From:	Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.com>
Subject:	Re: Re[3]: Fat-bac -Reply -Reply
Date:	Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:03:10 -0500

> Summon up a watcher, order the poor little guy to manifest and ground
>something through the unfortunate little guy. Admittedly, its not going to work as
>well as an acid spell, or be as quiet, as it needs to be an area affect spell. But
it
>should work,if yopu don;t mind burnt watcher...

You can't summon while astrally projecting, but if you always summon a watcher
or two beforehand to keep you company (not a bad idea anyway), this does work
fine. In fact, if you developed an area effect anti-bacteria spell it probably
wouldn't even hurt the watcher.

IMHO there needs to be some cost to toasting a spirit you summoned. Otherwise
magicians become the equivalent of supersonic nuclear attack subs. One
magician terrorist could kill hundreds per day of random people off the street, and
zip off to other parts of town before he could be caught.

Off the top of my head, how about loosing a point of your "summoning" charisma
every time you do this without the consent of the spirit. That way, it gets harder
and harder to summon the more you do it.

Double-Domed Mike