| From: | barbie@********.DE |
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| Subject: | My take on Essence and related things. |
| Date: | Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:57:24 +0100 |
Hiyas,
here comes my take on essence. Enjoy and comment at will :)
Simply said essence is the purity of the physical body, purity in the
meaning
of contamination with nonliving matter that interacts with the physical
body.
Ok, now abit more in detail.
A physical body has a basic essence rating that determines its state of
metaphysical purity. A implant which interacts with its host body will
lower
the essence of the body, because the physical body is changed from its
astral
template, which defines the natural state, and so loosing its sync.
This works on the following principle:
The nonliving implant has its own nonliving aura that interacts with the
living aura of the physical body, destorting its mana channeling abilities.
This happens on a greater level when the implant is closer to the
physical
bodies nervous system, because the nervous system reacts more
easily on the
changes in the mana channeling. Another factor is of course the
size of the
nonliving aura, aka the implants size. A living implant, aka bioware,
would
not cost essence because a living aura does`t disrupts the mana
flow like
the aura of a dead thing. Magic will still be lost however, because
the mana
flow disruption is great enough to alter the actual mana flow. The
more
essence is lost the closer the phyiscal body drifts towards death
because
when all available essence is lost the body loosses its ability to
channel
the always present mana into life energy that keeps the `soul`
intact inside
its physical shell.
In the unfortunate state that a victim is reduced to a negative
essence, it
dies on the spot because the natural bond of its `soul` and body is
destroyed. The cybermancy ritual alteres this `natural law` by
altering the
astral template to redirect the mana flow by artificial powering the
needed
mana bond by drawing the mana directly from the astral, which
results in the
known effect of the karma haze around the so called cyberzombie.
The infamus essence drain power f certain critters wrk on a slightly
different
principle. The paranatural essence drain works by altering the
emotional state
fo the victim, inducing so a feedback in the physical body that puts
it out of
sync with its astral body allowing so the crritter to tap into the
mana flow,
channeling the mana for its own use. This so gained essence will
only last
temporaly, because a critter with such power has a natural
instability in its
mana bond, which it need to infuse with forain essence to stabilize
it. Such
critter doesn`t get the essence drained, actualy the drained
essence is used
to recreate the mana bond of the critters `soul` with its body,
restoring so
apparently the essence of the critter. Such critters have a much
higher basic
essence rating because of the transformation that leads to the
gaining of the
essence instability strenghtens as side effect the mana bond over
its normal
state. The victim however will loss its drained essence permanently
because
the act of drainig irrevesible alters the victims physical makeup in a
very
subtle but drastic way, destorting so the mana bond. In most
victims this
alteration leads to a addiction like mental and physical change that
drives
such subjects back to the essence drainer.
So I hope this makes sense and is understandable, since I wrote this very
early, well infact very very late. :) But hey! You have t write when
inspiration strucks you. ;)
Hmmm, I guess I`m not the only one who can write such stuff better when on
sleep derivation.
--
Barbie
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