From: George W Harris (GHARRIS@UNC.BITNET)
Date: Sat 24 Mar 1990 - 09:56:33 EET
Actually, when a shaman is on the spirit plane his body is inhabited by his fetch, which is left behind. This would require that a spirit which had reduced the shaman to 0 mps on the spirit plane additionally drive the shaman's fetch from the body. In a addition, the spirit would have to manifest itself on the mundane plane without being summoned. Furthermore, if the spirit were of a type which cannot ordinairily initiate spirit combat, it couldn't inhabit a body in any case (how can one be possessed by an intellect spirit?).
Instead, it seems more likely that a shaman who is brought to 0 mps while on the spirit plane would have his spirit at the mercy of whatever did so, just as whatever the shaman defeats in spirit combat is under his control. What is done with a shaman under this circumstance is difficult to imagine, unless the enterprising spirit keeps a shaman-binding object handy.
Of course, if a shaman is battling a spirit such as a spell, power or intellect spirit which is incapable of initiating spirit combat, he can break off the contest at any time, so would only be brought to 0 mps by flagrant inattention or hideous luck.
-George Harris
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