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From: John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Anchoring
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:05:21 EST
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:52:28 -0500 Midn Daniel O Fredrikson
<m992148@****.NAVY.MIL> writes:
>Has anyone actually used anchoring to any extent? If so, how?
Not me, haven't had the chance, yet.
>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?
You don't bond an anchoring focus (by the book, that is...it's created
like a fetish, and is used only to reduce the target number for
anchoring)
>Are anchored objects foci's or are they somehow different?
They're different...I think....I know that anyone (even a mundane) can
use an anchored spell (but only the spell-tossers can cast them), but
only a magician can make use of a spell lock...
>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?
>
Depends what you're being pusued by:) If all the pursuant wanted was to
get the anchored spell (and either doesn't care or can't perform ritual
sorcery:), then you're safe-if it was an enemy mage, thenyou're probably
in deeper stuff now than you were to begin with:)

John Pederson "God is dead"
lobo1@****.com -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 to
1900)
I don't know where my home page is! "Nietzsche is dead"
Only dead fish swim with the stream -God (everlasting to everlasting)

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