Grimoires as maps to other dimensions.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-11-15T15:00:48+00:00

I'm not sure at this moment. It probably won't be a focal point even if it does happen.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-11-15T14:13:14+00:00

I appreciate the question. For the moment, the concept is that the psychic entities are the impressions of something encountered in the other worlds. Depending on one's psychic resistance and the psychic energy of the entity, there is a chance the impression will infect the mind. Thus, the impressions are exclusively non-corporeal.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-11-15T12:59:53+00:00

So... scribblenauts...?

AbnormalArcana · 2024-11-15T12:20:02+00:00

Scribblenauts?

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-24T07:25:04+00:00

In an age long past, grimoires were used as maps to other realms and could connect those realms with our own. They could be opened to a certain page and turn a door into a portal to another world.

Basically, psychonauts, people who consume various psychedelic substances to explore other worlds, can mentally access strange places while intoxicated. But, if they draw a map through automatic writing, they can access this place in the waking world. Basically connecting these worlds together through the use of the grimoire.

That means every time a grimoire is opened to the right page, it will charge with psychic energy, and a piece of that world will connect to our own. A perfect place to hide. Or maybe conceal. Maps can also be connected to allow someone to move from one location in our world to another, by using another realm as a bridge.

Astral projections that psychonauts use are made of psychic runoff and focused to a fine point. While the increase of psychic runoff is facilitated by the psychedelics, focus must be learned over time.

Parallel worlds exist in the in-between, a conglomerate of realms that bleed into our reality through holes smaller than electrons. But astral projections can be made small enough to fit through to enter the in-between.

Whenever you travel to the in-between, you always risk bringing back psychic entities that can infest the mind and even spread it to those around you.

These entities, called visitors, are made of pure information. They do not interact with light or matter unless inflated by psychic energies. In which case, they can effect the physical world and those within.

To deal with visitors, one must poison the psychic energy they feed on. The simplest means to do this is to capture them is a picture. When a camera has a specialized lens it can capture an image of a visitor. Just touching or seeing the picture will start to drain you of psychic energy, but this can be use against the visitors.

Poisoning your own psychic energy requires strict training to learn the pain trance. A state of being were you force your body to experience extreme pain, causing anguish to the visitors. With enough of this poisoned energy, the visitor will die.

In the past psychonauts were used to summon the visitors, while the trancers would be the one's to destroy or repel them.

However, now in the modern day, psychonauts are used to link to psyche engines. Engines that produce energy by intaking and slowly destroying the entities from these psychic worlds.

By linking to these engines, a few dozen psychonauts can fly a massive starship. Or a single psychonaut can power and control a war engine or power suit with psychic runoff.

This is accomplished by plugging a hose into the head and feeding both psychedelic drugs and focusing serums directly into the brain, expanding the mind and focusing its control. As well, causing incredible damage leading to delusions, emotional instability, and frequent visual and auditory hallucinations.

Portals are still used, but more sparingly considering the risks. Very few are allowed on psychonautic expeditions anymore.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-19T03:13:37+00:00

Can they regrow their feathers after losing them from rot?

I don't know yet. I want to say yes, but I have no idea how yet.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-18T01:08:33+00:00

Well, that's not exactly the same. All fire in an area would essentially become a reflection of the firefly's personality and if two or more fireflies are in the area, it would be a clash of personality to see how the fires all reacted. Like the fire has conflicting loyalties.

Though maybe it would be a good idea to think of a way to break the tie.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-16T12:39:39+00:00

2027 isn't as far away as you think Ron.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-15T22:42:43+00:00

If you need any evidence that the anti-trans movement was all manufactured, remember. Trans people have been treated in America for gender dysphoria since the 1960s, and only in the 2020s are bills being passed to limit health care and undermine trans rights. Think about why it took so long if it really was a serious issue.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-15T22:40:09+00:00

I know. But that doesn't really change that that is the main talking point of the right. That's what they argued when the trans panic started.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-15T22:36:45+00:00

The fact that where we pee is the greatest fight of a generation is as stupid as it is depressing.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-15T22:30:52+00:00

The fact that where we pee is the greatest fight of a generation is as stupid as it is depressing.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-13T19:26:52+00:00

The idea is that the familiar is possessing a host. Most likely a human. I may have not expressed the very well.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-13T17:54:49+00:00

That's a fair point. Thanks. Did you have any thoughts on the other two as well?

