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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:24 pm
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Larial Istari Yeah, he sounds fun. I accidentally created a sort of...I don't know what to call it. Some sort of servitor, maybe. Called Asmael (it sounded right. I don't know if it has significance), and it resulted in several very freaked out nights, as I had made him into a terror, specifically designed to make me afraid. (No eyes, needle claws and teeth, spooky voice. In short, the works.) He gradually got more and more of an independent personality until I had to have a sit-down, where I asserted that he was mine (or connected to me), and therefore I had no more reason to fear him than I had to fear myself. I sort of...took the fear-causing out of him, and left the rest in an imaginary box in the back of my head. (I'm very skeptical about how much of this actually happened. I'm nearly certain the servitor existed, but I don't know if I completely destroyed him, or if something else happened, because the 'blueprint' is still in my head, and it turns up on occasion.) Gah, I feel like a loony. What's the Hollow Hill? Sounds fey-ish, is it a group of some kind?
That's very interesting. That is like when I created (or someone created) this orb that eventually transformed into a wolf that watched over my friends and I. After a while Allera left us.
The Hollow Hill is a certain tradition of Traditional Witchcraft. You can look it up here.
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:37 pm
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Larial Istari Yeah, he sounds fun. I accidentally created a sort of...I don't know what to call it. Some sort of servitor, maybe. Called Asmael (it sounded right. I don't know if it has significance), and it resulted in several very freaked out nights, as I had made him into a terror, specifically designed to make me afraid. (No eyes, needle claws and teeth, spooky voice. In short, the works.) He gradually got more and more of an independent personality until I had to have a sit-down, where I asserted that he was mine (or connected to me), and therefore I had no more reason to fear him than I had to fear myself. I sort of...took the fear-causing out of him, and left the rest in an imaginary box in the back of my head. (I'm very skeptical about how much of this actually happened. I'm nearly certain the servitor existed, but I don't know if I completely destroyed him, or if something else happened, because the 'blueprint' is still in my head, and it turns up on occasion.) Gah, I feel like a loony. What's the Hollow Hill? Sounds fey-ish, is it a group of some kind?
Strangely, I've been wanting to make a servitor that instills fear in everyone who it interacts with, self included, for quite a while.
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:41 pm
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Mitsh Larial Istari Yeah, he sounds fun. I accidentally created a sort of...I don't know what to call it. Some sort of servitor, maybe. Called Asmael (it sounded right. I don't know if it has significance), and it resulted in several very freaked out nights, as I had made him into a terror, specifically designed to make me afraid. (No eyes, needle claws and teeth, spooky voice. In short, the works.) He gradually got more and more of an independent personality until I had to have a sit-down, where I asserted that he was mine (or connected to me), and therefore I had no more reason to fear him than I had to fear myself. I sort of...took the fear-causing out of him, and left the rest in an imaginary box in the back of my head. (I'm very skeptical about how much of this actually happened. I'm nearly certain the servitor existed, but I don't know if I completely destroyed him, or if something else happened, because the 'blueprint' is still in my head, and it turns up on occasion.) Gah, I feel like a loony. What's the Hollow Hill? Sounds fey-ish, is it a group of some kind? Strangely, I've been wanting to make a servitor that instills fear in everyone who it interacts with, self included, for quite a while.
Speaking of servitors, in creating one (though I call them fetches) one must give it a time limit of sorts which is normally a multiple of seven. The reason for this is that after it is done with its initial task it would come back to you asking for more tasks and eventually become a psychic parasite.
If one were to create a servitor for say...companionship, what would that be like. I'm not lonely but it is nice to have a little friend to talk to and send to see how people are doing and such. Would this burn you out eventually?
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:43 am
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Angus of the Crooked Way Mitsh Larial Istari Yeah, he sounds fun. I accidentally created a sort of...I don't know what to call it. Some sort of servitor, maybe. Called Asmael (it sounded right. I don't know if it has significance), and it resulted in several very freaked out nights, as I had made him into a terror, specifically designed to make me afraid. (No eyes, needle claws and teeth, spooky voice. In short, the works.) He gradually got more and more of an independent personality until I had to have a sit-down, where I asserted that he was mine (or connected to me), and therefore I had no more reason to fear him than I had to fear myself. I sort of...took the fear-causing out of him, and left the rest in an imaginary box in the back of my head. (I'm very skeptical about how much of this actually happened. I'm nearly certain the servitor existed, but I don't know if I completely destroyed him, or if something else happened, because the 'blueprint' is still in my head, and it turns up on occasion.) Gah, I feel like a loony. What's the Hollow Hill? Sounds fey-ish, is it a group of some kind? Strangely, I've been wanting to make a servitor that instills fear in everyone who it interacts with, self included, for quite a while. Speaking of servitors, in creating one (though I call them fetches) one must give it a time limit of sorts which is normally a multiple of seven. The reason for this is that after it is done with its initial task it would come back to you asking for more tasks and eventually become a psychic parasite. If one were to create a servitor for say...companionship, what would that be like. I'm not lonely but it is nice to have a little friend to talk to and send to see how people are doing and such. Would this burn you out eventually?
A limit on lifespan wouldn't necessarily be appropriate for all servitors: for example, I designed one for finding occult objects I'd like and to look for specific things for me, and tasked it to "browse" the city every week for new ones. Having to remake that servitor would be piss-annoying.
It depends on what your conception of the servitor's powersource is - some consider it autonomous, that it uses the energy you gave it upon first creation. Others thing it always feeds from you regardless.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:08 am
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:53 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:12 pm
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Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:37 am
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Sadly enough, what started my interest was, believe it not, the children's shows on PBS. Specifically, Wishbone, that little terrier dog who used to summarize literary classics in such a way that children could understand them. They did a version of Rip Van Winkle that caused me to be utterly fascinated with ghosts and the like. After that, it was all the library's fault. I read so many books based on myths, magick and paranormal activity that I (rather naively) considered myself an expert for a while.
Of course, once I actually looked at more serious books with historical basis and far more formal writing, I realized how off the mark most of my old children's books were and moved on to bigger and better things. I lost interest for a while in occult happenings as life-drama began to eat away at my spare time (friends falling into depression, secondary schooling looming in my future, family problems, etc). But now that I'm older, have the time and the means to do more research, I'm jumping back in again. Yay self-education. ^_^
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:10 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:11 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:45 am
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