[DL] Indians and visionseeking

[Doplegnger@aol.com]

OK, I've had an eagle shaman in my party for awhile now, and she's starting 
to get annoyed with me because I can't tell her concrete rules for her 
visionseeking way.   I've made them up as best I can from the rulebooks, but 
some things are a bit unclear (my made up things seem to work, but only kind 
of)

the rest of this e-mail is rated: No Man's land.   if you don't know much 
about visionseeking, you probably don't know much about the hunting grounds, 
and your Marshall may want to keep it that way. no Marshall secrets revealed, 
but refers to stuff on the marshal's side of the screen





OK, first off, she and another shaman in the party do a bunch of rituals to 
gather appeasmentfor her.   it is not explicitly stated in the rules how the 
sharing goes, but I allowed them to give it all to her, but the other shaman 
could not dump his guardian spirit into the mix as well (since it's his 
guardian spirit)

Here's where things get odd.   Lets say she has 15 appeasement does she then 
spend one appeasement to start visionquest and put more "money in the meter" 
if she needs it later, or does she have to allocate how long she's in the 
hunting grounds for immediately.   This question will carry over to a few 
other questions, so I'll rephrase it for more clarity.   does all the 
appeasement have to be spent immediately when doing a visionquest, does it 
stick around because it is all considered to be a single thing (vision quest 
for a specific purpose), r is it even worse and she has to do the respective 
rituals for appeasement (to do ask the spirits, spirit guide, etc) while IN 
the hunting grounds?

Neatly, I figured out how to do the roll for her and her spirit guide on area 
knowledge hunting grounds, what I don't know is how often to roll for 
encounters in the hunting grounds.   Right now I'm working with once per 
hour, that too often, not often enough?

finally, the favor "state your business" doesn't really do that at all.   is 
it intended to make spririts state what they are doing, or is it really only 
designed for finding out what the spirit is?   if it's the latter, it seems 
odd because most shamans would (I assume) be able to recognize major spirit 
types.   they all have distinctive descriptions and any shaman with some area 
knowledge hunting grounds should recognize what they are without spending the 
appeasement (though they may anyway for a crack at their true name and such).

I think that's all the problem's I've had to iron out, anyone know the 
official deal on this?