Editing Skeptic (section)

==Particulars==
As said the fundamentals of a Practitioners world crumble in the presence of a skeptic. [[Karma]], [[Magic]] and [[Other]]s will all be affected by their presence. With a good imagination a skeptic can explain away certain events self-edit things and make reality stronger. Any anti-innocent wards are ineffective against them.<ref>“The way this is supposed to work,” he murmured, “is that Innocents are too unnerved to remark on the odd things they find.  Especially with some of these types of ward.”<br><br>“It doesn’t matter when it’s her.  It doesn’t matter that phones aren’t working across Kennet.  She called the police.  They were the cop cars we heard earlier.”<br><br>“They’re only now getting here.”<br><br>“Because time’s broken in Kennet,” Verona said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref><ref>Meaning she couldn’t stop it from littering her clothing, or falling onto the car.<br><br>A [[ward]] inside the car glowed faintly, pushing the paper away.  But again, there were bystanders.  The men on the sidewalk.  It couldn’t be too overt.  It couldn’t defy reality or expectations.<br><br>In a way, it was like the skeptic effect that had followed Sharon around, when the Aware had come.<br>[...]<br>The Hennigar ignored the cops, following after Lucy, but the same environment-claiming effect he’d been using didn’t work on an area as wide-open as the road.  Lucy avoided going into the hedges, and when he walked forward a few feet, she crossed maybe ten or twelve feet on all fours, before looking back.<br>[...]<br>The same All-Innocents-are-a-bit-skeptic level of stuff applied.  Even mid-rage, the Hennigar seemed to know enough to hold back, or the practice forced him to, getting weaker. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/02/26 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.y]]</ref>

Scrying will not work on skeptics and can be used to shield someone for such attention, this would not destroy the trail however.<ref>
:Wye: ''No. It bothers me I can’t. I started to look for other things. Financial connections, colleagues, people who I know he knows who might have hidden him. I talked to the three skeptics at Sargent Hall, thinking he might be in their company.''<br>
:Chase: ''That wouldn’t explain the lack of a trail between here and there.'' - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/19 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.4]]</ref>

[[Host]]s and [[Vessel]]s can have their protections damaged by being in range of skeptics.<ref>“You couldn’t get close?” Verona asked. “Did the skeptic mess with your hosting stuff?”<br><br>Edith’s lips pressed together into a tight line.<br><br>Out of the sight of the two in the car, Lucy touched Verona’s wrist, squeezing lightly, while keeping her eyes forward.<br><br>“I hope you’re okay,” Lucy said.<br><br>“We should be, given time,” Edith answered. “We’re a bit shaken. We thought we would overpower them with a show of force, and eat the karma.”<br><br>Lucy winced.<br><br>Edith picked up her hand, and Lucy could see that the sleeve of her jacket was burned, and the flesh beneath had blisters. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/03 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.1]]</ref>

They may have some issues getting into or interacting with the various [[Realm]]s.<ref>“Sharon Griggs is out there,” the Cat said. “She can’t seem to help deal with Daniel unless she comes in here… which I don’t think she can do, because she can’t ''see'' here, or if we get Daniel out there.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/17 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.c]]</ref> Though their power can negatively effect most others those that are still visceral can still hurt them.

Effects of Skeptics can overlap though this is seemingly uncommon,<ref>[Bristow] doesn’t send more than one [skeptic] out at a time, as a minimum of one is required to keep [[Sargent Hall|the complex]] in balance, and the effects don’t tend to overlap. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/17 4.8 Bonus Material: Dossiers]</ref> possibly related to the background and views of a skeptic; how they deal with anything supernatural.

Their protections even work with "dumb" [[Others]] due to the instincts such creatures posses.<ref>“On the other hand, if they ''are'' bound by the Seal, that binding will usually bear provisions about how they may interact with humans.  Unbound, they have difficulty approaching and instinctively sense the karmic danger of breaching order.  Even the dumbest ogre may recognize that mankind is bright and mighty and interconnected, and hunt elsewhere.  Bound, they are restricted from hurting man, and still pay some karmic penalty, ''if'' they get caught, not simply for approaching or risking that capture.  And man thrives, the innocent protected on both fronts.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/27 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.1]]</ref>

Part of the [[pattern]] of their awareness is that they are drawn to practice only to discount and remove it, when this happens to [[Warding|Wards]] things can go wrong very quickly.<ref>''Skeptics are ignorant and ignorance is dangerous.  Practice struggles to find traction on a Skeptic, and Others suffer a heavy cost to their karma and Selves simply for stepping into the light when the Skeptic is present, even though the Skeptic is often so insulated that the appearance of a god in its full bearing could be dismissed one way or another.  Conversely, when the bubble is popped (again, if it can be), the cost is usually dramatically heavier than usual.  The biggest Skeptics are often dangerous due to their propensity to dampen practice in an area around them and their simultaneous draw to practice; they have a habit of unwinding or bypassing protective wards that are keeping troubling Others locked up, or walking blithely through barriers meant to keep civilians out of a sensitive or dangerous area, often bulldozing the way for other Innocents to pass through.'' - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/17 4.8 Bonus Material: Dossiers]</ref>