I watched Fox news today.
Don't worry... I'm okay.
I like to do this thing where I pit the two media giants against each other to see which parent should win, Mom or Dad.
The spell has a linguistic component, but it doesn't need to be vocalized. It can exist in any written word. Watch this clip from the Tucker Carlson show and see if you can spot the spell going off?
Post your timecodes in the doohickey below.
The moment the spell goes off is not actually shown in the video. See, I lied. I'm kind of a fucker and you fell for it. The spell actually goes off the moment you read the title.
Tucker: 'Painful, depressing' debate had some telling moments.
Let's break down this spell because the incantation and components are hidden in the wording and if you wish to seize the power of this incantation, you need to study it.
The word Tucker is the first part of the incantation. It summons images of the spirit or demon summoned, in the victim's brain. That image comes with all the biases that the image conjures. The name is important because even though the image in the thumbnail shows the reader the spirit or demon being summoned, the name binds them to our realm and our thoughts. Then you hit the victim with something unexpected. You associate the demon with doing something unexpected like this ancient incantation:
Pit-Demon: We actually help the gnome immigration problem
See, associating a Pit-Demon with helping is unheard of, and the gnome immigration problem is the hook that snares the victim. It promises that we will agree with their premise because the gnomes, are in fact, a problem.
With our example from FOX, Tucker is associating the debate-which pinned a level 20 Republican Rakshasha against a level 20 Democrat Osyluth-with the words depressing. Depressing is a word of power capable of snaring any ear or eye that sees it from 30 feet or less in a radius around the cursed object.
It targets the same part of the brain that cannot turn away from a car wreck. Depressing and painful are the words which trigger confirmation bias. They assure the victim that they are okay to feel this way, and that we're bros, and so what if you occasionally watch your room mate jerk off into his socks, that doesn't make you gay. Just means you have a thing for socks.
The victim is drawn in because they likely thought the debate was depressing as well, so it's a sure bet that a lot of people will click to have their biases confirmed. The victim can resist the spell, however, if the cursed object fails to ensnare them, that's when content matters. Let's look at the video for more words of power that will be used to tighten the hold this spell already has on our victim.
Country, You, and Proud are wicked strong power words. The video starts out complimenting the country of origin of its victim, re-assuring them that they won the genetic lotto and ended up at the right place and best of all, at the right time because the time for action is now. It all depends on you. The spell is assuring the audience of their own intelligence for the very act of clicking on this video but also thanking them for being brave and thinking what needed to be thought.
The Tucker goes on to say that we should be proud to live where we live because of all the cool shit we've got, and that we should want the same kind of awesomeness for our grandkids. Once you have your audience in your grasp, usually through the compliment sandwich technique, you need to hit them with fear. Fear of losing this great country that we were just informed is the best in the world, and we wouldn't want to end up like Sweden, would we?
So, the spell continues by once again reassuring the audience that The Tucker agrees with them, that he is just as capable of seeing reason as you are and you are right to feel the way you do, the only difference is, The Tucker doesn't agree with why the debate was depressing.
WHAT A TWIST! Now the audience must stick around to watch the video until the 2 minute mark when attention will start to wane.
So before then, we need to convince the victim that we, The Tucker and the wizard he was summoned to protect, are in fact their friend. Conversely, we must convince them that their friend is their enemy and we do that by telling the target that we see the same problems they see. The osyluth is barely comprehensible, and he has the glassy eyed demeanor of a meth head in the midst of a binge, but he seemed absolutely stellar next to the guy that bound me to this plane of existence, but the osyluth isn't going to get anywhere by telling the world that the rakshasa is racist against gnomes and wishes to collapse their tunnels into the country, because that won't work.
Even though we just got done attacking the health of the other guy, and the raksha literally won the last election against a level 20 narzugon using personal attacks. Given all that, we still don't think it's an effective way to run for president. This is double think, and it is a feat that level 4 wizards can take to increase the chance that the spell will succeed against fortitude checks.
To increase the hold over the victim's attention you have several options, but the best techniques are usually visual. If your cursed object has a visual component, it's best if you show Elves, Dwarves and gnomes in the midst of crimes to intensify the fear. Fire is a good evoker of fear as well, so show lots of it with people celebrating around it to evoke primal fears. Why do we defend this rakshaha and his racist ways? We don't, but we also don't believe personal attacks work. Perfect. The spell has taken hold because the idea we want to implant has been spoken and heard three times. Now you can suggest just about anything and because your audience agrees with your premise, they might just end up believing you're a friend.
Now you've learned confirmation bias. You're welcome.
