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I have a couple of questions:

1. Are all Morphs re-introduced as simple Morphs?  Or as their modified
status when they were captured?

2. The pieces which a Morph absorbs, are they placed in-hand or are they
completely removed from play.

Here are my suggestions to the answers of these questions:

1. Morphs, regardless of their status at capture are re-introduced as
simple Morphs.  This will increase the value of the modified Morph on the
field.

2. Pieces which the Morphs absorb are completely removed from play.  Thus
the player has the option of capturing the piece or absorbing it.  If they
capture it, they have a piece in hand to drop.  If they absorb it, they
have that piece already on the field.

I've also considered another possible dynamic with the Morph piece.

For example:

A Morph captures a Knight, it becomes a Morph-Knight and the player now
has a Bishop in hand.

Then if a Morph-Knight captures a Queen, it becomes a Morph-Queen and the
player now has a Knight in hand.

This will mean that when the Morph piece is actually captured, it will
remain in its current state for re-introduction.  So if it was a
Morph-Knight when captured, it will be re-introduced as a Morph-Knight.

And this will still maintain the rule that if a Morph absorbs another
Morph, it loses its morphing ability.  So if a Morph-Knight absorbs a
Morph-Queen, it becomes a simple Queen and the player now has a
Morph-Knight in hand.  Or does it?

And pieces which are simply captured(not absorbed) by the Morph are simply
placed in hand.

Needless to say, Medusa Shogi offers some very interesting twists in play
to Pillars of Medusa.

Sorry for the delay on the creation of the ZRF.  I was called out of town
this week.  So I just got back to working on it.  And I have a question:

Is the Castling move allowed in Medusa Shogi?

I know that it is not common to Shogi variants, but I would advocate
keeping this maneuver for Medusa Shogi.  This will allow the players to
quickly move their Kings into a fortified position.  It will also
differentiate Medusa Shogi from other Shogi variants.

Fortunately L.L. Smith asked about castling in Medusa Shogi; sadly I
neglected to mention it.

Medusa Shogi allows for castling as follows:

a) Move your King 1, 2, 3, or 4 spaces towards the Rook on the desired
side.
b) Place that Rook on the square next to the King, and toward the center. 
Thus the left Rook would go just to the King's right; or if castling to
the right, that Rook would go just to the King's left.

Restrictions on castling are as in western chess.  The Medusa Shogi rules
have been updated.  Larry, thanks for that very important question.

Should anyone want to play Medusa Shogi:

1) The following link is to an updated Medusa Shogi pre-set that allows
the players to store captured pieces (pieces in-hand) on the sides of the
board.

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DMedusa+Shogi%26settings%3DMedusaShogi

2) L.L. Smith has made a nice piece set for the Medusa Shogi ZRF
(Zillions) version of the game.  The pieces actually look like some
long-lost, but recently discovered hieroglyphic Shogi pieces.  I found
them very easy to use.  The ZRF (of which I have play-tested the first
versions) should be available in the very near future. I am hoping the Mr.
Smith's piece set will be made available to CV.