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Well, you begin, leaning up against the nearest wall, this whole ‘WILD MAGIC’ thing’s been bothering you for a while–maybe even longer than you think! He can start by giving you the scoop on that!
“Certainly!” Darby laughs through the radio’s speaker! “You know, normally you have to be enrolled to get information like this.”
Well if he doesn’t do it for FREE you’re leaving Denise there with him! PERMANENTLY!
“Don’t worry–I think you’ve earned a lecture or two after all the work you’ve done.” The professor replies. “Now then–what do you already know about WILD MAGIC anyways?”
Well, you mutter sheepishly, it’s uh… it’s MAGIC… and it’s pretty WILD. And there seems to be a lot of it around CLEARWATER.
“Correct on all counts.” Darby says in an encouraging tone. “To understand what little we know of WILD MAGIC, we must first have a concept of what MAGIC is.”
You shoot a nervous glance in Syb’s direction. There isn’t gonna be a QUIZ on this, is there?
“We’ll see!” Laughs the professor. “To put it simply, we can compare MAGIC to most other forms of energy: it can’t be created, nor destroyed–only transformed. Practitioners of the ARCANE ARTS can harness this energy to perform incredible feats, but becoming a conduit for this energy takes time, focus, and, most importantly, the right reference materials. As you might imagine, however, magic doesn’t come in a textbook.”
“No… no it doesn’t.” Sybil interjects with a frown on her face. “There are books, of course, but those are hard to come by. There’s the internet as well, but there’s always a risk when using unverified sources…”
“Your friend is correct!” Darby interjects with an impressed tone of voice. “I’d like to say our department has a solely academic interest in the arcane arts, but there are several parties that see our interest in a, well, different light…”
Let me guess, you interrupt, some sort of ‘EYE ORDER’, right?
“Among others, yes.” Darby confirms. “I can understand their caution, of course, but the way they hoard that information makes it difficult to lear.. erm, but I digress. Needless to say, without a wealth of readily-available information, our understanding of magic and its properties remains… limited, to say the least.”
“Hence the podcast.” Sybil adds with a smile. “I really ought to circle back to magical fundamentals once all this is done…”
One thing at a time, ya crazy bitch!
>CONTD.
