RE: [HOE] marshalls only

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<<<I have a question of my own for you all, tho. I have a Harrowed Junker in the posse whose player has just found out about what Mutes do. If I allow his character to somehow 
gain the Mute equipment (either finding a prototype set somehow on Earth or else after the group does the Unity thing), in what way should I restrict his Junker abilities? I'm partially tempted to find a way to make the two incompatible so he loses all Junker abilities, but I may allow some of the lesser Junker abilities to still be used.
I'm just wondering what sort of restrictions should be in place given the nature of the Mute's abilities and the equipment that makes it run.

Marshal Pat>>>

   First, from what I understand the mutes were developed by vanessa after the tunnel closed, so unless the equipment was found on Unity then it does not exist on earth.  Second, if it did exist on earth then every junker with a brower would have heard about it and be hell bent on destroying it. How and why you ask? simple on earth there are far more activeand powerful tech spirits then on Banshee.  Thus as soon as 1 of them learned what was happening they would speard it like wild fire, after all they are at war with the nature spirits so they don't need another enemy.
   As for getting while on banshee there are several different ways to look at it.  First can he pass the examination from HI to get it implanted if he wants it legally.  On the other hand if he finds a set or a dead mute and wants to take the gear for himself I would think his tech spirits and browers would let him know what is really going on, or at least say that they don't like the stuff even thou they don't really know what is going on.
   Another side would be, you can't have 2 ABs, and since Mute is an AB, then the fact that he had junker powers would make him unable to use the mute implants.  
   Finally and this suggestion is only for kind Marshals <snicker> there is always the possibility that he could learn to use the mute abilities without tearing apart tech spirits, instead combineing ot making new tech spirit thou this would take alot more strain I would think.
   Now for one more nasty thing, Junkers as far as I know are unknown on Banshee, thus what would Vanessa or HI try to do to him when they found out he can talk to tech spirits directly and more to the point be able to learn about the shutoff control on every mute item made.

O.W. Jones Inventor and Gunsmith