From:	Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu
Subject:	Turn to goo spell effects.
Date:	Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:05:18 -0400

Around 10:19 AM 6/19/00, dbuehrer@******.carl.org was thinking about:
>Stephen Guilliot wrote:
>
>>"Vehicles are single entities. A vehicle's wheels, windshield, antenna
>>and other accessories are interrelated components. Therefore, magicians
>>cannot use magic to target individual portions of a vehicle." (SR3 p.150)

There are no such things as car spirits, they are considered objects in a
City Spirit's Domain. In much the same way as a forest spirit can affect an
individual tree (an object that makes up the domain), a city spirit can
affect an individual car.

>That's what my opinion is founded on. I also view the individual
>components of a building (doors, windows, chimneys, elevators, etc) as
>interrelated components, and thus do not allow magicians to use magic to
>target individual portions of a building (with elemental manipulation
>spells being the only exception).

An entire class of spirits, Hearth Spirits, have their domain as a
building. A hearth spirit summoned for an individual building can do things
to parts of the building, and affect what happens inside the building, but
cannot affect anything outside of the building. He can treat parts of the
building (like a door or wall) as a separate item (an object that makes up
the domain).

Therefore, IMNSHO, there exists a magical precedent for treating cars as
single entities, but buildings as collections of different entities that
may be individually targeted by spells.

Sommers
Aerospace engineers build weapon systems. Civil engineers build targets.