Transformation Of A Symbol Into A Net By A Curse, And The Human Test That Followed

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This is a symbol of mine which causes energy to stop flowing, and it works very well on curses but hasn't been tested on humans in this form. This is the symbol that was turned into a net by a curse after it observed me using the symbol on curses.

The Discovering And Handling Of The Net

On March 20th 2026, or the day before, I noticed a net that covered every wall in my room. At first I knew nothing of what it did, but since I wasn't the one who put it there I knew it had to be bad. It took me a little bit to actually get to dealing with it, but when I did I realized just how weak I'd gotten.

Over the course of the last month I had gotten weaker and weaker. I have had times where my output is low or my control is worse, but they usually get better on their own in the course of a few days. This didn't, and it seemed strange to me, but because I couldn't sense anything wrong I just assumed I needed to train more or something.

I was a metaphorical frog in a pot, but like a real frog I did eventually notice. What was happening was the curse was slowly building the net up over the course of that month or so, which meant there was no sudden shift in the energy around or in me to alert me of the problem.

Because of my weakness, I had to use an ability of mine that I've learned about recently. I naturally absorb the excess energy around me (from plants, people, animals, anything that produces any excess energy), and I can increase the area I absorb from at will.

The net was made of thick black lines with sharp bends, and the termination of each line had a pointy tip that faced the left side. There were also holes in this net, even on the densest parts, so I created a tube and a sponge of sorts and pushed it through.

The sponge collected excess energy from a vast area outside, then I could squeeze it into the tube and pull it in and absorb it. The amount I got was enough to give me the strength needed to start pulling the net apart.

I tried cutting it, but I still wasn't strong enough, so instead I used a remote limb to start pulling on the net as hard as I could. I created a portal so I had a place to put it, and it took a lot of effort, but as it started to come apart its effects weakened, which gave me more strength.

I then grabbed into a more central part of the net, and I was starting to pull it off the wall. I wasn't making enough progress, so I used my excitement and increased energy flow to cut through it on the opposite wall. This helped, and the further excitement from cutting it with such ease let me cut some more which helped a lot.

I fairly quickly had the most of it in the portal, but strangely the last little bit stuck to the wall very well. I created more remote limbs and pulled even harder, and managed to get it off the wall. It still wouldn't go all the way in, so I made more remote limbs and started pushing and pulling it all in.

It was difficult, but I did manage, and that portal was turned into a ball which still sits on my desk. It has remained in decent condition, though it has deteriorated over the course of a few days.

Recovery, A Chat With My Mother, And The Capture Of The Curse

The morning after all of that, I immediately went and talked to my mother about it. She thought something was up because she'd in the past few days gotten very down and felt like she couldn't do anything. I had felt somewhat similar, but I hadn't really noticed until she said something.

We discussed possible causes and influences, mainly things she'd gone through in the last month since the dates seemed to line up. I figured it was more likely caused by something I had done since the net appeared to be most concentrated in my room, but I of course wanted to know all of the possibilities as I hadn't yet found a definitive source.

I decided a very good thing to do at that moment was exchange the energy inside the house with energy from outside. Usually, stale energy isn't super impactful, and it doesn't get that stale anyway, but with us both having dealt with that net for a month, it ended up mattering a lot.

I decided to do it in layers since we have two fairly even levels. I went through every room, put out a little energy and a rough barrier of sorts, and then pulled everything out of the house at once. The net was still in place (though degraded) throughout the rest of the house, so this ended up being pretty difficult, but I did manage.

I then used the sponge technique again, but this time I put all of the energy into a ball so it could be slowly released into the house. I put it under the light above the dining table, and set it to slowly release over the next few minutes or so. My mom said she felt significantly better a bit later.

I then went to the basement, which is a little weirdly laid out so it was a bit more annoying, but not too terribly bad. The long storage room gave me the most trouble, and it happened to have a curse. It moved a lot and was annoying to catch while still trying to keep hold of the rest of the energy, but when I did catch it, it was easily put into a ball which I then carried with me.

When I got into the room which handles all of our water, I found a curse that matched the rough description my partner gave me a bit ago. It was weak and small, but good at hiding and avoided me specifically. When they told me about it, I figured it wouldn't be a problem and just ignored it for now because I thought a weak curse couldn't affect me in any way.

Turned out it was using its ability to hide well, and it's location, to watch me and study what I was doing, because it was the curse who put up the net. Once it was captured, the net started degrading faster.

