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Are you really sure you want to know the answers from some of these folks?

I had a lot of fun when one of our players managed to summon an ally spirit with a very low (2) conjuring skill and barely pulled it off. The spirit was still pretty new, as was the character, with an average intelligence. So the spirit was pretty fresh "off the shelf" to. It took everything literally for the first few months of life. Really amusing when it started fighting another players ally under a couch after moving from under the table (summon told him to drink the other ally "under the table". of course, not wanting to be drank, the other ally fought back. Fight moved to under the couch.). He told him to take it "outside" so he took the very expensive couch outside. Good times

The rules concerning astral quests to reduce the karma for learning a spell do not make any distinction between learning the spell for yourself or learning the spell for your ally spirit, so I allow the reduced karma cost.

... and get that cerebral booster installed before the summoning.

There has been arguement of whether or not sustained Increase Attribute spells for Charisma, Intelligence and Willpower would apply. Some say the spirits attributes are equal to the summoners at the summoning while others contend they are not the summoners actual permanent attributes.

This is why I do not allow it to be this simple to create a free spirit.

Average chance of 1 in 12, so the world should have billions of free spirits as every shaman or wujen will be doing this. Actually every magician that can conjure a spirit that can go free, it just may cost some a bit more to start with.

I'm with fistandantilus3.0 on this one, I'd need to see that rule. As far as I know, the rule youy are citing is specific for giving karma to a free spirit, not vice versa.

I'll add to the idea though. If you bind more than one free spirit, you could use the conjuring ritual while ordering the spirits to swap karma back and forth to each other.

Do you mean have the spirit increase its force, as hyzmarka meant? I am not sure how initiating really increases your power beyond other uses of karma, wheras I do see how the spirit's power increases by raising its force.

Sorry, this is ignoring the limits in the rules. The number of positive options that can be listed is limited by the rating of the gear used or the doctor's Medicine Skill. The maximum gear rating is 8, so that is the absolute maximum regardless of Medicine rating. So the absolute maximum essence reduction is 40% if the surgery goes well enough to grant the 8 positive options this requires.

Already disputed.

If you have created the ally then you assign it its name I believe, so there is no need to go on the Astral Quest to find its True Name. But as you say, you could not repeat step 2 often enough to get your wealth power before running out of Magic points (ie you could only do it 6 times unless you were an initiate). However, a Nosferatu could summon Allies indefinately as long as it kept feeding.

That seems a much more efficient way of doing it. I suspect most Totems would get fed up of their shaman screwing around with spirits only to set them free then hunt them down as soon as they make a home for themselves... but a mage should be fine doing this.

I haven't heard of this rule before either... do we have a reference for it yet?

For one thing, your low-Force ally spirit is easier to be Banished by an enemy conjuror. If things go badly you could lose your ally. That's effectively a lost contact, lost karma, lost magic point, and lost power focus, all in one go.

As a Force 3 spirit she has an effective Magic score of 3, so you could give her a drain-limited Exclusive Manabolt 5 and it would still only inflict drain to the stun track. Even if she does take damage, just spend two turns to send her to her home plane and back again, and she'll be at full health on both tracks.

Ally spirits cannot do either of these things. Nor can they learn Conjuring, new skills, new spells, or additional Spirit Powers (like accident, movement, concealment, etc). It can be given more spells or skills if you perform another ritual on it. However, if you set an ally free, it takes your Magic point with it (so if it was a Familiar you lose that Magic Point at this point) and goes free. At that point it can gain karma on its own (or be given it by any character willing to part with Good karma) and increase its skills and spells. It might be able to learn Conjuring. If it finds another Free spirit willing to teach it metamagics, it could gain them. You could then go on an Astral quest to its home plane and defeat it with its True name (which you assigned it when you created it) at which point you can Bind it to you. Unless you'd made an arrangement with the spirit before that this was what you were going to do and it was fine with it, this is likely to put the spirit in a bad mood and that doesn't make a smooth partnership. It will try to break free whenever you take deadly stun or physical damage. But if you'd arranged it in advance and were going to fairly offer the spirit something it would want and benefit from it may well re-enter your service without resentment.

