From:	dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer)
Subject:	Re: Re[6]: [SR2]: Fat-bac -Reply
Date:	Fri, 6 Sep 1996 12:13:09 -0600 (MDT)

Steven A. Tinner wrote:
|
[snip: my take on astral/aura]
|
|That's the best explanation I've seen so far!

Thank you. I knew I could figure it out and when someone
made the comment about mass it clicked.

|Personally, I'm going with the unknown characteristic that allows it to trap
|astral beings, because it's useful, and because of the possible horror
|connection.

Ditto. <heh heh>

|I'm still not sold on allowing mages to alter their astral form.
|I allow one ideal expression, and that's it.
|The way I see it, a human would have a hard time idealizing their body as
|something other than human. If I allowed astral shapechanging at all, it
|would only be for initiates, and only with a serious willpower or
|sorcery test!

Oh I wouldn't allow them to consciously change their shape
or form, but I would allow outside forces to do so (getting
stuck between a living net and the ground). But once that
force is no longer exerting itself I would say that they
bounce back to their expressed form/shape.

-David

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