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Shadowrun RPG => Magic and the Planes => Topic started by: Retread on February 11, 2006, 01:07:40 PM
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and Virtuoso pieces.
If you shuttled a Virtuoso piece onto the moon, and let it sit there in the rating 8 mana warp, would the object be destroyed, regardless of it being an actual magical object, or would it allow anyone aspected towards it actually cast spells safely in the warp? Makes ya wonder.
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I thought Space was a Level 8 Mana Warp, and the Moon was slightly better- or is space Level 10, and the moon an 8?
-kv
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space is 10.
The moon, I'm not so sure about, 8 is likely.
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Luna is a level 8 mana warp, which is hypothesized to either be that it is either a chunk of the earth, or it's general use as a deity and symbol which aspects it with mana. Just read Target: Wastelands and rating 8 was listed for the Moon's Mana warp. Which might imply that there are moon bases inside the moon that might only be a rating 6 or less, and if they manage to drag it down to 5, then you might see some successful terraforming via ritual magic links.
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That could be interesting
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you'd have to find quite a daredevil to try to do something magical in that enviroment.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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Aye, but the reward could be very interesting to say the least. I mean when you see Shadowrun 2100, then there would be a moon colony with it's own strange aspected moon mana, and such.
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Let's hope it doesn't get THAT far. Personally, I wans to know what the Background Count is of Io. Underwater seas mean life. Life means mana. Would be interesting.
Gabriel
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getting an aspected magician all the way out to IO could be tough...
and who's to say if the mana there would be compatable to what you've learned earthside?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Good point, but I still wonder about it.
Gabriel
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I suppose you could knock them out so they wouldn't be astrally questing or anything while in coma land on the trip out there...
I still think the first one you sent would explode or have no mana contact... too bad you can't just ask the laughing man what it's like to go for a period without mana...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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:::grumble, grumble,grumble::: Immortal elves... :::Grumble, Grumbel, Grumble:::
Gabriel
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hmm... I guess you could snail-mail an elf to IO.
they'd live long enough to survive the trip.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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If they had enough life-support equipment and didn't mind 10 years of boredom.
Gabriel
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It's not Io that has the suspected life, you're thinking of Europa.
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Ah, that's right. Thanks.
Gabriel
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We could send a couple to IO too... just for kicks and giggles.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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mostly thier kicks and our giggles, though.
;D
-kv
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well, if they were all magic like; they should have seen it coming.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Good luck, I don't fancy subduing a 15th Grade Adept
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that's why you hire the social adept to talk em' into it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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What's to say some of those elves weren't Troubadours in the 4th world?
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On that topic, I wonder what the mana warp level is on the surface and in the center of the Sun.
(Assuming we have some tech or magic that would allow survival there (At least temporarily))
Think about it. Mana comes from life and vice versa.
The Sun is the ultimate source of energy not just for Earth, but the whole solar system and some other celestial neighbors. If the Sun isn't a huge ball of mana, I will eat my familiar. . .
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*shrug* how much mana is in hydrogen?
-Ruski
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If the Sun isn't a huge ball of mana, I will eat my familiar. . .
Does your familiar taste like chicken???? ;)
Gabriel
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Nah, more like chicken flavored soy-substitute. Unless NERPS grabbed my familiar. . .
Then it's sugar-boosted, vodka marinated, with a chewy chocolate center. . . . Mmmm, chocolate.
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Yea... NERPS is the best flavor.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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LOL, Fried chicken with a chocolate center. I wonder why none of us cajuns have tried that yet??? And I'm talking about the region that brought you the deep-fried Twinkie.
Gabriel
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I prefer codfish soaked in lye, then boiled, myself. About the consistency of Jello, just watch out for the cartiledge.
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:crazy:
Gabriel
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wouldn't that be poisenous?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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We call it lutefisk. It's sort of local to Minnesota/North Dakota. (Mostly a Norwegian-American thing).
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I'm a norwegean-american... and that still sounds gross.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, I'd have to side with Ruski and Gabe on that one.
:crazy:
-kv
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Cringla is awsome though.
-Ruski
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Cringla is not boiled lutefish, though.
Cringla (Kringla?) is tasty.
-kv
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*shrugs* Haven't heard of it killing anyone unless in a joke. Gotta watch out for fishbones, though.
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We call it lutefisk.
Just beware of the man with the terrible smell. He'll burn down your church if your not lookin'.
Gabriel
PS - +1 Karma for anyone who can name that reference.
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Cringla is not boiled lutefish, though.
