It is a mystical ability, representing the higher power of Shargash - Rakenpas - or dissolution. So, yes, you could use the new conversion rule for it, we probably will in ILH3 - the Dara Happan book for the larger Shargash write up.
>I ask because I
> originally figured the Shargash secret to be an example of the HQ version
of
> the old "mystic strike" secrets, but then the conversion notes presented a
> different method.
It is and was. The cult was written in 2000 and done with the old "acts as a mystical strike" secret, now long defunct.
>As a result, the old "mystic strike" secrets are now easier to use than the
Shargash >secret as written. Is the Shargash secret supposed to operate by
its own unique rules >as given, or is it an example of one possible way of
re-doing "strike" secrets that was >later revised?
It was a redoing that has since been done in a broad way for all mystical strike type secrets and abilities. If the rules conversions had been out before we wrote ILH 1 then that would have been the way we went, but thems the breaks...
The Shargash write up in ILH1 is terse, limited and given purely as a taster so that folk who have not seen the cult in fanzines and the like can appreciate the Alkoth section in the book and realise what a scary god Shargash is, sitting right in the middle of civilised Dara Happa...The full meal deal in ILH 3 will have all the sub cults, heroes and special powers of the Destroyer.
Martin Laurie
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