WORLD OF DARKNESS:
                                ANDEAN MUMMY

By Evan Franke (erf98@uclink4.berkeley.edu)

Introduction
     This creative effort was inspired by White Wolf's brilliant supplement,
World of Darkness: Mummy, as if you couldn't guess. I am indebted to
them for inspiration and the original creativity behind the Gothic Punk
universe. While I was thinking all of this through and making it all I
was encouraged, questioned, aided and tolerated by various members of
the list including Richard Scott, Philippe Duchon, Ophelie, Sam,
Thanatos, Dave Kennard, phil, Jonathan, Spike, and CE. I would like to
especially thank Dave Oakes (whose name I can usually spell) who
peppered me with questions after every post, who encouraged me, and
without whom I would not have finished this. So, with that preamble let
me open the way to a new perspective on Kay Pacha, the middle world and
earthly realm.
     Mummies. The very word conjures visions of ancient Egypt, of pharaohs
and priests lying in their ancient tombs, and some few, guided by the
ancient gods, who walk the earth today on their secret missions in the
never ending war against Apophis, demon serpent of the underworld.
There are other truths to the word, mummy, however, and paths more
hidden from our consciousness and the games of Jyhad and Masquerade.
There are mummies more ancient than those of Egypt.
     On the western coast of South America a fisherfolk without pottery or
metals began to develop elaborate funerary customs, including the
mummification of their dead at around 5000 B.C. We now know them as the
Chinchoros people, but their true name is lost to memory as no written
records appear in South America until the Spanish Conquest. As with
most small groups, they probably called themselves "the people." These
first Chinchoros mummies, those who have not become part of the eternal
cycle of rebirth to the earthly realm, are now found from the port city
of Ilo in southern Peru south to the area around San Pedro de Atacama
in the North of Chile. These folk, for their most elaborate mummies,
disarticulated the bodies, cleaned the bones of much of the soft tissue
and built frames of cane and coverings of painted clay to preserve the
body intact. The crucial parts saved were the bones and the hair,
integrated now in the mummy. This differs from the concerns of the
Egyptians, and points to a divergent tradition of magic.
     The concern for the people of the Andes was not the body as the
repository for the soul, a shell that must be maintained, but rather,
that certain parts of the body, the bones, the hair, especially the
skull, were crucial markers, beacons for the return of the spirit.
Magic may clothe the bones with flesh again, but without something to
lead the spirit back, the connection between "the people" and the
ancestors is lost. The concern for maintaining concrete ties between
the living and the dead clearly emerged at this juncture, not only with
the Chinchoros, but also farther to the north with the people of La
Paloma by 4000 B.C. (near modern day Lima, Peru) who salted their dead
to preserve them. These beginnings heralded an ongoing tradition of
physical links between the living and dea;, forever afterwards there
was always somewhere in the Andes, if not everywhere at all times,
where the people preserved their dead, and spoke to them in times of
need, and in some few communities, they expected their dead to come
back to them, to lead them again through crisis.

History and Culture
     Developing an Andean Mummy character, whether as a player character or
an antagonist, presents problems for most of us, because unlike Egypt,
the Andes have made little impression on our collective consciousness.
For Egypt we have had movies, television specials, hugely popular
museum exhibitions, novels, comic books, and the Steve Martin song
"King Tut." Almost nothing comparable prepares us to play a character
from the Andes, someone quite removed from our familiar western
traditions. If this "supplement" is to be finished, I cannot prepare
you to take on this challenge adequately. I will give a bibliography
for future investigation, and I will give you a ground zero. In the end
it is up to you how far you go to clothe the bones I give you with
flesh.

Quick and Dirty Andean Culture and Prehistory
     The culture of the Andes extends from highland Colombia and Ecuador
through the coastal and highland regions of Peru, the highlands of
Bolivia, Northwest Argentina, and the highlands and coast of the
northern half of Chile. There is both amazing diversity and unity
throughout this region and the cultures of these countries remain alive
and developing, rediscovering and reinventing themselves. Today much of
the culture has a facade of European Christianity, under which native
structures still live.
     The principles which structure their universe can be summed up (in
highly simplified form) as 2, 3 and 4. These numeric principles have
terms attached to them, terms usually used to defined people and space.
Though there were many languages throughout the Andes, and there are
still quite a few native tongues alive, the terms best known are those
used by the Inka, the last great power in the Andes. Their language,
Quechua, was the imperial standard (like Latin for the Roman Empire)
and Quechua terms will be standard in the following text (because it is
what I know). The first term deals with basic duality, male/female,
up/down, right/left. Hanan embodied the principles of upper, right, and
maleness, while Hurin was lower, left, and femaleness. For defining the
principle of three for population and spatial divisions on earth, the
upper term was Collana, the middle term Payan, and the lower term was
Collao. However for us, the importance of three is in reference to the
three realms of the universe, the upper world (and celestial realm) of
Hanan Pacha, the middle world (and our earthly realm) Kay Pacha, and
the underworld Hurin Pacha. The principle of four divided both people
and the entire world, for the land of the Inkas was the Land of Four
Quarters, Tawantinsuyu, which was composed of Chinchaysuyu (North?),
Cuntisuyu (West?), Antisuyu (East?), and Collasuyu (South?). The
numbers game, two transformed to three, within a vision of four gets
very complex and few people can fully comprehend it let alone explain
its operation in Andean life. This should be enough to get you started
(or utterly confused).
     Time for the Andean peoples is cyclic. There are eternal cycles of
Chaos and Cosmos. Now is a time of Chaos for them, for the Cosmos was
shattered when the Spanish destroyed the Inka Empire. Mummies have
their own cycle, where each one creates and recreates for herself.
Chaos is the time of searching and traveling through the realms as a
spirit, and the Cosmos is restored when they again incarnate on Kay
Pacha, to attempt to shield their people from Chaos, or to help them
maintain the Cosmos. Some mummies have lost their people, however, and
must find them, or another, or find a new purpose to justify their
eternal cycle.

Prehistory

  13,000-8,000 B.C.
     South America settled by hunter-gatherers traveling from North America
through Central America. Andean Coast and Sierra occupied by small
traveling groups. Simple egalitarian social organization.

  8,000-3,000 B.C.
     Many groups become sedentary, particularly coastal groups who base
their subsistence on marine resources and some basic agriculture
(though mostly of industrial plants like cotton, bottle gourds, etc.)
(Chinchoros, La Paloma). Most groups sedentary by the end of this
period and agriculture for food becoming increasingly important.

  3,000-1,800 B.C.
     Preceramic cultures elaborate social organization and build large adobe
structures, platforms, and pyramids along the coast of Peru and in some
parts of the Sierra. Agriculture still of minor importance on the coast
and marine resources are the major staple support for the specialists
required to devote large amounts of time for public work projects and
ritual specialization. Elaborate textiles appear. Several traditions
epitomize this era: Kotosh (Northern Peruvian Sierra), Aspero (Northern
Peruvian Coast), Paraiso (Central Peruvian Coast).

