RE: [HOE] harrowed and faith- spoiler

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net]On Behalf Of
> Nick Zachariasen
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [HOE] harrowed and faith- spoiler
>
>
> > > As I said before, Harrowed faith isn't derived from some overarching
> power of
> > > good as the blesseds is. Besides, a manitou in control of a Doomie
> arsenal is
> > > just too deadly to the posse for any sane Marshal not to allow!
> >
> > I'm still not convinced. If the Doomie's faith isn't really faith, they
> > why is the skill spirit based? It seems to me that the
> Doomsayer's belief
> > in the Glow is what is giving him the ability to cast miracles. It's not
> > the same (although it is similar) to a syker's blastin', that's
> pure skill
> > and training and mental discipline. For the Doomie the driving force is
> > his own belief in the power that is giving him these abilities. If that
>
> Well, you have to look back to the Blessed for an answer here.  Their
> Miracles all work on their Faith, and mechanically, they're channeling
> Hunting Grounds energy through themselves just like the Doomsayers are.
> However, the Blessed are protected by their deity from the effects of
> channeling the energy, hence the reason they don't really have
> any backlash.
> Doomsayers, on the other hand, DO have backlash.  They're
> channeling Hunting
> Grounds energy through themselves, but there's no actual force protecting
> them.  They may THINK there's something there, but there really
> isn't.  They
> just learn a particular way of tapping the energy and they use it.

True, but it's still their soul or spirit doin' the tappin', and a
possessing manitou doesn't have access to the harrowed's soul.  The manitou
squashes the soul, beats it down, scares the bejeesis out of it, but doesn't
get to use it.

Jeff Y.