From:	Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject:	(no subject)
Date:	Sun, 08 Aug 1999 01:06:38 -0300

"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Arcady."
] Hello;
]
] Several people have repeatedly mentioned something in past about going
] after a mage or a mage's foci via some kind of thing having to do with
] 'grounding' and an astral presence or something...
]
] I've been spending the weekend priming up my knowledge of the magic rules
] and this phrase is confusing me. What exactly are these people referring to
] and where can I read up on it? Is it in SR3 or MitS and if so does anyone
] have a page number?
]
] Thank you.

The veterans are all talking about the glory days of yore, when
carrying around an active focus made you a prime target for some bored
ganger or Free Spirit to send an fireball through the focus to the
physical plane, destroying the focus, you, and your buddy Melvin, who
never hurt no-one (why, oh why).
2nd Ed. rules said you could, if you were in astral space, attack an
active focus with a spell. If the spell was physical, and area effect,
it could "ground" into the phyical plane, and BOOM, spell from nowhere.
Nasty stuff. They apparently got rid of it in 3rd Ed., as there's no
mention of it in SR3 or MitS.

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