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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Stripping Spell Locks (was Re: Magicians)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:23:49 +0100
David Buehrer said on 7:00/11 Dec 96...

> Question: if you kill a mage with an active spell lock, how
> do you strip the spell lock off of him? I don't think you
> can, because when the lock is active it isn't present in
> the real world, and only the mage it was bonded to can turn
> it off.

Not quite. Any magician can remove a spell lock, upon which "the link is
broken and the lock goes dormant" (SRII page 138).

> One could argue that the bond is broken when the mage dies,
> but if the bond is broken when the mage is killed, does the
> lock materialize in the real world, or does it go floating
> off into astral space?

IMHO spell locks are deactivated when the person they're bonded to, dies.
That would make them visible to the mundane eye again.

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