Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
Dismissing a construct
The close: recall, destroy the material basis, archive the record and return attention.
What it is
To end a working cleanly, so the construct does not become an obligation.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A construct; its sigil or anchor; the ledger; a closing line.
- Outputs
- A destroyed or archived sigil, a close line, and a closed ledger entry.
How to do it
Name the construct and state that its task is finished. Destroy or archive its sigil. Delete or archive the anchor. Write the close line in the ledger. Return the space to ordinary use. Do not reopen the working for a fixed period.
A worked example
A servitor reaches its eighth Friday. The sigil is deleted, the sheet is marked closed, the ledger records 'closed, task ended', and the practitioner leaves the desk for ten minutes.
Variations
- Burn a printed sigil and keep the ashes in a small jar.
- Archive the sheet instead of deleting it, but mark it closed.
- Close a group construct with a public note and a final meeting.
Related entries
Instruments
Correspondences
Workings
Related
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 14
Every entry that names Dismissing a construct, grouped by section.
✧ Practices 4
- Servitor work Related
- Egregore work Related
- Feeding a construct Related
- Cyber banishing Related
⌘ Protocols 3
- Dismiss a servitor Practices
- Close an egregore Practices
- Digital banishing Practices
⌬ Correspondences 2
- Jupiter — archive Practices
- Saturday — Saturn Practices
▤ Glossary 2
- Kill switch Related
- Tulpa Related
⚙ Instruments 1
- The Servitor Ledger Practices
◈ Constructs 1
- Servitor Practices
❖ Workings 1
- The Jupiter Archive Blessing Practices
More in Practices
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Feeding a construct The scheduled attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
- Planetary timing Choose the day and hour for a working from the Grimoire's planetary sequence.
- Egregore work Give a group a shared name, sigil, story and ritual, and treat the resulting atmosphere as a construct.
- Glitch divination Read an error, a crash, a repeated fragment or a broken feed as the draw.
- Servitor work Build a purpose-built construct with one task, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Algorithmic divination Use a random value, a hash, a feed order or a search result as the casting medium.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.