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Message no. 1
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Permanent Anchoring-again!
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 19:50:06 -0500
At 11:52 AM 12/27/96 EST, you wrote:

>Creating a permanent anchor
>
> [long explanation]

Or, you could just Quicken the spell.

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Message no. 2
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Permanent Anchoring-again!
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 17:13:13 -0800
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ubiquitous wrote:

> At 11:52 AM 12/27/96 EST, you wrote:
>
> >Creating a permanent anchor
> >
> > [long explanation]
>
> Or, you could just Quicken the spell.
>
> --

I think he wants to utilize some 'on/off' switches and the like...

~Tim
Message no. 3
From: "Brian W. Allison" <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Permanent Anchoring-again!
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 20:23:53 -0500
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Tim Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ubiquitous wrote:
> > At 11:52 AM 12/27/96 EST, you wrote:
> > >Creating a permanent anchor
> > > [long explanation]
> > Or, you could just Quicken the spell.
>
> I think he wants to utilize some 'on/off' switches and the like...

Yes, but it's not as if karma has to be paid in order to cast the spll
(and links) on the Anchored Object anyway.....

Ya can't fool the cosmos, chummer.





Brian W. Allison

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Message no. 4
From: John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Permanent Anchoring-again!
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 23:53:29 EST
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996 20:23:53 -0500 "Brian W. Allison"
<ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU> writes:
>On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Tim Cooper wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> > At 11:52 AM 12/27/96 EST, you wrote:
>> > >Creating a permanent anchor
>> > > [long explanation]
>> > Or, you could just Quicken the spell.
>>
>> I think he wants to utilize some 'on/off' switches and the like...
>
> Yes, but it's not as if karma has to be paid in order to cast the
>spll
>(and links) on the Anchored Object anyway.....
>
> Ya can't fool the cosmos, chummer.
>
Actually, I had assumed that the astral quest's purpose was to make the
anchoring permanent (did that not come across in my post? Oh, well...)
Yes, the idea does produce something like a quickened spell that could be
turned on and off, but is probably a lot more like a spell lock with
anchoring links added in to the bargain. As for the karma, karma DOES
have to be paid to anchor a spell to an object, to only to prepare the
item...the karma for bonding the anchoring focus as described in my post
is required to bond the focus to the user. As a trade-off for becoming
permanently anchored and better protected from astral attack, the focus
must be bonded to its user, presumably a magician or adept, ie mundies
cannot use foci, and the anchoring focus I described is a fully fledged
focus, bonding and all. As for being practical, it probably isn't, except
in specialized situations, most of which you could better or more easily
use a spell lock or quickening. The end result is paying more karma for
better protection (the spell cannot be attacked, but the enchantment
(which the spell is now part of) can, through grounding).

Feel free to thwap me if you think I deserve it (perhaps that's not quite
what I meant...), but I think I've appropriately balanced and thought out
the idea.

Canthros-the-shapeshifter-mage
Message no. 5
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Permanent Anchoring-again!
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 10:07:31 +0000
|
|At 11:52 AM 12/27/96 EST, you wrote:
|
|>Creating a permanent anchor
|>
|> [long explanation]
|
|Or, you could just Quicken the spell.

Yessssss, but quickening is on permanently, whereas anchors can lie dorman
until triggered, then lie dormant until triggered again....
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Message no. 6
From: "Brian W. Allison" <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Permanent Anchoring-again!
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 11:00:39 -0500
On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Spike wrote:

> |Or, you could just Quicken the spell.
>
> Yessssss, but quickening is on permanently, whereas anchors can lie dorman
> until triggered, then lie dormant until triggered again....

On the Astral, Anchorings are always there. If they're inactive on the
Physical then they are at Force/2 and if they're active on the Physical
then they're at Force.

So a mage will *always* spot an Anchoring (barring it being behind a
magical barrier).


Brian W. Allison

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Message no. 7
From: John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Permanent Anchoring-again!
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 12:47:50 EST
On Sat, 28 Dec 1996 11:00:39 -0500 "Brian W. Allison"
<ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU> writes:
>On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Spike wrote:
>
>> |Or, you could just Quicken the spell.
>>
>> Yessssss, but quickening is on permanently, whereas anchors can lie
>dorman
>> until triggered, then lie dormant until triggered again....
>
> On the Astral, Anchorings are always there. If they're inactive on
>the
>Physical then they are at Force/2 and if they're active on the
>Physical
>then they're at Force.
>
> So a mage will *always* spot an Anchoring (barring it being behind a
>magical barrier).
>
>
In response: A mage will always spot a normal anchoring. The focus I
described does not have to be used but it would alleviate this problem
because it would not be vulnerable from the astral unless it was active.
The other permanent anchoring would still be vulnerable, whether active
or inactive. However, it would be possible for the mage's teammates to
make use of it that way-because it isn't a focus. The biggest advantage
over either spell locks or quickenings: Over spell locks: they can be
left with a spell trigger and set up to go off when a certain event
occurs or they can be set up with a delay. Over Quickenings: the spell
can still be sustained indefinitely without action upon the mage/shaman's
part, but it can also be turned on or off. Disadvantages over either: the
spell is still subject to being grounded through and still requires a
physical component. The focus simply acts as an unique enchantment. It
requires that the spell be anchored to it, then it may be utilized so
long as the focus is bonded by the user. It will not respond to someone
who has not bonded it (alternatively, it may be turned on/off by any
mage, like a spell lock). The focus acts a spell lock in that it stores
the spell until it it used, when the spell is then sustained by the
astral energy flow opened by the focus. It basically does the job of a
mage in sustaining the spell. Other option: allow the use of spell locks
on anchored spells. Now, for one extra karma point, you can have an
anchored spell that doesn't require time links or deactivation/activation
links, gets better protection from the astral, and is almost as easily
accomplishedas normally anchoring the spell...If you ask me, that makes
it WAY too easy. Think of the focus, then, as anchoring spell lock.

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