| From: | Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Pawns for SR |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:36:48 -0500 |
>
> Text Entry: April 4, 2058: "Despite the fact they said I could
>never do it, I shall attempt to do so anyway. I shall create life from
>lifelessness. I have already begun to collect individuals to perform my
>experiment with and have been collecting their essence and blood for the
>rite to follow. Gods be willing, I shall have my way before the year is
>done."
(>) Or as some of us in the magic medicine business call him, Dr. Insane
Omago. Nutty as that fruitcake Dunkelzahn and Alamais tossed back and forth
every year. This whole thing makes me wonder if he'd ever even heard of
Mary Shelley, let alone read her work.
(>) Thomas Magick
> Text Entry: July 2, 2058: "I have been experimenting with
>animating objects, a simple matter for mages with the knowledge, but
>haven't been able to impart upon them a will of any decent reckoning. I
>have, to date, created a stone cat and an iron dog. Both are fully mobile
>but not of the use I require. I need a more 'intelligent' creation so as
>to be able to use it as a hunter."
(>) I don't think I like the sound of this.
(>) Java Nut
"wHADAYA mean I'M DrinKING TOo mUcH CaFFEinE?!"
(>) You shouldn't.
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
> Voice Entry: October 31, 2058: "Success! I have finally done it.
>With the essence and blood of the bodies that made it whole my finest pawn
>has been completed! I can finally tell those <crashing sound> what?
>What's going on in there? Garzendo, if you've <gurgling sound> .....
><silence time exceeding 5 minutes, discontinue recording>"
(>) He did it. The crazy bastard actually did it! I guess that answers my
question about Shelley.... Seems fitting, somehow, that he died on Samhain.
Anyone know if his notes and logs on enchantments and such were any more
complete than this journal? Last thing I want to do is deal with bunches of
these things.
(>) Thomas Magick
> Due to the extremely different style of enchantment that creating a
>pawn requires, only full initiated magicians and initiated physical
>magicians are able to create a pawns.
A pawn, singular. And I kind of question letting a physical mage do this;
just doesn't seem right to me, though I honestly couldn't tell you why.
>All steps except creation of the host body must be performed by the
>magician who will be the magicians 'master' (although see last step).
Who will be the pawn's master, not the magician's master.
> After the host body is prepared and animated, it must be enchanted
>to receive the spirit which is to inhabit it. An Open Test using
Enchanting
>is used to determine the maximum Force which can inhabit the host. This
>process takes 28 days, regardless of the number of successes rolled.
Why the set time period?
> Within 24 hours, after the host body has completed being prepared
>for the spirit, the magician must conjure a spirit to inhabit the body, or
>the benefits of the enchantment are lost and must be restarted. The mage
>chooses a Force less than the maximum Force determined by the Enchanting
>test, attempts to conjure the spirit (treat as a normal Conjuring for
>purposes of successes and Drain), and, if successful, binds the spirit to
>the host body.
David, I'm going to admit up front that I'm not much into magic, so I might
be missing something, but how is that any different from building a host
homonculus from GRIMOIRE? (I might find the answer later on; bear with me.)
If the host body is inhabited by a spirit, why has he had so much trouble
with intelligence? Just summoning stupid spirits, or what? I don't get it.
You might consider reformatting the table; it came out looking something
like this:
>Pawn Table
>Substance Time Cost Max. Max. Max.
> Bod/Str Quick. Armor
>Clay 1 5000¥ 8 5 4
>Copper 2 6,000¥ 9 5 6
>Crystal 5 4,000¥ 8 4 4
It's not too hard to figure out with one or two entries, but there's a lot
more than that. <g>
Interesting notion, though, all things considered.
--
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
