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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Sustained spells and familliars
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:44:22 +0100
Flo said on 19:19/29 May 97...

> For casting he must be manifest (or how do you cast spells on humans???)
> Sustaining them he can bolt of in Astral Space!
> (Its a house rule!)

Probably, though SR doesn't say much about ally spirits sustaining spells
at all, so almost anything would be a house rule.

Anyway, if I were you I'd take another look at that house rule.
(Meta)human magicians can't do that trick -- if a magician casts a spell,
(s)he must drop it when shifting to astral projection. Astral perception
is fine, but projecting interrupts the spell (see Spell Duration, SRII
page 128).
You can of course reason that a spirit is much more familiar with astral
space and magic, allowing it to sustain a spell even while shifting
completely to the astral plane.

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