Canon Q&A With Storytellers

[Mordechai]

If a person was thinking about something just moments before a telepath read their memories, would the thoughts be known?

edit to add, for example. would a mother, have any memories of her child

Thoughts aren't memories, so I'm inclined to say no.

I would say memories of the nature you described would require permission from the other character's writer to use at all.

The wiki snippet for playing the power is here:

Read Memories: Read memories is limited to major events in the target's life, so it cannot be used to extrapolate passwords, words they might have said, or small deeds such as where they last walked or fed. In roleplay, it can sometimes (if agreed upon by both parties) be used to see memories of a sexual nature, so that the telepath can know if the target has been cheating on a companion or spouse, for example (a gift telepaths could in theory sell, in a roleplay capacity as a sort of private detective). When experiencing these memories, a telepath does not see themas images, but instead experiences them as if they were words being read out by a storyteller. A telepath concentrating to use this power will often say these words out loud, instinctively, reciting the target's memor

According to what you posted it does not see small events like typing a password. I would assume that having a child and raising it would not be considered a small event would not there be memories of all the day-to-day experiences their first stops birthday parties Etc. A child is a full part of your life, a piece of you, not just a couple keystrokes. The way in which I am referring is just that the child exist, not details of its life like its name and age. Could you please clarify this, thank you.

[Azraeth]

Memories like the ones you described would require permission from the writer of the target.

Otherwise, a player could just pull a person's bio/CS and claim their character knows everything about a character's history, regardless of context, which really isn't Kosher.

[Ramona (DELETED 10272)]

I would like to know how someone exactly turns into a zombie please.

Does a person need to die?
What if they are bit?
What if they are scratched?

Thank you.

[Azraeth]

I would like to know how someone exactly turns into a zombie please.

When a spirit enters a dead body.

Does a person need to die?

At least brain death, yes.

What if they are bit?
What if they are scratched?

Zombies aren't created through infection. Being bit or scratched by one might spread disease, but it wouldn't necessarily make someone a zombie.

See: Zombies (RP) wiki article

[Amalea]

How does ‘Alter Ego’ work in rp? The wiki just gives the power description in the rp notes page.

[Alexandrea]

I think it *used* to have something under the rp page... didn't it? >.< I've always gone by it being an 'alteration' of your charries' own appearance, as in looking like a same 'type' but not recognisable unless seen up close (same square) by someone who knows them. And then things like 'scent' or body language... something intangible even... gives it away. And I'm thinking that I read that someplace, not that I just came up with it on my own.

[Amalea]

There’s a note about having a tell for a camera but beyond that it just restates the incity description of it blocking those 2 tracking powers and someone needing to be in your square to see you.

[Azraeth]

I'd say that alter ego is the ability to assume a new identity through a combination of disguise, shifting, etc. The reason that a character can be discovered up close is that the character's aura/spiritual energy would still be the same. Though you could also play it as the person with alter ego having a physical tell, familiar scent, or some other give away as to who they are.

[Amalea]

So even in RP, if someone got close, they'd be able to tell who the Alter Ego'd person really is? Would that also hold true for a human recognizing a vampire in Alter Ego (assuming they're familiar with them)?

[Azraeth]

I'd say that's up to the writers to discuss.