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Offline Goraxes

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[Deadbeat spoiler tagged]How-To Necromancy spells
« on: September 16, 2015, 12:47:00 AM »
Just looking at spells, 10-14 spells to bind a spirit to a body for creating a zombie. How much would you say it would take to rip that spirit out of a corpse to just outright destroy the zombie? Was thinking you would need an opposed roll vs the controller (if there is one) and possibly vs the spirit itself.

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Would you use necromancy for possession of people? Would break Law 3/4, but would you still put this in the necromancy school? What if you wanted to possess a corpse?

Thanks for input - Looking to make a necromancer or a Person who uses Necromancy to fight necromancers (Aspects: I hate Necromancy & I am what I am.)


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Re: [Deadbeat spoiler tagged]How-To Necromancy spells
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2015, 02:07:41 AM »
Just looking at spells, 10-14 spells to bind a spirit to a body for creating a zombie. How much would you say it would take to rip that spirit out of a corpse to just outright destroy the zombie? Was thinking you would need an opposed roll vs the controller (if there is one) and possibly vs the spirit itself.

That's a Take Out effect.

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Enough to force a Take Out against the mental stress track.

So assume maximum Conviction of +5, Inhuman Mental Toughness (because no Black Court that survived the purge is going to be easy to take down) and a full stack of consequences (+1 free mild from Conviction) you'd be looking at a total of 30 stress to directly Take Out a Black Court vampire.

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and again... also.....
Would you use necromancy for possession of people? Would break Law 3/4, but would you still put this in the necromancy school? What if you wanted to possess a corpse?

Thanks for input - Looking to make a necromancer or a Person who uses Necromancy to fight necromancers (Aspects: I hate Necromancy & I am what I am.)

Possession is more of a psychomancy effect than necromantic. Possessing a corpse would under necromancy, however, and there's a blurry line over whether Corpsetaker's little stunt is necromancy, psychomancy or a blending of both.
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Re: [Deadbeat spoiler tagged]How-To Necromancy spells
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2015, 02:07:50 AM »
How much would you say it would take to rip that spirit out of a corpse to just outright destroy the zombie?

Enough shifts to take the zombie out with an attack.

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Enough shifts to take the vampire out with a mental attack.

Would you use necromancy for possession of people? Would break Law 3/4, but would you still put this in the necromancy school? What if you wanted to possess a corpse?

Corpse yes, living person probably no.