From:	Kama kama@*******.net
Subject:	Geasa
Date:	Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:13:48 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Arcady wrote:

> >I'd allow it. Compare it to the Fasting geas: if you haven't eaten for 24
> >hours, you fulfill the geas; eat, and it's broken for 24 hours. This kind
>
> >of meditation would be much the same: if you've meditated, the powers work
>
> >for 24 hours from the _beginning_ of the meditation (so that you need to
> >meditate at least once every 24 hours, rather than being able to let 24
> >hours pass between meditations).
>
> I don't see those as equivalent. You cannot Fast all the time. Fasting is in
> my book possibly the most severe geasa in there. It quarantees you will have
> to break it on a regular basis and that when you do you will be a mundane (or
> lose some powers) for the next 24 hours. If you keep fasting and fufill your
> geasa, you're health will go downhill very fast.
>
> Meditation is a simple excercise one can almost always fufill.
>
> I would allow the meditation. But I would not consider the two to be comparable.
>
Part of it does depend on how you define "fasting".

Admitedly, if you define fasting as no food at all, the amount of time you
could fulfill such a geasa would be limited. However, if you merely
limited the time and place when eating was allowed (such as the form of
fasting practiced during the Holy month of Ramadan) you could fulfill the
requirement indefinately. In fact, I think this type of a "fasting" geasa
would be very appropriate for a strongly religious Islamic character.

Alternatively, you could have someone on a liquids only fast who could
manage for quite a long time without having to break it (soy shakes with
added nutrients).

Kama
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