From:	Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Talismongering
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 01:37:37 EDT

Unknown Senders said (after I snipped the stuff about reduced cost of bonding
objects and karmic theft)
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He was able to take other people's karma? Was he a free spirit, or were
you a bit loose with the rules? ;)
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Nope, it was just looked at from the point that "bonding an object normally
cost 'x' amount of karma, of which the magicians in the party would agree".
Of course, none of them had Enchanting or even bothered reading the rules for
such. The Enchanting Test to reduce the karma cost for the bonding was merely
a way of making it cheaper to bond the things.

Binder (Reflex back then) would bond (bind?) a foci to a person appropriately
and charge them what they believed was the cost of such. He claimed the karma
they "gave him" for the bonding, and kept the difference between what was
really needed after the test and the amount they gave him.

Yes, it was evil, but it really wasn't "Theft" in the spiritual/essence drain
sort of approach. It was merely taking the karmic candy from the overgrown
lackwits they had become and were so willing to pay....

As I said, I was -really- evil back then...

-K