| From: | Terry Amburgey <xanth@****.UKY.EDU> |
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| Subject: | weaving new patterns |
| Date: | Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:46:20 -0400 |
>Your magical self (your True Pattern) isn't just made from your DNA; it's
>also part of your history, who and where you've been and how it's affected
>your physical body as well as your magical self. So, let's say you killed
>a Barghest with a spell you cast from your left hand, or that scar on your
>finger is from the bite of a devil rat, or whatever; your body is part of
>your history. Cutting off a part of that history, and replacing it with
>something else, even if it's -biologically- you-- it still isn't the same
>arm, and you know it(<-- this is important; sorry to cliche but WYTIWYG)
>and yet it's trying to replace part of your Pattern and it can't really
>do it because it doesn't have the history behind it... and so your Pattern
>is disrupted and your magic rating goes down. As for why bio costs more than
>cyber; maybe it's because cyber is dead and has no living Pattern to conflict
>with what you already have.
Makes sense to me. However it suggests that the disruption should decay over
time as the character continues to generate new history. I.e. mage gets a
trauma damper [its neuralware so it's cultured from the mages dna], pattern
is disrupted because the new tissue doesn't have the same history as the
rest of the bod. It's now 1 year and several runs later. That tissue shifted
1 box when the mage got bit by another devil rat and came in very handy on 5
other occaisions. The disparity between the history of the bioware and the
rest of the bod is now less than it was a year ago. Would you reduce the
disruption over time or experience?
Terry
Terry L. Amburgey Office: 606-257-7726
Associate Professor Home: 606-224-0636
College of Business & Economics Fax: 606-257-3577
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