Re: Integration

From: Wulf Corbett <wulfc_at_...>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:40:22 -0000

> I do not see any need for rules like "he isn't really integrating
> the spirit, he's..." when an animist gets a complete success in
> spirit combat against an ancestor, simply because there _already_
> is a specific action, integration, which is not normally done on
> ancestors. The Shaman does not do what he could because it is
> a bad thing to do to an ancestor.

I think I now see where we are at cross-purposes... you seem to have interpreted the rule (I don't have my books handy, so this is an approximate quote) "...with a Complete Success you may Integrate the spirit..." as meaning "you can Integrate if you want to, but you don't have to", whereas, there being no form of alternative given, I have taken it to mean "This is the point when you Integrate". So, given that A) you don't Integrate and b) you don't embody into a fetish (essentially the same as Integration), what alternative do you see? Ignore the Complete Success and treat as a 3/day fetish?

Wulf