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Message no. 1
From: Snake Eyes snake.eyes@********.att.net
Subject: Killing munchkins
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 17:09:07 -0700
At 03:57 PM 8/7/99 -0700, Arcady wrote:

> > HOW FAR!!! I don't think ANYBODY could see ANYTHING from 1,00KM
> > off!! Did you, perchance, mean 1,000m???
>
>Must've. Cause at 1 Megameter you've got this problem of the planet being
>round and all...
>
> Course there is the idea of some AAA corp putting a person on
> it's top 1 to terminate list and using a 'tech-you'll never see' laser
> rifle from a sniper
>sitting in a vac suit in orbit waiting for a clear sky in front of your
>apartment...

I am certainly not above resorting to the implementation of pinpoint
munchkin vaporization from Low Earth Orbit, if (after all other attempts at
rational negotiation have failed) that is what it actually takes to
preserve order and the remaining group members' enjoyment of the game.

Tell the rest of the party that a blinding flash has left a small, charred
& smoking crater where the uber-Fomori was last seen standing -- a faint
hint of ozone in the air is all that remains.

~ Snake Eyes
Message no. 2
From: Ken Ken@********.com
Subject: Killing munchkins
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 21:25:05 -0400
<SNIP>
Tell the rest of the party that a blinding flash has left a
> small, charred
> & smoking crater where the uber-Fomori was last seen standing -- a faint
> hint of ozone in the air is all that remains.
>
> ~ Snake Eyes

Why give them the Honor of a Mysterious death. Make it something like
"UberChar" goes for a walk down to the corner store...or heck they walk out
of the apartment and "The Little Old Lady From Pasedena"..you know the one
I'm talking about..cant see over the steering wheel and driving a few Mph
shy of the Land Speed record for wingless flight just happens to be driving
the sidewalk at that instant (no chance to dodge) and bug on a windshields
Em. No vast sums of money spent and after the long and industrious career
the char must have had....nothing so fitting (and so annoying for a
munchkin) than an ignominious end. "I'm sorry your character slips on a
bottle on the stairs and dumbles down the three stairs and breaks his neck

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