Mark Hall wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:Mark Hall wrote:Tor wrote:eliakon wrote:You are still you, they are still they. You use your stuff they use their stuff.
I guess the issue is... biologically, you left your DNA back in your body if you're doing 'Mentally Possess Others' or something, and the bio-energy of the person you're inhabiting is still in their body, they just have a dormant mind, so it makes me wonder if you commandeer their bio-energy while in them.
What makes you think B.E. has anything to do with DNA?
(Personally, I'd say someone who possessed another person would have different BE than either the original person or the possessor in their original body, but given that BE is more or less mentioned in a couple places and otherwise ignored as a concept, that's no less conjecture than anything else said here.)
You consider possession to be a biological process?
No; I'd lean towards it being a psychic process, where you slowly associate your possessions with your sense of self (and, since I use a lot of Shadowrun metaphysics, imprinting your aura somewhat on the aura of the inanimate object), but they went and threw in BE, then let the concept twist in the wind. If you had two people, I'd say you'd have potentially four BE signatures... Aaron, Betty, Aaron-possessing-Betty, and Betty-possessing-Aaron, with them each having their own unique BE signature, and an altered on when they possessed the other... elements of their self interacting with the meat they're in and the aura it projects.
You've kind of lost me here, because I'm not sure when you're using "possession" in the sense of "ownership," and when you're using it in the sense of "Mentally Possessed By Another," or if you're conflating the two.
Are you saying that Mentally Possess Other gives you ownership over the person's body?
Regardless, why would being possessed alter your biological energy, if it's not a biological process?
Also, the text doesn't state that the status of "owner" has anything to do directly with BE, only that the owner's BE is used as a kind of passkey for using the object.
Here's the key sentence:
"What this spell does is attune a particular object to the owner's
B.E. frequency"
It could just as easily say:
"What this spell does is attune a particular object to the owner's
retinal patterns"
"What this spell does is attune a particular object to the owner's
True Name"
"What this spell does is attune a particular object to the
aura"
"What this spell does is attune a particular object to the owner's
fingerprints"
Or any number of other things.
In none of those cases is the bolded portion the distinguishing mark of ownership. It doesn't say, "...attunes a particular object to the BE frequency of the person who uses it most," or "...to the BE frequency that has permeated the object most strongly," or anything like that.