From:	Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Giving blood in 205X: common or rare?
Date:	Thu, 21 May 1998 05:40:13 -0500

>
> Re: Giving blood in 205X: common or rare? (Cobra , Wed 5:12)

> The sterilize spell awakens some questions :
> 1/ Is the blood (we'll consider in the same group) of a mundane the same as
> an awakened ?

Pretty much, as far as "compatability" goes. "Forensic
samples" have
to be collected quickly for those with low essence (accidentally spilt
blood can only be collected for ritual sorcey within essence hours of
the spilling, IIRC, making a low essence NICE sometimes)

> 2/ If so, would a sterilize spell modify the sample in a way that it no
> longer works with a mage ?

It won't work for ANYBODY. Sterilize kills single cell organisms, whic
would include blood cells not inside a living body. Dead blood is
pretty useless for treatment purposes- it would be like autoclaving you
blood supply!

> 3/ Did anyone ever think about the proportion of mages at DocWagon. I
> always wondered why there's no price for magical healing in SR2 or NAGtRL.
> Typically, I would apply a multiplier of... Let's say 5 or 10.

Its pretty much GM discretion. SR1 had prices, I think. Those you
give sound OK, if you mean "magical healing", the +2 healing roll
modifier. I don't think treating a mage with low-impact drugs costs
extra. Heal and Treat spells would be a one time cost- basing them off
the doctors service cost might work; I'd charge that cost per die rolled
for the spell, if the hospital was purely "for profit", like DocWagon.
Or the spellcasting might be included FREE, the result of some
philantropic bear / snake shaman groups work; either might ask for other
"considerations"....

-Mongoose X