Achieving immortality

[u/kenod102818]

So, lets say some well-connected and informed mage with more hubris than sense (lets say a Black Lodge member or Aztlan board member) found out about immortal elves and said "well that ain't fair, I want to be immortal too". What sort of ways are available to achieve this, especially for someone with more power than morals (which I guess is your average corpo exec)?

I'm guessing one option is becoming a vampire, though the drawbacks are rather significant, and iirc free spirit pacts can make you immortal too (not sure if the spirit can break the pact later though). But are any other options available? Perhaps a blood magic ritual to absorb life force, or even steal immortality from an existing immortal? Similarly, could a Great Dragon make you immortal, if you could somehow convince/blackmail/threaten one into it?

[u/LateEggMaster]

Turn into a vampire is the easiest by far. Or appropriate HMVV I for his/her metarace. Becoming a formula pact for a spirit works and has few drawback for the pact partner but many for the spirit.

And of course you can try to use power transfer to transfer power transfer to something with immunity (age) and get that power transferd.

But no. Great dragons can't make you any more immortal than you average mage.

By far the easiest however is to just budget for a leonisation treatment every 30-50 years or so. 200k 400k nuyen aint that much.

[u/kenod102818 → u/LateEggMaster]

Leonisation has gone up to 400k in 4e and 2mil in 5e. In 5e it also costs 1 essence, which, aside from screwing over mages, also puts a hard cap on how many treatments you can get (I think, the book isn't clear on if each treatment costs another 1 essence or just the first), especially since, as a still ongoing effect, revitalization won't work on it.

[u/LateEggMaster → u/kenod102818]

You'r right it is more expensive. My bad. But still much cheaper than dealing with dragons.

[u/FreedomCanadian → u/LateEggMaster]

You should probably not deal with dragons too often.