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Message no. 1
From: "Sedah Drol" <CCRODRIG@****.indstate.edu>
Subject: blind mages
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:17:58 EST
Question:
How does a blind mage cast a spell? Would he have to research
a new type of clairvoyance spell?

----Sedah Drol
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Message no. 2
From: Hairy Smurf <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: blind mages
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:46:51 -0400 (EDT)
At 16:17 4/23/96 EST, you wrote:
>Question:
> How does a blind mage cast a spell? Would he have to research
>a new type of clairvoyance spell?
>
>----Sedah Drol

If the eyes are replaceable with cybers then he takes the magic loss to
actually be able to cast spells. If not I think he's screwed. Even if he
makes that spell he'll still have to make in sustained and centered on him
for it to always be working. Kinda makes him a target don't ya think?

Sasquatch
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Message no. 3
From: feria@********.com (Bronwyn Heather Feria)
Subject: Re: blind mages
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:09:19 -0700 (MST)
>At 16:17 4/23/96 EST, you wrote:
>>Question:
>> How does a blind mage cast a spell? Would he have to research
>>a new type of clairvoyance spell?
>>
>>----Sedah Drol
>

I don't play mages or anything, so my suggestion may be about as far from
possible as I can get, but can't one use astral sighting to target a spell.
Physically blind shouldn't affect astral sight as far as I've heard.

David
Message no. 4
From: Larry <lomion@********.net>
Subject: Re: blind mages
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:21:25 -0400
At 17:09 04/23/96 -0700, Bronwyn Heather Feria wrote:
>>At 16:17 4/23/96 EST, you wrote:
>>>Question:
>>> How does a blind mage cast a spell? Would he have to research
>>>a new type of clairvoyance spell?
>>>
>>>----Sedah Drol
>>
>
>I don't play mages or anything, so my suggestion may be about as far from
>possible as I can get, but can't one use astral sighting to target a spell.
>Physically blind shouldn't affect astral sight as far as I've heard.
>
>David
>
There's a module that details a blind mage, she could see perfectly fine
astrally, don't remeber the name o the module tho
Larry
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Message no. 5
From: ratinox@******.gweep.net (Stainless Steel Rat)
Subject: Re: blind mages
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:09:59 GMT
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:17:58 EST, "Sedah Drol"
<CCRODRIG@****.indstate.edu> wrote:

>Question:
> How does a blind mage cast a spell?

Simple: the same way a normally sighted mage casts spells. Astral
perception is yet another sense, a sixth sense (there's that number '6'
again ;). To think that such a sense would rely upon an existing, highly
specialized, *different* organ is somewhat ludicrous. You do not see with
your ears, or taste with your fingertips, why should astral perception be
tied to your eyes?

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Message no. 6
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: blind mages
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:17:50 +0100
Hairy Smurf <shadowrn@********.itribe.net> said on 18:46/23 Apr 96...

> > How does a blind mage cast a spell? Would he have to research
> >a new type of clairvoyance spell?
>
> If the eyes are replaceable with cybers then he takes the magic loss to
> actually be able to cast spells. If not I think he's screwed. Even if he
> makes that spell he'll still have to make in sustained and centered on him
> for it to always be working. Kinda makes him a target don't ya think?

If the eyes aren't working, yeah, just pop in some cybereyes (or cloned
replacements) and all should be fine. If it's the brain that doesn't
respond to the signals the eyes are giving off, I believe the magician is
blind beyond the SR world's capability to fix.

The solution is very simple, though: astral perception.

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Message no. 7
From: "A Halliwell" <u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: blind mages
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:26:16 +0100 (BST)
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|Question:
| How does a blind mage cast a spell? Would he have to research
|a new type of clairvoyance spell?

Simple, he assenses the target and then casts.....
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Message no. 8
From: Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.com.au>
Subject: Re: blind mages
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 20:05:50 +1030
>If the eyes aren't working, yeah, just pop in some cybereyes (or cloned
>replacements) and all should be fine. If it's the brain that doesn't
>respond to the signals the eyes are giving off, I believe the magician is
>blind beyond the SR world's capability to fix.

Yeah... if there is a genetic defect in the "processing" areas involved
with sight, current SR tech can't fix it unless the defect is fairly
simple.

Trauma and low-level defects could be repaired with clonal tissue...
though it'd be a tricky operation.

>The solution is very simple, though: astral perception.


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