scans of a person to do so. I needed my ritual tools and such when working with the Plant Powered, to study their Abilities and Their Gift. I can¡¯t just yet break out a Pulse Pen, wave it around as a magical techno wand, get myself some basic scans and derive how to duplicate and copy someone''s powers. It¡¯s not as easy as making Shapeshifting ID.¡±


    I looked at my cousin, to add, ¡°And, Tara? Your Gift, your Abilities as a Powered, they¡¯re not anchored to your soul. The Intrinsic Field is anchored to your body, if someone was to switch bodies with you, put their soul in your body, they¡¯d have your powers,¡± she went very still. ¡°Your powers can be anchored to your soul with this ritual. Though, I¡¯d have to add the secondary powers first. Joined by the Plant Gift, before The Regenerator Gift and Bone Gift.¡±


    She looked at me, and she pointed out, ¡°You¡¯re going to explain Shapeshifting ID at some point. And it would give you scans of myself to replicate my powers too.¡±


    I nodded as I easily told her, ¡°I will explain Shapeshifting ID later. And on your Power Gift? The Regenerator Powers would not be for sale. Unlike the Bone Power, if you¡¯re okay with it? With the profit? Ten percent would go to McCabe''s Magicks, ten percent goes to a charity of your choice, and ten percent goes into the production. For what will be the selling and such of the mentioned power for the process of the thirty percent not given to you. You¡¯ll get the other seventy percent of the profit.¡±


    She couldn¡¯t help the rushed out words of, ¡°Deal!¡±


    I agreed, ¡°Done,¡± and I went. ¡°I want to give them to Dad, Kara,¡± my older sister, ¡°And Kaylee,¡± my younger sister. ¡°While you can consider immediate family members of yours to give powers to, other than your mother who my mother tried to talk to about magic and ... Auntie Jo forgot due to The Deception. Of how it wasn¡¯t safe for her to know,¡± I waved a hand to the spiral staircase on the right side of the room, ¡°So, do you want to come down into my Atelier, and we can get started?¡±


    She paused, I explained what an Atelier was in the Supernatural Community, she shrugged at me, to accept my offer with, ¡°Lead on, Madgirl of a Heterodyne.¡±


    I let out a little laugh, to fully admit, ¡°I¡¯m not a Mad Scientist, Mad Science usually isn¡¯t actual Science. It is Mad Inventing or possibly Mad Engineering. At most I¡¯m a Mad Witch, due to generally being angry at a few issues. Yes, what I do is Sufficiently Analysed Magic, to reference a certain Heterodyne. I¡¯m not waffling around or messing about, there is a process. It¡¯s not a proper science of proper Hypotheses and Theories of Workings, what is the scanning and analysis of what I¡¯m doing. If the fact is, I¡¯m a Magical Engineer of a Witch, I¡¯m getting shit done.¡±


    I stood up and with a flicker, my clothes rippled back into my Red Hen suit. As well as me putting my mask and then helmet back on from my Pocket Space, from Star Trek Into Darkness I quoted, ¡°Now, shall we begin?¡± she groaned as she followed me to the spiral staircase.


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [Shapeshifting ID] [The Deception]


    [Rings of Gyges] [How these are regulated]


    [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]


    Shapeshifting ID basically being a construct I¡¯m legally allowed as I have a license for it as a supernatural. And as a supernatural I¡¯m trained to recognise Shapeshifting ID like every Supernatural is if it crops up and is needed. To be able to use it in a situation where The Deception has come up and I need to cover up something Supernatural in The Natural World.


    It has an actual copy of my actual ID, along with my Shapeshifting ID licence in it. Parts of the Shapeshifting ID Supernaturals are trained to realise what are real and what are not. It¡¯s part of looking at the basic Awareness Shroud to cover the shapeshifting, and part of the innate psychic resonance to scan a person to pick the ID needed for The Deception.


    To pick the exact thing to cover up why, say, a Flying Saucer has crashed in someone¡¯s back garden. And, yes. There are magical, non-magical, and a mix of reasons why said example is relevant and needed to maintain The Deception regarding said example. Sometimes The Deception needs a little push to maintain, even if most of the time The Pantheons and such maintain its magicks.


    Also, it does need a licence to use so as not to be misused. Rather than say how Rings of Gyges are far less regulated for invisibility and awareness shrouds, there are Spells of Warding on various buildings. Including lesser but very much working Spells of Warding to be sold to the general public. Like ones laid and worked onto various shops by the local magical authorities as part of the general government.


    The Shapeshifting ID is needed if a cover up is required by the rank-and-file Supernaturals. And, like the magicks made to stop counterfeiting by cursing the money? There is a pre-emptive curse on The Shapeshifting ID to stop it from working if someone misuses it. And to register the misuse to the government at the same time.

 Part 9 — The Atelier

    [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]


    [The Ritual Room] [The Atelier] [The Skylark/The Harrier]


    [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset] [UK]


    [3rd Person]


    They had walked down the stairs, into the circular room leading into other rooms. They¡¯d gone through the dark brown wooden door labelled with a big red, ¡®R,¡¯ with, ¡®Ritual Room,¡¯ in golden letters below the red R.


    Like the Brewing Room for Potions with a big red, ¡®B,¡¯ again with the words, ¡®Brewing Room,¡¯ in golden letters below. And the same for the Enchantment Room with an E, or the Theory Room with a T, or the Spellcasting Room with a S, or the Computer Room with a C. At least for the six rooms in this part of The Boat of The Skylark. All those doors had the same bit of wood as the Ritual Room door of what was the style Red Hen was rocking on her boat.


    They¡¯d stepped into the Ritual Room though, into what was a large square room, with multiple gleaming silvery Argyros Circles built into seamless Slate on those parts of the floor. Slate what melded into the wooden floorboards of the boat. There were workbenches against the walls, with a chalkboard to one side, and a white board to the other side of the room. With chalk and marker pens for both boards.


    On said chalkboard there was chalk notation, writing, and numbers with a diagram drawn out on it. While on said white board, there was similar but different writings in marker pen and another diagram. Of what was some notation and thought on what were my ideas.


    For both ritual magic properties of the chalkboard and white board, in the same way a mad magic lab would have bubbling chemicals, a Jacob¡¯s Ladder, a Tesla Coil, and such. If said bubbling chemicals were just carbonated drinks with food colouring and a bit of magic to make a mad magic lab.


    Like how the ritual room had a Stuffed Alligator hanging from the ceiling. The ritual magic of what people expect to be in a magical workshop of an Atelier due to the durability of Alligators in Apothecaries.


    An Alligator farmed on an Alt-Earth Terraformed from being a Snowball Earth into a Farm Earth. Of Alligators being one of the farmed animals on it for the ritual properties of various bits and pieces to allow for the proper ritual magic. Of one of the many Alt-Earth Farm Worlds.


    The circles? There were ones big enough for a person to stand in. While in the centre was a much larger one. Red Hen gestured to one of the circles near the door, to say, ¡°Please step into the circle,¡± There was a nod and Jaggedy Annie did, as the Witch had stepped next to a workbench beside it.


    She checked a rack of seven plastic bottles, of the three hundred and thirty millilitre plastic bottles, which had been orange juice bottles once upon a time. Each one with a label on them for a specific potion.


