Can you summon an Astral Construct into Sigil?

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Can you summon an Astral Construct into Sigil?

The name really ought to say it all. Does summoning ectoplasm from the Astral Plane, assembling it into a shambling brute, and then directing it at enemies count as summoning a creature into Sigil?

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Can you summon an Astral Construct into Sigil?

It depends on how you've constructed your Sigil.

I know one way to look at it is if Sigil has an astral side to it - somehting sequestered and blocked from the rest of the astral. And the construct is built Only from the 'astral stuff' within Sigil's own personal astral section.

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Can you summon an Astral Construct into Sigil?

Being that Sigil does have an astral overlap (though it doesn't allow entrance into or out of Sigil) I'd say that you could use those metacreative astral construct powers. It's not really summoning something from outside Sigil into Sigil, so much as it's drawing energy from the astral and making it into a puppet of sorts. And given that you can access a limited slice of the astral from inside Sigil I'd say that it should work in most cases.

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Can you summon an Astral Construct into Sigil?

'Shemeska the Marauder' wrote:
Being that Sigil does have an astral overlap (though it doesn't allow entrance into or out of Sigil) I'd say that you could use those metacreative astral construct powers. It's not really summoning something from outside Sigil into Sigil, so much as it's drawing energy from the astral and making it into a puppet of sorts. And given that you can access a limited slice of the astral from inside Sigil I'd say that it should work in most cases.

I would add a caveate to that limiting the power you can use the construct for. Sigil's slice of astral does seem to have a restricted access. If it didn't then it would be another piece of real-estate in the city of doors. The other reason is like every other planar door in the city the lady would have control over it. I would add a random chance of failure just to represent the whim of the lady, or what ever is restricting the astral.

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