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10/02/12 07:49 PM
M Fnord wrote:On Retcons And Secret History: Nobody - and I mean nobody - knows this; any hints that somebody does will be persecuted with extreme prejudice. Clear? Okay, good. So. The big retcon/secret history is that magic existed in Fenspace but at a level nobody could really use or even experience. That changed on whatever the whateverth, 2008, when interdimensional traveller Doug Sangnoir used his magic on a sample of handwavium. The feedback loop from this acted as a catalyst, causing an exponential spike in the local background count that spread outwards.
M Fnord wrote:On Magic and Genetics: A genetic basis for magic makes some sense to me (also it makes my Perpetually-Threatened Shadowrun Crossover easier to swallow) though I’m not sure of percentages. It’s only in the mid/late-2020s that natural affinity for magic should start appearing, though - manufactured affinities (like say, Honami Ambler or Jade Hasegawa’s abilities, or Noah’s magegift activated via his interactions with the Girls) can show up earlier but the background count’s only been high enough to ‘trip’ the genetics in the last couple years. As the man once said “it’s your kids! Somebody’s gotta do something about your kids!”
M Fnord wrote:On Technomagic: In my initial rambling screeds on the Soviet manadynamics project this is where I was focusing. Because inherent magegifts are only just starting to show up (and even then ~all the new mages are, like, toddlers) the majority of work on magic so far has been aimed at poking at it using modern scientific & industrial tools. Which makes sense if you think about it in a historical context, but that’s a rant for another post. Anyway, while it won’t get to the level joked about in the thread for a good while (the Soviets have been laboring away with a Giant Space Brain and so far have achieved 1% of an enchanted ENIAC. This is gonna take some time) I think the close integration of magic and technology is the way most Fenspacers will go.
M Fnord wrote:On Rules: Sky’s the limit. Bear in mind that these are early days and nobody yet has the ability to get really gonzo. People sussing out the operational envelope for their particular system is encouraged and expected. Also expected are headlines along the lines of “researcher accidentally implodes self.” Paradox can be a right bitch.
M Fnord wrote:On Fenspace and Amber: No, non, nein, nyet, nix, nuh-uh, not happening.
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10/02/12 08:05 PM
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robkelk wrote:So we're going with Kohran's suggestion from a few months after A.C. ran The Gauntlet, and everybody can have his, her, or its own magical paradigm?
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10/02/12 08:37 PM
HRogge wrote:Ace Dreamer wrote:Putting body, mind and soul or spirit together into something which can live a normal life is often glossed over. There may be issues of fate or destiny that may make the process more difficult. Tricking the world into believing this is a conventional birth might suit some approaches. Or the "still has unfinished work to do" may be used. If the soul or spirit is unwilling to be resurrected then they may get a veto - continuing a resurrection after this (which may not even be possible with the simpler 'packaged' resurrection approaches) may give you the body and mind you want, but a new person, who will likely develop over time their own new purposes and motivations ("free soul with every new incarnation"). Producing an 'instant adult' like this can really upset the natural process of life and death, or the guardians of this, in some settings.IF there is something like a soul, I wonder what was happened with victims of Quattros memory tech... if you kill/erase the "mind", does the soul leave? If you copy a mind from one body to another (Vivio became a shallow copy of Cathy), does a new soul appear or does the original one split?
Ace Dreamer wrote:Putting body, mind and soul or spirit together into something which can live a normal life is often glossed over. There may be issues of fate or destiny that may make the process more difficult. Tricking the world into believing this is a conventional birth might suit some approaches. Or the "still has unfinished work to do" may be used. If the soul or spirit is unwilling to be resurrected then they may get a veto - continuing a resurrection after this (which may not even be possible with the simpler 'packaged' resurrection approaches) may give you the body and mind you want, but a new person, who will likely develop over time their own new purposes and motivations ("free soul with every new incarnation"). Producing an 'instant adult' like this can really upset the natural process of life and death, or the guardians of this, in some settings.
10/02/12 09:16 PM
robkelk wrote: M Fnord wrote:On Fenspace and Amber: No, non, nein, nyet, nix, nuh-uh, not happening.Thank you.
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10/03/12 04:58 AM
M Fnord wrote: On Mana Levels: In GURPS terms, Fenspace mana levels were Very Low to None until things were catalysed into action in 2008. Since then the level averages out to Normal, but in practice it’s very chaotic. There are hot spots and cold spots, some are stable but others drift and change shape over time, like weather fronts.
10/03/12 05:24 AM
Ace Dreamer wrote:(I'm assuming pure hard tech mana detectors take time to arrive, if ever possible).
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HRogge wrote:@Ace: This sounds like 2030 or later tech... maybe even 2040+...
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M Fnord wrote:So I was reading yet another oMage argument elsewhere & had this minor brain dropping, maybe it has some application to the thread: "The good news is you can get away with almost anything without Paradox ruining your shit. The bad news is 'almost anything' doesn't equal to 'anything.' The really bad news is because there's no consensus, we don't know what will trip Paradox. Your job as loyal and expendable grad students is to figure that out. Good luck."
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