| From: | "James W. Thomas" <cm5323@***.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | monoweapons |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Jan 1995 10:45:03 +0000 |
to get the stuff working within the rules, i had to work out a a
few 'points of law' that may help other GM's
Monowire is very light.
This means that you have to weight it to throw/fire it
Without weights, it will not cut until something pushes
against it
Monowire is very thin.
Only very dense materials like diamond analog ceramics,
heavy dense metals etc will stop it
Monowire is very strong.
The Monoline has to be broken with a laser cutter
Monolines will not cut each other (so reinforcing armour
with monolines will stop monowhips)
Monowire as a weapon cuts like a razor. this means it has to
have a force applied to it to cut. Big forces (the weighted tip
in an arc or running/driving onto it) will allow it to cut metal
pipe, flesh cartilage and bone, light bodyarmour etc .
If badly swung, or you walk onto it, the wire will only cut a
little and may snag.
Monowire wounds are very snarp cuts. you only feel it seconds
after, as the synapses misfire.
Uses of monowire
Bullet with several lenghts of wire fixed to it (with little
weights on the other end)
When this hits, the monowire will be dragged on by the
weights on the other end. if it penetrates, this may cut chunks
out of the wound channel. If it lodges in the body, or stops on
armour, the trailing wire will wrap round, cutting at anything
it meets.
This makes a medics job hell. they can't see the Wire in the
wound until they start cutting chunks from their fingers
Two spring loaded monowire reels, one on each end of a monoline.
Fired from an pair of airguns, they trail the line between them.
if the reels are ratcheted, the line locks on impact and the
weight of the reels pulls it onto the target.
Also
lines across roads to stop bikers
across doors / corridors
as cables for daredevil slides (use ceramic reels-NOT hand over
hand)
Monowire is usually supplied in reels with self adhesive ceramic
eyelets prethreaded. And its Expensive.
CHOPPER
more references to monowire
Dreams of flesh and sand. Monowire stilleto's, with static
charged monolines used as blades
Games Workshop'dark future'. in one of the sidebars, a terrorist
puts halluc in the airducts and cross crosses monowire across
the emergency stairs. Panicing peaple chunk themselves
