Everyone should have that

It's

I can't say anything about that except

Everyone should have that

There would still be like

War

But

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The wiki does show at least one Magical Girl who is active in this city! It's actually a magical boy, Starshield Savior, whose theme appears to be star-speckled sheets of dark blue energy made into something physical, mostly as shields or flying platforms.

...Yeah.  You're right about that.  But there's only so much magic one person can do, let alone sustain, I think.  And we don't even know how it works.  Still, I'll put it on my to-do list.

OcularStone leaves a checkmark emoji on that message but has no further immediate comment.

A while later they send a link to a Google Doc apparently full of summarized internet research.

lmk if this is...

too much?

not what youwant?

Well, to do that she'll first have to read it, but she thinks it sounds good!

It has a bunch of random notes and observations:

Magical Girls always seem to have something for attack, something for defense, something for movement, and something for utility

Witch spells all seem very home ec? Weather, healing, cleaning, fixing, etc

Wizards are monks?? All about zen and control your center and direct the flow of energy

...Huh.  Well, that answered some questions she didn't know she was asking.

This is pretty useful; thanks, dude.  I guess the next question is how on earth one goes from 'okay so you flipped a lightswitch by being annoyed and half-asleep' to 'recognizably an [X]'...

Yeah idk

You should write down all the magic you do

And when and what and how

Did the paper cleaning feel

Exercise-y?

Trying to estimate your possible rank

I don't think it felt exercise-y?  Like, the trick I needed to get was thinking the right way rather than doing anything in particular, aside from, like, dealing with the clumsiness inherent in trying to move a limb that's been asleep for a decade.  ...Wonder if there's a spell for that sort of power-assessment thing.  I mean, there's gotta be.  But I don't know what it is if there's one standard.

And yeah, I'm planning on documenting everything I can.

...I honestly really do wonder if magic is basically all in the thinking about it, power levels aside.  Because it'd be cool as fuck if I could actually use the Force.

I have no way at all to tell.

I can't believe in the existence of p-zombies.  So there's bound to be some way.  And if there isn't yet, then I suppose I'll have to make one.

??

oh

OcularStone is Typing...

OcularStone is Typing...

It sounds like magic is a mental thing only sometimes from the blogs I'm finding

If they're not BS

But I also feel like necessary != sufficient

Also

Depends on what you mean by the force

Replicating stuff from star wars is one thing

The actual force is another

True enough!  But we'll find out!  Hopefully within the next year or so!  Assuming somebody's willing to put things together for doing this as proper research!  I don't have enough executive function to make the legwork happen on my own, but I've got some ideas!

hums opening bars - and refrain - of "Come Together" by the Beatles, contemplatively.

If it looks like it might work out, you're gonna be one of the first people on my list to share with.  You think about the right things.

Beep boop, I am science advisor, +5 to magic research dice. My loyalty quest is the fountain of youth.

sksdajlasds

more of a special projects advisor, ne?  this is Magic Research Quest, you know.  ;P

...Frankly I bet the succubi already have at least antisenescence as a spot treatment.  ...dunno how one goes about politely asking them things, though.  Gods, if it's anything like some myths imply, I will die on the spot.  Of embarrassment.

I mean

Have you heard the thing where "Changeling Children" were probably autistic?

Wait

Where was I going with that...

OcularStone is typing...

Oh

Right

I kind of suspect most myths have a grain of truth to them somewhere

So uh

That should probably be confirmed by... Research.

Yes. Research.

Have I heard, I will practically go LARPing that now that I have an excuse.  Man, which Court would I even be?  And from which typology for that matter...

Uh, anyway.

Right.  Uh.  Research.  ...That I should definitely...do at some point.  Dear gods.  On the one hand I really must know, if I'm gonna start swimming in the ocean.  On the other hand I'm not certain I could survive collapsing my uncertainty into knowing.

...I'll be back in just a minute.  Gotta get the gay panic attack under control.  (This statement intentionally left ambiguous.)

The woman OcularStone knows only as StandaloneCheese is silent for more than the promised minute - but not very long - as she...investigates how one would make (polite!) contact with a succubus, and the requisite diplomatic manners.  If such information does in fact exist in the college library's card catalog.

