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From: Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject: Re: Mysticism
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 10:49:25 -0700
| >2) The Naming of Names.
| > Powerbolt? Wrecker? Control Actions? I understand that many
pioneering
| >magicians were hermetic corporates, but what about the pioneering
GhostDance
| >shamans. Surely these two rather diverse groups would have come up with
| >different ways of utilizing their Magic not to mention what they would
call
| >these expressions.

Now this I wasn't too worried about because we had been renaming spells
since day one, but the way they were in the book were clear and descriptive
and therefore useful.

| Actually, I think it would be cool for it to be revealed that all the
names
| that we see in the books are the "street names" for the spells, and have
| someone rattle off corporate and tribal names for them in a Shadowland
| posting, ridiculing the pomposity of the spell names...

This however I like!!!!

-Caric

"If a man talks in the forest, and there isn't a woman around to hear him,
is he still wrong?"

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