  1,800-800 B.C.
     Initial Period: The North Coast and North and Central Sierra are
dominated by ceramic using agricultural groups who build huge monuments
of earth and stone, usually U-shaped temple/pyramids with elaborate
stone carving or mud friezes. On the South coast the Paracas culture
develops, elaborating textiles to their utmost and wrapping hundreds of
mummified dead in mummy bundles to be buried on the Paracas peninsula.
In the Southern Sierra the Yaya-mama tradition begins at Chiripa and
this religious ideology spreads throughout the Titicaca Basin.

  800 B.C.-1 A.D.
     Early Horizon: Certain artistic and religious ideas spread throughout
the Andes. One of the main centers which synthesizes these concepts is
Chavin de Huantar. Cupisnique traditions develop in response on the
North Coast and Paracas adapts many of the traditions into their
religious artwork. In the South the site of Pukara gains preeminence in
the Northern Titicaca basin, adapting ideas from both the Yaya-mama and
Chavin traditions spreading them through the Pukara "kingdom."

  1-500 A.D.
     Early Intermediate Period: Regional Developments dominate the period,
and many strong independent "states" form. On the North coast form the
Moche kingdoms, with amazing elaborations in art and architecture. The
central Coast boasts the Lima culture with elaborate adobe pyramids and
the development of the important oracle complex at Pachacamac. On the
South coast the Nazca culture dominates with beautiful and strange
pottery, giant lines and figures on the desert, and massive
hydrological works. In the Sierra from north to south there are smaller
developments at Cajamarca, Marca Huamachuco, Recuay, and Huarpa. In the
South Sierra the site of Tiwanaku begins to control the Titicaca Basin.

  500-1000 A.D.
     Middle Horizon: Two Empires dominate with great advancements in arts,
architecture and social and political organization: Wari, based in the
central Highlands to the North, and Tiwanaku base in the Titicaca Basin
to the South. By 800, however, Wari collapsed under unknown influence,
and a massive decades long drought destroyed the Tiwanaku Empire by
1000 A.D.

  1000-1476 A.D.
     Late Intermediate Period: On the North Coast, out of the ruins of the
Moche and Wari Cultures a new exotic Kingdom, Chimor, arose. The Chimu
would later become the Inkas' greatest rivals. In the Highlands the
Wanka Chiefdoms arose, but spent their time warring on one another.
South along the coast arose the Chancay building on roots left by the
Lima culture. The Chincha fold developed a hearty maritime economy
further south and had links to the Ica who occupied the lands once
under Nazca rule. To the far south the Chiribaya people, free from the
domination of Tiwanaku elaborated their culture. Out of the remains of
the Tiwanaku Imperial heartland rose the Aymara kingdoms (Pacajes,
Lupaqa, Colla, Mallku). And in the center of it all, at the Navel of
the world, Cuzco, a nobody people, the Inka, were getting ready to be
somebody.

  1476-1532 A.D.
     Late Horizon: During the Period the Inka came out of their valley and
conquered everything in sight. By 1476 they had, taking the Wanka and
Ica lands, conflicted with the Aymara Kingdoms, and met the Chimu in
battle. After a decade long war the Inka disarticulated the Kingdom of
Chimor, plundered its wealth and vacated its capital. To the south they
pushed through the Aymara Kingdoms and on to the "settled barbarians"
of Northern Chile and Northwestern Argentina, monopolizing the mineral
wealth there. With Chimor's fall, the Inka continued to Ecuador and
even made incursions into Colombia. At its height the Inka Empire was
the largest the new World had ever seen with massive engineering
projects for agriculture and transportation. The Empire ran without the
use of writing, draft animals, or metallurgic technology beyond the
bronze age. The end came with the civil war between Atawalpa and
Wascar, two sons of Wayna Qhapaq, the last successful emperor (who
seems to have died of smallpox, arriving even before the European
conquerors). Atawalpa prevailed over his brother and had him executed.
It was, however, too late. Francisco Pizarro and his 200 odd
adventurers had arrived and Atawalpa understood them as a real threat
only too late. They took him in a surprise attack as he came to speak
under a truce. He was ransomed, but the Spanish fearing the consequence
of a free "living god" executed him, finalizing their conquest of the
Empire only years later after strife and civil war among the Spanish
forces. Atawalpa's death, however signaled the end to independent
Andean traditions and native self-rule.

Character Generation

  Step One: Character Concept

     Identify Concept: During what period were you born and where; who were
your people, and what are you doing now in the modern world?

     Choose Career Path: Were you a ruler, a specialist, or a shaman?

     Choose Nature and Demeanor

  Step Two: Select Attributes

     Prioritize your three categories: Primary 7, Secondary 5, Tertiary 3

  Step Three: Select Abilities

     Prioritize your three categories: Primary: 20, Secondary 15, Tertiary
10

  Step Four: Select Advantages

     Choose Realm Powers: (3 divided between Kay Pacha and Hanan Pacha plus
an automatic 5 in Hurin Pacha)

     Choose Career Path Disciplines: (5)

     Choose Background Traits: May be limited by Chronicle Concept (6)

     Choose Virtues: All virtues start at zero, not at one (ergo an Andean
Mummy may start out with a zero in one virtue) Distribute 10 among
Conscience, Self-Control, and Courage.

  Step Five: Last Touches

     Record base Willpower = Courage

     Record base Humanity = Conscience + Self Control

     Record Base Llapa = total in Hanan Pacha+Kay Pacha+Hurin Pacha

     Spend 30 Freebie points

Character Concept
     This may be the most challenging part of creating an Andean Mummy
character. Why do you even exist? There are several archetypical
examples I can give, but further research and imagination is also
required. Easiest to play is a Mummy whose community is no longer in
existence. The original purpose of the Mummy then, is lost. She no
longer guards or advises her people, so she must have a new purpose,
perhaps vengeance against the Europeans or against ancient enemies,
perhaps to bring harmony to the strife filled Latin American countries
which now occupy her home region. Perhaps the Mummy is looking for
descendants of people she once knew, to help them.
     Next, there could be some Mummies still tied to traditional
communities, still serving their people. These Mummies would have few
incentives to leave their secluded surroundings, but perhaps to serve
the needs of the pueblo, or for the greater good of the universe, the
Mummy must venture out and use her powers in the World of Darkness.
     Finally, there are the Naqaq, black sorcerers and headhunters, who, if
they ever served a community now only serve darker powers and their own
evil interests. These Mummies usually have little Humanity and glorify
in their attachment to the darker side of the Underworld. They have
lost their balance in the universe.
     So, perhaps you may encounter a Mummy in a remote Andean pueblo, or
perhaps find one working to save the Amazon Rainforest along side
Nature Conservancy people; you might even find one at the head of a
powerful drug cartel. The possibilities are limited only by
imagination.

