Re: a can o' worms...

["Steven E. Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>]

You kick ass Foo... we haven't had a 'can o' worms' discussion in quite
a while.

Here's my thinking:

> Which parts of a character do you have to remove to kill them?  Mind?
> Soul?  Life?  I'm kinda confused on this.

Obviously you can live without a soul. A lot of creatures do. I picture
the soul as a superset of mind. If you have a soul then you have a mind
(even if its blank or worthless, the potential is still there). Ripping
a soul also rips the mind with it. "The body cannot live without the
mind" (this fact is crucial for the cyber genre of AQ).

So... I'm going with if you take their mind they body will die (maybe
not immediately). If you take their life they are quite obviously (by
definition) dead (not-living).

All creatures have a mind of sorts (except for some lower lifeform,
instinct based creatures perhaps). The addition of a soul allows
creatures to transcend and become divine.

> The little chart in the back of
> the book states what purpose each part serves, but it doesn't tell you
> what happens if any of them leave.

Soul: You wither and die. If you somehow manage to take the soul and
leave the mind, I'd bet on major depression and probably suicide...
there'll be that "something missing" in their lives that they canot fix.

Mind: You die. Its possible to magical sustain someone in which case
they are a living automaton and will eat and defecate mindlessly...
someone will probably kill them and put them out of their misery.

Life: You die. Again, you can be magically animated (ie undead).

> Plus, Deliver states it rips your soul
> out of your body and forcefully delivers it to the afterlife; the long
> standing effect of this spell is that you die.  However, if someone
rips
> your soul out with whatever that rank 8 Necromancy/Time spell is
(don't
> have a book on me) your body stays alive???

stays alive for a little while. Someone has to feed it, wash it and make
sure that it stays alive. It won't wash its own cuts or understand how
to use stairs or to get out of the way of a horse. It is an "it".. no
longer human. Anubis has more mercy than that on mankind and the deliver
spell is a coup de grace.

-Steve