From:	MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Locking distant spells
Date:	Thu, 14 May 1998 16:08:44 -0400

Once upon a time, Brian Moore wrote;
>I'm looking for some opinions...
>
>My mage casts Invisibility on my buddy street sam and then locks the
>spell with a spell lock. My mage deactivates the lock (and therefore
>the spell) and carries around the lock. At a pre-arranged time, he
>activates the lock, which should activate the invisibility spell.

The Spell Lock would have to be on the Sammie. If the Spell Lock was
removed then the lock would be broken.

>Does it matter if my buddy street sam is halfway across town?
>(IMHO, the lock has to be with the spell on the street sam.)

The caster of the spell lock can activate/deactivate it at will. LOS
would have been nice but they never said it was needed.

>Where is the actual spell (for astral combat purposes)? Is it with
>my mage, the lock, the street sam, or some place in between?
>(IMHO, the spell is on the street sam.)

Spell locks have to be attatched to the target.

>If another mage wants to ground a spell through the lock, does he have
>to cast the spell on the focus (with my mage) or the spell (whereever
>that is)? (I think the rules say the focus.)

Grounds through the focus (which would have to be on the Sammie) or
use ritual magic on the magician through it. There is no grounding
through a spell.

>P.S. I do remember the FASA module where a shaman locks spells on 4
>people. I believe the locks stay with those people in the module.

It would because it has to be on the target of the spell.

>P.P.S. Can you get a Panther Assault Cannon through a metal detector
>by enchanting it to be a Spell Lock and activating it?

How does one wear a Panther Assualt Cannon? Spell locks have to be
worn.

>By the rules, it disappears from the physical world when active. (IMHO,
>that's a very stupid rule. Does anyone use it?)

I don't use that rule.

>How about a Panzer? How about the Renraku Arcology?

You definitely cannot wear either of those two.

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