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[kv]

*as Jack pulls the trigger, fifty laser spells go off, vaporizing Mr Johnson, his troll guards, the people behind them, the wall behind that, and some of the cars in the street outside*

  -kv

[Retread]

Anchoring that many spells is a sort of waste of time, really. I mean, the same effect could be achieved with better effect by actually using a laser gun. The only spells you could anchor effectively in expendable anchoring foci would be  force 2 spells. That way, you could soak the karma loss with your Enchanting roll. A force 2 focus would require 4 successes on the subsequent enchanting test to reduce the bonding cost.

Finding the target would be nasty too, since there's really no way to make a spell target someone. In the bullet scenario, you'd have to make the bullet activate on the destruction of the round (not the bullet) The gun itself could be the specific spell focus to use to resist the effect of the drain on the actual anchoring. In the end, it's really not worth it compared to a few 50 nuyen grenades or some APDS clips. Now, a gun that's a Force 6 Aim spell Sustaining Foci, that's useful!

[Gabriel]

Yeah, but the Enhanced Aim Spell is a form of Detection spell, requiring a specific person to be cast on. So the gun would be great, but only for one guy. And that's if you could get something as complex as a gun to be used as a focus in the first place.

Gabriel :gabe:

[Ruski]

you could always just use the mother of pearl grips as the focus.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

I know a sniper that does that for assination runs.

[Gabriel]

Actually, that's a good idea. Get some ivory, carve it yourself, and engrave it yourself and you could even use it as a vrgin telesma, reducing the Enchanting Test to create.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

and you could have two of them... one for each side.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Actually, I think the pair would count as one focus, but that's just me.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

*shrug* could probibly work either way.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[AJStarhiker]

Would a hand-carved wood stock work? (This would probably be for rifles/shotguns)

[Gabriel]

Yep. Just remember, the more complex the item (and in this case it would be the chemistry of the stocks) the harder it is to enchant. So for example, you may enchant a few bird bones and some sood ash mixed together and tied with a leather cord and coated with bee's wax into becoming a power focus easily enough. However, using pieces of plastic, wire, and superglue would make it tougher, since they are refined, complex compounds. Trying to enchant a cyberdeck or car would be next to impossible, but could be done with enough Karma and time. So if you have focus that is "natural" like wood or ivory, you have a much easier time. And if you actually grow the try, chop the wood, carve the wood, and finish the wood yourself with "non modern" tools, then it gets even easier becasue the material is considered to be virgin, as in "no other aruas have contacted it."

Gabriel, who has a shaman chummer

[Ruski]

It's a lot of work though. you can't even buy 'all natural' vegtables in the store and count them as vergin.

and there's a LOT of work that goes into keeping that crap clean.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Yep. So have fun getting a virgin telesma.

Gabriel

[Retread]

Yeah, ever tell that to a street shaman? I've seen them turn some of the strangest things into telesma. You've got pieces of steel bent into funny shapes, chunks of plasticrete from blow up buildings and sewer mold. In the end, it didn't appear much more difficult for the street shaman to enchant. He said something to me about "the nature of the material is more integral than it's origin." I guess what he was implying was that the artificial nature of the items had little to do with that, because the magic he was using them for was based on the objects themselves. The steel he used for Shrapnel focus, the Plasticrete for an Urban Renewal focus, and the slime for summoning Sewer Spirits (Spirit of the Waters) He said it was some kind of trick that he had learned, didn't give it a name though.

[Ruski]

sounds like 'GMPerogative' to me.
LOL

it's an ancient secret. not a lot of people can even use it.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Retread]

Nah, the principle of using something related to the effect may be a GM Prerogative, but I would let my Street Shaman do that. It makes more sense for their telesma to come from the City than from some pile of crystals and flowers out in the woods, doesn't it?