 The 1 percent, Magicians, Magic, and the financial issues |
 Aug 7 2008, 03:45 AM
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If the awakened represent one percent of the population, and magic is such an incredibly destabilizing factor... why would anyone with that power ever become a security guard?
Or a shadowrunner, for that matter? You'd think that the incentive to join the establishment for a big signing bonus would secure the loyalty of nearly anyone. I mean, one can only live on the street for so long using his level 3 power focus as a pillow before the urge to come in from the cold becomes overpowering... So what are our magically active characters' and npcs' motivations for remaining in their less than corporate optimized positions? |
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VagabondStar The 1 percent Aug 7 2008, 03:45 AM
Cthulhudreams It makes no sense. Consider the application of the... Aug 7 2008, 03:52 AM Wintersmith Perhaps they bear a personal grudge against the co... Aug 7 2008, 04:05 AM Cold-Dragon Not everyone would necessarily work for a corps be... Aug 7 2008, 04:33 AM Cthulhudreams You could just work into a magical recruitment age... Aug 7 2008, 04:44 AM sunnyside A couple things.
First of all 1% is a small segme... Aug 7 2008, 05:16 AM Cthulhudreams Who the hell would use a sec mage for security.
... Aug 7 2008, 05:33 AM Cadmus Don't forget, that in general like gangers man... Aug 7 2008, 05:40 AM Cthulhudreams They wont even have to think of it. Consultants wi... Aug 7 2008, 05:48 AM sunnyside I was figuring in the heal spell. The trick being... Aug 7 2008, 06:21 AM Muspellsheimr 1% Awakened population consists of Magicians, Myst... Aug 7 2008, 06:28 AM sunnyside Nah I'd say you'd see a lot more magic 3-5... Aug 7 2008, 06:40 AM Riley37 How is Movement and Secmage incompatible? Get on t... Aug 7 2008, 06:41 AM sunnyside Like the book says mages often pull sec duty on th... Aug 7 2008, 07:12 AM
Heath Robinson QUOTE (sunnyside @ Aug 7 2008, 08:12 AM) ... Aug 7 2008, 08:39 AM Blade First, please note that in most "First World... Aug 7 2008, 07:57 AM Cthulhudreams Note that my 400k is actually a ludiciously low es... Aug 7 2008, 08:01 AM Shiloh QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 7 2008, 09:01 ... Aug 7 2008, 08:24 AM Cthulhudreams Edit: Any corp that didn't pay that much would... Aug 7 2008, 08:27 AM masterofm There are a lot of magic 1 or magic 2 people. It... Aug 7 2008, 08:52 AM Cthulhudreams Yeah, but while the 1-2 mages as sec mages is nice... Aug 7 2008, 08:59 AM Isath Well...as it has allready been pointed out not eve... Aug 7 2008, 09:00 AM Yoan I don't buy that the average Mage can just use... Aug 7 2008, 09:08 AM Cadmus For the people talking about healing and cargo mov... Aug 7 2008, 09:18 AM Isath Yes, I think you are absolutely right there. For m... Aug 7 2008, 09:24 AM sunnyside As has been mentioned Cthulhudreams since we don... Aug 7 2008, 09:25 AM Cthulhudreams The problem with saying that lots of mages arn... Aug 7 2008, 09:26 AM Muspellsheimr QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 7 2008, 03:26 ... Aug 7 2008, 09:36 AM Cthulhudreams QUOTE (Muspellsheimr @ Aug 7 2008, 04:36 ... Aug 7 2008, 10:09 AM masterofm You screw up. Why is the crazy gun bunny not in s... Aug 7 2008, 09:35 AM Sir_Psycho Mages have to go to college. They have to learn co... Aug 7 2008, 09:40 AM Shiloh QUOTE (Sir_Psycho @ Aug 7 2008, 10:40 AM)... Aug 7 2008, 10:20 AM sunnyside Again a mage on sec duty would rarely be doing tha... Aug 7 2008, 09:56 AM masterofm Shamans have to go to college? Granted some mages... Aug 7 2008, 09:56 AM Rasumichin QUOTE (masterofm @ Aug 7 2008, 10:56 AM) ... Aug 7 2008, 07:30 PM Blade I think you can compare sec mage with security hac... Aug 7 2008, 09:59 AM Isath Don't also forget, that this teen mistery of a... Aug 7 2008, 10:04 AM masterofm Magical healing is a one shot kind of deal. You w... Aug 7 2008, 10:22 AM Muspellsheimr First, relying solely on magic for your supposed m... Aug 7 2008, 10:26 AM Blade If you pick Option A you don't get to fireball... Aug 7 2008, 10:32 AM sunnyside There just isn't that much demand for magical ... Aug 7 2008, 10:33 AM masterofm Just as there are significant reasons why someone ... Aug 7 2008, 10:38 AM Isath QUOTE My point is there should be no sec mages, re... Aug 7 2008, 10:42 AM Sir_Psycho QUOTE Shamans have to go to college?
If you look, ... Aug 7 2008, 11:02 AM sunnyside Two other quick thoughts.
In addition to not need... Aug 7 2008, 11:03 AM Tiger Eyes QUOTE (sunnyside @ Aug 7 2008, 06:03 AM) ... Aug 7 2008, 04:08 PM masterofm Uuuuh... you can clean up astral background count.... Aug 7 2008, 06:29 PM De Badd Ass Don't forget Humanis.
