| From: | Jordan findlerman@*****.com |
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| Subject: | fox special: when MetaBeings attack! |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:44:39 -0800 (PST) |
> have this obnoxious way of ignoring rules to further a story
True, it was just the first example that came to mind. Though, i
don't think that the author thought that the mage twitching would
further the plot line.
> Sure, but all you'd be recording would be the gross muscle
> movements (which RAS overrides would take out anyway), the
"bleedthrough"
> of the signal that gets into the motor-control areas of the mage's
brain.
> To me, this represents that fact that the mage, in his or her moment
of
> panic, is losing control of his or her will, and is acting out of an
> "instinct" developed in a different envionment (i.e. the real
world). If
> something jumps out at you, you duck. By the same token, if you're
> concentrating really hard on trying to smack a guy in astral space,
maybe
> you arm twitches as your brain gets momentarily confused about
"which" arm
> you're moving (the real one or the astral one). But this doesn't
change
> the fact that the stimuli that caused that arm to twitch don't get
> recorded.
> So the audience would feel like they were having an epileptic
> seizure, not like they were in astral combat. Not what you'd call a
> box-office hit.
>
You missed the point entirely....maybe I wasn't clear enough. It
isn't that they twitch, it is that there is something there to *make*
them twitch, which the brain responds to. INPUT! From the astral
body, to the meat-bod's brain. This could be recorded. Side note:
Mage's don't have RAS, that would require cyberware in a mage, which
no one would ever do... :)
--Fin
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