- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams"
<janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
> Mike Holmes:
> > The image of a spirit being released from a fetish tatoo
> > would be too much for me to pass up. I can see it starting to
> > move on the skin, and then "peeling" off of the character. In
> > fact, I'd rule that it would be gone from the character's
> > skin when released, until it came back. In fact that sounds
> > so cool, I'm going to have to find a way to incorporate it
> > into some of the games I'm playing for sure. :-)
>
> Oooh, lovely... I think I just did!
>
> My animist (Black Death snake) practitioner had a load of snake
tattoes
> anyway, just because. I'll have to figure out which spirit's in
which
> tattoo and what they all look like. And then describe which one's
> wiggling when...
Mine has the tip of the snake tatoo on his lower lip, the coil (it
is called Black Coil, from the book) running down and around his
arm, the head on the back of his hand. When it is released, his skin
does indeed come alive, it embodies darkness, i.e. swallows up the
light, and it shoots from his hand to strangle people, wave before
them menacingly or serve as a very useful rope. It sometimes then
has to find its way back to its master, occassionally tying up overenthusiastic
Uroxi for their own good on the way.
Sam.