IN> Kyriotates of Animals and Bee Life Cycles

[Elizabeth McCoy]

At 8:55 AM -0400 5/22/07, Randy Finder, SAINT Corporation wrote:
>Possessing entire swarms of Insects must *very* dangerous for Kyriotates
>of Animals. [...]
>250 worker bees die every day or more or less 10 every hour.

Unless they are possessed by a Kyriotate. For the duration of the
possession, after all, the host becomes a vessel in many respects:
it does not age, it does not produce new gametes, and it does not
need food.

(Or, to be more nitpicky about this... Where is the unclarity that 
does not make this explicit? I can wield the red pen of errata if 
necessary.)



On the other hand, I would _tend_ to rule that individual units in a 
swarm counted for purposes of dissonance -- there's got to be something
to keep Jordi's Hives under control, and a Belialite with a flamethrower
_should_ be scary even if they've got five zillion wasps. I do not 
underestimate the terror of what a Kyriotate of Jordi can do if it
has the right Songs. *twitch*




At 12:13 PM +1000 5/23/07, Cameron Anderson wrote:
>What if there were a group of Shedim who were possessing swarms of
>bees to try and learn how to recreate the Legion effect?

And on this side... It would have to be the Song of Possession, if
the GM even allowed that, or no dice -- Shedim possess humans,
barring a Princely Band Attunement to the contrary. You would probably
need a Prince of Beasts to get Shedim possessing animals. Or a 
Prince of Locusts for bugs.

Which isn't to say that GMs shouldn't do that, but they should be
aware they're doing a bit of a two-step upon the canon, so that 
the players and GMs don't wind up staring at each other in mutual
confusion and frustration. Mutual frustration is bad.

Moral: know where the lines are, and then invite the players to come
trip the light fantastic over them with you.
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