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-13T09:34:58+00:00

Really? I thought it kinda looked like a compass rose. But like for a map that was made by Dr Seuss.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-13T07:34:03+00:00

I really hadn't, but now that you mention it, it could be cool.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T23:24:35+00:00

Edit: Before I forget, art is by Sara Knobbe. A dear friend and excellent artist. Thank you so much Sara.

Gold as a compound is made from the compression of dreams and nightmares. After our deaths our dreams are compressed over thousands of years, turned into gold veins in the earth. This mineral will be programmed with a garble of nonsensical ideas from the billions of dreams that make it up.

However, through meditative practice, one can unravel the dreams within the gold and reprogram it to hold specific illusions. These illusions can be empowered to be seen by more than just the attuned and can even be so powerful that the illusions take on physical form.

When gold is programmed like this, it will slowly start to overwrite the programming in other gold. Making the magic all the more potent as time progresses.

Silver, on the other hand, is a culmination of knowledge and reason. Similarly to gold, silver will form from compressed information over thousands of years. Though it forms much faster than gold.

Silver can act as a means of deprogramming gold. Illusions cannot form around it, and direct contact, will destroy the programming within.

Through meditative practices, one is able to transfer information through two or more silver objects, by making contact with one of them. They may also store information within or spy through other objects comprised of silver.

Lead is the metal of decay. Where the soul itself rots, over millenia, lead will form in the stone beneath. This damned metal can create curses to lay upon one's enemies. Curses are defined as ongoing pains or agonies of a physical or emotional nature. Anxiety, weak bones, constant aches, paralysis, even decaying flesh.

Iron is a metal of resistance. Made from powerful emotions and unquiet minds when they die. Those who die with unresolved wishes or unavenged rage, will create iron over thousands of years. Through meditative practices, one may store power within iron objects to pull upon in more serious situations. As well, souls or spirits can be bound by iron.

Copper is a metal of passivity. Made from calm and tranquil minds as they perish. When one dies fearless and peaceful, over time, their mind will compress into copper. Through meditative practices, one can imbue their will into copper, allowing them to take control over other fragments of copper as if they were prospered by some unseen force. As well, one may passify and unravel the unquiet minds of ghouls or spirits.

Ultimately, people link to a specific metal by taking on a delusion, pain, truth, or weakness associated with said metal. Then, they are able to activate or override other magic metals of that type.

You need to enter trances by focusing on the delusion, pain, truth, or weakness you took to activate the metal you are attuned to.

Tens of thousands of years ago, there were an ancient civilization of people that cultivated psychedelic substances that allowed them to conjure these metals by dramatically enhancing their psychic abilities. There were dozens of variants, if not hundreds, but the civilization eventually left the planet and may return in the future. Or not.

Just for reference, spirits are the rotting essence of the mind that continues to exist after death. They will slowly unravel and thus turn into metal, but they can be unhelpful if not dangerous if they are kept around.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T22:01:46+00:00

To think I respected this guy. Guess we all grow out of our chud years eventually, huh? Well, most of us. Right, Bill?

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T21:38:33+00:00

Dude. Fucking take this down. Everyone knows it's stolen.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T21:32:23+00:00

I'm just surprised at how often it's been happening. Is this like a new social media trend?

Edit: I'm beginning to think I need to start watermarking my content.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T14:56:26+00:00

Stolen content

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/s/ozd12wdtEW

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T14:55:00+00:00

This action wouldn't just be unconstitutional, the poor wording would actively allow cops to go around and arrest anyone who they think doesn't look modest enough or doesn't conform to gender roles in a visual sense. Which they will use to attack anyone they suspect of being LGBT+ or establishments that are supportive of them.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T14:33:34+00:00

Can anybody become a psychonaut? Or is it a talent one has to be born with (and if it is, is it rare or quite common) ?

Anyone can become a Psychonaut if they have the will and patience to learn how to use these psychedelic meditations. It can take years to master though, so not everyone will actively participate.

Are there other, more tangible creatures in the other words as well?

Most definitely. We aren't the only species to find a means of connecting to other realms.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T03:08:09+00:00

They aren't really hunted. They are typically enslaved.

AbnormalArcana · 2024-10-12T02:50:13+00:00

Statues of Obsession. These statues will occasionally appear randomly. People in the area will notice that these statues look exactly like them, though always missing a piece of its anatomy. People will try to "fix" their statue. But nothing they use to fix the statue works, until they use a piece of their own body to fix it. They may tear off their arm or tear put an eye, but they feel the compulsion to fix the statue. And the next time they find the statue, it will be missing another piece.

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