From:	Dave Sherohman <esper@*****.IMA.UMN.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Running with Horrors (instead of FROM them...)
Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 1994 09:22:09 CST

From: Neal A Porter <nap%BRAIN.PHYSICS.SWIN.OZ.AU@***.spcs.umn.edu>
> I stand corrected, but still I think that Wraiths as powerful as the one you
>have mentioned, with all 24 SE points would attract alot of attention. Just
>check out the last comment from PNAE.

Wraiths start out with SE of 1, but what do they have to do to get up to SE
24? Burn ungodly amounts of Karma? Nope. They just need to influence
(meta)humans to inflict a total of 23 points Stun and/or Physical damage upon
themselves and/or other (meta)humans. Kill two people (or beat one to death
with a Stun weapon), and that's 20 SE right there... Although it's not
mentioned, I'd think that Wraiths probably lose SE fairly quickly (1/hour?)
until they're back down to 1.

> Also note that missile weapons, such
>as bows and thrown weapons dont have to overcome the armour either.

They have to overcome half of it. 13-36 Armor ain't as much as 26-72
(obviously :), but how many projectile weapons can punch through 13 points
of armor? (Power 13 projectile weapon = bow for STR 11 troll...)

> >>>>>{ Kill these horrors whenever you can. They are Evil, if
anything is.
>You cannont reason or bargain with these creatures. They exist only to feed.
>They are the future, if we do not stem the tide now.}<<<<<
> ---H--- (5:41:17/6-JUN-51)

> This is directly out of the book, note the 'Evil' with the capital. Also note
>the author, if he's interested in destroying them, do you think that many of
>the more powerful ones of them would survive?

If ---H--- himself is that militant about having them destroyed, odds are that
even he can't just go out on a weekend hunting trip and wipe them out.

> Could be a good way of comming to the attention to the attention of the
>'BIG' players though, killing off a powerful Wraith.

Most certainly...

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