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post Aug 23 2004, 01:09 AM
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Picture, if you will, a body being found somewhere in the city, flesh and bloody, only minutes dead. A magician passing by notes that the area of astral space around the corpse...indeed, everywhere around the body for dozens or hundreds of yards...is relatively undisturbed. This is unusual, because death, especially such an apparent murder as this (let's say the victim's stomach was cut open and the entrails surgically removed) leaves an astral background count. What could have happened?

The idea is this: murder leaves a background count behind, and multiple murders in one place over time can create a sustained background count. But what if the murders happened in a moving vehicle? Would the background count develop at the physical location of death (which the vehicle would travel past, having no mark), or would the background count be confined to the vehicle itself.

Imagine a serial murderer driving around in a car that's a black morass of pollution on the Astral.

Imagine a Corrupted mage bidding on a car that was in a drive-by shooting. Maybe he wards the vehicle to keep others from seeing the dark energies he enjoys.

Imagine a travel-trailer used by a team of organleggers, trying to avoid the scene of the crime.

Imagine Ambulance 13, where the EMT, through clumsiness or bad luck, keep losing patients...and the wraith that ends up following it...

Imagine a blood spirit rising from a sacrifice made by a crazed magician in the back of a cab in the shadow of the Aztechnology building; and that the free Blood Spirit is confined to the vehicle, masquerading as a cab driver to lure in unwary fares and thus feed its ravaging hunger.

The runner team buys a former book-mobile (possible Hermetic-library, medecine lodge or Enchanting shop on-the-go) or ice cream truck (keeps bodies and weapons cold, great for defeating thermal scans and hiding armor) on the cheap for a great price, only to find that it's haunted by a former occupant.

Y'know, just a few spare thoughts.
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- Ancient History   Vehicular Homocide and Background Count   Aug 23 2004, 01:09 AM
- - toturi   Cool idea, AH! A toxic waste dumptruck would m...   Aug 23 2004, 01:32 AM
- - RangerJoe   Imagine the VW 'Love Bus,' still touring t...   Aug 23 2004, 03:52 AM
- - Kagetenshi   I'd personally put some background count on bo...   Aug 23 2004, 02:16 PM
- - BitBasher   QUOTE (Kagetenshi) I'd personally put some bac...   Aug 23 2004, 03:32 PM
- - snowRaven   Some very nice ideas AH! Kagetenshi - if the ...   Aug 23 2004, 03:34 PM
- - RangerJoe   A good way to look at the issue might be from the ...   Aug 23 2004, 03:37 PM
- - Kagetenshi   The locations where the murders occurred, if suffi...   Aug 23 2004, 03:45 PM
- - Jason Farlander   Neat Idea(tm) and all that aside, my understanding...   Aug 23 2004, 04:21 PM
- - Ancient History   The general idea is that because the murder happen...   Aug 23 2004, 06:35 PM
- - Jason Farlander   Wait... back up. Non-living things dont have auras...   Aug 23 2004, 06:54 PM
- - Ancient History   Everything has an impression on the astral plane. ...   Aug 23 2004, 06:57 PM
- - Jason Farlander   Ahh yes, here it is - page 171, SR3: QUOTE Non-ma...   Aug 23 2004, 08:18 PM
- - Ancient History   A mobile powersite is a power focus. But I agree...   Aug 24 2004, 02:58 AM
- - hobgoblin   hmm, i kinda like the idea of say a van becomeing ...   Aug 24 2004, 04:16 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Hardly. The difficult part is doing it repeatedly ...   Aug 24 2004, 04:21 AM
- - Jason Farlander   Umm... No, power sites are not simply the crossin...   Aug 24 2004, 04:32 AM
- - hobgoblin   yea i read that later. silly me a power site or ...   Aug 24 2004, 11:14 PM
- - Ancient History   Not quite, Hobgoblin. Intense emotions and events ...   Aug 24 2004, 11:43 PM
- - Black Isis   Ancient, I think your idea about a long smear is p...   Aug 25 2004, 02:58 PM
- - mmu1   QUOTE (Kagetenshi) I'd personally put some bac...   Aug 25 2004, 04:16 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Why, none whatsoever. Whatever do you mean? ~J   Aug 25 2004, 05:06 PM


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