From:	chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject:	Re: Watchers (was Re: Re[2]: Bugs [p])
Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:16:08 -0500 (EST)

>> > My mage eldritch uses watchers all teh time, as he never astrally
>> > perceives or projects (he's paranoid of attacks and groundings), they see
>> > the astral and tell eldritch what they see. They usually appear as cats,
>> > crows, and rats.
>> You are lucky - mine appear as the blops described in "Burning Bright"
-
just
>> spheres with _large_ eyes and mouthes. I am always happy if at least my
nature
>> spirits choose a somewhat serious form... :-/
>I remember teh first Watcher I described in a non-human form. The runners
>were doing Harlequin and were in teh Amazon, they were approaching some
>natives on teh river (both PCs and natives were in boats) and teh shaman
>sent a watcher in teh form of a humming bird to communicate teh intentions
>of teh natives.
>
In our campiagn, the watchers are blobs (usually...), spirits always have a
distinct personality, usually based on whatever we had watched that week,
And elementals have no personality to start, but the more you use a
particular one, and the longer you keep it in service, it develops a
personality...:)


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