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| Re: The Book of Jobe [message #33450 is a reply to message #33446 ] |
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 BekDCorvin
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| MitchellTF wrote on Fri, 27 March 2009 21:29 |
Scary thing: Would a mutant Pak Protector protect Mutantkind, Humankind, or both? (But that means SOMEBODY is screwed...)
Also, for the bees...*Sara eats them anyway* "Why didn't I listen to that android and his sandwich joke..."
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If I remember my Larry Niven correctly, Pak Protecters tended to be very family-centric. They protected their own. Even getting past things like 'race' (Asian, AmerInd, African, Semitic, Latin, Northern European, etc.) might be a going against their nature. Mutants? I believe Niven had them killing mutants among their own brood outright.
To Be, or Not to Be; this is a question?
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| Re: The Book of Jobe [message #33459 is a reply to message #33450 ] |
Fri, 27 March 2009 23:20 |
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tensai
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| BekDCorvin wrote on Fri, 27 March 2009 19:03 |
| MitchellTF wrote on Fri, 27 March 2009 21:29 |
Scary thing: Would a mutant Pak Protector protect Mutantkind, Humankind, or both? (But that means SOMEBODY is screwed...)
Also, for the bees...*Sara eats them anyway* "Why didn't I listen to that android and his sandwich joke..."
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If I remember my Larry Niven correctly, Pak Protecters tended to be very family-centric. They protected their own. Even getting past things like 'race' (Asian, AmerInd, African, Semitic, Latin, Northern European, etc.) might be a going against their nature. Mutants? I believe Niven had them killing mutants among their own brood outright.
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*digs out hardcopy*
Hokay. Protectors are innately family-oriented, focused on protecting their individual family group by way of identifying those who 'smell right'.
In the event a protector's family is destroyed, they usually 'stop eating' (die), or manage to motivate themselves to continue, usually by focusing on the benefit of the Pak as a whole or some task they can get absorbed in.
Now, if we got some tree-of-life and gave it to someone, their immediate focus after changing would likely be to protect their family and descendants.
The sticky bit comes when we look at that mutant metagene sequence, and whether activation would change the 'smell' of a family member and result in the culling of that individual.
"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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| Re: The Book of Jobe [message #33846 is a reply to message #23409 ] |
Mon, 30 March 2009 15:13 |
Observer
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I thought devises are the equivalent of "spell foci" for devisors, sometimes permanent talismens that they can hand off to another and sometimes less stable versions only the devisor can use. Assuming this and that hobgoblins are what happens when mages loose control of energies (or just decide to crank some out as a last defense manuever), then when a devise goes "haywire" exploding or producing a random unintended effect that would be the devisor version of a magical error instead of a normal mages hobgoblin.
Then again that one devisor, delta spike I think her name was, lost control alot and every so often her energy accidents resulted in a energy being showing up. Maybe that was her hobgoblin.
Sorry about spelling and fact errors. I am trying to write these posts a little faster than my usual 40 minutes to an hour time.
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| Re: The Book of Jobe [message #33911 is a reply to message #23409 ] |
Tue, 31 March 2009 02:30 |
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Bookworm
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I'd suspect that at least a few of the "Explosions" that Delta Spike is known for were Alpha induced, or at least encouraged.
Just like Mega Death.
BW
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| Re: The Book of Jobe [message #34004 is a reply to message #23409 ] |
Tue, 31 March 2009 15:14 |
eddie
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Question
Can a Devise be only created once by the devisor or can they produce multiple copies( hand produced of course).If they can't could it be they only get the inspiration once and can't exactly remember every step in its creation.
Eddie
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