From:	Simon and Fiona sfuller@******.com.au
Subject:	Tech and the Astral
Date:	Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:29:09 +1000

-----Original Message-----
From: Caric <caric@********.com>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:41 AM
Subject: RE: Tech and the Astral


>
>Actually what I understand from p.173 of SR3 is that some things have
>changed from SR2 and some haven't. You still can't read anything from the
>astral (it makes no mention of whether or not you are manifest at the time,
>and I don't really see how that would make a difference), but you do get
the
>emotional content of whatever it is that you are trying to "read." As far
>as hearing goes, NightRain is definitely correct about not being able to
>hear recorded sounds in SR2, but SR3 didn't add that little detail instead
>just saying "Speech and sounds are as easy to hear from the astral plane as
>they are in the physical world."
>
>Personally I always liked the way that SR2 handled it, added a nice little
>quirk.
>

I personally would say that you can hear recorded sounds as normal, but not
_understand_ recorded speech. The same for writing, a book's pages wouldn't
be blank from the astral, just illegible. This quirk, by the way is based on
people's descriptions of actual astral travel.