The original situation was somebody dealing with a surprise drone. Not necessary to bind a spirit if you're just summoning it quickly. Hell, if you're being attacked by a drone, then I doubt you have time to gather resources and bind the spirit. If you want to pre-bind it, then you should have plenty of time beforehand to recover from the drain.

Unless, of course, the Spirit Spends Edge to resist the Summons, which a Force 9 Spirit is likely to do.

Oops, my bad. I'm at work and obviously not thinking strait.

The truth of that statement depends on your table consensus.

At my table, it`ll depend on the spirit, and the magician. And is also why I sadle most of my summoning NPC`s with Spirit Affinity for whatever spirit they are most likely to summon often. Gives me a (point spent) reason to not bother making them resist the edge if I feel the PC`s are controlling the situation a little too well...

Do Powerball and Powerbolt not affect drones?

Only if you beat the OR first. They are Direct spells

Just occured to me that maybe it would be possible to levitate them into an electrical light fitting, which might screw them up.

Barely, I say. The amount of current in there might be worth an effective 3 damage (or an effective threshold of 3 for the body+armour test, if that), before a combat drone mows you down with it's likely firearm.

Electrical shielding sees to be pretty popular on the drones I've seen in SR games.




-k

Which is another good reason not to try it.

Yeah, I prefer an Inferno Missile/Rocket Warhead myself. Really hard to miss with one of those, and the 1/2 Armor rating is awesome. Damage isn't too bad either. "Now your cooking with... Napalm."

Yeah, I forgot you guys have to manage with a wimpy 110 volts.

Same basic amperage.





-k