Mess

Mess is any situation created by magic that most practitioners and Others are expected to clean up messes.<ref name=":0"/> Otherwise karma and related forces will negatively impact them when they affect innocents.

Examples

Harbingers generally have a storm that causes a mess that they have to suppress if they want to interact with innocents.<ref> - Pact Dice: Harbinger</ref>

Can come up with summoning practices and any calling of higher powers. rapacious practices that feed on the innocent can create mess if the practitioner is not circumspect enough.

Emergent gods tend to be messy.<ref name=":13">Durocher looked up at him.  “And many are like yourself, others are, hm, what would we call them?  Raymond?  Glitches in the system?”  She looked to Raymond, who sat off to the side.

“Emergent gods,” Raymond said.  “Sometimes we’ll term them cosmic rounding errors.  Complexities of a deific scale?”

“Complex, in that case, being used in the same sense we talk about complex spirits, elementals, and such?”  Durocher asked, pacing, looking at the class and not Raymond.

“Yes,” Raymond said.

“You have to be careful with that lot,” Metaphaos said.  “Messy.  Interesting, but not fun.”

“Why?” Durocher asked, pointing at him, without turning around.

“They don’t always have humanity and humanity’s faith giving them a push from behind from the outset.  You can get less human forces, and that gets out of control fast.  They might not speak your languages, they might not have very good aim, or they might not care either way.  [...] Most gods get to be gods because they have that faith backing them and they have the tools to do that creating.  Sometimes it’s one and the other follows, other times?  We’re like this, right out of the tin.  Grown and gorgeous.” - Excerpt from Vanishing Points 8.1</ref>

The girl by candlelight caused issues when she was still fairly new.<ref name=":0">Edith said. “Practitioners have a responsibility to tidy up messes and keep ordinary people from being inconvenienced. Matthew followed a trail of small fires and sightings to me. The ghost of a girl who suffocated on smoke in a house fire. The emotions and spirits shed in a roadside, candlelit vigil for a teenage girl who died in a car accident. A child’s pyromania, manifested in anxiety and confusion, cast away as the child grew up. These things and other, smaller things found each other and were bound together.” - Excerpt from Lost for Words 1.3</ref>

Maricica was hard to kill as a deity due to any death of hers' causing a large mess.

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