Infected and Emergence. |
Infected and Emergence. |
Aug 20 2012, 05:15 PM
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Running Target Group: Banned Posts: 1,105 Joined: 23-August 10 Member No.: 18,961 |
Can an infected metahuman ever emerge? If they can, what becomes of their abilities and infectious state?
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Aug 20 2012, 05:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 18-May 12 From: Tacoma Member No.: 52,460 |
That's a good question... I don't know if a person who was born a ghoul or whatever can emerge (be a technomancer). However, a technomancer who is infected later, their living persona would probably be effected by the virus since it messes with their mental stats. Not sure how becoming duel-natured would mess with their powers.
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Aug 20 2012, 05:30 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Validating Posts: 2,492 Joined: 19-April 12 Member No.: 51,818 |
No Infected could ever Emerge as a Technomancer; if you have a Magic Rating, you cannot also have a Resonance rating.
OTOH, a Technomancer who fell prey to a strain of HMHVV, would lose their Resonance rating entirely - it would be replaced by the Magic Rating granted by the infection. ... So, no. You cannot have an Infected Technomancer. Not by the RAW. |
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Aug 20 2012, 05:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 18-May 12 From: Tacoma Member No.: 52,460 |
Ah good to know. Now to keep my technomancer far away from anyone infected with the HMHVV. Do you know where it would be mentioned in any books?
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Aug 20 2012, 05:45 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,536 Joined: 13-July 09 Member No.: 17,389 |
Can an infected metahuman ever emerge? If they can, what becomes of their abilities and infectious state? No. QUOTE ("SR4A pg68") Magic and Resonance are mutually exclusive attributes. A character who possesses a quality that grants a Magic of 1 or higher cannot have a Resonance attribute. QUOTE ("Runner's Companion pg77") Starting Infected characters start with Essence 5 and Magic 1 during character generation. Since you have to take one of the Infected qualities to become infected, it does grant the magic value of 1 to avoid the rules lawyers. Even without that, the rules still say the two attributes are mutually exclusive. Logically, you start out at character creation as having a Magic and Resonance value of Null not 0. If you have a magic score of 0 due to essence loss or other factors, you still have a Magic attribute and cannot emerge since Resonance is still mutually exclusive from Magic. |
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Aug 20 2012, 05:50 PM
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Running Target Group: Banned Posts: 1,105 Joined: 23-August 10 Member No.: 18,961 |
No Infected could ever Emerge as a Technomancer; if you have a Magic Rating, you cannot also have a Resonance rating. Right. If you have a Res rating, you can't have a Magic rating either. I'm interested in creating a critter that would be the resonant equivalent of an infectious ghoul, and if there's anything in place for handling magic to resonant conversions, or if I should just inverse the existing formula. |
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Aug 20 2012, 05:58 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 18-May 12 From: Tacoma Member No.: 52,460 |
Found it myself, page 83 of Runner's Companion.
QUOTE The character should keep track of how many points of Essence he loses every time he is infected with HMHVV III. After losing 1.0 points of Essence in this fashion, the disease halts (if still ongoing). The character loses all Resonance and technomancer abilities and gains the Infected (Ghoul) Quality and a Magic attribute of 1 (or retains his own Magic attribute, if higher). Revitalization gene therapy cannot recover Essence lost to HMHVV III infection.
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Aug 20 2012, 06:08 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,536 Joined: 13-July 09 Member No.: 17,389 |
Right. If you have a Res rating, you can't have a Magic rating either. I'm interested in creating a critter that would be the resonant equivalent of an infectious ghoul, and if there's anything in place for handling magic to resonant conversions, or if I should just inverse the existing formula. So you're trying to create a disease that causes people to be able to interpret wireless signals? |
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Aug 20 2012, 06:15 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 18-May 12 From: Tacoma Member No.: 52,460 |
The only "creature" I could imagine is some sort of nano-bot swarm that infects the brain and turns it into a wifi-node to transmit its program or something?
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Aug 20 2012, 06:15 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 18-May 12 From: Tacoma Member No.: 52,460 |
(damn double posts)
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Aug 20 2012, 06:28 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,536 Joined: 13-July 09 Member No.: 17,389 |
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Aug 22 2012, 10:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 772 Joined: 12-December 07 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 14,589 |
There are Emergent creatures in Running Wild. I guess one of them could get a super weird variant of the HMHVV(like strain IX or something) which makes a technozombie.
Personally I've always like the idea of the Dissonance being the Maxtrix equivalent of cyberzombies, where you have negative Essence and it creates a hole in the Resonance and becomes Dissonance. It would be a pain to have to work out mechanically, but I've always dug the notion of it. |
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Aug 23 2012, 12:45 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,782 Joined: 28-August 09 Member No.: 17,566 |
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Aug 23 2012, 01:10 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 13-April 07 From: Houston, Texas Member No.: 11,448 |
Wouldn't the pixie technomancer trick work here? With Type 2 and 3 HMHVV definitely yes. Type 1 (vampires) are much more hinky. They dont lose magic unless their essence drops below current magic. And if they lose all their magic, they lose the ability to feed = dead vamp. |
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Aug 23 2012, 01:21 AM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
Udoshi--is there a trick around the rule on Running Wild, p. 205 that I'm not familiar with? That should have closed the open holes. (Magic and Resonance section)
MAGIC AND RESONANCE As mentioned in Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, Magic and Resonance are mutually exclusive. A critter cannot have both abilities, and the corollary ability is prohibited once a specific ability has been expressed. This means that a critter which is normally Paranormal cannot become an Emergent critter even if its Magic is reduced to 0. Likewise, an adept who burns out her magic ability cannot become a technomancer. |
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Aug 23 2012, 02:38 AM
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Running Target Group: Banned Posts: 1,105 Joined: 23-August 10 Member No.: 18,961 |
Eh, that feels like some half-cocked bullshit where 'magic is better!!!11leleventy'.
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Aug 23 2012, 03:56 AM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
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Aug 23 2012, 05:37 AM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
Or that a gene can only express one way. Taking a super simplified version--you can't express melanin production for a caucasian and an african without some abnormalities. If the gene that codes for Magic ability also codes for Resonance, there's no switching.
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Aug 23 2012, 06:29 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,236 Joined: 27-July 10 Member No.: 18,860 |
Eh, that feels like some half-cocked bullshit where 'magic is better!!!11leleventy'. Not really. Actually not at all. It is about making stuff mutally exclusive. Which is kind of a very good idea... The reason behind is quite simple. There are three ways to power in shadowrun. 1. Ware/Modification. 2. Magic 3. Ressonance. Magic is split between Adept and mage and Ware is split between bioware and cyberware. Now since the cost scale with the powerlevel you allready reached in one sector (magic and Ressonance) and the other secotr(ware) is limited and the cost skyrocket as you approach the maximum(going from normal to deltaware). Any kombination you allow has to be considered very carefully. For starters the cyberadept is considered superior to the SAM and the adept by a long run. The mystic adept can be quite superior to mages and adepts if you interpret the rules in the "right" way. So what would a magical technomancer look like? On the first sight, it does not seem to be a problem. True. Because hell it will be a karma sink without end. But then just take a look at what it really means. It means you are able to get for example Initative passes through biowire, you can get yourself a skillwire in addtion. Only spending 4 Technomancer initiations. Now you still need some skill and without some complex forms you won't be that good in the matrix but you can still summon sprites to do your chores. |
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