Hello,
I've been reading Armageddon/Witchcraft material for some time now and planning an adventure to run on the side. It most likely won't see any playtime, but it's a fun sideproject. Anyways, at some point I started to wonder how perceiving the supernatural actually works or is ment to work. I was hoping to hear how other people see it.
This is how I understand it:
The people with Gift can see the flows of essence. The same seems to be true for many other supernatural beings (checked seraphim and true immortal, with concentration). This means they can see soul fire blasts (pure essence) and dodge them.
Gifted can also perceive supernatural beings and effects, but this is not accurate.
Necromancers can see and communicate with spirits of the dead if they have the right skills.
Now, in light of this it seems that Gifted can't see spirits even though they are beings of pure essence. Instead they need to summon the spirits or make them otherwise corporeal and visible. This leads to some questions. When say a spirit of the dead is lingering on earth, only mediums can see them? A witch can feel their presence and perform spirit mastery invocation to call upon them? Does this make the spirit only visible or also corporeal? Can non-Gifted see the spirits after they have been summoned (or made otherwise visible)? Does this differ if the spirit gets ahold of enough ambient essence and manages to manifest itself?
How would this situation play out? I have a group of four people: a witch, a seer, a medium and a true immortal who hasn't gone through the Change and appears normal human. They are sitting in a cafe having breakfast. If a spirit of an old chinese woman, well known to the medium, comes close to their table, can only the medium see her? The other Gifted can feel her presence if they are perceptive enough (don't fail their Simple Perception Task)? And the pre-TI doesn't sense her at all? The medium can hear spirit chastising him for eating white bread but the others have no idea someone is speaking? What happens if the chinese lady gets upset about the unhealthy foods the medium eats for breakfast and starts to cause a ruckus? Everyone can see the flying cups, the witch and the seer can also feel that some supernatural being is upset, and the medium can hear her shrieking and see how she makes the breakfast-ware fly?
O' gosh, I got way too excited writing stuff up. I hope someone can understand the question I was trying to make. Also, hopefully the language is readable - i tried to find the worst mistakes and fix them. Anyways thanks for reading and please tell how you handle seeing supernatural in your Armageddon/Witchcraft/other games.
- ishmael
I've been reading Armageddon/Witchcraft material for some time now and planning an adventure to run on the side. It most likely won't see any playtime, but it's a fun sideproject. Anyways, at some point I started to wonder how perceiving the supernatural actually works or is ment to work. I was hoping to hear how other people see it.
This is how I understand it:
The people with Gift can see the flows of essence. The same seems to be true for many other supernatural beings (checked seraphim and true immortal, with concentration). This means they can see soul fire blasts (pure essence) and dodge them.
Gifted can also perceive supernatural beings and effects, but this is not accurate.
Necromancers can see and communicate with spirits of the dead if they have the right skills.
Now, in light of this it seems that Gifted can't see spirits even though they are beings of pure essence. Instead they need to summon the spirits or make them otherwise corporeal and visible. This leads to some questions. When say a spirit of the dead is lingering on earth, only mediums can see them? A witch can feel their presence and perform spirit mastery invocation to call upon them? Does this make the spirit only visible or also corporeal? Can non-Gifted see the spirits after they have been summoned (or made otherwise visible)? Does this differ if the spirit gets ahold of enough ambient essence and manages to manifest itself?
How would this situation play out? I have a group of four people: a witch, a seer, a medium and a true immortal who hasn't gone through the Change and appears normal human. They are sitting in a cafe having breakfast. If a spirit of an old chinese woman, well known to the medium, comes close to their table, can only the medium see her? The other Gifted can feel her presence if they are perceptive enough (don't fail their Simple Perception Task)? And the pre-TI doesn't sense her at all? The medium can hear spirit chastising him for eating white bread but the others have no idea someone is speaking? What happens if the chinese lady gets upset about the unhealthy foods the medium eats for breakfast and starts to cause a ruckus? Everyone can see the flying cups, the witch and the seer can also feel that some supernatural being is upset, and the medium can hear her shrieking and see how she makes the breakfast-ware fly?
O' gosh, I got way too excited writing stuff up. I hope someone can understand the question I was trying to make. Also, hopefully the language is readable - i tried to find the worst mistakes and fix them. Anyways thanks for reading and please tell how you handle seeing supernatural in your Armageddon/Witchcraft/other games.
- ishmael
