Re: [DL] Exorcisms

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 05:46  PM, Dan Cichoracki wrote:

> <The exorcism takes 8 hours to accomplish and at the end of the long 
> ordeal the blessed must beat the possessing demon in a test of the 
> blessed's faith versus the creatures Spirit.>
>
> I guess I shoulda been a bit more clear on this - he wants to roleplay 
> the 8-hour long ritual. He wants the atmosphere of the movie The 
> Exorcist. He wants to feel the dread of the onlookers as he may or may 
> not succeed. He wants a more traditional exorcism. He's a guy playing 
> an Irish nun named for the patron saint of death. He wants more than 
> the miracle version of an exorcism, he wants a first-person account of 
> it.

I had to dredge this topic up... I'm watching The Exorcist (old 
version) on DVD this morning and it mentions that it's inspired from a 
trues tory from 1946 that's local to me even (Silver Spring, MD).

You might want to look for the book that this was written from... i 
believe it exists, and may have some passages you can steal.

However, ultimately I have to agree that the miracle as described does 
the job, and the rest is background and detail, and one character 
shouldn't overtake the entire sequence.

If you want a more involved sequence, you could require that the posse 
go as a group into the Hunting Grounds to do so... It might require a 
Huckster to open a gate, but could be a fun adventure... Think a 
Harrowed dream sequence, but different, with the posse acting as a 
group to fight for the possessed soul.