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How Souls Work
Sort of. Thanks to Synod mods for asking these questions that mean more details in regards to the soul-snatching stuff!
What happens to a body when a soul is removed?
The body remains a body, just empty. It's essentially "dead," but if the person's soul is brought back to them before it's withered and gone crazy, the body will "come back to life," essentially. The body itself will be fine, if stiff, unless someone or something damaged the body after the separation.
How long does it take for a soul to go completely crazy?
After 24 hours the soul will start to wither, causing the Extractor to become nauseous and the soul to become twitchy. (The Extractor is able to communicate with the soul its hosting, though trained Extractors (aka Not Winnie) are able to block communication and limit these sorts of feelings). After 48 hours the pain will increase and the Extractor will grow weaker and more ill, and begin to feel the pain of the dying soul. After 60 hours the soul will be completely insane and at that point putting it back in its original body will probably be useless, unless the person has a strong enough will to overcome that level of trauma endured by the soul. After 72 hours the soul will expire completely.
To note: If the soul belonged to someone particularly strong-willed and is released from the Extractor before the 60th hour mark, the soul may become a ghost instead (this would be up to mod/player discretion if it ever came to that point). After the 60th hour mark the soul could still become a ghost, but the ghost would be prettying fucked up and after 72 hours it'd be impossible. If the soul is still INSIDE the Extractor, there's no turning into a ghost, regardless of strength of will.
What can a disembodied soul do of its own volition?
Unless hosted by an Extractor (to whom the soul may communicate if the Extractor isn't blocking them out), not much. The stronger-willed a person/a person's soul is, the more they're capable of doing, from simply floating around--(though it's difficult:
Say, for example a soul is in the middle of a room and wants to get to a chair. They could move, but it would be slow an difficult, much like moving through molasses. The more they practice and do, the easier it would become, but it would still be a slow process unless they became a fully formed ghost)-- to making objects shake.
How can a disembodied soul be communicated with/detected?
A soul is different from a ghost. A soul can become a ghost once either the original body is unrecoverable, destroyed/broken beyond use, etc. If the body becomes such a way before the 72 hours are up, the soul will either keep marching on towards its death, or become a ghost. A ghost cannot become a soul again. Those with a strong sixth sense (or any ability in-game that would make one capable of communicating with spirits) would still be able to detect a soul unattached to an Extractor and be able to communicate, but a disembodied soul (NOT a ghost) would have trouble with it, like trying to speak on the phone with a bad reception.
The extracting abilities can be used on a ghost to exorcise them, or pull a possessing spirit out of someone's body, since the make-up of ghosts and souls are relatively the same. The Extractor would touch a ghost's mouth and pull their 'essence' out, essentially destroying them, and when pulling it out a possessed person, the Extractor would simply figure out which was the original soul and which was the invading ghost, and pull the ghost out unharmed.
Does an absorbed soul carry any remnant of personality or memory?
This varies from person to person. Person A absorbing Soul B might find that similar traits they have in common with the soul are heightened (for example, a person quick to anger absorbing the soul of someone who was also quick to anger may find them raging more easily than before), or may find themselves suddenly having a taste for a food they didn't like as much before. Sometimes these traits fade out as time passes and the original soul adjusts and "digests" the newer soul coming in, sometimes they linger; as I said, it varies (and would be up to player discretion should it happen in-game) but there have been no recordings of complete personality changes.
Once the soul is absorbed however, that soul ceases being itself and merges with the other person's soul. If an Extractor were to try and remove the soul, they wouldn't be able to distinguish between the original soul and the newly placed one.
(It could be possible to remove the new soul if caught extremely early, within minutes of the new soul going into the person's body. However, this hasn't been tested and if it WAS done, it wouldn't be without considerable damage to both souls).
What happens to a body when a soul is removed?
The body remains a body, just empty. It's essentially "dead," but if the person's soul is brought back to them before it's withered and gone crazy, the body will "come back to life," essentially. The body itself will be fine, if stiff, unless someone or something damaged the body after the separation.
How long does it take for a soul to go completely crazy?
After 24 hours the soul will start to wither, causing the Extractor to become nauseous and the soul to become twitchy. (The Extractor is able to communicate with the soul its hosting, though trained Extractors (aka Not Winnie) are able to block communication and limit these sorts of feelings). After 48 hours the pain will increase and the Extractor will grow weaker and more ill, and begin to feel the pain of the dying soul. After 60 hours the soul will be completely insane and at that point putting it back in its original body will probably be useless, unless the person has a strong enough will to overcome that level of trauma endured by the soul. After 72 hours the soul will expire completely.
To note: If the soul belonged to someone particularly strong-willed and is released from the Extractor before the 60th hour mark, the soul may become a ghost instead (this would be up to mod/player discretion if it ever came to that point). After the 60th hour mark the soul could still become a ghost, but the ghost would be prettying fucked up and after 72 hours it'd be impossible. If the soul is still INSIDE the Extractor, there's no turning into a ghost, regardless of strength of will.
What can a disembodied soul do of its own volition?
Unless hosted by an Extractor (to whom the soul may communicate if the Extractor isn't blocking them out), not much. The stronger-willed a person/a person's soul is, the more they're capable of doing, from simply floating around--(though it's difficult:
Say, for example a soul is in the middle of a room and wants to get to a chair. They could move, but it would be slow an difficult, much like moving through molasses. The more they practice and do, the easier it would become, but it would still be a slow process unless they became a fully formed ghost)-- to making objects shake.
How can a disembodied soul be communicated with/detected?
A soul is different from a ghost. A soul can become a ghost once either the original body is unrecoverable, destroyed/broken beyond use, etc. If the body becomes such a way before the 72 hours are up, the soul will either keep marching on towards its death, or become a ghost. A ghost cannot become a soul again. Those with a strong sixth sense (or any ability in-game that would make one capable of communicating with spirits) would still be able to detect a soul unattached to an Extractor and be able to communicate, but a disembodied soul (NOT a ghost) would have trouble with it, like trying to speak on the phone with a bad reception.
The extracting abilities can be used on a ghost to exorcise them, or pull a possessing spirit out of someone's body, since the make-up of ghosts and souls are relatively the same. The Extractor would touch a ghost's mouth and pull their 'essence' out, essentially destroying them, and when pulling it out a possessed person, the Extractor would simply figure out which was the original soul and which was the invading ghost, and pull the ghost out unharmed.
Does an absorbed soul carry any remnant of personality or memory?
This varies from person to person. Person A absorbing Soul B might find that similar traits they have in common with the soul are heightened (for example, a person quick to anger absorbing the soul of someone who was also quick to anger may find them raging more easily than before), or may find themselves suddenly having a taste for a food they didn't like as much before. Sometimes these traits fade out as time passes and the original soul adjusts and "digests" the newer soul coming in, sometimes they linger; as I said, it varies (and would be up to player discretion should it happen in-game) but there have been no recordings of complete personality changes.
Once the soul is absorbed however, that soul ceases being itself and merges with the other person's soul. If an Extractor were to try and remove the soul, they wouldn't be able to distinguish between the original soul and the newly placed one.
(It could be possible to remove the new soul if caught extremely early, within minutes of the new soul going into the person's body. However, this hasn't been tested and if it WAS done, it wouldn't be without considerable damage to both souls).