From:	Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject:	SR: FAB Question
Date:	Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:03:08 -0500

Hi there. This is probably the first of four messages you'll be getting
from members of the ShadowRN mailing list (this message is being posted to
the ShadowRN mailing list as well as to you). We've been having a week-long
discussion about Fat Bacteria from the Corporate Security Handbook and we've
come up with a few different theories about how FAB works (or doesn't work).

It all started when someone posted a question about a character having a
club filled with FAB and using the club to attack an astral mage (caught in
a FAB-Net). In the days that followed, dozens and dozens of messages were
posted regarding this, bringing up newer questions.

I think the questions we'd like answered are:

What happens when a motionless astral being standing on the Earth has a
non-magical living physical object (with an aura) placed on top of him?
Would the object's physical component be affected by gravity and pass
through the astral being? Would the aura of the astral being interact with
the aura of the object and the object appear to float in the physical plane?
Would the object's aura push the astral being out of the way?

Would swinging a club filled with FAB do any damage to a purely astral being?

Could an astral being, covered by a FAB-Net, attempt to untangle the net?

Is FAB astrally active? Is FAB dual-natured? Is FAB mundane?

And can we get an answer on Dybbuk's question in CorpSec (p 40): "If
somebody astral can't move or pass through something with physical mass, how
can an astral being travel through air filled with any bacteria?"

A few members of the ShadowRN list [myself included] will be sending you our
theories on this. We'd appreciate your time in reviewing them, then
answering the above questions.

Thanks,

Thomas Deeny