From:	Fahnuir <FAHNUIR@******.BITNET>
Subject:	Re: How smart are spells?
Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 1993 15:51:57 PRT

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Fahnuir asked:
Jason Carter comented:
>>One of this days i was walking with one of my players on downtown Lisbon, when
>>we started discussing Astral Security.

>You guys must have been pretty bored to come up with this.

We were not bored, we SIMPLY started to discuss Shadowrun, as we could have sta
rted discussing any other subject. Beeing part of our mortal lifes shadowrun ca
n be a subject for us to discuss ( Really, you never discussed Shadowrun with y
our friends!!! )

>> A mage is in the the Astral Space waiting for the Corp to come out from the

O.K. A mage can't be in the Astral Casting spells on non Astral Active pers
ons. Your right, it was a bad exemple. Let's consider the caster to be in the M
aterial Plane.

>>Arcology. When the Corp comes out, the wizard casts a manabolt at the Corp,
>>but the Corp has a Wizard-Bodyguard who had a delayed action and attacks the
>>spell. The wizard and the spell fight for 10 HOURS (and meanwhile the Corp

When i posted this the only thing i had in mind was the problem of the the s
pell beeing smart enough. I completly forgot that a mage can't be in the Astral
for more than 6 hours. 10 hours was just to exemplify a long period of time.

>>moves to the other side of the world.). When the 10 hours pass, the spell
>>wins (tss tss tss... poor Wage-mage...). What happens to the spell:

>There are alot of problems in this example:

>1. Astral mages cannot cast spells at non-astral targets. Thus the attack
could not take place.
>2. Only astral magicians with saved actions can block spells.

When i said that the Bodyguard Wage-Mage blocked the spell, i considerd him
as having a delayed action ( Bodyguards are suposed to be alert, and efficient
... but then, there is Kevin Costner... ), and he was suposed to be Astraly Act
ive.

>3. No mage on the face of the earth (actually a vampire mage with enough
essence could) could stay astral for 10 hours.

>Reguardless of all the problems, you bring up a valid question. What happens
>to a spell that has been delayed by astral combat if the target disappears?
>The answer is simple, it disspates due to the lack of target. The spell is
>LOS and once LOS is lost, the spell can not affect the target.

But when the caster casted the spell he had LOS, and the spell has the Corp's
aura "patern" as a part of his existence. Couldn't it be possible for the spel
l to track the Corp, as a mage tracks his body when someone removes it from the
place where he left it, before he went to do something in the Astral ?

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Fahnuir
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