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Myriad Reality

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Magnetic energy? EM waves? Chemical energy? Potential energy?

@Realmatic

Potential doesn't count. Chemical is just potential.

Myriad Reality

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I am sure.

@Realmatic

Like what?

Myriad Reality

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No, no. All energy devolves into heat, but there are many types of energy.

@Realmatic

Are you sure?

Myriad Reality

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It isn't like heat, but it is a type of energy.

@Realmatic

Isn't all energy heat?

Myriad Reality

I am so sorry everybody. I have been far more irritable lately than I recall ever being in my entire life. I hope this hasn't been annoying you. I'd certainly get annoyed with my own tone of voice. I'm just going through some things internally right now, things I can't explain. I don't even know what it is personally, it's just there. It's gnawing away at me and I don't even know what it is. But I have done some thinking lately and, despite my attitude and micro crisis, am internally bringing myself back together. I guess maybe moving to college made me start to forget who I really am, and for that, I apologize. I apologize to everyone. I've got some things to say to family and old friends too, but you all deserve a word from me just as much as any of them. MR and you guys have made me who I am today. I would not be the same Jacob were it not for this. When real friends were incapable of being there for me, and my family wasn't in a position to be terribly supportive, you guys were, and still are. Without that support, who knows where I would be? Certainly not as confident or as happy as I am today...

I take all of you for granted, especially now, but that is changing right now. All I needed was a little reassessment of myself. I can't afford to forget where I come from, and I mean that in so many more ways than just one. So I just wanted to tell you guys, thank you, and I am so very sorry.

@Heroic

F, because you have mine.

Myriad Reality

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Magic-users tend to use the term in many different ways. Magic, in terms of doing things, is the use of magical energy in order to perform what might be called "the supernatural"--that is, influencing philotes in ways that most beings cannot. Magic, in terms of the power behind it, is magical energy, in whatever form it happens to come in.

@Realmatic

So it's a type of energy like heat?

Myriad Reality

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-Perseo- Magical energy comes in several forms. The magical energy we use is expressed like chemical energy--energy is expended to fix philotes in a tight structure that, when broken down, enhances the philotic interaction of a being and allows them to perform magic. It can also power devices that perform magic, since magic is partly an expression of philotic interaction.

@Efficacy

Wait, so is magic a form of energy or is it its own thing?

Myriad Reality

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My apologies.

@Realmatic

Okay, so heat energy is just atoms moving, right? Then what is magic energy?

Myriad Reality

Myriad Reality

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Neither is magical energy. People simply use both.

@Realmatic

I don't get it.