From: [f--h--e] at [amd.com] Reply-To: [f--h--e] at [amd.com] Errors-To: [flashlife control] at [amd.com] Subject: Flashlife V2 #2 To: [f--h--e] at [amd.com] From: Carl Rigney (moderator) <[flashlife control] at [amd.com]> Flashlife Mon, 25 Mar, 1991 Volume 2 : Issue 2 Today's topics: NPC skinwalker (Kicking Bird) Spirit services (Mary Kuhner) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kicking Bird Subject: NPC skinwalker Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 01:11:20 CST Glad to see the list up here's my first post Skinwalker (Navajo Wolf) Skinwalkers are a special shaman assasin of the Navajo Nation. The get their name because of their ability to shapechange into a wolf, or more often a coyote. The skinwalker kills in two ways first. the skinwalker tries with a bone knife, a bone bullet, or a shotgun shell with the lead shot replaced with bone beads. the weapons are coated with Corps Powder. The powder is made from a former victims palms and soles of the feet. If a pc comes in contact with corps powder the pc will get Corps Sickness Corps Sickness- Rapid Cancer like symptoms decreases Essence, or unmodified Body score -1 pt. per week that it goes untreated. There is no cure or resistance test, A non-Navajo doctor will not be able to identify the problem. The one and only cure is the Enemy Way ceremony. The unfortumate PC will have to find an Enemy Way Singer, they are quite rare many Navajo singers work on the lesser ceremonies. If the singer agrees to perform the Enemy Way, he will demand a large payment of some sort. The PC must also find out who the skinwalker is and retrieve some personal item, such as a hat, the singer will help with this. Notes on skinwalkers Navajos become skinwalkers by killing a close relative. Usually a brother or sister. Navajos will usually not talk about skinwalkers. Make a negotiation or intelligence roll with a target of 15. (this number may be high but I lived near the Navajos for nine years and never got one to talk about skinwalkers) If a Navajo thinks the pc is a skinwalker the Navajo will do his/her best to kill the pc. A skinwalker would not make a good pc because the Enemy Way ceremony not only cures the corps sickness it also kills the skinwalker. skinwalker archetype Dan Yazzie ATTRIBUTES MASTER TABLE body 4 4 Magic quickness 6 3 Attributes strengh 3 2 Skills charisma 3 1 Tech intelligence 5 0 Race willpower 3 essence 6 SPELLS (magic) 6 reaction 5 Physical Mask (10) S1 (Wolf) SKILLS GEAR Navajo 7 Defiance T-250 3/M/3 (lead) English 5 2/M/3 (bone) Unarmed Combat 4 Bone Knife (str/2)L/1 Armed Combat 5 Ruger Super Warhawk 4/M/2 (lead) Stealth 6 2/M/3 (bone) Athletics 4 Bow (str)M/2 Chemistry 5 Arrows (20) bone tiped Wolf skin Any questions I will be glad to answer them. -- Hawk Wind [e 9 ab] at [sdsumus.bitnet] -------------------------- From: Mary Kuhner <[m k kuhner] at [genetics.washington.edu]> Subject: Spirit services Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 08:18:20 -0800 Services from spirits are discussed in decent detail in the Paranormal Guide, though be warned that the mechanics given for Confusion make it *very* nasty, and the mechanics for Accident make it rather weak. There is a list of which services each type of spirit can do in the basic rules, under the listing for that spirit in the Critters section. They do *not* do most of the things elementals do--manifest, physical services, aid spells, spell defense. Their powers tend to be more subtle (and ill-defined). An example: Ratty was trying to find a shaman in Ren'raku. He called up a Force 5 Hearth Spirit of the place, 3 services. He asked two immediately: Guard me from accident, and Search for a shaman near here. (The Search must be for something the spirit can recognize, usually something native to its domain.) It led him into restricted areas of the building, and he set off an alarm. He asked it its third service, Concealment, and clung to the outside of a staircase railing while the guards ran by. He crept into a utility duct, trusting to the Guard to keep him from getting electrocuted or crushed, and came out the other end in the domain of what turned out to be the Machine Shaman of Ren'raku Arcology. But that's another story. -- Mary Kuhner [m k kuhner] at [genetics.washington.edu] -------------------------- End of Flashlife **************************