Re: Moon of the Month: Asylum

The technical term for a half demon (in Planescape) is Cambion.
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From: "Night_Druid" <Night_Druid@??????????.net>
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Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Moon of the Month: Asylum


> > RE: Moon of the Month: Asylum.  Great MotM!!!
>
> Glad you enjoyed it!  I constantly need to remind myself: sometimes,
simple
> is best :^D  Figured I was due after churning on that other moon (curse
it,
> I say, curse it! ;)  Thanks for the kind words. :)
>
> > BTW: Is the gestation
> > period for Half-Demons born on Asylum shorter than normal? What I'm
asking
> > is; how often can a female Prisoner or Succubus give birth when living
> > there?  Do the Tanar-Ri "speed up" this process at all?
>
>     Hmmm, not certain.  I'd assume most female prisoners it'd be pretty
> standard to the race (humans == 9 months, orcs somewhat less, elves
somewhat
> more), with a good 95%+ chance of dying in childbirth (by the old rule of
> "when a cambion is born, mother dies in childbirth).  The cultists pretty
> much don't care...with a never-ending flow of victims, they really don't
> need for the woman to survive.  In fact, a custom might be to feed the
baby
> the flesh of the mother if you want something pretty sick :)  I doubt they
> would have a need to "speed up" the process normally, but might do so
during
> times when a particularlly bloody battle has depleted their numbers or
when
> they have a particularly large batch of women to "process" (ala the orcs
at
> end of UWI).
>
> For succubus, <shrug> I guess 9 months, but 6 months and 6 days and 6
hours
> does have an appealing ring to it ;)  There are literally hundreds of
women
> pregnant there at any given time, and its been going on for several
> centuries (I'd say 5 centuries at the very least), and on the Abyss the
> half-fiends are pretty much immortal (assuming they don't die in battle),
> with "baby boom" periods like with the orcs at the end of UWI, so the
> numbers of half-demons should be in the tens of thousands at the very
least.
> Infant mortality is probably pretty high, as is the meat-grinder that is
the
> Bloodwar, so I'd guess that the "real" number of half-demons is probably
> holding steady.  Lots of inexerienced, bloodthirsty kids with some
hardened
> veterens.
>
> Adam
>
> Look for my coming on the seventh month of the fifth year.  At dawn look
to
> the world were the Trio (plus one) that is Untouchable reigns supreme
>
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