From: Vulpine@dontspam.net (Tod T. Fox, a.k.a. Kit O'Connell) Subject: Paradox Spirits: Chronomancers Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.storyteller Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 18:36:05 -0400 Organization: Monadnock Region, New Hampshire Path: news.kth.se!feed1.news.luth.se!luth.se!feed2.news.erols.com!erols!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!204.97.16.5!news.monad.net!tcr1-46.keene.monad.net!user Lines: 48 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: tcr1-46.keene.monad.net Xref: news.kth.se rec.games.frp.storyteller:113082 For when Time gets out of hand but you don't feel like resorting to Wrinkle, try these pleasant fellows. This file will be archived at: http://www.accessdenied.net/leagues/KeenePrime (caps-sensitive address!) Questions & comments welcome, Kit Chronomancer (Time Paradox Spirit) Willpower 5, Rage 4, Gnosis 2, Power 15 Charms: Appear, Calcify, Lightning Bolts, Short Out, De-Aging (Cost is 5 per day of time removed, target must be calcified) Description: Chronomancers usually appear in groups of 3-5 and have never been seen alone -- if all but 1 Chronomancer is destroyed or dispelled, the final Chronomancer will spontaneously vanish. These spirits appear as humanoid figures in dark blue hooded robes. They float over the ground with no visible legs. The arms of their robes hang limply at the ends as if they have arms but no hands. Where the 'face' of the figure should be there is instead a golden analog clock face. It has ebony black hour and minute hands that move constantly in reverse at a rate of approximately an hour every 5 minutes. The Chronomancers seem especially angered by Technomantic paradigms but can appear during any magickal act involving Time Paradox. Tactics primarily involve appearing and disappearing to confuse Mages by making them think there is only one very quick spirit. They will attempt to group around a Mage and calcify them and then reverse the Mage in time to simply undo whatever event that caused the Paradox by surgically removing that person from the events in question. Failing this they will shoot lightning from their arms and try to kill the Mages involved. Sleeper witnesses of these events end up with a blank hole in their memory. The spirits communicate in a constant audible hum much like a chanted 'ohm.' Spirit 2 is of limited use as the creatures are very nearly mindless. Copyright 1998 by Kit O'Connell. You may freely use this material as long as you do not profit from it in any way, re-archive it without the author's permission, or steal from it without giving credit. Questions, comments, please E-Mail KeenePrime@wolf-web.com. -- Tod T. Fox (known in RL as Kit O'Connell) Vulpine@dontspam.net (to email, replace 'dontspam' with 'earthling') http://www.accessdenied.net/leagues/KeenePrime http://www.pobox.com/~vulpine