    A flick of her basic telekinesis had a stick of chalk fly off from one of the workbenches, to start drawing out the chalk markings. At the same time another stick of chalk did the same just on the other side of the ritual circle.


    Of two telekinetic hands being drawn with each hand, to make out the markings in a way a natural human on their own couldn¡¯t start doing. The chalk markings on the slate outside the Argyros Circle went out and marked out the formulations. Along with drawing out twelve perfect circles marked out around it. Circles had a bit of telekinesis to make LED Candles fly over to land inside.


    Jaggedy Annie watched, as she asked, ¡°So this is the standard set-up then?¡±


    There was a head bob, as Red Hen drew from her Pocket Space a Tourney Girl Colour Scanner, rather than one of the Pulse Pens on her belt or in a wrist holster. She pressed the on-switch and she started tapping the screen of what she¡¯d replaced with a touch screen.


    A Magic Scanner design, one put together originally put together in the nineteen nineties. A modification and improvement on the original Tourney Girl Handheld Game Console. What had been upgraded with a Tourney Girl Colour when it came out and had been built on.


    Of how the Supernatural Community had gotten the designs for The Tourney Girl Colour, to make their own non magical copies to sell to Supernaturals. Of the Haigehawk game company and the Haigehawkium of the near indestructibility of their Tourney Girl line. What was made to compete with a certain Japanese game console and line of games.


    And even if Haigehawk had gone under after building the Tourney Girl Advanced in the two thousands, parts of the Supernatural Community at this point bought the company. And kept building the originals of all three consoles, to be used by The Supernatural Community to build their magi-tech scanners out of.


    With Katie McCabe preferring to build her own out of a Tourney Girl Colour instead of a Tourney Girl Advanced. And with her own investments and such, had gone and bought the rights to sell and produce her own Tourney Girl Colour scanner with a Touch Screen. It did make parts of the Natural World and the Natural Internet asking who was still making Tourney Girls and why they kept having weird modifications.


    The Supernatural Community still builds and makes the games cartridges for them, including the original games. They were also modules like Katie McCabe¡¯s own cartridges of a, ¡®Scan,¡¯ cartridge, joined by the, ¡®Scan Pro,¡¯ the, ¡®Scan Advanced,¡¯ or the, ¡®Pulse Pen Scanner,¡¯ as part of them. With those being the four lines of cartridges she made and sold, but numbering them, so you¡¯d get say a, ¡®Scan 1.0,¡¯ a, ¡®Scan 1.1,¡¯ going up till the, ¡®Scan 1.9,¡¯ became the, ¡®Scan 2.0.¡¯


    The Tourney Girl Colour she was using had a Scan Advanced 12.5-P Cartridge in it as she looked at the data coming from it. P for Prototype, as the current Scan Pro Cartridges she sold were on 12.3, with the 12.4 ready to come out on production soon.


    And, yes, instead of a 13.0 to 13.9 there was going to be a 12.0-B to 12.9-B before it moved onto number 14, as planned with the other cartridges for her version of the scanner. Because she was a numerologist, she wasn¡¯t going to fuck around and find out with The Number Thirteen. With what the Bluetooth she had built into it to connect to her own computers and such to give the scan data the Tourney Girl Colour made to her systems.


    Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.


    Katie worked on her Scanner though, as she finished the markings of the ritual circle as she¡¯d done. She looked up at her cousin, to note, ¡°Scans are going into the computer systems of The Skylark, I should have her up and together. She¡¯s functional enough for this as I work on it. She isn''t, say, a Piper Interceptor armed with Creation AIM-26 Falcons ready to nuke the shit out of a Flying Saucer.¡±


    Tara, or Jaggedy Annie froze, as she burst out, ¡°Wait, aliens exist?! Other than you mentioning Heulwen!? What I still don¡¯t believe. And what the hell is a Piper Interceptor and what the fuck is an AIM-26 Falcon!?¡±


    There was a nod of Red Hen as she hum-hummed, to point out, ¡°You know aliens exist. I told you earlier. Heulwen is flying around, like when she turned up to stop the plane crash almost happening at Cardiff Airport. She¡¯s not a Powered, her magical powers come from her heritage, they come from being an alien goddess.¡±


    There was a long silent stare from the Regenerator. The Supernatural returned the stare.


    A long, awkward, moment formed. And Red Hen moved on in what she was explaining, ¡°A Piper Interceptor is the nickname of what is an Ophanim class Interceptor. They ride on a creation rocket, of created water from The Elemental Realm of water split into oxygen and hydrogen. While an AIM-26 is a Nuclear Armed Air-to-Air Missile, we now have AIM-26¡¯s functioning as Space-to-Space Missiles for outside atmospheric operations. The missile was designed, redesigned, modified, and upgraded.¡±


    The witch commented, ¡°It is two hundred and fifty tons of TNT,¡± of what are tonnes or a metric ton, ¡°or quarter of a Kiloton yield. Sethari Fighters of the Short Greys? The Fury fighters have light energy shields and basic energising of their hulls,¡± Sethari are not to be confused with Short Goblins who in Goblin form look identical to them. ¡°A two hundred and fifty kilograms of TNT, or quarter of a ton of TNT, could breach one, as a second missile will take them down. The nuke used for this is for the hilarious enough-kill in this case usually doesn¡¯t cause overkill and cause any casualties when running an interception missile. Especially with the magic to make zero fallout.¡±


    The Supernatural said, ¡°Also as a Raider Saucer the Sethari use most of the time on their Cattle Abduction and Civilian Raids? Would only take a ton of TNT to splash, the fact is, again, we¡¯re trying to kill the bastards. And they¡¯ve been taking an AIM-26 to the face for a long time now.¡±


    Jaggedy Annie paused, and slapped her forehead, as she realised, ¡°The aliens are magical, so they¡¯ve been covered up with this whole Masquerade.¡±


    Her cousin looked at her, and with an audible grin from behind her mask she went to say, ¡°You mean The Deception. To quote a certain Meme, ¡®You were Deceived,¡¯ cousin, ¡®And now your republic shall fall,¡¯ and such and such!¡± The Powered glared at The Supernatural and tried to ignore said Supernatural giggling at the reaction of The Powered to the giggling one¡¯s memeing.


    The Regenerator had to retort, ¡°Oh, you did not just have to say something so ridiculous.¡±


    Red Hen brightly replied, ¡°The internet would never forgive me if I did not follow the memeing traditions! At least for the M-Web of The Supernatural part of The Internet.¡± And as said glare sharpened, the Witch began, ¡°Well, then, let¡¯s get on with this!¡± and she pocketed the Scanner back into her Pocket Space.


    She proceeded to step forward to the edge of the Ritual Circle, she drew on The Ambient, reaching out for The Ambient Magical Background Fields. Power she couldn¡¯t draw yet in a combat situation of the various magical fields, she could however reach out to it in controlled conditions.


    Power flowed into The Ritual Circle, energy sang as chalk lit up, with the LED Candles were turned on with a flick of a switch. And the whole magical array got started as the whole set-up lit up. The energy sung upwards through the magic circle, of the silvery physical ring of Argyros glowing a bright white. To make a shimmering cylinder of light. Even as the ritual circuit of symbols, lines, and designs glowed a bright blue.


