 Suggests for an Ally spirit's form |
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 Jan 14 2004, 04:32 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 21-October 03 Member No.: 5,749  |
I need a suggestion. My fire mage is summoning an ally spirit soon. I figure one form will be a traditional samuri decked out with flames, but I think a less threatening form might also be useful. Maybe some kind of animal, but I can't think of any good ideas. Any suggestions?
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Jan 14 2004, 04:36 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
A pigeon...going down in flames. :grinbig:
Maybe a miniature pheonix -- watching it explode, self-immolate and you get left with an ugly chicken until the feathers grow in... -Siege Edit: Maybe one of those tiny chicken briquettes...squabs? |
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Jan 14 2004, 04:37 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Well, keep in mind that the spirit does not need to have any given motif.
He could look like a samurai, or column of fire, or a multicolored bird that trails rainbow-hued flames, or an obsidian knife with silver traced Arabic incantations to Ifrits, or nearly anything else. |
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Jan 14 2004, 04:46 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Sheep, cute sheep. They are the least threatening and boring animal I can think of. Hell, if the fools in LOTRs had used a sheep for the Ring bearer, they wouldn't need to fight. The Eye would be sound asleep...Baa...
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Jan 14 2004, 05:45 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
A dikoted Silvergun, of course!
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Jan 14 2004, 05:53 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
It's a Dikoted Slivergun.
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Jan 14 2004, 06:31 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
John wrote exactly what he meant. ;) A female form of some type never really goes amiss, and has a number of practical (and some not-so-practical) benefits. :) |
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Jan 14 2004, 06:43 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 9-October 03 Member No.: 5,702 |
A domestic cat composed of smoke. The eyes remain opaque, "real" cat's eyes. I had a NPC mage that specialized in fire. His ally looked like a chinese dragon with red-laquered, gold-edged scales. It had a small (about .7 meters) form, and a big one. The larger was about 3 meters and more fierce looking.
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Jan 14 2004, 06:56 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 |
An invisible naked human. or just a human form and looks like John Doe. Give him formfitting, longcoat and some guns.
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Jan 14 2004, 07:07 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
An attractive female troll with a Catholic schoolgirl's outfit and a copy of the Kama Sutra.
~J |
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Jan 14 2004, 08:02 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 344 Joined: 28-July 03 Member No.: 5,133 |
I'm working on an ally spirit myself.
2 forms. 1. a small monkey, just like the kind I often shapechange into. 2. Me. Why look here comes Kong with his monkey on his shoulder. Course, the Kong (me) is in fact the ally spirit and the monkey on it's shoulder is me shapechanged. Looking forward to having another me around, specially one I have a mind link with. Kong |
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Jan 14 2004, 08:29 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 11-May 02 Member No.: 2,723 |
Other forms (for undetected materialization, primarily):
- empty soda can, slightly damaged - fire hydrant / lighting pole - office plant with pot - small tree - generic wage-slave - some small dual-natured animals (devil rat? ;explains magical nature of materialized form) - normal jeans and sweatshirt form (if he ever gets free, he'll be happy about this) for scams - lone star officer - few sticks of dynamite with complicated electronics on top ("Sir, this bomb may not be as easy to defuse as you think, there's some kind of spirit in it.") - Doc Wagon team member - dragon - gun - big truck (I know, the spirit is only able to do in this form what he can normally do, but any driver is sure to heed him if he stands in the middle of the intersection. Reminds me....) - traffic lights - camera / audio recorder |
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Jan 14 2004, 01:59 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,685 Joined: 17-August 02 Member No.: 3,123 |
http://www.realdoll.com
My personal favorite, although I haven't had time to check out some of the new galleries. Some of the others look damn good too. |
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Jan 14 2004, 02:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 10-February 03 From: Leeds, UK Member No.: 4,046 |
Another wife-friendly link. :eek: |
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Jan 14 2004, 06:24 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,632 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Portland Oregon, USA Member No.: 1,304 |
If you are going to post a link like that, please warn us. Some of us are at work :mad:
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Jan 14 2004, 07:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 189 Joined: 17-December 03 From: Louisville, KY Member No.: 5,912 |
*whew*
glad i read bearclaw's post first. i'm at work too. I think a wristwatch/phone would work well. if the spirit needed to communicate, you'd get a call. i'm not too sharp on the spirit rules right now, so i don't know if they can communicate telepathically. |
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Jan 14 2004, 08:54 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
A dikoted katana.
