| Create Primessence Drug (• • • Life, • • • Prime) Technocracy: Progenitors 44 |
| Simple saline fluid is used as a medium to transfer a set Life Pattern
into a living body. When injected, the fluid carrying the Pattern
causes the patient's body to begin producing large quantities of
Quintessence. This effect lasts for up to six hours and is very
uncomfortable. The patient is usually very queasy and dizzy,
complains of headaches or body aches, and cannot sleep well. Patients' bodies become saturated with raw energy. Their blood, urine, tears and hair are often collected (repeatedly) for "tests" or "study," and The physical matter is then broken down into a liquid form of Tass by a complicated series of centrifuge-like machines. The collected Quintessence is stored for later use in special vials and freezers In extreme cases where large quantities of raw Quintessence are needed, whole limbs have been removed and used (the limb "goes bad" quickly, however, and must be used right away). The effects of this spell on mages are slightly different; mages begin sweating Quintessence, leaking it out of every pore of their bodies. To anyone watching them, they seem to be bleeding a glowing golden liquid from their bodies, especially their eyes and mouths. The affected mage can use this Quintessence just as any other, but a Willpower roll (difficulty 6) must be made to perform any action whatsoever. Generally, three points of Quintessence can be pulled from a Sleeper who is under the influence of Primessence, and only one or two from most animals. Five points can be gathered from a human body if the entire body (or most of it) is used, or three or four from an animal. This, of course, kills the "donor." A mage produces twice her Avatar rating in Quintessence. |