[quote=@kalanggam] I also like these ideas. Fantasy being interwoven with daily life in a mundane way. Small-town mysteries, local incidents and scandals, petty social drama - rather than the grandiose adventures and magnanimous ambitions we're accustomed to from traditional fantasy. [/quote] Yeah, you and Expendable got it exactly, [i]that's[/i] what I'm going for. [quote=@kalanggam] With this setting incorporating magic as a normal part of everyday life, such that magic is its own profession, would it be safe to assume that everyone in-universe can use it? I also think it would be awesome to see how magic is passed down through families or shared across cultures, like you could log onto the internet to look up a particular spell or ritual, or you'd find stupid trends on social media involving dangerous uses of magic or its implements. [/quote] Yeah, so I'm meaning for magic to be a discipline just like any other. Just as anyone at all could learn to be a mechanic or a hair stylist, anyone at all could be a magician. In the real world, a lot of people think that if magic was real they'd want to do it, but in a world where it's just a skill like any other, a lot of people just kind of don't bother with it. And as I mentioned earlier, a lot of people learn a little bit of what's useful to them(just like you might learn how to change your own brakes, or color your own hair). [@Expendable] I love the idea of this taking place over the summer! And remember that you don't have to play a student, or even a magic user. You can just be a townie who gets caught up in the bullshit. I think this will take place in the nineties, if no one objects strongly to that. And I was actually thinking maybe someplace in Appalachia instead of New England, but I'm not super sure yet. I'll probably end up just building the town around the school, so as soon as I decide on a name and general region, I'll starting writing the town up too. Any suggestions are always welcome.