Hello,

This is my first post. In a few words, I'm a french gamer who's been
reading and writing too much Wushu stuff lately.

> Here's one more that's stolen from an old Sinbad movie - the Nemesis
> that has hidden his heart somewhere else.

I've done something similar, stolen from Neil's Gaiman Neverwhere. This is
essentially the same thing, except that the Nemesis is killable. But if
you put back the heart in her dead body, she revives.

Mechanically, I let the Nemesis put aside her last point of Chi, "hiding"
it in a place, an object or even a person. This makes the Nemesis weaker,
but she *will* come back from the dead, starting with the Chi point she
locked away.

This point of Chi doesn't need to always stand for the life of the NPC. It
could be her darkest secret (or her True Name), which can't be revealed
even with magic as long as the Chi point stay hidden. It could be the
"emotional heart", making the Nemesis invulnerable to emotion manipulation
(not subject to love spell for example), but leaving her with a heart of
stone.

In Magick-fu, my guide for magic in Wushu, this is a trick that PC can
use.

Claude