[UA] Non Entity Trouble

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- James Knevitt <psipsina at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> 
> How do you portray [non-entities] to the players
(and the
> characters)? I find that NEs are
> profoundly sad creatures.

That might be it.  I usually portray non-entities as
shallow but polite, with no real sense of humor beyond
workplace "ah-haha" stuff. Since my players usually
meet ones that have gotten hooked on some strong
emotion, I make the things unnaturally fixated on that
emotion, allowing passion into my voice only when the
non-entity is discussing their empathic jones.


> What are the
> player reactions to them? 

One of my players was running a "dial-a-gag" service. 
She took requests for practical jokes and orgainzed
people to make them happen.  She got a call from a
non-entity who craved the kind of feelings brought on
by out-of-control fires. 

The player made several jokes which the nonnie was
pretty cold or slow to respond to and then mentioned
the prank, which brought the conversation back into
sharp focus.  She thought he was just crazy.

When she saw him standing in a burning building, that
confirmed her suspicions, but, hey, so what?  Later,
the nonnie was chasing her and she sunk a fire axe
into his arm.  A copple chops severed the limb, which
didn't bleed.  She described him as a psycho manikin,
another player theorized it was a golem and the third
guy, to whom I'd actually had a Dirk Allen blurt out a
drunk theory on (more-or-less) accurately on
non-entities, didn't really care.

In the end, they let it run rampant in the Russian
neighborhood where it had taken up residence.  It just
didn't interest them.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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