From:	Airwasp <Airwasp@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Astral Magic (Re: New use for Masking)
Date:	Sat, 16 May 1998 10:28:09 EDT

In a message dated 5/15/98 5:49:40 PM !!!First Boot!!!, erikj@****.COM writes:

> But let's say I were to allow an aura to "shapechange." It would clearly
> have to be a cybermantic spell/ritual. That's the only thing I know of
> that could possibly alter an aura. And it would probably have lasting, and
> nasty, affects on the Target, such as ol'Wafflemeister's new magical flaws
> or something.
>
> But altering the size/shape of an aura or astral presence is simply not
> possible given SR's cosmology and the current "tech" levels of magic.

Eric, Keith is trying to talk about a spell which allows a mage to slip thru
barriers and other things which they can not pass through normally ("I'm not a
fatass, I'm big boned.").

There is nothing going on in a permanent basis, no cybermancy, no nothing
spectacular.

There is also a line I would like to paraphrase from either the Grimoire or
BBB, I can't remember which :

"This is all we know about magic, as time passes and the more we learn other
things will become available to us."

Translation ... have someone bother to do the research and the inspiration and
eventually someone will figure out a way to do something. Even squeezing thru
places an astral form could not get thru.

Mike