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Ascala Spotlight - Plans for Modern Spells

 Hello. C J here. I have made more plans for Five Million Strong. Lands of Creation is mostly food, which I have planned out. It also contains ten Regency decks, which don’t require text only art. Then it’s Roads to the Spirit World and that’s based on novel writing along with the very well understood practice of visualization. Both are well known with established rules. That leaves me to move onto Five Million Strong. The first two Expansions won’t take that long to make. The Ascala Expansion likely will so I should start now.

I’ve expanded my plans for the spells that depict the magic of everyday tasks. Ascala and its half fiction half real life economy overlaps what I can research in several ways but not in all ways. I’ve already planned out making spells themed after running or working in a retail store. It makes sense a magic themed economy would make up magic for everything. The idea I had was to put the whole set of words and phrases into song metre.

Really unexpectedly, school and on the job training keep coming up in my brainstorming. Making a guide to using the educational content I make in a home office or home school setting in the modern world makes sense. I need something computer themed and this one might be more fiction due to the setting’s ability to 3D print magic with software. I also thought finding the magic in modern domestic life, like most of Wicca is based on kitchen and household alchemy and magic, would work well as fourth set of spells. 

That leaves social media and networking. Facebook has a Dating section and it’s very LGBTQ+ friendly. I really need to get back to setting up my photos for it later today. There’s also a friendship mode for people just looking for people to hang out with. Really? There’s an app with a magic friendship button that gives you friendship? Is that legal? Is it also made in a peanut free facility?

More seriously it has proved to be very, very active and no, really, I need to get back to checking my messages when I finish writing this article. Tracking down furry artists and collaborators seems best on Bluesky and finding people in the city I live in seems best on Facebook. Bluesky does a ton of networking as well but I so far am using it mostly for professional use. That may change.

I’m also working on some short mostly romance fiction in my new setting Shattered Kingdoms to officially launch the new setting line. It will end up being an anthology to help me establish the tone and setting. See the previous post, Starter Set Spotlight – Food Gems Part Two for an early peak at the planned content. Now, really, I need to get back to texting.

C J Mcpherson

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