[UA] Silly Epideromancy Rules question

[Dean Reilly]

I believe the trick is intent.  If an epideromancer allows someone else to modify his body in any way- heart transplant, artificial hip, haircut, tattooing, whatever- it counts as a taboo violation.  Modifying the mage's body without his permission, eg by shooting him or beating him up is not a violation.  Similarly, tying him up and giving him a manicure against his will is not a taboo breach.
 
Now I'm in a weird "Queer Eye for the Epideromancer" place.  I'll stop now.

Benjamin Lee <bailywolf at yahoo.com> wrote:

I think it has much to to with intent.

The skin-freak carves runes into his flesh in a
ritualized act of self-alteration. If he allows
someone else to engage in an act with the explicit
intent of latering or modifying his body, then he
taboos. Socking him in the chops is done with the
specific intent of making flesh connect with flesh-
preferably with force- and hoping for some damage as a
result. However, sitting him down and styling his
hair is a delibrate act intended to make a change to
his body in some specific way. Otherwise every time
he got it on, ate food made by someone else, bumped
into someone on the subway, or got socked in the chops
he would taboo.

I believe if you knocked him out, then tied him up in
a barber chair, slapped him awake, then cut his hair
you could taboo him... though there is that bit about
ALLOWING someone to alter your body which might make
it a 50/50 kind of thing... the adept's intent is the
real deal breaker for mojo afterall.

Going to the doctor to have bullet holes patched up
has to suck though.

-B

--- Susan Dohnim wrote:
> The Epideromancer taboo is that they can't let
> someone modify their body. 
> What happens if someone modifies their body without
> their permission? Heck, 
> let's say I walk up to the nearest epideromancer and
> punch him in the nose, 
> breaking it. Or just give him a fat lip. Technically
> that's body 
> modification, isn't it? Does that drain him of mojo?
> Doesn't quite seem 
> right.
> 
> So I've probably answered my own question.
> 
>
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