From:	Nexx3 <Nexx3@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Prometheus Unbound (was Re: Astral Magic)
Date:	Wed, 20 May 1998 00:18:41 EDT

Actually, I was doing some thinking. I think space fold could be made
instantaneous, and wouldn't have that big of a cost (aside from the ritual
elements... at least, not as far as a megacorp is concerned.

The GGD, as we know, didn't measure drain in terms of fatigue or even health
levels. It measured it in terms of deaths. Now then, one of these bright-boy
mages just happened to stay awake through biology long enough to realize that
they were dealing with things that were alive, therefore possessing some
measure of astral presence. He also learned, once he got out of college, that
his corp could gene-engineer samples to be astrally active. This bright boy
does some figuring, and starts playing around with an idea for teleportation
(like his bosses want... any way possible).

This mondo ritual is actually a form of space fold (if you don't know what
that is, skip the rest of this... use the time to read A Wrinkle in Time...
tessering is space fold). Now, since the deaths that are brought about to
suffer the drain must be active in the ritual, he designs, in the spell
formula, a way for them to be integral parts of the ritual. The result is
that he (along with his fellow magicians, who willl hate him for coming up
with this and making them look bad) can tesser some(one/thing) to any location
that he either has a ritual link to or has a member of the team spotting for
him.

Now, how to make space fold instaneous. Normal space fold just makes you go
really face compared to normal, non-folded space. What you do in this case is
fold space very tightly, so points A and B are about half a meter apart for
the purposes of this spell. The subject shifts his weight to the foot at
point B, and the magician stops sustaining the spell. With a jolt, the
subject is at his destination. Since space is folded, not shrunk, he
simultaneously exists at points A and B until the spell is no long sustained..
then he's only at point B.

Did that make any sense whatsoever?

Nexx