summerland wrote:The spirits in the back of the book "Black NAP" Do work. That being said....Know when to fold them, dont get caught up on revenge. It will eventually turn against you. Just do it then let them do the work. Dont dwell on making your target suffer any more than needs to be. And dont forget to cancel the curse after you have results.
Summerland makes some great points here and i'd like to add some hopefully helpful advice:
1. Don't become obsessed or consumed by the situation, the working or the ferocity of the results. It's not fair to yourself to let them fuck with you, rent free in your head. It's like ruminating x 100.
2. Curses that interfere with the fate of another, in the sense that you alter a fate-line (for want of a better word) have an energetic toll on the magician working the curse. All magic is about flow of energy in a fundamental sense and not only does the curse require the magician's energy, but so does the sustaining of the altered fate. Make the blow specific and over with quickly.
3. Do not engage in the same long drawn out "I can change them forever"bullshit. (Long term love spells/curses are a great example of this) The cost to you of maintaining that breakaway fate line will swallow you eventually. It sounds trite but the old saying; " you can only change yourself, not others" is really great advice here. Even though magicians of skill can manipulate the fatelines of others the energy to do that long term is ridiculous and pointless.
No magician's true will and purpose is served by coming up with new and costly ways for them to be able to endure assholes in their lives; to manipulate who they are in order to accept the unacceptable.
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summerland wrote:And dont forget to cancel the curse after you have results.
Totally agree...not for any moral reasons but simply the practicalities of the cost to you. When it's done, you're done and you rest and get on with life.
A sustained attack not only effects you in the ways I mentioned above, but after a while there are emotional, mental and magical circumstances under which you become, in a way, linked or bound to your target and in that situation you not only carry the cost of the actual working, plus sustaining the altered state of the other person (if the working is designed that way) but also become your own collateral damage
Hey jerrythemouse, how did you go?