From:	Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Insect Totems
Date:	Mon, 25 May 1998 16:35:52 -0500

On Mon, 25 May 1998 22:07:36 +0200 Rune Fostervoll <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
writes:
<SNIP>
[Previous Posts were about having Insects as normal Totems]
>> 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. :)

I have the collected NAGEE and I didn't see anything about this ... K,
can you send me something about this privately? (If you need to send it
as an attachment, please send it to alfredo@*****.uh.edu)

>>*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.
<SNIP Rune's Sig>

Hmmm... I like this ... I was thinking about demonology recently and how
to introduce it into SR ... If shamans follow insect totems as normal
totems, the insect spirits and or their stats can be used as these
"demons" ... interesting ... :) deffinately as a house rule if anything
... :)

D.Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, and RuPixel)

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