From:	"David B. Beck" <BECK5338@********.BITNET>
Subject:	Slaves of a different kind
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 1993 19:43:59 +0200

I've been following the slave discussion and it reminded me

of something I used in a run once. The players were going

against a magical group that was kidnapping young magicians.

The higher level initiates in the group were using these

novices as "batteries" (the players came up with that name.)

Basically, the initiate had the person drugged and a control

manipulation was quickened over them ( at a very high level).

Then the initiate used the "battery" as a source of pool.

Drain becomes a thing of the past. There is also the advantage

of spell defense being there whenever needed. Now, the easiest

way for the runners to defeat this enemy would be to kill the

"batteries". Unfortunately, they were the people that the

runners had to rescue. It was a neat problem.

Later,
Dave B.