Re: Greg Stafford on Fetches and Commentary

From: Wulf Corbett <wulfc_at_...>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:43:29 +0000


On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:46:28 -0500, "KYER, JEFFREY" <jeff.kyer_at_...> wrote:

>> >Greg: I asked if a shaman could integrate or capture a spirit after
>> >fighting it and driving it below 0 AP. The consensus was "No"; a shaman can
>> >fight off a spirit attack on This Side, but must cross over and engage the
>> >spirit in order to capture or integrate it.
>>
>> Hmm... I don't see why though... best place to capture any enemy is
>> where he's in alien territory, and weakened. Possibly this is tied up
>> with the old debate about mights & fetishes - that a spirit in a
>> fetish did not suffer the Alien World modifier. Thus, capturing a
>> spirit suffering from the Alien World -20, then stuffing it in a
>> fetish, would INCREASE it's might by 20... But, with a Complete
>> Success, can the Shaman demand one service of the spirit and release
>> it, thus either sending it out on a single task, or learning enough
>> about it to add it to his Tradition?

>No. Its tied up in the fact that the fetch is YOU or something very
>closely tied to you.

Long quote, since you seem to be answering someone else's message :) I wasn't talking about the fetch anymore, I was replying to the quote above, first para of this message.

Wulf

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