From: | Martin Steffens <chimerae@***.IE> |
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Subject: | Usage of the Movement power |
Date: | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:43:42 +0000 |
about the movement power and how you can use it to make live hell for
anyone affected by it. Consider the following situations:
-Mr Runner is flying using his Night Glider. Mr Mage decides to use a
force 5 Air elemental to give mr Runner suddenly a speed of 300 (360
km/h) which doesn't agree to well with the poor wings of the Night
Glider who consequently decide to go their own way, leaving mr Runner
with the prospect of a short and lethal fall.
If mr Mage wants to be a bit more subtle, he can make the spirit use
it's power to slow the Glider thereby stalling it and leaving mr
Runner with the prospect of recovering before touchdown.
-Mr Runner isn't stupid and carries a parachute. While gliding down,
Mr Mage decides to give mr Runner another taste of Air and uses the
same power again, thereby nulling the effect of the parachute almost
completely. Mr Runner is out of options and will very likely go spat
on contact with the ground.
-Mr. Runner has some friends who decide to take out mr Mage. They are
busy chasing him through the streets of Seattle. Mr. Mage orders one
of his earth elementals to be ready to use it's power. Just before
the buddies have to make a sharp turn, mr Mage gives the signal and
suddenly the car of the avengers accelerates from a relatively sedate
90 km/h to 450 km/h. The end result is probably a nasty trail of
small debris and some very flattened avengers who just hit a wall or
something else at a very high speed. Having been at the receiving
end of a 37D hit the avengers very likely joined their friend mr
Runner in the Elysium fields.
-Few more nasty ideas: Stalling a plane just after take off, or
accelerating it just before landing. Pushing the speed of helicopters
over mach 1 (very easy with a force 5) would rip of the rotor
blades. etc. etc.
So can a spirit's movement power affect vehicles? It doesn't really
say so in the ParaAnimals books, except that it can affect up to
essence*3 people at once. And if they can, which sounds logical to
me, since their accident power does seem to work on vehicles, how do
you deal with the resistance test?
Karina & Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie