From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: An Opposing View (Re: SR3 Magic Terms)
Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 1997 03:35:43 -0800

Ereskanti wrote:

> > wards that you're not the type of thing they're set to stop, convincing
> > spirits using Search power that you're not what you are... This ability
> > makes a whole lot of magic useless when used against such a character.

> Yes, but you are also NOT considering the reverse of the effects. Redesigning
> wards to be "smarter", connecting their energies in association with
spiritual
> or elemental energies, interlacing them with spells directly. Or even, gasp
> at this one, connecting the ward to a magician's own mind giving it a chance
> to notice things in much the same way that a Rigger now uses CCSS to monitor a
> site.

This is an example of, ah, not thinking things out, Keith. Given that a
"cloaked" Magician -- one using Masking to turn his aura into a potted
plant -- is 'invisible' to the mage, hooking that mage up to a ward
(which similarly won't pick up on the cloaked mage) affects nothing.

Oh, it's still a nifty idea, just not in this particular example.

"spiritual or elemental energies" is just talking around the problem:
the assumption so far is that the Aura *is* spiritual or elemental
energy, or a reflection thereon, so trying to 'uncloak' someone by
studying their spiritual/elemental energy is the same as trying to
Assense someone in the first place.

Other arguments (and expressions of ego) snipped thoroughly.


-Mb