So I think we have at least one proposed verse for every guild except Weatherwatch (Light).
We have 6 people signed up. They will all need journals and their items of elemental focus. Anyone any else can think of we need or want to for this?
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“I am the daughter and the father, energy drawn from the moon.
Set in motion by lovers boone
Gaze and understand the setting sun”
I know I’m not weatherwatch but this is something I came up with. Whoever takes the spot feel free to use it or change it or whatever have you. Just thought I’d throw in a suggestion for it since no one else has yet.
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Oh we still need to figure out this part that everyone needs to write in their own journals:
•Physically bind that object to a “peering tome,” like a journal or notebook. It should be blank except for your addition of as much context about the spell as you know. In Peering Arts you would typically have the physical book or art which would have the date, title, author, and the actual work. So you’d need to reference as much as you know about the spell at the beginning of the peering tome. The timeframe the spell was cast, that the Guide to Magiq is now a part of it, etc.
So what do we know about the spell? (Not all of these details need to go into the journals, I suppose, if someone can summarize them well. Or just copy these and other people’s additions into your journal. I’m easy.)
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It’s big, encompassing everyone and everything associated with the Mountaineers from contact with the outside world.
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It works in both directions, it keeps us from contacting outside, and the outside from contacting us.
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It involves mind affecting magiqs.
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The Veil is using the Guide to Magiq as a doorway allowing some passage into the veil.
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The guild affinities seem to be able to use the Guide to communicate out as well, for the time being.
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Casting of the veil involved the Calling the Corners spell.
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The residue elements we are hoping to find are located within the veil.
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The timeline for the spell. Marty last successfully contacted us in April 18th, 2018. The Search for Magiq began on March 29th, 2019. So sometime between those two dates.
Anything else anyone knows or remembers?
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Hmm. Who else do we know that was hedged out by the veil? Eaves, Marty… There has to be someone else on the other side of the veil that we can use as a reference, search the forum and find when they last posted. Hopefully we can narrow the window during which the Veil was placed to less than an 11 month timeframe.
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Marty’s was the last post I could find, but there certainly could be another. Maybe @SpiritSeer has in her logs of correspondence with the Low the first time anyone mentioned being unable to see the site. I don’t think she’s previously given us a timeline, but I may be mistaken.
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I know she mentioned something about the number of Low folks being able to see the forum dwindling to practically nothing, don’t recall precisely when it was mentioned…
So it sounds like the walls started closing in about a month after we last heard from Marty.
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I can’t access any of my low logins (lowgins?) anymore, which is where I’d be able to see definitively, but according to my previous conversations with my friendly there, who apparently has also been booted (though I have some sneaky theories about where he may have ended up) the “disappearing” started between May or June of last year.
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(Compiling for ease, cause you guys know me, I like to keep things neat :D )
So, if we have all of this, when do we want to start? Anyone got any tweaks to the spell? Personally, I’m not so sure on the lunar references for Flinter and Weatherwatch (I still don’t know what to abbreviate that to…) just cause those were references to chronocompass positions. Don’t ask me how to change them though, I really suck at stuff like this. Plus it’s probably good, just a me thing.
Also, apologies, I probably just sent all the pings…
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It looks good to me.
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Moons in the sun guild elements felt a bit…odd to me as well. I tried adjusting a little.
Ore:
Quench and cool, let structure show
Make leave of the Earth below
Raw component once hidden now revealed to our seeking eyes
Light:
Sunshine hidden from our vision
From horizon you’ve risen
Break these clouds with your radiant glow, shine for us all to see
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I guess it depends on if we’re going swapsies on EVERYTHING…because then I’d say leave moonlight. But if we still want it to be truly flinter/ore, we could switch “moonlight” to “sunlight” as that would match the “fire hangs midway in the sky” and the sun-guild-ness
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I didn’t even think of that. If we want everything to be in reverse would it be better to have opposites? Or like @Nimueh and @Ashburn said just reverse the order but leave the theme the same.
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Yea, that’s something I think all the parts should be on the same page about. To keep the same theme, Flinter and WW should both have sun connections. But that’s an easy change I think, if that’s what we decide!
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Off topic slightly. Is anyone having trouble with the forum not loading the main page or is that just me?
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I haven’t been having any trouble
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I’m having some trouble, on a few different computers. Thought it might be my wifi at first, but it’s still giving me an error at work.
I can work around it but it is a tad annoying.
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Any hurdles left to start casting? I’m sure it’s the lack of caffine early in the morning, but I had to spend a couple minutes trying to remember what we’re even doing. 
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You and me both man. I think all that’s left is making sure the journals are all set and everyone has their object
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Also if we want to just do this over the course of the day (in which case I can pretty much kick us off in a few minutes), or have a set time so we all post with the same hour ish.
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Hi guys! Been away for a bit, but wanted to let y’all know that the spell engineering going on here is super impressive!
Also thought I’d throw in my two-cents from a theoretical Magiq-engineering perspective on the Sun/Moon bits; I like the idea of keeping the references correct to the elements themselves. I think reversing the order and poetics helps with discovery, whereas inverting the compass positioning itself puts us further away from lodestoning the actual elemental shards we’re trying to draw (for whatever that’s worth).
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