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From: Caric <caric@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: speaking about spirit p
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:59:57 -0700
This is not my biggest problem with Alienation though. Just what can it be
used for it says in the book that it is not meant to be bennificial for the
one on whom it is cast so the runners shouldn't be using it on themselves.
But like I said before if you use it on an opponent what's to stop him from
following you home and waiting till the power wears off then calling in to
home base to report your whereabouts. And if there is something then the
power becomes too powerful.

Well the Shaman that alienated the cop should know where he is...I mean
after all it is his spirit. Basically we use it as a double standard. The
affected person cannot physically alter anything, he cannot act on the
world, but the world can act on him. He can get hit by a bullet, but he
cannot hit a bullet. Its all a question of who/what initiates the contact.


GM : There are 12 sec guards in the hall ahead of you what do you do ?
Shaman : I tell the force 3 hearth spirit I summoned a few minutes ago to
alienate as many as I have tasks left for (Free Action give spirit a
command). Then summon another hearth spirit force 3 (Complex action).

I thought it was a simple action to command a spirit (could be wrong
though)

By the end of the shaman's second action as many as 9 of those guys are
likely to be alienated. I did just think of 1 marginal use for it. Alienate
a guy with a serious wound he'll likely die of blood loss before the power
wears off. but other than this I can't see why someone would use this
power.
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It is a resisted power isn't it?

~Caric

"All the world's indeed a stage, we are mearly players.
Performers and portrayers. Each anothers audience,
outside the gilded cage." -Rush
caric@*******.com

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