From:	Cukoo <cukoo@*****.NET>
Subject:	Re: Zombies
Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:49:23 -0700

>If you can get hold of a copy, take a look at the article "Magic Over
>Bourbon Street" in White Wolf Magazine #35 (Jan/Feb 1993). That goes into
>Voodoo in SR. Talking about voodoo rituals, sumoning of Loa, using dolls
>for ritual sorcery, and some particularly dark spells (eg Full Stomach that
>fills the victems stomach with insects. The victem must make a Body Test(7)
>each turn the spell is sustained or spend the turn throwinup insects.
>Yuch!).
>
>
>Justin Elliott
>
I don't personally recommend using those spells right out of the book, and I
have chosen to use the SRII spirits with a different flavor. The rules from
that book are written for first edition, but are very good source material.

I just sent some mail to ShadowGM about this, but for those who
aren't on there, I'll repeat the related stuff. One of the characters in my
game is a practitioner of VooDoo, and to give him flavor, we (together)
designed the character to be very reliant on fetishes, mostly expendable.
For flavor, we felt that it was very important to emphasize each fetish,
what it was, and what he did with it. For example, his fetish for his flame
bomb spell is a hand made match (enchanted of course) that he strikes and
blows out, when it goes out, the spell goes off. He also does a lot of
interesting non-numbers related things. He keeps a small jar of dry peas
and beans on the table and a wide mouth glass of water. When he feels its
appropriate, he chants, and dips his fingers in the water, flicking it on
the other players, who are mercifully good natured. Sometimes he go to town
with his jar 'o' beans, dancing around the living room and using it as a rattle.
We also decided to capitolize on ritual magic, which is a great
opportunity to role play during his preparations. He has to find a live
chicken to sacrifice, using the blood to draw mystical diagrams and shit all
over the place.
One of the things we were tinkering with is taking ritual samples of
the party members and cating spells like heal, clairvoyance, and
clairaudience through the link. I haven't skimmed the text on this one yet,
but I don't see why not.

Comments are welcome.