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From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Re: Illusions as Psychic Attacks
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 05:00:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 05:00:18 1985
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Reply-To: laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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I have never thought of illusions that way, and upon thinking about it, I
don't like it.  You have to be a pretty powerful magician in any of my
campaigns to deal with spirits or demons at all, and I doubt that there
would be many illusionists around if every illusion required binding a
hostile spirit.  A character who consorts with spirits who freely choose
to do his bidding is conceivable, I suppose, but I'd have to introduce a
whole new class of supernatural entities into my universe...

I always thought that an illusionist was a hypnotist who could hypnotize
someone even against their will (if they weren't prepared, and so
disbelieved it).  Viewed that way, it doesn't seem all that unreasonable
to me.  Of course, I always was fascinated by a book I read as a child
(and now cannot remember the title of, grrr) which purported to be the
true story of a person who could do  exactly that.  I had visions of
what I would make my teachers and classmates do -- if I only had the
power -- for years...

-- 
Laura Creighton		
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