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 Sep 15 2010, 03:53 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916  |
Hey guys,
I have a storyline involving basilisks and I'm not 100% on their petrification power. "Petrification (Paranormal) Type: P • Action: Complex • Range: LOS • Duration: Sustained Critters with the deadly Petrification power can harden flesh into thick stone with a glance. For every net hit on an Opposed Test between the critter’s Magic + Willpower and the target’s Body, the target takes a temporary –1 to Agility and Reaction. When a target’s Agility and Reaction are both reduced to zero, the target is turned to stone. If the critter’s Magic rating is higher than the target’s (augmented) Body, the change can be made permanent. While turned to stone, the victim has a barrier Armor rating equal to the critter’s Magic." How can a runner protect themselves from the power? It is an eye contact thing or does the basilisk just have to see you? Do ze goggles do anything or do you actually need blinders? I'd imagine the power wouldn't work on drones since they're not fleshy. I only see them mentioned in Running Wild and there's a lot of gray area. Any ideas? |
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Sep 15 2010, 03:57 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,579 Joined: 30-May 06 From: SoCal Member No.: 8,626 |
Ze goggle, dey do nahzing!
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Sep 15 2010, 04:14 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,700 Joined: 1-July 10 Member No.: 18,778 |
As written, the basilisk needs to see you, you don't need to see the basilisk. Goggles or closing your eyes will do nothing. However, if you are invisible or it otherwise can't detect you, no problem.
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Sep 15 2010, 04:16 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916 |
So would blindfolding the basilisk work?
Additionally, they list "their own gaze" as a vulnerability, so how do they mate? If all a basilisk has to do is see a target...how do they not kill their mates and their young just be being around them? Is petrification an activated power or is it always on? |
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Sep 15 2010, 04:30 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 392 |
The female probably lays the eggs in a nest and the male trundles along later and fertilizes them.
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Sep 15 2010, 04:32 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,803 Joined: 3-February 08 From: Finland Member No.: 15,628 |
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Sep 15 2010, 07:16 PM)  Is petrification an activated power or is it always on? As its a sustained power, i would say you have to activate it against a target. |
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Sep 15 2010, 04:32 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,989 Joined: 28-July 09 From: Somewhere along the brazilian coast Member No.: 17,437 |
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Sep 15 2010, 01:16 PM) So would blindfolding the basilisk work? Why blindfold when you could just kill it? |
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Sep 15 2010, 04:35 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Or, if you're 'Running for PETA or PETP, Narcojet.
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Sep 15 2010, 04:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916 |
They're worth 40k alive...
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Sep 15 2010, 05:02 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,911 Joined: 26-February 02 From: near Stuttgart Member No.: 1,749 |
QUOTE (X-Kalibur @ Sep 15 2010, 04:57 PM) Ze goggle, dey do nahzing! MUAHAHAHAHA.... |
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Sep 15 2010, 05:03 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 297 Joined: 11-April 10 From: Raleigh, NC Member No.: 18,443 |
QUOTE (X-Kalibur @ Sep 15 2010, 11:57 AM) Ze goggle, dey do nahzing! LOL |
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Sep 15 2010, 06:09 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,700 Joined: 1-July 10 Member No.: 18,778 |
Yeah, it's like magicians - they have to "see" stuff to use it. So blindfolds, darkness, etc will work.
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Sep 15 2010, 06:10 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,996 Joined: 1-June 10 Member No.: 18,649 |
Trolls make good Basilisk hunters.
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Sep 15 2010, 06:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916 |
I'd imagine you just need to send out a decoy and sneak up behind where they can't see you.
I'm not 100% if they can use their ability on multiple targets at once. If you can throw a tarp over it while it's staring at you, you should be fine. |
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Sep 15 2010, 06:18 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,373 Joined: 14-January 10 From: Stuttgart, Germany Member No.: 18,036 |
so you want a troll in a ruthenium suit with a bag full of smoke grenades...their perception dice pool is only 5. so a F5 Concealment works aswell
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Sep 15 2010, 06:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916 |
Ideally, or a drone with a Snuggie.
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Sep 15 2010, 10:05 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,989 Joined: 28-July 09 From: Somewhere along the brazilian coast Member No.: 17,437 |
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Sep 15 2010, 01:40 PM) They're worth 40k alive... Well... In this case, a nissan doberman with a LMG and narcojet will do the trick. |
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Sep 16 2010, 12:24 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 9-August 09 From: MD Member No.: 17,486 |
Couldn't you just advance towards one with a big ol' one-way see-through shield between you and it?
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Sep 16 2010, 01:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 427 Joined: 22-January 10 From: Seattle Member No.: 18,067 |
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Sep 15 2010, 05:16 PM) Additionally, they list "their own gaze" as a vulnerability, so how do they mate? I don't know about you, but gazing at myself in the mirror is not generally required for me to mate... I would assume it's the same for basilisks. |
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Sep 16 2010, 04:03 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 617 Joined: 28-May 03 From: Orlando Member No.: 4,644 |
Damn there goes any reasoning for the mirrored ceiling I was planning
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Sep 16 2010, 06:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916 |
You were planning a mirrored ceiling for your basilisk bordello?
Hot! |
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Sep 16 2010, 07:08 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,179 Joined: 10-June 10 From: St. Louis, UCAS/CAS Border Member No.: 18,688 |
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Sep 15 2010, 04:16 PM) Additionally, they list "their own gaze" as a vulnerability, so how do they mate? Paper bags over their heads. |
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Sep 17 2010, 12:00 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Worst case of "Butterface" ever.
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Sep 17 2010, 11:16 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 303 Joined: 26-May 10 Member No.: 18,622 |
"For many centuries, magicians and scholars puzzled
over how basilisks reproduce. A creature that kills anything it looks at can hardly be expected to mate in any normal way and would most likely kill any baby basilisks it managed to spawn. The answer to this puzzle is that the basilisk does not mate, but splits. Every so often in a basilisk’s life, its tail begins to grow thicker and takes on the appearance of a second head. After several weeks, both heads look exactly the same, and the creature splits in half. The two halves begin to grow new tails, and within days there are two basilisks instead of one." Of course that is the ED explanation from Vasdenjas the Great Dragon and he sometimes seems to like to travestite the truth a bit... |
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Sep 17 2010, 11:35 AM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
How and what do they eat?
Stone? Or are they vegetarians? |
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