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Kinderegg

agvvv

19:22 / 16.02.03

Now, have anyone noticed that Kindereggs are actually pre-packed Servitor qelipoth`s

Gives a whole new meaning to the "magic-kinderegg" phrase now doesnt it? Anyhow, what do you guys use for Servitor incarnations, or maybe you dont find it useful at all..? Thoughts and absurdities(sp maybe) are most welcome

trouser the trouserian

08:26 / 17.02.03

Faustuz
I've occassionally used choccy as a 'container' for magical actions - my all-time favourite being a chocolate willy! On one occasion we invoked LAM into a chocolate easter egg (one of the symbols associated with LAM is an onyx egg - but dark cadbury's seemd to be equally accepatable) and then shared the egg as part of the grounding afterwards. Another time, we infused after eight mints with the magical force of Pan or Eris and passed them around as post-celebration 'party favours'.

illmatic

08:51 / 17.02.03

There's a funny little book available called "Marks Little book of Kinder Eggs" - by artist Mark Pawson who details his collecteing and cataloging of 500 or so eggs. Nice little bit of pop culture ephemera.

On a personal note, I've never really used servitors - never made it work for me. I guess it take the normal process of adaption of ideas etc. I do like the idea of evoking by animating objects around you though.

Tamayyurt

13:26 / 17.02.03

What are Kinder Eggs?

Trijhaos

13:35 / 17.02.03

Kinder eggs are these small chocolate eggs that look like slightly larger versions of Cadbury Creme eggs. When you break them in half, you reveal a small cylinder. The small cylinder contains a little toy of some sort, like a little car or a robot that you put together, though on occasion, the cylinder itself is also utilized in the construction.

Quantum

13:38 / 17.02.03

They're what babies hatch from. From the German kinder, children. The stork drops them down the chimney.
Also popular confectionary, comprising a cheap chocolate egg lined with even cheaper white chocolate inside, and inside that a plastic capsule containing a Surprise. These range from crap jigsaws an inch across, to little plastic cartoon figurines, to mind bogglingly complex 'makeys' that take hours to construct and depict Heath Robinson style devices without apparent purpose. Designed by freaks on drugs.

cool, I want one!

You don't get them in the US, regrettably; our litigious society has deemed them a choking hazard.

Quantum

08:13 / 18.02.03

check 'em out all you Yanks... eggtastic I met two guys in a pub playing 'Who can get the weirdest kinder toy' once, they bought an egg with every pint- the best one was a luminous ghost on wheels whose head spun around Exorcist style when you pushed it along. Alas, the US is culturally impoverished.

Dances with Gophers

08:14 / 18.02.03

Reading this thread has reminded me of how, as a kid, I used to set up my action man figure to guard the house. Thinking back I really believed that it would work. After spending some time last night reading the various servitor threads I started to wonder if it is possible to create a servitor in this fashion, even though you'd never heard of one.

Can't get kinder eggs in the US?! Sorry to hear that!

Tamayyurt

13:51 / 18.02.03

I think an action figure would make an excellent material base for a servitor.

agvvv

14:08 / 18.02.03

Ahhh, Im glad I live in the social-democratic haven that is Norway, at least we have kindereggs...

Tryphena Absent

15:27 / 18.02.03

Mmmmm but Kinder eggs have chocolatey poorness, they're like pretend chocolate made of milk and cardboard and the toys are crap, so really they're only great theoretically.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:16 / 18.02.03

I've been selling an unusually large number of Kinder eggs at work since this thread started. Wasn't there that scare a couple of years back when someone found a couple of paracetamol inside a Kinder egg? Or was it one of those yoghurt UFO thingies?

Anyhow... Yeah, a Kinder-egg toy sounds like a great little servitor base. You have no way of knowing what sort of toy you'll find insice, of course, but that element of uncertainty could be brought into the working. For instance, you could do a spell before going out to the sweet-shop, asking to be guided to the most appropriate body for your servitor.

A related idea: Kinder-eggs as a divinatory aid. A Kinder egg is randomly purchaced and the contents interpreted using symbolism, which given the utterly incomprehensible nature of Kinder-egg toys would be jolly good excercize. (Then you get to eat the chocolate. Yay!)

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