QUOTE (Karoline @ Aug 17 2010, 07:08 PM)

2) Spirit doesn't worry about the body's wound modifiers, since it isn't suffering the pain or disorientation or blood loss that generally causes those penalties. It also has no problem continuing to animate (or animating) someone/thing that has died. Since they can possess and move inanimate objects and corpses, there is no reason it couldn't animate a corpse or unconscious person.
IIRC, RAW does speak of pre-possession wound modifiers affecting the spirit during possession. Doesn't it say something about only applying the highest combined wound modifiers between the vessel and the spirit? I never liked this, because it's unclear about what damage the dual entity starts with the vessel's, the spirit's or the highest of them.
There is a difference between animating a corpse and animating an unconscious person. I think, bizarrely, that the corpse doesn't come with injury modifiers but the unconscious person does.