"No, I meant the perk where the veil doesn't apply to you."

"Unveiled."

"Charmingly straightforward." She looks up "unveiled + hunted" on the witch internet.

The combination has been done! ...a lot of these witches wound up dead, there's obits in here. Some of them live in witchy places or at least not-this-Earth ones where they can do magic in public. Looks like nobody is all of a) hunted b) unveiled c) alive d) talking about this on the internet.

"Hmm... maybe I should take the monster magnet one? Didn't you say that was the same number of points? Monsters have the disadvantage of not being sapient and thus not being able to adapt and also not following me wherever I go. If I'm going to a place that has monsters, I would be able to prepare in advance and research how to kill them, which I would probably want to anyway. Hey, do monsters drop loot?"

"Monster bait is six points. Some monsters have valuable parts but not very many have hoards."

"Fuck it, yeah, swap out Black Swan for Monster Bait."

"As you like it. Keeping Hunted, or do you want to swap it for the saying 'Katie' whenever you leave a building?"

"Keeping Hunted, swapping All Natural for the building one."

"This has you at 63 points of drawback when you can use only 60, is that how you want it?"

"Unless there's some obvious consideration I missed because I'm a stupid rookie, then yeah. I'm already gonna be difficult to blend into a witch crowd given my size, and having a third nipple in my bellybutton sounds awesome."

"Very well! Any other things to revisit?"

"Hey, how do I design my true form? Do I have to describe it to you in detail, or is there a character creation interface, or does it just magically sense how I want to look?"

"You will want to think about it before it is go time, so that you do not get stuck with something that you do truly want but would no longer want so truly if you thought about it for a minute. But there is some magical sensing and some visualization."

"What happens to people with aphantasia?"

"More magical sensing and less visualization."

"I see. Anyways, I feel stupid about only realizing this late, but I'm having second thoughts about Academic. I'm very ADHD, worrying I might not be able to concentrate on magic study enough for it to be worth it. My preferred means of learning is listening to educational YouTube videos in the background while gaming, I have a lot of trouble staying focused if I don't have something to do with my hands. How much of a problem is that for Academic magic-learning?"

"I am not one, so I do not know for sure. You can go to a magic school and they will have prior art on this, because not everyone chooses what they will be and academics are most common especially in a school, but perhaps it will suck. You could look for educational magical videos, see how well they focus you? If you switch to warlock you will have more points leftover with your current choices, if you switch to sorceress you need to put something back."

"The main crux is like, does it require use of my eyes but not my hands, things like that are really difficult for me."

"I think many academics take notes but I do not think this to be obligatory."

"How many more points will I get if I switch to Warlock?"

"Two more usable, five that you could get rid of a complication with."

"Eh, that's not that big. I don't think five would actually be able to get rid of anything except the two I actively want. Hey, wait, the banana weakness one is modular, right? And I've got three points left over. Can't I make that one less severe?"

"Complications actually have affinities too, so if you were a warlock, five would be enough to drop Crutch or Monster Bait, but you could also reduce the banana issue, yes."

Katie briefly browses online resources for beginners to teach themselves Academic magic. Do they look like the sort of thing that would be amenable to her?