Yeah, but everyone hates emo, including me, except for emo people. You can't favor a threat like that.

Even emo people hate emo, they just don't know it. Mostly because they've never encountered it, because it died before they knew it existed.

~J

So what IS emo?

Big bird, lives in australia, turned into a "Childrens entertainment" puppet character in the seventies...


Oh you said Emo, sorry my mistake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28slang%29

toxic shamans were always my favorite threat. null vote.

People like the magic.

NP, just trying to get some info. I think you're thinking of the Aleph Society and Gaf. In other words, different spirit. Gaf is the one that goes w/ the the whole "blackmoon", "book of Gaf", blood sacrifice for potency stuff. Thanks for trying though. I really need Threats 1.

Yep. Gaf is indeed who I was thinking of when I referenced the 'cult'. Ignore any of that crap (which is why I hesitated to say anything in the first place ).

I hate getting old and not having total recall.

I'm sure someone can give us a little more actual illumination on Tutor.

It's NP, I always have trouble differentiating what 's happening with the intrigues in our campaign and what's going on in canon. Used to be I could just bring my books to work. But new job, new rules. Thanks.

Tutor is a vengeful free spirit whose sole goal in existence is to avenge abused and "enslaved" spirits everywhere—with extreme prejudice. It tracks down magicians who have ill-treated their conjured spirits and passing itself off as a powerful initiate it offers itself as, you guessed it, their tutor. It teaches them new abilities and spells that are linked to its essence. When the magician uses these abilities/spells (more powerful than their normal versions), Tutor ensures some of the Drain becomes permanent and unhealable. This accumulates until the character realizes what's going on. The only way to heal at that point is to cut a deal with Tutor. This can lead to some nasty blackmail as the mage becomes dependent on Tutor's goodwill to remain functional. Typically Tutor might propose a spirit pact where the magician sacrifices one Magic point for each box of drain (this was SR2) he wants healed, and the other options are all downhill from that.

Thanks very much, that clarifies a lot. Two quick questions on that: how does the drain become permanent and unhealable? Is it some sort of spirit power, or just drain that was bad enough to cause deadly damage and magic loss? And does it ever descrive Tutor's form?

Synner is still my knight in neon armor.

In SR2 it had a unique power (Spirit Tap) and the mechanics represented the habitual exception case (though in this one it boiled down to every time you get Drain from the "surged" spell one box of Stun Drain is permanent).

In SR4 this would be a type of spirit pact.

wicked Thanks Synner, that's what I was looking for. Thankfully, I have a PC that lost an ally because he treated it like crap, then it went free when eh took a nasty wound. The wheels they are a turnin'.