How to create your own no-chamber, the Dune-savy know what I'm talking about Options

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

not if your plan is to have look for astral activity, without tipping said activity of that someone is looking...

in other words, lucifer lamp light is dual natured, and would be the equivalent of turning on a flashlight in a darkened room to look for a security guard you hope to sneak by...

Well, sure, but the fluff says lucifer lamps work like insect light traps for spirits. They all go "ooo, shiny-shiny light". So it would be like dropping a hustler magazine in front of a bored guard (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[hobgoblin]

Well, sure, but the fluff says lucifer lamps work like insect light traps for spirits. They all go "ooo, shiny-shiny light". So it would be like dropping a hustler magazine in front of a bored guard (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

to bad going for a choke hold on a spirit is somewhat pointless...

still, now i have the mental image of rolling a blinking blue led thru a room of geeks...

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

to bad going for a choke hold on a spirit is somewhat pointless...

still, now i have the mental image of rolling a blinking blue led thru a room of geeks...

Well, if it is a chokehold, then you are screwed already, unless there is some kind of cover you can use to pass the spirit, otherwise it will see you anyway.

[Mongoose]

A background count will make astral tracking harder. Haven lillies are tailor made for this, but you could also find a hideout in an area with a "natural" BG count, or create one yourself with an Astral Static spell, metamagic, or maybe even by some "emotionally intense" activity. One time when we had a chatracter who knew he was being targeted by ritual magic / tracking, he went to mass in a cathedral. It also happened to0 be x-mass eve, so... yeah, that worked pretty well.

IIRC, magical lodges also have a similar effect (due to creating a ward, perhaps). I think a mundane can buy and set up a magical lodge, could be wrong. FAB walls and such are probably cheaper and faster anyhow.

Faraday cages don't need to be grounded. If you completely encase your cellphone in tin foil (you may need double or triple layering to prevent "leaks") and put it on a rubber mat, then try calling it, it won't ring. Try it. Its clearly not grounded, but the tinfoil acts as a Faraday cage.

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

A background count will make astral tracking harder. Haven lillies are tailor made for this, but you could also find a hideout in an area with a "natural" BG count, or create one yourself with an Astral Static spell, metamagic, or maybe even by some "emotionally intense" activity. One time when we had a chatracter who knew he was being targeted by ritual magic / tracking, he went to mass in a cathedral. It also happened to0 be x-mass eve, so... yeah, that worked pretty well.

IIRC, magical lodges also have a similar effect (due to creating a ward, perhaps). I think a mundane can buy and set up a magical lodge, could be wrong. FAB walls and such are probably cheaper and faster anyhow.

Faraday cages don't need to be grounded. If you completely encase your cellphone in tin foil (you may need double or triple layering to prevent "leaks") and put it on a rubber mat, then try calling it, it won't ring. Try it. Its clearly not grounded, but the tinfoil acts as a Faraday cage.

Well, I don't know about background count, don't they make wizzos and adepts feel uncomfortable? Also, if the background is generated by the same tradition, wouldn't it give a bonus instead of a penalty for a tracking mage of the same tradition?

[hobgoblin]

Well, if it is a chokehold, then you are screwed already, unless there is some kind of cover you can use to pass the spirit, otherwise it will see you anyway.

sorry, it was a poor attempt at a metal gear solid joke (IMG:style_emoticons/default/embarrassed.gif)

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

sorry, it was a poor attempt at a metal gear solid joke (IMG:style_emoticons/default/embarrassed.gif)

Don't worry, I don't know much about Metal Gear except that you can use cardboard boxes to hide from people. Walks with wifi even quoted me on his signature about this.

[Dixie Flatline]

Yes the cage does need some form of grounding to operate, but it isn't all that difficult to ground something. I'm sure any electronic engineer worth anything could figure out how to ground the cage in a car.

I suppose you could create a capacitor/battery system of sorts to store up a charge when moving for a coffin-sized solution that needed a momentary discharge every few hours. Otherwise you literally need something to discharge the current into, and the more grounded the path is, the faster it discharges. Wireless is a light enough current that you could probably discharge into the metal frame of a van if you had a cage-on-wheels setup going.