| From: | "Andrew W. Ragland" <RAGLAN45@*****.MMC.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Will a magic item work in the space? |
| Date: | Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:58:11 -0500 |
> be cast in the space, but how about a permanent magic item? After all,
> there are karma points spent to create it, aren't they?
I hate to contradict the going school of thought on this, but Tom Dowd
wrote a story in which an elven mage takes on an insect spirit, declaring
that he has learned to work magic in space, so this piddling spirit isn't
going to make him even break a sweat. Basically, the manasphere or
Gaiasphere acts as a defensive barrier against the total Lovecraftian
weirdness (and the Horrors that live there) of outer space. Go out there
and magic acts unpredictably -- or at least by rules most people have no
comprehension of. With a mage who's really seriously advanced, you could
learn to do magic in space.
THis is pursuant to a conversation i had with Paul Hume on GEnie a couple
years back. Basically, he said that if you initiated up high enough, y9ou
could try something drastic. We used the Golden Dawn system for an example.
You'd have to initiate your way up the Tree of Life. When you got to Rank
12, you could make an all-or-nothing roll to advance to Rank 13 and Leap
the Abyss. If you make the roll, burning off huge karma to do so, you
become a CHild of the Abyss and can do magic in space. If you fail the roll,
you grab a new character sheet and start character generation, 'cause your
mage is brain-fragged. He spends the rest of his life in a rubber room --
if he survives.
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