Re: [HOE]FETTERS(NO GMS NAMED DEDALANDER)

[Bryce Perry <sandchigger@yahoo.com>]

--- Dan Sulin <grandmasternilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Okay,  I'd would have made the call that you died.  Why?
> 
> Here is my reasoning.  When a Manitou picks a body to turn harrowed,
> he does 
> it on his terms.  Sure he has to deal with the persistant soul and
> fight for 
> control.  But for the most part he deals with it and gets to have fun
> with 
> the body once and a while.
> 
> But then you fetter it.  Now you have essential enslaved the Manitou.
>  He is 
> stuck feeding your clunky Cyborg Body and powers and he gets nothing
> in 
> return.  This pissed him off to no end.
> 
> One day hes stuck in your head, running all your powers and some nice
> guys 
> on the outside hits you with an EMP.  Well looky here, hes free
> again.  Now 
> he has some options
> 
> 1) He can try and retake dominion and use you as a tool, but he tried
> that 
> once and you and you friends locked him in a little box and forced
> him into 
> slavery.
> 
> 2) Screw trying to take you over.  Take the oppurtunity and get his
> ass out 
> of you head and laugh happily as he watched you die.  Serves you
> right for 
> enslaving a demon.
> 
> It makes sense.  The Manitou sees an out and he takes it.  Maybe
> another 
> G.M. would rule differently but if it were me. You would be dead.


Now wait a minute.  As the rules stand this only partially makes sense.
 I thought that when a manitou created a harrowed, it bound itself to
the deader so tightly that it can't get out without just plain DYING. 
This is why it's so much riskier for the manitou to create true
Harrowed rather than simple Walking Dead.  It's also why the Harrowed
are more powerful than the Walking Dead.  Kind of like a demonic
risk-benefit analysis.  Now, if a cyborg (just a Harrowed with some
metal bits tossed in) can be dumped by his manitou when the going gets
rough, what's to keep other manitou from leaving their corpses once
they start getting beaten in those dominion rolls once too often?  

Just a thought.

-Bryce "dead head" Perry

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