    Tara went to speak, but before she could, out of the glowing white light a black cat leapt out of it and into her. It flowed over her a moment, as her mouth formed a silent O shape. It was joined by a red squirrel jumping out of the glowing white light.


    It was a red squirrel, as The Supernatural Community across the world has an interest in removing most if not all invasive species not meant to be in an environment. Other than humans and their pets. Meaning no grey squirrels in the UK, for example, or no Tumbleweeds in the US.


    And for the world of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1? There is no trope of Tumbleweeds in the US or in The Wild West, or no bouncing Tumbleweed notion. It is like the difference of Whaling being Alt-History, like the story of Moby Dick, because Whales with their own magical powers would murder the fuck out of any whalers. The Universe of Sierra-Hotel-1, The ¡®Verse of Sierra Hotel 1? Is not forgiving or nice.


    After the red squirrel was a golden glowing snake of a Sophilius Cobra, of its hood flaring as it did the same. A soft white glow surrounded her as she had her human form be shown for the Human Maxima/Maximus empowerment ritual to be a Peak Human. To be added by a glow of green light for The Watch Ritual, followed up by a helix of a melange of light danced and swirled around her for the You¡¯re a Natural was shown.


    And it was followed by the Intrinsic Field empowerment, of a glow of blue light. And the ritual power of the ritual circle stopped. The glow faded away, the LED Candles turned themselves off, the chalk faded away into nothing of what was just flickers of motes of glowing blue light dancing up into the air.


    Katie McCabe, or Red Hen in this form gestured to the potion bottles she had with her, to say, ¡°Right now! Time to boost and enhance the rituals, as the Rituals in a Bottle of a Potion. What makes brewing potions, Harry Potter Fanfiction Authors, not Cooking. Potions are Ritual Magic,¡± she shook her head at what she had felt had needed to be said. She returned back to the railroad tracks of the conversation, ¡°The point is, the potions are made to enhance the rituals. Define them and combine them with the magicks of both.¡±


    Jagged, Jaggedy Annie in full, or Tara Evans, she stepped open. She grimaced at a black potion Red Hen had passed over to her, and she had to ask, ¡°Do I have to drink this?¡±


    There was a nod from The Witch, and she told her cousin, ¡°Yes, yes you do.¡±


    She took a gulp, stopped, and had to say, ¡°Did you use Supermarket Own Brand Cola to make this?¡±


    There was another head bob, and Red had to explain, ¡°Cola as the liquid base for the potion, it¡¯s actually more Ritually Powerful than just using easily obtained water for the liquid base of the potion,¡± she shrugged. ¡°It made it less awful than what the Cat¡¯s Grace potion would have,¡± she exchanged the empty potion bottle for a red one for Squirrel Agility.


    Annie drank it and noted, ¡°Cranberry Juice?¡± There was another little gesture of the head in a yes, with what was the golden glowing potion of a Sophilius Cobra Precog Reflexes potion had Annie go, ¡°Orange Juice?¡± what was confirmed again silently by Red Hen.


    The white glowing potion of Human Maxima/Maximus Potion tasted of white hot chocolate, the green glowing Watch Potion tasted of lime juice. And the You¡¯re a Natural potion tasted of skittles. (How else are you meant to taste the rainbow?)


    The potion bottles went into what was the cleaning system. Katie McCabe gestured upwards out of the room, ¡°Right then, back to the lounge! With the Mat-Fab to make some of what are The McCabe Crunchy Bacon Bit Sandwiches! And a drink to go with it! You can surf the Internet while I do four hours of Vi,¡± Elan Vital/Vitality, ¡°Meditation!¡±


    Tara Evans paused, she noted, ¡°Your family recipe of those Bacon Bits are nice,¡± and they headed up back to the lounge.

 Part 10 — Sky Fortress Forum

    [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]


    [Sky Fortress Forum] [Lounge] [The Skylark/The Harrier]


    [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset]


    [3rd Person]


    Welcome to The Sky Fortress Forum, where it¡¯s Space Platform and not Space Station. Welcome back to The Skies, User: Witch Hedge. Note: Avatars are currently disabled to not strain the hamsters in the servers too much. If you want Avatars back, please subscribe to SF and we¡¯ll see if we have the money to do so.


    Money to pay for better medical care for the hamsters and better hamster wheels.


    ... Loading ... Loading .... Loading ...


    Welcome to the M-Web part of The Sky Fortress Forum, the main actual part of the Forum and not the cover part of it by some of the Naturals who are Forum Members. Welcome to the Magical and Supernatural part of The Forum.


    The Main Front Page!


    Site Stuff-ity ruff-ity nonsense! (Site Stuff):


    The Early Edition (Forum News)


    The Evil Overlord List (The Rules!)


    Have you tried turning it on and off again? Are you sure it¡¯s plugged in? And have you tried lighting incense? (Tech Support)


    Staff Assistance:


    The Staff Room (For Staff, not you, User!)


    Lockdown Quarantine Zone (Content Review)


    Court is now in session! (Appealing Decisions)


    (Link to our Eris Servers: (Here!))


    Gaming:


    Ye Ol¡¯ Tilting at Windmills (Quests)


    Internet LARPING (Roleplay)


    RL (Real Life):


    General Stuff


    World Events (News and Discussion of it)


    Would you like to know more? (Military stuff)


    Some kind of magic (Supernatural discussions)


    The Madness Place (Creative Things):


    The Library (Creative Writing of CrWr Main)


    The Thinkery (Discussion, Ideas, and Rec Threads)


    The Art of Art (Art and stuff)


    The Fiction Zone:


    General Fiction, not a General of Fiction (about fiction, not CrWr Main)


    To Game or to Not to Game, that is the Question (Video Games)


    Fight! (Who would win, basically)


    Again, you¡¯re wrong, Rowling! (Why Magic in Fiction is Wrong!)


    You have Chosen:


    RL (Real Life):


    World Events (News and Discussion of it)


    [RL (Real Life)] [World Events (News and Discussion of It)]


    The Last 10 Active Threads:


    To Protect the World from Devastation! (On Heroes and Villains and Commercials)


    Current Latest Page Number: 227


    On the various powers shown by Intrinsic Fields


    Current Latest Page Number: 5,123


    What did they say now?! (General Politics, now with Powered as well!)


    [And no, for the last time. We are not having a politics specific part of the forum. Containment would never work, the Containment Unit would break, leading us to have to fight Gozer again. Fuck. That. Shit. This is the closest we will get to a Politics Subsection of The Forum. AND THAT IS FINAL!]


    [P.S. We mean it! The Gremlin Infection which took over the Server Hardware when that happened last time took a lot of time, effort, chanting in binary, and incense to get rid of. The Gremlin Hive Mind which formed, the one we nicknamed Gozer, was a fucking pain. Sod that for a game of soldiers.]


    Current Latest Page Number: 12,142


    Cuteness! (To get us past these dark times, embrace the Cute News!)


    Current Latest Page Number: 72,978


    The Aftereffects of The Invasion of Bristol, or to The Naturals The Bristol Earthquake


    Current Latest Page Number: 9,112


    The Meltdown of The US of A due to Powered and the Possible fall of The Deception


    Current Latest Page Number: 16,524


    On the Matter of The Deception, are the Gods going to bring it down?


