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[Marwynn]

Take a Ghoul (please).

Will it simply "know" that something is a spell as it perceives astrally? Phantasm (not Trid Phantasm), for example, is a multi-sense Mana spell which I assume includes sound and smell (since Ghouls are blind) as well as the unnecessary visual stuff.

If a mage creates say a crowd of metahumans (bait) with the appropriate sounds and smells, but casts it astrally, would Ghouls sense this mundanely by the noise and their scents? Astrally they'd see the spell, they need to succeed in an Assensing test. Plus, can't create auras either.

Phantasm says that make one Spellcasting test and use the hits scored as the threshold to resist it. Does this apply to Assensing too?

What of Extended Masking?

Just thinking up of ways of getting past hordes of Ghouls without emptying a few (dozen) clips. (And yes, Levitating did enter my mind. Assuming they're all hand-to-hand that is.)

My current thought is using Physical Mask to look like a Ghoul, Mask to pretend to be a dual-natured Ghoul all the time, with a few spells hidden by Extended Masking.