| From: | Damion Milliken <adm82@***.EDU.AU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Disarming magicians |
| Date: | Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:29:27 +1000 |
> carfully destrucive surgery should do it though doing it just with
> drug probably won't work. You may well need some 'cyberware' to
Here we have an excerpt from the NAGA, i think it covers drugs and magic
loss pretty well:
>>>>>[I've heard that using drugs to shake off fatigue and drain can frag
up
a mage's ability to use magic. True?]<<<<<
- Tangent (22:04:56/06-20-55)
>>>>>[First, a point of usage. It's magician when you're speaking of
magically capable individuals in general. Despite popular belief and usage,
"mage" refers to a magician who follows the Hermetic tradition, not
magic-wielders in general.
To address the question, using drugs can cause damage to a magician's
ability to wield magic in the long term, especially drugs that push the
magician's delicately balanced system beyond normal limits. The risk
depends on the drug and the dosage.]<<<<<
- Silicon Mage (18:43:22/06-22-55)
>>>>>[What kind of drugs and dosages are the worst
offenders?]<<<<<
- Corvus (19:10:40/06-23-55)
>>>>>[Generally hard doses of strong stimulants are among the worst. I've
hear that its possible to administer carefully tailored doses of the right
drugs to magicians in order to slowly erode away their magical ability to
almost nothing. It generally takes a week or two to accomplish. Not that
anyone on this board would ever think of doing that, eh Corvus?]<<<<<
- Walker (23:48:50/06-23-55)
>>>>>[That's barbaric!]<<<<<
- Sereena (10:02:30/06-24-55)
>>>>>[Of course it is. The NACLU got the procedure banned as "cruel
and
unusual" punishment in most prisons. Of course, that ruling doesn't apply
to the SINless, nor is it in force in Corporate Territory.]<<<<<
- Silicon Mage (18:55:35/06-24-55)
>>>>>[There are plenty of other techniques that have been developed to deal
with those nasty magicians when you want to incarcerate them. The most
common is to use drugs or simsense feeds to totally frag up the spellworm's
concentration so that walking in a straight line becomes a challenge, much
less spellcasting or astral projection.]<<<<<
- Ares (19:04:00/06-26-55)
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