| From: | The Geek in the Hat alex@**********.com |
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| Subject: | Warner Coyote |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:27:58 -0400 (EDT) |
> them comes from Roadrunner cartoons, but he is called _Howling_ Coyote
> :?) How about a Warner Coyote shaman? Instead of using his Predator,
> he'd insist on massive, intricate traps. He'd need that falling Adept power.
Brilliant brilliant! This wouldn't even need to be a seperate totem from
standard Coyote; he'd probably find it amusing.
There's a lot of interesting stuff along these lines in Awakenings, I
believe, talking about the different interpretations of a totem's
ideals... you could have a Dog shaman, for example, who acts a lot like
Wolf, or one who's more of a peaceable domestic Dog, but either one would
tend towards stubbornly protecting friends and family.
Similarly, for absurdism's sake, it might be fun to play a Cat (in the
Hat) shaman. "Roll English (8) to come up with a word that rhymes with
'Mitsuhama'..."
So now just because there's a shaman that follows a particular totem, is
there a totem spirit for that shaman? If some magician decides that he
hears the call of Cauliflower, where is Cauliflower? Again, according to
SoP, there is indeed a spirit calling itself Spider, but is this
necessarily the thing that Spider shamans are talking to?
I'm thinking that magical traditions have the potential to be much more
entertaining than we normally let them. Magic itself is such a strange
thing; one would imagine that there'd be more variation in the paths
followed, or at least more Chaos mages, showing up SR games.
Now we've just gotta figure out a way to get an ACME corporation
catalogue.
The Geek in the Hat
alex@**********.com
