[Runequest] The "Control" spell...

[Wayne Shaw]

At 07:26 PM 4/19/2009, you wrote:
>2009/4/20 Wayne Shaw <shaw at caprica.com>:
>
> > No.  Binding explicitly lets you either passively use the spirit (for magic
> > points for Power Spirits, spell storage for Intellect Spirits, or general
> > spellcasting for Magic Spirits) or give it one order when unbinding it.
> >  Control is unnecessary there.
>
>Unnecessary if you're happy with one order, yes. Assuming you want it
>to do more than one thing (even if it's just "do this and then get
>back in the box"), then no.

Of course.  I was just noting its possible for the person with the 
Binding object to not even know Control himself and still, for 
example, have a bound elemental or ghost in a ring that he sics on 
people.  He'd just have to have someone else to put a new one in later.