Leaching and Nuits

by **Evalin** on July 31st, 2012, 3:28 am

Ok this is a question that has been on my mind for a while now. Leaching is the art of sucking the djed of others to use as your own, but in the end that djed will poison the wielder, eventually leading them to be a hollowed husk of a person that has to use a stick to even stand. Well my question is this, what about nuits? Nuits move and change bodies quite often, so does that mean that each new body will be fresh and good to go despite the PC's level in leaching? Or does the effects of leaching transfer from body to body? This question has been halting me from learning leaching in the first place, but really it could be a great help to my character's RP and it really fits her personality. Any founders words would be appreciated, as well as thoughts and opinions from anyone else.

by **Clyde Sullins** on July 31st, 2012, 4:07 am

Well, here is a partial answer, from the leeching lore, speaking of master leechers, which you are no were near, so would not yet be this affected, but is a good framepoint.

If they do not have a stable body, such as the Nuit, they burn through their bodies at appalling speeds, never synchronizing well with any of them. They become entirely dependent on their lengthened magical abilities for defense.

So what I have gathered from that, is each new body is fresh, but using leeching makes you burn through bodies really fast. Much faster than you normally would. It makes the body degrade, decay, and fall apart becoming useless at an accelerated time frame. Perhaps even negating some of the effects of embalming and showing rot from the strain, even at early levels. I could see them walking around with certain bits of rot growing.

I would also like to point out this nuit to you, Lector Qiao, who is a expert leecher.

His bodies show signs of decay very fast, most of the time, and would be falling apart soon, and is well known for this oddness of his going through fresh bodies like they are going out of fashion.

So, hoped that helped out.

by **Evalin** on July 31st, 2012, 5:54 am

Yes very much. Thank you very much Clyde

. I would assume though, if in the new body they did not use leaching, then there would be no affects such as rapid decay because there was no foreign djed? Thats what I am wondering now. Say if a leacher nuit transfered bodies bud did not use leaching in the new body, would it still decay so fast?

by **Jilitse** on July 31st, 2012, 8:21 am

Hi Evalin
I am an inactive player, but I was also once the Sahovan DS Panna Cotta, and I was reading around and saw your question and had to help. Hihi.

From a player standpoint if you have magic you are automatically addicted to it, and if you are addicted to it, you will want to use it. Leeching is a skill where you actually don't control it, so there's always a probability that you will leech even if you're not intending to use the skill. If you notice, the Leeching lore says that you cannot refuse leeching XP.

I remember talking to Tarot a lot about Lector Qiao. The fact that my PC is so intimately filled with anonimity with this particular NPC adds to my interest with your question.

by **Evalin** on July 31st, 2012, 1:31 pm

Oh alright that makes sense then. And it is an honor for Panna to help me XD. I've been thinking about this for a little over 3 months now and I am just having the hardest time trying to decide if Evalin would use this magic.

Thank you all for your help. With this information in hand I must now come to a decision

by **Rayage** on July 31st, 2012, 8:10 pm

My question is, what is your decision?

Ray is supposed to get leeching from a flashback thread if the girl ever comes back.

by **Evalin** on July 31st, 2012, 10:06 pm

I don'tthink Leeching is for Eva

. I was struggling for a bit though XD