Re: Souls in elves

[Orion Furmanski <thelaw@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Jevan Furmanski wrote:

> Soul strike does damage to the soul, any other interpretation is only done
> by folks who play priests of Anubis.  If it did damage Elves, that would
> not fit with the spirit of the group. (no pun intended).
> 
> How would dp be done to a body with 2 souls?  One soul and an elf?  Dont
> know, but since DP is usually treated as a skill, and it goes with the
> soul or whatever in a body hop, then either can be effected.  
> 
> Transmog just accounts the whale's dp into its rating, so that is why you
> get it's dp.  You have to be 100th rating to do it too.  
> 
> Jevan
> 
> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Greg Mowczko wrote:
> 
> > It depends I would hate to adjudicate it. I would say that the body takes
> > the damage. Someone PLEASE read SOUL STRIKE since I think that a soul is
> > not actually required to be targeted. I am a proponent that DP is a
> > physical thing ( the reason why a ship has DP and so does a door ) but
> > others beg to differ ( most of these people want to body hop and take
> > their DP with 'em ).
> > 
> > In the past I've had the ability to possess animals and when I was in
> > the animal it didn't gain my DP. So if a cat ate my rat I would just
> > ditch the rat at that moment. When you Transmog into a whale you end
> > up with its DP not yours. Same if you turn yourself into a Slug per
> > the Osiris spells.
> > 						Greg
> > 
> 
> 

Ponder this: someone sticks a poor soul with 2 dp into an elfs body. That
elf gets into a scuffle and gets soul-struck. The elf laughs it off, but
the cargo soul snuffs it.  Like I asked before, how often will this
happen?  Probably never - the point is almost academic.

Orion F.