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Again, it's something I wrote with Nightbane in mind, but I thought the BtS crowd might enjoy.

I did a little clean-up and added two new spectral abilities and a new limitation to my ghost R.C.C.. For those who don't know, this is a traditional "yes, I'm dead" ghost, as an alternative to Palladium's ghosts-as-entities approach.

http://www.necromancerbob.com/ghostrcc.shtml

Very cool, Beelzebozo. I had an idea that was about halfway between yours and the Haunting Entity that I had called the True Ghost. Essentially, my explanation was that sometimes a haunting entity would drink too deeply of the PPE of a dying person. What would happen is that the deceased's persona and memories would completely overwrite its own. It would become that person permanently.

I've just never cared much for the idea of ghostlike entities being something from outside instead of the spirits of someone left over (tectonics and the rest are a different matter). I thought I'd just throw the idea out entirely and try to give ghosts a fairly wide range of abilities. I've got a few examples in mind:

- a "hot steam": mindless and permanently invisible, lies in wait along roads at night to drain life from passersby. Not *quite* completely invisible, appears as a shimmer like heat. Especially vulnerable to exorcism.

-the headless motorcyclist: based on the urban legend of the guy decapitated by sheet metal while riding, this ghost doesn't know he's dead. He rides a certain stretch of road over and over. Has the Enhanced Ghost Object ability (his motorcycle, which fades into nothingness if he is exorcised or destroyed).

I'm trying to think of a few more (preferring to base them on old/traditional folklore or urban legends/"new folklore" instead of Hollywood ghosts). I'll probably append them to the ghost page itself, but a few may end up in my write-up for Nightbane Charleston (which is probably the most ghost-riddled city in the U.S.). The Charleston branch of the Seekers is closer to a traditional BtS investigator group like the Lazlo Agency than the Faction's usual artifact hounds.

Oh, I've kept entities in there, too. The weirdness of them can't be denied. I'm...not sure why I typed that "throw it out entirely" thing. I don't think I was thinking straight. That, or I was demonically possessed. Or not demonically possessed, as the case may be (with us demon clowns, it's confusin').

Sightblinder and demon clowns in the same thread?






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