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Message no. 1
From: Manolis Skoulikas greatworm@*****.com
Subject: Astral Souvenirs
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:55:12 +0300
Can anybody carry 'home' anything tangible from the metaplanes?

I mean, it's astral. Mere sentiments and ideas.

How can they materialize on earth?

The Wiz???
Message no. 2
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Astral Souvenirs
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:06:09 -0400
Manolis Skoulikas wrote:

> Can anybody carry 'home' anything tangible from the metaplanes?
>
> I mean, it's astral. Mere sentiments and ideas.
>
> How can they materialize on earth?
>
> The Wiz???

Certain spirits and things are summoned from the metaplanes, correct?
And they have a form (made up of things from the Earth) when they
materialize, correct? So therefore, anything tangible from the
metaplanes could be brought back to earth, made up or contained
within, parts of the environment. That might be nifty. From the Place
of Battle upon the Metaplane of Metal, you bring back some battle
spirit and then place it inside a sword. Instant enchanted sword! I
like it!

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--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and
the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they
produce? The cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

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Message no. 3
From: Aristotle antithesis@**********.com
Subject: Astral Souvenirs
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:45:15 -0400
[ Can anybody carry 'home' anything tangible from the metaplanes? I mean,
it's astral. Mere sentiments and ideas. How can they materialize on earth? ]

I had a running thought similar to this. I thought it might be neat to have
an object that existed totally in the astral (i.e. a sword or other melee
weapon). It would function normally in the astral but have no counterpart
in the physical world. I'm not exactly sure how to go about it within the
shadowrun rules.

Just my $0.02,
Aristotle, The Sleeping Op.
Message no. 4
From: Simon Fuller sfuller@******.com.au
Subject: Astral Souvenirs
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:02:31 +1000
-----Original Message-----
From: Aristotle <antithesis@**********.com>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Friday, April 07, 2000 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: Astral Souvenirs


>[ Can anybody carry 'home' anything tangible from the metaplanes? I mean,
>it's astral. Mere sentiments and ideas. How can they materialize on
arth? ]
>
>I had a running thought similar to this. I thought it might be neat to have
>an object that existed totally in the astral (i.e. a sword or other melee
>weapon). It would function normally in the astral but have no counterpart
>in the physical world. I'm not exactly sure how to go about it within the
>shadowrun rules.
>
>Just my $0.02,
>Aristotle, The Sleeping Op.
>

There was once a character in the comicbooks called Magik. She had this
thing called a Soulsword. It looked like a very arcane and nasty sword with
etheral flames and all that. The thing was, it passed harmlessly through
normal people and objects as if it did not exist (just don't drop it), but
it did horrendous damage to magical things/beings. An astral sword might do
the same, only harming things with an astral presence. It would be good to
scare the bejesus out of passers by when you stab them with it :)
Message no. 5
From: Oliver McDonald oliver@*********.com
Subject: Astral Souvenirs
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 19:02:37 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:02:31 +1000, Simon Fuller wrote:

>>
>>I had a running thought similar to this. I thought it might be neat to have
>>an object that existed totally in the astral (i.e. a sword or other melee
>>weapon). It would function normally in the astral but have no counterpart
>>in the physical world. I'm not exactly sure how to go about it within the
>>shadowrun rules.
>
>There was once a character in the comicbooks called Magik. She had this
>thing called a Soulsword. It looked like a very arcane and nasty sword with
>etheral flames and all that. The thing was, it passed harmlessly through
>normal people and objects as if it did not exist (just don't drop it), but
>it did horrendous damage to magical things/beings. An astral sword might do
>the same, only harming things with an astral presence. It would be good to
>scare the bejesus out of passers by when you stab them with it :)

Three problems. 1) The Star (Lone Star) would probably arrest you pretty quick. 2) Only
a dual being could hold it while on
the physical plane. 3) If it is Astral only, no one would see it, unless it manifested
which would imply it had intelligence. I am not
so sure I would want such a thing around. It might resent being used as a toy.

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