instorm demons

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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Poor Ed is Dead
 	: But I knew her too well.
 	: I say she drove him to suicide
 	: and took Poor Edward to Hell.
-I knew her too well
+*I* knew her too well
 	: This story isn't about Edward. It isn't entirely about 
 	: her, either. It is about me and how I knew her so well.
 	: And what I know now.
@@ -38,9 +38,87 @@ I knew her too well
 	Whose head was it anyway?
 		: Would she agree that she was on the back of Edward's head or was he on
 		: the back of hers? 
-I knew her to well
+I knew *her* to well
 	: Did she speak to me too? What did she say to me? Were these also words
 	: heard only in hell? Where am I from?
+Second Summoning Notes
+	: Second summoning is a short story, perhaps a chapter, in which I summon
+	: my second demon. I'm composing it longhand with a hero pen in a black
+	: clairfontaine notebook. Here are some notes I put down in the monthly
+	: bullet journal:
+	Maybe start the story already swapped.
+		: so that my physical descriptions conflict with the pronoun usage for
+		: extra entertainment.
+		ah-A! is in my "male" body while I'm in her "female" body
+	The demon's true name is ah-A!
+		but when I'm in its body I use a chosen name
+		what is the my main character's undead name?
+	"You're doing it wrong!"
+		Not looking in/out but in adjusting the flame before the sacrifice 
+	Sacrifice and the laws of infernal dynamics
+		: to summon a demon, or at least to bind it in the material plane of
+		: existence, terrestrial matter and/or energy must be swapped
+		: with the infernal. Something has to leave this universe in order for
+		: something to enter. Fire is popular in rituals because it
+		: effectively camoflages the swap. Hmm this seemed do clever before.
+		:
+		: Well I was also saying the physical elements are typically swapped
+		: for analogous infernal matter. So the materials you sacrifice will
+		: lend some qualities to the demonic tissues you summon. 
+		:
+	Demonic need is a void
+		: A demon's need is a moral void that leaks out of the
+		: universe and cannot be plugged until or unless the demon is
+		: banished. Just as a physical sacrifice is necessary to bring
+		: something material across the divide a regular moral sacrifice is
+		: necessary to maintain the demon's unsoul here in the material realm.
+		:
+		: In the second or third EG book by OSC may he burn, people were
+		: genetically selected to pass on OCD as a trait. When it manifest,
+		: the god botherers or whatever were tormented in a fashion where they
+		: could not get themselves clean and had to invent a ritual which
+		: would absolve them of their OCD anxiety. (I have no idea how
+		: accurate OSC's depiction of OCD was and I'm not planning to find
+		: out). In this story however, binding a demon cuts it off from its
+		: infernal realm and forces it to invent a material moral analog; an
+		: earthly proxy which can more or less sustain it as long as it exists
+		: on the plane. The need does not exist in the place they come from.
+		: It only arises upon arrival and during the binding process. 
+		:
+		: A sorcerer perhaps can try to influence some aspect of the need by
+		: controlling the environment where the binding ritual is performed.
+		: However results are notoriously unpredictable. 
+		Binding bloopers
+			: A scholarly archivist(cover) sorcerer once performed a binding
+			: ritual in a vast public library hoping that the demon would
+			: develop a need to read, or critique literature or something.
+			: This the scholar thought would be easy enough for her to supply. 
+			: However the demon could have just as easily manifest a need to
+			: burn books, or to perform depraved re-enactments found in some
+			: prurient pulp in the fiction section. As it happened, the
+			: sorcerer's sister had brought her toddler to visit the archives
+			: just two days ago. During the visit the sorcerer's nephew had
+			: gotten lost in the stacks and the brief but searing panic felt
+			: by both sisters came back to her mind during the binding. As a
+			: result the demon revealed it had a need to cause parents to lose
+			: track of their offspring on a semi-regular basis. 
+			:
+			: The demon was powerful and well suited to the task for which she
+			: had summoned it but the sorcerer soon had to banish it due to
+			: this tedious and disruptive need.
+			:
+		Adepts
+			: Adept sorcerers do not deceive themselves into thinking they can
+			: successfully order up a convenient demonic need, instead they
+			: practice austere restraint and mental detachment during binding
+			: rituals in an attempt to reduce the chaos inherent in the
+			: process. The object is to quell ones own fears and conceal or
+			: disperse all emotional baggage to prevent the demon from
+			: fixating on something that will cause the sorcerer excessive
+			: distress. Whether this is more effective than any other matter
+			: has not been systematically reviewed.
+		
+	
 Outline
 	: I have no idea how writers write outlines for their stories.
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