#servitors

Didn't find what I was looking for in Immersive Daydreaming or Tulpamancy places.

And there's an odd concept floating around that making a non-sentient thoughtform = cruel or unethical? Which seems backwards, if someone doesn't want or isn't prepared for that, it's like getting someone a pet rabbit for Easter when they're better off with a stuffed animal.

And while looking I've found people who have expressed interest, so...

Imagimancy (?)

(eh-maj-eh-manse-see)

Trying to make a community/tag for people with non-autonomous (or fauxtonomous) imaginaries and thoughtform constructs, NPCs and such.

similar to/overlap with: daemonism, tulpamancy, soulbonding, self-shipping, immersive daydreaming, willomancy, (etc)

considered more or less plural-adjacent

focusing more on visualization/imagination tips/talk, ideas for useful constructs, etc. No pushing people into making thoughtforms autonomous if they don't want to!

(currently very alterhuman heavy / ties to alterhumanity in general but isn't required or officially an alterhuman thing)

Oh I love it when the Cain books do this.

It really highligts the horrors of the imperium without getting bogged down with having to spend pages upon pages with grimdark body horror explanations that really don't give you as big of a feeling of horror as this throwaway footnote conjures.

Pokemon as servitors or thoughtforms. You would feed them by giving them food and attention in-game.

Inb4 "set a repeating alert."

There are a few methods you can take. For me it basically comes down to a few options:

Permanently plug in the servitor to an energy source

Plug all the servitors into a power strip so you charge all of them at once

Plan ahead and prepare vessels and energized substances so each feeding is easier.

The first approach is to design (or later modify) servitors so that they're plugged into an energy source. This is like leaving a phone constantly plugged in: on the one hand, the servitor becomes tethered to the energy source. On the other hand, it's always charging.

This old tumblr post is still my go-to online resource for this.

There is some fuss about servitors becoming "corrupted" if you attach them to energy sources and walk away, the idea being that new programming can flow through energy, and so over time - if you are not monitoring the servitor - they can start to change in unwanted ways.

I find this to be sort of true, but "corruption" shouldn't be taken as some kind of evil Jekyll and Hyde situation. Probably a better word is fragmented, but even so the effects aren't all that bad in my experience. And I doubt a very well constructed servitor, even a decently made one, would have too many issues with this.

The only real issue I have with plugging servitors (or anything) into an energy source so you don't have to remember it, is that you might forget it.

One thing you can do to keep things more hands-on is centralize the operation. Witches do this all the time with spellcasting altars. Bind each servitor to an object, or all of them to a single object (like extension cords plugged into a power strip), and energize all of them at once.

This can be done cyclically, perhaps around the full moon, but especially when you anticipate actually having the time/energy to do work.

Of course there is nothing at all wrong with just slotting in magic where it fits, but if someone has a lot of work they need to upkeep, I imagine sooner or later a person might actually need to free up one weekend a month to focus on it.

But you don't have to rely on direct energy work to feed servitors. Here's a post on making a feeding oil to anoint vessels, where you spend all the energy enchanting the oil in one go.

This other post about feeding spells may also be applicable (as what is a servitor but a spell with a personality?).

If you do just want to slot things in where they fit, excess energy gathered during other spellwork, energy exercises, prayer, and so forth, can then be used to charge servitors. Of course only you'd know if the energy is suitable for such, but you could do it. If grounding is a part of your practice, funnel energy into servitors rather than into the earth.

I know this is anecdotal, but personally I've noticed that people who have the most trouble with spirits attacking them are often some of the most nasty, rancid people you could ask to be around.

I personally suspect this is because the spirits are actually projections based on their perception that the world is full of people who are nasty and mean, because people like this usually attract other rancid people into their lives and because they always think they're the victims when anybody in general doesn't just let them walk all over them.

Others who have experiences with malevolent entities often seem to be having some kind of mental health crisis, frequently of a psychotic or anxious nature. In my personal experience at least, they often have a background of being among people who very seriously believed in malevolent spirits such as demons.

In theory, a servitor is a custom-built spirit, which should mean that you can make it able or unable to do anything you want. It ought to be possible to make one that cannot harm you in any way; at least, assuming that servitors have independent existence. It should also be possible to create an entity that is reasonable and capable enough that it shouldn't have to resort to violence when its needs are unmet.

If servitors were real independent entities, I think it would be reasonable to consider them like any kind of animal. Animals don't just attack for no reason; they attack because they feel threatened or because they're hungry. It should be easy enough to make sure your servitor doesn't feel threatened - don't be cruel or negligent. It should be easy enough to make sure it's never hungry - just make its sustenance something easy to find, like sunlight.

If someone really, really wanted to make sure there was no possible way a servitor could become a problem, it should be possible to give it a deactivation code, like a word or phrase that essentially turns it off or makes it self-destruct.