On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Richard Drysdale wrote:

I was under the impression that it just weakened them a lot. A few 
fanfic's mention that people recover from draining after a few days, 
but I'm not sure if that's got any basis in the source material.

Probably because the youma are stopped before they can complete the
draining.  If left unchecked, they probably would kill. 

- Richard Drysdale (merior@wintermute.co.uk)

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