Five Ball of Magick
Five Ball of Magick
Perhaps most famous in the field of molded plastic divinatory tools is
the ubiquitous Magic Eight Ball, with its familiar answers to Yes/No
questions (within three generations, in fact, those answers will be yet another
tchotchke
in the attic trunk of racial memory -- even today, answering a
question with ``Signs Say No'' will resonate familiarity with most of
the world's English-speaking population). They sit on desks, they dangle
from keychains and they litter the web in alarming abundance. (You
would think that people, when hitting upon an idea as obvious as a web-based
Magic Eight Ball, would stop and say ``Hey, that's a really obvious idea -- I
wonder if anyone else has done it already?'' You would be mistaken.)
Pope Icky
and m'self find the Eight Ball's answers to be, not to put too
fine a point on it, damned boring. So, with the help of
Goddess (as
aided and abetted by the considerable graphical artistry of the aforementioned
Pope Icky), we set
out to create a similar divinatory implement, useful for answering those
niggling Yes/No questions, but without the stilted monotone of Ye Olde
Classic.
So, without further prologue, we invite you to clear your mind, focus on
a Yes/No question of importance (or not) to your immediate (or not)
situation, and consult the
Five Ball of Magick.