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Elly’s Research Log

This is the first instalment in what will end up being a very long series of research log pages. Here I’m mainly going to be documenting my attempts at creating different and interesting energy items, as well as interesting things I find in books around the astral. Maybe some things I find around too, here’s stuff to start off with.

The first part of each check is directly transcribed from my notes, so bear with me.

1. Pure Love

-Attempted to create the core of the energy using musical resonance, sadly this failed, couldn’t isolate the emotion.

-Attempted to create the core using my own feelings of love, unsuccessful, turns out I’m bad at using my own emotions.

-Tried to find a plane of pure love, failed, found a happiness realm instead. Happiness isn’t hard to make.

As you can see nothing is working, leading me to try and figure out something else to do, I made an idea, needs to be tested.

Combine the energies of two people that are in true love, then pull out the parts of the love that overlap. This should make a ball of extremely unstable emotion which I can then coat in order and chaos to make a ball of pure love.

2. Old Coins

-Found another coin, another of the round ones with a square cutout and different dot patterns.

-Magical signature leads in circles, need to figure out how to kickstart.

-Not electricity, maybe metal? Can’t use metal very easily, need to get an assistant.

-The chicken likes to chew on it.

3. Pure Emotion Realms

The book on realm physics is a bit wild, but the more interesting parts are the effects of reality bending areas of sentient space known as Pure Emotion Realms. There’s not a lot of information in other books, and this one is the personal guide of an explorer like me. I needed the entry on the Fear Realms the other day, but that’s another story.

Pure emotion realms are difficult to find and even more difficult to get out of, they try to keep you there, kill you there, or send you mad there. Honestly it could be malevolent or benevolent or even neutral intentions, but they do want to do something to you, and it often happens in a heavy handed way.

A small excerpt from what I could translate: “...realms appear more often if you know where to look for them. It’s best (good? happiest?) not to look for them, they’re not good to be in.”

Element Study 2: Fire & Stories

Today’s lesson was a bit less specific than the last one. Everyone had an idea about what to do with fire in general, but no idea with its unique properties. Then nobody wanted to poke stories after I told them not to use it.

1. Fire

Fire is an interesting element for me, I don’t tend to use it because for the most part I can replicate it using water, air, and solar properties. Sometimes I need to though, and so that’s why it became number 2 on the list of elements to take a look at.

To start with, fire is the element of passion and warmth, as well as, fire and burning. Meaning this can be used for weapons, protection, and assistance. Yes, it’s not just for burning people. Wild.

I personally have used fire in the past for speed, and to back things up with power. I’ve also seen fire used for comfy blankets, instant warming clothes, a lot of cold resistance gear, and some incinerators. Although my personal incinerator is now a web of decay energy stretched over some wards. Fancy.

Fire is also useful for boosting your physical abilities in the astral: faster, stronger, better at improvising. If fire works for you, it’s an amazing tool.

Go forth and find out about fire for yourself! It’s a spot of fun.

2. Stories

Stories is extremely powerful, if I’m being honest it’s the most powerful element I’ve dealt with. Stories can manipulate people and effect the world around you, and as a result the elemental version has the power to manipulate reality.

This is why you Should Not Use It, unless you are Very Experienced. Reality could be fun to manipulate but it’s not a good idea unless you know what you’re doing. It could backfire badly, especially for people not used to handling high-power elements. Stories itself is one of the more powerful elements to try and handle, nearly everyone believes in stories, and as a result it’s strong.

Stories can be used to effect reality, emotions, the programming of other elements, and the creation of new things.

3. Bonus Round: Flowers

I had enough time to cover the element of flowers, this isn’t a very powerful element, and it’s closely tied with wood and earth. Flowers is the gentler sibling of these elements, better being used for healing. It can effect moods, as well as provide a stable base for other elements.

Also, a more romantic idea, make a little bouquet of flowers with it for someone special.

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Elly’s Workbook

Alrighty folks! An update on my progress.

1. The Storm

I am more than aware that something is moving, and am unsure what it is. It’s nasty and is causing some stir amongst inexperienced or young witches who haven’t been practicing long. As well as those who aren’t good with shields.

If anyone has any information on this, please do tell.

2. The Coins

-Standard astral currency?

-Found by others across the astral. Definitely some kind of standard traveller’s currency.

3. Love

-Final attempt successful.

So this finally worked, thanks to everyone involved, I’m going to be sending a few samples to my friends and will find out more about it!

Elly Cavalier/Jones/Miramor signing off.

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Weird Energy Vibes

So I didn’t notice the weird vibes people’ve been talking about because I’m in Canberra and where I am tends to just feel really old and quiet? But since lockdown the energy shifted big time and now it feels really wrong? And my friend in bloody Missouri got a giant patch of weird energy near them that to them sounded like rocks being thrown at a window and to me was completely silent and a giant patch of darkness that gave of vibes of Not Meant To Be There even though there wasn’t any sentience or malice or even any entities beyond the usual around? Fucking weird my dudes.

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