From:	bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject:	Re: Re[2]: Fat-bac
Date:	Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:41:27 -0500 (EST)

< 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.

Just what is the stun condition monitor for if not pain?
Wouldn't "extreme pain" cause a few boxes of damage on the condition monitor
chart?