1. Natural Witches are a repressed, "undesirable" minority in the United States.
2. Witches are middle class at best. Most magical families are poor or borderline.
A-Although making great strides in society, Witches are seen as the dregs of society.
B- Lazy, stupid, addicts, sleezy, dishonest, etc.
C-This attitude is rampant among the older adults. Attitudes of the young adults & kids are slowly changing due to the witches rights movement, . As in any racism, education has chipped away old ideas as young witches are becoming more educated, visible and confident and witchcraft is more alluring and not as frightening.
3. There are two types of Witches. A- Natural Witches (Harry Potter type) B- Earth Witches.(, Wiccan, and other religious or energy based magick, etc.)
4. Both men and women are considered Witches. Wizards are in Europe.
5. Traditionally, Witches would prefer to be low functioning or non-magical and be accepted into society. Higher technological ability is desired. Higher magical ability is not.
A- The magical leaders/educators have been slowly but surely changing the attitudes of the younger generation of witches instilling a pride in their abilities and culture and planting in them a desire for change.
6. Magickal ability and technological adaptability are related. The more elevated your magickal ability, the more your ability to use technology suffers.
A- Witches love technology, most from a distance. Most witches would trade their magick for cellphone & computer use.
B- A witch who can drive is looked upon in awe.
7. Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride -sudafed (depending on the dosage) can cause temporary loss of or diminished powers and can seriously harm or kill a witch.
8. Aging slows considerably in adulthood, usually starting at about the age of eighteen.
9. Substance abuse and addiction is rampant in the adult magickal community.
10. Natural-Witches (Nats) are usually born through 2 magickal parents but... A- can be produced with only one magickal Parent but is never above a T3, or TX B- and occasionally seen, is the genetic throwback, born of 2 non magical parents who have magick somewhere in their ancestry and have one or two specific abilities. TX1-5.
1. Public magic is against the law except where licenced or approved by law.
2. Witches must be registered and carry appropriate documentation.
A- government mandated wristband and.
b- State ID or drivers license if applicable.
3. When materializing and dematerializing, witches must use state licenced gateways. Materializing outside of a licensed gateway, vandalism or assaulting a gateway attendant is cause for fines and/or arrest.
4. Domestication of magical beasts is prohibited by law.
5. Wands must be registered and require a license.
6. Broom riding is prohibited except in approved segregated magical communities and where licensed. (Red Tagged)
7. Witches must be scanned into airports before entering the building. Those with Tlevels above 4 and and carrying an X are permitted only in baggage claim and the ticketing areas unless otherwise authorized.
8. Visiting Witches must enter hospitals through a gateway and be scanned before entering the building.
1. After death, there is a waiting period before a ghost can interact with the living.
2. Ghosts exist on a seperate plane but can be called via appropriate spellwork.
3. Some do but generally, Ghosts don't want to reside among the living so don't expect them to jump through hoops for you, spell or no spell.
4. Initially, ghosts appear in the body they died in at first and change back slowly.
5. Like Nons, Witches can not see ghosts unless ghosts want to be seen.
6. Ghosts not at peace can and will haunt but are tied to a specific place or person until at peace.
7. Ghosts are placed by Otherside. Recently deceased may offer preferences.
8. Ghosts are governed, monitored and punished by Otherside Inc. alone or in cooperation with a US. Department of Magic liason.
a. Limbo or Purgatory
9. Ghosts must complete schooling in the Otherside classrooms and successfully test at Haunting U before being placed in a visitation venue.
10. The US government denies the existence of ghosts.
11. Otherside Inc. - The Corporation entity responsible for overseeing the afterlife of all earthly beings. Note: Otherside is only responsible for living beings departing the planet Earth.
12. Ghosts who were witches in life in do not have the magical ability they had in life. In death they can do do all the traditional ghostly activities ie. materializing, moving objects etc., as well as levitate things, have some resistance to average necromancy. Witch ghosts can appear life-like for short periods of time and can appear in any form other than human.
13. If nonmagical in life, ghosts do all the traditional ghostly activities ie. materializing, moving objects etc. in death.
Traditional apparition: This is a ghost who interacts with the living, either for better or worse. These are the spirits who can playfully hide objects, sit on your bed and frighten you awake, throw sharp objects, or plea for help. Apparitions such as these are thought to be held over in this world because of unfinished business or due to a violent death and need help from the living to resolve their issues before passing on to the next realm. This is considered “intelligent” haunting because the ghosts appear to be aware of the people around them as well as their surroundings.
Residual haunting : Supernaturally recorded images of past events that replay over and over again in the same place. These ghosts never vary their routine and do not seem to be aware of the presence of others. These “recordings” are thought to be imprints left over from strong emotion at the time of death or created by magnetic fields that record an event.
Anniversary ghost: A type of residual haunting where ghosts are seen on the anniversary of their tragic death.
Poltergeist: A disorderly spirit, whose activities very often center on an adolescent member of a household, who creates violent havoc by moving objects, making loud noises, and generally creating unpleasant and potentially dangerous situations.
Messenger: Often a family ghost appearing to family members to herald the death of another family member.
Mendicant: The ghost of a person whom in life had no redeeming qualities and died without anyone to mourn them and therefore have earned no position in the afterlife. This ghost seeks out a receptive human being and petitions them to feel a loss for them by forcing the human being to view their life. (not a real life type of ghost)
Position: social position in the afterlife earned in life.
Projection: This is the theory that ghosts are all in the mind and are merely a projection of thoughts and fears of the human subconscious.
Demon: A spirit that possesses a human being and causes him or her to do evil acts.
Orbs and light ghosts: unexplainable mysterious lights, sometimes orb shaped, that seem to move of their own volition, appearing and disappearing at will.
Info Sources include: http://www.theunexplained.net/types_of_ghosts.htm
Assignment: An assigned visitation, single or recurring assigned to a ghost for whatever reason.
Auth or Authorized (visitation): Otherside approved paranormal activity. "Hey wait a minute! You can't neutralize me! I've been an auth here for 2 years!"
Crossover: The time after extraction when the freshman is led to the otherside.
Death Angel: A Reaper with elevated status and responsibilities which can include extraction and crossover.
Encounter : When a living person sees or interacts with a ghost.
Encounter Limit: An assigned limit of encounters a ghost can have in one year outside of those assigned in an Otherside assignment.
Extraction: The removal of the soul.
Form: The 'body' of a ghost.
Freshmen: Newly dead, a term used in Haunting U for the newly arrived spirits starting their afterlife education
Haunting U/Haunting University: A nick name for the process of educating the recently deceased and the venues used in the process.
Transition: The waiting period
LB: Living being/living body.
LTI: Life Termination Issues - When a freshman can't deal with being dead and can't let go of life. Extensive therapy is usually needed and a haunting tied to a person, place or thing is usually the end result.
Mr. Nobody: A life-like spirit assigned to a task on earth. This spirit looks, sounds and for all intents and purposes is a real person. However, his is everybody, anybody or nobody. He can not be identified.
Overlay: When a LB passes through the form of a ghost
Otherside Inc: The corporate entity that runs the afterlife.
Reaper: An entity with the responsibility of bringing a being to its appointment with The Angel of Death
Shrouded: When an LB or object is completely encompassed inside a ghost.
Transition: The time period between death and the time a ghost is released from Haunting U and able to interact with LBs.
Visit/visitation: The preferred term used instead of the word haunt or haunting if the experience isn't malevolent.
Unauthorized or Unauth (Visitation) Paranormal activity not approved and therefore forbidden by Otherside. Also can refer to the entity. "You need to find the Unauth that's causing the trouble in gateway 23!"
1. Otherside Inc.. is the corporate entity responsible for overseeing the afterlife of all earthly beings. Note: Otherside is only responsible for living beings departing the planet Earth.
