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Last night one of the PC's in our game became possessed with an incorporeal spirit. Something called a screamer. Once he was possesed the screamer started a suicidal frenzy trying to make the possesed PC kill himself.
One of the party members used a cmw spell in an attempt to damage the screamer. He had to make a touch attack on the possesed PC because he didn't want to be healed, he was hell bent on suicide. The touch was successful and damage was dealt to the screamer only. I told him that I would allow the spell to either damage or heal but not both.
Did I play that out right? How would you have done it?
Possession (9/10ths of the law) is usually handled by the rules specified in the Magic Jar, but without the jar part.
Unless there are special possession rules for the screamer, it is up to the GM to adjudicate this strange scenario. I think you made the right call. Holy water could also have worked.