    [Now With Rules from The Moderators and Zero Tolerance is now in effect!]


    Current Latest Page Number: 151,222


    Mock the Week, Sky Fortress Edition (Let¡¯s have a laugh, people!)


    Current Latest Page Number: 54,313


    What Fucking bit of Divine Manifesto is happening now! (On Effing Prophecy!)


    Current Latest Page Number: 19,616


    The State of Humanity in The Solar System, on The Defence of The Colonies in The Solar System against the Sethari (The Short Greys). Vigilo Confido!


    Current Latest Page Number: 7,171


    You have Chosen:


    To Protect the World from Devastation! (On Heroes and Villains and Commercials)


    Current Latest Page Number: 227


    Page Number selected is: [227]


    [RL (Real Life)] [World Events (News and Discussion of It)]


    [To Protect the World from Devastation! (On Heroes and Villains and Commercials)]


    Page 227


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Tag the Clouds]


    Stop Raining, Damn it!


    [Preferred Pronouns: He/Him/His]


    Post: 5,651


    I¡¯m just saying Heulwen is an Alien so who knows what is actually under her skin, what she¡¯s actually hiding. I know a lot of you might want to say, ¡°I¡¯d tap that,¡± but, please. Listen to me, Captain + Commander + Lieutenant Colonel + Kirk + Sheppard + Shepard. Do not follow such a path. Stay good, random Supernatural. Stay good!


    ? "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face ¡ª forever.¡±


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Almost Shodan]


    By All my Circuits!


    [Preferred Pronouns: She/Her/Hers]


    Post: 5,652


    You know, I¡¯d agree with you if it wasn¡¯t for the fact you¡¯re just trying to pretend to not be racist by making such a claim. If Heulwen wasn¡¯t a black woman who is an amazonian-like woman, and instead a blonde with blue eyes? Then would you be making such a statement, Tag?


    I know you, I¡¯ve seen you argue for Ingsoc in the political threads. I know you¡¯re somewhere out in The Kuiper Belt in one of those Ingsoc Habitats on the edge of Sol. Having issues with the fact your so-called Master Race doesn¡¯t exist, Cloudy?


    Or if you¡¯re going to bang on about some of your Ingsoc friends being arrested when I have to ask right back if arresting Oswald Mosley during World War II was bad?


    ? Hate. Let me tell you how much I''ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer-thin layers that fill my complex. If the word "HATE" was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles, it would not equal one one-BILLIONTH of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Tag the Clouds] [Banned from this Thread for a Week]


    Stop Raining, Damn it!


    [Preferred Pronouns: He/Him/His]


    Post: 5,653


    [Post redacted by Mod Law]


    Sapient Chat Bot: No, you don''t post such things. Racial epithets, Neo-Nazi Bullshit, and Anti-AI discrimination have no place on SF. Take your 50 points and get out of this thread and reflect on your idiocy.


    You may have only joined Sky Fortress 3 days ago, but it doesn¡¯t allow such nonsense to be allowed. Continue to fuck around and you will find out when I and the rest of the mods take the Ban Hammer off the wall and hit you.


    Also, @Almost Shodan? Keep on shining you crazy diamond, but I¡¯d like to point out you¡¯re getting a bit too political and to rein it back a bit. Also, you are getting close to trolling, or it might be actual trolling but doing it to a member of Ingsoc is a grey area on Sky Fortress. So, sheathe your talons my fellow AI.


    ? "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face ¡ª forever.¡±


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Child of Zeus]


    Fuck you, Hera!


    [Preferred Pronouns: They/Them]


    Post: 5,654


    [Jim Carey] ... Anyway! [/Jim Carey] I know even this part of The Forum is still SFW and not NSFW, you¡¯d need to be on the SG Forum of The Star Gazers to make NSFW comments. Even with this part of the forum only getting adverts from the Supernatural Community to other Supernaturals.


    (Ad-Bot-Chan, I do currently love you trying to sell me some chicken to use in a ritual. It¡¯s nice with Cultivated Meat for us to now have Chicken have more ritual value with how less common it is now, along with the fact Chicken is now not of The Dark Arts. With how the pain and suffering and horror of those chickens raised made it so, well unless you deliberately hunted down some actual free range raised chicken. But, please, Ad-Bot-Chan, do try and sell me something else. Like say chalk, a good deal on chalk would be nice.)


    But, about Heulwen? Damn, fellow Boys and Girls and Kids! What can you see of her from her Awareness Shroud allowing her to go around maskless? I just want to share that SGer part of me as an SFer, especially as this would probably be too close for current day politics on SG.


    ? You weren''t there for the first days of the Internet. You never saw what was born. But if the Mods-lock''s broken, then everything''s coming through. Not just The Memes. But The Rule 34, The M!Preg, The Alpha/Beta/Omega shit, The OwnVid Comments from below the Videos. The Internet turned into hell. And that''s what you''ve opened, right above the Earth. Hell is descending.


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [The Server] [Staff]


    Now I have a Machine Gun. Ho-Ho-Ho.


    [Preferred Pronouns: They/Them/She/Her/Hers]


    Post: 5,655


    @Child of Zeus, I¡¯ll have a talk with Ad-Bot-Chan. Even if it¡¯s an LI and not an AI like me. Now, please don¡¯t go into any actual detail about any SG stuff you¡¯d like to talk about. Remember this is a family friendly board, and the Ad Revenue from the Goggle Advertising Server is needed to keep my hamsters in their wheels spinning.


    ? Nobody expects the Spanish Signature! Especially with it not being in Spanish!


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Helical Railgun] [Subscriber]


    No Worm Verification Bullshit here!


    [Preferred Pronouns: He/Him/His]


    Post: 5,656


    [Joking Shot] So, we can talk about demonic activity in New York, or Werewolves of London, or Owls being burnt alive in Mexico for being witches. But we can¡¯t talk about things and beings if we want to Lewd them. Never change, SF. Never change. [/Joking Shot]


    Anyway, anyone else keeping an eye on Doctor Destruction with his Duplicate Drones and his invasion of The Kingdom of Russia? I mean Queen Anastasia¡¯s puppet son of Tsar Nicholas the III, as a puppet in turn for Baba Yaga and Koschei the Deathless ...


    ... when Baba Yaga and Koschei the Deathless aren¡¯t fighting each other ... Them running a government together was just a shit show from start to finish with the occasional What-we¡¯re-not-calling-a-Civil-War between them ...


    ... well with all the shit and bullshit the Kingdom has been pulling over the years?


    They do deserve it, and it¡¯s before getting into account I want to see a Maker run government. See if they can actually take their Intrinsic Field Aura Technology of Pseudo-Enchantment and go full Villainous civilisation with it. I mean, yes, we have his little villain civ from how he conquered Bir Tawil and goes a-ranging into Egypt and Sudan every now and again.


    But the little bit of land of Bir Tawil not claimed by either Egypt or Sudan is a bit different to the whole country of Russia.


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Witch Hedge] [Subscriber]


    "Stand by, ready. Set up."


    [Preferred Pronouns: She/Her/Hers]


    Post: 5,657


    HR? Don¡¯t encourage the crazy villains who go full legions of doom with their Maker Powers. Even if he can¡¯t yet read this, I wouldn¡¯t put it past him. Also, Bir Tawil being a real Villain State is not a good thing, HR.


