Clones.
I'm the type of player who like / needs to write character backgrounds. I need to know where my character's coming from and where they're going. Voodoo had a fairly well laid out background including a 1 year blank spot.
When I was much younger I aspired to write, despite the fact that I lack even the most basic grasp of spelling and punctuation, and that kind of carried over into character building. When I built a character it aways had 3 or 4 largish plot hooks for the GM so he didn't have to do all the heavy lifting.
Basically Voodoo wandered off into the snow one winters eve and returned a year later with no memory of the events that had transpired and a child. I'm not entirely sure why or what inspired him to fill that void with a clone plot line, he's been dead for 15 years so I can't ask him, at any rate every where we went in the wilds we'd invariably run into one of Voodoo's clones. I think we met 6 all told, by the end I wasn't even sure if I was just another clone or the original.
Ya the Spiri bit amounts to 2 or 3 sentances. I just took it and ran with it.
Derek Stanley
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> On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:20 PM, wrote:
>
> You're definitely one of the people that TNE was a really good fit for.
> Whatever that says about you, me, Frank, and what Frank I expected other
> people to be like, who knows.
>
> Re: being eaten by a thresher, I think he deliberately walked into it,
> knowing that he had caused it, and thinking that was a reasonably fitting
> end. I think it was for him a bit of a grace note at the end, finally
> owning up to it all, rather than making people hunt him down and kill him
> or put him on trial. Icky to be sure, but dead is dead.
>
> Yes, I agree with you about the pocket empires. If you let the Rebellion
> sputter down to heat death, they're still enemy empires and don't get
> along, and have not learned anything. They'll just start fighting again so
> there is nothing to be gained going that way.
>
> I can't remember much about the Spiri. I think the guys with the facial
> tattoos were Lutahlens, right? I assume you have access to PoT, right? All
> there is is in there.
>
> Clones?
>
> > This was always something that made me laugh about the old guard, so
> > you're
> > willing to let go Jump Drives that take you from a to b in a week
> > regardless
> > of the real distance travelled, Anti-Gravity, genetically engineered
> > Wolves,
> > Pocket Dimensions, psionics and the human race being seeded all over the
> > galaxy but a silicon based life form that can live inside of computers is
> > completely off because it's to unrealistic. Wow. Really?
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm of the in for a penny in for a pound type of people, the cymbline
> > chips
> > had already been written in as a part of the lore, you can bet your
> > backside
> > some crazy mother's going to try and weaponize them. So I just shrugged,
> > said their computers are so far ahead of ours I'll just go with it and
> > tried
> > not to think about it.
> >
> >
> >
> > A lot of my friends thought that destroying the 3rd Imperium was going too
> > far, oh they should have stopped here and then everything would have come
> > back with a bunch of smaller groups. After reading through all of the MT
> > source books and Survival Margin that none of the old groups deserved to
> > survive with the exceptions of Norris and Craig, they all had far too much
> > blood on their hands and every one of them deserved to go, although
> > getting
> > mulched by a thresher might have been a little excessive. Plus, the
> > problem
> > with a bunch of smaller pocket empires is you'd still end up with a war to
> > reunite the Imperium, none of them were ever going to willingly walk away
> > from the throne. The war would just start up all over again in another
> > decade.
> >
> >
> >
> > I always wondered about the Spiri, my RCES character was a Spiri and I
> > tried
> > to play a kind of Buddhist shaman. I have a degree in archaeology and
> > anthropology but I still had a rough time wrapping my head around how to
> > play the character. I probably came across as more of a weed smoking,
> > tree
> > hugging hippy. Then the GM threw in the whole clones of my character
> > everywhere we went.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
I'm the type of player who like / needs to write character backgrounds. I need to know where my character's coming from and where they're going. Voodoo had a fairly well laid out background including a 1 year blank spot.
When I was much younger I aspired to write, despite the fact that I lack even the most basic grasp of spelling and punctuation, and that kind of carried over into character building. When I built a character it aways had 3 or 4 largish plot hooks for the GM so he didn't have to do all the heavy lifting.
Basically Voodoo wandered off into the snow one winters eve and returned a year later with no memory of the events that had transpired and a child. I'm not entirely sure why or what inspired him to fill that void with a clone plot line, he's been dead for 15 years so I can't ask him, at any rate every where we went in the wilds we'd invariably run into one of Voodoo's clones. I think we met 6 all told, by the end I wasn't even sure if I was just another clone or the original.
Ya the Spiri bit amounts to 2 or 3 sentances. I just took it and ran with it.
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPad
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:20 PM, wrote:
>
> You're definitely one of the people that TNE was a really good fit for.
> Whatever that says about you, me, Frank, and what Frank I expected other
> people to be like, who knows.
>
> Re: being eaten by a thresher, I think he deliberately walked into it,
> knowing that he had caused it, and thinking that was a reasonably fitting
> end. I think it was for him a bit of a grace note at the end, finally
> owning up to it all, rather than making people hunt him down and kill him
> or put him on trial. Icky to be sure, but dead is dead.
>
> Yes, I agree with you about the pocket empires. If you let the Rebellion
> sputter down to heat death, they're still enemy empires and don't get
> along, and have not learned anything. They'll just start fighting again so
> there is nothing to be gained going that way.
>
> I can't remember much about the Spiri. I think the guys with the facial
> tattoos were Lutahlens, right? I assume you have access to PoT, right? All
> there is is in there.
>
> Clones?
>
> > This was always something that made me laugh about the old guard, so
> > you're
> > willing to let go Jump Drives that take you from a to b in a week
> > regardless
> > of the real distance travelled, Anti-Gravity, genetically engineered
> > Wolves,
> > Pocket Dimensions, psionics and the human race being seeded all over the
> > galaxy but a silicon based life form that can live inside of computers is
> > completely off because it's to unrealistic. Wow. Really?
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm of the in for a penny in for a pound type of people, the cymbline
> > chips
> > had already been written in as a part of the lore, you can bet your
> > backside
> > some crazy mother's going to try and weaponize them. So I just shrugged,
> > said their computers are so far ahead of ours I'll just go with it and
> > tried
> > not to think about it.
> >
> >
> >
> > A lot of my friends thought that destroying the 3rd Imperium was going too
> > far, oh they should have stopped here and then everything would have come
> > back with a bunch of smaller groups. After reading through all of the MT
> > source books and Survival Margin that none of the old groups deserved to
> > survive with the exceptions of Norris and Craig, they all had far too much
> > blood on their hands and every one of them deserved to go, although
> > getting
> > mulched by a thresher might have been a little excessive. Plus, the
> > problem
> > with a bunch of smaller pocket empires is you'd still end up with a war to
> > reunite the Imperium, none of them were ever going to willingly walk away
> > from the throne. The war would just start up all over again in another
> > decade.
> >
> >
> >
> > I always wondered about the Spiri, my RCES character was a Spiri and I
> > tried
> > to play a kind of Buddhist shaman. I have a degree in archaeology and
> > anthropology but I still had a rough time wrapping my head around how to
> > play the character. I probably came across as more of a weed smoking,
> > tree
> > hugging hippy. Then the GM threw in the whole clones of my character
> > everywhere we went.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>