What info does a Mercurian get when resonating a eelestial or ethereal?
If the being has no Role – and really, Roles are only effective on the corporeal plane anyway – then they get data as pertaining to the being itself. This won’t give names and other dead give-aways of non-human status – but “feared Boss” or “beloved Boss” are pretty likely to be a Superior of some sort, and “grew up in the red light district of a horrible city” tends to translate to “Shal-Mari” if the Mercurian knows anything about Hell. On Earth, however, non-mortals are protected by their Roles. The Mercurian has to beat the Role’s level with the check digit of the resonance roll or the only data they get is that provided by the Role. If the check digit beats the Role level (or the target has no Role), then certain relationships (e.g., family, early teachers) will be missing, disfunctional, or really strange. Now this doesn’t mean for certain that the target isn’t a human; some humans are so sociopathic or just distant that they lack social connections in the same way.
If the being has no Role – and really, Roles are only effective on the corporeal plane anyway – then they get data as pertaining to the being itself. This won’t give names and other dead give-aways of non-human status – but “feared Boss” or “beloved Boss” are pretty likely to be a Superior of some sort, and “grew up in the red light district of a horrible city” tends to translate to “Shal-Mari” if the Mercurian knows anything about Hell. On Earth, however, non-mortals are protected by their Roles. The Mercurian has to beat the Role’s level with the check digit of the resonance roll or the only data they get is that provided by the Role. If the check digit beats the Role level (or the target has no Role), then certain relationships (e.g., family, early teachers) will be missing, disfunctional, or really strange. Now this doesn’t mean for certain that the target isn’t a human; some humans are so sociopathic or just distant that they lack social connections in the same way.