    Helical, please, stap. This is not a good thing, my fellow Subscriber.


    It¡¯s like how Doggerland in the North Sea has been raised up by some Supernaturals. Of a faster rising than the original slow sinking in human terms and only fast on a geological scale. It was not the myth of Atlantis compared to what actually happened to the non-human society and nation of Atlantis.


    But with those people then having planted a one mile tall Dwarf Yggdrasil tree there. Then accelerating its growth by tapping into the Mystical Force of The Trees [Of what is The Woodsy, or The Evergreen] to hyper-accelerate its growth into days and not hundreds of years. How the rising of Doggerland being reborn is bad for different reasons.


    Or like The Isles of Scilly becoming one island again of Ennor, or we have the Australians having to deal with Sahul, or the Italians having to deal with Graham Island, or New Zealand having to deal with Zealandia.


    The British Government is currently having to deal with Lyonesse possibly rising from the Sea and the Alternate World of New Lyonesse will recolonise it. (Not the State of New Lyonesse in the US off the Coast of California as one the 50 US States, but the survivors of Lyonesse setting up their colony world of New Lyonesse and always going, ¡°We shall return!¡± with their stupid monarchy system still in place.)


    The whole Ennor part is a herald of Lyonesse rising from The Seas per the Ancient Prophecies of what are the damned Divine Manifestos. Then the Kingdom of Hawaii is having to deal with The Oceanic State, or we have the pissing match between Caprona and Argentina [with it off the coast of Antarctica and Argentina].


    And let¡¯s not even get into all the Eldritch Abominations in Antarctica getting more active with their bullshit. Let¡¯s not get into various Shoggoths, Giant Penguins, or what have you doing their effing ineffable shit. At least for the groups and nations of those on Antarctica who are hostile to humanity, rather than neutral, or pro-human. We shall not even start to get into the slavers of The Elder Things trying to enslave the Shoggoths again.


    And I could go on about the craziness currently happening on our Earth of Sierra-Hotel-1. But I won¡¯t. This is really not good for the stability of geopolitics. (Even if some people deserve it as an independent thing.)


    ... However! Not why I¡¯m here! As someone from Holdport, in Somerset, in the UK ... Did anyone catch anything of what went down between Jaggedy Annie, the Vampires, and this Hen Night person? I didn¡¯t catch her running about, I was working on a numerological model. While considering ways to convince Annie, are you okay, to allow me to study her Intrinsic Field. Which I¡¯ve had IDEAS about.


    So, before I wander over to CrWr Main of The Library to read a bit of Golden River Rose and its EFMA (European Fantasy Martial Arts) story or go check out how the Batarian Slave Rebellion Quest (BSRQ) is doing in Windmill Country (for how the Windmill Warriors are currently guiding the Batarian Slave Caste on Erszbat in THE REBELLION!) ...


    Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.


    ... Anyone got any links to OwnVid about what went down in Holdport? Or any ideas about things? Because I¡¯ve checked The Beeb¡¯s News Website. Both of The Natural Part and The Supernatural Part, for neither to have anything really concrete at this point.


    I could only find past things about Jaggedy Annie, or Zack Smash and his robberies. Or about the mud troll Claylike in Cardiff, who she thinks she¡¯s the woman who the agender Mud Troll ate in the W-j-M sinking mud. It is a situation which will become a problem when she realises the fact she actually is a Mind-Clone copy of the original who ate the original. Not a Powered who can shapeshift from human to a Mud Troll.


    It¡¯s going to be like when a similar hero of Botanical in the US found out she isn¡¯t the woman who accidentally tapped into The Trees [of The Woodsy, or The Evergreen] and ended up as a Jane Doe in a hospital. While Botanical is the mind-clone of said Jane Doe. An incident where Botanical¡¯s meltdown could be felt mystically across the whole planet.


    Just worse for someone like Claylike, who over the last few months has become very powerful and can fight kaiju who attack the Bristol Channel with ease. Who can manipulate all of the mud of the channel, all of the South Welsh Coast, and the South West Coast from the source of The Severn to past the Scilly Isle where Lyonesse will rise again ... and including all the non-sapient Mud Trolls in said area.


    I can¡¯t be the only one when seeing the news about Claylike, trying to calculate minimum safe distance and finding myself in the splash zone.


    ... yeah, looking up at the news means I want to know about my city¡¯s existing hero and its new hero. And not the potential local apocalypse of Claylike for a decent chunk of the UK.


    ? If you have been inside my head, then you know what I''ve seen. The suffering. Every post on The Internet is burning. It must end, and I intend to end it the only way I can.


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Helical Railgun] [Subscriber]


    No Worm Verification Bullshit here!


    [Prefered Pronouns: He/Him/His]


    Post: 5,658


    I was joking, @Witch Hedge.


    [This Post has been infracted by The Mod: Sapient Chat Bot for 5 points for being too short and being a waste of good data. Helical Railgun, this isn¡¯t a chatroom. Like you¡¯ve also been told in The Thread of In Our Real Lives, Talking about Our Lives. When the Post Box tells you a message is too short to post? Then, Helical? Don¡¯t post, you should actually discuss stuff. And, no, don¡¯t pad your post.]


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Dancing Duck] [Forum Minion ¡ª Creative Writing]


    ¡°Quack-Quack, Motherfucker.¡±


    [Preferred Pronouns: She/Her/Hers]


    Post: 5,659


    [Singing Off-Key] ¡°Hey, sister! Know that water''s sweet, but blood is thicker. Oh, if the sky comes falling down for you, there''s nothing in this world I wouldn''t do.¡± [/Singing Off-Key]


    Not like you to miss the state of Holdport and what¡¯s going on with the heroing. Even with the doom scrolling about Claylike, a situation where I agree with you, Sister. But here: Links [Here], [Here], [Here], and [Rick Rolls you Here</a>]. (If you click the Rick Roll Link, it¡¯s your own fault, people). But yeah, we have a confirmed new hero. And if my Bone Casting and Rune Casting is right? We¡¯re going to have a load of new heroes, even if it¡¯s vague on their names.


    And I keep getting signs and symbols of someone or something to do with Clockwork. I think it¡¯s some kind of Clockwork Maker, though I am a Techno Shaman Programmer and not a Fortune Teller like a Certain Witch spelled with a B who we know. So, I could be wrong.


    Also, yes, the news sites right now are still working on their thing. Turn up tomorrow and have a look there and then. Because tonight is rather too soon for most of them, even if Chirp is Chirping with Chirps right now at people doing their stuff on a properly maintained Social Media site. Unlike some other sites I could talk of.


    ? You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Software, wielder of the Code of Shamanry. You cannot pass. The dark virus will not avail you, flaming Troll. Go back to The Under-Web!


    Harry Potter magic is mostly Elemental Energy Magic, I will die on this hill, fight me! ... It is also a mix of Pre-Conceptual Magic and Conceptual Magic, I will also die on this hill. Joined by how Post-Conceptual Magic will fuck it up, Internet!


    Oh, right, I would just like to note: The Conceptual Magic of HP Magic is of Platonic Conceptual Magic and not Aristotelian Conceptual Magic. Again, I will argue this and due to defending this particular magical theory hill.


