From:	roun <roun@***.NET>
Subject:	Re: Air Elemental Confinement
Date:	Mon, 18 May 1998 10:23:48 PDT

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| NightRain said on 10:40/18 May 98...
|
| > I have a question concerning Air Elementals. They have a weakness
| > called Confinement. Now I know that somewhere I have read that this
| > weakness means that they are disrupted or something when placed in an
| > air tight container or building or whatever. The thing is though that
| > when I went to look up some more details I could not find the weakness
| > listed in 2nd Ed, PAONA or PAOE. So can someone tell me where the
| > description is?
|

and gurth said,

| SRII page 224, in the description of the elemental spirits, it's mentioned
| that air elementals can "be confided by airtight seals in containers of
| remarkably small size" as one of its weaknesses. It doesn't say they take
| damage from it, though in PAoE the critter stats at the back give
| "Confinement" as a weakness. I think that's a shorthand way of saying the
| text I quoted from SRII. The Grimoire also doesn't mention this
| Confinement weakness, so my guess is that it's not really a
| disadvantageous weakness, except that the spirit won't like it when forced
| to sit in a small gas bottle.
|

maybe the weakness of confinement is just that no matter if the airtight
container is steel or glass (no matter whether the air elemental is strong
enough to break that substance or not), as long as it is airtight, the air
elemental cannot break out of that container or go astral and escape. so
it is a weakness, but does not destroy it.

any thoughts??

roun
aka dave
roun@***.net