Sunday’s Eternal Choice [Promethean: The Created]

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It’s Sunday, and so you, faithful readers, are again faced with a decision regarding what aspect of Promethean you want to hear about come Tuesday morning.

I’ve given the choice several times as “Refinements or [something else],” and while the vote is always close, “something else” always gets picked. As I was typing up notes for my Promethean chronicle (starting up again tomorrow after a long hiatus, just in time to playtest 2nd Edition), I was thinking about Refinements for some NPCs and how their Pilgrimages might have progressed. One of said NPCs was Legion (who shows in Saturnine Night and then in my chronicles as a supporting character in a Mage game). If Legion started on Stannum, what has he learned in the interim? Is he on Aurum, trying to learn about people and how they tick? Or is the memory of what his creators did to him still a little too fresh? Has he studied Mercurius, given his penchant for all things electrical, perhaps with an eye toward bioelectricity and how living things use electrical impulses to transmit neural data? If he were a player’s character, this would happen in play, but given that he’s not, I get to make it up.

In the end I decided he’d switched to Aes; he’s got a throng now (he didn’t before), and his ongoing themes of finding a place in the world, plus his rather unorthodox form (he’s a man-shaped blob of nanite-filled goo) led me to think he’d be a fun bodyguard for the other Storyteller Prometheans for this story. The actual play thread is here if you want to check it out; it’s possible I might let some 2nd Ed stuff slip.

But in any case! What shall I talk about on Tuesday? Would you prefer basic or complex Refinements?