| From: | Rune Fostervoll <runefo@***.UIO.NO> |
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| Subject: | Cyberware and regeneration |
| Date: | Mon, 11 May 1998 22:08:52 GMT |
separately from that other thread. I'll throw in the rule facts I know.
SRII Regeneration
It says nothing either way about how it works in conjunction with cyberware,
except for the obvious difficulty of installing cyberware. The big question
would most likely be wether paying essence for cyberware makes the aura/
regeneration/body think the cyberware should be there, and not reject it.
SR Companion Regeneration (Shapeshifters)
This deals specifically in how regeneration is handled for shapeshifters.
There's three 'facts' about Companion regeneration.
A shapeshifter has regeneration in animal form, not in human.
A shapeshifter may have cyberware in human form.
A shapeshifter shifting to animal form will expel cyber installed in the human
form.
The question is probably wether it's shifting to animal form itself, or
regeneration which kicks in in animal form, that expels the cyber.
(or both!)
The Shapechange spell does not specify that cyberware is ejected when the
target is changed, which is relevant if you accept that shapechange is similar
to shapeshifting.
It seems like a fairly logical conclusion that it is the regeneration that
expels the cyber.
There is a number of obvious holes or alternatives here, though.
#1: Shapechange is not necessarily like shapeshifting, and besides, it doesn't
mention cyberware... just like regeration doesn't mention cyber. So it might
expel cyber as well, making it the act of shifting that expels it, not
the regeneration.
#2: ...if you accept that shapechange is similar to shapeshifting.
#3: It might be shapechanging that ejects the cyber and not regeneration,
and thus cyber, once in a regenerating body, might be accepted.
#4: Then again, it might be both shapechanging *and* regenerating that ejects
cyber.
#5: Fairly logical, in this case, is not strictly logical.
(Darn, I shoulda made a logical map of that one. I'm not so sure if it's not
strictly logical after all, considering that the assumptions might or might not
be correct. It is certainly not a teutology.).
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