From:	Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Bug Extermination: How Did They Do That?
Date:	Thu, 8 May 1997 13:35:19 -0800

At 14:25 5/8/97 MST, Denzil Kruse wrote:
>>> Afterall..isn't the mage doing
>>>this??How do those force 10 fireballs get out of such a small hole???
>>
>>Spells are a lot smaller than spirits, IMO.

>The spell won't travel down the fiber optic cable. The cable only provides
>LOS, not a path for the spell. The spell will go straight to the target
>from the caster, whether he is looking through a periscope, fibeoptic cable,
>or a mirror. Thus, from inside the tank, a manipulation spell would hit the
>inside of the tank and fry the people within. A combat spell would hit. At
>least I think this is how it works, no books here. But I do recall the
>section on casting through mirrors in SRII under magic.

Given that a security mage can spellcast under similar conditions, I expect
that the spell (being an astral entity) would follow the fiber optic cable
simply because it wouldn't be able to go through the living wall directly.

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