Re: [HOE] Re: was Doomsayers - now Harrowed

[Unseenlibrarian@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/2001 10:20:46 PM Central Standard Time, 
robert@macauley.com writes:

> 
>  Maybe embalming fluid contains a chemical that breaks down parts of the 
> brain
>  that the manitou needs to function. And maybe if it doesn't, the gummint 
can
>  shadow around a bit and get one added.
>  

I don't know. Considering that the manitou can animate dinosaur skeletons 
with bits of fossilized brain tissue, I don't think embalming would slow the 
stiff down, unless you use the Egyptian method and pull a corpse's brain 
through it's nose. The thing that would keep the harrowed numbers down is 
that generally, manitous _don't_ take the harrowed route. It takes a 
particularly gutsy manitou to jump into a body and be trapped permanently in 
the physical world where they can be forever destroyed, and they only risk it 
for heroes. <Or anti-heroes.>;  Larger than life, one in a 1000 people who've 
got the special spark to become truly great or truly infamous, not joe schlub 
off the street.

Phil
Of course, the point's moot when the government. starts trapping manitous in 
boxes and installing them in any one they can sucker into volunteering.