Career Paths
     There are three archetypical kinds of people who come back from the
underworld as Andean Mummies: Rulers, Specialists, and Shamans. Each
type has a specific set of experiences and powers inherent in the Path.
The exact operation of each power will be explained in a later section.

  The Path of Rulership
     The rulers of Andean peoples were chiefs (Kuraka, Mallku), kings,
emperors (e.g. Sapa Inka), generals, and war leaders (Sinchi). Their
function was to organize the natural and supernatural universe in order
to allow their people to prosper, grow strong and live in peace,
internally and externally. In return for their leadership, rulers
received goods and services, as well as worship and devotion (ideally)
from their subjects.
     There are three disciplines in this path:
     War:        This allows the mummy to supernaturally enhance her
Physical Attributes.
     Command:    This allows the mummy to supernaturally enhance her
Social Attributes.
     Leadership: This allows the mummy to supernaturally enhance her
Mental Attributes.

  The Path of Specialization
     There were two chief kinds of specialists in Andean society: state
ritual specialists (or priests) and craftsmen. There are many
similarities and links between these functions, and indeed some
craftsmen appear to have had religious affiliations or functions, and
priests have shown dominion over certain crafts. The crafts practiced
in particular in the Andes included copper and bronze work, pottery
making, weaving, masonry, stone carving, mural painting, and lapidary
work (with shell, lapis lazuli, etc.).
     There are three Disciplines for this Path:
     Craftsmanship: The ability to make unbreakable and enchanted objects.
     Judgment:      The ability to discern truth and pass judgment on
individuals.
     Oracle:        The power to examine the threads of possible futures
being woven into the tapestry of life.

  The Path of Shamanism
     The Shaman was the first person of importance in Andean society. The
Shaman first interceded with spirits and learned to care for "the
people." Only later, after people began to elaborate societies, to
differentiate one group from another were the paths of Rulership and
Specialization discovered. The Shaman was first, and the Shaman has
been the last, for their are still some living Shamans in the Andes,
while the other Paths are lost, in the possession of the ever returning
Mummies.
     There are three Disciplines for this Path:
     Fertility:      This Discipline allows a Shaman to determine and
improve or degrade the fertility of a person, animal
or agricultural field.
     Healing/Curing: The ability to heal wounds and cure diseases.
     Shapechanging:  The ability to take on the forms of special animals.

Realm Powers

     Detailed information is available in the Magic Section.
     Hanan     Powers dealing with the Celestial Realm and Celestial
     Pacha:    Powers.
     Kay Pacha:Powers dealing with the Terrestrial Realm, and the spirits
of the Earth.
     Hurin     Powers dealing with the Underworld, the Realm of the
     Pacha:    Ancestors, of primal seas and dangerous and vengeful
spirits. because the Mummy has been able to return from
this Realm after death she already has 5 in this Power.

Available Backgrounds

     Allies, Contacts, Fame, Influence, Retainers, Status (all from V:tM);
Supernatural (from WOD: Mummy).

  Spirit Objects
     This is a background particular to Andean Mummies. During creation the
Mummy must decide how many spirit objects she is bound to. The greater
the number to which the Mummy is bound and has present the easier it is
to reincarnate. Spirit Objects measure the number of spirit objects
tied to the Mummy which she controls. If no levels of Spirit Objects
are bought, then the Mummy either has no idea where her objects are, or
her objects have been destroyed and she needs to get some more.
     *     You know where your objects are but do not control them (they
are in museums, private collections, buried and hopefully no
one will find them, etc.)
     **    You control one of your objects.
     ***   You control two of your objects.
     ****  You control three of your objects.
     ***** You control all (four is the maximum) of your objects.
     People who think they have got off easily by choosing to just have one
object and buy two levels of Spirit Objects will soon regret that
smugness when their object is stolen or destroyed....
     Objects may be any sort of craft product from the Andes, ceramic
vessels, gold masks, shell fishhooks, bronze war club heads, textiles,
etc.

Freebie Points
     Realm Powers:            10
     Career Path Disciplines: 7 (including Paths outside your Career)
     Attributes:              5
     Abilities:               2
     Secondary Abilities:     1
     Virtues:                 2
     Llapa:                   2
     Backgrounds:             1
     Willpower:               1

Experience
     New Ability:                            3
     Llapa:                                  Current Rating
     Willpower:                              Current Rating
     Virtue:                                 Current Rating
     Ability:                                Current Rating x2
     Attribute:                              Current Rating x4
     Career Path Discipline:                 Current Rating x4
     New Career Path Discipline:             7
     Career Path Discipline from other path: Current Rating x6
     Realm Power:                            Current Rating x7
     New Realm Power:                        10
     (Mummies have may have a maximum of 5 in Attributes)

Andean Magic
     Andean Magic is divided into two distinct types: the Realm Powers and
the Career Path Disciplines. The two forms of magic are interdependent
and bound up in the Mummy's life cycle. The disciplines are easiest to
deal with first, but necessitate the concept of Llapa to be introduced
first.

Llapa
     This word means "power," "energy," "spark," or "lightning" in Quechua
and Llapa is the fuel for the Disciplines that the Andean Mummies used
to enhance their power and hopefully to aid their peoples. The Starting
Llapa of an Andean Mummy is 8 (Hanan+Hurin+Kay Pacha) plus any Llapa
bought with Freebie points. There is no maximum to Llapa.
     Llapa fuels the Career Path Disciplines in the following manner. When a
Discipline is used the Mummy designates the level at which she wishes
to use the power (maximum is her maximum level of course). Then the
Mummy rolls the dice in her Discipline (1-5) against a 6. Each success
costs one Llapa. If enough success to reach the desired level are
rolled, the Mummy only pays for the needed successes. If there is a
shortfall, however, the Mummy must either pay for the successes and let
the power fail, or pay 3 Llapa to buy the additional "successes" to
make up the difference. If a Botch is rolled, twice the designated
number of successes in Llapa are lost. The power once invoked has a
maximum duration of one scene.
     Llapa returns at a rate of 50% per day. If under extreme stress (unable
to take normal meals, sleep, in constant danger, etc.) only 25% will
come back. Successfully achieving complete rest through meditation
and/or retreat to a safe haven may increase the return of Llapa at the
Storyteller's discretion.

Nawpa Llapa
     There is a second form of Llapa, called Nawpa Llapa ("Extra (or gift)
Energy"). This energy is gained from different realms by performing
rituals in accordance with the structure of a particular realm. This
energy does not regenerate, but is instead a "battery" of extra power
for emergency use. The details of how to gain Nawpa Llapa are described
below under the Realms. Because of their close ties to Hurin Pacha,
these are the rituals most easily employed by most Andean Mummies.

