[Ghosts] Discipline vs Possession Topic is solved

[Jack]

Maintaining a journal to try and figure out what my character can do, and how he feels and experiences the world, I've stumbled on some lore inconsistencies. Particularly, with the Souls Primer versus the Ghost Possession write-up. There are smaller conflicts, but this is the one that might impede play or create confusion due to skill conflicts.

wiki/index.php?title=Souls_Primer

When possessing another, compare the ghost's Discipline or Persuasion skill to the victim's Discipline or Resistance skill. Provided the ghost is at an expertise tier above that of their victim, they can force a possession. Should they have comparable skills, only limited possession can be accomplished, allowing limited control of the body in a constant struggle with the owner. Some ghosts prefer this incomplete possession, and spiritualists call it Shadowing, where a ghost might covertly possess a mortal to experience a measure of life, whispering in their ear and urging their emotions with the power of their own ectoplasm.

wiki/index.php?title=Category:Possession

Being possessed is often strange for most people. If there is no symbiosis, then the possessed loses all control. However, weaker ghosts are not always able to completely stifle the soul. The possessed is able to still feel the world through their five standard senses, but ghosts can stifle these based on the competency difference between the ghost's possession skill and the possessed's discipline skill. If the ghost is the same competency, they cannot cut off any senses. If the ghost is one tier higher, it can cut off one sense. Two tiers higher is two senses cut off, three tiers is three senses, and four tiers is all senses. The ghost may choose which senses, if any, they cut off.

It is my initial assessment that the Souls Primer is out of date, and that I should refer to the write-ups for Ghosts, their variants, and skills instead where conflicts may occur. So I should be using Possession to gauge my ability to possess an individual, and not Discipline. Am I correct here?

If I'm correct, this raises a couple more questions. How much of the Souls Primer is still accurate? Are the methods described in harming or mitigating ghosts from this page still valid?