2. The Afterlife Process
a. All deaths are scheduled by Otherside's Spirit Consignment Director, Pastor Carlos Torres.
b. The Angel of Death is given a daily excel spreadsheet of the day's spirit extractions. She may:
1-assign the extraction to a reaper
2-perform the extraction herself.
c. The newly dead, also called freshmen, are extracted from the dying body by the Angel of Death and led to a reception area by loved ones to await their enrollment in the afterlife training program , sometimes called Haunting University, or Haunting U.
d. The spirits are educated in the ways of the afterlife and tested before being released into the afterlife. Healthy well adjusted ghosts will be either:
1- assigned 'visitation' venue
2- left to enjoy life on the otherside.
Ghosts with psychological issues and unable to deal with being dead for any reason including but not limited to:
1- Death due to a result of a traumatic event,
2- A compelling desire to complete unfinished business.
3- Denial due to sudden death
4- the obsessive inability of loved ones to cope with their loss that doesn't allow the spirit to rest and therefore forcing him him/her back to remedy the situation.
5- the overpowering inability of the spirit to seperate from loved ones and hence continue life as if they never died.
6- obsession with a precieved wrong being righted.
Will be assessed and either be held and counseled in the Otherside poltergeist center or given an appropriate monitored visitation center. These types of visitation are rigidly monitored and given strict ly governed.
3. Otherside Departments:
Extraction & Crossover:
Schedules death and venue.
Coordinates crossover committe consisting of loved ones.
Assigns entity to perform extraction
Delivers spirit to education department.
Afterlife Education (Haunting U)
Grim Reaper Internship for Mortal Souls: A program that has recently been reinstated at Otherside Inc. It allows for several reapers to occupy a single area based on overall souls gathered per square mile. This institues a much less stressful workload, and keeps Bob (the reaper previously assigned to Alaska) from getting any frostbite for all the hours he had to sit on his hands with no souls to bring in.
Goat -(satatic goat's head. The stereotypical animal -eats everything, unusually large phallus, decadence, uncastrated male goats smell) A racial slur directed at Natural Witches usually by those in the non-magick community.
Goat lingo:
An adult female goat = 'doe'
adult unneutered male goat = 'buck'.
a goat under one year = a kid,
a female goat between one year and two years = goatling,
a male goat between one and two years = buckling
a neutered male goat = a wether.
Goat lingo is offensive if used by a Non or Earthie.
Astral Projection - Flying. The process of seperating one's consciousness from one's body and usually traveling to another place. Witches have no magic in astral form. The body is left in a sleep like state and vulnerable.
Earths/ies - Earth witches
Energy Conflict Issue (ECI)- The failure of technology due to the conflicting energies of the witch and the equipment.
Eunich - a psudeo-sexual insult for a nonmagical person, referencing the person’s lack of a wand.
Fore! - (Yelled as if playing golf) a jeer aimed at an average to high magically functioning (T1-3)witch who is behaving as if they have limited power or high technological ability, a T4.
Glebe - (archaic word for soil, Earth or land.) A slur directed at Earth Witches by Natural witches.
Guardian Angels - a guardian angel is assigned by God, when for whatever reason, a human being is threatened by an unauthorized or renegade afterlife entity.
ID Bracelet - Cuff or Band
magic - The instant magic the Nats do.
magick - 'Wandless magic, or proactive magic' magick done with herbs, and other tools sometimes enlisting elements and gods/goddesses.
Magical American A term coined by witches in the 70's to divert focus from their supernatural differences to their human and cultural similarities.
Magic Mcgeek - a person obsessed with magical or magically enhanced object. Sort of like a technology geek in non-magical slang.
Nats - Natural Witches
Nons - Non magical people
PSMPublic School Magick. A program required by law, for all magickal children attending nonmagickal public school. PSM teaches magickal children, basic lifeskills and culture.
Snapped- One of any methods to attach a sleeve to an ID bracelet to keep a bracelet hidden securely.
Stick - Wand
Stripped - The removal of a witch's magic. To be made powerless.
Technology Levels An assigned code symbolizing the technological ability of a witch on a sliding scale of 1-5, 1 being the lowest. (T1) T=Technology 1 = no ability to use modern technology and therefore a very powerful witch.
To have a stick up one's ass - a disparaging remark about an arrogant superior witch who uses a wand for complex magic.
---"Chuck 's bragging that he applied at St. Claires potion lab! OH he'll fit right in. They all have sticks up their ass there!"
(The) Veil: The barrier between the world of the living and the dead.
Wand Whacker - a disparaging/pseudo-sexual remark about a nonmagical person who likes hanging out with witches.
---"Man, I wish Anna would leave us alone! She's such a Wand Wacker!"
Red Tagged - A place that has a red permit attached to the front window or door authorizing certain witchcraft in the establishment.
Wand - Stick
X - An exceptional power in addition to the T level. This level is ranked on a scale of 1-5 in relation to its danger to the community. 1 being highest. The ranking usually isn't mentioned unless dangerous. T5 witches usually have an X.
---"He's an X in divination! Really? Wow!"
Witches play the same sports as their nonmagical counterparts. All popular American sports can be modified to make them magical. Outside of magical schools, broom sports are played in social situations like bars, beaches etc.
Witches have their own segregated local nonmagical rec league sports.
In the United States, the ability to use technology is hindered by magickal power. Note that the Technology Levels are labeling the witches in a negative way. The low technology level is what is being being focused on and therefore letting you know its a high functioning witch without saying it. The T levels are ranked 1-5, 1 being the lowest ability level. The X level is opposite. It measures intensity or danger. The lowest number is highest intensity/danger. In both assessments a low number is a high power. All X1 & 2's are considered a threat. Unless its a superior ability its not an X.
Thomas is a T1X1 firestarter because he's uncontrolled without medication. Darius Sparrow is a T4X1 because he can manipulate the human body and although a genius in medicine, can easily kill someone if he chose to.
T1- Very powerful witch. Can't use modern technology/electronics due to energy conflict. Can't use older devices & appliances that need concentration. Can't drive a car. All T1s have some sort of medical condition due to their ECCs. T-1 needs MOB approval.
T2- Above average witch. Can't use modern technology/electronics due to energy conflict. Can use some older electrical devices & appliances for short periods of time. Can't drive a car. T-2 needs MOB approval
T3- Average witch. Can't use modern technology/electronics with computer chips due to energy conflict. Can use most older devices & appliances Can't drive a car.
T4-Below average witch. Can't use anything with a computer chip or sends signals through the air for long periods of time, but can use most older electronic devices & appliances. Can materialize but not in distance. Needs a wand to do more than simple magical tasks. Can drive a car if it doesn’t have a computer. (All newer cars do) If you can use a cellphone and an mp3 player, you can barely do magic.
T5- Basically a glebe and usually are. Usually one usable power (See X-Levels) and can use anything.
X: Has very an exceptional ability with a number ranking its intensity, a one being very dangerous.
Power Levels above 3 must be approved by a MOB.
1. Most witches can not use cell phones, TVs, computers, Playstation, cordless phones & appliances (depending on the level of technology), pagers, microwaves, VCR/DVD, etc... for a substantial length of time. Ability varies per witch A) Ability varies with technological advancement and with the need to touch and focus on the equipment.1. i.e. Rotary vs.touchtone vs. corded vs. cordless phones. 2. Concentrating on the computer, fixed on a DVD, Remember, if you're using a cell phone, you're not a full powered witch!
2. Most Witches can ride in a car but can't drive one. A- Energy Conflict. B- Magical essence interferes with technological coordination.
