From:	Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Time travel and magic...
Date:	Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:17:40 +0930

MENARD Steve wrote:
> I do not think they'd be affected by the removal of magic. Do
> metahumans turn back when they're sent into orbit? No, I didn't think so.
> Plus there is the spike babies phenomenum(elves for the most part, born
> before the return of magic),

Well, they're called spike babies for a reason... :)

> and as we all know that elves are born
> elves, that they do not goblinize at all(neither do dwarves for that
> matter). So my verdict would be that mana is needed to activate the
> metagenes, but not to maintain the effect. Of course, mages would most
> probably find he experience very disquieting as they'd find themselves
> most probably unable to cast, summon or even astrally project(or at
> least, the drain would be way up, even for run-of-the-mill preception).

What about a gradual change, though? Without magic, the metagenes go
dormant, on that we agree. Perhaps that means new cells that get created
wouldn't be metahuman, but plain human, resulting in a gradual conversion
back. And, of course, like the Horrors, the threshold level for the initial
existance is higher than the level required for it to stop having an
effect...

(Just an idea... :) )

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