In a message dated 97-02-11 00:44:17 EST, you write:

This would tend to imply that the diluted (and therefore, weaker) water
 merely affects you in a more general way (which could also explain why
 merely being splashed, instead of immersed, does not replace your curse,
 but alter it (e.g. Tarou's octopus tentacles)), while the pure, undiluted
 water literally changes you to be an exact match of whatever drowned
 there.

Ah.  Now there's an answer that i would like to get when i need to be
corrected.  If only the rest of the FFML members who responded were as nice.