Question Hey why aren't you effected?

I'm trying to think of a way for the school's power testers to discover that a student has an odd resistance to Class X stuff. It's my space elf who's word has critter like the V-wolves running around and some of their healer think some of that Goo corruption is part of them, thus they don't end up gibbering wrecks until something Sara's level comes along. I was thinking give her sewer detention, but I don't see a detention detail being made to do what Jade was reluctantly taken and paid to do at the Line.

Cryptic wrote: I'm trying to think of a way for the school's power testers to discover that a student has an odd resistance to Class X stuff.

Have her:
- "try on this set of (Tillinghast) glasses and tell us what you see"
- attend one of Ecila Mason's lectures,
- grade Sara Waite's leftover homework,
- go siteseeing with Josie Gillman

No one said anything about safe ways!

Umm, it's "Affected", not "Effected". Although, that can't be changed now...

And yeah, maybe they're a bit GOO, so they're a bit immune. But does that make them a threat to others? Put them in Hawthorne until that's solved??

And do they smell tasty to Tennyo? ... How do they react to the Drow??

What kind of Class X, because it isn't all the same. Kayda's Class X isn't the same as Sara's, and that won't be the same as another groups, or this fourth group.

They could find Sara's "essence" that was hidden and not be effected. Or something else of Sara's or the Lovecraft room, or a piece of Kayda's precleansed spikes. Or just a quarter that shouldn't be.

Valentine wrote: What kind of Class X, because it isn't all the same. Kayda's Class X isn't the same as Sara's, and that won't be the same as another groups, or this fourth group.

Good point. It may help to brush up on available Mythos horror to get an idea of which things shouldn't bother the character as much as they might the average person on the street. Or maybe the character is different enough that they cannot even perceive certain forms of a corruption of reality? (Similar to charm placed on Ditchwater Sal in "Stardust", such that she could not perceive Yvaine)

As one of my GMs put it: "Usually, when you stare into the Abyss it stares back into you. But when you stare into the Abyss, it stares back and asks you why you haven't called lately. Would it hurt so much to send a postcard?"

Whether it's as off-hand as "Of course those are nightgaunts; all of Nodens' temples have them back home!" or more disturbing, like "Looks like an imp, smells like an imp, tastes like an imp if you add enough garlic butter. What?" or fluffy as not even realizing that Ultharian cats aren't the normal ones: knowing what you're pulling from where helps the ability to feel more organic.

Cryptic wrote: I'm trying to think of a way for the school's power testers to discover that a student has an odd resistance to Class X stuff.

Have her step off the beaten path during a hike or a visit to Dunwich.

Malady wrote: Umm, it's "Affected", not "Effected". Although, that can't be changed now...

And yeah, maybe they're a bit GOO, so they're a bit immune. But does that make them a threat to others? Put them in Hawthorne until that's solved??

And do they smell tasty to Tennyo? ... How do they react to the Drow??

Jobe Drow??
or my fan fic Drow?

both are wildly different...Jobe's are just Sidhe/elves with DNA enhancements or messed up~!

Mine are hunters of GOO purpose built for the task.

Cryptic wrote: I'm trying to think of a way for the school's power testers to discover that a student has an odd resistance to Class X stuff. It's my space elf who's word has critter like the V-wolves running around and some of their healer think some of that Goo corruption is part of them, thus they don't end up gibbering wrecks until something Sara's level comes along. I was thinking give her sewer detention, but I don't see a detention detail being made to do what Jade was reluctantly taken and paid to do at the Line.

Could be something as simple as "Can you read this page?" If they can they have an affinity for Mythos magic, if they get a headache they're normal and if it's just gibberish then they've got some protections against it... or some variant of these results depending on what you want to happen.

DanZilla wrote: Could be something as simple as "Can you read this page?" If they can they have an affinity for Mythos magic, if they get a headache they're normal and if it's just gibberish then they've got some protections against it... or some variant of these results depending on what you want to happen.

Along the same idea, it's a safe bet that an incoming student who is fluent in Aklo, Dhôl, Ghast, Umlengha, or any Hyperborean dialect just might have an aptitude for such things.

Given the hell-texts mentioned in the Mythos literature as being translated into human language, students who walk in already knowing Attic Greek, Classical Latin, and possibly Arabic, should be viewed with suspicion.

If the space elf has grown up on a world with something like the V-wolves running around naturally, is it entirely unfeasible that the space elf race has evolved to resist it?

Greatdingo wrote: If the space elf has grown up on a world with something like the V-wolves running around naturally, is it entirely unfeasible that the space elf race has evolved to resist it?

Like mongoose and honey badgers being immune to some snake venoms?

"Voodoo-pig bacon: Mmm hm!"

null0trooper wrote:

Cryptic wrote: I'm trying to think of a way for the school's power testers to discover that a student has an odd resistance to Class X stuff.

Malady wrote: Umm, it's "Affected", not "Effected". Although, that can't be changed now...

And yeah, maybe they're a bit GOO, so they're a bit immune. But does that make them a threat to others? Put them in Hawthorne until that's solved??

And do they smell tasty to Tennyo? ... How do they react to the Drow??

Gen2 setting. using "Oh I was human, turned Sidhe, was about to be sold into slavery" as her in to study from Nikki.

Likely,to Billie, she'll smell like Nikkie after a V-wolf fight.
Drow... haven't worked out yet.

null0trooper wrote: Have her:
- "try on this set of (Tillinghast) glasses and tell us what you see"
- attend one of Ecila Mason's lectures,
- grade Sara Waite's leftover homework,
- go siteseeing with Josie Gillman
No one said anything about safe ways!

No, I didn't...

null0trooper wrote:

Valentine wrote: What kind of Class X, because it isn't all the same. Kayda's Class X isn't the same as Sara's, and that won't be the same as another groups, or this fourth group.

Good point. It may help to brush up on available Mythos horror to get an idea of which things shouldn't bother the character as much as they might the average person on the street. Or maybe the character is different enough that they cannot even perceive certain forms of a corruption of reality? (Similar to charm placed on Ditchwater Sal in "Stardust", such that she could not perceive Yvaine)

As one of my GMs put it: "Usually, when you stare into the Abyss it stares back into you. But when you stare into the Abyss, it stares back and asks you why you haven't called lately. Would it hurt so much to send a postcard?"

Whether it's as off-hand as "Of course those are nightgaunts; all of Nodens' temples have them back home!" or more disturbing, like "Looks like an imp, smells like an imp, tastes like an imp if you add enough garlic butter. What?" or fluffy as not even realizing that Ultharian cats aren't the normal ones: knowing what you're pulling from where helps the ability to feel more organic.

Hadn't considered that... she's her own tradition so....

Yes the immunity was something I thought evoeld/was added to them after they where cut off.