From:	Dave Sherohman <esper@*****.IMA.UMN.EDU>
Subject:	Re: ARGG!!!
Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 93 08:21:48 CET

(I know him! But he spells it 'AARGH!!'.)

>Now. The question I originally intended to ask about breaking into spell
>barriers...
>
> High amounts of radioactive material (over a period of days) make the
>body mutate and even decintegrate. If there is a place that has a constant
>magical barrier around it can you take a highly radoiactive object and leave
>it near the barrier, come back later and have a hole?

I seriously doubt it. The bodily damage from radiation is due to the
interception of radiation by the body, and specifically by the DNA, causing
changes in genetic structure. Wards, barrier spells, and hermetic circles
have no physical substance to intercept the radiation; medicine lodges may
have a physical substance, but in the vast majority of cases, there will be
no active DNA to be damaged. The one exception I can think of would be a
barrier formed by a wall of live vegetation (using the plants' auras to block
astral movement) - and then your method would be impractical, as it would be
much easier to walk up to the barrier and slice through it with a machete...
Either way, it would be obvious to any observer that the plants had died before
the astral opening would be usable.

esper@***.umn.edu