the Three Weird Sisters
the Three Weird Sisters stir up thumos, trick the Thane into a regicide of Kingship—he kills the whole line, for he sets a fatal precedent.
Usurper is King, now; no king is safe.
by traitor's blade, the Line delegitimizes.
rite is real as rite
rite is a performance, so when done on stage, is real—for it’s truly a performance—so it's something—so is maybe efficacious.
Magic isn't Science, its a trixxy line of vague equivocations that may hypnotize the Real into compliance.
Magic isn't hacker's code, it's cool hocus pocus. their phonemes may be magical, on or off the stage: don't discount the Bard's thoughtless power, how they focus thru his poetry and will into the Polity.
we counter with a Kiss, or with a three-cycle twisting of the heel when we pronounce it.
we pass around our salves & propaedeutics!