Career Path Disciplines
     All of these disciplines require the use of Llapa (or Nawpa Llapa) as
outlined above. Once a Discipline has been invoked, whether successful
or unsuccessful, it may not be used again for the duration of the
scene. Even if a Discipline can be used to affect different Attributes
or Abilities, only one Attribute or Ability may be affected by that
Discipline during a single scene.

Ruleship
     A Mummy with this Career Path has been a leader of her people in her
first incarnation and has served in similar roles throughout her cyclic
reincarnation.

  War
     This discipline allows the Mummy to enhance her Strength,
Dexterity or Stamina by the number of successes attained
(i.e. 1-5). The maximum increase is to 10. The exact
effects of high attributes may be found in WOD: Mummy or
may be invented by the Storyteller.

  Command
     This Discipline allows the Mummy to enhance her Social
Attributes as above.

  Leadership:
     With this Discipline the Mummy may enhance her Mental
Attributes as above.

Specialization
     Mummies with this career path has been a craft and or religious
specialist (i.e. priest) throughout their cycle.

  Craftsmanship

     Level 1: The Mummy may create objects of art and function which
withstand the passage of time and even rough treatment. Such objects are
suitable grave goods for one who may return from death, led by someone
versed in the mysteries of hurin Pacha.

     Level 2: The Mummy may create objects which contain Llapa channeled into
it from a Mummy, who can then regenerate her personal score normally and may
use the stored power for her Disciplines. This power costs one Permanent
Point of Llapa per point the object is to contain. The sacrifice may be made
by the Craftsman or by the recipient of the object (or some combination
thereof).
     The Craftsman may also create items to hold one use "charges" of Career
Path disciplines. Thus a Ruler could be granted a war club which could hold
up to four levels of strength which she could cast into it ahead of time, and
then use while she uses her War Discipline to increase her Stamina. The cost
in permanent Llapa is the maximum level that the object can hold and the
object is then set to hold only that Discipline. If the Discipline has more
than one aspect (e.g. War, Leadership, etc.) only one aspect may be fixed
into an object.

     Level 3: The Mummy can bind spirits from one of the three Realms into an
appropriate object given that she may command those spirits with the
appropriate Realm Power. A stone spirit must be kept in a stone object, a
dead spirit in its own skull or a fetish with its hair and some other parts
of its body (skin, finger bones, etc.), a celestial elemental must be bound
into a object of precious metal. The cost is 5 Llapa per "major" power
possessed by the spirit (skill add, offensive or defensive powers, fertility,
elemental influence, etc.). The exact powers must be worked out in
consultation with the Storyteller.

     Level 4: The Mummy may create new spirit objects for a Mummy whose
objects have been lost or destroyed. The Mummy must sacrifice Llapa on the
following scale in order to consecrate the new objects:
          1 object:  2 Llapa
          2 objects: 3 Llapa
          3 Objects: 5 Llapa
          4 Objects: 8 llapa
     Four is the maximum useful number of objects. The reason for the
increasing cost is the vulnerability and risk of fewer objects. As long as
the mummy has one object which his spirit can reach, even if it is not in
association with her body, she has a chance to reform.  With multiple objects
there is a greater chance to make it back.
     At this level the Mummy may also put powers, not of Andean origin, into
objects (Garou Gifts, Vampiric Disciplines, etc.) for one use (though the
object stays a receptacle as with Level 3). This enchanting costs 2 Llapa per
level of the power. Compelled sharing of powers should definitely be role
played (Don't worry friend Garou, I just want to borrow something).

     Level 5: The Mummy may create amulets and other objects which produce
permanent powers (such as permanent Strength add) etc.) as long as the amulet
is worn. This costs 5 Llapa per level invested and wearing the amulet
prevents the normal use of the power (or aspect of the power) duplicated. The
recipient or other participant of the creation of the object may contribute
the llapa for the objects creation. An object so created must be attuned to a
specific individual, and reattunement is only possible with the permission of
the original owner and an expenditure of one permanent Llapa per level
contained by the object (non-Andean Mummies must expend permanent Willpower
(1 per 2 Llapa) or Gnosis (1 per 3 Llapa)). These objects obviously are
highly prized and their original owners will return again and again for them.
     Botches with the Craftsmanship power result in the destruction of the
items being enchanted, or may result in a cursed item, or a loss in skill
level. The expended Llapa is lost permanently to no or twisted effect. This
is up to the Storyteller's discretion.

  Judgment
     With this power the Mummy is able to discern truth and to enforce her
will of justice (or injustice).

     Level 1: The Mummy can tell who is telling the truth and who is lying.

     Level 2: The Mummy's opinion on a certain issue will seem reasonable and
non self-destructive orders will be carried out by the targets of this
Judgment, though they may roll their Wits in an opposed roll against the
Mummy's Judgment. Target Number is 6.

     Level 3: The Mummy can radiate an aura of power and respect and only
those able to roll a number of successes equal to the Mummy's Judgment score
using Willpower rolled against a 6, will be able to directly confront and
oppose the Mummy verbally. Those confronting the Mummy physically must make a
like roll and any difference between the number of successes on the Willpower
roll and the Mummy's Judgment are counted as dice penalties the character
suffers for the rest of the scene.

     Level 4: The Mummy can determine the Nature and exact motivations and
background of the target character.

     Level 5: The Mummy can lay a kind of Geas on the target, forcing him to
spend a Willpower point each day he is not trying to actively pursue the goal
that has been laid upon him (this would be bad for a Kindred, say, told not
to drink Blood). The Judge may lift this punishment after a time, or may
never lift it.

  Oracle
     This is used to foretell one possible future and can be used to see
alternate paths from the "most likely."  Foretelling frequently employs the
use of coca leaves tossed on the ground and "read", or patterns in smoke
or in the way that liquids (water, corn beer, blood) flow down a surface to
fully "see" the future.  Hallucinogenic drugs or deprivation of food or sleep
may also be required.

     Level 1: Can see what may happen to a person or in a place in the next
week.

     Level 2: Can see alternate possibilities to dire consequences in the
immediate future (i.e. the next week).

     Level 3: Can look into a person or place's life and see one possible
future.

     Level 4: Can look into many possible futures of a person or place and
pick out critical events.

     Level 5: Can see design in the cosmic scheme and foresee the pattern of
individuals and events through a shifting web of possibilities. Can suggest
the outcome of any event and speak in mysterious ways of how to prevent
unwanted futures and cause desirable events.  The actual capacity to guide
events are left in the hands of the Troupe and the Storyteller, but when
things look bleak or a Utopia is sought, the Oracle can guide the way.

