[item design] Bob the Skull (Dresden Files reference)

[amul]

@LuciusT

@amul

Hrm...do we need to include something like "Visions of the Infernal Terror" as a stick to threaten the spirit with?

I think you've got the control spell, so that covers controling it.

Yes, but Coerce requires you to threaten and cajole the spirit into helping. Building a spell in which torments the spirit at a simple command word would certainly achieve that.

Plus, this guy pissed me off and killed a friend of mine.

Do I need the CrIm effect to allow the spirit to communicate with me?

@amul

Now, we still don't actually have the spirit. Incantation of Summoning the Dead is a ritual, so can you enchant the skull to summon it's own spirit into it?

Technically, no unless someone has intergrated the folk witch Ritual Items ability in your saga. Instead, I would say first your so the Incantation of Summoning the Dead ritual to summon teh spirit. Then once you have it, bride, coerse or bind it to the skull. Once in residence, there would be no further need to summon it.

Got it. Need to get friendly with a necromancer....

[humboldtscott]

@Xavi

So, you can detect infernal taint with your magic? THAT MEANS YOU ARE A DIABOLIST!!!! BURN HEATHEN, BURN!!!

:mrgreen:

[humboldtscott]

@Xavi

So, you can detect infernal taint with your magic? THAT MEANS YOU ARE A DIABOLIST!!!! BURN HEATHEN, BURN!!!

:mrgreen:

Doesn't the code have prohibitions against binding spirits, regardless of the binding power source? And isn't binding always infernally tainted, even if the power source is magic or fairie?

I'm a little confused about some of that stuff, and trying to sort it out. I've got a pc hermetic magus in my saga with summon/bind/command, and I've been trying to sort all that out, but each time one of us delves into RoP:I, we come up with slightly different answers.

[The_Fixer]

Summoning is always at least tainted, when it ain't outright infernal. You have the choice at chargen.

Now, Commanding, Binding and Ablating are ALWAYS infernal powers, not just "infernally tainted".

But here, binding refers to the verb, not to the Goetic power from RoP: tI. You can summon and bind spirits with hermetic magic (although it's less powerful than the infernal power), and this is what's being referenced here.