RE: [DL] Aztec Mummies? (possible monster spoiler)

["Jeffery Yates" <jyates@qlinktech.com>]

Again, I'm thinking that attacks that don't cause damage might still drain
wind.  A magic effect that leeches away energy, leaving the victim lethargic
and listless, would be draining wind.  It isn't lethal, just
nconvenient  -- "Nice spell, but now that it's just layin' there givin' us
the evil eye, what do we do with it?  Still can't cut it up, shoot it up, or
blow it up..."

Most undead don't loose wind to normal damage -- they just don't bleed when
you stick 'em with a knife.  But most of them do loose wind to things like
Soul Blast.  The wording on this undead is strange because it doesn't loose
wind to mundane attacks, Soul Blast, or any other _damage_ causing attack.
It's immune to damage, not to being left without the energy to wallop the
posse.  My gut tells me there is a spell like this in Deadlands somewhere --
Hex, Black Magic, Blessed, something -- but my brain is pulling a blank --
my DnD roots can only come up with things like Enervation.

I do agree with you on weenie Soul Blasts and non-lethal brawlin' are
attacks that cause damage, so the wind loss won't happen to this monster.

Jeff Y.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Madwand
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:54 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] Aztec Mummies? (possible monster spoiler)
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> At 09:51 AM 2/11/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >One Word:
> >
> >Non-Lethal Brawlin:
> >
> >It only causes Wind Damage
> >
> >Patrick
>
> Wind damage is a form of damage, therefore this fits the definition of a
> "damage-causing attack".  Therefore,
> the creature is immune to this.  Oh, and that's two words.  :)
>
> >Soul Blast's minimum hand does only wind, IIRC.
>
> >-Bryce
>
> Ditto.
>
> Remember, "a damage-causing attack".  I'll post it again... this is the
> EXACT wording from the
> book.
>
> >Immunity: As long as a mummy has its jade stone, it is immune to
> all wounds
> >and Wind from damage-causing attacks, including those on its heart.
>
> (NOTE: this is an undead creature whose Focus is its heart, FYI.)
>
> One would think that anything that would cause damage is effectively an
> "attack", whether intentional, accidentlal, environmental, random
> something-falls-on-your-head-from-a-great-height, or whatever.
>
> <after some thought>
>
> I'm beginning to think that the way it should have been worded is that the
> thing is just plain unkillable unless you get it to cough up the stone,
> period.  I can see perhaps that the creature can only be affected
> by attacks
> that do no damage (restraint, pushing it off a cliff; of course since the
> creature is being effectively
> "attacked" by the ground due to that sudden stop, this doesn't help a lot
> either).  However, that to me is a
> given (most immunities don't say a darn thing about it providing immunity
> to being tied up or what not), so
> why the oddball wording with regards to _this particular
> creature_?  Why is
> this one so different that
> it requires this particular wording for its Immunity?  Anybody?
> Unless you
> can find some sort of
> lucky-special-magic 'kill it by deteriorating its Traits' thing that
> actually would work on something that's
> dead already, which I'm not sure about.
>
> Wonder if mebbe the posse's mad scientist will have to go into dentistry
> just to pry th' thing's moutn open...
> Any other ideas?
>
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