Re: [HOE] A few questions

[Michael <martin_etc@yahoo.com>]

Probably been answered already, but just in case:

--- Pat Gamblin <shosuro@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
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> >>Anyhow, on to the questions. For most of these, I don't need
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> digest mode who
> >>may see the responses. : }
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> >>2) I've heard of junkers being 'tainted.' By what? Is it
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> >>physical, or moral taint?
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> >They become megalomaniacal as a result of that taint, due to
> the influence 
> >of gun spirits.
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> Is the taint just the influence of the gun spirits (I can
> easily imagine a 
> junker becoming megalomaniacal just because he can build
> powerful gadgets) 
> or is the a mystical 'tainting force' that the gun spirits
> inflict on the 
> junker. Ie- is it magic tainting the junker or human nature? :

A combination. Well... I think that it is human nature because
that's _why_ tech spirits  - and thus gun spirits - exist. The
junker spends a lot of time around car spirits, he figures out
more about drivin' and begins to care more about his car(s).
After all, a car spirit was designed - by man, to serve man, by
transporting man. Fair enough?

Now, the gunspirit... the junker learns (and starts to care a lot
about) killing. After all, the gun spirit was designed - by man,
to serve man, by _killing_ man. So the gun spirits are a little
schizo, and those who follow them tend to be also. 

Simply put: taint is a scale of zero to five. Zero you're a
regular junker. Five you either want to conquer the world, or you
want to destroy it. Either way, you sure aren't a player
character anymore (that is, unless one of those is the direction
the marshal wants the campaign to head. In which case, worry more
about the marshal). 

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Michael Shindler, ICQ #13820058
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