From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: Insect vampires?
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:58:35 +0100

David Buehrer said on 6:58/17 Dec 97...

> / With those, I don't see why not. They can conjure spirits into mundane
> / (pre-Awakening) animals, so why not in awakened critters? Ones with Magic
> / Resistance power will probably be harder to use as hosts, I think, but
> / this might be able give you a vampiric insect spirit.
>
> Okay. Assuming that an insect spirit could take over a vampire
> (becoming fleshform), could that insect spirit then pass the
> vampirism on to other fleshform insect spirits?

This centers around whether the perfect merge, flesh form insect spirit
retains the powers its host has. Is there anything mentioned about, for
example, the low-light vision of elf hosts in SR books? If they retain it,
then based on that I'd say that other Awakened powers and weaknesses, like
Essence Drain and Infection, are passed on to the spirit as well.

If that's the case, then there's something you have to think about as
well: the spirit will have to consume Essence occasionally. IMHO workers
would be prone not to do this until their Essence gets very low.

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