From:	"Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject:	Re: Combat Spells + related
Date:	Thu, 9 May 1996 13:21:39 GMT

> From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>

> Sascha Pabst said on 20:41/ 8 May 96...
>
> > Pfft... take out that troll with physical spells shouldn't be that hard.
> > What about a nice Urban Renewal, cast at the 2nd floor above said troll?
> > Or -inside a building- below his feet?
Due to force vs barrier rating only works on older buildings, not
most corp stuff but when it does dropping the roof on the guy tends
to work rather well. Assuming there is enough roof left, the time i
saw this done the shaman got a bit zelous and reduced the building to
dust (rather too much damage) so well there was not much left to bury
the target.

> There's a lot to be said for using other spells than the obvious --
> instead of Manabolting the ganger, you can levitate him out of the window
> (or *through* the window, eh Maurice? :),
Works equally well for 'now Mr scientist no running away when we want
to chat to you', 'come float over here'. Fortunately there are no
longer 1sted style havn'e rolled one autosuccess, i have heard
rumours of levitating buildings etc from other games before 2nded
came out. Mind you if you can get the roll its a wonderful solution
to traffic jams, police roadblocks etc. (in latter case use a high
force spell so it doesn't get beaten up at an inopertune moment)

> cast Chaos at the corp goon,
> Control Thoughts on the opposing runner so he starts to shoot his buddies,
Also makes for docile prisoners without the handcuffs etc that make
boarder posts so suspicious, a well spilt bottle of alcohol (on NPC)
has also been seen combined (They got out the the NAN very easy, in
the end).

> Poltergeist a room so everybody has a hard time, Lift & Push one enemy
> into another, and so on.
>
Mark