TrAGic: A short story

Spell casting has changed so much since the days of yore. It is a combination of tech and magic, TrAGic is the name of this system of magic. Technical Craft Magic, is the full name of this. You just need a device that you want to keep your spells and charms on and these are pretty much traded like an old card game, the regular ones not the prescient ones. Although those also exist on your TrAGic devices as well. And yea the irony is very much obvious with the naming but one could say that life would be tragic without it? And the other side one would say it’s tragic we can’t live without it, and that so many wars and humans taking advantage of others is also why it’s called tragic. Honestly it’s just humans using another tool, think chimpanzees that use a stick to eat the ants from a tree. It’s simply a means to an end and to what end we can never truly know what another person is thinking. Although I think there is a spell for that? You’re interested, same; I like that TrAGic is something I can perform and use to get things done.

First rule: TrAGic is only a means to an end.

For example if you don’t know the history of something you can’t just use a TrAGic charm or spell to learn it all in an instant, that’s what the interwebs is for, duh. BUT you’re TrAGic device can use the internet so there is that. What does a means to an end mean then? It takes the physical labor out of things…sometimes. An example to the first rule; Say I wanted to wash clothes and fold them and put them away. I would first need my TrAGic device to know the steps, and the only way I know them is by researching and doing it myself first. It can be a step by step process or a sequence of steps. So if it’s the same place and area and relatively same amount of clothes and I know where things are, then I can use my device to charm my clothes to take themselves to the washing machine and the soap will move on it’s own and it will move to the dryer, etc etc. But say that I am at a different place like visiting or staying at an air bnb, and I need to wash some clothes. I have individual steps of the charm sequences saved on my device. I can’t just use the same sequence I don’t know the paths of this new place or where things are, but I can do the steps individually. I use the charm for lift and move and the clothes lift and move. But I have to close the laundry machine door manually, ugh I know but TrAGic is only a means to an end.

Second rule: TrAGic devices should not be used to harm another.

You would think that this would be the first and most important, but magical as they may be. Some people think that the name of TrAGic is a VERY fitting name. Our devices contain all kinds of harmful magic, words cause emotional pain when sent to another person, think about cyber bullying during the age of social media. It can create other TrAGic devices that the only spells are to cause physical pain or even death, those are so simple that you don’t even need to say something out loud or input the incantation or anything, just push a button or pull a trigger and point and the harm is done. This is the oldest form of the magics. But being as we are humans, its still practiced and as humans we have to acknowledge the risk of magic.

Rule three: TrAGic in this physical realm is alchemical. OR matter cannot be created without the needed material. OR energy is neither created or destroyed.

How do you send charms and then spell something to move on it’s own. Well that’s easy there is wind, gravity, fire, water, time, electricity, physical strength, mental strength or intelligence, etc, something must be given to get something back. There are of course exceptions. It’s why we still have other modern technologies, like washing machines, see rule two. And what happens to the life energy of the person who is harmed? The person who casts harmful spells doesn’t gain anything back right? Some say wrong, a sense of power, feeling in control. Some say nothing at all and some say the get sadness trade their humanity. TrAGIc is only a tool, see rule one and we live on Earth a physical realm and in the physical realm there is a qui pro quo of conditions.

Now all of this sounds pretty black and white but why develop magic to be so modern it when it takes awa, dare I say it, magic of it all? TrAGic devices have a special feature that some would say make the extraordinary, visible; make the mysticism, material. How? if we have rule three you might ask. Well my friends let me introduce to you the sub system TrAGiX: Technical Craft Magic Across Realms.The X means cross like crossing.

So we are in the physical realm I mean duh we’re humans but some humans for a long time prior to this development could reach beyond this physical realm and use energy of that realm to control things in this realm. For example prediction, that reaches across the realm of time and uses time energy to predict, the thing with predictions there is always possibility for change and nothing is certain unless we’re reaching in the past (the rules of realm of time state that we cannot change the past), prediction from another realm in this case future, comes at a price, rule three, it’s just a possibility not a certainty. Tarot is reaching to spirit guides for guidance and at times they are not all knowing, the fee is belief and the commodity information, but even data still need to be interpreted. Alright maybe Chrono and predictive TrAGiX isn't the best example. But that is what it was like in the older days. There was always people that were more adept at magic than others, TrAGic just makes it for everyone.

Another example of TrAGiX is when the production of magic seems greater than its needed material and/or elements, or seemingly out of thin air, you know “just like magic.” Again, this is just like magic in the days of yore, and we have the study of magic and tech to thank for this conclusion. In the older days of magic pre-tech the use of incantations, hand movements, affinity, faith, belief, culture, objects, bloodline, heck even wealth, would allow the access to across realm magic, that was seen as just magic out of thin air. With TrAGiX it is accessible to everyone, there are some forms that still require a combination of the old ways and the tech, and if the powers at be, the realms themselves deem you competent you can perform them. So doesn’t matter if you think another person is “evil” it really dependent on weather you are able to do it. Some cultures still keep their practices from the days of yore really private and exclusive. It has become the new form of elitism and prejudice. So what about today? well this is all to say that you can’t just search the web for powerful and potent forms of TrAGiX, you need to know them, practice them, sometimes be part of the groups, know the gestures and words too, believe it, inherit it, at times even have the objects to access across realm magic, heck even wealth will get it for you.

I know this is confusing and when we think about countries using TrAGiX during war time, one starts to question who really is following the rules and how and why were these rules even made. But people do little to question them it makes their life easier it’s an overt way for people to permissively act in ways that might harm another be it physically or mentally. But I point you to rule three, just because this world is more magical and we can say we start off with more even footing. The trade off is this; what we we thought would create equity just perpetuated much of the same. So I ask you what does that say about humans?