From:	readle.cr@**.com
Subject:	Re[2]: [SR2]: Fat-bac -Reply
Date:	4 Sep 96 10:15:00 -0400

Ubiquitous wrote:
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|At 05:42 PM 9/3/96 -0500, Galen wrote:
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|>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 you don't mind burnt watcher...
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|Since watchers cannot truly manifest, you'd have to do with a
|low force (1?) elemental spirit, but that might make bad things happen...

Yes, but those evil NPC mages don't seem to care <evil
grin>.

BTW, would an insect queen care if her pet shaman
tried this trick using her dual-natured soldiers for
grounding? Or would the queen just do it herself?

-David


It would probably depend on the totem. As we learned in the Bug City book,
it seems that the spirits work a lot like their natural counterparts. Now,
in the case of ants(or wasps for that matter), where the individuals do not
do any processing of input they probably would not care too much. After
all, what is the loss of a (minor) sensory cells mean to the greater whole
(think of it kind of like losing a few layers of skin off of your fingers)?
In the animal kingdom, as long as the queen survives, the hive will survive
so the workers and warriors are expendable.

chris
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