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« on: July 07, 2011, 08:07:35 AM »
How I would go about this...
1. Rent a small apartment away from my home/base of operations.
2. Fill it with all the tech I desired (Computer/HDTV/so on).
3. Have Magic Circles erected around all tech components.
4. Place permanent scrying spells around the apartment to relay sight/sound back to my actual place of residence.
5. Bribe dedicated army of pixies, with pizza, to live in the apartment and act as my "Remote Controls." Using the two-way TV scrying spell, I'd hold up "Channel 39," a pixie would change the channel and I'd be enjoying Cartoon Network. In the case of the computer, I'd have two ages old type-writers, linked through hours of thaumaturgical work so that when one types up an (email/URL/flame/etc.) the paper is ejected from the other machine, which is then transcribed by pixie onto the computer. Mouse duty (meaning the human interface device and not a rodent or large dog [as you have to be very straightforward with the Wee-Folk]) would earn the assigned pixie a double ration of pizza for that week.
Pros & Cons of this approach:
Pros:
You get to watch all the TV you want and no-one could ever change the channel on you because the pixie's would fear the loss of their pizza supply.
Internet Porn (provided you have no compunctions about the little people seeing what turns your crank. Although, in their defense, they're pretty damned open-minded about such things, you naughty wizard).
Geek/Wizard Cred - Your mortal friends (and those close enough to count to use tech without all this work) will be extremely impressed at the lengths you go to to acclimatize to the modern technological society. The wizards will be impressed because in all your dealings with the Fae Courts you are addressed by your new title...
Cons:
Your new title - "The 'Za Nerd"
Expense - Hell's Bells! Not only are you paying for a second apartment, cable television and a broadband connection... but you have to pay to feed all these pixies!
Security Deposit (you're never gonna see that money again) - Pixies are not the cleanliest of the fae on the best days, you involve pizza and your new apartment looks like the aftermath at the Battle of Helms Deep... in miniature.