| From: | "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Astral questing |
| Date: | Sat, 12 Oct 1996 11:35:59 -0700 |
>When a mage finishes an astral quest, would he (in this case, please don't
>take this as sexism) find himself back in his body, regardless of where he
>was when he left the astral for the metaplanes? This has never been
>mentioned, but is it implausible? Can one go from the astral directly to
>the metaplanes, or does one have to go through the intermediate stage of
>one's body?
>
>Perhaps an example... Ice wants to lead a group of elementals and watchers
>to distract a UCAS astral patrol. He gets to the patrolled zone, jumps up
>and down, shouts, screams and generally carries on until a patrol arrives
>to investigate. At this point he goes into an astral quest, one of the ones
>which takes no time in the physical world. At the end of it, he finds
>himself in his body, and he now knows that the astral patrol will be up at
>the other end of their territory, wondering where the hell he has gotten
>to.
What you're talking about is performing teleportation via an Astral Quest. I
would not permit this on the grounds that it's far too powerful. I _would_
allow an Astral Quest to reach part of the Etheric that is normally impossible
to travel to Astrally (such as the inside of a sealed, underground facility)
but I would say that the mage's physical body should remain where he left it.
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Major, VLSI. http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict
