Editing List of Books (section)

==Lost and Bound: Bogeymen ==
A book in the [[Hillsglade House]] library. A catalogue of [[Bogeymen]] for sending after your enemies, by the same author as ''Plumbing Darkest Depths.'' Contains some basics of [[binding]] them in case you screw up, but not a full guide; the assumption is that you will buy the author's other work if you care about anything more than a quick source of minions.<ref>The second book was a catalogue of bogeymen.  Rose’s research for 
summoning the ‘help’.  A quick perusal suggested there was very little in the way of vital information.  A practitioner who focused on things 
that had fallen between the cracks was known to the practitioner community as a ‘scourge’, and it seemed like Rose was leaning that way. Just by the language of the text, the assumption seemed to be that the people who were reading the book were very angry types with revenge or hostility in mind.<br><br>I could only assume that those did like Green Eyes had suggested and went down to the places between the cracks to collect fallen things for use were to scourges what grandmother Rose was to the diabolist community.  The scary ones you didn’t want to tick off, who knew their stuff and were very good at doing what they did without getting killed.<br><br>The book had no explanations about what types of bogeymen there were or how they could sustain themselves.  It was a text for people looking for quick answers, types who wanted to hurt a rival or answer an insult, often in the bloodiest, most horrible ways.<br><br>The last chapter, however, did have some information I could use.<br><br>Binding a bogeyman typically involved using some form of the natural elements, and things with ''permanence''.  In the former case, it depended based on the type of bogeyman and the place beyond the cracks in reality that they had come from.  Some were particularly vulnerable to running water, others struggled to move solid objects and could easily be trapped or stopped by a simple closed door.  Yet others didn’t like fire.<br><br>Moat, box, or burning circle could serve, depending on the type.<br><br>The other option was old items that had a history and durability to them, antiques. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/09 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.2]]</ref><ref name=":10">The final chapter was, as far as I could tell, the ‘I fucked up, how do I run damage control?’ for novice scourges.  Troubleshooting and understanding where things could go wrong.  It said a lot that it was the ''last'' chapter, as if the assumption on the part of the guy who put the catalogue together was that the scourges would prioritize summoning first and fixing problems later.<br><br>Diabolists, priests, and now scourges, as sorts who were their own worst enemies, setting themselves up for failure.<br><br>The book followed a trend I’d noticed, where authors really liked referencing their other texts.  I imagined it was a way of selling more books to what was no doubt a niche market.  Couldn’t fully understand the contents of ‘Lost and Bound: Bogeymen’ without ‘Plumbing Darkest Depths’ first.<br><br>Those who’d buy just the catalogue without getting the work that presumably introduced concepts was probably reckless to begin with. The ideas raised in the last chapter seemed to be intent on answering that sort of recklessness.<br><br>''Bogeyman came with a container, practitioner broke the container?''  Approaches to binding rituals.<br><br>''Sent bogeyman to go murder someone in the most horrible ways possible, but they were blocked, and came back to me, what does the practitioner do?''  Do the same thing, and hope they aren’t equipped to bounce it back for the third total time, because it would be far stronger on the third trip. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/09 excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.2]]</ref>