Something is wrong with the spirits of the city. The creatures that are spawned from the city itself have started… vanishing. It began small. An imp tribe from a rubbish ground, a dryad from her lamppost, a neonfly hatching ground from the sodium lamps that hugged the edge of the sub-stations. But then the larger …
Category Archive: Glossary
Aug
26
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Jul
06
Dusthouses
The problem is this – People want it, people desire it, people will pay for it, and people won’t walk away from it. Worse than that. People will live for it, they’ll work for it, they’ll kill for it, they’ll die for it. Actually, with the fairy dust, mostly they just do the latter. – …
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Apr
26
Magicals Anonymous
Worried? Frightened? Weird shit keeps happening around you and you don’t quite understand why? Having trouble controlling your own polymorphic structure? Not quite sure whether A+ blood is as clean as it used to be? Necromancy causing you skin problems? Zombie infestation and you can’t clear the eviction order with the courts? Living in an …
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Jan
16
Secret Societies
It can’t be fun being in a secret society in this day and age. The glamour must be all gone. I mean, sure, your basic secret, secret society could probably do a fairly good job of keeping a secret. I could start one right now (hello world) and we could have weekly meetings and hatch …
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Dec
18
Fairy Dust
There’s two kinds of fairy dust. The first – the nice, fluffy kind – gets sprinkled by Tinkerbell onto the heads of happy children who, at their first gloriously happy thoughts, rise up off the ground and fly merrily away to a land where all may be children forever, without grief or burdens, gleefully… well… …
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Aug
29
Prophecies
Prophecies are notoriously – some might argue dangerously – vague at the best of times. In this age of litigation, there’s a certain something to be said for leaving room for interpretation, as the average angry client is less than likely to take traditional excuses of divine justice and sacred forces to heart when considering …
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Aug
09
Spirit Guides
Traditionally, all self-respecting shamans have a spirit guide to aid them in the exploration of mysteries and whatnot. However, this being the era of urban magic, the spirit guide, like the shaman has evolved. No longer does the guide manifest in the form of an animal, a voice, a whisper in the mist, a glowing …
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Jul
16
Shamans
The shaman has been a cultural figure in most societies for a very long time. Not necessarily as someone called the shaman, mind – the job title’s gone through a lot of evolution. But generally, throughout history, there has been someone who does the job. A mushroom-eating wise one who communicates with the spirits; a …
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Jul
06
Travelcard Crazy
I walk everywhere. But once in a very blue moon I find myself the proud owner of a day travelcard, zones 1-4, and I go just a little bit travelcard crazy… In the world of urban magic, this is a genuine medical problem. Magic long since passed the point where a griffon’s feather was a …
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Jul
02
Blackout
There’s a thing at the end of the alley. It’s watching you. Grafitti, Soho – source unknown.
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