Both of the curses were left as balls on my desk for a while because I didn't feel like dealing with them at the time. I also removed the energy from the basement and put a ball on the fireplace, and it went the same as it did up stairs.

After all of this, to deal with the net, I just kept cutting it up and letting it degrade more and more. This was enough, which was nice 'cause I didn't wanna mess around with it.

The Human Test

I asked my partner after it happened if they wanted to let me test it on them, and they said yes. They were even excited about it, which made me feel better about it since it didn't feel great on me when the curse did it.

We forgot about it until the drive back to their house, but I'm good enough with magic at this point that I can do a little while driving, so I did. We talked a little first to make sure they wanted to, and that they knew what to do in case it worked too well.

I ended up making a button that was set to "disengage the next used technique" and I put it on their hand so that if they were unable to talk or alert me, they could move their hand and keep theirself safe.

Now that everything had been prepared, I put my hand on their leg and pushed the net out. It took a bit of effort, and a little time, but I got it to completely cover them and seal, though it still had the same gaps as the one that was in my room.

When I figured out what the net was and what the curse had done, I knew it'd be easy for me to recreate it since the symbol was mine to begin with, and a net isn't a crazy transformation, and I had first hand experience with the net being used.

Anyway, I had them write a bit of a report for me so the results could be better shared with everybody. Here it is:

Me and my boyfriend got into the car to drive me home and remembered we forgot to test something on me, so we did while he drove. He wanted to try wrapping a symbol of his around me like a net that he saw another curse do around his house.

He gave me a button in the palm of my hand to disengage the net if anything were to go wrong. Then he put the net around me and after a moment I started to feel a bit nauseous, but this could have been car sickness. I then could feel my body start to fight back in a way and a got a bit tired.

He suggested that I should try to conjure something, so I decided to make my dagger. I made it and it didn’t feel too different, though it felt denser and a more precise shape. I then tried a flame in my hand and when I did it felt easier than usual in a way, but it made my hand feel very odd and tingly in my finger tips. We decided to let the net stay for awhile to see its affects. I focused to see if I could feel any changes, and I noticed every five or so minutes I would get more aware of my surroundings and I felt more awake, then I would get quite tired again and it felt harder to form thoughts and words.

When we got closer to my house I tried to make a dagger again. It felt a bit harder and it took longer for me to make it, and it felt very loose in shape and length. I then tried a flame again and it was much harder this time and I couldn’t make it nearly as big, and I didn’t have that odd feeling, but the middle of my palm was tingly. I decided to press the button now to see any after affects, and as soon as I pressed the button I felt my body relax. Sort of like if you set something heavy down or calming down from something you were worried about.

After I got home it took about an hour for my energy to feel back to normal, and it took until the next morning to feel completely better, and all of this was from the net only being on for about twenty-five minutes.

To give proper context, this was at the end of the day, and it was a lot darker in the car than it was in my room. We also both tend to get less wordy and more tired on the drive back. The time we were more energetic and were more wordy before the test due to having worked on a fun project, and because we were very excited about the testing.

On the five minute cycle part, this to me was their body trying to compensate for the sudden loss of usable energy due to the flow being stopped for a lot of it, but overcompensating and then not being able to do as much for a bit, but as the energy built back up a bit it became able to do what it was again so it did. Repeating this cycle but with decreasing energy as the effects of the net continued.

I also noticed a surge in excess energy when I put the net on them, and I believe it was caused by overcompensation on their body's end. At that moment I thought it could have been acting more as an antenna, but as the test continued I saw that it was acting fully as my symbol.

The fire and dagger show a clear decrease in control and flow of energy. The tingling I have no idea about, but it's interesting as well. It's possible it was due to their increased awareness of all of the magic, but I don't know.

Their feeling of relaxation and relief aligns with what was felt by my mother when I was handling the net at home. It makes a lot of sense if their body was fighting hard to keep energy flowing, and then suddenly it was flowing freely again.

All of this had me so extremely excited I could barely handle it for multiple days after. I was ecstatic at multiple points. This was a mix between seeing such fantastic results from the test, and taking such a large step towards proper physical magic, my end goal.

Every step closer is exciting, but something working so well on a person is a major step. Before this, the furthest I had gotten was handling curses inside of people, which isn't direct or that different from what I had already been doing with curses.

I'm not really sure how to end this, but I hope you enjoyed reading. I am happy to answer any questions you have, and you can reach me through the comments here, through the Discord server, or by email (Contact). Any added information will be put below here, as well as any links to future posts which are particularly important (that I remember to add).