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The People's Republic of International Wiccans Witchcraft Storefront

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Exchange Rate: 6.5 runes (r) for $1

Crystal Balls

Cost: 650,000r ($100,000) for 1,000 or $100 per unit.
Errata: A large clear crystal ball used in scrying.

http://www.rushyo.com/ns/wcstorefront/crystalball.jpg

International Wiccans' National Book of Shadows

Cost: 65,000r ($10,000) for 1,000 or $10 per unit.
Errata: The national 'spellbook' of the People's Republic of International Wiccans. A complement to personal Book of Shadows and packed full of useful spells on its own.

http://www.rushyo.com/ns/wcstorefront/bookofshadows.jpg

Magick Staffs

Cost: 1,925,000r ($250,000) for 1,000 or $250 per unit.
Errata: Used as a non-lethal form of weapon in the civil war in the Great Democracy of Faith from which the People's Republic of International Wiccans emerged. Used in advanced spells but also potentially used as a non-lethal (OR lethal) weapon in the right hands.

http://www.rushyo.com/ns/wcstorefront/magickstaff.jpg

Witchcraft Training

Cost: 6,500,000r ($1,000,000) to train 1,000 people or $1000 per person.
Errata: Note that training in witchcraft does not automatically make a person a Wiccan. Wicca is a religion and is quite seperate from witchcraft. All forms of witchcraft taught, not just the white magick of Wicca. Highlights for militaristic nations include strength and speed rituals, which greatly improve a soldier's combat abilities.

Rules

o You work out the price and state a total please.
o Transportion is unprotected. If you want protection that's your problem.
o Simple roleplaying is enforced... and a reason must be stated.
o Background checks will be made.
o Training takes four years NS time, all other orders take a quarter of a year.
o ALL PICTURES ARE COPYRIGHT DANNY MOULES

OOC: You didn't make those images. I'm sorry but those are from web sites describing what Wicca is. I suggest that you drop the "Copywrite" for the pictures due to the fact that they are public domain.

This doesn't look slightly demonic. This the new trend? I guess coming up with new Star Wars rip-offs became boring...

A quick drop-in:

Plaid zone is in the middle of a military crisis right now...we NEED weapons.

For 2 mil we'll take 8000 staffs. Just load them on the trucks. Payment can be adressed to 'Legit, "the man of bronze" Johnson. But don't trust him, he'll try to barter with you for prices...I apologize.

Dash T.
Negotiator and lead jello enthusiast of plaid zone

IC: -------Message to Independent Wiccans----------

Hello, I am Megumi Chidori, head of the church of the Empire of Tanthan, since some of our people having varying beliefs in how to define their spirtuality and search for God we would like to purchase quite a few of your products for those believers. We request:

Ten million Crystal Balls for a total of $1,000,000,000
One hundred million International Wiccans' National Book of Shadows for a total of $1,000,000,000
Twenty million Magick Staffs for a total of $5,000,000,000

Also we would like to train five million of our citizens in Witchcraft and ask that Witchcraft Training. If you can handle them all in it will come to a total of $5,000,000,000.

The Grand Total comes to $12,000,000,000 for our needs, money will be wired upon confirmation.
~Megumi Chidori.

OOC: You didn't make those images. I'm sorry but those are from web sites describing what Wicca is. I suggest that you drop the "Copywrite" for the pictures due to the fact that they are public domain.

Those are my copyright. I created them using 3dsMax v3.1. If you don't believe it, here is a dump with my own name inserted and the original model being edited:

http://www.rushyo.com/ns/wcstorefront/confirmation.jpg

Some are also availiable at my DeviantART site: http://rushyo.deviantart.com.

Your accusation has no grounding. If they are on someone else's Wiccan site, show me because I want to know who is using my image so I can report them.

This doesn't look slightly demonic. This the new trend? I guess coming up with new Star Wars rip-offs became boring...

Wicca isn't demonic. It's a benevolent religion that practises non-harmful magick. Witchcraft is simply the art of magick.

Hello, I am Megumi Chidori, head of the church of the Empire of Tanthan, since some of our people having varying beliefs in how to define their spirtuality and search for God we would like to purchase quite a few of your products for those believers. We request:

Ten million Crystal Balls for a total of $1,000,000,000
One hundred million International Wiccans' National Book of Shadows for a total of $1,000,000,000
Twenty million Magick Staffs for a total of $5,000,000,000

Also we would like to train five million of our citizens in Witchcraft and ask that Witchcraft Training. If you can handle them all in it will come to a total of $5,000,000,000.

The Grand Total comes to $12,000,000,000 for our needs, money will be wired upon confirmation.
~Megumi Chidori.

Order has been confirmed. We have a large community which will be glad to teach the secrets of witchcraft. Over the alloted four year period (and through taught-to-teacher schemes, allowing those already taught to teach others) we're sure we can teach them all in that time scale.

Transports will include the civilian aeroplanes TR-684, GR-220 and TY-542.

For 2 mil we'll take 8000 staffs. Just load them on the trucks. Payment can be adressed to 'Legit, "the man of bronze" Johnson. But don't trust him, he'll try to barter with you for prices...I apologize.

Order has been confirmed. The stafffs are being shipped to the trucks as we speak. All international trade officials have strict orders not to barter without the authority of High Priest Takha.

