| From: | Rat winterhawk@*********.net |
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| Subject: | Vehicle Spirits? (was Nature Spirits) |
| Date: | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:31:14 -0700 |
>
> According to most varieties of shamanism, everything has a
> spirit. Of course, some spirits aren't as powerful or developed as
> others. Just because your sports car of choice is extremely
> well-designed, it doesn't mean it has a spirit powerful enough to be
> summoned like normal nature spirits.
>
> You can summon the spirit of a place to act in your behalf, but
> I wouldn't allow a player to summon spirits of vehicles and weapons.
>
For an interesting take on summoning spirits of technological
items, a good movie to watch is "The Manitou." The story centers
on a young woman who has been chosen to be the agent for the
rebirth of an ancient medicine man (his fetus starts growing
and developing on her neck). Two men, one a charlatan mystic
and the other a Native American shaman, try to help her, but
at the end the shaman discovers that the medicine man is too
powerful for his type of magic. The charlatan mystic ends up
summoning the manitous of technological items (a typewriter
first, then a mainframe computer) to do battle with the
medicine man, who, because his last incarnation was in the
1700s, has no experience with these new-type spirits.
It's kind of a cheesy movie, but it's pretty good for SR ideas.
I made a run out of it and it went great. :)
(It's also a novel by Graham Masterton which is less
cheesy but every bit as good.)
--Rat
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