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BLAMMO! *Teleports in from the future*
Hello, gentle reader. Before you scroll down and hit Post Reply, I would like to invite you to come and have a read of a couple of things.
Here is the Sloppy Servitors thread, wherein we discuss the concept of servitor creation.
Here is the From tiny thought-forms massive gods do grow ... maybe thread, which does what it says on the tin--i.e., examine certain assumptions about the nature of servitors and spirits, and the ways they might change over time.
Not everyone regards Gek with unalloyed joy. Here is a one-time regular expressing reservations about the utility of this thread.
I'm... ambivalent.
Not going to try and re-write history here, tempting as that might be. My earlier posts to this thread are, after all, an accurate reflection of the way I thought about magic at the time of writing. Over the last 6 years or so, they have undergone changes. I hope they will continue to do so.
While I was genuinely exited about Gek and about this thread when it got started, I'm a bit less keen now. I feel that the thread has stagnated to such a degree that it risks becoming a net negative in the Temple. I'm also perturbed that some regular Gek-users still don't seem willing to interact with the rest of the board. They swing by, bump the thread, and disappear again. This is worrying, because it makes me think that the Gek thread is becoming a kind of magic-flavoured non-magic, a way of feeling like you're engaging with your problems on a magical level but without actually doing so in any realistic way. Is milk'n'cookies really the full extent of their magical practice? I guess we have to assume so.
Anyhow, I now return you to the 2001 version of me. Ciao.
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You know, I can't help wondering where all this is going to end up. Two possibilities present themselves:
#1 We all get more and more grabby and increasing numbers of people want a peice of Gek, causing hir to become more and more diffuse until ze is no longer able to function as advertized. (Aww! Sad!  )
#2 We all use Gek more and more but thru our interaction ze becomes stronger. Ulitmately we end up tipping hir over into a new state: egregore-hood. (Yaayy! Cool!  ... er... maybe. )
My thinking- and correct me if I'm just being weird or overenthusiastic- is that we should actively try and aim for, and even pre-empt, condition #2. This way we'd have some control over the process and the eventual outcome.
Therefore I propose that interested parties work out some kind of communal leg-up for Gek to help hir achieve critical mass.
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How fun! 
