Connie brightens at the chance to explain her process. It was rare that an adult was willing to let her ramble on about whatever she was finding interesting at the time, let alone invited her to do so. "Well, all of the magical energy I'm channeling comes from," she opens up a panel on the gauntlet, "these crystals. With the right setup, like the one I have here, you can draw the energy out of them and into a raw, unrefined form with a fairly simple trigger.

"Then," Connie gestures towards the complex mess of wires and runes surrounding the crystal, "using a series of runic circuits, you refine the magic into the form you need for whatever you're trying to achieve. The rest just comes down to tweaking those aspects. Different crystals provide different variations of the basic energy, so you want different kinds for different situations.

"There are a bunch of circuit structures and runes, too, which is where the majority of the work takes place. You need to fine-tune them exactly to the specifications for the effect you're trying to create, or else things will be inefficient, not go as expected, or just blow up in your face. Although you get a bunch of the knowledge of individual circuits, crystals, and runes, it takes experimentation to know how to use them together properly."