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From:	waylex1 waylex1@**************.co.uk
Subject:	Homunculus
Date:	Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:01:55 +0000

Message no. 1 I am currently looking at the Focus design table (P43 MITS) and am wondering
what in hell a homunculus is in the SR sense of the word. If anyone can tell me
where I can find this or better still, tell me what it is as I have scanned all
books and found nothing. All I know is that it takes 20 days base time to make ?

Thanks all.

From:	Alfredo B Alves dghost@****.com
Subject:	Homunculus
Date:	Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:05:30 -0800

Message no. 2 On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:01:55 +0000 waylex1 <waylex1@**************.co.uk>
writes:
> I am currently looking at the Focus design table (P43 MITS) and am
> wondering
> what in hell a homunculus is in the SR sense of the word. If anyone
> can tell me
> where I can find this or better still, tell me what it is as I have
> scanned all
> books and found nothing. All I know is that it takes 20 days base
> time to make ?

That's the focus Allies inhabit (see Designing the Ally, page XX of MitS)

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From:	Peter Steen Kristiansen sds@**.auc.dk
Subject:	Homunculus
Date:	Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:42:23 +0100 (MET)

Message no. 3 On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alfredo B Alves wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:01:55 +0000 waylex1 <waylex1@**************.co.uk>
> writes:
[SNIP subject=what is a Homunculus]
>
> That's the focus Allies inhabit (see Designing the Ally, page XX of MitS)
>
Are you sure??
I do not have my books here but I remember that a Homunculus is an Ally
inhabiting a clay/wood/iron/stone body. Or was that in the old days of
Grimoire I and II??

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From:	Alfredo B Alves dghost@****.com
Subject:	Homunculus
Date:	Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:21:31 -0800

Message no. 4 On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:42:23 +0100 (MET) Peter Steen Kristiansen
<sds@**.auc.dk> writes:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alfredo B Alves wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:01:55 +0000 waylex1
> <waylex1@**************.co.uk>
> > writes:
> [SNIP subject=what is a Homunculus]
> >
> > That's the focus Allies inhabit (see Designing the Ally, page XX
> of MitS)

> Are you sure??
> I do not have my books here but I remember that a Homunculus is an
> Ally
> inhabiting a clay/wood/iron/stone body. Or was that in the old days
> of
> Grimoire I and II??

Right. And that has to be enchanted (and bonded) before the Ally can
inhabit it ...

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From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Homunculus
Date:	Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:14:22 +0100

Message no. 5 According to waylex1, at 0:01 on 2 Mar 00, the word on the street was...

> I am currently looking at the Focus design table (P43 MITS) and am
> wondering what in hell a homunculus is in the SR sense of the word. If
> anyone can tell me where I can find this or better still, tell me what
> it is as I have scanned all books and found nothing. All I know is that
> it takes 20 days base time to make ?

It's a body for an ally spirit to live in. They're made as a focus that
the spirit is then conjured into, as explained on page 108 of MITS, in the
text for the Inhabiting power.

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From:	waylex1 waylex1@**************.co.uk
Subject:	Homunculus
Date:	Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:00:57 +0000

Message no. 6 > > I am currently looking at the Focus design table (P43 MITS) and am
> > wondering what in hell a homunculus is in the SR sense of the word. If
> > anyone can tell me where I can find this or better still, tell me what
> > it is as I have scanned all books and found nothing. All I know is that
> > it takes 20 days base time to make ?
>
> It's a body for an ally spirit to live in. They're made as a focus that
> the spirit is then conjured into, as explained on page 108 of MITS, in the
> text for the Inhabiting power.

Cheerz I appreciate that, 8 years of shadowrun and I'm playing my first mage,
a daunting prospect. Until now my knowledge of magic was shoot anyone that
urban renewals my blitzen.

From:	HHackerH@*.com HHackerH@*.com
Subject:	Homunculus
Date:	Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:51:15 EST

Message no. 7 In a message dated 3/2/00 2:42:51 AM US Eastern Standard Time, sds@**.auc.dk
writes:

> [SNIP subject=what is a Homunculus]
> >
> > That's the focus Allies inhabit (see Designing the Ally, page XX of MitS)
> >
> Are you sure??
> I do not have my books here but I remember that a Homunculus is an Ally
> inhabiting a clay/wood/iron/stone body. Or was that in the old days of
> Grimoire I and II??

You are both correct. The name "focus" is merely something extended in MitS.

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