Re: [HOE] Tech Spirits

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

Since you mention ghost rock missiles, I'd say that all mad scientist
devices would probably have a technology spirit inside...just an odd one.
I'm not sure that I'd label them as Damaged Goods; the ghost rock missile
Gun Spirits are all twisted because they were exposed to a few billion
g-rays upon detonation, not because they were a product of New Science.

The problem is that I don't think there were many mad scientist devices
around when the bombs fell, so I doubt that many of the tech spirits would
be created from such devices.  In the 21st century, mad science seemed to be
the exception, rather than the rule.

Of course, if you REALLY like the idea of mad tech spirits, you can say that
any device built with side-effects in it is home to a tech spirit of mad
science ("Y'know, there's always just something a little not right about
those guys...").

--Kai Tave


>I have a query that I can't seem to find an answer to in The Junkman
Cometh.
>Tech Spirits are present in technological items and are stronger in
>individiually made items that the creator/ owner cared for and looked
after.
>The question is, does that include mad scientist devices? They meet the
>criteria for having strong tech spirits, but I don't know if the manitou
>influence would stop them forming?
>
>The closest I can find are the Nuke spirits mentioned, but it's not clear
if
>they're pure science nuclear missles or ghost rock nuke gizmos. (Feels
weird
>to label a nuclear missile as a gizmo!)
>
>If tech spirits were inside gizmos and now live in the Hunting Grounds,
>would they be different from 'normal' tech spirits? I'm thinking powerful
>yet unreliable, and maybe Tainted in some way, since the majority of them
>were weapons of one kind or another.
>
>What do y'all think?
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