From:	lomion lomion@*********.escnd1.sdca.home.com
Subject:	Essence (was Re: Cyberware and Cosmetic Surgery)
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:25:56 -0700

At 07:14 PM 9/21/99 +0200, you wrote:
>According to John Hopson, at 12:35 on 21 Sep 99, the word on
>the street was...
>
> > Sorry to bring up the whole "what is essence" mess, but it's
come
> up in my
> > game and I'd love a good answer.
>
>Mike Mulvihill talked about this at the Shadowrun seminars at GenCon.
>Basically, for Man & Machine they had to find a definition of Essence, and
>from what I remember (it's been about 1 1/2 months) they settled on that
>Essence loss is convincing yourself that the metal is actually part of
>you. Or something like that, anyway.

does that mean that if i convince myself that this nifty cyberarm really
isn't a part of me i don't lose any essence? heh. The way that essence
has been handled in the past has been fine for me..i did incorporate a bit
of the cyberpsychosis stuff from cyberpunk too.

backing away from the can of worms called essence quickly...


--lomion