| From: | Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: More Fun And Games |
| Date: | Fri, 28 Mar 1997 01:01:15 +0000 |
100000@****.ugcs.caltech.edu>, Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
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>On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, D'Arkan wrote:
>> A scheme, which if planned that way, worked to perfection.
>
>Isn't it gratifying to learn that you did a great job annihilating a decoy.
>:(
Oh yeah, _very_ :(
>Hate to be picky about details, but I'm not sure where you go the
>"intrinsic silence of the weapon." The Ares Viper slivergun comes
<snip>
OK, my mistake here. I've just been browsing through various
sourcebooks, and having read a few SF books I may have got a teeny bit
carried away. The flechette pistols that I was thinking of use an
electrically powered "shaver" to cut slivers from a block of ceramic.
these are propelled from the weapon using a similar mechanism, the whole
thing is lethal and makes less noise than an electric toothbrush.
Not Shadowrun, my boob, deepest apologies.
>As for assassins who use flechette weapons being mainly European, how do
>you see that? Or did you throw it in because it sounded good?
Partly threw it in, partly because of the sourcebooks provided for
England etc. The regimes in Europe are much stricter and more fascist
than the US sourcebooks, something I personally disagree with, but it
does mean that anyone on a run in, say the UK, will have to seriously
consider the style of that run, and the amount of noise they can make.
Unlike the UCAS where blasting away with assault rifles on main street
is apparently the norm. (Artisitic licence). :)
>themselves in a situation where they might face less armored opponents
>(especially for shot-guns because of the nice spread effect).
As I probably should have made clear, I meant a flechette pistol, not
flechette rounds. The difference being that one uses a caratridge and
propellant, the other uses a block which is "shaved". One example are
the needler weapons from the Jhary-a-conel novels...
>Heh...D'Arkan might even find in his files for Seattle one unusual case
>where a fellow was shot point-blank with a slivergun. Shot was just low
>of the heart, but shreaded it and his other nearby organs enough that the
>fellow was going to die shortly of internal bleeding, but then somebody
>went and put a rifle round through his skull.
I dare say that the case will be on file, and left open, but that's not
the reason for his presence in Seattle. It's more likely to be in a
filing cabinet with the main FBI contingent in the Federal Building on
Seneca Street.
>are busy as it is and would rather not get myself caught up in it just
>yet. Just seems like there isn't much work for good assassins these days.
Only a little bit busy, but never too busy to hunt another murderous
scag. <grin>
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