From:	Schnood <cdjworks@******.DIGEX.NET>
Subject:	Re: "Official" Quickening Report, with Walter Frogbiter
Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 1994 16:38:03 -0400

>Yes, but don't you have to bond a focus before it is considered "active?"
>I mean, you _could_, I guess, bod it to your target, but that doesn't
>make much sense.

There is a Shadowrun module, in which this does happen. The enemies have
set up an ambush, and part of it is an item which is supposed to attract
the player's attention so they'll pick it up. The item is also a spell
lock. The opposing mage is supposed to cast overstimulation on the
person who picked it up, but it would be much more interesting if instead
of ambushing them there, they were to wait until the players went back to
they're sprawl and precede the attack with, say, a fireball grounded out
through the spell lock.

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