Crowdsourcing a Detail

[Bob Schroeck]

All interesting and intriguing suggestions. "Cruncher" sadly might conflict with Doug's perjorative "crunchy", though.

You know, if it didn't already have pre-existing applications in the setting, http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wizard.html]"wizard" would come right from the hacker tradition and be perfect.

Just for fun, more pre-existing terms:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/black-art.html]Black art
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/black-magic.html]Black magic
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/deep-magic.html]Deep magic
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/heavy-wizardry.html]Heavy wizardry
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/house-wizard.html]House wizard
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/incantation.html]Incantation
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic.html]Magic
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/V/voodo ... mming.html]Voodoo programming
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wizard-hat.html]Wizard hat
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wizard-mode.html]Wizard mode
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wizardly.html]Wizardly

Of course, real fun comes when the magic hacking and computer hacking traditions overlap and share terms...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.