From:	"Caric" <caric@*******.com>
Subject:	Re: Watchers (was Re: Re[2]: Bugs [p])
Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:29:31 -0700

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> From: Loki <loki@*******.com>
> To: shadowrn@********.itribe.net
> Subject: Re: Watchers (was Re: Re[2]: Bugs [p])
> Date: Thursday, September 26, 1996 10:46 PM
>
> 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
>
Many a Rumbly game has been decided by the mere margine of the Blint point.
Indeed it was a sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad
sad
sad sad sad sad sad sad....etc. day when the mighty Caric finally fell, er,
shattered or whatever <shrug>

;~(


Caric-The-Extra-Sniffley(sp?)