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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: Cyberjunkies
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:12:34 -0400 (EDT)
At 11:29 PM 9/8/96 -0500, Steve wrote:

>>Err, I guess you all forgot that Physical Invisibility only allows machines
>>to be affected by the spell, right?
>
>Actually, since ultrasound isn't quite a mechanical means, I mean, the
>object is still there, it just doesn't register. Ahhh, we had quite a bit
>of debate over this, so we just decided that Ultrasound COULD pick it up...
>It was one of those things where it was questionable, so our GM made a
>choice...

Errr, that wasn't the point I was trying to make, actually.
Both invisibility and physical invisibility are useless against thermovision,
the only difference being the former will not conceal you from a security
camera while the later will.

Neither would help against ultrasound, IMHO, as it involves sounds, not vision.

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"I dyde shyte thre grete toordes." Fables of Aesop,
Caxton translation,
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