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 Apr 27 2010, 11:56 PM
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QUOTE (Draco18s @ Apr 27 2010, 07:27 PM)  Loved that one. That's about how it goes when my grandmother needs computer help over the phone. "It's not working." "What isn't working?" "The computer. "What part of the computer isn't working?" "The whole thing!" Aaaand it turns out someone changed her font on word, or her screen resolution or something. |
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Apr 28 2010, 02:41 AM
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QUOTE (Karoline @ Apr 27 2010, 07:56 PM) Loved that one. That's about how it goes when my grandmother needs computer help over the phone. My grandfather is like that only he thinks he knows how to fix it, so he unplugs everything. Ah la http://xkcd.com/349/ |
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Apr 28 2010, 09:09 PM
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QUOTE (Catadmin @ Apr 27 2010, 06:23 PM) My thinking is that sure your mage can send a mental image of the target to the spirit, based on a photo. But what if the target is disguised in some way? How does that help the spirit find him or her? If the mage doesn't know the person aside from a picture, the mage has no way of transmitting that extra info to the spirit and therefore the spirit can totally miss the person. A simple wig would probably do it. It's not like the spirit can track that person by his astral essence just from a photo image, after all. They can if you take an astral photo of someone and then allow them to assense it, although that involves them sitting still for several minutes |
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Apr 28 2010, 09:20 PM
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QUOTE (Patrick the Gnome @ Apr 28 2010, 05:09 PM) They can if you take an astral photo of someone and then allow them to assense it, although that involves them sitting still for several minutes I don't know, can you read auras from an astral photo? I don't know that a still image like that (with no astral presence) would be assensable for an astral signature. |
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Apr 28 2010, 09:34 PM
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QUOTE (Karoline @ Apr 28 2010, 04:20 PM) I don't know, can you read auras from an astral photo? I don't know that a still image like that (with no astral presence) would be assensable for an astral signature. Not a normal photograph, no. But if you have a picture taken with a Quicksilver Mana Sensitive Film Camera (pg 67 Arsenal) you can assense the photograph and use Search. |
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Apr 28 2010, 11:29 PM
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QUOTE (Patrick the Gnome @ Apr 28 2010, 05:34 PM) Not a normal photograph, no. But if you have a picture taken with a Quicksilver Mana Sensitive Film Camera (pg 67 Arsenal) you can assense the photograph and use Search. Yeah, knew a normal photograph didn't work, but wasn't sure if the quicksilver just took a picture of the astral, or actually provided enough information to assense from (Since the photo is just a regular photo which has no astral presence). Reading the rules, you can assense from a quicksilver photo, but the threshold is 2 greater. In other words, since you can't see the changing and such of the aura, it is alot harder to glean anything from it. Also, with a 30 minute exposure time, you're not generally going to shoot anything that doesn't want to be shot. Still, given that the photos can be duplicated and everything, I would imagine that companies would keep a store of them for their higher up people for astral tracking purposes. |
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Apr 28 2010, 11:39 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
You know what? Nevermind.
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