Metamgical technique of Geomancy, enabling the discovery and manipulation of mana lines, as well as the discovery of potential sites of naturally occurring orichalcum. Requires Divining, Cleansing, Sensing, Astrology, Dowsing, and Gnu knows what else.

Metamagical technique used in cybermancy to enhance the magical "anchoring" of the spirit to the body.

Metamagical technique to "brace" an area, to help it resist against gaining astral pollution and a background count.

Metamagical technique(s) described as "ultra-effective centering techniques" for use with blood magic and cybermancy.

Metamagical technique similar to Invoking used to summon the WIld Hunt. May require the permanent drain of power foci.

Metamagical techniques used to create magical compounds.

Metamagical techniques of surveillance and concealment used by the Unseen.

Metamagical techniques used by Inuit and Aleut angatkuq to give tupilak ally spirits the powers of Accident and Fear.

Metamagical technique(s) that allow a being to physically move through natural earth, unknown anywhere except for the Mimis of Australia and Celedyr.

Ancient and bizarre metamagic, as well as twisted normal metamgics, used by teh Blood Mage Gestalt...to do that thing they do.

Absorbtion Like Spell Defense, but you absorb the energy of the incoming spell to pump up your next spell.

Anchoring Let's you hang spells that'll cast themselves later when triggered. Also, allows creation of Anchoring Foci.

Centering Use an artsy-fartsy skill to give your spells more power or lower drain, or make things easier magically.

Channeling Okay, you can let yourself get possessed by a Loa if you want, but I'm gonna Channel my Ally spirit, go Neo on you and Kick your ass!

Cleansing Cleans up temporary background counts.

Divining See into the future. Sorta.

Filtering Create a temporary spell matrix to overcome little things like massive astral pollution, mana warps, that sort of thing.

Invoking Call Great Form spirits. Impress your friends.

Masking Hide your aura. Hide your foci links.

Movement Some totems, you can learn this as a metamagical power.

Possessing Scout around on the astral, see somebody else astrally perceiving, and take up residence for a little while.

Psychometry Feel the impressions left from people touching things.

Quickening Permanently attach a spell.

Reflecting Like spell defense, but you can bounce the guy's spell back at him.

Sacrificing Blood magic: power spells, lower drain, summon blood spirits.

Sensing Feel the astral for miles around.

Severing To dispose of those nasty material links and do reverse ritual magic.

Shared Potency Lotsa suckers: one shadow spirit. Whatcha gonna do? Share the Potency!

Shielding Initiated Spell Defense. Make Shielding Foci.

Symbolic Linking Use a picture, voodoo doll, t-shirt, anything to use ritual magic on someone. May make symbolic link foci.

Tattoo Magic A version of Quickening, where you Enchant the inks and tattoo somebody and quicken the spell to the tattoo.

Smartass. Go read Corporate Download.

This reminds me: forgot to include Channeling Foci.

Once again AH, you address to impress... Any canonical page references for these inspiring tidbits?

Oh, and thanks by the by... I think I just came up with my PCs' next few runs...

Actually, Move Through Earth was first documented in Target: Awakened Lands, unless you want to get real technical and say the London Sourcebook, but that gets dicey.

AH

Danke, Sith Lord.

Sensing's from T:AL; Shared Potency is in Threats 2.

Completely unrelated except that I was thinking about Masking the other day and reading the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books, but is there a metamagical technique which allows 'inversion' of a spell such that it cannot be 'seen' in the astral plane?

(As always, apologies if I'm posting this question inappropriately...)

Kage

I don't know how true it is. Seeing that it is not on the list, but my GM says the Tir Ghosts' have a power to let them walk through walls and stuff, not just solid earth. So is it a power no one remembers, or just something the GM misinterpreted or made up to make us fear them?

GM made up. There is no such reference to any such ability in any English-language Shadowrun work.

As for Masking spells...I dinnae think you can. The best ye could do is hide the connections between Quickened and Anchored spells you cast and you...and even then I think they could get your astral signature.

Actually, Ancient History, I recall a mention somewhere of rumors that some people had magical techniques for passing through walls, and something else...

I am not 100% certain it was canon, though, but if it was, it was a post in a shadowland document or uch...

If you ever think of it, let me know...say, it wasn't in one of the issues of Shadowland, was it?

If Shadowland is the thing Adam makes, no. My GM doesn't have a computer and if there is something on the computer that is brought to his attention it is through me so I would know if it was there. He said it was in one of the books. He will not tell me where, I guess he fells he needs to hide it from me. I don't read the GM section in any of the books, or any of the adventures. So as far as I know it is in one of the adventures. I am just curious as to wether it exsists or not. If he invented it cool, if it is a canon metamagic, I am just wondering if a PC can learn it.

No, "White Jesus" Adam makes TSS. Shadowland was Ye Olde Shadowrunne Magazine under the aegis of FASA, most memorable for having the rules for Powered Armor.

's all a matter of perspective.