2. Not all spells are cast the same way. (Thats why we we have magickal schools!)
3. Magick is about focus and intent. A- You can't accidently turn someone into a toad because you pronounced a word wrong or flicked a wand wrong. (We do not use JKR Rules or Latin-ish spells.) B- You can accidently turn someone into a toad if you're : 1. Not fully concentrating on your spell. 2. Not using the proper natural spell or potion ingredients. (Herbs and other natural ingredients have their own unique power) 3. Lying to yourself and/others about what the spell is really about.
4. You can't generically kill someone with magick, but you can use magick to assist in the death of someone. A- Curses that start a chain of events to cause someone's death. (sickness, depression, accidents etc..) B- Call on the powers of darkness to do it for you. C- And the more boring yet effective...causing a gun to fire, a rope to strangle, choking
5. You can't make something appear that doesn't already exist.
6. You're not a God. You can't control nature although you can manipulate it to cause sudden gusts of wind or a breeze, short bouts of turbulant water etc. You can influence the elements with magick to a small degree, its best to contact your favorite Earthie/Gypsy and ask them how to ask the gods or elements to do it for you. (Not that they will)
7. The average Joe witch can't suddenly control a monsterous magical beast. A- Don't use JKRowlings magical beasts. B- Use the mythological ones.
8. No one is perfect or all powerful.
9. If you plan to do a "complex spell" in the story, we need to see a rather impressive spell in the post.
10. Don't worry about finding "magical sounding" potion/spell ingredients. Just look up herbs and other natural ingredients in the Herbology thread in the Story Boards.
11. Magical doctors combine non-magical medicine/surgery with magickal assist. You can not heal without medical knowledge or knowledge of old folk magick. Need help? Ask Darius.
12. Wands are a magical tool and used for focus. Kids learn magic with wands and progress up to being wand-free by mid high-school.
Spells and incantations are used to aid in focus for complex magickal endevors.
13. Herbs and other magical ingredients carry their own energy/magic and should be used appropriately. Different goals use different means.
14. The power of the Earth-witch is strong as they use the gods as well as the energy provided by the universe. Their magick is not immediate in most cases, but just as valid as a natural witch.
15. Magical and technological ability are related.
1. The Magical Community is governed under the same laws as non-magic with additional witchcraft laws.
2. The Department of magic oversees the enforcement of laws in the magical community along side national, state and local government officials.
3. Secretary of Magic, Kenneth Marks heads up the US Department of Magic.
4. Every department in the Government has a magical counterpart or Department of Magic liason.
5. The CIA and FBI both have magical Agents/Specialists and are aware of magical activity worldwide.
Dark Arts/Black Magic Specialists (DAS/BAS) are Special Agents dealing in magical related crime.
Afterlife & Spirit Specialists (ASS) are Special Agents dealing with law enforcement and acts as liason between the spirit world and that of the living.
Heavily magickal areas have resident Agents working in the police department.
B.) Children's services has their own magickal caseworkers although not all are witches.
6. Most magical governments work together to uphold magical laws and cultures worldwide. Not all coungries see their magical population in the same way. Proper ID and documents are required for international travel.
7. Materializing, Demateralizing, Gateways and Broom traffic are covered under the state departments of transportation.
8. Magical beings are a minority race/culture protected by all applicable laws.
9. Witches convicted of crimes will be sedated and sent to prison when appropriate.
1. All children must attend a public or private school be it magical or non.
A- Magical children who do not go to magical school do not learn how to tap into and control their magic, producing an uncontrolled and inept adult witch.
B- Nobody likes an uncontrolled and inept witch.
2. Children attending public magical schools must attend the school in their magical and non-magical districts.
A- There is usually one magickal school per state with the exception of heavily populated areas like LA and NYC which have multiple schools.
B- Children in the smaller New England states have the option of boarding at SWA.
C- All magical schools, public or otherwise are under the authority of the US Department of Magical Education and fall into one of 3 districts; Eastern, Western and Central.
D- There are 3 district Superintendents:
Dr. Thomas Keene, Eastern District Superintendent & Dean of the Salem School
Dr. Maureen Kennedy Western District Superintendent & Dean of The Los Angeles School of Universal Energy
Central District: Professor Gaston Clerec, Central Superintendent & Dean of the Chicago School of Magical Arts
3. Magic and broom flying is legal in and on the grounds of magickal schools.
4. Magical public schools will offerer all benefits and programs offered by the non-magical public school system as well as relevant magical studies.
5. Buses will be provided for non-boarding magical children by the nonmagickal public school district.
6. Children in the public school district of their magical school must commute.
The Salem School is an educational institution that spans grades 1-college. (2-4+year)A.)College Coursework is heavy on apprenticeship and is exclusively for magickal careers. B.) The average time in magickal college is 2 years.1. The over 2 yr program includes a magical GED and is for witches from nonmagickal public schools. 2. Some Professional degrees are an add on to nonmagickal degrees. i.e. Doctor, nurse, law.) 3. Magickal college coursework can be concurrent with Highschool work as highschool courses are taylored toward a major.
SWA 1-12th grade STAFF all NPC unless otherwise noted by *
Most classes (If needed) will be posted by "Salem Witches Academy"
Dr. Thomas Keene - Dean *
Professor Sidi Ross - Asst Dean - Charms.*
Professor Mya Justice - Life Studies
Professor Joseph Dawson - Spells
Dr. Elissa Martin - Wandless Magick
Mr. Nicholae Crotzer - Magical Beings
Professor Blake Hoffman - Divination (Temp)
Miss Valencia Charles - Mathmatics
Mrs. Karen Meyers - The Arts
Mr. Steve Masterson - Science
Mr. Dick Meyers - Phys Ed. boys
Miss Anita Jones - Phys Ed. girls
Miss Polly Peterson - Language Arts
Mr. Mark Coleman - History
Mr. & Mrs. Buster & Hillary Hollenger -
Counselors
Professor Janelle Eaton -
1 - Boarding is available but not mandantory at SWA. Children living in the nonmagical school district must pay to board.
2 - Boarding students 15yrs and older are allowed to leave the building/grounds with permission.
3 - Students will use age appropriate lounges.
4 - No pets allowed.
5 - SWA is protected by magical security. Materialization from outside in and inside out is not possible except for the Dean.
6 - Meals are provided in the cafeteria during mealtimes. Students are permitted to eat on the grounds.
7 - Snackbar/bookstore is available from noon-9pm M-S. Snacks are prermitted in the student lounges.
8 - Dorms are segregated male and female and by grade. Dorm Floors and student lounges are segregated, Elementary, Middle & High School.
9 - All children will tested yearly for technological ability. In all technology related interaction ID must be presented.
1. Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride -sudafed (depending on the dosage) will cause a witch to temporarily lose or have their powers greatly diminished.
A- Prolonged Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride use can kill the magical essence in a witch and kill them.
B- Prolonged pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride use can cause 'magic sickness', a condition due to the deadening of magical essence resulting in the weakening of the body, paralysis, extreme cold, and other symptoms, possibly resulting in a host of disabilities.(see Adam Sparrow)
2. Aging slows considerably in adulthood, usually starting at about the age of 18.
3. Substance abuse and addiction is rampant in the adult magickal community.
4. Natural-Witches (Nats) are usually born through 2 magickal parents but...
A- can be produced with only one magickal Parent but is never above a T3, or TX
B- and occasionally seen, is the genetic throwback, born of 2 non magical parents who have magick somewhere in their ancestry and have one or two specific abilities. TX1-5.
5. Magicals get the same illnesses and diseases that nonmagicals get with the exception of:.
A- Magic Sickness
6. Magical doctors must recieve the same education as their non-magical counterparts in addition to magical medical school/apprenticeship.
7. It is rare to find a T1-3 doctor. Doctors are generally T4-5x's. The X being empathic ability, magical medical ability or both..
8. Magical doctors use wands in any complex proceedure. Magical medicine is very tool driven.
9. Empath: A witch who can experience another person's emotional or physical feelings. Also a witch who can take on the illness or injury of a patient.