Cringla (Kringla?) is tasty.
If it is what I think it is, it's a sort of pastry, correct?
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Yep. And yes, it is very tasty
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yup! a quite tasty one.
no Uffda about it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol, it's spelled differently than I'm used to, but it's the same word in my native language.
Kringle.
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I spell every word diffrently, no matter what language it originated from.
LOL
most of thoes words i've never seen writen, just heard it tossed arround the grandparrents house.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Just beware of the man with the terrible smell. He'll burn down your church if your not lookin'.
Gabriel
PS - +1 Karma for anyone who can name that reference.
Since Yahoo search has failed me, I vote that that is in reference to the TrashCan Man, of Stephen King's The Stand
Wrong I know. . . but if I closest without going over. . .
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Curris, curris, curris, not nearly redneck enough for that answer. ;)
Gabriel
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hmm... must be from your favorite film 'deliverance'
LOL
-RuskiFace the PIrate
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Ok, since no on e got it, it was from King of the Hill. Then new preacher,a woman from Wisconsin, brings a plate of Lutefisk (or however you spell that) to the church picnic and Bobby eats it all with disasterous consequences.
Gabriel
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OK, new one for you.
Topic , people.
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Oh come on ROOTless, you can't tell me that that lutefisk stuff isn't considered a mana warp. That drek sounds NASTY!!!!
Gabriel
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Gabriel, yeah, you got the right spelling. And it's not as bad as it sounds.
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well, monkey brains probibly tastes just fine... but it sounds bad enough that I'm afraid to try it..
plus, the mana warp caused by killing thousands of monkeys to eat their brains would probibly cause a warp of some kind.
-Ruski
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Gabriel, yeah, you got the right spelling. And it's not as bad as it sounds.
Well, it sounds pretty damn nasty. :crazy:
Gabriel
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The sun may not directly be "mana" as mana is omnipresent. However, it provides a positive "charge" to the mana, making it usable. However, this isn't enough for us fleshy types, as our auras are not used to cosmic radiation and rather need the psycho-filtered variety of mana produced by life and emotion. One might fathom that certain Dracoforms may be able to manipulate the mana charge from natural radiation, but even then, it's not inherently healthy for them to do so, I suspect.
I don't recommend trying to astrally project into a fusion reactor any time soon...
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but if you do feel like doing it, let us know. we'll send the camera crews over to film it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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The camera eh? So, you just film somebody going into a trance, then a moment later, dying?
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*shrug* perhaps they'd explode or somethign.
-Ruski
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I don't recommend trying to astrally project into a fusion reactor any time soon...
Check that off the Tourist attraction list. . .
"Don't head into the light!"
"I can't help it. . . It's so beautiful. . ."
I have visions of CAS redneck mages astrally perceving other mages and spirits fly into their "bug zapper" whilst drinking beer, and resting in rocking chairs on their porches. . .
That's what we need to invent. An astral camera!
'Course then the corps have a new way to spy on visitors. . .
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Makes you wonder how the cops can I.D. you astrally and have it stand up in court, doesn't it?? How do you have evidence if others can't see and catalogue it?
Gabriel
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I don't think they try to take you to court on thoes counts. they just drop gaurdian elementals on your lap if they catch you at it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
you know, if you got some of thoes dual-active bacteria, I bet you could monitor their reactions and get a real world relavance to what was going on arround them...
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There is an astral camera, actually. In SOTA '64 they created a camera that uses a special bio-film to capture an image. However, it's like those old-fashioned cameras where the image takes some time to actually burn, so you're probably not going to get a good image of something that moves.
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And most (non-manifested) astral entities move at the speed of thought, so . . . good luck.
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Hmm... well, if they can get still-frame, it would stand to reason they could update the process, and speed it up.
soon, we'll be seeing the astral sunglasses for sell next to the NERPS.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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And we're back to the Astral Window Sunglasses. I'd buy a pair of those.
Gabriel
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most shadowrunners would. despite the attention a constantly on astral device would attract.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, you could always do some wicked Feng Shui and make the area into an Astral Shallow...
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I'm just saying, that a buncha runners all wearing the glasses in an area where seeing into the astral would be benificial, would also make them a target in that same enviroment.
be carefull that when you stare into the void... that the void also stares into you...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ooh, they could be like those cool x-ray glasses from the 50s!
The ones that didn't even work, but used polarized lenses to jack up your vision!
-kv
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I don't know about you, but I really don't want X-rays bombarding my eyes, you know...