[Torg] coming back in Torg list with a bench of cyberquestions...

[Phil Dack]

--- Alexandre Chessel <pifpafalex at hotmail.fr> wrote:When
> cyber-enhanced Storm Knights move to place where tech 
> axiom is lower than 26 (almost everywhere except the 
> place where they come from indeed) when does a 
> contradiction test is requirred ? I mean, for someone 
> with a cyber-eye or leg, not a chip, i.e. some device
> used almost all the time. 

For this, you need to use the rules for passive disconnection
which you can find on p152 of TRE.

> Does the Knight with a pair of cyber legs encounter
> disconnection each time he runs an action while
> standing on his legs ? 

Nope. A passive contradiction covers most circumstances, but you
should also check for contradiction for more active uses e.g.
Speed pushes, Jumping/Climbing checks or Kicks.

> The same problem occured when I had a player playing
> an elve roaming outside the Aysle Kingdom.[...] Does 
> the wise way is to make a contradiction check at the 
> beginning of each scene, 

This is the usual approach for passive checks: per scene covers
most eventualities. The only time you might want to vary this if
there's a lot of downtime within scenes, so that a character
spends an extended period of time with a passive contradiction.
Then it's up to you - perhaps one check per day might be fair.

> And another question related to cyberware is about 
> the hand that Thratchen gave to Dr Hachi Mara II.
> How do you used this event in your campaign ? Is 
> that a plan of Thratchen ? is the item described 
> somewhere (a place I missed)

It's not anything I'm aware of, and isn't described anywhere as
I recall.

> ? and mainly, and aside to occultech, what are the 
> difference between the tharkoldu cyberware and the 
> cyberpapal one ?

Generally tharkoldu cyberware is a little more powerful than
cyberpapal, as they are a slightly more advanced Tech 26
society. It may also have slightly different Cyber Values,
you'll have to check. And they will look different, cyberpapal
being more traditional gleaming chrome while tharkold cyberware
might best be described as cyberware as Orcs might design it!
 
> Finally, I get intersted in tharkoldus. They are 
> demons, so could they be invoked like the demons of 
> Magna Verita, and how. What is the link between
> the tharkoldu culture and the Hell described as the 
> place of birth of demons in many religions (if any) ?

Not sure about the official line on this. They may be demons of
a sort, but they are demons of the Tharkoldu cosm. So you might
be able to summon a Tharkoldu using magic in Tharkold, but if
you were in magna verita you'd summon a magna verita demon.
There is no official link between Tharkold and the
Judeao-Christian hell.

Hope those answers helped. Good luck with your game.

Phil


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