From: | Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net> |
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Subject: | FASA's answer to the FAB Question |
Date: | Tue, 17 Sep 1996 03:16:21 -0500 |
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>From: FASAMike@***.com
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:15:36 -0400
>To: fauxpas@******.net
>Subject: Re: SR: FAB Question
>
>Date: Mon, Sep 16, 1996 6:59 PM EDT
>From: FASA Mike
>Subj: Re: SR: FAB Question
>To: fauxpas@******.net
>
>Thomas -
>
>You have actively hurt my head...
>
>>What happens when a motionless astral being standing on the Earth has a
>>non-magical living physical object (with an aura) placed on top of him?
>
>First off, What exactly do you mean by "aura" - like a plant or a magical
>ashtray. Secondly, the stronger astral enetity will push the weaker out of
>the way. An astral mage, can move "living plants" out of the way. Much like
>the physical world no two items can share the same place so in the astral the
>larger, bigger, or more powerful will displace a smaller one.
>
>>Would the object's physical component be affected by gravity and pass
>>through the astral being?
>
>For lack of any better image...bounce off would be more appropriate.
>
>>Would the aura of the astral being interact with the aura of the object and
>>the object appear to float in the physical plane?
>
>Not unless the being in the astral plane wanted it to. Normally it would just
>bounce off, if it could.
>
>>Would the object's aura push the astral being out of the way?
>
>No actually it's probably more the other way. It's not like postive/negitive
>charged items. The bigger will move the smaller.
>
>>Would swinging a club filled with FAB do any damage to a purely astral
>>being?
>
>Possibly...There are no rules for damage from one astral entity pushed into
>another. Normally FAB is not dense enough to do damage. It's point is to slow
>an entitly down force them to deal with something in the astral space, that
>prohibits their abbility to manuever. What the club filled with FAB would do
>is constantly push the entity in astral. Since all that is reallin coming at
>him or her is a club shapped groupin a FAB. To be honest I wouldn't think
>it's as effective as other FAB uses.
>
>>Could an astral being, covered by a FAB-Net, attempt to untangle the net?
>
>Yes
>
>>Is FAB astrally active?
>
>Yes
>
>>Is FAB dual-natured?
>
>Yes
>
>>Is FAB mundane?
>
>No
>
>>And can we get an answer on Dybbuk's question in CorpSec (p 40): "If
>>somebody astral can't move or pass through something with physical mass,
>>how can an astral being travel through air filled with any bacteria?"
>
>It's a size factor...think of it as swimming. If FAB is pumped into a room.
>What it does is slow a character down to the point where they can be trapped.
>Think of it as a murky samp for an astral being.
>
>Boy I hope all these help...even more, I hope they make sense.
>
>Mike Mulvihill
>Shadowrun Line Developer
>FASA
>See our web page at www.fasa.com
>
>
-Thomas Deeny
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