Full Version: Petrification and aging
Right.
If I remeber teh spell description right, the created stone stills show up the organic structure of what was petrified - the stone cristals reproduce the cells, veins, nerves and whatnots.
Sculpted stone (or the use of a 'shape' spell) lacks that structure, which means that if you drop the spell you're likely to end up with at best some sort of undifferenciated fleshy mess. Or more likely to have the extra bits remaining in stone. Embarassing when that extra muscle turns into a full-body cast, far worse if it's your neck...
Back to the original question, since the metabolism is thoroughly stopped, the target should neither be conscious nor age. Weathering and other minor damage to the 'statue' should in my opinion translate as bruising, minor cuts and abrasion, a few boxes of stun damage and one or two physical.
Sculpted stone (or the use of a 'shape' spell) lacks that structure, which means that if you drop the spell you're likely to end up with at best some sort of undifferenciated fleshy mess. Or more likely to have the extra bits remaining in stone. Embarassing when that extra muscle turns into a full-body cast, far worse if it's your neck...
Back to the original question, since the metabolism is thoroughly stopped, the target should neither be conscious nor age. Weathering and other minor damage to the 'statue' should in my opinion translate as bruising, minor cuts and abrasion, a few boxes of stun damage and one or two physical.
QUOTE (Manunancy @ Jun 23 2012, 02:35 AM) 
If I remeber teh spell description right, the created stone stills show up the organic structure of what was petrified - the stone cristals reproduce the cells, veins, nerves and whatnots.
Sculpted stone (or the use of a 'shape' spell) lacks that structure, which means that if you drop the spell you're likely to end up with at best some sort of undifferenciated fleshy mess. Or more likely to have the extra bits remaining in stone. Embarassing when that extra muscle turns into a full-body cast, far worse if it's your neck...
Sculpted stone (or the use of a 'shape' spell) lacks that structure, which means that if you drop the spell you're likely to end up with at best some sort of undifferenciated fleshy mess. Or more likely to have the extra bits remaining in stone. Embarassing when that extra muscle turns into a full-body cast, far worse if it's your neck...
Of course, this is the 2070s. They have nanoconstructors these days. Sure, it's probably a lot more expensive than paying for cyberware, but they could probably use nanoconstructors to meld the stone together and create biological channels and all in stone.
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Back to the original question, since the metabolism is thoroughly stopped, the target should neither be conscious nor age. Weathering and other minor damage to the 'statue' should in my opinion translate as bruising, minor cuts and abrasion, a few boxes of stun damage and one or two physical.
This, this. Your skin will look like hell for a while until it grows back, but you should be fine from simple weathering, even 2070s style super-acid-rain weathering... Heck, even if you were left out since the 2050s!
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If I remeber teh spell description right, the created stone stills show up the organic structure of what was petrified - the stone cristals reproduce the cells, veins, nerves and whatnots.
The spell is silent on this matter, actually. It's a perfectly good assumption, of course, but all we really know is the writers said 'turns into calcium carbonate'. We also know for certain they're unconscious, but every other detail of any kind is just reasonable conjecture for us. 
QUOTE (Yerameyahu @ Jun 23 2012, 02:56 PM)
The spell is silent on this matter, actually. It's a perfectly good assumption, of course, but all we really know is the writers said 'turns into calcium carbonate'. We also know for certain they're unconscious, but every other detail of any kind is just reasonable conjecture for us.
I sort of remember a line somewhere mentioning using a 'geology' skill and noticing some organic-likestructures into a piece of stone coming from a basilisk 's victim (or other petrifying crittter)
QUOTE (Manunancy @ Jun 25 2012, 02:11 AM)
I sort of remember a line somewhere mentioning using a 'geology' skill and noticing some organic-likestructures into a piece of stone coming from a basilisk 's victim (or other petrifying crittter)
Harlequin's Back, I think, although I believe that it was flesh changed by a spell.
What's that, a novel? It's not "teh spell description", anyway.
It's not "teh spell description", anyway.
Harlequin's Back is an Adventure for Shadowrun.
If it's game information in an Adventure, then that's 'valid'. But even if it's not, the 'structured stone' idea is still a perfectly reasonable assumption. We don't require RAW for everything, after all. Does having this be true change how we deal with the spell? It should be easy to detect without that, because it has to be sustained/quickened.
Does having this be true change how we deal with the spell? It should be easy to detect without that, because it has to be sustained/quickened.
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