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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #30 on: July 12, 2006, 08:16:22 AM »

Null sheen.

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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2006, 09:35:11 PM »

So, what good paranormal animals can I throw at my runners? (now that you have a basic synopsis of my intended plotline)

I wanted to do something dire (like a dire tiger or something) and then have the mage protecting the flower hit them with like 3 force 4 spirits all at the same time. Mages would be good against them, but they might not survive to enjoy it.

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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2006, 05:40:39 AM »

If you are in Amazonia, or even Central America in general, you may well run into some free spirits who are fighting in the "Spirit War" that was covered in Year of the Comet (I think). Taking this special flower may well shift the balance of power in one of their struggles. If that is the case, then you will have the spirits of the natural domain fighting the Toxic Spirits who were summoned and then went free in the area. Personally, that's how I would go. Skip the critters and go for spirits. If you still want to toss in some critters, you could have them be toxic versions of normal jungle critters. That shoudl freak the runners out.

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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #33 on: July 13, 2006, 06:04:36 AM »

Plenty of toxics around amazonia ways.
What you might want to do, is spend a happy afternoon reading up on local legends and the like. Inspirations galore usually.
Awakened giant crocodiles anyone?
Or toxic lost dinos stolen from some silly SciFi novel?
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« Reply #34 on: July 13, 2006, 06:38:34 AM »

Erm. There are toxics in Amazonia? From what I understand the spirit war is going in the Yucatan peninsula (Cancun anyone?) and would be minimal within Amazonia. Also, there would probably be a shaman guarding the flower, not a mage (unless it's some science team, even then, it would probably be a shaman) and the spirits are probably nature spirits.

You could have the players run into a colony of Leshy. I remember giving the link to the online Critters sourcebook. It's free for all to use, the leshy are described in their. The semi-humanoid little things that live in tribes in forested areas.
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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #35 on: July 13, 2006, 07:51:23 AM »

You are coorect. I meant Yucatan, not Amazonia.
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« Reply #36 on: July 13, 2006, 09:10:01 AM »

Whoops, yep, it is the Yucatan I was thinking of. But it would be nothign to switch the run to that area if Kid_Vid wanted to go with the Spirit War thing. And I agree that it would probably be a shaman guarding the flower if it wasn't a spirit. As for Awakened crocks, check out Afancs in the Critters guide. I think they are indiginous to the nile, but there's no reason they couldn't show up in the jungle. Of course, you could have some of those nasty giant preying mantis things too, or even some SURGEd treess. YotC has some interesting new things you might like for this.

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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #37 on: July 13, 2006, 10:58:42 AM »

My runners are pre-YOTC. In fact, they're pre-Super Tuesday too... pre-Corp War... I'm walking them through the history, because it's easier than making sure all of them have read the sourcebooks.

But I like the idea of a dire crocodile or something like that. Wouldn't it be an alligator if it was in the Amazon?

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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #38 on: July 13, 2006, 11:16:03 AM »

No.

Oh, and just for fun: Clicky.
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« Reply #39 on: July 13, 2006, 12:12:37 PM »

Wow... so a dire (46 foot long) crocodile it is!

I was also looking at the tiger rat snake, or a crocodile lizard... but I likes this.

What are the stats on dire creatures?

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« Reply #40 on: July 13, 2006, 12:52:16 PM »

You know, if you're doing a pre-Super Tuesday plot, why not stumble into an Insect hive? That woudl be about the right time for the hole Universal Brotherhood thing. I know that a few of those spirits got their start in the jungles and other isolated places. An indian tribe that's been "converted" might be an interesting guard for the flower/

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« Reply #41 on: July 13, 2006, 01:32:37 PM »

Oh yeah, that sounds like fun.

Ants, probably.

Army Ant Spirits, hope you brought the big can of Bug-Off ;)
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« Reply #42 on: July 13, 2006, 01:45:25 PM »

Ants or Raoches. Either way, your runners are gonna be in for a hell of a fight. And since the Bugs were NOT well known at that point, they would realy, REALLY like to shut the runners, and the mages in particular, up quick and quiet.

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« Reply #43 on: July 13, 2006, 04:26:52 PM »

Ooh... you guys are devious, and I like that about you. ;D

Okay, so one tribe of insects coming up! (One of my players was here for when I dropped the team into Chicago, but I don't think she'll be expecting this.) So when I have 30 tribesmen transformed into fleshforms, she'll be scared- scared enough to scare the rest of my players. ;D

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Re:More Magic Question
« Reply #44 on: July 14, 2006, 12:43:01 AM »

A few spirit forms too perhaps.
But not really necessary.
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