Not in an easily-findable and obviously correct fashion.

There's demonology books. They're either historical or under 'fiction'.

...Historical, s'il te plait.  Ideally, by primary sources...?

If she wanted a pop-history analysis of myths, fairy tales, and legends of demons from the 5th to the 18th century- That does describe several rituals meant to supposedly summon/bind/control/drive off succubi- Then she has it.

...God.  Dammit.  Well, it might be better than nothing, at least.

She doesn't expect they're in the phone book.

...She'll check that too, though.

...Er.  Probably not the literal phone book.  But, hell, maybe even that if it's digitized enough to be searchable.  ...Or she could do some bibliomancy in the classical mode, for all she knows.  Wouldn't be impossible.  Would be effort she's leaving off for if her first resorts whiff, though.  Spell design feels like she might be trying to run before she can walk, and all.  ...If she had local contacts worth mentioning...

But she doesn't, really, unless a recognizable magical girl walks in here and she gets over her social anxiety right quick.

...Not impossible, that.  The Force is with her, she knows, and that's...  A warm comfort.  But still, in the words of a children's book Viking, vastly improbable.

Searching the internet for how to find succubi gets her porn. And then urban legends and old forum posts asking the same question (usually answered by 'lol noob' or similar), when one turns Safe Search on.

There's at least one actual website that at least heavily implies it's run by succubi? It's very vague vagueness for 'Tantric Wellness Wholesome Aesthetic and Healing Spa'. By appointment only.

She will fucking take it.

Hello,

My apologies in advance if I have erred in my reading of the implications of your website, but it is heavily implied that that this business employs at least one ...if succubus is not the correct term, my apologies, but that is what I was able to find - and I hope that this letter may be less rude than attempting to construct a summoning from Middle-Ages accounts and first principles, if indeed it finds itself in hands that would be qualified to answer that question.

I am...

Relatively new to the field of organized magical practice - but it is a relatively prominent piece of knowledge, in my studies so far, that succubi do biokinetic magic.  I have approximately all the questions on how it works and what it can accomplish and how on earth it's so predictably affine with succubi as to form almost a trope trying to beat down the doors of my brain and storm the page, despite myself, but there is also a - personal matter that I would like to seek a medical-magic consult on, and ideally treatment for, if that is a service that can be arranged for within a student's budget.  ...Or possibly in alternate methods of payment, though I would not wish to be too assuming, especially off of such scant records as I've yet found.  (It's not like my health insurance couldn't be pressed into covering this, anyway, for a cost in $USD; they're required by law, I'm pretty dang sure, I'm just - not sure I have the energy to try and fight them about it if they put up a fuss.  Though I assume that you have better lawyers than I could, given some of the laws that have very pointed exemptions.)

Again, my apologies, should I have made any faux-pas.

 

With hope,

-- AJM (she/her)

And to OcularStone:

Well, apparently there's a tantric holistic wellness jargobabble that isn't, actually, too far to dare consider approaching, nearby.  So I emailed them instead of actually doing that.  ...Especially since they did say by appointment only.

If this goes horribly wrong, I guess I told me so.  Wish me luck?

It's not like sex is a bad thing

I can just hear the christian screaming but

that's stupid

A lot of people would be perfectly fine with it and that's fine

>.> I mean

Maybe they're gaslighty or manipulative and actually it sucks? Or is problematic?

If they need sex to survive

Murgh

I'm rambling

It's a lot better than wanting to be paid in blood or souls or something

After the last text:

Sounds like a rich people scam

Maybe tell someone you know local where going?

<.< nervous

The email to the clinic is not immediately answered.

...Well, you're not wrong that my issues around walking to their door came from the cultural attitudes.  Even if I quite agree with you on the morals, I seem to have internalized far too much shame.

 

...Would sure be nice if I had anyone local to tell; I don't have people like that.  Guess I could tell the academic advisor, though, uh.  Don't wanna.  Or I could plausibly do one of those fancy deadmans-switch things.  That seems more... comfortable, insofar as preparations for my disappearance under suspicious circumstances can be.  Maybe also forward to the local magical girl if so...