Post originally by David Laurence at 2004-10-15 15:47:03
Converted from Phorums BB System

"Canonically,' none, really. The basic demons as described in the rulebook don't even really possess people - they act entirely by causing bad things (famine, fighting, infertility) to the town. In fact (IIRC) all bad things that happen to a Faithful town are explicitly due to demonic influence.

That being said, there's lots of room for sliding the "supernatural scale" to wherever you want it. Since the resolution system is so open-ended, you could describe your Calls and Raises as anything you wanted to - you're really kept in check only by "genre conventions," whatever you and your group decide they might be.

So as the GM, if you want possessed people, you just describe their Raise like "he shoots bolts of darkness from his hands, knocking you to the ground," rather than "he picks up a shovel and whacks you with it, knocking you to the ground."