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Message no. 1
From: Roger Ramirez chariot@*********.net
Subject: Aura of an astrally projecting mage
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:58:03 -0400
Does the body of a mage who is astrally projecting have an aura?

I was thinking about this and I couldn't figure it out. If a mage decides
to astrally perceive someone who has "stepped out" would the person look
dead? Would they look alive but mundane? Would you just be able to tell
that they are awakened and that they are astrally perceiving? If so could
you figure out whether their magic rating was higher than yours or not?

Any ideas and thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Also if this is in one
of the books somewhere then please forgive my ignorance and give me the book
title.

Thanks,
Chariot
Message no. 2
From: Dvixen dvixen@****.com
Subject: Aura of an astrally projecting mage
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 20:48:02 -0800
At 10:58 PM 3/1/99 , Roger Ramirez annoyed me by writing:
>Does the body of a mage who is astrally projecting have an aura?
>
>I was thinking about this and I couldn't figure it out. If a mage decides
>to astrally perceive someone who has "stepped out" would the person look
>dead? Would they look alive but mundane? Would you just be able to tell
>that they are awakened and that they are astrally perceiving? If so could
>you figure out whether their magic rating was higher than yours or not?

I've always played that the actual meat body looks like a very pale echo of
the projecting mage. (The main of the aura goes with the projecting mage)
For a while I used the silver thread idea, but since a mage can get lost if
his body is moved, this implies the silver thread is not the right way to
look at it.

I usually would say the only information you could get from the echo of a
projecting mages' meat body (did that makes ANY sense?) Is if the mage is
alive, and his mood.

--
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Message no. 3
From: dghost@****.com dghost@****.com
Subject: Aura of an astrally projecting mage
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 01:09:34 -0600
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 20:48:02 -0800 Dvixen <dvixen@****.com> writes:
>At 10:58 PM 3/1/99 , Roger Ramirez annoyed me by writing:
>>Does the body of a mage who is astrally projecting have an aura?
>>I was thinking about this and I couldn't figure it out. If a mage
decides
>>to astrally perceive someone who has "stepped out" would the person
look
>>dead? Would they look alive but mundane? Would you just be able to
tell
>>that they are awakened and that they are astrally perceiving? If so
could
>>you figure out whether their magic rating was higher than yours or not?

>I've always played that the actual meat body looks like a very pale echo
of
>the projecting mage. (The main of the aura goes with the projecting
mage)
>For a while I used the silver thread idea, but since a mage can get lost
if
>his body is moved, this implies the silver thread is not the right way
to
>look at it.

Unless you assume that the thread is hard to follow.

>I usually would say the only information you could get from the echo of
a
>projecting mages' meat body (did that makes ANY sense?) Is if the mage
is
>alive, and his mood.

What I would say is that a projecting mage's aura is "two" auras
(actually the same aura) linked by a thread. The main (projecting) aura
is much stronger than secondary (meat body) aura and so although you can
read anything from the meat aura that you can from the projecting aura,
it is much harder. I would, off the top of my head, say to increase the
T# by 1 for every point (or fraction thereof) of Essence loss (temporay
or permanent) from cyber/bio, astral projection, etc...

Sound good?

--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"You, you're like a spoonful of whoopass." --Grace
"A magician is always 'touching' himself" --Page 123, Grimoire (2nd
Edition)

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Message no. 4
From: Manx timburke@*******.com.au
Subject: Aura of an astrally projecting mage
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:39:11 +1000
>I've always played that the actual meat body looks like a very pale echo of
>the projecting mage. (The main of the aura goes with the projecting mage)
>For a while I used the silver thread idea, but since a mage can get lost if
>his body is moved, this implies the silver thread is not the right way to
>look at it.

The more logical way IMO to handle this would be to
base the strength of the body's aura on how long the mage
(or shaman) has been projecting. It would, I think, fade
gradually as the projector is away from his/her body
with time. A mage that has been projecting for five
minutes will look a whole lot better than one that
has been gone for four hours. The body should "send"
the aura to the projecting mage (or shaman) rather than
the projecting image take it all to start with. Remember
when the projector reaches his/her time/essence limit
for projecting the body dies not the aura. At the point that
the body dies the aura then has Essence x hours to "fade"
away. This implies that the body is gradually sending the
essence to the projector until he/she empties the batteries
(so to speak). It also is implied that there is a "time release"
to the aura by the way that the aure replentishes itself after
return to the body. But I could just be stupid and my opinion
not worth a hoot :)

>I usually would say the only information you could get from the echo of a
>projecting mages' meat body (did that makes ANY sense?) Is if the mage is
>alive, and his mood.
>Dvixen - dvixen@********.com - dvixen@****.com - ShadowRN GridSec

I'd have to disagree here. Any astrally aware person should
also be able to read the fact that the projector is magically
active, due to the state of the aura. All this assumes that the
projector is not masking though, but that's another story.

Manx

timburke@*******.com.au
#950 of 1000

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