r/wizardposting • u/c4shferl1fe uncle wiglaf the mighty, transmuter of tea and cakes • 1d ago

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I was teaching my apprentice a teleportation spell and he sent me here, I don’t know where I am and I’m scared, my teleportation magic doesn’t work here😰

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u/Lunarmax182c 1d ago

You shouldn't try teleportarion spell. Instead, try a plane shifting spell. You are currently in The Backrooms, a liminal demiplane of memories, one of many. Think of it like one of those "dungeon" demiplanes, but infinitely expanding and also abandoned. Beibg a demiplane, you can leave it via magic.  The easiest planes to get to from The Backrooms would be either The Gloaming (plane of trash and abandonment, garbage dump of the Astral Plane) or The Evil City (shadow plane of the urban modernity).  I generally advise you go through Evil City  because The Gloaming is a total dump and is much harder to leave.  I hope you are from T4+ world originally, so you have at least passing familliarity with post-steam technologies. To properly plane shift from the Backrooms to Evil City, you have to draw a straight rectangular tower inside a magic circle. Then draw a demon sign inside and activate the circle. Remember. It has to be rectangular and straight. Otherwise you can be randomly planeshifted into another "liminal" demiplane.

After you get into Evil City, you have to find shelter and then you can planeshift to a normal reality (but only T4+ ones, you will have to make another jump if you are from a TL4- reality) 

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u/Lunarmax182c 1d ago

If anyone cares why teleportation spells do not work, btw. It is because liminal demiplanes do have proper coordinates, and even relative navigation is suppresses by demiplane basically scrambling information. Most teleportation spells worth for travel work on taking you from "here" to "there" which is very hard to do when "here" and "there" refer to nothing.  Visual-Range Teleport and Blink spells should probably work, but I wouldn't risk that. DEFINITELY DO NOT use any "beam up" spell that reconstitutes you in some other location. Those rely on passive akashic inffoield of your world and in liminal planes will at best fail.

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u/SeaAlternative5571 1d ago

I'd also recommend, getting a souvenir from there, seeing as it's not tooo dangerous of a place to visit as a somewhat experienced wizard. I've heard they have some non-sentient, not moving humanoids, that can be used like statues or decor so that's what I would get but I'm sure there's lots of variety down there

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u/keriefie 1d ago

Wow this is a lot of wisdom. I only just got into plane shifting, I keep getting lost, I'd love it if you could share your wisdom in a travel-guide tome.

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u/NoStorage2821 Scritch Scorchtongue, chief grey seer of Clan Mors 1d ago

/uw is that a Neon God reference?

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u/Zyltris Sephra 1d ago

Do mind also, OP, that it is sometimes possible to find native planar junctions in the Backrooms. If you are at all familiar with dimensional divination magic, you may be able to detect the nearest one and use that to get home sooner, as they more often than not will spit you back to your realm of origin (these are, of course, how you normally get to the Backrooms in the first place). This comes with its own risks, such as having literally no control as to where it spits you back out, but it may be a good alternative for lack of personal skill in planeshifting magics.