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Jan 14 2004, 09:03 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,632 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Portland Oregon, USA Member No.: 1,304 |
Can you dikote the slivers in a SILVERGUN? |
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Jan 14 2004, 09:07 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
You can even dikote the wounds that the dikoted slivers of a dikoted ally-spirit silvergun causes.
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Jan 14 2004, 10:25 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,685 Joined: 17-August 02 Member No.: 3,123 |
Hey, it's not like there were any naked people or anything. :P |
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Jan 14 2004, 10:29 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Or you dikote the dikoted ally spirit katana/slivergun and dikote the dikoted slivers and then dikote the wounds of the opponent.
And dikote your bones! Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Dikote Anyways- a dikoted claymore does (str+2) D. Yowch! |
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Jan 15 2004, 04:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 138 Joined: 5-August 03 Member No.: 5,252 |
...
lets see.... fire-based beings.... 1. Hot elven redhead in gender of choice (DUH! should be a alternative form no matter what!) 2. Phoenix (Classic) 3. Hellhound (once again, classic) 4. Humanoid form composed of fire (Can we say "Classic"?) 5. Think of a patch of living and thinking and moving ink, only red and hot.... (Hmm... that'd be a nice combo with the hot elven redhead!) so there, some ideas! now, no matter what it is, dikote the sucker! (maybe not the elven redhead...) |
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Jan 15 2004, 07:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 27-January 03 From: Kentucky, USA Member No.: 3,958 |
I generally prefer to give any ally spirit a few forms.
1) Their default "spirit form", in your case the flaming samurai. 2) An innocuous metahuman form with street cloths, usually someone you can pass off as your "companion." 3) Said companion in more formal wear, for those Johnson meets in ritzy restaraunts and times where you need to pass for a corp type. 4) An animal form, such as a dog or a raccoon, for scouting missions where a physical presence is still required. 5) Something really, really intimidating, such as the kind of thing that gives H P Lovecraft nightmares. 8) In your specific situation: 2 & 3 would be a human/metahuman with dusky skin and red hair, as mentioned earlier. 4 could be any kind of animal with reddish fur, or associated with fire. 5 could be a number of things. One is the appearance of a swirling, sentient fire a few feet across... just imagine this roiling mass of flame chasing you down the hall. :eek: A standard Fire Elemental form works also, and could help trick enemy mages. ("Why the hell isn't my banishing working? It must be stronger than I thought!") Perhaps a "magma golem" form? An eight-foot-tall humanoid form made of crackling, steaming lava coming at the sec guards... Remember, the spirit's forms are mostly for your benefit, and for fooling anyone who sees them. Trick them into thinking your spirit is a cigarette lighter, or that you can summon red dragons! :rotate: |
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Jan 15 2004, 07:34 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 22-July 03 Member No.: 5,013 |
That's it! I'm starting up METS! Metahumans for the Ethical Treatment of Spirits! No more summoning spirits into unsafe locations! No using them for combat! No forcing them to inhabot something! Rights for Spirits now!
*grin* Let my public stoning begin! -fr |
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Jan 15 2004, 11:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
Fire and Chaos:
If you remember the GHOST RIDER comic book series from MARVEL COMICS (the Johnny Blaze/Zarathos version, that is; Blaze being the human host, and Zarathos being the demon who was grafted onto his soul by the demon lord Mephisto), Blaze rode a customized motorcycle--possibly a modified Harley-Davidson Sportster 800 or 1200. When Zarathos took over, he would create an identical motorcycle composed of mystical flame ("hellfire"), or possibly transform the existing one by mystical means. Anyway, I haven't read ALL of my SR novels yet, but wasn't there a character in one of them whose Ally Spirit could take the form of a motorcycle, or some other vehicle? Just a thought. :) --Foreigner |
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