Shamanism
     This is the earliest Career Path. Those with it have been spiritual
leaders and healers throughout their cycle. In modern terms they are
known as Curanderos (curers) or Brujos (witches, who can be "good" or
"evil"). There may still be living people who practice this path in the
Andes without so much connection to Hurin Pacha.

  Fertility
     An important role of a Shaman is to oversee the fertility of individual
humans and animals, and specific plots of land and crops. Though the powers
of the Realm of Hurin Pacha maintain general community fertility (for crops,
community members and their animals), sometimes specific magic is needed to
remedy or to curse a certain problem individual.

     Level 1: Upon examination using typical Andean shamanic tools (a guinea
pig used as a "sensing" device, coca leaves, patterns of liquid flow along
objects with channels (wooden sticks or boards, a pottery bowl, carved stone,
etc.) the Shaman may determine the fertility and viability of offspring (or
a crop) of an individual (person, animal, plot of land, or seed for a plot of
land).

     Level 2: The Shaman may, through a brief ceremony, cure or inflict minor
fertility and sexual problems.  For example she may cause or cure
psychological impotence (a tendency there towards, but not "permanent"), weak
sperm or egg production, minor disinterest in sex, etc. The Shaman must be in
"short range" (e.g. in the same room with the person/animal/plant) in order
to effect this power.

     Level 3: The Shaman may cause permanent alterations in the fertility and
sexuality of an individual through a brief ceremony, once again at "short
range." These include permanent impotence or frigidity, and their cures and
causing a normally infertile individual (human, animal, plot of land, seed
for a plot of land) to become fertile and vice versa.

     Level 4: The Shaman may work levels 1-3 at a distance as long as she has
part of the individual (nail clippings, hair, a single seed from a bushel,
earth from a plot of land). The Shaman may also use items associated but
removed from the individual (clothing, saddles, etc.) but this raises the
difficulty by two.

     Level 5: The Shaman may allow fertility in a normally infertile
supernatural being like a Kindred or a Metis Garou, or allow a Spirit or
Ghost to impregnate or become impregnated (but prepare for a weird
childhood).

  Healing/Curing
     This is a simple power. The number of successes garnered is the level of
damage removed or the "level of disease" removed (diseases must be given a
rating which must be matched or exceeded; e.g. common cold 1, AIDS 5). The
damage cured may be aggravated, but this raises the difficulty by 2.
     This is one of the most fundamental powers of Shamans.  They are first
and foremost both physical and psychological healers in their communities.
Psychological healing comes through the use of their social attributes and
abilities, but those with true mystic powers are able to effect physical
cures through magic as per this Discipline.

  Shapechanging
     The tradition of shapechanging is one long held in the Andean Tradition.
Sometimes it denotes evil such as the Karkacha, a person transformed into a
human headed llama at night because he has committed incest. Very often,
however, it is used to travel, explore, and defend. Initially the forms known
to the Shaman were only native to the Andean region, but after close to
500 years many imported animals have lent their forms to the Shaman as well.

     Level 1: The Shaman may take on the form of small inoffensive animals
common to the Andean region: mice, guinea pigs, sparrows, gulls, small snakes
(all native); chickens (imported).

     Level 2: The Shaman may take on the form of large (mostly) inoffensive
animals: alpacas, llamas, dogs (native); pigs, sheep, goats (imported).

     Level 3: The Shaman can take the form of small predators: owls, falcons,
wildcats.

     Level 4: The Shaman can take on the forms of larger predators and other
dangerous animals: sea lions, condors, Harpy eagles (an Amazonian bird)
(native); bulls (imported).

     Level 5: The Shaman can take of the form of the most dangerous predators
known to the Andean mind: jaguars, pumas, killer whales, Andean spectacled
bears, anaconda boa constrictors, cayman (large amazonian crocodilian).
     Forms should be governed by the Shaman's background, and specific
stories may be needed to gain additional forms. Animal forms not mentioned
above may be possible depending on Troupe research and Storyteller
discretion.

Realm Powers
     The Realm Powers are vague in definition and yet almost instinctive for
the Andean Mummy. With these powers the Mummy may intercede with,
compel and entreat cosmic powers. However, these Realms may make vague
and irresistible demands on the Mummy as well. This has the effect of
the Storyteller rolling the dice in the particular Realm's dice pool
against a 6. Each success represents a Willpower Point the Mummy must
expend not to do what the Cosmos thinks should be done (i.e. the
Storyteller's whim or design). Because of the Mummy's intrinsic link to
the Underworld, many are frequently consumed by the impulses of Hurin
Pacha.

Hurin Pacha
     Hurin Pacha is the Andean Underworld. It is the place of waters, and
touches the Earthly realm at the site of deep waters (all the oceans
lead to Hurin Pacha). In Hurin Pacha dwell the cthonic powers, from
which comes the fertility of the earth, plagues and their cures,
earthquakes, freshwater springs, and the release of water into the air
for the rains and snows which keep Andean Agriculture going. Here also
dwell the ancestors, those who can intercede for good, if treated with
respect, or ill, if disrespected, with the powers of the underworld.
Hurin Pacha is a realm of great good and great evil, intimately tied to
the cycle of life and death on earth.

  Level 1: Speak With Dead
     This allows communication with a dead person, if and only if the spirit
is known and can be located. This means adventuring on the spirit plane
to find the spirit or, being at the location of the person's grave or
tomb, or having some part of that person, a bone, a scrap of skin or
hair. Skulls, skin, and hair are particularly useful in compelling the
spirit to talk (lower the difficulty of any kind of social interaction)
because of their intimate contact with the seat of personal Andean
power in the body (the head and hair are Hanan and the kin binds the
person together). For supernatural entities tied to spirit objects
(such as Andean Mummies) those objects may be substituted for a body
part.

  Level 2: Travel in Spirit to the Underworld
     This allows the Mummy to have adventures in certain parts of the
"Umbra" and spirit world. Mostly those involved in death and darkness,
but also those of fecundity and waters. Further, this can be used to
gain contact with spirits for which the Mummy has no part or object, in
order to use Hurin Pacha Level 1 or 3 on said spirit. This travel could
include trips into Apophis, but the Andean underworld makes up only a
small part of Apophis, and Apophis makes up only a small part of Hurin
Pacha.

  Level 3: Compelling Service from Dead Spirits
     Any spirit of the dead (including currently "dead" Mummies) can be
compelled to service provided they have been or can be contacted with
level 1 above. The spirit may use Willpower to resist commands,
matching its against that of the compelling Mummy. Such spirits of the
dead frequently have control over water, fertility of large tracts of
land, small earthquakes, and minor illnesses (infliction and cure over
a community).

  Level 4: Power and Terror of the Underworld
     This power must be invoked in the Underworld, thus one must travel to a
spot designated by the Storyteller and perform the proper feats to gain
the boon or power. These boons include plagues and their cures, major
earthquakes, tidal waves, torrential rains, armies of the dead, etc.

