Alfonzo Guerrero

Mexican American Ceremonial Magician amateur, seldom encouraged except by Lizzie. Alfonzo believes in spirits. Though superstitious, he wouldn't exactly call himself religious. Unless he was in the presence of his Tia Isabel. His favorite class is chemistry. He enjoys mathematics for its beauty, but only as a means of explaining the fundamentals of the intricacies in the physics of chemistry. His role model is Gene Morales, an avid reader of Ray Bradbury and Douglas Adams. Mr. Morales hated Lewis Carroll and Ayn Rand but for different reasons. Nobody ever knew that Mr. Morales sometimes read Oscar Wilde.

Alfonzo Guerrero tried to run away from home when he was in fifth grade. He had friends, but they were always too entrenched in card collecting and playing out their favorite comic book characters. They would violate trademark and copyright laws at least once a minute. They could make superheroes do the most ridiculous things with their imaginations. Alfonzo was spotted by his Tia Isabel on her way to Wednesday night church and made him get into her car. She took him with her to church. He got hot in the pews beneath the incandescent lights at the front of the chapel and checked out peoples feet and hairstyles. He ignored the Pastor and his sermon, instead flipping through Genesis, back to Revelation and finally stopping on a passage of Solomon the king.

Alfonso was obsessed. He read legends and lore about magical rings and enchanted worms that could cleave rock at a touch. He was interested that the Greater Key possessed the power to command elemental spirits, giants, to a lesser extent faeries, and of course celestial beings. The lesser key read more like a reference manual for mimicking the causative frequency of space-time. It described the actual happenings of objects and experiences. It read cold though, ambiguous. Corrected, changed and in some instances "improved upon", the facts stare back at the reader through a gap infinitely wide. That of course is measured exactly. It would need to be to bind an angel, demon (formerly known as angel), imp, ancestral spirit, elemental or visitor from another plane. The book had a few lamb hide pages done in blue ink. Alfonzo wasn't an FBI handwriting forensic special agent, but he could discern that the last six plates were penned with a ball point forty-nine cent pen.

These entries contained side notes and recommendations of local restaurants, breweries and of course Gentelmen's clubs. Striphouses.

The new voice focuses on the symmetry and elegance of the plates featured. Complex timing, ingredients, measured amounts of these ingredients (in metric) direction of the closest city, two days walk south to Rayew. They prepare for adventure and one of the farmer's sons wants to go with them. Alel says that it would be too dangerous and besides, he would only be getting in the way. The boy is 9 years old. He has the nickname "Spitz" though his birthname was Legdweg.

Alel and Spitz have adventures on the way to and in the walls of Rayew. Strange artists and street performers flood the streets as though it were Mardi Gras. Some kind of springtime festival is being celebrated by the people. Spitz steals some things from vendors. He is called "Spitz" because he would always spit out his gruel when he was a young toddler. He was, at nine years old, malnourished and spindly not from lack of food, but a lack of interest in eating. Spitz would plow his mother's wheat fields and discover crystals and old pieces of metal with fastiners and markings, none of which he could read. He collected them.

In their travels the become ambushed by wild faeries with little spears and halberds made of twigs and wolf teeth. Alel and Spitz may choose to taunt the faeries or try to find out what they are seeking. If they taunt them, it is a mistake. The fairies dance around the two poking and slashing the two on their upheld arms and haunches. Spitz manages to slap one down. Alel and Spitz slap a few of them into trees and the sky but realize that they can't take all of them. They move to a better position, and the reader can decide whether to remain and fight or run away.

If they remain and fight, Spitz is a slippery opportunist fighter and Alel becomes aware of some of his inherent supernatural strength and affinity for fire. He can breathe fire or become super strong and fast depending on the reader's choice.

The new voice focuses on the symmetry and elegance of the plates featured. Complex timing, ingredients, measured amounts of these ingredients (in metric)

More on Alfie G. : He had a friend in junior high named Tran Loc Duong who possessed a grimorie that was all in German except for the Hebrew in the seals and some notes in the back of the book. Some entries from someone named Zamphyr. They are written in English, but coded in some kind of shorthand. Alfonzo enlists the aid of some hackers at the school to decode an incantation. He had to wait until a Mayday or Halloween to perform the ritual effectively. After a bad breakup in his junior year he gets an opportunity to try to change things. One of the entries explains how to summon Komotel for sixty heartbeats. Something goes horribly wrong within that time and Alfonzo and Komotel blink out of existence.

Through the void, Komotel and Alfonzo merge into one being. They reappear in another world, Kay Seif. They appear in a blinding fury and are soon surrounded by villagers looking over him. He introduces himself as “Alel” shit himself and passes out.

He awakens a few hours later in the care of an apothecary. She cannot find anything wrong with Alel, but notices that he has stretch marks all over his body. Alfonzo feels bigger and stronger than before, Komotel realizes two things. One is that he is in a plane of existence where he is not imprisoned, but also that he is just a voice inside Alfozo’s head.

The villagers help by giving some rations and walking sticks. They advise Alel to go south for a two day walk to the City of Rayew. If anyone knew anything about how they came to be in the realm of Kay Seif, they would surely be known in the city of Rayew. Being situated on the rolling plains, Rayew is a mecca for astronomers, wizards and venture capitalists.

(12:01:05 AM) kevin: Alel is going to have fun in Kay Seif. When Lizzie and Alfonzo find a way to communicate, (12:01:22 AM) kevin: Komotel is not going to want to go back to that reality. (12:01:37 AM) kevin: Because if separated, he could be free there. (12:03:18 AM) kevin: Alfonzo would be able to return home, but he may or may not be able to retain any of his magical powers or Alel's defenses. (12:04:13 AM) kevin: Plus, the both of them will have made a few powerful enemies by that time. (12:07:55 AM) kevin: The Legend of Cornsnake is known by a cave painting on Catalina Island. There were also several amulets made of seashells to look like eyes in an excavated midden.