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Message no. 1
From: Mongoose <m0ng005e@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Mages and geasa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:32:58 -0600
:At 02:19 PM 1/11/99 -0600, D. Ghost wrote:
:>
:>However, if a mage *attempts* to shed a geas, s/he does not gain a magic
:>point for that grade ... unless MITS changes things ...
:
:EXCUSE ME?? I don't think so. That's not anywhere in the Grimoire that
I
:can find. Are you sure you're not thinking of a house rule?
:Starjammer - starjammer@**********.com - Marietta, GA


Ghost may be thinking of initiates who attempt to alter their magical
signature- which is covered in Awakenings, iirc.

Mongoose
Message no. 2
From: "D. Ghost" <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Mages and geasa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:06:42 -0600
>:At 02:19 PM 1/11/99 -0600, D. Ghost wrote:
>:>However, if a mage *attempts* to shed a geas, s/he does not gain a
magic
>:>point for that grade ... unless MITS changes things ...

Starjammer wrote:
>:EXCUSE ME?? I don't think so. That's not anywhere in the Grimoire
that I
>:can find. Are you sure you're not thinking of a house rule?
>:Starjammer - starjammer@**********.com - Marietta, GA

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:32:58 -0600 Mongoose <m0ng005e@*********.COM>
writes:
> Ghost may be thinking of initiates who attempt to alter their
magical
>signature- which is covered in Awakenings, iirc.

THAT'S what it was! Thanks Mongoose. I'm not going insane after all ...
:)

--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"We called him Mother Superior because of the length of his habit" --
Trainspotting
"A magician is always 'touching' himself" --Page 123, Grimoire (2nd
Edition)

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Message no. 3
From: Starjammer <starjammer@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Mages and geasa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:01:17 -0500
At 06:06 PM 1/11/99 -0600, D. Ghost wrote:
>
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:32:58 -0600 Mongoose <m0ng005e@*********.COM>
>writes:
>> Ghost may be thinking of initiates who attempt to alter their
>magical
>>signature- which is covered in Awakenings, iirc.
>
>THAT'S what it was! Thanks Mongoose. I'm not going insane after all ...
>:)

Ahhh, yes. I'll admit, I never could figure out what was so all-fired
special about changing the look/feel of your magic that it required
essentially burning a whole initiated magic point just for the chance to do
it. I suppose we'll have to wait and see how MitS deals with it.

--
Starjammer - starjammer@**********.com - Marietta, GA

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death
that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it
to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn
the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
nothing. Only I will remain."
-- Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Frank Herbert, Dune
Message no. 4
From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Mages and geasa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:02:26 +1000
Starjammer writes:
> Ahhh, yes. I'll admit, I never could figure out what was so all-fired
> special about changing the look/feel of your magic that it required
> essentially burning a whole initiated magic point just for the
> chance to do
> it. I suppose we'll have to wait and see how MitS deals with it.

A) It's bloody hard to do. So instead of spending the effort of initiation
on expanding your magical abilities, you're spending that effort changing
the way the mana flows through you (your magical signature)

B) The magical signature is an important forensic clue. You don't want
people changing it the way they change their underwear (ie, about once a
week, based on some of the PCs I've seen players play)

--
Duct tape is like the Force: There's a Light side, a Dark side, and it
binds the Universe together.
Robert Watkins -- robert.watkins@******.com

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