  Level 5: Return From Death
     This is used by the Mummy to return in her eternal cycle, and to bring
back a spirit to form a new Mummy, binding the spirit to its body and
spirit objects.

Kay Pacha
     The terrestrial realm is the one in which we live, one where spirits,
however, also inhabit everything, and can be consulted and entreated,
and occasionally commanded for aid. This power works mostly on the
natural environment, and its products (cut stone is okay, concrete is
difficult and plastic beyond the scope of the power, for example).

  Level 1: Calling the Spirits
     The Mummy may speak with the spirits of the landscape and learn what
they know and have witnessed. (Excuse me tree, which way did the man in
black go?)

  Level 2: Compelling the Spirits
     Spirit are capricious and might not tell the truth to a novice. This
power forces the spirits to tell the truth as they know it to the
Mummy.

  Level 3: Entreating Aid from the Landscape
     The Mummy may use an appropriate communication attribute plus ability
roll to get the landscape to perform some action: mislead pursuers,
attack enemies, hinder opposition. The Landscape may demand Willpower
in return.

  Level 4: Power from the Land
     The Mummy may summon energy from the Landscape and convert it into
Willpower or Nawpa Llapa. Roll Charisma against a 7. Each success may
be converted to 1 Willpower or 2 Llapa. However, Each area only has so
much to give (determined by the Storyteller) and if that is exceeded
then the area is blighted and wasted. If a botch is rolled for this,
the area is automatically blighted and the Mummy must make a Humanity
Roll or get a temporary derangement. A Botched Humanity Roll nets a
permanent derangement for this rape of the Landscape.

  Level 5: Command the Spirit of the Land
     Causes vegetation, earth and stone to obey your commands in defense of
you or your "community." Vegetation wraps itself around opponents,
stone boulders become warriors, carved statures come to life.

Hanan Pacha
     The Celestial Realm, like Hurin Pacha, is also a place of great good
and great evil for the Andeans. From it comes light, and wisdom, but
also destruction and terror. Lightning and thunder can enlighten, and
put someone on the shamanic path, but they can also kill. Hail and
freezing rain destroys crops, wind and fire can be foes as well as
friends.

  Level 1: Predict Weather
     The Mummy may predict the weather for the next season.

  Level 2: Tales from the Sky
     The Mummy may foresee what weather will occur during the whole of the
next year. The Mummy may read the stars to determine the best time for
cyclic actions such as planting, marriages, and other ceremonies.

  Level 3: Protection from the Celestial Elements
     This can be used to protect the person of the Mummy or her community
from the Celestial Elements of fire, hail, winds, thunder, and
lightning. The Mummy can ignore her level in Hanan Pacha of damage from
these elements.

  Level 4: Control of the Celestial Elements
     The mummy may control the above mentioned Celestial Elements as with
Weather Thaumaturgy.

  Level 5: Travel to the Celestial Realms
     The Mummy may travel in spirit form to the upper realms of light and
may even enter where Egyptian Mummies and Vampires are forbidden. What
is there?

Realm Rituals
     Each Realm has a certain set of rituals through which an Andean Mummy
may gain Nawpa Llapa. Each ritual has in common that the Mummy rolls
the number of dice in the particular Realm Power against a 6. Each
success translates into a number of Nawpa Llapa gained. A botch
indicates that the Ritual has drained any Nawpa Llapa the Mummy might
have had.

Hurin Pacha Rituals
     The rituals of the Underworld involve both sacrifice and torture of
living creatures. These rituals normally take place at the time when
the sun passes through its Nadir or Xenith. Blood sacrifice was very
important to the Andeans and in extreme cases human sacrifice and
torture of war captives and criminals was practiced. Because Mummies
are so tied to the Underworld they are tempted to risk their Humanity
in these rituals more frequently and with greater benefit. Such are the
dangers of Hurin Pacha. All Mummies participate in some sacrifice, but
only those who have lost much of their Humanity revel in the torture
and sacrifice of innocents.
     Gain is according to the following formula:

Small Animal sacrifice (typically guinea pigs): 1 (number of successes
  does not affect the amount).
Large Animal Sacrifice: 1 per success
Human Sacrifice (enemy, criminal): 2 per success
Torture of human victim before sacrifice: +1 per success
Human Sacrifice (innocent; usually voluntary in the past, and traditionally
  not involving torture. Death by strangulation or suffocation after drugging
  was common): 3 per success.

     Evil Mummies, those who have turned from the civilized community of the
Andes will kill unwilling innocents, and use torture. Other Mummies may
torture and kill their enemies; it is an old and established practice.
They have mostly stopped sacrificing innocents, for the ideology is no
longer in place for volunteers. Beyond Nawpa Llapa gain, an innocent
sacrifice also becomes a special intercessionary for a community to the
Underworld. A Mummy might also seek one out later and bring it back to
be a Mummy in its own right.

Kay Pacha Rituals
     These rituals have to do with fertility and sexuality. They typically
take place after the time of the Hanan Pacha rituals (after the period
of abstinence, see below). The rituals before the season of planting
are reenactments of how a culture hero or god planted his seed in
mother earth, or in another goddess or female culture hero to begin the
agricultural cycle or bind communities in a compact and cycle of
fertility. In order to benefit from this ritual, the Mummy must
impersonate one of the characters in the myth and her partner must also
masquerade as the other character willingly, and with at least some
knowledge of what is happening. A male and female Mummy may perform the
ritual together and both will gain benefit. The gain is one Nawpa Llapa
per success rolled against the normal difficulty with the Mummy's Kay
Pacha dice. The difficulty is lowered to 5 if the participants are
married and the difficulty is 4 if this act of lovemaking consummates
their relationship.
     The ritual which occurs during the growing season is one that expresses
an inversion of order, and which expresses, rather than "planting," a
sustaining of energy, expressed as sexuality. In this case, then, the
sex is not that which leads to impregnation and children, but rather is
any variety or form of non-reproductive sex (not counting
contraceptives). This includes oral, anal, and manual sex with a
partner of the opposite sex, or the same sex, without the mythical
masquerade. The participants must be willing. For heterosexual sex
(only partial inversion) the roll and difficulty are normal. For
homosexual sex (maximum inversion) the difficulty is lowered to 5. In
general, the coastal peoples of the Andes were said to engage more in
homosexuality while the highlanders denied any such practices to the
Spanish. This dichotomy was probably not absolute.
     Both of these rituals may be performed only at their appointed times
once per year.

