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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Bryan Pow)
Subject: [Hopefully slightly more On Topic] Good Blood Spirits
Date: Mon Mar 25 08:15:01 2002
This sounds cool. It could also be that the "good" blood spirit will only
hang around to do its specific job and then bugger off to where-ever. Since
it was borne out of self sacrifice and would feel the desperation and pain
of the act, it would probably hate killing and mourn every life it took
(Except for "bad" blood spirits) maybe its form being covered by more wounds
the more it kills, and its eyes raining tears all the way asking each victim
"forgive me" before taking its head off. I think it would be cool if the
main difference between the "Good" and "bad" spirits was the presence
of a
feeling of blame and responsibility for its own deeds.

>But I would put it that however
>different it is it would still be a blood spirit. So the "Blood Spirit"
>summoned by self sacrifice
>would look significantly different but would still be recognizably linked
>to
>blood, perhaps a giant winged humanoid bleeding from hundreds of wounds. In
>the classic High fantasy manner I'd make the "good" "blood
spirits"
>significantly tougher than the evil ones twice as hard, three times as
>hard... whatever but there are fewer of them, significantly fewer, so that
>despite their power a status quo is maintained.


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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle)
Subject: [Hopefully slightly more On Topic] Good Blood Spirits
Date: Mon Mar 25 08:55:01 2002
>From: "Bryan Pow" <bryan_pow@*******.com>
>This sounds cool. It could also be that the "good" blood spirit will only
>hang around to do its specific job and then bugger off to where-ever. Since
>it was borne out of self sacrifice and would feel the desperation and pain
>of the act, it would probably hate killing and mourn every life it took
>(Except for "bad" blood spirits) maybe its form being covered by more
>wounds
>the more it kills, and its eyes raining tears all the way asking each
>victim
>"forgive me" before taking its head off. I think it would be cool if the
>main difference between the "Good" and "bad" spirits was the
presence of a
>feeling of blame and responsibility for its own deeds.

Exactly! Some classy touches there by the way. You summon the thing and with
your dying breath give it one instruction (eg "Save my friends") which it
interprets intelligently without trying to twist your meaning, saves your
mates from the horrible fate you sought to prevent and goes away again.

Another possibility (which I've only just thought about but really rather
like) what about guardian angels? do the summon thing and give the
instruction "Protect my daughter." or something similar and your daughter
has a guardian angel! Obviously it is a lot less likely to manifest and kill
people and it might take killing the blood spirit which someone has sent
after your daughter as the completion of its bargain but hey its more than
most kids have!


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