From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: wraithhunting
Date:	Sat, 4 Nov 1995 18:35:04 -0800 (PST)

According to Craigtw1@***.com:
> Mark, Thel will fail, I do believe. According to Paranormals of Europe: "The
> spirit acts as if self-motivated, and has proved immune to conjuring-based
> attempts at domination." And "Efforts to identify the wraith's native
plane
> have thus far proven fruitless."

Well. The thing "acts as a Free Spirit", so one presumes that it does have
some sort of native plane. Of course, it's a _really_ astonishing Free Spirit
because it's can have twice the amount of Spirit Energy as normal, meaning
that it can have up to 24 points thereof. I personally find the "can't find
the home plane" line made to be surmounted when the role-playing motivates it.
Just because one finds the home plane of one wraith does not mean that that is
the plane for all the wraiths. The much bigger problems will be what to do to
get rid of the damn thing: it's ability to soak et. al. is nothing short of
phenomenal: Body and Willpower of 10 + Spirit Energy, plus Magic Resistance.
Given like 10 points of Spirit Energy, it's target number 32 time for magic
to affect it (all other things being equal). Now, given a physical attack,
against Immunity equal to twice Essence (i.e. 24)....it'll be not that hard to
hose it with a certain amount of rigged stuff, but that's not a permanent
solution...
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Major, VLSI. http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
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