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From: Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject: Re: Spell grounding
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 11:10:48 +0200
> Stuart Marsh wrote:
> > The mage sycrinises aruas with the party mage and cast the fire
> > ball it hits him and grounds out through his aura and the travels via the
> > gate provided by the perciving mage to the other runners,
> [through a mana barrier]
>
> This was wrong. Fireball is a combat spell, with the property of effecting
> only targets you can see. So obviously it travels into the mage, then
> proceeds to travel astrally to hit the other targets (assuming you could
> see all of them anyway). In the process, it hits the mana barrier, and
> probably promptly stops still. You still have to get through the barrier.

Yep. Bobs right you canot kill a barrier and hurt someone outside it
with one spell. No matter how powerfull a spell is and how weak a barrier is
you need a spell to take it down.

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