From:	Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Matrix awakening
Date:	Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:36:51 -0800

On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Gurth wrote:

> The Digital Mage said on 14:19/ 6 Dec 96...
>
> > Well both Ehran and Harlequin appear to teleport at the end of
> > Harlequin....
>
> If you have (access to) the Earthdawn Companion, look at page 113. A
> character with rank 15 Lightbearer talent gets the Astral Shift ability,
> allowing him to enter astral space completely, and emerge from it
> virtually at will (there are a few range and time limits). If the
> lightbearers knew how to do this, it stands to reason that others also had
> similar abilities.
>
> --
> Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html

I've never read much beyond the ED rule book, but that "Astral Shift"
thing was pretty much what I imagined an SR equivalent spell would do..
simply (or not so simply as the case may be..) pull your *whole* body
(meat and mind) into astral space..fly a bit at (magic x 1,000 km per,
what was it? second? action? hour? I forget..) high speed then pop back
out.

~Tim