House Rules/Mummy

House Rules Mummy "Sons of the pharaohs! Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but you! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!" -Dr. Bey

Balance Increasing Balance is time-limited per '+rules minimum time'. Character generation One free spell or ritual at each hekau level, but only during chargen. (MtR 60 says 'one per', MtR 78 says 'two per'. We picked the former.) Sekhem equals final Balance (after freebies) plus what your Vessel (if any) holds. It cannot be raised with freebies. Cross-sphere Vampire feeding from a mummy (based on MtR 145): If the mummy loses N blood, then they also lose N Sekhem and the vampire gains 2*N blood. The vampire also gains +N Humanity until the blood is spent. Vampires on a Path of Enlightenment gain artificial Humanity (starting at 0) in addition to their Path of Enlightenment. Attempting to violate this artificial Humanity: Roll (Instinct or Self-Control) vs (artificial Humanity). Fail = cannot bring yourself to commit the violation, which may trigger a degeneration check against your Path of Enlightenment. Kuei-jin gain Yang Chi instead of blood. Non-Egyptian mummies Non-Egyptian mummies are allowed: Capacocha, Teomallki, Wu T'ian, Cabiri, Ishmaelites, Others (MtR 217-227, MPG 71-97, MtR 2nd 33-38 and 75) +sheet will generally use the standard Amenti names, regardless of what the character ICly calls them (MPG 104). 'Lifeforce' = Sekhem (MPG 111). For Martial Arts, either hard style or soft style may be used. Any pre-Revised differences in game mechanics will be adapted at staff discretion, e.g. 'must go back to Egypt' becomes 'must go back to Greece' or some other similarly distant place. Children of Apophis (bane mummies) are not allowed as PCs, as there are only seven of them in the entire world. Phylacteries Reference: MPG 224-229 May be taken in chargen using Relic background Creating one (or re-creating after destroyed in the living world) requires Sanctify Chattel (MPG 169) May store up to (Balance * 10) Sekhem (aka Lifeforce, etc.) Exceeding this limit causes it to explode, doing 1 level of lethal per stored Sekhem May use stored Sekhem as if it was part of your normal pool If an enemy steals the phylactery, they may use it against you They exist simultaneously in the living world and the Land of the Dead (Shadowlands), powered by the latter They have an additional magic effect (guidelines TBD) Sekhem Spending Sekhem on hekau: All Sekhem spent on a spell must be spent at the instant it's cast. Sekhem spent on a ritual may be spent at any time during the ritual. Drawing Sekhem from a Vessel requires one turn of concentration each time.