6.13.2010

PREVIEW: For My Sins: The Trials and Temptations of Mr. Pembroke E. Silverwood

 What follows here is just a preview of a full story to come in the future. Enjoy!

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As he opened his eyes, Pembroke knew it was going to be a bad day from the look on the Jaguar's face. "It's strange, the thoughts that run through one's head when inches from the gaping maw of a Jaguar," he thought much later. Surprisingly, one of them was breakfast. Specifically, was there any, and could he get some before being torn to shreds by this unwelcome beast.

6.12.2010

Home

Joseph hung
The endless suspension
Movement
He had no weight
The arc of the world
His ship
Fast as light and faster
He called her Alice
"Down the Rabbit's hole"
Off to Wonderland they went
Alice and Joseph

6.02.2010

Addressing the Misuse of Containment Wards During the Elder Shintok Ascension Incantation

Introduction

Misuse of primary, secondary, and tertiary wards during the more complex incantations found within the Grande Magistratum, the four great books of magic bound to this world by Magus Yevgeny Solovyov, account for more than half of the dimension rupturing disasters from the last four-thousand years. In recent years, sophistication in astral reverberation mage tracking systems has allowed us to discover an alarming trend in these accidents. Fully two-thirds of these sanity shattering twists in the very fabric of reality are caused by mages less than five years out of apprenticeship. Whether the blame lies with master mages who rely too heavily on crystalline recorded projections of their netherselves to do much of the hands-on teaching to their apprentices or simply youthful exuberance in casting spells such as the Vyrstuuk Astral Folding Ceremony is beyond the scope of this paper. The focus of this paper is to merely comment to the greater arcane community about the misuse of containment wards during the Elder Shintok Ascension Incantation or other Shintok-style dimensional breaches.