| From: | Waffelmeisters <evamarie@**********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Multi-target rituals |
| Date: | Tue, 26 May 1998 14:33:06 -0500 |
> Okay, a dance through the craze haze of memory here....
>
> Each of the site teams were supposed to go through a series of steps to
> "trigger" the materials, which was kept in a "medicine bag" with
each team.
> Striper and the Thief had one, and it described the thief going through the
> motions after they beat the one thing or two in their way.
>
OOOOOH, NOW I remember.
> My thinking was the motions/dust were one set of establishing triggers that
> would set off a particular "astral signature" which the "ritual"
that Sam and
> the others were performing would recognize and literally "ground out" the
> desired effects. THAT is what I am getting at with "grounding out to multiple
> targets". There is some particular triggering mechanism or "astral
flare"
> that a given ritual responds to.
>
Well, for ritual sorcery, you don't have to "ground" anything, but I
think you are right on the "signature" bit- if something can be a ritual
link to you (and usually items you enchant can), then I'd say you can
link to them for ritual sorcery. The gestures and such may have been
similar to the "activation link" used by anchors- not that that would be
needed for anchors, but only active foci are links, and Novels tend to
blur such fine distinctions.
The timing may have been a litlle funny (was there time allowed after
the use of the powder to form links and do the sending?), but hey, its a
ghost dnace, right?
> I am sorry, I know what I am trying to say, I am just not finding the words
> for it right now...
Seemed clear enough.
-Mongoose
