Comabt questions...

[JCD]

The main misunderstanding is that Lady was under the impression that if yu did enough Corporeal Damage to a Celestial, eventually you would be able to do Celestial damage. This is not the case.

I suppose one analogy you can use is that the Heart has the brain of the Celestial, and the vessel is a remote robot. The Celestial connection is buried deep in the vessel, so it can't be hurt by 'feedback.' A Celestial attack is like licking a nine volt battery; won't hurt a person, can short out a CPU if put in the wrong place. Killing a corporeal vessel shorts out enough circuits that the Heart can't work it anymore. When the vessel is killed, it forces the Heart to reboot, which is Trauma. (Malakim have serious overbuild and hardwiring). Shedim and Kyriotates are just software, not a wired remote. Thus their vulnerability.

Where it breaks down is that is ISN'T a remote robot. The Celestial CAN leave the vessel, for a short time. Only THEN is it vulnerable to Celestial attacks.

The Song of Banishing shorts out or removes the connection to the vessel. The Song of Purity is Anti Virus software.

[ladyarcana55]

Thanks so much everyone! This whole thing is just so confusing for me.

[Rocket Man]

Originally Posted by JCD

The main misunderstanding is that Lady was under the impression that if yu did enough Corporeal Damage to a Celestial, eventually you would be able to do Celestial damage. This is not the case.

I suppose one analogy you can use is that the Heart has the brain of the Celestial, and the vessel is a remote robot. The Celestial connection is buried deep in the vessel, so it can't be hurt by 'feedback.' A Celestial attack is like licking a nine volt battery; won't hurt a person, can short out a CPU if put in the wrong place. Killing a corporeal vessel shorts out enough circuits that the Heart can't work it anymore. When the vessel is killed, it forces the Heart to reboot, which is Trauma. (Malakim have serious overbuild and hardwiring). Shedim and Kyriotates are just software, not a wired remote. Thus their vulnerability.

Where it breaks down is that is ISN'T a remote robot. The Celestial CAN leave the vessel, for a short time. Only THEN is it vulnerable to Celestial attacks.

The Song of Banishing shorts out or removes the connection to the vessel. The Song of Purity is Anti Virus software.

Nice analogy! And using that metaphor, I suppose the Song of Charm would be "phishing"; trying to get the other person to do something stupid that makes them vulnerable.