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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: 100 m world record (Re: The Flash)
Date: Sat Jul 21 13:25:01 2001
According to Alex Rudnick, on Sat, 09 Jun 2001 the word on the street was...

> 10m/1 sec = 1000m/100 sec
> 1000m/100 sec = 1km in a minute and 40 seconds or 36 kph

Quick tip: m/s to km/h = x3.6 :)

> and in Shadowbeat, we've got aworld-record 100m set by an elf at 9.1
> seconds. Oy vey.

Let's see how realistic that is, if going BTB. An elf with Quickness 10
(attribute maximum), x3 running multiplier and Athletics 8 ("world class"
says SR3). Since it's a world record, we can assume all dice were
successes. That give an effective Quickness of 18, for a running speed of
18 m/s (distance moved per turn is 18 m x 3 for running = 54 m, divided by
3 for the 3-second turn). 100 m divided by 18 m/s is 5.556 seconds.

A night one could do even better, 5.000 seconds to be precise.

To get a time of 9.1 seconds, this world record elf would have to have had
an effective Quickness of 11 -- call it normal maximum Quickness (7) with
four Athletics successes. IOW, a decent amateur athlete running a good
race :)

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Tot straks en poppelepee maar weer.
-> NAGEE Editor * ShadowRN GridSec * Triangle Virtuoso <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://plastic.dumpshock.com <-

GC3.12: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+@ UL P L++ E W-(++) N o? K w+(--) O V?
PS+ PE(-)(+) Y PGP- t@ 5++ X(+) R+++(-)>$ tv+ b++@ DI- D+ G+ e h! !r y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: 100 m world record (Re: The Flash)
Date: Sun Jul 22 05:30:05 2001
According to Gurth, on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 the word on the street was...

> Let's see how realistic that is, if going BTB. An elf with Quickness 10
> (attribute maximum)

That should have been Quickness 11 -- one of those cases where SR rounds
up, I discovered when actually looking at the table instead of relying on
memory :) That puts the 100 m time at 5.263 seconds.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Tot straks en poppelepee maar weer.
-> NAGEE Editor * ShadowRN GridSec * Triangle Virtuoso <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://plastic.dumpshock.com <-

GC3.12: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+@ UL P L++ E W-(++) N o? K w+(--) O V?
PS+ PE(-)(+) Y PGP- t@ 5++ X(+) R+++(-)>$ tv+ b++@ DI- D+ G+ e h! !r y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

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