Video, back on the train

[les_magique]

I've mentioned this before, but we've gotten enough new people since then that I dare say it's worth repeating.

I am a wizard. That means that I have absolutely no inherited magical talent, but that I can still manipulate ambient magical energy in the environment through carefully calculated understanding of how it behaves when it interacts with a living person.

The practical upshot of this is that not only can I cast spells, but I can teach anyone else how to cast spells. It doesn't require you to be born with power, just to be able to use your mind. And to be able to do a lot of math.

Since we constantly find ourselves in increasingly bizarre situations (though honestly compared to some of the places we've been, that last world felt positively homey.), I imagine it can only be to our benefit to expand our skillsets as much as possible. I've never felt very comfortable with the idea of direct face to face violence, but I've still been doing my best to learn from Monsieur Rieper's lessons, for example.

So what I'm getting at is, if anyone feels confident in their mathematics skills, I would be willing to teach them how to be a wizard. And if anyone ISN'T confident in their mathematics skills, I can also be a passable math tutor until you reach such a point that you are. It's not EASY by any stretch of the imagination, but it is achievable by anyone who is willing to put the work in.

Comments

[nocawsforconcern]

Cawwww...

Can it do anything useful?

[les_magique]

None of those sound useful!?

[nocawsforconcern]

Not really. Do you need to make shields or teleport often?

[les_magique]

All the bloody time, now that I'm constantly finding myself up to my eyebrows in danger with golems and crabs and other monsters!

[nocawsforconcern]

Why do you do that?

[les_magique]

Because the train doesn't always take us to heavenly vacation isles! Most of the time there are people in trouble and, well...

What kind of person would I be if I just said "Sorry that might be scary. Not my problem."?

[nocawsforconcern]

A bad one.

But you can do that stuff without magic.

[les_magique]

Teleport?

[nocawsforconcern]

Not that. But I don't wanna do that.

[les_magique]

I'll just put you down as "not interested" then.

[nocawsforconcern]

But I'd be interested if it could do other stuff. Manage a ship's log, or make seawater drinkable.

[les_magique]

I....could probably figure out a way to turn seawater into fresh water.

[nocawsforconcern]

Then why not do that first?

[les_magique]

Because I'm not a sailor? It never occurred to me.

[nocawsforconcern]

Cawwwwww...

[Enna folds her arms.]

The best things to do with magic would be to make water, then make food. Then clothes and shelter. Then you can survive no matter where we get sent.

[les_magique]

We've never been somewhere where those were in short supply. We HAVE been places where I've been shot at, so I judged that shields were a more immediately useful use of my magical talent than clean water.

[nocawsforconcern]

Weird.

I still think getting Aquarius is more important than Scutum but that's good to know.