| From: | Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: More thoughts about clones and magic |
| Date: | Tue, 19 May 1998 21:15:11 -0700 |
> Last night I posted an idea about a teleport spell using
> clones, and that lead me to think about something else. You
> can use DNA like a blood sample, skin, or hair as a ritual
> link. Now what if the target of the ritual has a clone? Since
> this clone's DNA is an exact replica of the target's, what
> happens to the ritual spell? Does it affect the target, the
> clone, or both simultaneously?
Ritual magic still targets a person's *aura*, not genes; the genetic
material simply gives an insight as to an individual's aura. Although
genetically identical, the two clones would have different auras - just
like real-life twins have slightly different experiences that does
indeed make them different people.
I think it'd be a pretty cool game effect if there were two people who
'shared an aura'; although a spell might not ground through both of them
simultaneously, there might be sympathetic or reverberent effects.
You'd have lots of weird mojo if this thing happened on a more general
level, though. Remember that iedntical twins are 'clones', genetically
speaking; not to mention that cloning happens on a commercial level in
SR - you'd not only hellblast the target, but fry the bio-liver implant
DocWagon was growing for him :)
Two final nails in the coffin:
To my understanding, clones can't become fully viable human beings, so
you couldn't just have them walk out into the crowd. Maybe have them
wheeled out in wheelchairs?
Also, you should be able to see *everybody* in the crowd (some a bit
more indistinctly than others) and so you wouldn't have to worry about
grounding through clones. Regardless of that their aura looks like, if
they're out of the area of effect in the astral, they're not going to be
affected by the spell - so no grounding out through them.
Interesting idea of similar auras, though - something I've been mucking
about with myself, with no great outcome.
- Matt
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