From:	Timothy P Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Anchoring
Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:30:02 -0800

>
> Has anyone actually used anchoring to any extent? If so, how?

I've done a little along the way to creating "magic weapons" that the PC's found
on some long and ardurous trek through the wilderness.

> Can the karma cost for an anchoring foci or what ever you call it be
> decreased by the use of more oracharium like other foci can?
>
> Are anchored objects foci's or are they somehow different?
>
> What good is dropping an archored object to stop pursuit if the archored
> object can always act as a material like back to the magician?

In some cases...the object won't survive the activation of the anchored spell...
Like, oh say that time delayed, Detect Person-triggered Flame Bomb...

If your creative they can be very useful. (note, the above are not
characteristic of "creative" uses...just ones I remembered using)

~Tim