From:	Loki <loki@*******.com>
Subject:	Re: Watchers (was Re: Re[2]: Bugs [p])
Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:46:38 -0700

Jamie Houston wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Loki wrote:
>
> > Steven Ratkovich wrote:
> > >
> > > >> > 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...:)
> >
> > Ask Caric about Squib, he was a watcher his Dog Shaman summoned one time
> > with the simple command of distracting and annoying the bad guys during
> > one encounter (to give them modifiers). Squib appeared as a ball of blue
> > and yellow yarn with two eyestalks and bright red tennis shoes. The
> > encounter was a bar fight, so squib bounded down the bar to the nearest
> > baddy and eagerly launched into a loud expose of the rules for the
> > Rumbly Games on the Meta-plane of Wet, I believe the baddy was
> > unconcious by the time Squib had gotten to re-iterating the importance
> > of Bonus Fricks...
> >
> > Any way Squib was so much fun, whenever it came to conjuring a watcher
> > Caric would usually try to bring him back. (BTW Caric, did we ever go
> > over the fact that a watcher is supposed to be an extension of your own
> > consciousness???)
> > @>-,--'--- Loki
> >
>
> ROTFLOL!! I just scared everyone in this computer lab by laughing so loud!
> Are you taking notes Craig? *grin*
>
> What is the importance of bonus fricks?

Bonus Fricks often come to be the deciding factor for victory in a
Rumbly Game as a Quet of Fricks allows a chance at the Blint Point
Conversion...

Squib was best able to explain it all, but alas when Caric perished
Squib was lost to us. <Growing misty eyed>

@>-,--'--- Loki

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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