| From: | dbuehrer@******.carl.org dbuehrer@******.carl.org |
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| Subject: | Turn to goo spell effects. |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:59:19 -0600 |
>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.
But a magician is not a spirit, and a domain is not a target. Apples and
oranges, IMHO.
To Life,
-Graht
http://www.users.uswest.net/~abaker3
--
"What you are doing at the moment must be exactly what
you are doing at the moment--and nothing else."
