Gypsy Death Curse

Gypsy Death curse has been slightly revised. It is largely the same skill as it always has been, but primarily, it now has a 7th level pre-req. Beyond that, some nuances and details have been fleshed out a bit in the description.

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Gypsy Death Curse (Continuous) Pre-Req: 7th Level
This skill allows a Gypsy to place a Greater Curse upon the person who caused her death. The Gypsy can curse the individual whose action directly caused her death, or can attempt to curse someone else who was responsible for it. To attempt to curse someone responsible for her death, the Gypsy must name the specific person to the Director within an hour of being killed, who will then verify if the named person indeed had some active part in the Gypsy’s death. If the named person did not have an active role in the Gypsy’s death, according to the Directors discretion, then the curse is wasted and has no effect on anyone; if the named person was involved, then the curse is applied to her. The Gypsy must select a curse from the list of Lesser Curses, and the killer will be afflicted with it as a Greater Curse. The Greater Curse will remain in effect on the killer until the Gypsy releases it, or the Gypsy King releases it, or she dies and is resurrected. The effects of this skill will not stand if the Gypsy has avoided in any way taking a death.  This skill bypasses all defenses except for the skill Resist Curse.

A few questions:

• Do you have to know your target's full name?  Their real name?  Or just be able to identify them unambiguously?
• Just to make certain I'm interpreting this correctly, if I wish to curse the person directly responsible for my death, I don't need to know who it is.  If I'm cursing someone who was indirectly responsible, I must know their name.  Is that right?
• Will Gypsies of 6th level or lower lose Gypsy Death Curse?  If not, will they be able to use it before becoming 7th level?
• The skill says that the curse can be removed if the recipient dies and is resurrected.  What if, instead, he is reanimated?

To your last, I quote James but offer no interpretation.

<<The effects of this skill will not stand if the Gypsy has avoided in any way taking a death.>>

Also, you said "can be removed."  James wrote <<The Greater Curse will remain in effect on the killer until ... or she dies and is resurrected.>>  Grammar, Zach, grammar.

You misunderstand my question, Charlie.  I'm not asking about the cursing Gypsy being reanimated.  If the recipient of a Death Curse dies and is resurrected, the curse is lifted.  I want to know if the curse is lifted if, instead of being resurrected, the recipient is reanimated.

A few questions:

• Do you have to know your target's full name?  Their real name?  Or just be able to identify them unambiguously?
• Just to make certain I'm interpreting this correctly, if I wish to curse the person directly responsible for my death, I don't need to know who it is.  If I'm cursing someone who was indirectly responsible, I must know their name.  Is that right?
• Will Gypsies of 6th level or lower lose Gypsy Death Curse?  If not, will they be able to use it before becoming 7th level?
• The skill says that the curse can be removed if the recipient dies and is resurrected.  What if, instead, he is reanimated?

1) No, you don't need to know their name.  Identifying the person to James is an OOG mechanic, so something along the lines of, "that NPC Kimmel was playing" would suffice.

2)  Corerect.  You could not say something like "I'm cursing whoever hired this assassin".  You would have to be able to name someone.

3)  They will lose it and have to relearn it upon reaching 7th level.

4)  If a person is reannimated, the curse will remain on the target.  The curse will only be lifted if the PC actually takes a death.

--Skimmel

For question 2, what I was clarifying was that if I want to curse the immediate cause of my death, I don't need to be able to identify them beyond "the person who killed me."  Is that correct?