From: | Jim Riegel <riegelja@*****.MSU.EDU> |
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Subject: | Slightly Diffn't Bug thread (and new .sig file) |
Date: | Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:31:15 -0300 |
This message has two purposes...first just testing to see if my .sig
file works properly and if not how I need it modified. The second is an
idea I had and threw in for consideration just so this didn't become another
pointless 'TEST MESSAGE-Ignore this' post.
OK...this is my thought. In Awakenings they make a comment about Crash
Cart being related to the Insect Spirits....I stopped to think about what
the insects could want with taking over an organization like that when they
had the much more efficient UB. So..this is what my brain came up with (and
no, it's not cannon). Insect spirits need to use a mage or someone with
high magical potential for a Queen host. (this is the part that has no
basis in the rules -the preceding I mean) The bugs take over a Doc wagon
competitor so they can get ahold of mucho samples of mage tissue. The UB
side of the operation produces a LARGE number of willing victims. People
who are 100% committed to helping their new cause. This would include
scientists. Imagine getting scientists from multiple corps and backgrounds
and sticking them in a room together....total Anarchy. Now make them all
want to work together to produce great new things for the hive. Wondrous
technological advances. The scientists managed to come up with 100% full
regrowth of a body (cloned of course) from a tissue sample. Sure, when
they grow that fast the brain has no real cognitive ability or personality,
but that just makes it easier for the queen spirit to come take control of
the host. So.....
armies of queens can suddenly be created.
This is the part I like...One of my players has a fairly well fleshed
out background....the bit that works so nicely is this.... Her mother
(deceased in terrorist bombing) was magically active. Her family was also
wealthy enough to afford major medical. Now.... Suppose a tissue sample or
10 were kept around? I mean, would you really want to take the off chance
of chucking a rich mages DNA when the storage is prepaid for life?
(basically a 'life' = 20 years minimum. kinda like jail.) So...the sample
is still there. The bugs take it, clone it, and queen it. Suddenly the
poor player starts seeing her mother wandering around Seattle. I figure I
can make her think she's starting to lose her mind a bit.... Since she's a
mage she can astral assense and yup...it's her mom's aura all right. Am
waiting to see how things go before I plan too much farther into
it....thoughts, flames, comments?
JR
Warning: Be on the look out for a high speed free spirit. It's preferred
form is a small Native American boy.
Known Aliases: Little Running Joke
Welcome to the Shadows of Washington, DCLXVI Chummer! We got more
demoncrats
and Sinators than you can shake a stun baton at. --Anonymous
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