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 Oct 28 2004, 07:18 PM
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Deus Absconditus  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566  |
I've had elementals for tea and for dinner a couple of times. I think once out of four tries did I get one that had enough rudimentary personality to have a conversation.
And, of course, there's always Hiro - the gay free fire elemental at UC Berkeley. Which just rocks. |
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Oct 28 2004, 10:15 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Which bothers me only because I wasn't aware un-dikoted spirits had sex. Or at least a gender to qualify as hetero or homo sexual.
-Siege |
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Oct 28 2004, 10:16 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I think it ends up being more what they identify with rather than an actual gender...
~J |
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Oct 28 2004, 10:20 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Sorry, it still gives me a headache - a genderless spirit decides to have sex with men or women.
It can only be called hetero or homo sexual if the spirit has a gender of it's own. Sorry, over-analyzing. Will stop now. -Siege |
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Oct 28 2004, 10:24 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
There is no issue there.
Most free spirits choose a gender, and even have seperate names for one type (anime / anima, IIRC). |
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Oct 28 2004, 10:51 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Well, demons that drain their victim's life force by having sex are fairly common in folklore. Assuming taht succubi/incubi and their counterparts in other cultures aren't vampire varients, they're probably Free Spirits. There's more than one way for a spirit to get karma. |
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 Oct 28 2004, 10:54 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 392 Joined: 18-October 04 From: Tujunga, CA Member No.: 6,768 |
Wonder if a spirit could check out a girl for you and let you know if she was healthy on the inside. DD free and all. This way you are not walking in blind. :)
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Oct 28 2004, 10:56 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
No better than someone with Astral Perception and a high Int and/or Arua Reading skill. |
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 Oct 28 2004, 11:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 392 Joined: 18-October 04 From: Tujunga, CA Member No.: 6,768 |
Well I think I have an idea. I will start a dating servus for extra cash (ingame) that will pay for that cultured bio I needed. We will get spirits to check out all the women who sign up. It will be a great hit.
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Oct 28 2004, 11:07 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Corporations around the world pay an average of 100 dollars an hour for the creation of wards (a service which can be performed by summoned spirits as well!). Using the Enchanting skill can garnish hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a few months. The spell design skill could net even more in a similar amount of time. Magicians have no lack of methods to earn money, it's just the raising of one's profile that presents issues. YMMV |
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Oct 28 2004, 11:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 392 Joined: 18-October 04 From: Tujunga, CA Member No.: 6,768 |
Well it would have been funny...
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Oct 28 2004, 11:12 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Actually, I'm was trying to say you need to do more than look at their auras to make money, but maybe that's what you meant. And no, it really wasn't that funny anyway.
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Oct 28 2004, 11:28 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Snicker.
Ya know, a free spirit hooker would make a lot of Karma. John: "What, no cash? And you'll do what? All I have to give you is a little...what? Wheee!" -Siege |
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Oct 28 2004, 11:34 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Animus/anima. Anime is rather different ;) ~J |
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Oct 29 2004, 12:13 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Not in the context of this discussion. :grinbig: -Siege |
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Oct 29 2004, 12:34 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,590 Joined: 11-September 04 Member No.: 6,650 |
yeah anime is the non gender specific version (shonen and shojou subtypes notwithstanding :D )
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Oct 29 2004, 01:04 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,898 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Wouldn't it be animum?
~J |
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Oct 29 2004, 02:10 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 17-December 03 Member No.: 5,909 |
I had a quadrapelegic mage character once (who is now retired and trying to take over sinsearch) and he uses his elementals for mundane tasks all the time. He has spirits bound to his house to perform these duties (house rule: If a spirit can be bound to defend it could also be bound to go aroundonce a day and sweep, cook, ect....)
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Oct 29 2004, 02:13 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
It's really so much cheaper to buy a drone than use Elementals.
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Oct 29 2004, 02:23 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 17-December 03 Member No.: 5,909 |
Yea but drones just arnt his style :D He also has a printed hermatic library rating 8 (yes he does have a room in his house devoted to this). And plus their is something about an earth elemental materializing and running kids off his lawn that carries more of a threat than an infirm (-6 i think) quadrapelegic albino elf doing it.
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Oct 29 2004, 03:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 626 Joined: 1-March 04 Member No.: 6,112 |
:| What did you BUY with all those points!?
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Oct 29 2004, 03:08 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
Apparently, sorcery, conjuring, spells, and either resources or pre-game spirits.
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Oct 29 2004, 04:24 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 17-December 03 Member No.: 5,909 |
Hmm lets see homeground, bonus attribute point Char, exceptional attribute Will, quick healer, and 3 spirit affinitys (house rule as well I got one for earth, fire, and air elementals it reduces the TN to summon by one)
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Oct 29 2004, 11:23 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499 |
Perhaps it's just me but that screams broken...... |
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Oct 29 2004, 11:41 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
For a hermetic mage, this advantage is largely economic (less money spent on conjuring materials) than otherwise, since elementals have to be summoned in a (force) hours long ritual.
For a shaman, this would probably be broken, for a hermetic, I'm not sure. |
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