I am ashamed. I am running through the town at considerable speed, now and then jumping a fence for training, as my training DVD recommends. With frequent stops to feed the animalistic masses, though. I have my sustenance, but the abandoned pets do not. So when my aura sense says so and in regular intervals I put pet food out there.
Today I am going to become a preacher man. I have analyzed this, though this is attributing a lot to ten seconds of clear thought and considerably more research time into my tricorder. I am pretty convinced that rituals have been leaked by now. But that won’t get people essences. Or to be precise, it would get them essences, if they could do looting rituals. But even that wouldn’t do the job. To become an essence magician you need
* three essences
* the correct ritual
* the coins for the ritual
The last point is the problem. I don’t know where the GDN is getting its coins from. I, however, can make coins from monsters. A long chain of queries starting with my racial gifts led my tricorder to explain looting powers and powers likely to create looting powers in humans. It insisted on adding that. That is very interesting, but not immediately relevant.
I have gotten my essences and so many stones because somebody helped killing high-ranking monsters and supplied spirit coins to me. I cannot replicate that feat at scale. However, if some spirit coins reached certain people, say by the equalizing power of theft, people could become essence magicians if they came upon an iron rank intrusion, had weapons and knew the rituals.
It was not a sure thing and would take much longer than I would like, but the GDN has competitors now.
What can I do? Instructing people to pick essence combinations likely to produce looting abilities and gifts, that’s what I can do. So today I’ll put on wizarding regalia, that is real movie wizard regalia with staff, robes and a hat, not government auxillary ritualist, and make a YouTube video on looting powers. It should be protected by religious freedom now.
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It is a bit disappointing that I cannot do anything that CGI couldn't do more impressively, but I have to do something, so I am now surrounded by a cloud of small tools orbiting me. And I sing the praise of the essence combinations Foot/Rabbit/Feast and Life/Death/Balance.
Is this the correct thing to do? I don’t know, but something needs to be done and we cannot deliver the world to the GDN on a silver tablet. Yes, this will probably help criminal organizations and less savoury states, but sometimes there is no perfect solution.
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As I come home – odd how quickly something can become home - for editing, I find a feline visitor. I moma cat and two very sick kittens. This is hard to swallow. I am getting a potion out. I have no idea about dosage, but it is quite clear that I cannot do much harm here.
I can save one.
This leads to a change of plan. I’ll need a supply of veterinary medication and stuff for cats. My navigation device tells me that the next town should offer that. Yes, that means I am ready to rob a pharmacy. I just love cats.
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I am becoming traditionalist. An evening has to end with the evening news and a crime show. Just drinking milk instead of beer is highly untraditional.
» The requirement to obtain a permission for travel on highways will be lifted
» from the day after tomorrow on for most highways.
» The government has rebuffed demands by parts of the opposition to shut down
» the reactivated nuclear power plants again citing an absolute need
» for a secure supply of electrical energy.
» The committee for constitutional reform has put forward a proposal
» for a sweeping increase in the powers of the president. Quoting the chacellor:
» „We can not return command of the armed forces to an appointed official.“
This changes a lot. I can drive home in an untraceable car.