QUOTE (Ranarion @ Nov 19 2010, 05:48 AM)
Could a familar with Spellcasting and Realistic Forum substitute a Group member without the rest of the Group noticing?
If any of the party is awakened, you're going to need a way to give your spirit impersonater Masking, so they can hide their aura.
There are a few ways to do this. The easiest is to initiate yourself, get masking and extended masking, and reason with your GM to let you give the Aura Masking power to your spirit. Aura Masking isn't normally a choice for ally spirits, but duplicates masking and extended masking, which you both have, so it makes sense to be able to use arcana to research it or something. After all, you made your familiar's formulae from scratch, anyway.
You could use the magician-spirit karma transfer ritual in street magic (it takes an hour per karma), give it enough karma, and then have it initiate and grab masking. Its a full Magician, it can do that.
You're -definitely- going to want to spend 2 karma on an alternate form, one that definitely looks like yourself.
Don't forget: All the social skills can be defaulted on. If your own social skills aren't great, a high force spirit can roll about the same number of dice as you.