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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: Re[SR2]: Fat-bac
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 19:30:22 -0400 (EDT)
At 03:04 PM 9/4/96 -0600, David wrote:
>Ubiquitous wrote:

>|Good explanation, but you never stated what the net would do (float in
>|air?). Doooh!
>
>No, because the mage's astral form can't affect the
>physical. But then you run into a problem because the net
>falls flat to the ground. The mage's astral form can't
>suspend the net in any way according to the rules. Now you
>have the mage's astral form completely flattened between
>the net and the ground. And if the mage can survive being
>flattened then he can squeeze free. Unless, being
>flattened like that causes really sucks and causes mind
>numbing pain that won't allow the mage to take any actions
>other than scream in horrific agony.
>
>I think that GMs will just have to make a house rule to
>handle some of the discrepancies. I'm leaning toward,
>"Astral beings pass through anything that exists purely on
>the physical and cannot interact with the physical." and
>Fat Bacteria doesn't exist.

That's exactly why I hate FAT; it breaks all the rules. :-(

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Caxton translation,
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