OOC: Sorry the reply was so late. I have been paintballing all day.

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OOC Note: This is all ignored by me (Praetonia is my main nation). This is here in case someone who buys some of this random magick stuff tries to use it against me.

OOC: Well it's new in concept for NS... but not really appropriate...

As for Magik especially of the Wiccan & Black Varieties... it's called BELIEF... not rational thought... No offence to your beliefs though (my partner was a Wiccan for ages...)

Btw, I thought there some taboo about calling it Witchcraft, since that is actually to do with Black Magik and Theistic Satanism... not Wicca... :)

Sorry, for the thread invasion...

/End Thread Hijack

OOC: I've been practising Witchcraft for 8 years in real life and I've spent the last four years studying occult religions...

Witchcraft is the art of magick, good or bad. It's the Christian church who claim that all magick is a sin, even good magick. The rest of us just use it to refer to the art of magick.

Also, some of us actually go out of our way to read thesis' explaining the science of magick. It's like magnetism or electricty. You can't see it, or touch it, but it's still there... and people thousands of years ago would have claimed magnetism or electricty didn't exist and it was irrational to believe it exists. We're just waiting for science to catch up... and doing our part to help that.

Hope that clarifies.

Feel free to ignore it, but some people like to actually have some variety in their roleplays. My nation still fields modern-tech armour divisions, but in my own personal roleplays (and in pre-arranged roleplays with my friends) I still use magick in them.

Now please, no more thread hijacking by anyone else (now it's cleared up from my POV) or I'll report it. Thank you.

BTW. I am highly familiar with NationStates. My old nation (Coldorra) was created in March 2003.

As much as I support religious diversity (ironic to hear from a dictator...), I must question some of the items in this store. Unless you are going for a magic = reality country (such as how Merlyns basically copied Shadowrun wholesale or another nation I know mixes magic and tech in a different way).

This doesn't look slightly demonic. This the new trend? I guess coming up with new Star Wars rip-offs became boring...

Naw. Star Wars is just a cheap ripoff of about a dozen different religions, both very young and old at the time it was created. Wicca is older than Star Wars.

OOC: I have tried understanding Wiccan and they only thing I have tried is being a healer, its really odd when you try it...it seems to work on some level, but I scientifically cannot explain why when I have a cut or something when I do use try it that it seems to heal faster.

In another thread they gave crystals as a source of physical magical power, I tried using some scientific sense to make it seem not as powerful or cheap then currently many people believe. The thread is here for anyone who wishes to see my attempt at explaining in a scientific term which is unknown.
Click. (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=371659)

Science has always been behind religious beliefs and often seems to fight with it, but for all those catholics out there (me being one), scientists have claimed to have found Noah's Ark and actual evidience that a flood happened at the time the bible suggested. It took thousands of years for science to even get up to that, but you know what it finally is!

There are limits though to this magic, very small changes if any is seen, Wiccan doesn't teach or even make claims on how to call forth fire to consume enemy cities or do anything major like that.

So just buy it or forget it, my trained civilians aren't going to be killing anyone with there combined power. You really don't even need to fear magic when you are driving in that big tank, it makes no difference if they have different religious believes, magic or no magic, when you are going through their cities!

OOC: Please, if you have an issue email me... or if you want to discuss witchcraft: realmagick.com.

This isn't a debate topic...

Some people are adept enough that they can roleplay this into their nations. Don't ruin it for us because you can't.

Koornacht would like to train 20 people and equip them with one of everthing. The total price is; $25,200

Confirmed. A teacher is en-route via a commerical flight and the items will be shipped on private cargo planes.

The Federated Union of Democratic Colonies would like to purchase the following:

60 x Crystal Balls
200 x International Wiccans' National Book of Shadows
120 x Magick Staffs

The total should come to $38,000. The Andromeda Colony Institute of Technology and the All Colonies University have expressed an interest in furthering thier scientific understanding of both Wiccan witchcraft and what you refer to as 'magick'. As well, the Colonial Security Bureau, Section Six (Paranormal Investigations) has expressed an interest in the items.

The materials will be picked up by a government Concorde transport once the order is confirmed.

- Secretary Kelli Perim, Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs
(Picture available here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/c1d618ad.jpg )

The deal is confirmed. We thank you for your interest and hope this items aid you well. The transport should collect the goods at Pentacle airport

Ab-shalom and greetings;

Our Sultan has expressed an interest not only in materials, but in teachers who have a grasp of what is and what is not.

As such, we would request for a number of herbologists and healers to come to our Universities, research facilities, and greenhoused farmlands for discussions on your methods and materials.

We would also express an interest in clippings, seeds, and such for initial crops if discussions reach an equitable understanding.

Go in Peace,

Namaste,
Kidane Alemachu
Vizier of Trade and Contracts
Humble Servant of His Magnificence, The Sultan of Vastiva

Unfortunately many of our wisest researchers are planned to be at Tanthan for another two years. After they return, we would be glad to send them in the interests of furthering the cause of studying potential practical applications of herbal magick.

Most of our herbs in our native country are quite common, though we have a few unique to our nation. We will gladly supply you with them when you require them, in the interests of advancement.

Laughs wearly, puts head in hands....

*sighs and reports you for blatantly ignoring the many warnings on both threads* I realise English isn't your main language but surely you understand the word SPAM right?

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