Isabelle 'Izzy' Shaw (izzyshaw) wrote in birthrightrpg, @ 2020-12-28 07:20:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~izzy shaw |
Who: Izzy Shaw
What: Research
When: after this and this
Rating: Low
Izzy leaned back against the back of her chair and rubbed tired eyes before reaching for the cup of coffee on the desk. Since James's phone call (and a quick one to her father right after) she'd been pouring through the grimoires she'd inherited from her grandmother and every other reference she had on magic, scribbling notes on a pad of paper and trying to cross reference everything she could. That was a difficult task considering magic users rarely had a standardized way of describing things, each one wrote about magic in their own way based on how they'd been taught and what they learned through practical experience. It was rarely the same outside individual family lines, and even then you had to adjust for language drift if you went far back enough. If she could wave a magic wand (ha!) standard frames of reference would be the one thing she'd want more than anything else.
Taking a sip of coffee Izzy went over her notes and frowned. She didn't have a lot, but what she had was bad enough. Two different incidents described similar markings summoning a being from outside their reality: one called it a demon and the called it a visitor from another realm, the label didn't really matter. Either way it was bad news. Tall, big, nasty, and liked to snack on magic users for their energy. In both cases it had taken a collective effort to banish the thing back where it came from.
She picked up her phone and started dialing. The sooner they got started the sooner they could breathe easier.