From:	Rune Fostervoll <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	Re: Insect Totems
Date:	Mon, 25 May 1998 22:07:36 +0200

>> Ant is the perfect corporate wageslave, but also an asset for any
>> runner team.
>> --
>
>HOLD ON RIGHT THERE!!!!
*OOPS - GRAB!*

> I do recall very specifically doing this once a LONG
> time ago, and it may or may not even be in the Nagee's that Lester has. I
> also remember other people getting really upset with me on -this- list as to
> this suggestion, one of them was very similar to yourself Rune (nudge nudge).

Mmmmmm.. must have been some other me. Probably. Possibly. Perhaps.

Just to clarify, I don't read Nagee, and I think I made it clear it was
a suggested shaman *IF* someone wanted to play with Shamans with insect totems
rather than insect shamans. So I consider myself in the clear here. :)

>*SNIP Shamans with insect totems rather than Insect Shamans changes a lot of
>the world*

True - it's not something that should be introduced without being ready to
throw a LOT of stuff out the window - you'd need a good reason for that, more
so than 'Hey, is it possible?'. It makes the insect spirits a lot more
'demonic' as well, with no real ties to something even vaguely familiar except,
if the GM thinks it appropriate, a vague similarity in form to some insects.

I wouldn't make insect spirits summoned by toxic insect shamans, but rather
by ensnared initiates. Now these could be thought of as 'toxic insect shamans'
but they aren't.

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