From:	Tony Glinka <glinka@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: FASA answer on Flatline and Ammo
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:18:39 -0700

Loki wrote:

> There are exceptions to the rules on a card by card basis, especially
> with the rares. You have a rule that a runner may only take up to 6
> essence cost worth of cyber ware but Hatchetman 2057 ignores that. You
> have another rule that a runner may only have two of any kind of
> cyberlimb. H-man 2057 ignores that again. You have deployment costs
> printed on your gear cards, but several other cards say they get gear
> or accessories given to them for free.
>
> So Flatline may use two pistols at once, each pistol may be given
> different ammo as an accessory. He fires both pistols simultaneously
> in combat, thus getting to use two different kinds of ammo at once. If
> it helps, think of him as automatically having the Extended Clip for
> free (like Uncle Joe has the chipjack 2 for free, or Ravage has her
> Wired Reflexes for free).
>
> Flatline is just one card, and it so happens he's the one card that
> gets to use two pistols at once. When they wrote the card text stating
> only one kind of ammo may be used in combat at a time, that was
> becuase the general rule is also only one weapon may be used in a
> given combat. Flatline (like H-man 2057 with the cyberware rules) is
> the exception to that.

Not to throw any gasoline on a small fire here, but what happens when
you give Flatline an extended clip on one or both guns? Can he use Armor
Piercing, Flechette, and Explosive Rounds?What about if they bring in some
new ammo with the new sets like stun gel or rubber bullets or something
similar? Does that mean if he has two guns each with an extended clip, he
can use four kinds of ammo?

Tony