[Torg] Are Orrorsh game mechanics "scary"?

[Steve Crow]

> 
> Steve Crow wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Besides the "structured" Perseverance rewards, there are other ways to 
>> get them, via Research and Spirit Medium (and... True Sight?).
> 
> Spirit Medium only raises Perseverance if the Horror in question uses
> the PoCorruption to block the acquisition of information. Same goes for
> True Sight, and if the Horror does not block the use of True Sight then
> successfully using it actually lowers Perseverance.
> 
> My players had an irrational fear of True Sight and Spirit Medium, they
> were okay with doing Research but as I recall none ever acquired True
> Sight and they avoided NPCs with Spirit Medium like the plague.
> 

Why were they irrationally afraid of it?
Also, it seems that the way they describe it, that Spirit Medium is rather... well, useless. or at the very least pretty limited. Only Orrorosh Gypsies can learn and use it? That always seemed kind of restrictive as an absolute, in a game where the intent is presumably that anybody can do anything.
It might be hard to get Martial Arts in-game, but at least the option is there.
Plus, presumably, Spirit Medium is useless outside of Orrorsh anyway.
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