[Rq-rules] Question about multicast

[Nikk Effingham]

> But then how would this count as actively concentrating on each spell?

I'm a wee bit confused. Standardly, you can only use an active spell if you
concentrate on it, and can only concentrate on one spell at a time. However,
you can cast an active spell and it will remain when you're not concentrating
on it (so if you use Sandy rules it will remain ready to be activated as long
as Presence is devoted, and if you are still stuck in the 20th century and use
RQ III rules it remains up as long as the duration), otherwise sorcerors would
be royally buggered as they'd have to recast an active spell every time they
wanted to use it! Which would be unduly harsh, to say the least.

So, given that you cast either five project sights, and send each project sight
to five different locations OR you multispell them together. Then you activate
each one in turn, and when you're done with one you move on to the next one, in
quick succession. Probably not as good as receiving information simultaneously
from five different source, but definitely better than nothing.

One catch; you may or may not rule that when you stop keeping a projected sight
activated it 'returns' to the caster. So I cast project sight, and send it
hurtling across the countryside. If I then stop concentrating on it, it the
projected sight returns to the caster. If you ruled this then going from each
one in turn would be pointless, for obvious reasons, as the locus would return
to the caster as soon as he stopped concentrating.

And it wouldn't be unduly harsh to rule this; indeed I think it's quite
important. Imagine you DON'T rule this, so the Projected Sense remains knocking
around where you left it. So imagine you're in adungeon and send your projected
sight fifty metres down a corridor. Suddenly you're attacked! You run away, but
your projected sight remains where it is. For starters, it'll take a while to
bring it back, but more likely you'll run out of range, and the spell - I would
rule, is cancelled.

Does that make sense?

So, I'd call for a ruling on that, indeed I'm interested in what the list
thinks. Also, when you cast Project, do you rule that the Projected Sense
appears anywhere within the casting range, or does it have to start off at the
caster and then move out at the rate of 1m/intensity?

Nikk