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

[Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>]

Bryce Perry wrote:
> 
> --- 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.

Right...at least in everything I've read, a manitou can NOT leave a
Harrowed willingly.  Killing a Harrowed is one of the only ways to kill
a manitou.  I don't think that'll be any different for a Cyborg.

I'd see the manitou attempting to regain dominion, because think of the
"fun" he could have with a cyborg body...

SeanMike
(previous text left in as sort of a spoilers warning, I guess)

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