Also, Astral Travel bei... Aug 7 2008, 06:57 PM sunnyside @masterofm I see mages in hospitals as being the... Aug 7 2008, 07:47 PM Heath Robinson QUOTE (sunnyside @ Aug 7 2008, 08:47 PM) ... Aug 7 2008, 07:54 PM masterofm Also a good point, in the end the magical healing ... Aug 7 2008, 07:54 PM Heath Robinson QUOTE (masterofm @ Aug 7 2008, 08:54 PM) ... Aug 7 2008, 08:01 PM sunnyside QUOTE (Heath Robinson @ Aug 7 2008, 03:01... Aug 7 2008, 08:51 PM DragonDecker Remember, it isn't unknown for a govt to contr... Aug 7 2008, 10:29 PM Rasumichin QUOTE (DragonDecker @ Aug 7 2008, 11:29 P... Aug 7 2008, 10:47 PM Cthulhudreams Another possible way of dealing with BC is just to... Aug 7 2008, 11:09 PM DireRadiant 1% of the population can possibly qualify for cert... Aug 7 2008, 11:30 PM Flatliner The feeling from the world always seemed that more... Aug 8 2008, 09:25 AM Shiloh QUOTE (Flatliner @ Aug 8 2008, 10:25 AM) ... Aug 8 2008, 10:12 AM Flatliner Separate from pure statistics, that doesn't de... Aug 8 2008, 10:28 AM Shiloh QUOTE (Flatliner @ Aug 8 2008, 11:28 AM) ... Aug 8 2008, 11:04 AM Isath I ususally go with the magic is somewhat rare appr... Aug 8 2008, 10:56 AM Blade I think that streetsamurai with 250 000/1M nuyens ... Aug 8 2008, 11:52 AM sunnyside QUOTE (Blade @ Aug 8 2008, 07:52 AM) I th... Aug 8 2008, 12:33 PM Halabis How about this?
1 percent of Metahumans are magic... Aug 8 2008, 01:49 PM Shiloh QUOTE (Halabis @ Aug 8 2008, 02:49 PM) 1%... Aug 8 2008, 02:00 PM Cthulhudreams Highly skilled shootists actually have pretty limi... Aug 8 2008, 04:43 PM Isath Hackers could still work as admins, network specs,... Aug 8 2008, 05:15 PM Cthulhudreams Certainly, though remember a significant proportio... Aug 8 2008, 06:23 PM Isath Well if such a portion of the awakened is going to... Aug 8 2008, 07:28 PM Cthulhudreams Actually, what I'd suspect they do is have ver... Aug 8 2008, 07:37 PM Mäx QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 8 2008, 10:37 ... Aug 8 2008, 07:57 PM Cthulhudreams I presume your using the low light optical mod? A ... Aug 9 2008, 08:56 AM Mäx QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 9 2008, 11:56 ... Aug 9 2008, 09:09 AM JonathanC The simple answer as to why mages don't all wi... Aug 9 2008, 10:24 AM Cthulhudreams Yeah, cybering the mage helps considerably, but al... Aug 9 2008, 10:24 AM Mäx QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 9 2008, 01:24 ... Aug 9 2008, 11:53 AM BullZeye A bunch of drones with LMGs? Simple, a force 6+ sp... Aug 9 2008, 12:50 PM Cthulhudreams The interesting part is that the number of drones ... Aug 9 2008, 03:28 PM Mäx QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 9 2008, 06:28 ... Aug 9 2008, 08:26 PM BullZeye Guess gotta beef up the spirit a bit: force 7 eart... Aug 10 2008, 08:10 AM Cthulhudreams Drywall is actually very weak. I'm not super a... Aug 10 2008, 11:47 AM Mäx QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 10 2008, 02:47... Aug 10 2008, 12:04 PM sunnyside QUOTE (Mäx @ Aug 10 2008, 08:04 AM) You ... Aug 11 2008, 02:49 AM kzt QUOTE (sunnyside @ Aug 10 2008, 07:49 PM)... Aug 11 2008, 04:12 AM sunnyside QUOTE (kzt @ Aug 10 2008, 11:12 PM) Remem... Aug 11 2008, 05:43 AM Cthulhudreams QUOTE (sunnyside @ Aug 11 2008, 01:43 AM)... Aug 11 2008, 05:57 AM kzt QUOTE (sunnyside @ Aug 10 2008, 10:43 PM)... Aug 11 2008, 06:34 AM kzt QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 10 2008, 04:47... Aug 10 2008, 07:45 PM Heath Robinson QUOTE (Cthulhudreams @ Aug 10 2008, 12:47... Aug 10 2008, 11:59 PM Cthulhudreams Yeah you're right, I misremembered. It doesn... Aug 10 2008, 01:18 PM BullZeye Oh, I thought to the idea was that how to beat tho... Aug 10 2008, 04:56 PM masterofm Lone Star is a corporation. It's not a govern... Aug 11 2008, 12:24 AM Jaid 1) i think you have confused lone star with knight... Aug 11 2008, 01:48 AM masterofm Sorry I tend to get the security a little mixed up... Aug 11 2008, 02:14 AM Cthulhudreams If you're unwilling to contract to lone star, ... Aug 11 2008, 02:44 AM Cthulhudreams He might theoretically soak that much damage thoug... Aug 11 2008, 05:08 AM Em97 Don't forget about Aspected Magicians, particu... Aug 11 2008, 05:53 AM BullZeye I think on spirits the armor is layered so that th... Aug 11 2008, 09:29 AM Sir_Psycho I can't believe this thread has to degraded ab... Aug 11 2008, 12:59 PM  |
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