| From: | readle.cr@**.com |
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| Subject: | Re[2]: Fat-bac |
| Date: | 4 Sep 96 14:41:00 -0400 |
>placed over an astral mage does the net look as though it is hanging in mid
>air?? If we are to accept FB and FB nets it will..Ok now let's just say for
>the sake of argument that I accept this [I don't but we all know that by now]
>all of the sudden an astral figure can directly affect the physical plane
>without magic..Cool so that means I can go astral..Pick up a plant [potted of
>course] and fling it at a physical target..or better yet..I can pick up some
>sort of living dagger while in astral form and cut the throats of the guards
>in the guardhouse that didn't see the dagger float into the
>room....Hmmmm...now this sounds fun..I can go on a run preform astral cover
>duties and get in on the fight.. :)
ICK!
Didn't think that one through all the way!
That could sure mess things up allright.
I'll have to rethink my stance on this stuff and be prepared for my wizards
trying that crap.
Hmmm, I don't know if I agree with this.....if you go look at Magister's
comments on the FAB-Net entry you see that he responds to some drekheaded
comment about astral entities having "casual mass". The slant that
Magister puts on it however is this(paraphrased): an astrally active aura
CANNOT interact with a non-astral aura. Period. What that means is that
even if you have a living organism that is microscopic, as long as it is
large enough to have an aura then the astral entity cannot effect it in
any way, saht or form. Therefore, if I am wandering down a forest trail
(for whatever reason) and I don't see that tiny piece of grass sticking
up, I WILL trip over it, simply because I cannot affect it, and I cannot
pass through it. This gets just a bit more complicated when you turn the
living entity into a net and drop it over someone. Now then, since the
net has an actual living presence it would tend to push the mage out of
the way. Of course, if the net were OVER him and thus being dragged down
(gravity does that I hear) the mage will get the trapped between the
proverbial FAB-net and Mother Earth and which will cause "forced
interaction" between the net's aura and that of the mage. I don't
believe that this would damage the mage however. Cause EXTREME pain?
Sure. But this is not just a case of a net cutting into a mage....it is
the interaction of 2 auras which, if it were to cause damage, would
damage BOTH of the auras involved and the rules specifically state that
an astrally projecting mage cannot in any way affect the physical plane.
Of course, while he is trapped under the net, he can't get back to his
own body and can start taking damage and eventually die that way, but not
directly from the net itself. In the case of the FAB-club, if the astral
entity were able to move freely, then the club would just puch him out of
the way...there is nothing forcing the interaction of the auras and thus,
the living aura takes precedence, and moves the mage. OTOH, if the mage
is trapped under a net and is hit with a club, then again it will cause
pain but not any damage, because then BOTH auras would be taking damage
and that is not possible.
chris
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