From:	"Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: A few quick Ponderings...
Date:	Sat, 1 May 1993 16:21:17 -0700

>> Current rules allow mundanes to employ the skill Conjuring.
>> As per the rules, they can use it to resist Spirit powers instead of
>> the usual attribute and/or they can use it to summon Free Spirits,
>> though I think the books are hinting that this is incredible
>> dangerous and stupid...

Mundanes can use Conjuring to bind a Free Spirit or to increase the karma ratio
when giving Karma to Free Spirits. "Magicians" can use their Conjuring Skill
in place of the normally appropriate resisting attribute (SRII Page 143).

>> Now for the question: Can ya folks think of any equivalents
>> for Sorcery? So far the one that has struck me as *potentially*
>> being useful is in the construction of Wards. Before you Carp happy
>> hackers start thwapping < :) > hear me out. In the above reference
>> to conjuration, I believe they reference the use for resistance as
>> being equivalent to knowing the proper exorcism rights, etc (magical
>> mumbo-jumbo type words that elude me). So what I am pondering is if
>> the same could be said for the building of wards....

No. This is not a wet, slimy carp, but the rules go through alot of effort to
tell you that their is only one mundance use for Sorcery Skill, astral combat.
Since Sorcery is manipulation of magical energy, it requires a magic attribute
to use. The two exceptions for Conjuring are in relation to free spirits with
binding energy coming from the True Name and the second being a simple little
ritual. Since there is nothing simple about sorcery, there is nothing mundanes
can use it for.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker