See also: a syndicate run pig farm

Very interesting responses, so fix or shape flesh would be most appropriate. Sounds good. Although were is this shape flesh spell you speak of? I never heard of it, or missed it, what book is it in?

Shape Flesh is a member of the Shape [Material] spell family, found in Street Magic. It allows one to alter the shape of a given material within an area in any way the caster desires at a set rate. Each material has its own spell, though according to spell design rules there should also be a version of Shape without a target limitation.

HentaiZonga, that's actually a brilliant use for the Fashion spell.

I've got a better one.

Step one: Have the Sam cut the body open.

Step two: Have the Sam wrap himself up in the corpse (this will get a little messy, but only for a minute). Bonus points if you cut off the head and wear it as a hat.

Step three: Have the Sam invoke the Sacred Words of Enabling: "Hey, Look! He's a Jacket! Cast Fashion on me, quick!"

Step four: Sam and Mage skip out into the neon glow of the street-lights, whistling hand-in-hand, with the Sam enjoying his new leather trenchcoat.

shape flesh . . let enemeies eyes grow a layer of non see through flesh over them? O.o close their mouth and nose and have them suffocate? O.o peel back flesh and skin from fingers and watch them scream as the weapons cut into their raw nerve endings?
and i like the fashion thing *g*

Now we're in the realm of the Vicissitude discipline from Vampire the Masquerade. I thought this was a Shadorun forum???

Given that the rules go out of their way to avoid sustained spells that deal continuous damage over time, I'd say that the potential for Shape [Material] variants to be used on living critters, characters, and vehicles was an unintended oversight and that Shape [Material] should not have any effect on these three classes of being, leaving Shape Flesh useful for playing with corpses but not for killing people.

Why did you include vehicles in there? Cyberzombie?

And why would shaping a tank be any different then shaping an unwielded armor plate which would have been attached to the tank's surface? I can't see how mana would/could tell the difference?

Because the armor was designed for the tank by a metahuman with intent, and it was welded onto the tank by a metahuman with intent, and the tank is piloted by a metahuman with intent, who calls it 'my tank' (or even 'Martha', if he intuitively grasps the power of Names) and who declares in his essence that Martha includes this slab of armor, and not that one.

That's how magic works.

But if we shape it just a little at a time....

And I can now offer a new new "Bonus Round" for any of my runners who decided to use their enemies as a fashionable hat.

To split a tank, would require the Force be high enough for the weight of the Tank... The mage that can do that, I'm not going to tell him no.
But otherwise if its a crafted object, apply the object resistance to the threshold as well. Just some ideas to prevent them from shaping vehicles.

Because the armor was designed for the tank by a metahuman with intent, and it was welded onto the tank by a metahuman with intent, and the tank is piloted by a metahuman with intent, who calls it 'my tank' (or even 'Martha', if he intuitively grasps the power of Names) and who declares in his essence that Martha includes this slab of armor, and not that one.

That's how magic works.

"This is my most favorite gun... I call her Vera"
Jayne, Our Mrs. Reynolds

Because the armor was designed for the tank by a metahuman with intent, and it was welded onto the tank by a metahuman with intent, and the tank is piloted by a metahuman with intent, who calls it 'my tank' (or even 'Martha', if he intuitively grasps the power of Names) and who declares in his essence that Martha includes this slab of armor, and not that one.

That's how magic works.