Editing Bugge (section)

== Variants ==
=== Buggane ===
More "advanced" and powerful Bugges, typically centered around a narrative of impending doom, building up power and then acting decisively.<ref name=bestiary3">'''Buggane''' - Advanced Bugge, the Buggane tend to build around a narrative, such as impending doom or grim prophecy. It can represent an impending winter or disaster.  May serve a role as punishers, stand in contrast to Bugge as being very strong, even brutish.  Everything builds up to a conclusion where they act. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nJ6fmch0SH6DMo3dDr2fOd1HK2zILjsvwlBYxk5tDPM/edit#heading=h.tqdoyne9f4k7 Bestiary: Bugge]</ref><ref name=Baz>“For your talents.  As a scrivener, you work with fancies, mimeisthais, bugges, buggane, and a variety of Others who confound and poison ''information''.”<br>[...]<br>If a ''Bugge'' was a bug in the system, in addition to its middle-English meaning, a glyph or little piece of story reinforced by a chorus of voices independently reinforcing it, then a ''Buggane'' was the advanced type.  Buggane latched onto independently reinforced stories, conspiracies, and warnings, and they came out bigger and fiercer, with more of an agenda, and very often a mounting deadline.<br><br>When a Bugge got strong, it could rewrite and capture an entire area.  A slice of city or a town that was painted in slightly ''off'' colors, where the sunsets lingered too long, or where it rained incessantly.  Reality warped, innocents warped with it, it had more of those innocents to spread the story of the Bugge, and the loop continued until broken.  Most Bugge were often dumb, distractable, or self-defeating, and the one in a thousand that wasn’t was a problem for someone like Basil or his family to deal with.  Or for Hugh Legendre, the sealer, who would do a worse job but probably manage something in the end.<br><br>When a ''Buggane'' got strong, it could create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which in turn validated everyone involved and brought others on board, and often led straight into a subsequent prophecy and a second impending doom.  They weren’t distractable or stupid.  They were focused and fierce. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref>

=== Boggart ===
Bugges born of the fears of a specific individual and focused on them. May start out somewhat positive and sour over time.<ref name="boggart">'''Boggarts -''' Etymologically derived from the same ideas, Boggarts stem from very intense feelings and fears and are strictly focal, particularly those most innocent, such as the demented elderly and small children.  May be initially mischievous and then turn sour.  Bogles, related, tend to be more abstract and mischievous. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nJ6fmch0SH6DMo3dDr2fOd1HK2zILjsvwlBYxk5tDPM/edit#heading=h.tqdoyne9f4k7 Bestiary: Bugge]</ref>
===Bogle===
Similar to a Boggart, but more abstract and purely mischievous.<ref name="boggart"/>
===Fancy===
Bugges from before the western implementation of the printing press.<ref name="ccbeck"/>
===Mimeisthai===
A practice-relevant meme. An accidental [[ritual]]  that concentrates all power and creates the supporting architecture to create something.<ref name=":0">What is it?” Lauren asked.  She looked at the Alabaster.<br><br>“I’m not at liberty to say.”<br><br>“You look for the usual signifiers,” Reid said, his voice hoarse, his breath rasping.  “Monocolored like the Alabaster, Sable, and Aurum, unflinching demeanor… often incarnate, judge, something close to the fundamental workings of the universe.”<br><br>“He’s flesh colored.  But I don’t think that counts.”<br><br>“It doesn’t,” Reid said.  “But those are the standbys you look for.  Decay and death for the undead, usually hardened and locked in.  Spirits don’t seem to mesh with the environment around them, colors and shading don’t work.  Goblins are… goblins.  Fae are Fae.  Gets more complicated when you get to the goblin and Fae adjacent.  Brownies and such.”<br><br>Reid went on.  “Abyssal is easy to spot, there’s a staining, a darkness around the edges.  That staining sets in deep, can look like watercolor.”<br><br>Lauren laughed softly, before wincing.<br><br>Reid looked down at his hand.  Shoulders drew inward.  He’d forgotten in the moment.<br><br>The speculation between the two had halted.  Breastbiter, braced between the wall and the gnashing face, pulled a load of intestines and school supplies out of Faceful’s nostril.<br><br>Lauren picked things up again, “He’s not locked to one place.  He can appear and disappear.  My education was limited.  One-note, but the nonsensical part of it, he’s silly, dream-like.  Lost?  Or Anima something?”<br><br>“You might be thinking of Anima Hysteria or something like that.  But Mimeisthai would be my guess,” Reid rasped.  “Imitated thing.  Like a fancy, or an urban legend.  Humans draw a lot of stupid things, come up with random ideas.  Emergent rituals- do you know emergent rituals?”<br><br>“No.”<br><br>“Easiest to think of them as rituals innocents create by accident.  A large group of civilians repeat the same action or develop a pattern.  Urban legend takes hold and gets cemented in.  Innocents can’t practice but a million innocents doing the same thing can have meaning.  Usually has to be isolated.  City architecture can be that.  Schoolkids take to drawing the same thing, like some angular S, and it picks up steam, is niche enough and popular enough to start appearing in places it wasn’t drawn.  Some say that there’s hundreds that appear every day, but they’re all short-lived, too unintelligent to maintain or conserve power.  On occasion one finds a power source or gets associated with an event like a sensational murder, gets big enough to take over a town, occupy people’s thoughts, twist the aesthetic.  Practitioners like my family have to step in.”<br><br>In talking more, Reid was getting past the creak and hoarseness that captured the first and last words of most of his usual sentences.  He almost sounded normal in the midst of the explanation.<br><br>“You think a bunch of kids drew the same face over and over again?” Lauren asked.<br><br>“I don’t think he’s exactly that.  A Mimeisthai, a practice relevant meme, it’s ''like'' that, but focuses in on a singular point.  An accidental ritual that concentrates all power and creates the supporting architecture to create something like… well, that.” - [[Break 3]]</ref>
=== Other Variants ===
Bugges have also been known to become [[jockey]]s and [[Bogeymen]].<ref name="bestiary6"/>