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| '''Vessels '''are objects that act as containers for supernatural elements in the word of Pact. These items are then changed in accordance to what resides in them. When something is bound to a vessel it usually cannot escape it under its own power, but it does contain them and give them something to resides in.<ref>Damages</ref>
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| ==Servant Vessels==
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| These types of vessels are used by practitioners to create servants or soldiers, ranging from using dolls to corpses.
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| *[[Feorgbold]]
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| *[[Terracotta Soldier]]s
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| == Human Vessels ==
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| A human can be hollowed out, creating a [[Hallow]] inside them usable for a variety of Others. This might be done deliberately or accidentally. If too much is removed they may be left a [[vestige]] able to do little but serve as a vessel. [[Edith James]] is a natural example of such a vessel.<ref>These three were vessels. Like Edith was, but these ones were too
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| neat, when he looked at them with the Doom’s eyes. Closer to the space
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| he’d carved out for his Doom, but… a much, much bigger hole.
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| There were practices that asked for high prices. Practices like the
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| Heartless practice his father had conducted. Blood magic, host magic,
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| cultists… and many preyed on innocents, or counted innocents among the
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| collateral damage. When too much was taken out, there could be
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| vestiges. Just enough of a person that it could stand, walk, and
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| breathe, but something integral was gone and wouldn’t come back. A
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| house with an exterior and little in the way of rooms or furniture, if
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| it had anything at all. A practitioner could put <em>anything</em> in that space, really.
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| Someone had probably done that to these four. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/back-away-5-d/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]
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| </ref> If done deliberately, care must be taken that something unwanted doesn't claim the vessel.<ref>A vessel, but the edges weren’t so neat. Some were, but it was like a
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| space of a certain size had been measured out, and this figure had
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| forced her way in, breaking and straining some parts of the container.
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| [...] When a hallow or vessel was prepared, care was usually taken to guide
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| the right things to the space created. Here, something had failed and
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| an elemental Other with an affinity for mirrors or reflections had
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| crawled inside.
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| - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/back-away-5-d/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]
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| </ref>
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>Human vessels are vulnerable to simple diagrams; since the immaterial Other within is more affected by them than the human, they are jarred out of alignment somewhat, possibly damaging the vessel.<ref>She hit the line and staggered. A line could be considered the
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| simplest of diagrams, and that thing that occupied her was more
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| vulnerable to it than she was, and the momentary lack of synchronicity
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| hurt her.
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| –<em> then do as you will, but-</em>
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| He closed the distance, stepping into a puddle, and he knew full well
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| what that puddle was. He grabbed her wrist, pushing her back across
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| the line. Same effect, but this time, he was rattling the bars of the
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| cage his own Other was within. Testing the metaphorical screws, bolts,
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| and welding.
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| - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/back-away-5-d/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]
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| </ref>
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| Practitioners will generally anchor the hallow to one or more of seven standard points on the human body when creating a vessel. Crown (top of head), mind’s eye (forehead), throat, heart, solar plexus, stomach, groin.<ref>He knew from his studies and work with the Doom that Hosts liked to
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| bind things to key points in the body. It made sense that a Vessel
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| would have their space carved out starting at one of those.
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| He slammed his forehead into hers. The reaction wasn’t anything
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| special. Which others? The Crown was one space, very top of the head,
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| but he was pretty sure she’d manifest differently if the Other were
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| housed there.
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| He punched her in the solar plexus.
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| She didn’t carry the mirror woman there. He hit her again, dead center of the stomach.
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| There. He could see the Other within her react. It looked like it was housed in two of the seven points. Stomach and groin.
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| [...]
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| When it slammed her into the tree, the branches of that tree and the
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| branches it had put into place slammed through the seven ‘host’ windows
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| of her body. Crown, mind’s eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, stomach,
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| and groin.
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| - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/back-away-5-d/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]
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| </ref>
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| == References ==
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| <references />
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| [[Category:Basic Information]] | |