From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Damion Milliken)
Subject:	magic resistance tests
Date:	Mon Sep 3 23:20:01 2001

Jane VR writes:

> >Exclusive Complex Action to summon a spirit. Simple action to summon a
> >spirit on stand by (or On Call, On Tap, whatever). I guess that's just
> >when you tell them to "wait for my call".
>
> I thought that was for mages and elementals?

Until you summon them spirits of all types exist on the metaplanes.
Summoning an elemental takes a number of hours equal to the Force, and
circles, and materials, and all that jazz. The elemental then appears in
astral space near you. Summoning a nature spirit takes an Exclusive Complex
Action, and the spirit then appears in astral space near you. Having a
spirit (of any type) hang around in astral space near you takes up a
service. This is rather moot with nature spirits, as they depart at sunrise
or sunset. But with elementals, it would suck. It takes no tasks to send a
spirit of any type back to its home metaplane. It then takes a Complex
Action to get it to appear in astral space near you again. This, obviously,
is most useful for elementals, in order to avoid wasting all your services
having them hang around all the time. When a spirit of any type is hanging
around in astral space near you, it takes a Simple action to order it to do
stuff.

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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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