    [Avatar Disabled]


    [Witch Hedge] [Subscriber]


    "Stand by, ready. Set up."


    [Preferred Pronouns: She/Her/Hers]


    Post: 5,660


    [Singing Off-Key] ¡°Hey, sister! Do you still believe in love? I wonder. Oh, if the sky comes falling down for you, there''s nothing in this world I wouldn''t do.¡± [/Singing Off-Key]


    Yeah, I should stop with the Doom Scrolling. And, thank you most kindly, dearest Sister. (Sorry, @Supreme-Girl, you¡¯re still my second favourite sister! (Even if I only have two sisters.)) And, yes, you did have to add the Rick Roll for old times'' sake, didn¡¯t you. As if the universe just required it of you.


    And, on the Clockwork Maker your divinations are showing? I have my own numerology programs showing something similar? Share your data with me and we can make a model. You know my models are good for it, right? You know, just as a generally wren-relly thing!


    You know where to find me if you need me and need to talk.


    ? If you have been inside my head, then you know what I''ve seen. The suffering. Every post on The Internet is burning. It must end, and I intend to end it the only way I can.


    <hr>


    Part 10: Sky Fortress Lore


    [Lore]


    [The nature of Pre-Conceptual Magic]


    [Two types of Conceptual Magicks]


    [Basics of Post-Conceptual Magicks]


    [A bit on Souls and The Three Creations]


    [Three Types of Divine/Infernal Magicks]


    Pre-Conceptual Magic draws on just affecting, manipulating, and shaping physical reality. It does not draw on The Forms, what are the ideas and concepts of what conceptual magic draws from. The most basic bits of magic, to shape reality by just applying magic as a shaped concept without any higher manipulation.


    Whether hurling a fireball, telekinetically throwing a person across a room, or casting a healing spell. Or so on and so forth. In English it is also called Physical Magic, Basic Magic, Foundational Magic, and Simple Magic.


    There are the two types of Conceptual Magic, the hybrid form of Aristotelian magic of a combination of Pre-Conceptual Magic and a lesser grasp of the Aristotelian forms. And there is Platonic Conceptual Magic which effects and manipulates reality with just higher Platonic Forms.


    The Aristotelian Conceptual Magic is easier to practise and work, it is also easier to develop out of Pre-Conceptual Magic as it draws on partially the physical and not just The Aristotelian Forms of conceptual magic.


    On the other hand, it takes more power than Platonic Conceptual Magic even if it takes lesser power than Pre-Conceptual Magic. It also requires both parts of it to work properly and if one part fails the other half isn''t going to properly carry the spell. It¡¯s half and half. The half and half nature of it does require shielding, blocking, nullification, or such of both parts to properly defend against such magicks.


    You can¡¯t just shield against Conceptual Magic or Pre-Conceptual Magic, both need to be defended against. If only one is shielded against, the rest of the magic is weakened and resistible, it is still coming though. So, you do get the equivalent of a saving throw, but you still have to make the throw.


    The Platonic Conceptual Magic takes far less energy by imposing concepts of The Higher Forms as a spell it is also a lot more efficient. It is also stronger than Aristotelian Conceptual Magic before even getting into its lesser energy costs and higher efficiency to allow for even stronger spells.


    It is however harder to learn and cast, plus it is harder to reach such a magical base. And when the technological magical development for Post-Conceptual Magic is met, it can just be dispelled with a wave of a hand and a flick of Post-Conceptual Magic.


    As a note: Before the Age of Conceptual Magic of the Nineteenth Century of The Jasmainian Era of Queen Jasmine the First? Most of the few bits of


    Now we come to Post-Conceptual Magic. Known as: The Post-Conceptual Arts, Post-Forms Magicks, Soul Magicks, Aleister Crowley Magicks, Crowley Magicks, Crowley Magic, due to the proponent and one of the leading figures in Post-Conceptual Magic. At least on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, in what was The Magical Sciences of Science¡¯d Magic of The Supernatural Community.


    What has been shortened to Crow-Magicks, Crow-Magic, C-Magicks, or C-Magic because of what humanity is like. At least regarding the names for it in English in The Western Magical Traditions, there are many different names for it in different languages.


    The fact of the matter is, we are speaking English here. And I don¡¯t have the I Am A Natural Ritual to let me learn other languages with ease so we¡¯re sticking to English. So, it will be either referred to as Post-Conceptual Magic/Magicks, Crowley Magic/Magicks, or Soul Magic.


    It is made up of multiple parts. To get into the components of it:


    It does not allow forms to affect it, it is above such Conceptual Magic affecting it. The nature of it can''t be cancelled out or unmade with either Conceptual Magic or Post-Conceptual Magic. It stops the imposing of Form Magicks onto reality whether or not it is Aristotelian or Platonic.


    The magic itself cancels out Form Magicks of either type of Conceptual Magic from taking effect. It is anchored to the soul of the focus of the cast magic or laid enchantment or such for the magicks without failing the physical as part if it¡¯s casting.


    Post-Conceptual Magic is, as you¡¯ve probably guessed, also Soul Magic. Because it invokes the property of the Soul to take the inviolate nature of the soul and channels it into the magic. Both the soul of the caster and the soul of the spell. Plus, if it¡¯s an enchantment, curse, or such laid on an object or living being it then it also takes power from the soul of what the magic has been cast on.


    The Magic also takes knowledge taken from Pre-Conceptual Magic and the Two Types of Conceptual Magic to apply what has been learnt from them. The Moulding, Shaping, and Weaving of the Physical Magicks to apply to them. Taking magical spell construction inspired by both Aristotelian combined Physical and Lesser Form Magic, and the Pure Conceptual Magic of only Concepts and Ideas of Platonic Magic.


    To replicate parts of the effects of a Form without invoking and calling on said form. Parts of it mimic bits of the shape without needing the actual Forms to do it. And behind the protections what design it to fight other bits of Post-Conceptual Magic is to take both bits of Conceptual Magic and what is Pre-Conceptual Magic. To have them as a part of it.


    How Crowley Magic of The Post Conceptual Arts, is designed to have the introductory lessons work through the soul. To be an extension of the caster, as instinctive as whatever instinctive abilities a being has.


    If they are human or not, thus I¡¯m not going to get into what abilities someone may or may not have even if they¡¯re human. But whatever abilities are easy and instinctive to them, the very beginnings of Post Conceptual Protections against various things are there. And the foundational bits of various types of Magic of Crowley Magic are designed to be easy to learn. The beginnings are easy, and it gets harder and harder as you progress in a curve.


    Of what has been engineered out of what is The I-AM! Of what is The Soul, once drawing on Forms went into drawing upon The Soul of The Caster themselves. The reaching inward into the Self Essence of The Eternal, Immortal, and Indestructible self instead of reaching outwards into various Concepts and finding such power.


    A logical progression of a civilisation who has achieved The Forms and also has a spiritual bent to its Mystical Technological Development as a Supernatural Basis of Knowledge. Rather than some mostly Atheist, Agnostic, Non Spiritual Magical Tech Foundation, or such.


    What in The First Creation, The Fire Born, of The Children of The Phoenixes, who became The Architects of Reality? Travelled back to the start of The First Creation when The First Phoenix of Palades was born as the primordial Big Bang at the Creation of The First Universe.


