| From: | "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: Foci |
| Date: | Wed, 1 May 1996 11:29:09 +0100 |
> Actually no, harden ink is still ink, it's just in a different state,
> called a solid. Atomically it is still the same thing just the
> molecules are barely moving at all and are closer together.
> Heat up the ink a bit and it will become liquid again.
I'm not 100% sure about this...
> Gurth's example was rather crude. I would say you still have a walking
> stick, it's just a bit smaller, but since the enchantment was placed on
> the entire stick, the mage would have to have all the original pieces
> of the walking stick in order to use it as a focus. The ways to destroy
> the enchantment on a focus is to either utterly destroy the physical
> component or attack the enchantment from the way I understand it.. I
> would rule that breakin an object in half is not utterly destroying it.
> Now setting fire to the object could utterly destroy it if all that
> was left was ashes.
I seem to recall reading in an SR book somewhere that any change to a
focus makes it lose its enchantment, because it isn't the object that was
enchanted any longer. The Lone Star book makes a reference to this at
least, when it talks about the registering of foci -- the LS mages shave
off a sliver that is too small to actually change the focus, but
(according to them) lage enough to be part of it, so they can find your
focus with ritual sorcery, should the need arise.
Therefore, breaking an enchanted walking stick in two destroys the focus,
even if you have all the pieces together.
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