Re: FW: rent-a-bod

[Keith Klumb <kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

Then I'll share my answer to that with everyone.

I don't think I need to justify that with and answer.

Sorry if I over stepped AQ etiquette on the GMs list. A simple 'don't
bring stuff like that up' would work well.
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When you see a worthy person,
        Endeavor to emulate them.
When you see an unworthy person,
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Lyle H Janney wrote:

> Oops, I really did mean for this to be shared with the whole group.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lyle H Janney [SMTP:lhjanney@adpc.purdue.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, October 30, 1998 2:42 PM
> To:	'Keith Klumb'
> Subject:	RE: rent-a-bod
> 
> If you're going to bring up one of your characters, I guess it isn't
> really all that far from you then, is it?
> 
> To answer you, since a character of yours _is_ subject to the
> answer, _I_ would have to say that your character would have
> to find that out through experimentation.  Of course, you can
> always get a second opinion, and a third, and a fourth, and
> a fifth, etc. until you get the answer you want.
> 
> Also, I would say that you're going a bit too far in your example
> of the Terovervo.  Elemental Earth isn't so much iron, carbon,
> etc. (and it certainly isn't _diamond_!), it is the essence of Earth
> itself.  Likewise with Air, Water, and Fire.  To learn anything
> more from me, you would have to, as I said, experiment in
> character.  Being a GM does not give special privilege with
> regard to one's characters and their actions (unless you can
> find another GM who will give it to you, that is).
> 
> Finally, thank you for reminding me of Kung Fu Tse's  classic
> exhortation regarding how we should react to other's worthiness.
> Let me ask you, do you actually follow those clever words you
> quote in your 'sig'?
> 
> > When you see a worthy person,
> >         Endeavor to emulate them.
> > When you see an unworthy person,
> >         Then examine your inner self..............Confucius"
> 
> Lyle
> 
> PS - I hope the Live-Action game is a real hit this year!  Have Fun!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Keith Klumb [SMTP:kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu]
> 
> Far be it from me to bring up one of my own chars especially after the
> fact but how does the fact the elementals have no body affect a trasnmog.
> Ie is body needed to transmog. What is to prevent someone of like rate
> 1000 (???) from transmoging into Ra? Don't say it's b/c nobody has seen
> the gods b/c there are chars that have.
> 	Also what about spells that affect body?
> 	Greg said that They have a psyeduo body. That is they take up
> their element but can choose to exchange it for different types. Ie
> Terovervo can give up some iron to have some Dimond in his body.
> 
>