An Empath can die in an empathic healing if the injury or illness is not passed down a healing chain.
10. Healing Chain. - A healing chain is a chain of empathic witches, each with a high X in healing powers, who link together in order to heal difficult illnesses and injuries . The initial doctor takes on the illness/injury in an attempt to heal the patient,.
This doctor may or may not be able to heal himself and if unable, is in turn healed by the first link in the chain as that empath takes on the illness/injury. Depending on the severity of the illness/injury it is passed down the chain until the illness has been cured by diminishing with each link (empath) in the chain.
11. Link: A healing empath/doctor who works as part of a chain of other healers to heal major illnesses/injuries.
Autothermogenesis. - (found almost exclusively in T1 firestarters) a chronic and many times fatal magical disease in which the witch's normally self-protective magic turns internal and harms healthy cells and tissues. See Spontaneous Human combustion.
Aura : A glow surrounding living things that changes color and form depending on the mental and physical well being of the individual.
Energy Disturbance or ED, the uneasy feeling that accompanies the disturbance of a nonmagical person's personal energy by a magical spell. An ED is considered an ECI or Energy Conflict Issue in a nonmagical person. See: energy fuck The effects of minor energy disturbances can be treated with Coca Cola or other caffeinated drinks
Energy Conflict Issue (ECI) The failure of technology due to the conflicting energies of the witch and the equipment. nons.
Energy Conflict Condition: . A cronic, sometimes terminal illness which manifests due to the witch’s body’s inability to regulate its own magickal energy. This condition can manifest in any witch over T3 and over. All T-1's struggle with cronic ECCs. -- Spontaineous shapeshifting can be an ECC. Uncontrolled energy also can affect viral therianthropy , Thomas has autothermogenesis.
MM: Magical Medicine.
MMS: Magical Medical School
Multiple Magickal Treatment (MMT )- Healing with more than one magickal healer, usually a healing chain.
Team Treatment. (TT) - a term used by nonmagickals in place of MTT. (Don't want to use the word Magickal in REAL medicine now do we?)
MNM – Magickal Nonmagickal – The combination of healing methods or medical professionals or therapy assigned to a patient. Also humourously referred to as M&Ms
Rejuvinate (tion) - To restore a witch to full power usually after stripping them for medical reasons.
MMB: Magical Medical Board
Unlike their nonmagickal counterpart, the MMB is a national agency that works with the state Medical Boards to licenses magical doctors and misc healers and investigate complaints.
Pow-wow is a system of American folk religion and magical healing associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Code P(hoenix) - ATG attack, many times preceeds a code blue. Magical medical code.
The Playa Suite - The healing venue used exclusively for autothermogenesis (St. Claire’s hospital)
Posthumous Stress Disorders, an LTI , is the afterlife version of post traumatic stress disorder
1 A decaying charity hospital in New York City, was purchased by Medical management Inc. into the private, Proprietary hospitals St. Claires. Now openly admitting nonmagical patients into its magical wards, St. Claire's is at the forefront of Magical/nonmagical complimentry medicine.
2. St. Claires is an expensive private non-magical hospital. Its cloaked 5 top floors are is a magical St. Claire's which accepts all magical people on a sliding scale. All insurance is accepted.
3. Doctors at St. Claires must use white,eucalyptus wands, charged by Dr. Sparrow.
4. Doctors must hand make their own wands to Dr. Sparrow's specifications in the St. Claire's residency program.
5. Nurses are provided white St. Claires wands unless they posess a high X in healing abilities. Otherwise Nurses will make their own wands in the same classes the residents do.
6. Visiting Witches must enter all hospitals through a gateway and be scanned before entering the building.
After the Salem witch trials, American witches hid their magicalness, as did their European counterparts. About one hundred years later, magical people began to connect again. They secretly gathered together. Many were upstanding members of the community, some even participated in the war for independence. Together, they schooled their children in their homes, bringing them up in the ways of the ancients and passing on the ways of the witches.
Another hundred years passed. Powerful wizards from Europe travelled to America. Albert Apoidea, Edward Jasper and Olga Ruffner, the European All-Stars of magical education, purchased land and the old asylum on it, establishing a school for witches and witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts. They called it The Salem School and staffed it with wizards & witches from europe until the Americans were ready to stand on their own. All magical children were welcome, no one was turned away. The powerful wizards encouraged the American witches to stand their ground and be proud of who they were. The American witches did just that. Armed with education and confidence, their fear diminished and they once again dared out among the non-magicals. But they found their non-magical peers, unprepared, fearful, suspicious, paranoid and unwelcoming. They found themselves oppressed and persecuted. The European wizards rejoiced in the freedom of the American witches and returned to europe, confident in the future of the Americans, hiding their magic in their own country and closely watching the experiement across the ocean.
Less than one hundred years pass and the magical Americans found themselves hiding their magic in order to survive. Unable to gain employment and and make a living, some witches left the east coast and traveled across the country, happily living life far away from anyone who knew about and feared magical people.
Tiny pockets of magical communities popped up across the US and large goverment supported magical communities in the large cities as well as in the small so-called Witch City, Salem. Feared by non magical people, the witches struggled greatly. Most were denied jobs and opportunities that might have allowed them to know just how exceptional they were. The comunity faltered the and slid into a destructive attitude of apathy , anger and disarray. The ailing witches are kept as low as possible for fear they'd rise up and use their power against the majority. Yet, the Salem School continued, financed and protected by the great wizards of Europe.
The 1970s came. Non magical and magical youth protested anything protestable. They wore funny clothes and smoked fun herbs. The magical youth learned from other oppressed cultures and demanded to be heard. The chose a reluctant leader, Thomas Keene, the son of Albert Apoidea. They demanded their rights. They marched, they protested, they got involved in politics and used their right to vote. A magical branch of the government was created to appease the magicals and the popular Dean of the Salem School, Kenneth Marks was made the first US Secretary of Magic. The magicals continued to raise their voices. They demanded to not only be heard but to be seen as well. They adopted a leather beaded identification bracelet with magically enhanced beads that shone colors when near that of another witch, to acknowledging each other and reminding the nonmagicals that witches lived among them. The reluctant leader made speeches, he was active, vocal and fearless. Thomas made a speech, raising his arm to expose the brilliantly flashing wristband and exclaimed See my face and remember my name because one day I will be a force to be reckoned with! The activists were elated when their voices reached across the country. Their cause was shown on national television and splashed across newspapers and magazines.
Some say it was fear inspired, others claim it was a move on the government's part to spread the magicals thin across the country and keep them seperated. The Los Angeles School of Universal Energy was built as was the Chicago School of Magic. Thomas was invited to Washington to meet with the Secretary of magic and discuss the creation of magical liasons and counterparts to all applicable departments of the government. Witches were finally called a race and were granted minority status, enabling them to all rights within the law. Soon smaller schools popped up in the states that needed them. The witches felt powerful, felt successful they pushed for more. One of of the leaders, Gaston Clerec declared it the decade of magic and vowed to be the next Secretary of Magic, echoing Thomas' sentiment of more reform and a new magical America,and promising 'hell to pay' to those who stood in the way .
The government compiled names. The names were put on lists. Talented and powerful magicals were enticed into lucrative positions in the government and work to keep America, America. Witches were offered subsidies, compensation to make amends for the suffering inflicted upon them. The witches were split. One side warned the people of deceit, the other side encouraged them to accept what was due them. The witches demanded reparation.
Payment was difficult. The government in their wise benevolent ways found the perfect solution. They created a special bracelet, encoded with the witch's social security number, personal information and account number. The bracelet was magically charged by the talented government witches to act as an identification card, allowing the wearer to access his or her government account in special government mandated financial institutions with the wave of a magical wand over the bracelet. The witches were thrilled, until the money ran out and witchcraft became illegal.
