| From: | David Buehrer dbuehrer@******.carl.org |
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| Subject: | Simsense and Astral Perception |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:48:21 -0700 (MST) |
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/ > Sims involving magical plotlines always use special effects for
/ > astral sequences, because astral perception just don't show on the
/ > recording.
/
/ Okay, all of this taken for the rules they are currently, a question comes to
/ the front?
/
/ Why Not?
/
/ My reasoning behind this is simply, ASIST has to do with recording sensations
/ and translating them into a representable medium. It is recording an "event"
/ (such as the events that may actually be transpiring in astral space a
/ magician is viewing), it is recording the "perceptual sensations" of the
/ magician who is doing the perceiving.
/
/ Personally, humility aside, the reason for this is simply to create a "cut and
/ dry" ruling concerning magical/matrix interaction.
I don't think so K :)
IMHO when a person is perceiving astrally they are almost, but not
quite, projecting astrally. Their preception of the astral plane is
being made by their astral form, not their physical form. Because they
haven't projected astrally, they are able to retain their physical
perceptions. This is also explains why a person who is astrally
perceiving is dual natured.
The simsense rig can't record the astral perception because it isn't
being experienced on the physical plane, it's being experienced on the
astral plane where the simsense rig doesn't exist.
I don't think it's a cut and dried rulling. I think it's an attempt to
maintain consistency with SR magic theory.
-David B.
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