: That's what I first thought as well. However, they're
: wearing human skins, not whole human bodies. How much
: blood is going to be left in a human skin after it's
: removed from its original owner?
I imagine the skin (which is still alive, as someone else points out in this thread) was taken off complete with an underlying network of blood vessels. Their bleeding must be intentional and not an oversight, since the skins are described as "lice-infested." On a side note, do you wonder how they managed to get the skins off their owners relatively intact? I've never seen a Fetch victim who wasn't charred and in pieces.
: On a related issue, what is the evidence that the Fetch
: are purely electrical beings? Based on the fact that
: they seem to spurt a lot of blood when you hit them, I
: contend that they are really flesh and blood, but that
: their form is still so alien that they wear the skins
: of human beings. Alternately, "wearing the skins
: of men" could be a metaphor for altering their
: appearance to assume the shape of humans. Whether this
: is because they have to or not is still an open
: question, IMO. Doesn't the unit flavour for Myth II
: saying that they wear skins out of necessity appear in
: quotation marks? When I first read that, I got the
: impression that it was some religious Journeyman who
: was really little more than conjecturing.
Virtually all the unit flavours (look, I get all British when I answer you) are in quotation marks; it's possible that the few which aren't are simply mistakes. So I wouldn't attach much significance to that. And why would the Fetch assume a semi-humanoid shape unless they have to? They can't fool any Light forces into thinking they're human, and the Dark don't care what they look like. Also, I doubt that journeyman healing would work on a Fetch (by repairing its living skin covering) unless its skin was truly human and not just shapeshifted alien flesh.
Personally, I always figured the "escaping soul" you saw when a Fetch died was the *real* Fetch, who was actually (for the moment) unhurt. A Fetch's real body, made of plasma or something, is so fluid that you can't hurt it with swords and arrows, but you can damage its skin covering until Wyrd perceives its alienness; then he/she/it yanks it out of the skin and up to the realm of the gods for punishment or deportation or whatever. On the other hand, massive attacks over most of its surface, like explosions and trow kicks, can really kill the Fetch, which is why you don't see an "escaping soul" when you blow one up with a bottle.
--SiliconDream
