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Re: No, stupid calculator!

Posted By: Forrest (cache1.avtel.net)
Date: 11/12/1999 at 10:18 a.m.

In Response To: Re: No, stupid calculator! (Mark Levin)

: I can think of a few objections to this: First of all, we
: could say that the Summoner has 2 different abilities:
: Summon and Resurrect. When you see him, he uses
: Summon: He brings in a myrk that was already alive
: somewhere else. This takes a few seconds Tain time.
: Resurrect would be the process of bringing one myrk
: back from the far past, which might take a LOT longer.
: That would bring it down by a few.

The Summoner isn't ressurecting them from the past, he's taking their dead skulls and ressurecting them from those. Haven't you watched him in "The Summoner"? He walks around picking up skulls, and then beams a Krid into existance. So he's got to have intact skulls, which does slow down the process. He was just near a skull platform at the time we found him, so he had plenty skulls readily available.

: Secondly, as you said, he may have the ability to
: resurrect dead myrks. This would imply that he needs a
: myrk corpse to work with, and that Soulblighter could
: send him dead myrks to be "recycled". But it
: also implies that he *doesn't* have the power to
: generate them *out of thin air*, whether they were
: alive in the past or not. He could be simply scouring
: the Tain for old myrk corpses, resurrecting them as he
: finds them. He probably wouldn't be able to work with
: fragments, so he'd need a whole corpse, and there
: might be many fewer of these than actual myrks if they
: were really as violent and cannibalistic as their
: flavor text indicates, maybe a few thousand. So
: Soulblighter would have a constant force of a few
: thousand myrks (as you said he could just send the
: dead ones back for resurrection) until the Summoner is
: killed, then his force dwindles.

Exactly! (Well, almost. See my other post about the recycling problems).

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