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  1. #1
    Jaime T. Matthew
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    Blooded Animals

    > IM>What happens if someone invests their bloodline (either by choice or
    > >because they are forced to) into a rabbit. That rabbit is then bred
    > >like mad. The blooded bunnies can be harvested at will by the scion
    > >seeking to pump up their bloodline.
    >
    > Wouldn't work very well. If only one rabbit is blooded then it would be
    > bred with "common" rabbits and the bloodline would diminish.

    How well does it have to work? If the average rabbit has (guessing)
    8 little bunnies, and each only gets half of it's parent's strength
    (although shouldn't they get the same bloodline strength of the
    parent?). That is still an enormous amout of blood that can be
    harvested.

    Keep in mind that rabbits breed like, well, rabbits. There would be
    blooded bunnies all over the place in no time at all.

    I realize that this whole notion is kind of counter to the feel of
    the genre, but I have very clever players and I'm just counting my
    blessings that they haven't figured this trick out yet.

    Jaime
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    Jaime T. Matthew
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    Blooded Animals

    > The biggest problem with this is that divestiture TOTALLY removes the
    > divestor's bloodline and he becomes a commoner, and according to
    > bloodtheft, a commoner reaps no reward from trying to steal the blood of a
    > scion (unless this has been discarded by the list, I am a newbie after
    > all).

    Yes, this presumes that the person divesting themselves into the
    rabbit is not the same person trying to reap the benefits of this
    action.

    If I am not mistaken, investiture also requires a priest.

    But with these crucial ingredients in place, what is to prevent
    something like this from occurring? And "because the GM said so" is
    a poor reason at best (even though it is the one I might personally
    use if my players presented me with this dilemma).

    Jaime
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    David Keyser
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    Blooded Animals

    I think the idea of investing a bloodline in an animal is pretty silly. You
    need a priest to perform the ceremony right? I can think of several reasons off
    the top of my head why a DM can say no. Say investiture only works with
    sentient beings. Say no self-respecting priest would perform the ceremony.
    Say that Cerilian society as a whole considers the concept to be a moral
    outrage, and imposes dire consequences on anyone who tries.

    Dave Keyser

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    Cec Stacey
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    Blooded Animals

    >
    > IM>What happens if someone invests their bloodline (either by choice or
    > >because they are forced to) into a rabbit. That rabbit is then bred
    > >like mad. The blooded bunnies can be harvested at will by the scion
    > >seeking to pump up their bloodline.
    >
    > Wouldn't work very well. If only one rabbit is blooded then it would be
    > bred with "common" rabbits and the bloodline would diminish.
    >
    > Verruchter
    >
    IMHO, (and my campaign), the gods would be very, very, very upset with
    anyone who tried this underhanded manouver (especially Erik). The
    offending player, who is trying to artificially create god status for
    himself, would find his life a living hell after trying a silly stunt like
    this. Either that, or it just plain wouldn't work.

    Investing a rabbit! Are you all a bunch of gnomes to go along with this?
    I can't believe I'm arguing with you about it...

    Just my 2 cp. (shaved, of course)

    (stingy bastard, aren't I)

  5. #5
    JOHN RICKARDS
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    Blooded Animals

    > Yes, this presumes that the person divesting themselves into the
    > rabbit is not the same person trying to reap the benefits of this
    > action.
    >
    > If I am not mistaken, investiture also requires a priest.
    >
    > But with these crucial ingredients in place, what is to prevent
    > something like this from occurring? And "because the GM said so" is
    > a poor reason at best (even though it is the one I might personally
    > use if my players presented me with this dilemma).
    >
    > Jaime

    I can see an erhshegh, The Rabbit, in the offing here........
    John Rickards

    "He who is looking for something has lost something."
    "And he who is not looking?"
    "He gets run over."


    PS. Dan. Hahahahaha.

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    Espen A. Johnsen
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    Blooded Animals

    Well I'm sorry to say this but there are allready a few animals that
    have become blooded, like the boar. So nonsetient beeings can become blooded
    too!

    A priest of an evil order would think that the gaining of BP would be an
    exelent source of power. And may a PC would gladly perform this ritual, tought
    you can tell them that the caracter refuse.

    Many thing that are moraly outrageous can still be done, for example If
    the Gorgon decided that he would breed BLOOD BUNNIES, then who would tell? And
    many a dark ritual that are beeing cast in Cerilia aren't moraly correct to an
    equal point of outrage.

    This does not mean that I would use blooded animals in my campaign!

    Espen Johnsen

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