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That would depend on the Gribbly in my eyes.

I have experienced both- the more common of the two situations being people who don't know what the frell they are doing messing up.

Myself- I actually agree with TatteredAngel. Mostly because there are Mr. Darks out there that can spwan into Thought Forms and I have no desire to feed something that will otherwise not be a problem if simply ignored.

Contested to an extent. The lack of something being real cannot hurt you, but the lengths one might go to in order to counter it may hurt many people.


See above.

Case in point:

My friend had her cell in her pocket and it autodialed my number. I was tired and I could tell the line was connected and heard people on the other end, but I couldn't tell who it was- so I kept saying "Hello? Hello?"

They freaked and began to tear the room apart to find the gribbly. I eventually hung up.


But their reaction to something that wasn't real had some extended consequences. The ritual they did went awry and they almost lost their home because of it.


We can argue the cause of this for hours- however, if they had put effort into trying to determine if it was a real gribbly and not simply their cell phone and a tired Tea trying to find out why someone was calling her- they would have had a lot easier time of it all.

The question then is- how do you go about it?

1. Figure out why gribbly is bothering me in the first place
1a) Adjust shields
1b) Poke it - if it's a figment of my imagination it'll usually dissipate when I tell it it isn't real.

2. If it's still there, isolate or banish it
2a) Random gribbly = banish
2b) Gribbly that's the product of something else...

3. ...Find out who/what sent it. twisted

Depending on the situation, here's what I've done:

- Bells & Whistles Approach: ringing bells, clattering pots and pans, lighting lots of candles, sweeping, singing really loudly, chanting persistently, etc. Can work on several kinds of gribbly, especially those to do with solitude or the kind of fear you only get at three in the morning when nobody else is home. Um, downside: These are not all good ideas at three in the morning. Advantage: It'll really shake up whatever stagnant energy you have around, breaking any unwanted stasis you may have been in.

- Representative magic approach: Produce a physical object that in some way resembles or suggests the gribbly. Physically binding or destroying it can help you focus on binding or destroying the actual gribbly. Disadvantage: You don't always have time or materials to be crafty. Advantage: I tell you no lies, I have made this work by washing dirty laundry. I rounded up the mankiest socks I could find, piled 'em in a gribbly-sized heap, and tossed them in the washer. Worked a treat.

-Shooting fish in a barrel approach: Use gratuitous amounts of energy to just punt the thing. Advantage: It's no fuss, no muss- as long as you can spare the juice, and you're pretty sure what kind of gribbly you've got. Disadvantage: ...If you can spare the juice, and you're pretty sure what kind of gribbly you've got.