From:	Menard Steve <menars@***.UMONTREAL.CA>
Subject:	Re: Wards
Date:	Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:14:55 -0400

On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, Thomas R Gillette wrote:

> To Adam, that Guru Extrodinaire
>
>
> So I guess what you are saying is that If 4 mages spent all thier time on=
the
> ward ONLY they could easily keep up a level 12 Ward without a problem.
>
> Also, what would those that wanted to take down the ward do? Would they e=
nter
> into combat with the ward? So the mage that tried to take down the ward o=
f
> level twelve would roll dice equal to his magic, against the force of the
> ward, while the ward would roll dice equal to its force against the mage.
> Then whomever got the most successes would get to reduce the power of the
> other by the number of extra successes. Or is there another way

I think I remember a novel, one of the secrets of power novel, when
the shaman forces open a barrier somewhere in Australia. The description
of this feat whas the anti-thesis of a fight between the shaman and the
ward. If I remember correctly he sat down and slowly worked on the ward,
unraveling it's threads. So I guess it could be possible to devellop a
way to pass wards without fighting them, but that it would maybe take
hours to do it, time during which the creator of the ward could(or
alternatively would not) know that someone is tampering with his ward!
Also I'd like to see a way for a mage to slip through a ward, only
himself, without destroying the ward or sending warning to the creator.
Anybody ever done this?

> Can mundanes walk across the ward that it does not exist? What happens of=
a
> mage with a level 1 or 2 foci tries to walk (physically) through such a w=
ard?
> Would it stop him from entering the protected area? Or would it
> destroy/disable the foci. Or is there no effect other than to keep spells
> from being cast into the ward, and stop traveling astrally into the compl=
ex?

I'd say if the any foci is active when the character tries to
cross the ward from the physical world, he get stopped. I do not think
the ward would destroy the focus since it was not attacked per see and
ward only counter-attack to defend thmeselves. Otherwise, everything
passes through.

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