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[James McMurray]

In a self righteous way. :)

[emo samurai]

I'm thinking of having him summon an ally spirit down the line as sort of a way for him to have a kid; his lack of faith in human love is what caused him to leave China in the first place, and he's very much the "take care of other living things" type of person, hence his moonlighting as a fairy tale godfather and his taking care of hellhound puppies. He sees what's wrong with having a relationship just to have a kid. Between this and adoption, he'll definitely choose this, since in this case his companion child thing will be born directly of his life force and be really, really uber. Sound like he's becoming the boring dad type?

[emo samurai]

Once he gets the hellhound puppies, he'll shapeshift into one and beat down any puppies that get in his way with force 1 stunbolts. In this form, he'll befriend the smallest and weakest puppy and get it to be the most respected and feared of the litter.

Heh, beating down puppies.

Also, I just updated Shen's bl0g.

I have an idea for one of his shadow "therapy" habits. If his client is an emotional cripple and has a pet that he can't bear loving, he'll kidnap the pet and watch until the owner cries. When he does so, the pet will run back to the yard and jump into the owner's arms. I'm sure it would work.

He'll also use that shapeshift spell to take the form of some small animal, like a puppy or a kitten. He'll use mindlink to communicate in that form.

[Dranem]

Wow, he sounds like a real humanitarian... beating on the very creatures he sets to take care of.. such a loving character....

[emo samurai]

No, see, puppies play-fight. This playfighting's cute and everything, but it can also cause psychological damage for the smallest ones. This is sort of like immersive therapy for puppies in which it's cared for by another ultra-puppy. And I DID remember saying "force 1..."

[emo samurai]

Dude, I was thinking, it would be fun to be a puppy. Shen would love being petted on the head by his client, and I'm sure his client would enjoy petting him on the head. It should be mutually therapeutic.

I think he'll cry a lot for other people, but won't mind because he could basically crush anyone who made fun of him. This'll be a theme throughout his life; while he was a child, he had a lot of friends he made by being a really nice kid, including among grown-ups. When he got his magic, this expanded to manaboltings and spirits. He always had a reputation for being just really nice and benevolent, and even though he's depressed and pissed-off now, he tries to be nice to his clients, many of whom he doesn't ask for money, just the ones whose pets he steals.

Also, how do I roleplay the end of his little occupation of the Barrens? It seems a little God-Mod-ey to just say "it turned out fine yay!!"

[cx2]

I thought I read about a global sin repository of some sort, if I'm remembering correctly...

His parents can't control his sin
His sin would be valid in any setting, but he would have to apply for immigration or get deported if he got caught

[emo samurai]

That's why one of his contacts is a NAN shaman who sponsored him for immigration. The man is also his landlord.

[Glyph]

I think about any way that you resolve his "occupation" of the barrens would be god-modey. Ditto for a lot of the other stuff - unless another GM will be running any of this, you are basically just hand-waving and saying "This is what happens."

The problem is that you are kind of running him like an NPC now. A player can only say what his or her character does, and the GM handles the rest of it. If you want to at least make it less god-modey, then start having his actions result in complications, or even disasters.

For the cult, maybe he starts it as a joke and ends it, only to find out that another, less scrupulous magician has started it up again, and it is starting to turn into a really nasty one, too. Hey, maybe it could even be the magician that his parents hired who does it. I already talked about all of the ways that his counseling could result in complications. The hellhound puppies also sound like a disaster in the making. It sounds like someone, who has no active or knowledge skills in handling animals, is trying out his own untested conjectures on a group of dangerous paranimals.

If there is another GM, it might help to bounce some of this stuff off of that GM, to get an idea of what might or might not work out as the character has planned.

[emo samurai]

I'll do that.

I'm not going to have my dude run a cult, but if he did, I'd relish a plot development like that.

And as for hellhounds, they're supposed to be like normal dogs, except they breathe fire and are smarter.

[James McMurray]

[emo samurai]

They seem to have the same instincts, though. And there's a canon old lady from Awakenings who has a hellhound as a pet. I'm sure that if an old lady can keep one in her apartment, Shen could keep one on his High lifestyle home.

[James McMurray]

Yeah, because she must have trained it just like regular animal trainers do with normal dogs. ;)

[Grinder]

[emo samurai]

What about a puppy?

[Grinder]

A puppy can be trained too. ;)

[emo samurai]

Especially if my dude himself turned into a puppy.

[James McMurray]

If you teach a dog (or likely a hellhound also) to respect you while you're a puppy, it may not even associate your human and dog forms. Your smell is almost certainly going to be different. A hellhound might be smart enough to make the connection if you change in front of it.

Do you intend to mount them? Dogs sometimes do that as a sign of authority. :D

[emo samurai]

If my character does that, I'm sure he'd lose concentration before it gets too far. :D

[Grinder]

That's so weird! But did I expect anything else?

No. ;)

[cx2]

You've got to give the guy credit though, he's representing SR far more faithfully than Microsoft... Then again so could my cat ;)

[emo samurai]

Puppy humpings are VERY SR.

[James McMurray]

Yep. didn't the burgeoning shaman in the Dragonheart trilogy get his mojo from Dog?

[NightHaunter]

Hang on! Why do you have a character in your own campaign?

[emo samurai]

If I play him, it'll be when somebody else GMs and I have no prior knowledge of what he'll do. And if he comes into the game while I GM, it'll be as a contact, or somebody over a comlink.