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Ornithomancy (collective IRM IF-13.1.12-D)

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RareBirdAlert (talkcontribs)

I write IRM entries for Magic players that are essentially scrying notes into a universe where they're birds, under the IF-13.1.12-D tag (IF BIRD). The first time Jaylen visited Yellowstone, I wrote one for her, but I hesitated about trying to post it. Now that she's back for another breather, I'd like to add it to her page in some way. Typically with Magic players I simply install them as IRM entries, but a different approach seems to be in order for Jaylen. I'd like some assistance navigating it and adding this content to her page, perhaps as a standalone separate page that is linked from one of the Magic sections about her career? The content I want to add is below:

-- Ornithomantic Assignation

A scrap of distressed parchment is inscribed in chromatic ink by the Augur’s hand

A collection of these notes was located in a file cabinet within the Yellowstone National Park Ballpark offices, all sharing a similar handwriting and purpose. Each note describes a member of the Yellowstone Magic, in synchronicity with a known reality counterpart, but as a particular species of bird. It remains unclear why the Augur is scrying these particular ornithomancies and what purpose they may serve, but the findings are dutifully recorded and cataloged when new ones are discovered.

Scrying target: Jaylen Hotdogfingers (the in/famous) Ornithomantic assignation: wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) - perhaps one of the most storied, versed, and misunderstood birds upon the wind. I must act quickly. The subject’s aura still interacts with high excitability to instances of Feedback. But where to begin, on a target so known? As always, perhaps, with the initial assessment. The wandering albatross - largest of its kind, greatest wingspan of any extant unaltered bird. Legendary. Yes, I will say it, of subject and avian both - legendary. For good and ill, oft simultaneously. The albatross seeks to roam the open ocean, traveling incredible distance with not a single stroke of its wings. Thus, this albatross in particular is called the wandering, and the name is doubly appropriate for this subject. Upon it have the masses impressed their wild beliefs: that it is a revenant of the departed, that it indicates a good omen that becalmed winds will rise again, that it is an ill omen of disaster soon to befall those who look upon it. And most notably, that it is a curse, a burden of the psyche, the weight of sins made manifest, an albatross around the neck. I would be so bold to assume that others have seen her in this manner. And yet does the albatross wander onward. What it seeks is unknown but to its own heart, and it may go thousands upon thousands of miles in its flight. Yet even the albatross comes to land sometimes, and of all birds, the albatross is perhaps one of the best-known for its philopatry, its unerring loyalty to the place of its origin, returning to the very same place it stood when it first took wing.

If this were a typical ornithomancy, here I would divine such interactions of note. Yet here, I would only say: look upon the albatross with unclouded eyes, and the winds upon which it soars, and bid this weary wanderer fair winds for its travels.

This ornithomancy is notable for being recorded in its entirety. --

Femmest (talkcontribs)

this is super cool!! i would love to see it posted as a full IRM entry like the others!

TwoHeadedButt (talkcontribs)

Hi, this is super neat! We've discussed it and think that the best way to incorporate it would be to add it as a section on the IF-13.1.12-D page and link to it via an addition to her "Career with the Magic" section. I've proposed a potential such addition below--feel free to use it or write your own! (You'll be able to link to her section of the page directly once it's on there; I just linked to the page for now.) Cheers :)


Scrying notes recorded by Yellowstone's resident ornithomancer during Hotdogfingers's time in the Parkpark can be found at IF-13.1.12-D.