| From: | Iridios iridios@********.net |
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| Subject: | Mages and spirts, take 2 |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:42:54 -0400 |
> >After reading all the responses to my last post on the mage with the
> >spirit posse, I've got some other questions that I've had for awhile but
> >never got around to asking.
> >
> >1) Can an elemental be asked to manifest around an NPC directly from
> >astral space?
> >
>
> I believe that an astral being cannot pass through a living creature, hence
> FAB and ivy-clad mage houses.
That is no longer the case. Astral beings (including projectors) can
pass through living beings unless said beings are dual nature. In
other words, an astral projector cannot pass through astrally active
living creatures but can pass through just about anything itself.
This changed with the release of SR3 I believe.
> >
> >4) How hard is it for an elemental to find someone? I've read the rules
> >but it seems a bit easy. Case in point: last run was to retrieve a soil
> >sample from a desert island in the Pacific. PC sends an air elemental out
> >to do it for him. Run circumvented.
I, personally, would not have allowed that unless the runner had been
to the island himself sometime in the recent past. Without having
been there and gotten an "astral signature" of the island, how do you
describe to an air elemental where to find Kapa Kanui (totally made up
name)? And even if you can get the elemental there, which soil sample
would it pick up? Islands, particularly Pacific Islands IIRC, are the
results of volcanic events, and an older island may have as many as
three or four different types of soil. How would an *air* elemental
tell them apart?
> A lot of nasty things can happen to a lone elemental out in the big blue...
Or perhaps this particular soil sample has the unique ability of being
"deadly" to air elementals. :)
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