Life in the Sixth World

by waywardshepherd

This is a series of short in-character responses to various aspects of life in the Sixth World that were discussed on our Shadowrun group's mailing list. The character doing all the talking here is Rake, a 50-year-old elf sharpshooter/face-man with a law degree and a checkered past. Standard disclaimer: Shadowrun ain't mine, Rake is.

5. Chapter 5 - Blood Magic

Blood magic is seriously bad mojo, chummer. The good news is that there's not a lot of it (unless you're down south of the border), since magic is rare enough and twisted evil magic is a tiny offshoot of that. Even old guys like me are unlikely to have crossed paths with a blood mage.

I can tell you this much, kiddos: despite never having seen the stuff in person myself, just the thought of blood magic is enough to give me a bad case of the willies. Best to slot and run if you ever come up against that sort of drek. Live to fight another day and all that.

-Rake.