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From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: Re: Summoning Spirits
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 20:22:57 -0500
At 10:55 AM 9/4/96 +0100, Gurth wrote:
>GRANITE said on 23:40/ 3 Sep 96...
>
>> Oh yea..here is a little wrench in the works for you..If a mage is
trapped in
>> one of these FB rooms..Can he/she still summon a watcher or
>> elemental/spirit??? Does the mage still have acess to those planes of
>> existance?? even though he/she cannot even leave the room????
>
>No, but not for any "access to those planes of existance" reasons. You
>just can't summon spirits of any kind unless you are inside your own body.
>Period. (This, BTW, is from Awakenings.)

Um, where in Awakenings is this? I've just checked through the books [SR2,
Grimmy, Awakenings] and I can't find anything prohibiting summoning while in
astral. The closest thing I could find was on p 140 in the main book about
summoning elementals. [the initial conjuring takes place on the physical
plane, but once the elemental is bound, it can be called to serve by
spending a Complex Action].

After all, if you can attempt to banish a spirit while you are astral, why
not be able to summon a spirit in the astral plane?

-Thomas Deeny
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