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[blackestwitch]

Two questions for you all. One of them minor but kind of personally important. The second more of an excuse for you to ramble at me.

Okay, first. How do people usually keep track of birthdays around here? Because I should be turning sixteen very soon, except now it's like May and I've lost a bunch of months. Do I have to do math to figure out when I turn sixteen or do I just keep saying I'm fifteen for another half a year? This is important. I could be driving.

Setting that aside for a moment, an open question. More of a request, really. Can you tell me about magic in your world? I always assumed magic was kind of a universal constant, but from what little I've learned, it seems like magic can come in many different forms depending on the world. So tell me about yours.

I'd be happy to answer any questions about my world's magic in return. I can't use it myself but I ran a podcast about it. Maybe I'll even compile the information I learn here into something like that.

Maddie out.

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[honededge]

[Talon's fingers hover awkwardly over the keys for a moment. He can't just ask if she's blind, right? That's rude, isn't it?]

haha, yeah. i guess it must seem like a wild concept to a world like yours. to be fair, a lot of people are magically active back home, just not as many as you'd think actually take hold of that power and do something with it.

most magic users are either corp mages, working for big companies to guard against shadowrunners and security breaches (usually also shadowrunners) or are shadowrunners themselves.

[blackestwitch]

Okay next question, which might be dumb. But. What is a shadow runner?

[honededge]

nah, it's not dumb if you don't have them where you're from.

the short answer is "criminal mercenaries"

the long answer is that they're people who aren't legally allowed to work or live on the grid, so they hard commit to crime to survive on the underbelly of society. i was one before i came here, but i was private security before that. ironically enough, because that means my job description was "prevent crime" before it became "do crime".

a lot of them aren't that way by choice. you have a tag attached to you called a S.I.N. - a SIN - and if you erase it to avoid the consequences of your actions, regardless of whether or not you're forced to, you just have to be a criminal or die in the streets.

[blackestwitch]

That sounds astoundingly familiar to be honest.

[honededge]

does it? sorry to hear that.

it's not a very good system