text; un: warden

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how do you do magic if you're not a mage

fake magic for not mages?

where do you buy meat for dogs

[These are not, in fact, incorrectly-aimed omni searches, this is simply how local not-a-mage Carver Hawke chooses to communicate. He has all the grace and poise of a preteen trying to google puberty, when it comes to Doing a Magic, but he also doesn't know how to be anonymous, so here he is.

Also if you've ever received a message from a one Palamedes Sextus and are wondering what's up with this severely different un: warden post, oopsie doodle? The click-through userid is different, if you make the effort to check.]

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text; un: lady

[dohaeris]

[sansa did check to make sure nobody had stolen palamedes' omni and ok fair. she is also a warden.]

You can trade for meat at any butchers. Fish is cheapest. Don't be alarmed if they ask for you blood, it isn't going in the sausages. But if this is for a hellhound, or your omen, they don't truly need to eat. They do like it sometimes.

I was under the impression that learning magic made you a mage, but my world didn't have as many different names for things as some, or as many mages, so I may be wrong. In any case you can take classes at Mutter's School, though some of the people on here may be willing to teach you different magic from their own worlds.

And ninjutsu is very like magic, and anyone can learn it. You can take lessons with my sworn sword Sasuke Uchiha by the Wellness Center in Darcmouth. He can help you to control your chakra, which makes casting any spell easier, I've found.

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i'm not going to just let her be hungry. my omen. pretty cruel to not feed her at all

[Like, he's reading "don't truly need to eat" and still interpreting this as "should eat because only maniacs don't feed their dogs at all?" So there's that.]

is that school like a circle?
you don't know what that means
is it where all the mages go?

i don't need even more magic

[dohaeris]

Omens don't get hungry. They just like to taste the food sometimes.

The School of Mutter the school in Gaze with the big clock tower. They teach anyone. There are classes in magic, but you can learn about Pthumerians and the city, too. It doesn't cost anything to go to any of them.

You can ask your omni crystal to look things up for you, as well.

text; un: v

[mehanizovati]

Carver?

[sorry he'll get to the rest he's just baffled for a moment by the many wardens]

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i'm feeding my dog. maybe she'll like sausages

oh. just a school. okay

i'm not supposed to be a mage, i'm not a mage. i just want to stop making everything cold

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hey

[He only knows like three people, "v" is not hard to suss out. Hey.]

what? you need me to hit somebody again?

[dohaeris]

They'll teach you how to control your magic at the school. If you don't want to take any more classes after that, no one will force you. But Coldblood magic can be very useful; I have been learning how to make it cooler for my own dog with cold bloodstone.

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[It takes him a moment longer than before to reply, as he needs a moment to sit and brood over the fact that coldblood magic can be very useful. It's always about being of use, being special, and he doesn't want-- mmph.]

i'm not a mage

too old for school, too

[dohaeris]

[consider the dog half of that sentence]

I wouldn't know. I never went to school before I came here. Many of the students are grown.

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i never went to school either. learned to read at the kitchen table

so how about too uncultured for school? if some prissy fancy smug scholar type gives me a hard time, am i allowed to hit them?

[dohaeris]

I don't think they can make anyone leave. I wouldn't say it's a very good idea to make enemies of Arcane Scholars, though. It's said they're hiding very dangerous artifacts in the Archives.

video; un: dovahkiin

[fusrodaaaah]

Um, you can usually - trade for meat. Or fish. That - that counts as meat, right? But - fish is um. Hard right now.

What do you mean... fake magic?

[Hi Carver, sure hope you don't mind a man-sized lizard on your screen.]

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so? i can break a few old toys if they really deserve it. really, why should they keep dangerous artifacts in the basement, not doing that is the first rule of having dangerous artifacts

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[Hmm. Okay. Now, he doesn't know all that much about dragons, but like, is this a talking dragon? Weird that it happened twice, he supposes.

He switches to video, if only because the omni replies to videos with video automatically, and not because he knows what he's doing. As such, it takes him a second to blink at the lack of keyboard, ahem:]

Maker, what's it done to the letters— I'm not a mage. I'm not supposed to have magic.

[this explains everything. anyway, he's going to ask-]

Are you a dragon?

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[adaine]

Is being magic like an inherent thing where you come from?

I don't think it's fake, it's just different because our bodies are different? Like how our blood is different? It's a bit of a headache to think about.

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yes

not like [grumblemumble okay, okay....... take two.]

i'm not a mage. i don't know what do to with it. i don't want to

[Be a mage? Do magic? He would rather not vomit his entire family history onto the internet here, so-]

it feels not real to me. i guess

[adaine]

People can probably make something for you to suppress your natural blood magic. Architects and stuff.

It's a lot to force on us, especially if you're not used to having it to begin with. I don't really love some of my abilities either.

[dohaeris]

Few of us in life ever get what they deserve; I'm afraid Gaze is treacherous enough without Arcane Scholars rioting over a Sleeper breaking their artifacts.

Arcane Scholars are very often powerful mages, and sometimes alchemists. The alchemy has very much to do with the dangerous artifacts. It's best to treat lightly, here.

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really? like a ring or something?

is that [.....] offensive to mages?

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so i shouldn't go to the school and kick the vases around, is what you're saying. got it

you're making them sound like [...] magical pains in the ass

[fusrodaaaah]

[Enjoy those two weird happenings, Carver.]

But... but now you - you do? Um. Sorry, I - I'm not a mage, either.

[He's an alchemist. There's a difference, thank you.]

... huh? [Melius - Melius you are a walking lizard man.] O-Oh! Oh, no. No I um. I'm Argonian. Sorry...

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Are you apologizing for not being a dragon? [Sir... sir.] That's— I mean, don't do that. I just thought- you know what I thought. Never mind.

[AHEM... okay.]

You don't have... new magic? Here?

[adaine]

Probably. Any kind of jewelry could potentially work. Warmblood mixed with darkblood could probably achieve that kind of result?

I don't think so.

I'm a mage - a wizard, specifically, from a family of wizards - and I'm not offended.

[fusrodaaaah]

I... Okay. I'm s- Okay.

[Don't worry, he's just kind of like that. The problem with no social skills.]

Oh! That! I mean um. Kind of. But um, it's... it isn't anything I couldn't do before.

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i guess? where do i get a ring?

my family were mostly mages. my sister would give me hell for this

[Or So He Assumes]