Editing Trussed (section)

=== Grasping ===
These agile wardens ended up covetously guarding their [[Collector|collections]] or [[alchemy|alchemy labs]], more likely to be practitioners whose loss of [[Connections|links]] to the outside world has cut them off from reality.<ref name=":8.2">'''The Grasping''' are less Warding focused and more general to Materials practices; those who lose too many connections while maintaining too many to their objects of focus (be they alchemy, collections, treasure) may lose touch with reality and start to be bound to the items and objects.  They, like Trussed, are wretched, time-lost Others of specific knowledge, but are typically faster, more dexterous, and far less resilient. - [[PactDice]]: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvukMJfW_Ci6_rsqrigpeDBhBsBqFajWmTEyL-b3XCU/edit Bestiary: Trussed]</ref><ref>Zed paused on a frame, hit a key combination, and went back a few more frames.<br><br>It was a skinny, gangly man with skin that looked like tarnished silver, eyes cataract white, carrying a bag on his back, full of things.  Other objects were wrapped around his arms and legs, until he looked like a pile of junk somehow collected around a person dying of starvation.  He had things like necklaces and bracelets, but they weren’t worn in the usual way; the bracelet lay against the elbow, three pieces of fine sliverware and a flashlight wedged between arm and bracelet in a way that, together with surrounding junk, locked everything haphazardly in place.<br>[...]<br>[Zed] logged into the Atheneum, search terms bringing up about twelve texts, which he quickly narrowed down to three.  One had an image, with a similar figure with a bloated belly, various wedding dresses wrapped around herself rather than worn, streaming around her, and a portrait mounted on her face, so the head and shoulders mostly lined up with hers.<br><br>Zed paraphrased from the screen.  “It’s called a Grasping, it’s a visceral Other.  Lots of practices have a fail case.  You know, you’re looking to get power, or solve some issue, but if you lose your humanity along the way, screw up, you become something Other. [...] Grasping are Collectors gone wrong.  Sometimes someone does a ritual to draw items to them, and they reach too far, or they get too weak in Self to manage their collection.  They knit together with the collection.”<br><br>“So that thing’s a bundle of magical items with arms and legs?” Antlers, Avery’s Hat, asked.<br><br>“Yeah, basically.  We were worried this might be the sort of Ritual Incarnate where Others become a part of it and make things way harder.  So that’s one.  I think it’s pretty advanced.”<br>[...]<br>The Grasping Other with its trove of magic items sunken into flesh and strapped on in a complicated way limped its way closer.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/25 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.z]]</ref>