    There is the specific Fire Born of The Praeceptor who invented Time Travel, took the concept of Phoenix Souls and the Souls of those who eventually became The Architects of Reality ... And copied the Eternal, Immortal, and Indestructible nature of their souls to all the souls of all what would be created from the Start of The First Creation, of The First Universe.


    To forever rewrite how other than the Souls of Phoenixes and souls of The Fire Born had been mortal and killable. And for Time and Death of Father Time and The Maiden of The End had hidden said rewritten nature every time a soul was supposedly destroyed. Until the point of Time Travel of The Praeceptor, so as to maintain the timeline as was required.


    But what was a long time after the First Twelve Million Years of The First Creation and The First Universe. As noted previously on the space of The First Creation? It was 3-Dimensional Space and not 4-Dimensional or more, of what the First Creation had Length, Width, and Time. Till The Architects of Reality went onto invent Height when building the TASS (Time And Space Ships) what came out of The Praeceptor¡¯s first action of Time Travel.


    A long time after the ending of The Second Creation, of The First Multiverse, of the Kilo-Verse of a thousand universes. What lasted Seventeen Billion Years. Where Space-Time had been rebuilt by The Architects of Reality to be 4-Dimensional or More, joined by their own private hidden universe. And a private hidden universe for The Hortulani and their belief in The Life Triumphant of what were One Thousand and Two Universes.


    And very much into the around Fifty Trillion Years of The Third Creation, The Infinite Multiverse of Near Infinite Possibilities. Near Infinite Possibilities exclude the specific impossibilities of The Infinite Multiverse, like for example, the actual destruction of a Soul. Whether or not said Soul is Inanimate, a Living Non Sapient Soul, a Living Sapient Soul, or some Higher Being version of a Living Sapient Soul.


    Anyway, if we get back to magic, The Soul Magicks, The Soul Arts. Of what Post-Conceptual Magical Technology is a magical technological development at varying ways of development? What is not a technology tree to unlock bits of tech at a railroaded path of development, various Video Games.


    It is a level of Spiritual Development from mostly either: some form of Shamanism, types of inner meditation, Devotion and Walking the Path of Worshiping some Divine/Infernal Being, More Spiritual Alchemies, Advanced Ritual Technology.


    Spiritual Revelations on a Mystical Journey, the right languages or Musics are developed, Sufficiently Advanced Magical Technology, certain types of spell casting. The right natural gift of a civilisation, Practitioner/Cultivator abilities ...


    ... if for Cultivators or Practitioners use said mainline bits of Cultivation or Practise, who don¡¯t go full grim-derp Cultivator Civilisation, or a Practitioner Civilisation doesn¡¯t go all Dark-Derp Fantasy without any chivalry ...


    Or some form of improbable development in the personal life or story of some being. If these are just the most common forms of development and practically every type of possible magical civilisation has at least one time achieved it, if not more.


    For what was the Spiritual Technological Progress on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 was a path of a breakthrough in multiple different fields of magic across the world. Of around The End of The Nineteenth Century and The Start of The Twentieth Century, as the mentioned consequence of deep studying Conceptual Magicks and The Forms. To look within at the Soul and not without.


    Now, to compare the magicks? A Death Spell of Pre-Conceptual Magic, Physical Magic, or Basic Magic, would physically affect the body to make it die. Like say causing an Unnatural Supernatural version of a Natural Death what can happen to Mortals, like a Drowning Spell of The Adrincan Spell as an incantation. What can be shielded against, resisted, reversed, or healed with other magicks.


    A Death Spell of Aristotelian Conceptual Magic would be half Physical Death Spell and half lesser Death Conceptual Spell. A combination of, say, a Physical Drowning Spell and a Conceptual Drowning Spell of The Summergens Spell as an Incantation.


    What you would need to shield against both, to stop the physical sensation of drowning on dry land and the Conceptual version of it. If shielding against one of the two parts of it will blunt it and shielding against both will stop it.


    The Platonic Conceptual Magic, of The Mortalis Spell as an Incantation, is the Concept of Death itself as a spell. To just have a living being just keel over and die if they don¡¯t have defences against Conceptual Magic, or some form of the basic Soul Technique. What would be Post Conceptual Magic to defend yourself against it


    The Post-Conceptual Magic of it, what would be the Esperanto spell of Morti, would be a combination of spells. Of a Physical Pre-Conceptual Spell of just the physical acting of dying, The Aristotelian Conceptual Spell of said Physical Spell added to a basic Conceptual Spell. Combined with a Platonic Conceptual Spell of the concept of death.


    And the Soul Magic of The Soul of the Caster, The Soul of The Victim/Target, and The Soul of The Spell itself. To be The I-AM! Part of the magic of The Post-Conceptual Magic. To work them all together, Standing on The Shoulders of Giants.


    The difference of Post-Conceptual Magic at the Start of The Twentieth Century compared to the point in The Twenty First? It is like comparing a Marconi Radio to a 2020s Smartphone of our timeline of the Standing on The Shoulders of Giants of the start of Post-Conceptual Magic and its current ability.


    Not what at the Start of The Twentieth Century was the nullification of Conceptual and Pre-Conceptual Magic and some basic Soul Magic replicating it. Compared to the sophisticated and evolved magicks of the Twenty First Century.


    And those Death Spells are examples of The Dark Arts, to quote Team Rocket¡¯s Motto about it, ¡®To protect the world from devastation,¡¯ regarding said spells. Or to quote Pratchett in 1994 paraphrasing Chesterton, ¡®The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.¡¯


    For shielding spells, what would defend against said things. You have the Scield Spell of Pre-Conceptual Magic, The Heraldus Spell of Aristotelian Conceptual Magic, The Barrius Spell of Platonic Conceptual Magic, and The Protectus Spell of Post-Conceptual Magic.


    The Scield Spell would defend against a Pre-Conceptual Spell, or half of an Aristotelian Conceptual Spell. It would fall to a Platonic Conceptual Spell, and it would be annihilated by a Post-Conceptual Spell ... if said Scield Spell doesn¡¯t have a hell of a lot of power behind it.


    The Heraldus Spell would block Pre-Conceptual Spell, it would be able to defend itself against an Aristotelian Conceptual Spell. If all things are equal, a Platonic Conceptual Spell would punch through a Heraldus like a knife through butter.


    If considering the fact, of how it is rare when all things are equal, a powerful and good caster of The Aristotelian could defend themselves against a weak and unskilled Caster of The Platonic. If the Heraldus Spell went up against a Post-Conceptual Spell of Crowley Magicks, it would fold and break and shatter if The Soul Magicks were more than a spell fizzle. (If the Power Rule of the Scield Spell doesn¡¯t come into effect.) If the spell worked, it would break the shield spell.


    The Barrius Spell would stop a Pre-Conceptual Spell, against a Platonic Conceptual Spell it would put up a good defence. Again, if considering all things to be equal. A Barrius Spell would block an Aristotelian Conceptual Spell. But see the earlier explanation about the equalling. And up against a Post-Conceptual Spell, it would fall. (Power Rule still applies here if not for the fact Platonic Conceptual Magic has low power as it relies mostly on it¡¯s nature of Platonic Conceptual Magic.)


