#physical magic

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coholBeing a Physical Kid is the smell of sweat after a long night of partying, it’s the hallucination that drugs give you, it’s the release in the tip of a cigarrette and the fun of alcohol. It’s loud music, it’s feeling-free sex. It’s the boredom of life that magic tries to fix. It’s finding a way to break the world around you, the same world that tried to break you apart. It’s mocking your friends for being dumb, but dying for them if needed.

Being a Knowledge Student is the smell of old books. It’s sneezing cause of the dust in the bookshelves, but still remaining there because knowing is more important than your health. It’s reading when you’re trying to run away from the cruelty all arounf you. It’s looking at the planes in a different way, understanding magic in a deeper more connected way, and controlling it when others use it to control you. It’s an endless search for what is not yet known, even when it’s hard. It’s a research that has no morality attached to it, you’ll only discover, the usage is only to the decision of other magicians. It’s a nerd that is proud of being one.

Being a Psychic is enjoying the smell of corpses. It’s a goth without bondaries, it’s creepiness corporalized, it’s the obsession with death, it’s being close to spirits. It’s knowing what humans think and feel, but never understanding the evil that lies within themselves. It’s not only seeing this plane, but the ones after the end. It’s travelling while dreaming, it’s seeing clearer inside the dream world than in this world.

Being a Healer is the smeel of ethyl alcohol everytime you step in a hospital. It’s being cleaner than everybody else. It’s being surrounded by crystals and potions and herbs. It’s giving your complete self to the person you’re taking care of. It’s knowning that the lives you’re saving are more important than your pitty problems. It’s helping, even when you know that you’re the one who needs help. It’s caring for the broken people, because you know how it feels to be broken. It doesn’t matter who they are, if they’re good, if they’re rich, the only thing that matters it’s that they need you. And you need to feel need.

Being a Natural is the smell of the florest. It’s finding peace when you thought you would never find it. It’s smoking some weed, because the world it’s too heavy for you. It’s the stranger that talks to birds, and pets the wild animals. It’s knowning that every form of life is important and beautiful. It’s craving the life that lifes above and bellow you. It isn’t living in the tree house. It’s being the tree house. It isn’t wearing green, it’s making the blood that flows through you that same color.

Being an Illusionist is driving everyone insane, because you don’t wanna be alone in your craziness. It’s bad jokes and very indecent behavior. It’s a big orgy where everything is fake: the sex, the place, the people,etc. It’s knowning that you live in a lie but still feeding it, because deep down you known it’s better than the real world. It’s being optimistic outside, but dying in the inside. It’s spying, it’s breaking the rules, it’s not giving a f*ck if the system says otherwise.

Today our judges review our third semi-finalist, in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), William C. Tracy's Physical Magic! 🐉

"Thoughtful, inclusive, and quietly ambitious, this one stayed with our judges long after they finished."

Physical magic focuses on attacks, typically with a charged weapon. The limitations are only what the magic user makes it. Some use swords, many use guns and some prefer a staff. When attacking with the weapon, it’s magically charged. Users can charge up any kind of weapon they have at hand but most prefer to stick to a specific kind of weapon.

For example with a gun, the bullets probably wouldn’t do much against an elemental but if they charge it with magic it would do more damage than a regular bullet.

They also can fire magical energy blasts that can take multiple forms, some of them appear more fire-like and others have an electric look to them, even able to create a sort of electric chain between the user and whoever is being attacked if the distance is small.

Confession #3:  I took the brakebills aptitude test like s billion times because I didn't want Psychic magic but besides physical magic that's the only logical option( I got psychic magic 5 times!) so looks like I'm a mind slut!