>If the spirit is friendly, your only challenge is overcoming the
>worlds resistance to getting the spirit inhabiting its home. If the
>spirit is neutral, you have to cajole and persuade it and bribe it,
>and the stronger it is, the harder this is to do. If it is hostile,
>you have to beat it, intimidate it, and basically convince it that
>doing this is better than being snuffed out, and that is hardest of
>all.
>
>At least, that is my take.
Works for me. In the book the task is called "Befriending a Spirit, so I think that's exactly what's intended. Note how Spirit Allies go one step further and exist sans fetishes.
Mike
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