[Text post] You can just get cursed anywhere, now...
So, curses.
Not my forte.
I can blight fields and create life pretty good. I’m more of a ‘hands on’ type evoker of the magnificent and unreal. You show me a marauder swinging a weapon blessed with mere strength and I can delete its enchantment from a distance—pretty good at sucking the mana right out of enchanted tools. I can conjure minor daemons, some atronachs, a few fairies or sentient tools. My restorative and protective evocations are actually my best skillset. I could probably qualify for a license as a professional healer.
*Curses* vex me, and I’m not specifically speaking about the Curse of Linguistic Vexation.
I saw this [occult wizard using their orb to take pictures at the shop earlier]( https://reddit.com/r/wizardposting/comments/1trqy7r/crystal_orb/). That thing was a right beauty, and considered picking it up to decorate my spire with. (I’m renting the spire. You think I can afford a whole spire *in* ***this*** *economy*?) I was looking over their shoulder and though, ‘Nice.’ Then the owner comes in—just as they’re leaving—and throws a curse at *me!* Says not to use orbs, false eyes, third eyes, illusory daemons, or homunculi to render still images!
I told him to show me the sign where it says no recording, but part of my psyche [is still hurtling through hell]( https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fas2.ftcdn.net%2Fv2%2Fjpg%2F05%2F37%2F65%2F27%2F1000_F_537652743_FZHLc5S7wtSgnZoQ9yd5cNdr7YpkWZXa.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=6bbd8177bd2ce4af040428aab4a118ad7c6e2ee02744a6d2420e9e8f1a38d197), and I can’t experience the quiet ennui of merely existing, nor can I connect any longer with family, friends, or peers on an emotional level. It’s also given me permanent tinnitus, which is honestly worse.
If anyone knows a way to remove the spiral of hellish torment (or the tinnitus!) send me a message at 3-6, 2-4, 3-6, PO Box 124 Butthole Lane, Blackwinter Terrace, Rhyhan City.
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Rhyhan City is divided into five different sections: the Vaulted Enclave, the Old Town, East Town, the Waterfront, and Northside. The Old Town was founded first, and had a path that led directly to Castle Rhy, which overlooks Lake Rhy. The famous Dancing Dragon Inn is there. The Waterfront is built on aquatecture that subverts the freshwater back into the city to flush its sewers, and has been expanding for around 80 years now. The Vaulted Enclave has all the bells and whistles for security: flying automatons, invisible familiars sitting at every street corner, and enlightened spellwolves (werewolves with all their mental faculties and sorcerous abilities). All the old money in Rhyhan lives there, in the shadow of the castle. East Town is fairly modern – it’s where I live, and a lot of the city’s cosmopolitan fixtures can be found. I’d say half of Rhyhan lives in East Town. Then there’s Northside.
Let’s just say, I’m a 1st degree spellblade, at least an adept healer and alterationist, skilled with fire and lightning, and can summon a thunderbird to cast a dire shadow over all the land, and I wouldn’t walk into Northside alone. Those god damned nerds took my supervisor Fabius the Red’s money when he went there to do a rudimentary glyph repair. They even took his wand, and that’s just humiliating. Taking a wizard’s focus is like stealing a knight’s horse: that’s the thing we do all our work with!
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We were throngling the vertices when [the news broke about Tesrina]( https://old.reddit.com/r/wizardposting/comments/1tqebta/wnn_breaking_news_city_of_tesrina_sacked_by/). Someone I studied with actually worked there. I was just telling one of the Sun’s Warriors that I had a crush on her for the longest time. I’ve always kinda had a *thing* for Dark Elves, but she and I never really had any chemistry. Hearing about the attack really made going back to work hard, considering our shared history. Mulrock the Magnificent just looked at me [like this]( https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net%2Fi3bonQ5rxzT5qB9kbg4WbJ-1200-80.jpeg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=6b170619d238659e50f8b7748fc973a862cfb3290f5f88c57ac739ebebe6819a) and screamed that the pirates will be dried out like jerky by the rays of the sun. (I kinda wish he was more sensitive about the subject.)
Tesrina is east of here a good ways, you’d have to go over the Lofty Peaks and beyond the Great Bastions to even get close. For wizards, it’s 2 teleports away if you’ve conserving mana. Chloe and I (her name is Chloe) visited there when we were still apprentices. She said she liked the town because of the towering mushroom lanterns, swarms of fireflies, and easy access to all the mana crystals they produced. I almost gave up my apprenticeship to go after her, but I instead went to the Black Sword (an affiliate of the Royal Academy) for my certifications.
I’m not 100% how I feel about the pirate wars because I’m not like those fart-sniffers at the Silver Eye, who talk in masturbatory ways about magic being for “the right kind of people” and going over the orb and telling folks who to teach magic to. Magic is for everyone! I used to know this orc name Malablob who was better at evoking the cosmic energies of the universe to unseat the deepest fathoms of realities unknown and unexplored than some of the guys you see talking about spells like Power Word: Herniated Disc. Because first of all, it isn’t a “power word” if it’s ***two fucking words***.
With the news about Tesrina, I’m glad I don’t have to see the headmaster at the Silver Eye on WNN as much, but they keep showing clips of him chanting to crowds about drilling for mana in protected areas.
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[Chapter 1 - Introduction to Rhyhan](https://www.reddit.com/r/wizardposting/comments/1tpwwrb/text_post_just_another_day_in_rhyhan/?utm_name=wizardposting)
[Chapter 2 - My new job + the Great Conflagration](https://reddit.com/r/wizardposting/comments/1tqu9fi/text_post_so_i_got_the_job/)