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From: Lorden <westln@***.EDU>
Subject: Astral mage hit by a biker
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:00:53 -0400
Appologizes if you see this twice.

I'm fairly new to GMing but I had a problem come up last weekend
that is just not covered and was wondering how other would
handle it.

A PC Mage manifested infront of a speeding go ganger. He was
trying to get him to swerve and have an accident. The ganger
failed his perception and drove right through the mage. Since
the mage was astral nothing happened to the biker. What should
have happened to the mage?

The player thought since he was astral and could not effect the
biker it would be as if the mage had no mass and was just
bounced out of the way. I accepted that and to his surprised
bounced him from the Barrens to the slopes of Mt. Reiner.

It took him a while to figure out where he was and head back to
the barrens to start searching for his body. You see his body
was in the van following the biker. After checking the rules on
finding your body, we figured that a watcher has a better chance
of finding it than he did. So he summoned a watcher and followed
it back to his body.

My questions are:
What should of happened to the mage hit by the biker?
Can a projecting mage summon a watcher?
What would you have done differently?
Also can a projecting mage or shamon summon anything while
projecting?

--
Nigel westln@***.edu
AKA C. Yossarrian, UPAC Projectionist
AKA Lorden
Speaking for myself, and no one else.

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