It seems like the the 'flavor text' of the various Storyteller games seems to allow this as a possibility, especially in the case of Banes corrupting people, but I don't recall seeing a Charm written up with specific rules for doing it. It seems like something that would be pretty universal across Spirits but it's not in the like of common Charms, like Armor, Materialize or Create Fire, etc. There's also not an option to steal Power from your host using using the Possession Charm either.
After some more research, I checked the Werewolf and Mage core rule books but found nothing. There's a Charm that's somewhat along the same lines in the Book of the Wyrm: Second Edition. The Spirit called the Drattosi has the following ability:
Consume Essence: This Charm allows the Drattosi to eat another Spirit and take its Power into itself...The Drattosi attacks with Rage but Drains one Power point into itself per success....The Drattosi can even use this charm to eat a spirit or Garou's Gnosis.... (pg. 199)
That's a case of a Spirit tearing Power from some other being, at least.
If there exists an official write-up for a power similar to "loosh-farming", it's probably attached to a specific spirit and buried in one of the splat-books.
With regards to Reverie and Ravaging, as someone who's been an Storyteller for most of the oWoD games, I've always felt that the various power points that WoD Supernaturals use (Gnosis, Quintessence, Glamour, Pathos) are roughly the same. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to allow some Umbrood, perhaps a specific species, to use the Ravaging rules from Changeling to steal Power from mortals. You could use "scaring people" as the Ravaging threshold for the Spirit. I would also play up the flavor that the mortal feels drained and depressed after the Spirit is finished.
Answer from Discord on Stack ExchangeI've heard this theory that we're being farmed for loosh but nobody has explained what this is. I just woke up from a dream where me and my dad were transporting crates on a box truck and we got payed immediately after dropping it off. The specifics are irrelevant but it got me thinking. The way the world is going AI will be taking most if not all the jobs in the future. What else do we currently have going? Crypto mining. What if someone in the future, (probably a corporation), comes up with a realistic world (earthland)and if you work a job with your avatar then you can earn crypto back in your real world/base layer. You would be in essence mining a crypto block with your mind/chip. What if this loosh is the crypto credit/tokens you use to pay your rent or bills. But if we're kept here against our will then it's akin to sex trafficking. Rather than using us as a battery they could be using us as a GPU for crypto mining. A quantum computer works very similarly to a GPU. There's already a precedent to this type of thinking corporately speaking. Microsoft has a patent WO2020060606A1. It's a cryptocurrency system using body activity data. Notice the three 06s in the patent number. 060606 the number of the beast. It's all coming together. What do you make of this hypothesis?
Does anyone else believe Earth is an energy (loosh) farm?
Are they "evil"? Perhaps they, like the rest of us, are filling a niche in the universe.
How many times have you come back to earth? Dont you remember any of those times? Do you remember choosing to not return, to end the cycle, and having to watch your children and their children be tricked back to the suffering that is earth?
They are feeding off of our energies, and that may be parasitic, but that does not necessarily make them evil. We wonder why they trick us into suffering. I think a better question is why we keep choosing to fall for it.
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It seems like the the 'flavor text' of the various Storyteller games seems to allow this as a possibility, especially in the case of Banes corrupting people, but I don't recall seeing a Charm written up with specific rules for doing it. It seems like something that would be pretty universal across Spirits but it's not in the like of common Charms, like Armor, Materialize or Create Fire, etc. There's also not an option to steal Power from your host using using the Possession Charm either.
After some more research, I checked the Werewolf and Mage core rule books but found nothing. There's a Charm that's somewhat along the same lines in the Book of the Wyrm: Second Edition. The Spirit called the Drattosi has the following ability:
Consume Essence: This Charm allows the Drattosi to eat another Spirit and take its Power into itself...The Drattosi attacks with Rage but Drains one Power point into itself per success....The Drattosi can even use this charm to eat a spirit or Garou's Gnosis.... (pg. 199)
That's a case of a Spirit tearing Power from some other being, at least.
If there exists an official write-up for a power similar to "loosh-farming", it's probably attached to a specific spirit and buried in one of the splat-books.
With regards to Reverie and Ravaging, as someone who's been an Storyteller for most of the oWoD games, I've always felt that the various power points that WoD Supernaturals use (Gnosis, Quintessence, Glamour, Pathos) are roughly the same. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to allow some Umbrood, perhaps a specific species, to use the Ravaging rules from Changeling to steal Power from mortals. You could use "scaring people" as the Ravaging threshold for the Spirit. I would also play up the flavor that the mortal feels drained and depressed after the Spirit is finished.
Wraiths could do this on their own without a separate, non-Wraith "emotion controller". Although interacting with people an objects in the Skinlands (what Wraiths call the world of the living) isn't easy there are multiple Arcanoi that can do it.
A circle of Wraiths who want to "loosh farm" would need to tailor their skills to the task, but it's plausible and a damn cool idea. There are two ways I can see them going about it:
- Haunt a place that gets enough visitors to be worth the effort. Old hotels, tourists-trap castles, hospitals and old schools builds are all good candidates. Manipulate the place and the stories about in order bring out the desired emotions in the people who visit.
- Haunt a person or family. Send them otherworldly glimpses and manipulate their feelings and surroundings in order to generate the strong emotions to feed from. This is probably far more sinister than haunting a place, since the Wraith(s) are basically driving someone to the brink of madness (or beyond) in order to feed off them.