To be continued
Albert Apoidea, Edward Jasper and Olga Ruffner : pioneers of American Magical Education. Now the Court directors of the Global Alliance of Magical Education or GAME.
1. Natural Witches are a repressed, "undesirable" minority in the United States.
2. Witches are middle class at best. Most magical families are poor or borderline.
A- Witches are seen as the dregs of society.
B- Lazy, stupid, addicts, morally degenerate, dishonest, etc. (which the majority isn't trying to prove different..)
C-This attitude is rampant among the boomers, genXers and such. Attitudes of the kids are slowly changing as young witches are becoming more educated, visible and confident and witchcraft is more alluring.
3. There are two types of Witches. A- Natural Witches (Harry Potter type) B- Earth Witches.(, Wiccan, and other religious or energy based magick, etc.)
4. Both men and women are considered Witches. Wizards are in Europe.
5. Witches want to be non-magical and are not proud of being witches. Higher technological ability is desired. Higher magical ability is not.
A- The magical leaders/educators are slowly but successfully changing this attitude with the younger generation of witches.
6. Magickal ability and technological adaptability are related. The more powerful you are the more your ability to use technology suffers.
A- Most witches would trade their magick for cellphone & computer use.
B- A witch who can drive is looked upon in awe.
7. Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride -sudafed (depending on the dosage) can cause temporary loss of or diminished powers and can seriously harm or kill a witch.
8. Aging slows considerably in adulthood, usually starting at about the age of eighteen.
9. Substance abuse and addiction is rampant in the adult magickal community.
10. Natural-Witches (Nats) are usually born through 2 magickal parents but... A- can be produced with only one magickal Parent but is never above a T3, or TX B- and occasionally seen, is the genetic throwback, born of 2 non magical parents who have magick somewhere in their ancestry and have one or two specific abilities. TX1-5.
1. Public magic is against the law except where licenced or approved by law.
2. Witches must be registered and carry appropriate documentation.
A- government mandated wristband and.
b- State ID or drivers license if applicable.
3. When materializing and dematerializing, witches must use state licenced gateways. Materializing outside of a licensed gateway, vandalism or assaulting a gateway attendant is cause for fines and/or arrest.
4. Domestication of magical beasts is prohibited by law.
5. Wands must be registered and require a license.
6. Broom riding is prohibited except in approved segregated magical communities and where licensed. (Red Tagged)
7. Witches must be scanned into airports before entering the building. Those with Tlevels above 4 and and carrying an X are permitted only in baggage claim and the ticketing areas unless otherwise authorized.
8. Visiting Witches must enter hospitals through a gateway and be scanned before entering the building.
1. After death, there is a waiting period before a ghost can interact with the living.
2. Ghosts exist on a seperate plane but can be called via appropriate spellwork.
3. Some do but generally, Ghosts don't want to reside among the living so don't expect them to jump through hoops for you, spell or no spell.
4. Initially, ghosts appear in the body they died in at first and change back slowly.
5. Like Nons, Witches can not see ghosts unless ghosts want to be seen.
6. Ghosts not at peace can and will haunt but are tied to a specific place or person until at peace.
7. Ghosts are placed by Otherside. Recently deceased may offer preferences.
8. Ghosts are governed, monitored and punished by Otherside Inc. alone or in cooperation with a US. Department of Magic liason.
a. Limbo or Purgatory
9. Ghosts must complete extensive schooling in the Otherside classrooms and successfully test at Haunting U before being placed in a visitation venue.
10. The US government denies the existence of ghosts.
11. Otherside Inc. - The Corporation entity responsible for overseeing the afterlife of all earthly beings. Note: Otherside is only responsible for living beings departing the planet Earth.
12. Ghosts who were witches in life in do not have the magical ability they had in life. In death they can do do all the traditional ghostly activities ie. materializing, moving objects etc., as well as levitate things, have some resistance to average necromancy. Witch ghosts can appear life-like for short periods of time and can appear in any form other than human.
13. If nonmagical in life, ghosts do all the traditional ghostly activities ie. materializing, moving objects etc. in death.
Traditional apparition: This is a ghost who interacts with the living, either for better or worse. These are the spirits who can playfully hide objects, sit on your bed and frighten you awake, throw sharp objects, or plea for help. Apparitions such as these are thought to be held over in this world because of unfinished business or due to a violent death and need help from the living to resolve their issues before passing on to the next realm. This is considered “intelligent” haunting because the ghosts appear to be aware of the people around them as well as their surroundings.
Residual haunting : Supernaturally recorded images of past events that replay over and over again in the same place. These ghosts never vary their routine and do not seem to be aware of the presence of others. These “recordings” are thought to be imprints left over from strong emotion at the time of death or created by magnetic fields that record an event.
Anniversary ghost: A type of residual haunting where ghosts are seen on the anniversary of their tragic death.
Poltergeist: A disorderly spirit, whose activities very often center on an adolescent member of a household, who creates violent havoc by moving objects, making loud noises, and generally creating unpleasant and potentially dangerous situations.
Messenger: Often a family ghost appearing to family members to herald the death of another family member.
Mendicant: The ghost of a person whom in life had no redeeming qualities and died without anyone to mourn them and therefore have earned no position in the afterlife. This ghost seeks out a receptive human being and petitions them to feel a loss for them by forcing the human being to view their life.
Position: social position in the afterlife earned in life.
Projection: This is the theory that ghosts are all in the mind and are merely a projection of thoughts and fears of the human subconscious.
Demon: A spirit that possesses a human being and causes him or her to do evil acts.
Orbs and light ghosts: unexplainable mysterious lights, sometimes orb shaped, that seem to move of their own volition, appearing and disappearing at will.
Info Sources include: http://www.theunexplained.net/types_of_ghosts.htm
Assignment: An assigned visitation, single or recurring assigned to a ghost for whatever reason.
Auth or Authorized (visitation): Otherside approved paranormal activity. "Hey wait a minute! You can't neutralize me! I've been an auth here for 2 years!"
Crossover: The time after extraction when the freshman is led to the otherside.
Death Angel: A Reaper with elevated status and responsibilities which can include extraction and crossover.
Encounter : When a living person sees or interacts with a ghost.
Encounter Limit: An assigned limit of encounters a ghost can have in one year outside of those assigned in an Otherside assignment.
Extraction: The removal of the soul.
Form: The 'body' of a ghost.
Freshmen: Newly dead, a term used in Haunting U for the newly arrived spirits starting their afterlife education
Haunting U/Haunting University: A nick name for the process of educating the recently deceased and the venues used in the process.
Transition: The waiting period
LB: Living being/living body.
LTI: Life Termination Issues - When a freshman can't deal with being dead and can't let go of life. Extensive therapy is usually needed and a haunting tied to a person, place or thing is usually the end result.
Mr. Nobody: A life-like spirit assigned to a task on earth. This spirit looks, sounds and for all intents and purposes is a real person. However, his is everybody, anybody or nobody. He can not be identified.
Overlay: When a LB passes through the form of a ghost
Otherside Inc: The corporate entity that runs the afterlife.
Reaper: An entity with the responsibility of bringing a being to its appointment with The Angel of Deth
Shrouded: When an LB or object is completely encompassed inside a ghost.
Transition: The time period between death and the time a ghost is released from Haunting U and able to interact with LBs.
(The) Veil: The barrier between the world of the living dead.
Visit/visitation: The preferred term used instead of the word haunt or haunting if the experience isn't malevolent.
Unauthorized or Unauth (Visitation) Paranormal activity not approved and therefore forbidden by Otherside. Also can refer to the entity. "You need to find the Unauth that's causing the trouble in gateway 23!"
1. Otherside Inc.. is the corporate entity responsible for overseeing the afterlife of all earthly beings. Note: Otherside is only responsible for living beings departing the planet Earth.
