From:	The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Spirits and Reach
Date:	Wed, 7 Jun 1995 15:51:16 +0100

On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Jani Fikouras wrote:

> > I may be mistaken but I believe it states clearly that firearms and
> > explosions do NOT damage the spirit as they are not directly connected to the
> > persons willpower...(long pause while shuffling throught several
> > books)...Yes! Page 142 SR2.
>
> You are correct, however firearms due to their incredible potential
> to do damage (compared to HtH weapons) and the indirect willpower
> of the attacker do make damage. They get only half their power
> level though if I am not mistaken (check the immunity to firearms
> or something power of spirits). The thing is that your average
> firearms is close to useless against a spirit and even a HAC
> is marginaly effective.
The immunity to firearms attack bit gives teh spirit 'effective' armour
against taht attack equal to twice its Force (if I'm not mistaken) thus
against a Force 6 spirit, shooting an assault rifle (8M damage) with a 6
round burst would only actually do 2D damage and the spirit if it is of
teh apropriate variety could very well take this down to moderate or
light damage, and then teh spirit moves in and takes you out. Remember
Spirits have an Inititive while manifested equal to Manifested Reaction
+10 +D6!!!!!!!!

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