Hanan Pacha Rituals
     The celestial realm requires personal sacrifice in the form of
self-deprivation and purification. These rituals usually take place
around the time of the equinoxes, though use of the second level of
hanan Pacha might reveal an auspicious time outside of the equinoxes as
well (at Storyteller's discretion this may apply to other rituals as
well). The deprivations that must be suffered include abstinence from
spices (particularly hot peppers), salt, and from sexual intercourse.
Of further importance is purifying one's surroundings with fire
(passing fire around and over, but not burning down) at the end of the
ritual period. Also it improves results if one is away from other
supernatural agents (ghouls, Kindred, Garou, Magi) and from diseased,
sick, or deformed people. Their presence (according to Andean
cosmology) disrupt the pure energy needed for these rituals. This class
of rituals is the most time consuming, taking a minimum of one week to
perform. Any interruption destroys the ritual. Nawpa Llapa gains are as
follows:

Per Week (maximum 4) spent in ritual observance: 2 per success
Each contact with 'impure' individual: -1
Surrounding is person's home: Normal condition
Surrounding is in the wilderness or away from civilization: Ritual is worth
  only half as much Nawpa Llapa.
Purification even takes place in an entire community (village, city
  neighborhood, etc.): Nawpa Llapa gain is doubled.

     As one can see, this ritual is oriented towards purifying one's
cultural surroundings and not for getting in touch with nature or
escaping the "impurity" of civilization. For the Andeans, settlements
were very important and the wilderness was the dangerous and "chaotic"
area, as opposed to their own cultural "cosmos."

The Eternal Cycle
     The Andean Mummy's cycle is similar in some ways to that of the
Egyptian Mummy. However, the Andean body does not have a spiritual
guardian like the Ka. There are multiple parts to the Andean Soul, but
only that one concerned with spiritual magic concerns us, that which
contains the Llapa. There are two ways for an Andean Mummy to "die":
violent/accidental death (physical trauma, disease which is faster than
the body can become immune, poison, etc.), or old age. Unlike the
Egyptian Mummy, the Andean ages, albeit at a different rate from normal
humans. They age at roughly one third the normal rate after reaching
adulthood, and they suffer infirmities and difficulties as one might
expect. At each reincarnation the Mummy returns to its "starting" age,
the age at which it was buried the first time, be that child,
adolescent, adult or ancient. Upon death, one way or another, the soul
containing the Llapa is freed to roam the spirit world, and
occasionally act through "sensitives" in the mundane world until the
Mummy is able to reinhabit her body.
     Initial "immortality" is gained under the following circumstances: when
an individual dies if he or she is interred with the proper burial
rites, and the proper burial furniture, some that has been prepared
consciously or unconsciously, with the equivalent of Craftsmanship
Level 1, and if the body is in some way preserved, through natural or
purposeful mummification, then the soul may return. As the body and the
place of resting are venerated, and food and object offerings are left,
a bond is maintained between the Hurin Pacha and Kay Pacha. Eventually,
either soon after death, or perhaps long afterwards, a Shaman, Mummy or
other individuals with an Hurin Pacha score of 5 can visit the soul and
lead it back from the Underworld. The Mummy now has Hurin Pacha at 5
and may try to reinhabit the body normally.
     In order to reinhabit the body, the Mummy must focus using the
appropriate objects buried with her and her body. There can be one to
four objects bound to the body (each number having its own significance
in the cosmic order of the Andes) and the more objects, the easier it
is to focus energy into rebuilding the body. In order to rebuild and
reinhabit the body the Mummy expends Llapa from her personal Llapa
score However, this Llapa is lost permanently and the score must be
rebuilt. Llapa may be gained on the spiritual plane just as Ba is for
Egyptians, through quests, adventures and services performed for
various spiritual beings.
     The "formula" for rebirth is as follows: the Mummy must expend 1 Llapa
for every level of damage the body suffered to die, or the level of
damage or deterioration the corpse has suffered while the soul has been
wandering. Thus a body that suffered two wounds beyond Incapacitated
would require 9 Llapa to heal. however, the total expenditure, even to
recreate an absent or burned body can never be more than 12 Llapa (5
over maximum wound levels, as per Egyptians). The Mummy must roll her
Hurin Pacha dice (always 5) against the following difficulty formula:

Body and all Objects Present: 6 (base difficulty)
Each Object over 2 tied to the Mummy: -1
Each Spirit Object not present: +1
Body not present (ashes scattered to the wind, etc.): +3

     Therefore, a Mummy with two spirit objects, whose body was burned and
scattered to the winds, and whose soul can only find one of her spirit
objects (Diff 6+1+3) must roll a 10 to be reborn. (Perhaps in a display
case next to her object) as well as expending 12 Llapa permanently.
Llapa may be expended over time to heal or recreate a body, but if a
recreation is taking place next to an object out of context, it may
draw attention ("Where did that dried up corpse come from?") If the
Mummy rolls a botch in trying to reincarnate then the Llapa which was
to be used is lost permanently to no effect.
     Andeans also suffer from amnesia as do Egyptian Mummies. Normal rebirth
requires that for each Ability over the Mummy's Intelligence, the Mummy
must make an Intelligence roll against a Difficulty of 6 or the Ability
will be reduced by 1. Each success, however, on the Hurin Pacha roll to
reincarnate, over one allows the Mummy to designate an Ability immune
to the check.

Back Before Their Time
     Andeans may come back before their time, if the need is great. If the
Mummy has worshipers, then they may implore her to come to their aid,
to see them through a time of trial, either of physical, mental or
spiritual danger. In order to do this the Mummy expends only a third of
the Llapa normally required and rolls her Hurin Pacha dice to
reincarnate. The worshippers or descendents must then provide ritually
clean clothing, ritual foods (sacrificed llamas, guinea pigs, coca, hot
peppers, potatoes, corn beer (chicha), and sweets), and perform ritual
sexual acts for each day the Mummy is to be animated. These represent
offering to Hanan, Hurin and Kay Pacha respectively. The Mummy may now
be active, but will be a rasping dry husk, so that a "lich-like"
warrior may be seen on the battle-field, or the Mummy may speak
prophecy, or the "dead" may attend to the sick or infertile.

Appendix
     There is much more to be said about Andean culture, civilization and
practices. I'll be glad to address questions on the net for as long as
I am here, but I think this document as a whole is big enough. I would
like to say here, thank you to everyone on the net, for this list has
made it possible for me to put forward this creative effort. Also, I
must thank White Wolf for creating this game and taking me places I had
never gone before. I would like to finish with some references for
future research and some name elements to help you begin to define your
Andean Mummy!

