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Message no. 1
From: Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject: new magical abilities
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:05:24 -0500 (EST)
I was wondering about the idea of a magician turning himself
into a free spirit, perhaps through a ritual and/or blood magic. Has
anyone written rules on this sort of thing, and has this shown up
anywhere in sourcebooks as a rumor?
Obviously, certain very powerful "souls" or whatever you
prefer to call them are strong enough in some cases to live on as a
free spirit* after the body has moved on, so there appears to be some
basis for it, but I was wondering about less powerful beings, such as
humans or non-immortal elves, succeeding at this.

Mark

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* I'm referring to the Dragonheart trilogy and Dunkelzahn, of course.
Message no. 2
From: David Buehrer dbuehrer@******.carl.org
Subject: new magical abilities
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:01:59 -0700 (MST)
Mark A Shieh wrote:
/
/ I was wondering about the idea of a magician turning himself
/ into a free spirit, perhaps through a ritual and/or blood magic. Has
/ anyone written rules on this sort of thing, and has this shown up
/ anywhere in sourcebooks as a rumor?

Well, there's the quick and easy way.

Just kill yourself and you'll be a free spirit. Of course, it's only
temporary (for as many hours as you have Essence or Magic).

:)

-David B.
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Message no. 3
From: Flambeau flambeau@**********.fr
Subject: new magical abilities
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 00:12:52 +0200
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Mark A Shieh <SHODAN+@***.edu>
Date : vendredi 2 avril 1999 23:08
Objet : new magical abilities

> I was wondering about the idea of a magician turning himself
>into a free spirit, perhaps through a ritual and/or blood magic. Has
>anyone written rules on this sort of thing, and has this shown up
>anywhere in sourcebooks as a rumor?

There is one canon reference to this happening: Lucero
in 'Beyond the Pale'. She died and was summoned back to life
by Darke as a blood spirit. She then went free.
Go there : http://members.aol.com/talonmail/
It's Steve Kenson's Web Page.
Click on Articles. You 'll find tons of great material including
stuff that was left out of 'Magic in the Shadows' such as rules
describing how magicians can manifest when projecting. Neat.
It might provide a basis for the abilities of a magician turned spirit.
I hope this helps.

Flambeau
Message no. 4
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: new magical abilities
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:43:03 EST
In a message dated 4/2/1999 4:07:53 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
SHODAN+@***.EDU writes:

> I was wondering about the idea of a magician turning himself
> into a free spirit, perhaps through a ritual and/or blood magic. Has
> anyone written rules on this sort of thing, and has this shown up
> anywhere in sourcebooks as a rumor?
> Obviously, certain very powerful "souls" or whatever you
> prefer to call them are strong enough in some cases to live on as a
> free spirit* after the body has moved on, so there appears to be some
> basis for it, but I was wondering about less powerful beings, such as
> humans or non-immortal elves, succeeding at this.

Actually, I do have a really good idea of how to do this with pre-existing
rules for SR2, as well as probable options in the upcoming stuff. More at
that time perhaps if someone reminds me at that time.

-K
Message no. 5
From: Barbie LeVile barbie@********.de
Subject: new magical abilities
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 19:12:55 +0200
Mark A Shieh wrote:
>
> I was wondering about the idea of a magician turning himself
> into a free spirit, perhaps through a ritual and/or blood magic. Has
> anyone written rules on this sort of thing, and has this shown up
> anywhere in sourcebooks as a rumor?
> Obviously, certain very powerful "souls" or whatever you
> prefer to call them are strong enough in some cases to live on as a
> free spirit* after the body has moved on, so there appears to be some
> basis for it, but I was wondering about less powerful beings, such as
> humans or non-immortal elves, succeeding at this.
>
My char 'survived' her own death in a sorta spirit like way as ghost for
some time before she got herself togher better and became a free spirit.

DAMN long story. For thos who are interested the log of the game are on my
page:

http://www.amigaworld.com/barbie

all 1300 pages of IRC logs from the adventure ...

--
Barbie

"I'm Pentium of Borg. Precision is irrelevant.
You will be aproximated."
Message no. 6
From: dghost@****.com dghost@****.com
Subject: new magical abilities
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:56:25 -0500
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:05:24 -0500 (EST) Mark A Shieh <SHODAN+@***.EDU>
writes:
> I was wondering about the idea of a magician turning himself
>into a free spirit, perhaps through a ritual and/or blood magic. Has
>anyone written rules on this sort of thing, and has this shown up
>anywhere in sourcebooks as a rumor?
> Obviously, certain very powerful "souls" or whatever you
>prefer to call them are strong enough in some cases to live on as a
>free spirit* after the body has moved on, so there appears to be some
>basis for it, but I was wondering about less powerful beings, such as
>humans or non-immortal elves, succeeding at this.
>
>Mark
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>* I'm referring to the Dragonheart trilogy and Dunkelzahn, of course.

Dunkelzahn, didn't become a free spirit as far as I can tell ... he was
turned into one. It makes more sense if you read Earthdawn. He was
summoned by what'shername and then Named thus becoming a Free Spirit. :)

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