Re: magic

[Greg Mowczko <mooch>]

Ahh but here is your Teresium issue:

I know... what about Teresium? Teresium is a form of rape. It pulls
magical energy through you without your permission. It will keep pulling
until you cannot handle anymore. Its not strong enough to force you
to burn yourself out (ie stress PWR) but it contact with teresium will
limit how much energy you can channel without resting.

Your issue here still works both ways. In both it draws the Units out
of you. In your case it pulls until your top end is reached in the
battery issue it just pulls until you are dry. Terisium already bypasses
the PWR rule in that you can pull 24 units out of a person with enough
of it and most all of us have a PWR under 24. Teresium more to the point
pulls out unfocused Units while your PWR determines how many Units you
can focus into a spell. 

I just don't want to look at that angle. When my battery holds up fine.
You want power as a repair rate when it is already stated to be a flow
rate. The only problem with the battery ( and the channel ) is why if
you don't get your full nights rest do you not get part of your units
back?
						Greg

> From steve Tue Dec  1 14:55:58 1998
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:55:56 -0500 (EST)
> From: Steve Ames <steve>
> To: Flightgod5@aol.com, mooch, steve@ns1.cioe.com
> Subject: Re: magic
> Cc: gmlist@ns1.cioe.com
>
> > As you know I ascribe to the battery way of SU. Your PWR just says how
> > many you can output in a spell and how much can come back into you with
> > rest.
>
> Your mom did too many drugs.
>
> See:  http://www.cioe.com/~khelek/aqmail/msg01770.html
>
> That's the message I wrote back in the day... and it covers the
> Teresium issue greg.
>
> > If you have the Units and there is something to manipulate you should
> > be able to cast. On Kevin's little plane of Earth air spells should still
> > work if there is air there which there seemed to be. We weren't in a
> > vacuum. But once you are out of units I might give you you can't get
> > any back ( or at least not as many as you put out ).
>
> Right... because this behavior favors adventurers not having to look
> out for themselves and instead be protected by the system. Commie.
>
> 						-Steve
>