| From: | Simon and Fiona sfuller@******.com.au |
|---|---|
| Subject: | matrix spirits. (was Re: Vehicle Spirits? (was Nature Spirits)) |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:32:20 +1000 |
From: Paul Collins <paulcollins@*******.com>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Friday, October 13, 2000 6:17 PM
Subject: matrix spirits. (was Re: Vehicle Spirits? (was Nature Spirits))
>>
>> Actually, I've had something like this in mind for a while... to me,
>deckers
>> have always seemed somewhat like Astral Adepts... when they're on their
>> version of the Astral Plane, they are the equivalent of full magicians
>with
>> spells (programs) and even conjuring (Decker-in-a-box, the smart attack
>> frames that function like IC). Take them off that plane, however, and
>they
>> have a lot of theoretical knowledge of only limited use.
>>
>> Thus, if I wind up playing again, I might decide to ignore the Matrix
>rules
>> and work up something more along the lines of Astral Space.
>>
>
>I thought these types of thoughts pretty much as soon as I saw the Otaku
>technoshamens.
>Made me wonder what type of totems they would follow, and if any of them
>would have any real presence in the matrix. (Actually I thought of the
AI's
>as totemic in this case, but other than them.)
>
>I also thought of Harlequin and Harlequin's back, and tripping through the
>meta planes, and of sending a party to a weird metaplane that looked
>remarkably like the matrix, make the mage useless or limited, and the
decker
>have mage like powers.
>
I'm against matrix spirits myself for game reasons, there's no mana or
astral Matrix plane for them to come from. However, the amount of
imagination and love and so forth that goes into the Matrix, it could well
have spirits.
