Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Online community & messaging engines
in the application of sigil magic

Abstract

Software engines providing access to community websites and other social networking tools often are aware of location-based information on their users. US zipcodes can locate a user typically within a twenty mile radius, and Canadian postal codes are often accurate to within a two hundred foot radius in larger cities. Cell phones, GPS aware automobiles, and other navigation devices are all capable of providing even more accurate telemetry, often with elevation, motion, and other data as well.

For the purposes of planetary- or continent-scale magic, distributed sigils placed as vector endpoints have been the traditional method of creating singular sigils which span hundreds or thousands of miles. Historically this involved the physical construction of temples to house the sigils, but with location-aware networking tools sigils can be placed instantly and in any configuration.

At any given moment a piece of networking software has a mesh of users which may be located in both two dimensional and three dimensional projections. Simple pattern matching can take a given macro-sigil and find users who are located at the vector endpoints; the larger the userbase, the more accurate (and powerful) the sigil can be. By inserting micro-sigils into their online experience (and thus their consciousness), the macro-sigil becomes activated. Sub-sigils for the purposes of targetting and energy direction, as well as glyph orientation and psychic sharpening may be inserted into the consciousness of users inside and outside the main glyph as well. Synchornized transmission of digitized sigils may be used as an activator.

Location-aware cellphones coupled with instant messaging technologies as well as automobiles with navigation systems are also able to orchestrate this type of large-scale magic on a more localized and precise level, including the realtime targeting of specific individuals and locations.