From:	MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Coffee beans vs. astral perception
Date:	Sat, 16 May 1998 16:54:42 -0400

Once upon a time, Gurth wrote;

>MC23 said on 13:15/15 May 98...
>
>> Are you implying that once you stick your astral head inside a box
>> of beans you can then see through them? It doesn't work that way.
>
>I'm implying that you can project through the beans, and when there's
>something hidden in there, you will spot it when you come across it,
>because there will be NO beans there...

But something else blocking vision. But it even notice that your
head would have to be immediately in front of it. In short the beans
would block the search as much as it would a physical search. That's why
it becomes a waste of magical resources. For a magician to poke around
long enough to find something a mundane could do it. That's my entire
point. Astral Projection is not a shortcut to finding the hidden goods.
It doesn't defeat a physical search and it doesn't defeat a magical one
but it doesn't make it any easier for a magical search either.
Now Detection spells are another subject entirely and that's what
really needs to be defeated.

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