diff --git a/instorm.otl b/instorm.otl index e298e00..9dd0a5f 100644 --- a/instorm.otl +++ b/instorm.otl @@ -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. Chapter Ideas