| From: | John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Spelllocks.... |
| Date: | Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:43:12 EST |
writes:
>|By your own argument, both quickening and archoring would have the
>same
>|results, since they can increase an attribute or reaction or hold a
>spell
>|without the magician having to worry about sustaining it...
>
>Think of foci as a drug, and quickenings as natural endorphins....
>
>Drugs are not a part of the person, so can be addictive.
>Quickenings and Anchorings are just an extention of the mages power.
>No articficial additives, so to speak...
<snip .sig>
Actually, I think the difference is that the karma spent on Quickenings
and Anchorings allows them to be used on/by other people, independent of
the mage, once they are created. IOW, you can have a mage Quicken a spell
to someone or Anchor a spell to something, once the Karma is paid for
it/them, he is no longer needed to make use of the spell...Foci, OTOH,
are bonded to the individual mage, ie only he can use them (I don't think
that's entirely true with Spell Locks, but...). Foci *are* separate
entities from the mage, like an anchoring or quickened spell, but they
are dependent upon the mage (or a mage) to make them work...they are
entities which are dependent upon the mage for use-if someone else wanted
to use a mage's focus, they'd have to be magically active AND they'd have
to bond it to them. If someone else wishes to make use of a mage's
anchored spell, they'd just have to pick it up (so to speak-sometimes,
that'd get their @$$ blown off:) And a Quickening is considered to be a
separate, self-sustaining astral entity once the mage pays Karma to
sustain it-it has its own life force. Basically, focus addiction only
works for something which has to be bound to the user-neither anchorings
or quickenings do (as for spell locks, the lcoked spell can be used _on_
anyone, but only the mage who bonded the lock can turn it on or off:)
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