From:	GRANITE <granite@**.net>
Subject:	Re: [SR2] physical damage from the astral
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:38:46 -0700

Ubiquitous wrote:
> Actually, there is a link, but you can't see it. Cf. "laws of repercussion"
> in the Grimoire(?).
>

How did you guys like the way I brought this topic up and then just sort
of dissappeared for a week?? Anyway, My point is/was this..There is a
conflict in the rules I never thought of before..In one place the rules
say there is no link to a person's body and thus an astral mage does not
know when his meat is damaged or moved or whatever..And then there is the
reflection of heavy damage suggesting that there is some sort of link
back to the mage's body..but how could that be if..ect..If there is a
link an astral mage should be able to use it in order to find his meat if
it gets moved..It is one of those you can't have it both way deals..I
kind of like the idea of all the physical damage manifesting as soon as
the astral form returns to it's body...But of course this isn't the way
it is written..

Loki said:
> Yes...my library tends to be in easy reach. It also helps when I
> can remember where I saw something...


So does mine..And everyone sure does like to reitterate a point around
here..

Gurth said part of this:
%> No link, huh... hmm, mind if I throw this fireball spell at your
%astral > form?
%I don't think people near the magician's physical body would like
that...

Only problem is the astra bridge needed to ground a spell is somewhere
else..The astral form, during astral projection, Leaves the meat behind
and goes elsewhere..Thus no spells could be grounded into the astral
form's meat body..Astral combat would however, occur...The only point
where this would be possible is when a mage is entering or leaving the
body and is still partly in contact with it..

Could a spell be cast on a body when the astral form is in absentia?? I
doubt it..It is kind of hard to sink with the aura when the astral form
is miles away..Of course I could be wrong...Well???
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