| From: | "Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Carter's Electromag Argument. |
| Date: | Mon, 10 May 1993 13:23:12 -0500 |
]reason being auras. Even though you paided perfectly good essense for those
]electrically maginified cybereyes, you can't cast spells because you can no
]longer see an aura.
[...]
]Unfortunately your cybereyes cannot see into astral space, and thus
]cannot see the targets aura. Thus you don't recieve a magnified picture of the
]targets aura. In fact you get NO picture of the targets aura.
[...]
]You now cannot cast spells at all! This answers the age old
]question, "Why are their both Electronic and Optical available?" The answer:
]"So mages can get op mag and still cast spells."
Gee, Nightie, this raises the question of: "do you really use your flesh eyes
to see in astral space?" Inquiring minds want to know. I, being
all-too-willing to state my opinions for the world, say no. My reasons can be
found in any library. Since Shadowrun is seemingly based off reality, or at
least perceptions therof, you can look up current opinions of astral sensing as
referents for conjecture.
Current acounts, as far as I am familiar (and I like to think that I am at
least *mostly* familiar) refer mostly to the use of a "Third Eye," sometimes
referring to the Pineal Gland suggestively. So, if you don't use your flesh to
see in this space, rather "opening your mind" to the higher existence, then it
really doesn't matter, theoretically, if you yank your eyes out and put cyber
in. Yes, this leaves all sorts of doorways open, but if you didn't want them
enough to find them before, you probably won't want them now. Regardless, you
put in cyber, and you paid essence for them, so they're yours.
I'll leave the research for you as I've already done enough to convince me.
-Ethan Court.
