From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Fictional Card of the Week
Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 1997 00:04:26 -0800

>>>>> Axlrose - ... <<<<< wrote:

> >Bottled Demon

> >Type: Gear (Magic/Focus)
> >Rarity: *Promo
> >Cost: 5Y
> >Text: Play on a Shaman or Mage. Turn user to gain Conjuring+1 or
> >Sorcery+1 until the end of game. After each use, user loses 1 Body
> >permanently. When user dies, each player (beginning with owner) may pay
> >5Y to deploy Bottled Demon on a Runner he or she controls. When Bottled
> >Demon is placed in the trash pile, it is removed from the game.

> Here is my first impression of the above card - if you "turn user to gain
> ... ~until the end of the game~ ... after each use, user loses 1 body
> permanently" - not to play card lawyer or whatever they are called,
> wouldn't turning the gear the initial time take away the body point only
> once? That is, initial turn I gain the conjuring or sorcery +1, loose the
> body point, yet keep the gain until the end of the game... Or did you mean
> turn the gear and gain the +1 until the end of the turn?

Nope. Turn, lose your point of Body, and *mwah-ha-ha!* *control power
more than a mere mortal could ever dream of!*

That being said, there are some Shamen (the Trolls) that the Bottled
Demon won't affect too much, since they have five or six Body already.
Keeping the bonus level of skill one turn is too weak; keeping it until
the end of game may be too strong. So it should probably end up being a
die roll (but an easy die roll, 3+ or so).

> Maybe make the card unique?

Even more Unique than Unique; it's "Prime Gear" -- only one on the table
at any given moment.

> And the last line, wouldn't it be easier to say somewhere about fragging
> the card when discarded? *shrug*

Yeah - strange, since I'm such a stickler for using the right
terminology for the game. But it's direct, it's unerstandable.

> >Not *quite* as evil as the real Bottled Demon (from the SR:RPG module of
> >the same name), but, ah, "sufficiently nasty" in my opinion. If anyone
> >wants to try and top this....?

> Hmmm, an old module I don't think I have.

An old module I don't own, either, but played three times. It just got
nastier and nastier...



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