| From: | Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.com.au> |
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| Subject: | Re: Killing in Shadowrun... |
| Date: | Wed, 22 May 96 18:07:09 +1030 |
>spell table on pg. 152 states that with 4 successes you will get accurate
>and detailed information. Now, let's make the subject voluntary. He
>suppresses his willpower down to one, the mage casts his mind probe with @**
>dice or more. He gets 8 successes. Wow. I'd say that'd give you pretty
>much anything you'd want.
Interesting study on hypnotic recall... This guy put someone under
hypnosis, and got a recollection of the subject's eighth birthday (which
happened 30 odd years before). But he couldn't get a recollection of the
day afterwards. Why? Because human memory is NOT like a camera. You do
not get automatic recall of events. There is strong evidence to suggest
that if an event is stored in long-term memory, then it will not go away
(subject to damage), but there's that limit of only 7-9 items in
short-term memory, remember.
Sheesh... suppressing your Willpower if you're voluntary? I might go
around casting Control Thoughts before the Mana bolts, next time. That's
not possible.
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