From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Giving blood in 205X: common or rare?
Date:	Wed, 20 May 1998 04:02:00 -0700

Cobra wrote:

> >so saying that, i do not think, IMHO, that people would be needed to give
> >blood, except to replenish supplies of blood that are used to grow/produce
> >blood/plasma through cloning/vat growth techniques. think, in shadowtech
> >they talk about it in the comments, where KAM from Universal Omnitech says
> >(paraphrased) that they produce a whole body just for an arm and recycle
> >the rest, but probably steal the blood first (and other parts) as well.
>
> That's fine but we could add some points :
> 1/ It's always less costly when people give their blood than when you have
> to clone it.
> 2/ I don't think people bother about giving their blood, even in SR. Most
> joe citizens don't know anything about rituals, blood magic and other
> things like this.
> 3/ A good plot would be for an institute to use rituals on the custommers
> who gave them some blodd. Perhaps they could develop a way to cast a ritual
> on multiple targets and influence them to buy some products.

The Red Cross tries to maintain a bit of identity-protection with blood
donors now; maybe in the future they'd use a Mass Sterilize spell. Be
sort of a pain to try a ritual only you ended up nabbing the wrong bag
from the Red Cross (er - DocWagon) vaults. Especially if you wanted to
screw your target over in a highly noticeable fashion.


- Matt

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