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Ashengrotto: Yes.
Ashengrotto: Although it is hardly the best of my abilities.
Ashengrotto: Why?

Gojo ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ Satoru : cuz there's no way for us normies to make fire
Gojo ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ Satoru : without banging rocks together ig
Gojo ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ Satoru : i'm coming over
Gojo ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ Satoru : want another coffee?

Ashengrotto: Coffee sounds nice.
Ashengrotto: Bring enough for the rest of Social Science and I will give you some oysters.

Gojo ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ Satoru : ✔️

[and like 3 minutes later you're getting a knock]

[Opening the door, leaning out just enough to see who is there before opening it the rest of the way]

You really cannot make fire? Or are you pulling my land legs?

How do you think normies make fire?

[handing him a coconut shell full of coffee grounds]

I live in the ocean.

[Taking the offered coconut]

So my ‘normie’ is ‘we don’t’.

They're called 'matches' or 'lighters' or 'flame throwers'. And I haven't heard of any of the books having those.

[is holding a few sticks]

[Sets down the coconut before he removes his gloves, carefully pocketing them]

For the record. I am messing with you. Even at my school one of the teachers made us camp and make fire without magic.

How'd you do?

Idia wanted to handle it, so I watched and then took care of other tasks instead.

Why were they making you do it anyway. Is magic going out a thing that happens to you guys normally?

Not regularly, but…it can happen. And overusing magic is its own issue.

You burn yourselves out?

In a sense…

Any kind of power has some kind of risk with using up too much all at once, probably.

…if we use too much magic or if we accumulate too much negative emotions, we overblot.

[headtilt]

Do normies 'overblot' from having too many negative emotions?

No, only those with magic.

Wow, you guys somehow got it exactly the opposite of how it works in our world.

How do normies go magically berserk?

To put in terms that might fit more with your universe, thank about if all humans were at least a little magic but only wizards had a lot of magic and a way to control it. So for normies, all= their negative emotions sends their magic swirling around all over the place. Locations like hospitals, schools, grave yards et cetera in particular are likely to have a cloud of it all the time.

That's basically what we call 'curse energy' and when you have a lot of curse energy, curses are created. Monsters that run around doing everything from being annoying to causing massacres. Sorcerers don't create curses because we can stop our curse energy from getting away from ourselves, instead we use it to do our own brand of 'magic'.

Edited 2023-12-24 05:20 (UTC)

In our world we become the monsters.

I'm guessing the trade off is it happens less often but is more likely to be dangerous. Most curses are relatively harmless, though special grades can hit city flattening levels.

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