From:	"Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject:	Tinner's Paranoid Horror Conspiracy Theory - 9/28/97
Date:	Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:49:44 -0400

> Bull, you know the deal.
>Don't look in here or that slight greying hair problem will become
>permanant! ;-)
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>OK, so since Bull is slowly turning into a Wendigo in our campaign, I've
>been doing some thinking about vampirism.
>The condition itself is "supposedly" caused by a virus.
>OK, I'll buy that. I'm sure that in 2058 there could be a virus that grants
>all these powers and causes a desire/need to consume human blood, that's
>fine.
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>The part that's bugging me is what causes the need to consume Essence?
>I just couldn't justify a virus that devours essence, especially
considering
>that most of the vampiric critters drain essence permanantly.
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>A solution to this problem escaped me until I happened to re-open my copy
of
>Rifts: Vampire Kingdoms.
>Holy cow! A Vampiric Intelligence!
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>For those of you that don't know Palladium, a VI is essentially a large
>(moon sized in some cases) extradimensional entity. It's power is what
>allows vampires to live on after death, and also grants their abilities and
>forces the to feed off the living.
>Why? Because all that life energy is siphoned from the small vampires
>directly to the VI!
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>So I looked at the descriptions, and I looked at the stats, and I realized
>that a VI would make a GREAT minor astral Horror.
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>I have yet to work up stats for the monster, but I'm thinking Johnny and
>Bull may have to bargain with a free spirit to open an astral gateway,
>allowing them through to the horror's domain, where they can fight
>it/bargain with it, etc.
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>Any suggestions for ways to abuse Bull with this plan.
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>Steven A. Tinner
>bluewizard@*****.com
>http://www.ncweb.com/users/bluewizard
>"False Mentor! Grrrrrrr! Frag you Bull!!!!!"
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