Message no. 1

From:	"Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: [OT]Missing Person Alert for SR PBEM.....I LIVE!!!
Date:	Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:50:57 -0500

the spell, that sorta makes sense, though the drain for this sort of thing
sounds kinda high (not prohibitive, just it would need to be really useful
to justify the heightened drain, to bother researching this). Now... if
it's an actual spell effect when it's waiting to actually 'go off', it
should be present in astral space, visible and vulnerable to attack, and
also count as a sustained spell (penalty to target numbers) since the mage
is sustaining it, even if it is directing its own activity.

>|Is it his subconscious handling the spell for him, or what? The spell is
>|just a pattern of ideas and methods for manipulating mana, sitting in the
>|magician's memory, until he does something with it. How can a spell,
>|sitting in your memory, cast itself?
>
>I thought the mage cast the spell, and then it decided when to trigger
>itself. If no then ?????

Yeah, that's how I think it would have to be done, but the description
given doesn't say that to me. Maybe that's what was meant.


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