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From: Glenn Robb <GLENNROBB@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: Insect spirits
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:36:48 -0700
John E Pederson wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:36:13 -0700 Glenn Robb <GLENNROBB@*******.NET>
> writes:
> >Which I have a question to ask. If anyone is capable of it, could
> >they
> >exorcise an insect shaman of the spirit?
>
> Minor prob, Elton: the insect shaman isn't possessed by any spirit. He
> does what he does because he *wants* to. A messed-up bunch, they are.

I wonder why there isn't any rules for insanity in the Core Rules.

> If you mean, however, the banishment of a fleshform... if it's possible,
> then someone could do it (personally, I don't think it's possible), but
> there wouldn't be anything left but an empty and possibly deformed body:
> the person's soul/essence/aura/whatever isn't there, the invae consumed
> it.

It would take a God then to restore the shaman to his former state. That is
basically what you are saying. Unfortunately, Cyberpunk is not the most
moral of genres to play around in.

— Elton Robb

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