After Sundown Question

LR · Post by LR » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:28 am

Patience of the Mountains makes you immune to poison. Does that mean that you are immune to diseases that kill by poisoning?

Lokathor · Post by **Lokathor** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:37 am

I've never heard of a disease that kills by poisoning... but sure.

Patience of the Mountains basically presents you from being a biological entity. If a robot or a vampire wouldn't be affected by it "because it only affects the living", then Patience of the Mountains quite possibly blocks it.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:29 am

Having Patience of the Mountain would make you immune to clostridium alpha toxin. And that would keep you from having much of a problem with a clostridium dificile infection. If it progressed really far, you could still have bowel perforation and die that way. But you wouldn't get diarrhea and in most cases it would just resolve on its own.

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Blicero · Post by **Blicero** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:40 am

As long as we have a thread open for this sort of thing:

How does Empty Body interact with disciplines like Body Colony and Swarm Body? Do you just get ghost-bugs, basically?

Hicks · Post by **Hicks** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:45 am

My little girl was a Mi-go with empty body (x2), hand of flame, touch of darkness, and a logic of 7. Best firemage in the game

LR · Post by LR » Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:49 am

When one learns their Universal or Cult-preferred power at chargen, can one substitute a magical tome destiny for a Cult?

Also, when learning powers during Karmic Advancement, does one need a tome to learn an unknown Sorceries, Sorceries one has used before, or Sorceries that one already has the Basic Power for?

Lokathor · Post by **Lokathor** » Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:10 am

I think the idea with Karmic Advancement is that you need the Tome and the appropriate card, but that you can keep the card or the Tome until you have both and get a new power.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:58 am

When one learns their Universal or Cult-preferred power at chargen, can one substitute a magical tome destiny for a Cult?

Yes. The purpose of the restriction is to make it beneficial to join a cult. But if you're shelling out for a magical book at chargen, that's still a cost. Qlso it allows players to be self-taught magicians learning from dark tomes in secret, which is important.

-Username17

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:54 am

While we're on cults, how quite do they fit in with syndicates? Do most cultists lead double-lives joining a syndicate and then covertly doing cult activities, or is it sort of an a cult-by-cult basis, where some are more open and some less?

My specific interest is in Storm Lords and whether they would also have to be a Syndicate member on the side or if it can just be known that you are a Storm Lord member and thus be treated when visiting a Syndicate's territory as a foreigner (with less gravitas than another Syndicate foreigner) but not an enemy.

An unrelated-also: what gives with Mi-Go being immune to poison thanks to Patience of the Mountains, yet being harmed by insecticide poisons? I guess just an exception to the rule?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:14 am

While we're on cults, how quite do they fit in with syndicates? Do most cultists lead double-lives joining a syndicate and then covertly doing cult activities, or is it sort of an a cult-by-cult basis, where some are more open and some less?

In general, you can be fairly open about your cult activities. Like how you can be a member of a political party or corporation and still have national citizenship. There is certainly tension there, in that many cults would like to grow in strength until they achieved syndicate status themselves. But syndicates govern monsters, and accepting that a certain number of people want to destroy the sun or whatever.

My specific interest is in Storm Lords and whether they would also have to be a Syndicate member on the side or if it can just be known that you are a Storm Lord member and thus be treated when visiting a Syndicate's territory as a foreigner (with less gravitas than another Syndicate foreigner) but not an enemy.

You could be a full Storm Lord partisan, but they aren't as powerful as the World Crime League. So if you were a Storm Lord primarily and exclusively, the local Prince or Bishop is going to treat you like an independent. Which in this case basically means that they don't feel the need to consider the international relations effects of doing things to you if you break the law.

An unrelated-also: what gives with Mi-Go being immune to poison thanks to Patience of the Mountains, yet being harmed by insecticide poisons? I guess just an exception to the rule?

Yeah, that's just an exception. It hurts them because it is a weakness of theirs, not because of its biological poisoning aspect. Like how Insect Spirits in shadowrun are vexed by insecticides even though they don't have to eat or breathe and are unaffected by poisons and physical weapons.

-Username17