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IMC: Descent of Dara

posted by Ginger at 01:48 PM, September 12, 2003 | Filed under : Family Tumbleweed , IMC | Comments and Followups

Dara was the first of her line to bear all the marks of humanity. Given that her grandmother (or mother, depending on what theory you subscribe to) was the child of Benedict and Lintra, that starts the line at half Chaosian and half Amberite. In order to filter out the Chaosian blood and bring forth a shapeshifter capable of bearing a human form as a natural form, that implies not introducing more Chaosian blood to the mix. Given that it was a breeding project, I wouldn’t expect them to dilute the power of her blood with shadow genes. Which makes one wonder… who the hell was Dara’s father?

Our solution to this problem hasn’t been clearly stated to the PCs, but should come as no surprise to many of the players. We run a very first-series Chaos, and our Chaosi aren’t very human. They’re also not very sexed: they have offspring alone or in combination, with numbers not limited to two. So Dara has only one parent.

Nobody’s ever asked what or who her ancestors ate to get enough Amber in them to spawn her, though.

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2 Comments

Leslie
Sep 12, 2003 6:23 PM

Actually... what occurs to me is; if Chaosians aren't very human or very sexed, what the *heck* was Lintra *think.... Oh, wait! I get it! Dara is Benedict's right hand girl, isn't she? *G*

Kris
Sep 15, 2003 5:58 AM

So wierd! Tara and I were just speculating on that *exactly*... and came to the same decision that Leslie did.

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