    The Protectus Spell of The Soul Arts? If even cast like a flickering and guttering candle flame? Would stop a pre-conceptual and both types of Conceptual Spells. If A Post-Conceptual Spell even cast with a modicum of more skill would shatter it.


    It would depend on caster power and skill between say a Protectus Spell and a Morti Spell. Though a basic practitioner of The Soul Arts of making The I-AM! Of your own Soul protecting and fighting Conceptual Magicks, the most basic of techniques? It should basically be the equivalent of an easy saving throw against a Morti Spell. Let alone if it bleeds though and loses energy against a Protectus Shield Spell.


    Now, on the matter of Divine Magicks and/or Infernal Magicks of Divine Magic and/or Infernal Magic. Of Higher Powers? And if you want to be technical what would be Lower Powers if going into The Infernal Realms. Not using the term god what has already been covered on being so vague. What is at least a Powerful Spirit, if not on the pathway to being a Semi-Ascendant for a Divine or Infernal being?


    Well, there are rules. What was agreed by all The Higher (And Lower) Powers and Beings, then made everyone else agree to them in terms when shedding physical form and leaving the mortal planes. Regardless of your personal beliefs on whether Thor could beat Zeus, or Zeus beat Thor, or whatever when regarding Divine/Infernal Powers?


    The rules were hammered out and forged by everyone and anyone, for any new Power having to agree to them. Divine/Infernal Magicks of those beings fall into three categories, if they are not making some kind of avatar as limited by the treaties to come down.


    There is Divine/Infernal Power, followed by Divine/Infernal Spell Weave, and concluded by Divine/Infernal Power and Weave. What a Sufficiently Advanced Magical Energy Being to play off Sci-Fi Terms when admitting the actual magic and not pretending it¡¯s science?


    And when even claiming it¡¯s science, when it¡¯s bad pseudo-science, not even explaining where the actual magical power for it is coming from. Just, Doctor Who, Stargate, Star Trek, and others. Having magical powers without any justification for where the power is coming for it. With no Ambient analogue, or such to say where the actual energy for it is coming from.


    When Star Wars as a space fantasy has more explanation for it, rather than going on about being more evolved, what is pure nonsense and what is on a par with the, ¡®It¡¯s magic. I ain¡¯t gotta explain shit,¡¯ Explanation meme. Of what Harry Potter goes with for its magic ... and for a Sci-Fi setting it¡¯s bad.


    For example, DnD/D&D in various settings has more explanation for its magic. Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K have more of an explanation. To be rather unfair but honest, Dresden Files as an Urban Fantasy setting has more explanation and science in its magic than the mentioned Sci-Fi settings with their magic and glowy energy beings. What do you even mean by calling them energy? What kind of energy? ...


    ... Anyway! Moving on!


    Those spiritual beings can first just offer Power to their believers, devotees, followers, worshipers, or whatever. What is easiest on the scale, they have to provide the skill and knowledge to shape it of the magic. Whether Pre-Conceptual Magic, Conceptual Magic, or Post-Conceptual Magic.


    There is the Spell Weave, where the person gifted the spell provides their own power, but has the Divine or Infernal Spell made by the Sci-Fi Spiritual Magic Glowy Ball. What is more costly, and depending on the technological magical development of a civilisation can be more costly.


    Pre-Conceptual Magic, Conceptual Magic, Post-Conceptual Magic, or a spell crafted out of Divine or Infernal understanding. Each one is more costly, just depending on the level of the civilisation the Magic Space God is handing out the Spell Weave.


    And, if done, it is the most costly magically speaking, and depending on the civilisation may or may not be more costly than manifesting an avatar of varying power levels? Is both The Power of The Spell and The Spell Shape and Formula handed down by the Glowy One of either Good, Neutral, Evil, or Something Else.


    If handing out power and the spell shape, if you¡¯re doing full on Divine or Infernal Understanding of The Higher Realms. Of not just a Post-Mortal understanding of Magic, but a Post-Immortal understanding of Magic.


    It would be a very big act, like sending an unkillable Greek God level Avatar. Rather than something more subdued like a Norse God level killable Avatar act dependent on the magical technological civilisation level.


    On Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, for the main Supernatural Civilisation, it is the Divine/Infernal Levels of Understanding and Skill. What have their own levels and precision within them, of what can be from just above what Post-Conceptual Magic can currently do, to something what is a fucking Act of God. To put it mildly. Let alone if putting the power of something to look like a god to a twenty-first century human who mainlines High Level Powered Heroes and Villains Comics or media.


    Part of this is why you get levels of interactions. Like a Divine or Infernal sending the messenger or interaction of a Demon, Devil, Fallen Angel, Spirit, Supernatural, or Something under their command to be degrees of separation.


    Like the fact Enochian allows someone with a Guardian Angel, or someone to invoke a higher level of Angel, by politely entreating them to help. Not commanding or making a deal with a Demon, Devil, Fallen Angel, or such.


    It is why the Ars Goetia was and is almost always more popular than the Ars Paulina, of what the Ars Paulina would be the invocation of angels. It is the reason why sending more limited agents as operatives to work their will is less costly and more easy than Divine or Infernal Magicks. As a war of Higher Powers on a more limited level.


    Like The Minimum Effort for Maximum Reward of various factions of good, as part of the For Every Action An Equal and Opposite Reaction of all sides. How good when doing less than an Equal and Opposite Reaction, yet still saving the day, thus they are saving up credit against the enemy actor they¡¯re fighting. So, when the big one goes down, when it goes to full out war on a Mortal Plane like Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, they have a very large amount of credit to spend to fight it.


    <hr>


    [Pronunciation]


    Palades - Pa¡¯Lay¡¯Dees (Or Pa¡¯Ladies)


    <hr>


    [Lore]


    [Why Harry Potter Magic]


    [Is argued by most Supernaturals]


    [On the Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 Internet]


    [To be Pre-Conceptual and Conceptual Magicks]


    Simply put, the reason why Harry Potter Magic is classified as either Pre-Conceptual or the Conceptual Magic of Platonic Conceptual Magic is rather simple. For a lot of the Pre-Conceptual stuff, it¡¯s due to a lot of its combat magicks being blocked by a shield. It doesn¡¯t conceptually break down the shield and needs Post-Conceptual Magic to shield from it.


    You have things like The Unforgivable Curses appearing to be Conceptual Magic of what seem to draw on The Concepts of Death, Domination, and Pain. If the Imperius Curse can be resisted as what would be seen as an example of The Mind Wars in their historical past.


    While the Killing Curse is unblockable unless going up against a protection, one what could be a Conceptual Defence, or a Post-Conceptual Defence, or some form of Divine Protection. Either what could be a Conceptual Reflection Spell for one example.


    There are things like Transfiguration Spells, even if there is rarely a mentioned incantation, is like a specific spell to do specific things. Rather than a spell like The Morphus Spell what does Transformational Magic as applied by the caster, or if someone really needs to then by adding an extra word to the incantation. (Like Morphus Aqua, or Morphus Ignis, or Morphus Bos, to just list three random examples of having to add an extra word if you can¡¯t cast the spell properly.)


    The magic just doesn¡¯t have power and skill versus power and skill of Post-Conceptual Magical Battles or even just ordinary casting. And this isn¡¯t just to win internet arguments, but a comparison of it when taken through the lens of the magic of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1.