2. The Afterlife Process
a. All deaths are scheduled by Otherside's Spirit Consignment Director, Pastor Carlos Torres.
b. The Angel of Death is given a daily excel spreadsheet of the day's spirit extractions. She may:
1-assign the extraction to a reaper
2-perform the extraction herself.
c. The newly dead, also called freshmen, are extracted from the dying body by the Angel of Death and led to a reception area by loved ones to await their enrollment in the afterlife training program , sometimes called Haunting University, or Haunting U.
d. The spirits are educated in the ways of the afterlife and tested before being released into the afterlife. Healthy well adjusted ghosts will be either:
1- assigned 'visitation' venue
2- left to enjoy life on the otherside.
Ghosts with psychological issues and unable to deal with being dead for any reason including but not limited to:
1- Death due to a result of a traumatic event,
2- A compelling desire to complete unfinished business.
3- Denial due to sudden death
4- the obsessive inability of loved ones to cope with their loss that doesn't allow the spirit to rest and therefore forcing him him/her back to remedy the situation.
5- the overpowering inability of the spirit to seperate from loved ones and hence continue life as if they never died.
6- obsession with a precieved wrong being righted.
Will be assessed and either be held and counseled in the Otherside poltergeist center or given an appropriate monitored visitation center. These types of visitation are rigidly monitored and given strict ly governed.
3. Otherside Departments:
Extraction & Crossover:
Schedules death and venue.
Coordinates crossover committe consisting of loved ones.
Assigns entity to perform extraction
Delivers spirit to education department.
Afterlife Education (Haunting U)
Grim Reaper Internship for Mortal Souls: A program that has recently been reinstated at Otherside Inc. It allows for several reapers to occupy a single area based on overall souls gathered per square mile. This institues a much less stressful workload, and keeps Bob (the reaper previously assigned to Alaska) from getting any frostbite for all the hours he had to sit on his hands with no souls to bring in.
Goat -(satatic goat's head. The stereotypical animal -eats everything, unusually large phallus, decadence, uncastrated male goats smell) A racial slur directed at Natural Witches usually by those in the non-magick community.
Goat lingo:
An adult female goat = 'doe'
adult unneutered male goat = 'buck'.
a goat under one year = a kid,
a female goat between one year and two years = goatling,
a male goat between one and two years = buckling
a neutered male goat = a wether.
Goat lingo is offensive if used by a Non or Earthie.
Astral Projection - Flying. The process of seperating one's consciousness from one's body and usually traveling to another place. Witches have no magic in astral form. The body is left in a sleep like state and vulnerable.
Earths/ies - Earth withes
Energy Conflict Issue (ECI) - The failure of technology due to the conflicting energies of the witch and the equipment.
Fore! - (Yelled as if playing golf) a jeer aimed at an average to high magically functioning (T1-3)witch who is behaving as if they have limited power or high technological ability, a T4.
Glebe - (archaic word for soil, Earth or land.) A slur directed at Earth Witches by Natural witches.
magic - The instant magic the Nats do.
magick - 'Wandless magic, or proactive magic' magick done with herbs, and other tools sometimes enlisting elements and gods/goddesses.
Magical American A term coined by witches in the 70's to divert focus from their supernatural differences to their human and cultural similarities.
Magic Mcgeek - a person obsessed with magical or magically enhanced object. Sort of like a technology geek in non-magical slang.
Nats - Natural Witches
Nons - Non magical people
ID Bracelet - Cuff or Band
Snapped- One of any methods to attach a sleeve to an ID bracelet to keep a bracelet hidden securely.
Stick - Wand
Stripped - The removal of a witch's magic. To be made powerless.
Technology Levels An assigned code symbolizing the technological ability of a witch on a sliding scale of 1-5, 1 being the lowest. (T1) T=Technology 1 = no ability to use modern technology and therefore a very powerful witch.
To have a stick up one's ass - a disparaging remark about an arrogant superior witch who uses a wand for complex magic.
---"Chuck 's bragging that he applied at St. Claires potion lab! OH he'll fit right in. They all have sticks up their ass there!"
Wand Whacker - a disparaging/pseudo-sexual remark about a nonmagical person who likes hanging out with witches.
---"Man, I wish Anna would leave us alone! She's such a Wand Wacker!"
Red Tagged - A place that has a red permit attached to the front window or door authorizing certain witchcraft in the establishment.
Wand - Stick
X - An exceptional power in addition to the T level. This level is ranked on a scale of 1-5 in relation to its danger to the community. 1 being highest. The ranking usually isn't mentioned unless dangerous. T5 witches usually have an X.
---"He's a TX in divination! Really? Wow!"
Witches play the same sports as their nonmagical counterparts. All popular American sports can be modified to make them magical. Outside of magical schools, broom sports are played in social situations like bars, beaches etc.
Witches have their own segregated local nonmagical rec league sports.
In the United States, the ability to use technology is hindered by magickal power. Note that the Technology Levels are labeling the witches in a negative way. The low technology level is what is being being focused on and therefore letting you know its a high functioning witch without saying it. The T levels are ranked 1-5, 1 being the lowest ability level. The X level is opposite. It measures intensity or danger. The lowest number is highest intensity/danger. In both assessments a low number is a high power. All X1 & 2's are considered a threat. Unless its a superior ability its not an X.
Thomas is a T1X1 firestarter because he's uncontrolled without medication. Darius Sparrow is a T4X1 because he can manipulate the human body and although a genius in medicine, can easily kill someone if he chose to.
T1- Very powerful witch. Can't use modern technology/electronics due to energy conflict. Can't use older devices & appliances that need concentration. Can't drive a car. T-1 needs MOB approval.
T2- Above average witch. Can't use modern technology/electronics due to energy conflict. Can use some older electrical devices & appliances for short periods of time. Can't drive a car. T-2 needs MOB approval
T3- Average witch. Can't use modern technology/electronics due to energy conflict. Can use most older devices & appliances Can't drive a car.
T4-Below average witch. Can use some modern technology and most older electronic devices & appliances. Can materialize but not in distance. Needs a wand to do more than simple magical tasks. Can drive a car. If you can use a cellphone and an mp3 player, you can barely do magic.
T5- Basically a glebe and usually are. Usually one usable power (See X-Levels) and can use anything.
X: Has very an exceptional ability with a number ranking its intensity, a one being very dangerous.
Power Levels above 3 must be approved by a MOB.
1. Most witches can not use cell phones, TVs, computers, Playstation, cordless phones & appliances (depending on the level of technology), pagers, microwaves, VCR/DVD, etc... for a substantial length of time. Ability varies per witch A) Ability varies with technological advancement and with the need to touch and focus on the equipment.1. i.e. Rotary vs.touchtone vs. corded vs. cordless phones. 2. Concentrating on the computer, fixed on a DVD, Remember, if you're using a cell phone, you're not a full powered witch!
2. Most Witches can ride in a car but can't drive one. A- Energy Conflict. B- Magical essence interferes with technological coordination.
2. Not all spells are cast the same way. (Thats why we we have magickal schools!)
3. Magick is about focus and intent. A- You can't accidently turn someone into a toad because you pronounced a word wrong or flicked a wand wrong. (We do not use JKR Rules or Latin-ish spells.) B- You can accidently turn someone into a toad if you're : 1. Not fully concentrating on your spell. 2. Not using the proper natural spell or potion ingredients. (Herbs and other natural ingredients have their own unique power) 3. Lying to yourself and/others about what the spell is really about.