@ Snow Raven

It is in Target: Awakened Lands (cant get it at the moment) IIRC something about an Elf who guards? a cave, and "stood there, just like he walked right thru the walls".

Someone said to me, it is a Adept power from ED.

By the way: what about this Power Armor thing . Not that I want one

Well just in case.....

Bartholomäus - no, that was not it - I had completely missed that reference in T:AL

This is older - possibly SR2...

Ancient History - I'll try to look into it, see what I can dig up. And no, I doubt it was in Shadowlands or Ka•Ge - at first I thought it might be Mr.Kenson's article obn the Darmeo, but that wasn't it.

never mind this post, i'll start a new topic for it

The passing throught wall thing is not in T:AL my GM hasn't even read it yet. And I know it is not in anything but FASA/Fanpro thing because my GM doesn't have any of that stuff. I am still trying to get to reveal his source.

Ally's are bound, and those do not owe services. So you can channel at will. Booyah! Same goes for bound free spirits.

I also remeber reading somewhere, that there is a rumor about a technique to walk through walls, but I can't remember where....
but it wasnt in a Shadowland magazine, for sure.

*goes off and looks through his books*

Then I'd suppose we'll have to agree to diasagree, becaue I don't see their actions limitied by any number of "services" (eve an infinite number), so you can Channel them at will.

Then what do you call the thing they are doing when you order them to do something? I call it a service, or some synonym. The synonym isn't to try to avoid the concept of servitude.

Being bound does make them different from other spirits, but they are still providing services for you.

I don't like the idea of channelling a spirit that is always at hand and that doesn't disappear after the channelling. It's too much of a freebie.

Can we get the exact wording as relates to this debate? It will make it easier to argue whether this power is useless/expensive for hermetics.

Then ally spirts and bound free spirits would take a day to get back from the metaplanes as though they were banished wouldnt they?

So the ally or free spirit is still bound, but could care less what you order it to do. It doesn't owe you any more service. You are just building up animosity until the day it goes truly free and takes its vengeance.

I'm thinking that would be punishment enough. Is there any mention of whether Spirits actively dislike an Initiate's use of Channeling though? There was an old rule in Sr1 (& 2?) about causing an Elemental pain by using a certain service (taking Drain for the Mage, IIRC), but I don't recall this being mentioned for the Channeling Metamagic.

I think you misunderstood what I posted.

Essentially the spirit is still bound when you are finished channelling it, but it isn't going to do any more services for you. You are wasting your time ordering it to do anything. The spirit will just get mad at being bound for no reason.

I Beseech the Gods of the SR FAQ to give us a Canon ruling on this.

if you're talkin about the same ninja section i'm thinking of they didn't introduce anything new. they basically talked about the myth of ninjas and about a new group of ninjas that only let trogs in and they talk about how scary it is when a troll sneaks up behind you

I think we should not argue over this, as the situation is murky.

On the one hand, Ally and Free Spirits, when bound, provide the owner with access to their abilities for potentially forever.

On the other hand, the Channelling metamagic DOES state that it uses up all of the spirit's remaining services.

I submit that a definative ruling cannot be achieved here. So we should bug someone at fanpro to answer our question for us.

Go with Fogg's. Looks like the best so far.

About the walking through walls thing.

Underworld source book, p 96 under Ninjas, third paragraph. Some ninja magicians are rumored to know spells that allow them to walk on water and pass through solid walls.

That is all I can find so far but, even thought it sounds promissing I was told it was a metamagic that the Tir Ghost's know. I'll keep searching

A freebie, at a minimum [worthwhile] cost of 30 karma (and the rest if you want to keep it happy), for something you can only do for a couple of turns before passing out? You don't even get immunity to normal weapons while you're doing it since Allies can't be great forms.

Imho getting a great form nature spirit and channeling that is a lot nastier, and a whole lot cheaper, not to mention likely more powerful.

This is besides the point though, getting back on topic, I believe there's a metamagic in the Harlequin saga that allows you to put things (including your body) in astral space.

In a word: no. At least, that was way back when things just happened and they didn't tell you how. But I'm still betting spell or adept ability as opposed to metamagic.

Do you really want to channel something that has a vested interest in seeing you cut loose the mortal coil?

As for the metamagical technique of creating magical compounds...

My version of that technique only requires one technique - to actually mae the different compounds you need enchanting skill, as well as the approperiate botany and parabotany skills, plus the additional Magical Compounds skill. That one works similar to a combo of magic background/spell design. All skills are necessary in order to know what effect to acheive(Magical Compounds), which plants and herbs to use to acheive those(Magical Compounds/Talismongering/Parabotany/Botany), what the plants and herbs look like and where to find them(Botany/Parabpotany/Talismongering), how to prepare them (Magical Compounds/Enchanting), and to actually do it correctly(Enchanting/Metamagical technique).

Think of it as with Invoking - you don't need one technique for each spirit type. For compounds you need only one technique, but you won't know any compounds that aren't from your tribe - you could learn them, but being granted that trust should be an accomplishment few could ever hope to acheive...