Re: counters to both battery and channel

[Steve Ames <steve>]

> Mechanical counters to battery:
>
> T'orites

Not really... what T'orites do is kinda magic but really no one
has defined it at all, so we'll skip them for now.

> Mechanical counters to channel:
>
> Hirudo and Ra-ites

Negative. All your changing is the method of rest/repair... not
how they work.

Hirudo and Ra-ites channel units the same as everyone else. They
tire their pathways same as everyone else. To heal up, most people
sleep. Hirudo drink blood. Ra-ites bathe in the sun. In the absence
of divine energy to channel, perhaps neither of them can cast spells
again. Or perhaps they channel something other than divine energy.
Since Ra needs sunlight to cast some of their spells perhaps they
actually channel sunlight. Rudrites need darkness...

They are not examples against channelling in any way though.

> Easiest way to make them jibe:
>
> Hirudo and Ra-ites are made out to be deviations from the norm as far as
> unit recovery goes mechanically anyway ...
>
> Consider most cases channeling ... e.g. some of the source needs to be
> there during casting.
>
> Consider the Ra-ites and Hirudo exceptions ... e.g. they store DU, however
> some of the source needs to be present when casting the spells that 
> store their units.

Why have exceptions. The more exceptions a rule has the less of a rule
it is.

						-Steve