4. You can't generically kill someone with magick, but you can use magick to assist in the death of someone. A- Curses that start a chain of events to cause someone's death. (sickness, depression, accidents etc..) B- Call on the powers of darkness to do it for you. C- And the more boring yet effective...causing a gun to fire, a rope to strangle, choking
5. You can't make something appear that doesn't already exist.
6. You're not a God. You can't control nature although you can manipulate it to cause sudden gusts of wind or a breeze, short bouts of turbulant water etc. You can influence the elements with magick to a small degree, its best to contact your favorite Earthie/Gypsy and ask them how to ask the gods or elements to do it for you. (Not that they will)
7. The average Joe witch can't suddenly control a monsterous magical beast. A- Don't use JKRowlings magical beasts. B- Use the mythological ones.
8. No one is perfect or all powerful.
9. If you plan to do a "complex spell" in the story, we need to see a rather impressive spell in the post.
10. Don't worry about finding "magical sounding" potion/spell ingredients. Just look up herbs and other natural ingredients in the Herbology thread in the Story Boards.
11. Magical doctors combine non-magical medicine/surgery with magickal assist. You can not heal without medical knowledge or knowledge of old folk magick. Need help? Ask Darius.
12. Wands are a magical tool and used for focus. Kids learn magic with wands and progress up to being wand-free by mid high-school.
Spells and incantations are used to aid in focus for complex magickal endevors.
13. Herbs and other magical ingredients carry their own energy/magic and should be used appropriately. Different goals use different means.
14. The power of the Earth-witch is strong as they use the gods as well as the energy provided by the universe. Their magick is not immediate in most cases, but just as valid as a natural witch.
15. Magical and technological ability are related.
1. The Magical Community is governed under the same laws as non-magic with additional witchcraft laws.
2. The Department of magic oversees the enforcement of laws in the magical community along side national, state and local government officials.
3. Secretary of Magic, Kenneth Marks heads up the US Department of Magic.
4. Every department in the Government has a magical counterpart or Department of Magic liason.
5. The CIA and FBI both have magical Agents/Specialists and are aware of magical activity worldwide.
Dark Arts/Black Magic Specialists (DAS/BAS) are Special Agents dealing in magical related crime.
Afterlife & Spirit Specialists (ASS) are Special Agents dealing with law enforcement and acts as liason between the spirit world and that of the living.
Heavily magickal areas have resident Agents working in the police department.
B.) Children's services has their own magickal caseworkers although not all are witches.
6. Most magical governments work together to uphold magical laws and cultures worldwide. Not all coungries see their magical population in the same way. Proper ID and documents are required for international travel.
7. Materializing, Demateralizing, Gateways and Broom traffic are covered under the state departments of transportation.
8. Magical beings are a minority race/culture protected by all applicable laws.
9. Witches convicted of crimes will be sedated and sent to prison when appropriate.
1. All children must attend a public or private school be it magical or non.
A- Magical children who do not go to magical school do not learn how to tap into and control their magic, producing an uncontrolled and inept adult witch.
B- Nobody likes an uncontrolled and inept witch.
2. Children attending public magical schools must attend the school in their magical and non-magical districts.
A- There is usually one magickal school per state with the exception of heavily populated areas like LA and NYC which have multiple schools.
B- Children in the smaller New England states have the option of boarding at SWA.
C- All magical schools, public or otherwise are under the authority of the US Department of Magical Education and fall into one of 3 districts; Eastern, Western and Central.
D- There are 3 district Superintendents:
Dr. Thomas Keene, Eastern District Superintendent & Dean of the Salem School
Dr. Maureen Kennedy Western District Superintendent & Dean of The Los Angeles School of Universal Energy
Central District: Professor Gaston Clerec, Central Superintendent & Dean of the Chicago School of Magical Arts
3. Magic and broom flying is legal in and on the grounds of magickal schools.
4. Magical public schools will offerer all benefits and programs offered by the non-magical public school system as well as relevant magical studies.
5. Buses will be provided for non-boarding magical children by the nonmagickal public school district.
6. Children in the public school district of their magical school must commute.
The Salem School is an educational institution that spans grades 1-college. (2-4+year)A.)College Coursework is heavy on apprenticeship and is exclusively for magickal careers. B.) The average time in magickal college is 2 years.1. The over 2 yr program includes a magical GED and is for witches from nonmagickal public schools. 2. Some Professional degrees are an add on to nonmagickal degrees. i.e. Doctor, nurse, law.) 3. Magickal college coursework can be concurrent with Highschool work as highschool courses are taylored toward a major.
SWA 1-12th grade STAFF all NPC unless otherwise noted by *
Most classes (If needed) will be posted by "Salem Witches Academy"
Dr. Thomas Keene - Dean *
Professor Sidi Ross - Asst Dean - Charms.*
Professor Mya Justice - Life Studies
Professor Joseph Dawson - Spells
Dr. Elissa Martin - Wandless Magick
Mr. Nicholae Crotzer - Magical Beings
Professor Blake Hoffman - Divination (Temp)
Miss Valencia Charles - Mathmatics
Mrs. Karen Meyers - The Arts
Mr. Steve Masterson - Science
Mr. Dick Meyers - Phys Ed. boys
Miss Anita Jones - Phys Ed. girls
Miss Polly Peterson - Language Arts
Mr. Mark Coleman - History
Mr. & Mrs. Buster & Hillary Hollenger -
Counselors
Professor Janelle Eaton -
1 - Boarding is available but not mandantory at SWA. Children living in the nonmagical school district must pay to board.
2 - Boarding students 15yrs and older are allowed to leave the building/grounds with permission.
3 - Students will use age appropriate lounges.
4 - No pets allowed.
5 - SWA is protected by magical security. Materialization from outside in and inside out is not possible except for the Dean.
6 - Meals are provided in the cafeteria during mealtimes. Students are permitted to eat on the grounds.
7 - Snackbar/bookstore is available from noon-9pm M-S. Snacks are prermitted in the student lounges.
8 - Dorms are segregated male and female and by grade. Dorm Floors and student lounges are segregated, Elementary, Middle & High School.
9 - All children will tested yearly for technological ability. In all technology related interaction ID must be presented.
10 Magickal children are not required to attend magickal schools unless deemed dangerous. Public School Magick (PSM) is required by all such children..
1. Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride -sudafed (depending on the dosage) will cause a witch to temporarily lose or have their powers greatly diminished.
A- Prolonged Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride use can kill the magical essence in a witch and kill them.
B- Prolonged pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride use can cause 'magic sickness', a condition due to the deadening of magical essence resulting in the weakening of the body, paralysis, extreme cold, and other symptoms, possibly resulting in a host of disabilities.(see Adam Sparrow)
2. Aging slows considerably in adulthood, usually starting at about the age of 18.
3. Substance abuse and addiction is rampant in the adult magickal community.
4. Natural-Witches (Nats) are usually born through 2 magickal parents but...
A- can be produced with only one magickal Parent but is never above a T3, or TX
B- and occasionally seen, is the genetic throwback, born of 2 non magical parents who have magick somewhere in their ancestry and have one or two specific abilities. TX1-5.
5. Magicals get the same illnesses and diseases that nonmagicals get with the exception of:.
A- Magic Sickness
6. Magical doctors must recieve the same education as their non-magical counterparts in addition to magical medical school/apprenticeship.
7. It is rare to find a T1-3 doctor. Doctors are generally T4-5x's. The X being empathic ability, magical medical ability or both..
8. Magical doctors use wands in any complex proceedure. Magical medicine is very tool driven.
9. Empath: A witch who can experience another person's emotional or physical feelings. Also a witch who can take on the illness or injury of a patient.
An Empath can die in an empathic healing if the injury or illness is not passed down a healing chain.
10. Healing Chain. - A healing chain is a chain of empathic witches, each with a high X in healing powers, who link together in order to heal difficult illnesses and injuries . The initial doctor takes on the illness/injury in an attempt to heal the patient,.
This doctor may or may not be able to heal himself and if unable, is in turn healed by the first link in the chain as that empath takes on the illness/injury. Depending on the severity of the illness/injury it is passed down the chain until the illness has been cured by diminishing with each link (empath) in the chain.