As several people have suggested, ally spirits can be used for sexual activities. This can be allowed as long as the player is respectful. Maybe he doesn't want to endanger a person by having a human wife who could be held hostage or killed in vengence for his illegal shadowrun activities. Having an ally wife who can disappear off to the safety of her own home plane at any point keeps her safe. So if he treats her well, she will likely not want to break free... though once she gains some personality and asks what the meaning or purpose of these nightly activities are, he better have a good explanation and a high Ettiquette roll. It's up to him to figure out what the spirit-equivalent is of taking her out to dinner or buying her new clothes, etc. On the other hand if he treats his ally like a prostitute or a girlfriend that's just what he'll get; pay today, gone tomorrow.

As for what I use ally spirits for... they have several uses. Healing you when you're badly hurt and don't want to risk the drain of healing yourself is an obvious one. Giving an ally your Talismongery and Alchemy skills means when you go out harvesting materials you're more likely to get what you need, more likely to avoid spoiling materials during refinement, and all that. It can even gather while you sleep if you let it. And it can carry on the enchanting process while you duck out to the shops or on a shadowrun without you having to risk the penalties of interrupting the enchanting process.

For petty theft it can be useful: just get it to materialise within a shop and pick up items and put them in the rubbish bin, or out the rubbish chute, then go and collect them. Or get it to open the front door if you like: it has no fingerprints.

There's also that pesky effect that while you are cruising around in astral space you cannot read anything on the physical plane. No problem! Have one of your ally's forms be a transparent glass marble, or something else easily missed by security sensors. Then you get it to materialise and you activate its power to let you look through its eyes (which only costs 1 karma and is well worth getting). Ahh so that's the maglock PIN to your safe? I see...

You can also ask your ally to buff you at times you don't want the hassle of sustaining a spell for a few rounds. For example, your ally could boost your charisma while you summon a spirit to reduce your drain, then drop the spell once it is done. This could also apply to Enhance Aim, Armour, or other such spells.

An ally is also useful as a distractor. Say you are fleeing the crime scene. You conspicuously run in front of a security camera into a small cupboard or a dark area. Then your ally (looking like you) runs out of said cupboard and down the passageway, through a few doors. You can then cast Imp Invisibility and Silence, maybe summon a spirit to Conceal you, and sneak out while all the corp guards / gangers race after your ally. At some point your ally makes elaborate gestures and goes 'invisible' (aka, leaves for its home plane). The only problem for this is that the ally will always appear identically in this form, irrespective of how you are currently dressed, what gear you are wearing and any additional scars / hairdo changes / signs of aging / etc you have since gained.

I have been wondering about allowing players to have an ally with a weapon as one of its forms. They would be required to purchase the weapon and build it into the ally formula so that it was no longer a freestanding weapon. And for ranged weapons they would have to carry the ammo themselves. The ally would materialise as the weapon, they would load it and use it. If the ally had been given a relevant build/repair skill it could even clean itself or fix itself if/when it jammed.

There doesn't. Unless someone's ally spirit is designed to not want to have sex with them and then raped there shouldn't be a problem. Heck, if you have any say in the personality, making the spirit a nympho and then hiring her out could be a quick way to get some cash.

Ah yes my mistake. MitS p114 says they gain their true name when they go free. I was recalling p108 which says their creator retains so much power over them some try to arrange the death of their former master. It is the list of forms, and the native metaplane, that the creator chooses when designing the ally.

You don't get to choose/design the personality. It starts off 'blank' and grows as the DM sees fit (an ally is an NPC) based on how it is treated and what it sees of the world (MitS end of p107). Also the idea of creating joygirl allies for cash has been suggested though allies in my game put to such service would try to go Free as soon as they could.

It's reasonable for allies to ask their creators (as their personality begins to develop) such questions as "who am I?", "why am I here?", "why do I do what I do?" If the answers to such questions go along the lines of "I want a friend who will stand by me who will help me and who I can help grow and learn and do fun things together with. I hope we can both benefit from this partnership and I am willing to invest part of everything we earn together in what you want" then the ally is likely to initially have a positive attitude towards theft, spywork, sex, melee combat and spellslinging/healing during runs, etc. But if the player's response is "I want to release endorfins and hormones in my brain for extremely brief periods occasionally without the use of BTL. Human women would have expectations from me whereas you don't. Human women would slap me and leave me whereas you can't. So I will use you when I want, how I want, for what I want. Obey me unquestioningly or I will banish you and summon a new ally" then that's a different matter entirely.

And sorry; Sense Link is 5 karma, not 1 as I previously said.