[Glorantha] Re: Soul Wound and unhealability

[Donald R. Oddy]

In message <006101c65872$a0fba440$6406a8c0 at oemcomputer> "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" writes:

>Think of the person's "otherworld side" (essence, soul, spirit) as 
>a water balloon. If you want to go with the "soul wound" theory, 
>then it's like the water balloon has a small leak - not instantly 
>fatal, but will drain the balloon if you don't keep refilling it. 
>Humakt is a sword. Fixing a leaky balloon with a sword isn't going 
>to be pretty for the balloon.

That assumes that there is something holding the soul together
(the balloon) and the soul itself is inside. I see the void as
attached to the soul itself and bits breaking off. Granted a 
sword is a clumsy instrument to sever the connection and will
probably leave some bits of soul attached to the void but they
would have gone soon enough anyway.

>Frankly, I don't think that vampirism is something you can "get 
>over" like the flu; once a vampire, always a vampire (or a dusty 
>corpse...). There are no ex-vampires wandering around.

Agreed, but MGF says there's a period when a PC is heading
towards being a vampire but isn't yet. The discussion is to 
work out what that process involves.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/