From:	Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Astral mage hit by a biker
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 1997 16:44:53 GMT

David Buehrer writes

> Gurth wrote:
> |
> | However, don't ask about what happens if the astral magician happens to
> | have been tied, with living vines or a FAB-filled tube, against a tree,
> | and then someone decides to punch him/her... :)
>
> That's easy. The universe folds in upon itself :)
>
> Seriously though, based on the rules, the absence of rules, and
> FASAMike's answer to the whole FAB debate, the tube would not pass
> through the mage's astral form, and the mage would be unharmed. As I
> understand it, the mage cannot exert force on the physical world, but
> the physical world can exert force on the mage. However, the mage's
> form will block a physical force if backed by another physical force
> (will support a FAB net if caught between a FAB net and the ground).
> Please note that this is conjecture, and not canon.
It agrees with my opinion at least, a mage caught on 'living' earth
by a FAB net is trapped and not squashed, but drop a ten ton blosk
with a fab coating on the base on the poor mage and you get mage
pancake same as if you did the same to the poor souls physical body.
This interpretaion has the advantage of making common sense not some
silly and incomplete set of arbitary rules applicable to resolving
wierd situations players manage to achieve :). Note splattering an
astral mage with your fab roller equipped steam roller should by
damage repercussion have a similar effect on his body, this could be
very gruesome for his poor team mates.

> The effects of
> extreme forces are implied in the sidebars (death of the mage), but
> IMO are at the discretion of each GM.
>
Agreed though i comment above on what i will use if it comes to it.
Hopefully i will never manage to get a mage in this situation but
considering the silly things players manage to do .....

Mark