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Message no. 1
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: Second Generation Ghouls? (was:Re: Just another ghoul
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:43:08 -0500
>Y'know from my impressions this was correct...but didn't I read in
>a recent sourcebook where it cleared it up by saying that there are
>no Second Generation ghouls because the virus leaves them sterile?

I don't think this was from a sourcebook, 00DNA. I seem to recall the same
bit, but I think it was from "Bad Blood," part of PORTFOLIO OF A DRAGON
that got cut for space, and I think it was shadowtalk even then (which
means, of course, it might or might not be true).

Patrick
Message no. 2
From: Sommers sommers@*****.edu
Subject: Second Generation Ghouls? (was:Re: Just another ghoul
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:02:22 -0400
At 10:28 AM 7/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 07:41 PM 7/5/99 -0400, Ereskanti@***.com wrote:
> >Actually, there is a considerable bit of information that is missing here.
> >First Generation ghouls *do* have this option. Second Generation ghouls
> >(those born from Ghoul Parents...what a thought...imagine surviving a
> random
> >hunger pang ;-) however are genetically bred into blindness, and as such,
> >cybereyes would have no effect.
>
>Y'know from my impressions this was correct...but didn't I read in a recent
>sourcebook where it cleared it up by saying that there are no Second
>Generation ghouls because the virus leaves them sterile?

Okay, I know that its not cannon, but there is a mention of a ghoul having
a ghoul son in the novel Psychotrope. I don't really remember anything
about ghouls being made sterile by the virus, but that could be true. It
also depends on when it happens in the infection stage, whether the person
is a carrier at the time or is going into full-blown ghoul state.


Sommers
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