Re: [DL] Indians and visionseeking

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> 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)


Correct, the appeasement is pooled together in order to "cast" one (and only one) spirit.  In fact Shamans cannot "share" the appeasement.

> 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.   


When invoking a favor a shaman must spend all appeasement at the time the favor is asked.

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?


I do not have my book in front of me at the momment, but the appeasement does not stick around.  Each favor must be paid for separately, although I don't believe you need to ask for all of the above favors when doing a visionquest.  A spirt guide will help you, but if your Shaman has area knowledge hunting grounds (not a very likely skill) I think they can manage without one.  In any case each favor requires a separate ritual.

> 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?

This one is probably up to the marshal.  I'm not sure if the book specify's, but I tend to shy away from random encounter tables if at all possible.  If you know in advance the shaman is going to visionquest then prepare something up ahead of time.  You may want to do a private session with your shaman to keep the other players from getting bored...  If the shaman does it out of the blue than I'd go with the random encounters to speed things along...


> 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'd need my book to answer this one, sorry...