Overview

<aside> 💡 I have another idea: what if I combine both storylines? The scenes cut between two conflicting Asylum jobs? James experiences both realities and can sort them out.

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<aside> 💡 This is the second iteration of asylum job ideation. The first attempt was Asylum job - doctor doppelganger.

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All my initial ideas for this have been destructive, but what about something more constructive?

Part of my original vision for James job was for it to be more positive.

Instead of a doctor having a problem that needs fixing, what if the doctors want assistance with an experiment?

What if the morality of the experiment is questionable?

What if the experiment goes horribly wrong, and the agency is partially to blame in supporting it?

That is far closer to where I was wanting to go with the earlier depictions of agency life.

The Experiment

So what is the experiment?

One of the main pursuits of the Asylum doctors is to “cure madness”.

What if they created a treatment that used magic?

What if that use of magic was subtle and indirect, like leveraging some hip, new magic technology?

Magic tech

What sort of magical technology could it be?

I’d like it to be embodied by some distinctive object. The object would act as a sort of symbol, and have a particular theme. It would be light, portable, and have a high monetary value.

<aside> 💡 It might be good to start pulling together a set of themes and symbols for magic in Marloth.

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