11. Link: A healing empath/doctor who works as part of a chain of other healers to heal major illnesses/injuries.
12. Multiple Magickal Treatment (MMT )- Healing with more than one magickal healer, usually a healing chain.
13. MNM – Magickal Nonmagickal – The combination of healing methods or medical professionals or therapy assigned to a patient.
14.. Team Treatment. (TT) - a term used by nonmagickals in place of MTT.
1. Autothermogenesis - (an ECC) a chronic and many times fatal magical disease in which the witch's normally self-protective magic turns internal and harms healthy cells and tissues. See Spontaneous Human combustion.
2. Energy Conflict Condition: . A cronic, sometimes terminal illness which manifests due to the witch’s body’s inability to regulate its own magickal energy. This condition can manifest in any witch over T3 and over. All T-1's struggle with cronic ECCs.
3. . Hypomanifestation. - (chronic invisibility) a T1-3 disease. Symptoms include hypopigmintation, transparancy and ultimately invisibility. Symptoms can be termporary or in severe cases long term to permanent.
4. . Magic Sickness . - The deterioration of the body and possibly death due to the removal of magical influence on the body.
5. . Spontaneous Human Combustion. is a phenomenon in which a human body catches fire as a result of unexplained heat generated internally by some type of chemical reaction. Not a magickal disease but can affect them without being thermogenic.
6. . Viral Therianthropy. - Unlike the natural transformation of a shapeshifter, therianthropy involves the tranformation of a witch as a result of a virus spread through bodily fluids. Viral Therianthropy produces a variety of symptoms including the neutralizing of powers and the transformation into an animal. Therianthropic conditions are often copied in common mental illness, the delusion of transformation to an animal.
A- . Viral Lycantropy/werewolf: The transformation of a witch to wolf due to viral infection. Viral Lycantrophy is usually spread through the bite of an infected werewolf. Viral Lycantropy can be passed to a fetus from an infected mother.
B- Viral chiropteratropy/bats: The transformation of a witch to a bat due to viral infection. Viral chiropteratropy is usually spread through the bite of an infected bat. Symptoms of chiropteratropy include extreme photosensitivity and in many cases, the delusion of vampirism. The absence of sunlight stimulates chiropteraphic exacerbations.
7. Psychic Disorders
A-Animitis - A psychic disorder exclusive to shapeshifters that causes the shapeshifter to spontaniously shift to the opposite sex. a female with Animitis is an anima the male, an animus.
1. St. Claires Hospital , a decaying charity hospital in New York City, was purchased and rebuilt by Health Management Group Inc. Int he hands of Dr. Darius Sparrow, St. Claire's, a private Proprietary hospitals quickly
became the hip medical choice of the nonmagical Alist. Now openly admitting magical patients, St. Claires Hospital is at the forefront of magical/nonmagical complimentry medicine.
2. St. Claires admits patients to specially designated wards based on T-levels due to energy conflict in nonmagical medical technology..
3. Doctors at St. Claires must make and use their own white,eucalyptus wands, charged by Dr. Sparrow.
4. St. Claires offers a magical medical apprenticeship and residency to elligable graduates of both a nonmagical medical program and Salem College's magical healing program.
5. St. Claire's has both magical nursing and EMS programs in cooperation with Salem College.
6. Visiting Witches must enter all hospitals through a gateway and be scanned before entering the building.
After the Salem witch trials, American witches hid their magicalness, as did their European counterparts. About one hundred years later, magical people began to connect again. They secretly gathered together. Many were upstanding members of the community, some even participated in the war for independence. Together, they schooled their children in their homes, bringing them up in the ways of the ancients and passing on the ways of the witches.
Another hundred years passed. Powerful wizards from Europe travelled to America. Albert Apoidea, Edward Jasper and Olga Ruffner, the European All-Stars of magical education, purchased land and the old asylum on it, establishing a school for witches and witchcraft in Salem Massachusetts. They called it The Salem School and staffed it with wizards & witches from europe until the Americans were ready to stand on their own. All magical children were welcome, no one was turned away. The powerful wizards encouraged the American witches to stand their ground and be proud of who they were. The American witches did just that. Armed with education and confidence, their fear diminished and they once again dared out among the non-magicals. But they found their non-magical peers, unprepared, fearful, suspicious, paranoid and unwelcoming. They found themselves oppressed and persecuted. The European wizards rejoiced in the freedom of the American witches and returned to europe, confident in the future of the Americans, hiding their magic in their own country and closely watching the experiement across the ocean.
Less than one hundred years pass and the magical Americans found themselves hiding their magic in order to survive. Unable to gain employment and and make a living, some witches left the east coast and traveled across the country, happily living life far away from anyone who knew about and feared magical people.
Tiny pockets of magical communities popped up across the US and large goverment supported magical communities in the large cities as well as in the small so-called Witch City, Salem. Feared by non magical people, the witches struggled greatly. Most were denied jobs and opportunities that might have allowed them to know just how exceptional they were. The comunity faltered the and slid into a destructive attitude of apathy , anger and disarray. The ailing witches are kept as low as possible for fear they'd rise up and use their power against the majority. Yet, the Salem School continued, financed and protected by the great wizards of Europe.
The 1970s came. Non magical and magical youth protested anything protestable. They wore funny clothes and smoked fun herbs. The magical youth learned from other oppressed cultures and demanded to be heard. The chose a reluctant leader, Thomas Keene, the son of Albert Apoidea. They demanded their rights. They marched, they protested, they got involved in politics and used their right to vote. A magical branch of the government was created to appease the magicals and the popular Dean of the Salem School, Kenneth Marks was made the first US Secretary of Magic. The magicals continued to raise their voices. They demanded to not only be heard but to be seen as well. They adopted a leather beaded identification bracelet with magically enhanced beads that shone colors when near that of another witch, to acknowledging each other and reminding the nonmagicals that witches lived among them. The reluctant leader made speeches, he was active, vocal and fearless. Thomas made a speech, raising his arm to expose the brilliantly flashing wristband and exclaimed See my face and remember my name because one day I will be a force to be reckoned with! The activists were elated when their voices reached across the country. Their cause was shown on national television and splashed across newspapers and magazines.
Some say it was fear inspired, others claim it was a move on the government's part to spread the magicals thin across the country and keep them seperated. The Los Angeles School of Universal Energy was built as was the Chicago School of Magic. Thomas was invited to Washington to meet with the Secretary of magic and discuss the creation of magical liasons and counterparts to all applicable departments of the government. Witches were finally called a race and were granted minority status, enabling them to all rights within the law. Soon smaller schools popped up in the states that needed them. The witches felt powerful, felt successful they pushed for more. One of of the leaders, Gaston Clerec declared it the decade of magic and vowed to be the next Secretary of Magic, echoing Thomas' sentiment of more reform and a new magical America,and promising 'hell to pay' to those who stood in the way .
The government compiled names. The names were put on lists. Talented and powerful magicals were enticed into lucrative positions in the government and work to keep America, America. Witches were offered subsidies, compensation to make amends for the suffering inflicted upon them. The witches were split. One side warned the people of deceit, the other side encouraged them to accept what was due them. The witches demanded reparation.
Payment was difficult. The government in their wise benevolent ways found the perfect solution. They created a special bracelet, encoded with the witch's social security number, personal information and account number. The bracelet was magically charged by the talented government witches to act as an identification card, allowing the wearer to access his or her government account in special government mandated financial institutions with the wave of a magical wand over the bracelet. The witches were thrilled, until the money ran out and witchcraft became illegal.
To be continued
Albert Apoidea, Edward Jasper and Olga Ruffner : pioneers of American Magical Education. Now the Court directors of the Global Alliance of Magical Education or GAME.
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