| From: | Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: A dissertation on the Flesh Chukker (LONG) |
| Date: | Tue, 12 May 1998 16:03:34 +0100 |
|First of all, chunks of flesh torn from someone certainly do have some
|sort of astral connection to that person; otherwise, said flesh wouldn't
|help with ritual magic, which it does.
But the same could be said for a pen that the target owned and loved for a
long peroid of time.
Neither as astrally active, and that is the crux of the argument EVERYONE is
trying to get through.
|Sure, you can tear chunks of flesh from a person. Sure, you can accelerate
|these chunks to pretty high velocities. The question is, will they hurt
|something in astral space? I'd argue no.
I concur. As do a lot of others.
|It has been suggested that an astral form can be 'destroyed' by crushing
|it between two astrally active objects. (Corporate Security Handbook)
|However, this is because the astral form has no place to escape to. If the
|astral form can escape, it is merely 'pushed' away from the physical
|object. The example given is of an astrally active net being dropped where
|a mage is astrally projecting; they'll either pass through the floor, or
|if the floor is astrally active (let's say it's completely covered with a
|magical mold), something really painful happens, and the mage dies. Or so
|some wage mage says... FASA has never stated in rules what happens.
I think you should look back in the logs, specifically looking for Mike
Mulvihill and the FAT debate.
|I'd argue that a piece of flesh, accelerated to high velocity, would not
|harm an astral entity. Instead, it would move it out of its way, in an
|extremely violent fashion; if it were a (meta)human projecting, they would
|be severly disoriented.
Considering the fact that a mage is capable of 0-1000mph in 1 second, I
don't think the disorientation would be all that bad.
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