>On Darkmists there was the ASTRIP or affects strip command
>which would remove all affects without the player seeing
>anything. I know because we "borrowed" the Ceran (IMP)
>character and stripped a few players at an unfortunate time
>for them :P

We don't have one of those, FYI. Must be one of the fun little things they added after stealing a very old copy of the CF code. ;)

I mean, a high enough level immortal can cast cancellation and nuke everything on you no matter what -- that's the solution Galadriel or Jullias or whoever came up with for fixing assorted affect problems or doing certain kinds of testing -- but, like normal dispel/cancel, you'll see it go.