| From: | Damion Milliken dam01@***.edu.au |
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| Subject: | Astral Interaction (Was: Astral/Physical Interaction) |
| Date: | Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:45:21 +1100 (EST) |
> Now as far as Astral affecting Dual Natured objects, that's
> different. The best you are going to be able to do is astrally combat the
> Dual Nature object and 'destroy' it's astral presence (which could be
> achieved a number of different ways) and then you would just pass through
> it. Until some Meta-Magic comes out and changes that, this is the only
> effect you can have on the object.
This brings up a query of mine: to what extent can astrally present beings
affect one another? As far as I can determine from the book, about the only
thing two astral entities can do to each other is engage in astral combat or
speak. How about shake hands? Hug? Hold in a headlock? I think you can
see where I'm heading. <Anecdote time> A very clever idea my players once
had while they were hiding in a magician's wardrobe one day trying to avoid
being found (as often happens <grin>), was to grab the watcher spirit that
came poking about (one of them was an adept that could perceive). I allowed
the character to make a subdueing combat melee roll to grab the watcher.
They then called their magician team mate to send up a higher force watcher
to take the searching watcher away to a far place and sit on it until it
expired. The players were hoping that with the unreliability of watchers
(they're, well, dumb, and prone to misinterpret orders), then by simply
having the magician's watcher vanish, rather than die, then he would just
assume that the spirit was searching long and hard between the two mirrors in
the bathroom or something.
What does everyone else think of this idea?
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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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