     Good Books

Gods and Men of Huarochiri - Francisco de Avila
Mountain of the Condor - Joseph W. Bastien
The Incas - Pedro de Cieza de Leon (Trans. Harriet de Onis)
Moche Art and Iconography - Christopher Donnan
Andean Cosmologies Through Time: Persistence and Emergence - R. Dover (ed)
The Inka Road System - John Hyslop
Chan Chan: Andean Desert City - Michael Moseley
The Incas and their Ancestors - Michael E. Moseley
The Northern Dynasties: Kingship and Statecraft in Chimor - Edited by
  Michael Moseley and Alana Cordy-Collins
The Handbook of South American Indians, Vol 2: The Andean Civilizations
  - (edited by Julian H. Steward)
At the Crossroads of Earth and Sky: An Andean Cosmology - Gary Urton

     Names

     Where known I have included the translation and the origin Quechua (Q),
Muchic (the language of Chimor) (M) or Aymara (A), of the word.

Ayar Cachi (q)
Ayar Manco (q)
Ayar Auqui (q)
Acocuyuch (m)
aqlla (q) chosen
Atawalpa (q)
amaru (q) serpent

Cajasimsim (m)
cari (a)
coya (q) queen
chasqui (q) messenger
Chumun-caur (m)

Fonga (m)

hatun (q) chief, high

inti (q) sun

kalasaya (a)
kimsa (a) three
kusi (a)

Llapchiluli (m)
lupaqa (a)

machu (q) old
mallku (a) condor, lord
mallqui (q) Mummy
mama (q) mama
Mama Ocllo (q)
Mama Wako (q)
Manco Qhapaq (q)
masca (viha) (q) curer
Mayki Yupanki (q)
Minchansaman (m)

nusta (q) princess
Naymlap (m)
Ninacola (m)
Ninagintue (m)
Nyancen-pinco (m)

Occhocalo (m)
Ollopcopoc

pacajes (a)
pacha (q) world, realm
Pachakuti (q) changes the world
paya (q) noblewoman
Pituzofi (m)
pukara (q) fortress
puma (q) puma

qhapaq (q) powerful, chief, rich
Qhapaq Yupanki (q)
Quisquis (q)

runa (q) person

sapa (q) great
sinchi (q) great warrior
soyac (q) priest, seer who sees the future in corn grains

Taycanamo (m)
thupa (q)
Thupa Inka Yupanqui
taqui (q) song, dance
topa (q) true

vila (a) blood

Warcri-caur (m)
waka (q) shrine, sacred object
waman (q) falcon
Waman-chumo (m?)
wanka (q) stone double of a person
Wascar (q)
wasi (q) place, house
wayna (q) young
Wayna Qhapaq (q)

Xam-muchec (m)

yana (q) black, vassal
yupanqui (q)

Additional thoughts and ideas
     I would first just like to thank Spike and everyone else who liked this
piece of work. Feedback and praise has made it worth all the time and
effort. So, on to Spike's questions:

     Virtues: Virtues start at Zero, basically because I felt the need to
disconnect these Mummies from the main stream. They have been around,
probably for at least five hundred years and sometimes thousands of
years. Their connection with Hurin Pacha can sap the VIrtue out of them
if they are not careful and I thought it was intriguing to offer a
character who may have gone to the Darker side of their natures.
Certainly a Naqaq will have lost all her Conscience or Self Control.
This set up could be seen as more conducive for making "bad guy" NPC's
and if that's the way a Storyteller sees it she should use the normal
Virtue Distribution from V:tM for her Troupe.

     Vampires and the fall of Andean Civilizations: I personally do not have
in my chronicles any European Vampires making it to South America
before the 15th Century. Still, it would be intriguing to devise a
scenario where refugees from Europe, Camarilla or Sabbat, or Vampires
from before those organzations we formed, showing up to wreak havok on
the inhabitants of the New World.

     Shaman Path: In some sense, all Andean mummies have traditionally
Shamanic kinds of spirit powers, but that is in the nature of how
powerful people where thought to be connected to the spirit Realms in
the Andes. The Career Path powers for Shamans reflect their community
functions of maintaining health and fertility, and their reputed powers
of shape-changing, which is a common theme in myths and folk tales.

     Spirit objects: Glad you like the system. Does anyone have a problem
with it?

     Career path powers and llapa use: To clarify, when you roll
insufficient successes with your career path dice pool (say you want
three and you roll one) then to make up the difference and get the
power to succeed you can spend 3 Llapa per success to make up the
difference (in the above example, you would "buy" two extra successes
for a cost of 6 Llapa). Remember each success you apply, costs 1 Llapa
(the above roll would cost 1 to fail, or 7 to succeed).

     Andean Mummy life functions: these people have all normal human life
functions (eat, sleep, defecate, procreate, etc.)

     Llapa cost for Craftsmanship Levels 3-5: All Llapa costs are in
permanent Llapa. Remember more than one person can contribute to the
creation. It is, however, expensive by any measure to create enchanted
items.

     Fertility level 4: Yes, many story possibilities. This is drawn from
the stories of spirits and supernatural creatures, as well as animals
occasionally, producing offspring with members of communities to form
pacts, aliances, etc.

     Using Realm Powers: Most of the effects described under the reaml
powers work automatically. However, I have found that certain
situations may warrant rolls such as Attribute+Realm Power against
target number, for example, to use a Fetish created by Craftsmanship,
or to use a Garou fetish, I might have the Mummy roll Wits+Hanan Pacha
to activate an item with a fire elemental in it. Realm Powers do not
cost Llapa to use.

     Level 4 Hurin Pacha: The potential destruction or benefits using this
power are indeed great, but getting to use it is an adventure in
itself. The Mummy must travel to Hurin Pacha, and talk with the spirits
he wishes to employ. The Level gives one the knowledge of where to go
and how to ask properly, but does not give one the power to compel the
effect. The earth spirits must be propitiated properly to get the big
earthquake, the guardians at the gate of death must be dealt with
properly to get them to release an army of zombies to you etc. This is
entirely under the Storyteller's control. This makes it vague, as many
of the realm powers are, but I don't think it can be approached
formulaicly.

     Kay Pacha 4: the Llapa gained is added to the Nawpa Llapa (i.e. one
use) score. The llapa is only gained until used. It cannot be spent on
powers that call for permanent Llapa expenditure.

     Hanan Pacha 5: Travel to the Celestial realm. Admittedly the vaguest of
the vague in the Realm Powers. It is not illogical, as all of the Hanan
Pacha powers allow one to touch this realm in some way. Also, since
Hanan Pacha touches Hurin Pacha were the Sky meets the Waters it is
merely another doorway that opens to the spirit journey. The
progression from reading the stars to traveling to a higher plane is
not entirely intuitive but no less logical that the continuum from
Auspex 1 to Auspex 5. As to what's there, I think that may demand
another post of its own.

     Aging rate: Well, Andean Mummies needed to be different, and the cycle
of things in the Andes is always dynamic, a progression, not just a
matter of being alive with your Ba and dead without it. I picked the
one third aging rate because of the importance of 3 as a number to
organize things in the Andes.

     Nawpa Llapa: this is one use and available for activationg Career Path
disciplines only, not for expenditure in enchantment.