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 # Spellblade Plot
 
+https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/
+
 ## One Sentence
 
 A woman realizes the gap between two opposites and their place in the middle.
 
 ## One Paragraph
 
+Alicia is a student at the Zhalram School of Bladecraft, one of two schools
+owned by a shadowy organization that oversees the Zhalrami army recruiting
+process. Alicia is troubled in her schooling and attempts (and fails) to hide
+her natural talent for magic; she tries to use her magic skills to assist her
+team in the battle drills but gets caught. Alicia gets monitored more closely
+and comes out to Tistus about her magical powers, Tistus is concerned for Alicia
+but accepts her and they work together to make the suspicion go away.
+
+- Cover the setting
+  - Introduce the bladecraft school
+  - Introduce spellcraft and frame it as an "other"
+  - Introduce Alicia's powers
+  - Get caught by Tistus
+  - Use powers on the field
+  - Gets caught
+- Teachers deliberate and propose a magical vivisection, something that would
+  purge someone of their magical powers
+  - Alicia argues she didn't ask for this
+  - 
+
+Alicia gets expelled and then roams
+around the marketplace she talks with a spiritualist named Kala and ends up
+getting roped into their underground school of mixed arts. 
+
+## Slightly Longer
+
 Alicia is a student at the Zhalram school of Bladecraft, she is on the Red Team
 and works with her teammates to get through various battle drills. Unbeknownst
 to most people, Alicia has a talent for spellcraft as well (a large taboo for
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 others, but slips up and is discovered. The school elders have discussions about
 this and then decide to put Alicia under academic probation. Alicia roams around
 the merchant district of Zhalram and happens across a spiritualist that offers
-Alicia a magical locus that is shaped like a sword.
+Alicia a magical locus that is shaped like a sword and hints at the bladecraft
+and spellcraft schools being operated by the same person. Alicia experiments
+with it and then hides it in her room. 
 
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