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+# Dear Adepts
+I am usually confident that anything I can think of wanting to do by magic can
+be accommodated by canonical sorcery. By 'canonical sorcery' I mean sorcery as
+described in the Annotated Sorcerer and the three Supplements. Of course
+perhaps 'canonical sorcery' is a slightly misguided concept. I certainly
+understand that the GM is tasked with the responsibility to define a great many
+aspects the universe in any given game of Sorcerer. However, I think there are
+things, which if allowed into a game of Sorcerer, would constitute unacceptable
+'drift', such that any adept of any integrity would disavow that the activity
+being pursued constituted 'playing sorcery'. (For example if a player summoned
+a demon which conferred upon the player the ability read or control the minds
+of other players' characters. If I am wrong on this point then all of my
+illusions of understanding the spirit and the letter of Ron Edward's text are
+hence dispelled.)
+
+So with that pre-amble let me describe my problem. As a player in a proposed
+game of Sorcerer I have asked my GM to help me construct a demon which allows
+my character, a sorcerer of mediocre or better aptitude, to live at least some
+of their life as if they had been assigned a gender opposite to the one they
+were assigned at birth. (I use the word 'opposite' with reservations, as a
+player I eschew the false binary, but one of the points of this character is to
+explore a form of wish-fulfillment that uses infernal magic to sidestep many of
+the issues facing trans people in real life. Or in other words this sorcerer
+character of mine treacherously embraces the binary as long as they get to pick
+which side of it they live on.) So, my GM expresses doubt that sorcery can
+achieve this effect. I on the other hand insist that sorcery can achieve
+virtually ANY magical effect that can be imagined in fiction. The limiting
+factor is often cost, but that's why we're here right?  If I weren't interested
+in grasping the glowing red hot issue of whether a wish is worth its price, I'd
+be playing almost any other game.
+
+What I propose to do with the rest of this post is to describe solutions I
+think would work and then solicit the opinions of other Sorcerer adepts about
+whether I 'drift too far' from the spirit of canonical sorcery; If I do, then
+does any one of you have another proposal or should I resign myself to saving
+this question to be worked out in a different sort of game? Or are there small
+adjustments to the proposal which might enhance my and my fellow players
+enjoyment, assuming we ever get this game off the ground?
+
+So the idea I'm pitching is a passing demon with the "hop" ability taken twice.
+Once for it to hop out of it's own demonic (but passing as human) body into the
+body of the sorcerer, and once again to move the sorcerer's soul into it's
+vacated demonic body. Really a "swap" more than anything. That's pretty much
+it.  No other abilities should be necessary but could be added. Perhaps 'cover'
+to avoid giving away the game too quickly to the sorcerer's friends and family.
+
+Or perhaps only the sorcerer's soul gets yanked (willingly) into the demon's
+body without swapping, leaving the sorcerer's body in a coma or similar state.
+Then the demon and sorcerer have to share the demon's body in a manner similar
+to a simple possessor demon and it's host.
+
+A different approach would be a demon with five points of perception accounting
+for each of the five senses being broadcast to the sorcerer so that the
+sorcerer can experience everything the demon does. Then add at least another
+(if not two more) point of power for ranged perception allowing the demon to
+feel or hear commands and impulses from the sorcerer, letting the sorcerer
+control the demon body in a rudimentary way. Honestly this seems very
+convoluted and possibly even more 'icky' than I want, but it could give the GM
+a lot of power to fuck with me through demon rebellion. (Mind you the reverse
+hop model above does pretty much the same).
+
+Lastly, I contemplated summoning one or more parasite demons to act as
+biological prothesis, in that they could modify my sorcerer's sex organs and
+possibly even supply me with hell-spawned artificial hormone replacements.
+This has potential but might be needlessly weird; honestly it doesn't really
+scratch the wish-fulfillment itch I want to get at. It feels a little too much
+like real life with at best some idealized vision of medical advances in GRS.
+So no I don't much care for this but I've included it here to let you know what
+I've thought of so far.
+
+Well that's it.  I acknowledge I'm really stretching to call this "actual" play
+since it's all very prospective at this point. If we can't agree on this point
+we'll probably re-think this particular campaign. I would go so far as to say
+the social contract to play Sorcerer is incomplete pending the resolution of
+this issue among others.
+
+I should add, if this influences anyone's response at all, that I really really
+wish for the answer to be YES! You can do it! Partly because I want to prove my
+opinion about sorcery correct, the one which says it can do anything, but also
+partly because this issue is precisely one I want to examine through the 
+peculiarly skewed and fractured lens on life that Sorcerer offers.
+
+Okay for real I will shut up now and let you all school me. Thank you for listening!

instorm.otl

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 	Taking Poor Edward to Hell
 		: As an aside, not necessarily useful to the story. What about the
 		: dying. Becoming a kind of parasite on the back of my demon's head?
-		Coming out and validating the lie.
+		Coming out and/or validating the lie.
 			faking my own death
 				: absurdly cruel and inhuman
 			faking GRS
-				: extremely tricky
+				: extremely tricky, literally too good to be true
 			banishing the demon
 				: also tricky redemption path
-				beginning a true path to transition
+				: beginning a  path of mortal transition, surgical or otherwise.
 		Settling down.
-		
+	Collateral Sorcery
-
+		: How much interest and capacity would I have to utilize Sorcery
-
+		: in other aspects of life? How much story would happen.
+		: On one hand it would be unnecessary to use non-gender quest 
+		: related kickers to drive the story. The pull to keep pushing
+		: boundaries, once the first functional body was possessed will no
+		: doubt lead to enough complications on its own. However, incidentally
+		: some of these little events could easily 
+		: