Computer Compatible Magic?

Grawlix · 02-05-2014, 04:33 PM

I'm looking to make a modern magician using Thaumatology as a starting point, who utilized his magic through computers using them to access the astral plane similarly (or perhaps in parallel) to connecting to the internet. They would be able to astrally project, including rendering the astral plane so it could be accessed through VR or hack into reality itself, altering data and thereby gaining real world effects. Of course they would still have to overcome mystical obstacles to do this but such a practice would also allow technological obstacles to be created too. Perhaps the Akashic Records have a firewall now?

Anyway, not looking for anything exact but I was wondering which system/s would be best utilized to capture the feel of this kind of magic and if I would need to adapt it to make it only accessible through digital mediums.

I'm sure I have seen magic like this in multiple places but the only one that comes to mind is in the early Hellblazer story "Ghosts in the Machine". If anyone can point me to any other sources that would be a great bonus too!

02-05-2014, 04:33 PM	#1
Grawlix Join Date: Feb 2014	Computer Compatible Magic? I'm looking to make a modern magician using Thaumatology as a starting point, who utilized his magic through computers using them to access the astral plane similarly (or perhaps in parallel) to connecting to the internet. They would be able to astrally project, including rendering the astral plane so it could be accessed through VR or hack into reality itself, altering data and thereby gaining real world effects. Of course they would still have to overcome mystical obstacles to do this but such a practice would also allow technological obstacles to be created too. Perhaps the Akashic Records have a firewall now? Anyway, not looking for anything exact but I was wondering which system/s would be best utilized to capture the feel of this kind of magic and if I would need to adapt it to make it only accessible through digital mediums. I'm sure I have seen magic like this in multiple places but the only one that comes to mind is in the early Hellblazer story "Ghosts in the Machine". If anyone can point me to any other sources that would be a great bonus too!