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Message no. 1
From: jdefazio@***.rr.com (Jason)
Subject: Magic Question for GM's and Mages
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:59:02 -0500
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All,

I just signed up to the list serv, and I have enjoyed the postings.

I've got a wierd question for ya: I've got a group with a Wolf Shaman, with an embodied
Ally Spirit (wolf's body- wouldn't ya know). I'm planning on running Survival of the
Fittest; in case you're unfamilier with it, the last adventure (in the series-style
format) is an astral quest, rather like Harlequin's Back. I know my lovely Shaman will
want to bring her Ally along. And as she is kind to him, feeds him Karma at every
opportunity (she gives him about half her awarded Karma), teaches him spells, and
generally roleplays with him like her totemic friend, rather than a servant, I'm half a
mind to let her bring him. This is also the first Ally we've had... my players prefer Phys
Ads- they really hate mages for some unknown reason (ask me about the mage with the binos
and the fire ball from across the street :) )

Question is: Can Ally spirits actually go on astral quests? I've run SR for 5 years (give
or take) and haven't found anything in my plethora of books to state either way on this. I
couldn't find it in any of my main books (got all 3) or the magic books (also got three
[Grimoire 1 and 2 and MITS]). I won't be running that particular adventure for a little
while yet, as Iwant to work it into my campaign, and don't want my players to see the
module- (I take copius notes) so it will be awhile before I get to the part where this is
important. If anyone has experienced this situation before, please let me know what
happened, whether as the player of the GM, and if I've missed the rules entirely, just
tell me I'm stupid, and point me inthe right direction. Help??!! Please??!!

Thanks,
DelMinar
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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@****.net (Mike and Jill Johnson)
Subject: Magic Question for GM's and Mages
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:38:39 -0600
The group mages generally handle magic in our game (with 2 of them watching
each other I tend to trust them). So I can't quote anything from the
rules on this, but in the books Talon never brought his ally with him on
his astral quests.




At 11:59 PM 4/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I just signed up to the list serv, and I have enjoyed the postings.
>
>I've got a wierd question for ya: I've got a group with a Wolf Shaman,
>with an embodied Ally Spirit (wolf's body- wouldn't ya know). I'm planning
>on running Survival of the Fittest; in case you're unfamilier with it, the
>last adventure (in the series-style format) is an astral quest, rather
>like Harlequin's Back. I know my lovely Shaman will want to bring her Ally
>along. And as she is kind to him, feeds him Karma at every opportunity
>(she gives him about half her awarded Karma), teaches him spells, and
>generally roleplays with him like her totemic friend, rather than a
>servant, I'm half a mind to let her bring him. This is also the first Ally
>we've had... my players prefer Phys Ads- they really hate mages for some
>unknown reason (ask me about the mage with the binos and the fire ball
>from across the street :) )
>
>Question is: Can Ally spirits actually go on astral quests? I've run SR
>for 5 years (give or take) and haven't found anything in my plethora of
>books to state either way on this. I couldn't find it in any of my main
>books (got all 3) or the magic books (also got three [Grimoire 1 and 2 and
>MITS]). I won't be running that particular adventure for a little while
>yet, as Iwant to work it into my campaign, and don't want my players to
>see the module- (I take copius notes) so it will be awhile before I get to
>the part where this is important. If anyone has experienced this situation
>before, please let me know what happened, whether as the player of the GM,
>and if I've missed the rules entirely, just tell me I'm stupid, and point
>me inthe right direction. Help??!! Please??!!
>
>Thanks,
>DelMinar
Message no. 3
From: me@******.net (Hexren)
Subject: Magic Question for GM's and Mages
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:03:41 +0200
J> All,

J> I just signed up to the list serv, and I have enjoyed the postings.

J> I've got a wierd question for ya: I've got a group with a Wolf Shaman, with an
embodied Ally Spirit (wolf's body- wouldn't ya know). I'm planning on running Survival of
the Fittest; in case you're
J> unfamilier with it, the last adventure (in the series-style format) is an astral
quest, rather like Harlequin's Back. I know my lovely Shaman will want to bring her Ally
along. And as she is kind
J> to him, feeds him Karma at every opportunity (she gives him about half her awarded
Karma), teaches him spells, and generally roleplays with him like her totemic friend,
rather than a servant, I'm
J> half a mind to let her bring him. This is also the first Ally we've had... my
players prefer Phys Ads- they really hate mages for some unknown reason (ask me about the
mage with the binos and the
J> fire ball from across the street :) )

J> Question is: Can Ally spirits actually go on astral quests? I've run SR for 5 years
(give or take) and haven't found anything in my plethora of books to state either way on
this. I couldn't find
J> it in any of my main books (got all 3) or the magic books (also got three [Grimoire
1 and 2 and MITS]). I won't be running that particular adventure for a little while yet,
as Iwant to work it
J> into my campaign, and don't want my players to see the module- (I take copius notes)
so it will be awhile before I get to the part where this is important. If anyone has
experienced this situation
J> before, please let me know what happened, whether as the player of the GM, and if
I've missed the rules entirely, just tell me I'm stupid, and point me inthe right
direction. Help??!! Please??!!

J> Thanks,
J> DelMinar

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I do not see problem there. Just take the Spirit along. After all the
Metaplanes are its home.
Message no. 4
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Magic Question for GM's and Mages
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:18:59 +0200
Please use spoiler space when talking about published adventures
and/or any GM-only material. Or at least put some kind of warning in
the message title.
*Especially* given that SotF is the latest published adventure, that
it's very recent, and that there are some players on this list who
aren't through it yet. Me, for example.

S
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(that's how it's done)
Anyway, hopefully it doesn't matter much that I know the last run is
an astral quest; my character being a mundane with an Essence of about
2, he'll probably be waiting for the mage to come back. (I don't wanna
know if I'm wrong)
But still my point stands.

-- Wild_Cat
maxnoel_fr@*****.fr -- ICQ #85274019
"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting
and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a
perfect, immortal machine?"

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