On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...> wrote:
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> Todd Gardiner:
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> > I have a very personal relationship with my wife, but despite rumors that
> > indicate otherwise, I don't believe I am going to go mildly insane
> because
> > we have different personalities and personal requirements. And I would
> > certainly say that most of my friends differ from me in many significant
> > ways as well.
>
> But if the wife says you're not going out drinking with your
> slobbering-manic friend from high school, that's the problem. It doesn't
> happen to everyone, but most people are pretty consistent in their tastes.
> I.e. most folks don't carry both the death rune and the life rune.
>
> > I think that Shaman are special in that they can meet the demands of
> > their spirit allies without their ego getting in the way.
>
> Spirits are touchy. (We know that from lots of literature.) They have odd
> tastes and strange thngs offend them. Not every water spirit is going to be
> offended by your air rune, but you would have a harder time working with a
> spirit that Orlanth defeated during the war against the waves.
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> > Especially when the Shaman (in game terms) is not increasing the ratings
> of his core runes.
>
> Presumably, the inverse of that would be true as well: the more you raise
> those personal runes, the more problematic they would be to a spirit that
> finds them offensive. From the spirit's perspective: Suppose a shaman who
> calls that water spirit mentioned above has XYZ tradition ar 2W2, Some Water
> Society 12w, and air rune at 17. The dominant things that the spirit will
> know are the XYZ tradition and Some Water Society membership. Yeah, so the
> shaman smells bad, too. It's a minor detail by comparison. Maybe the spirit
> demands that the shaman bathe once a week.
>
> Chris Lemens
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