Message no. 1

From:	Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.com>
Subject:	spirits and tech weapons
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:08:36 -0500

I think what you need to remember (and it is counter-intuitive to most rule oriented
gamers) is that astral space is a place of spirit, emotion, thought, and symbolism.
A spirit is invulnerable to most of the physical aspects of reality--even if chopped
in two by a mindless elevator door it can just reform unwounded--but a spirit is is
vulnerable to the rules it operates by: thought, emotion and symbolism. A laser
axe is, symbolically, an axe. A knife is a knife is a knife, whether it is flint,
bronze, or monomolecular. It isn't the physical weapon that is doing the damage,
it is the act of striking with it. In fact, a toy sword might due just as well as a real
one, just as long as it doesn't break.

Double-Domed Mike