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Message no. 1
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Zero-G Combat
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:30:35 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-18 05:18:13 EDT, schuett@*****.IVCC.EDU (Court
Schuett) writes:

This used to be Demon Magic and all, but I removed the sensitive stuff and
the spoiler blocks for quicker reading.

> The only problem with these, at least Ambi, off-hand, is that they take
> incredible (and I think mostly rightfully so) penalties to attack, making
> it almost impossible to hit. BTW, what is Zero-G fighting? Must have
> missed that. Is that in the Missions adventures? Is that any good?

I apologize, as Zero-G and Blind Fighting (the skill) are stuff that have
been developed here in response by the characters wanting to function better
in every situation they've been thrown through/in/across (and such good
skipping stones they make). We've argued that general mayhem in zero-g
requires modifiers as the physical laws a bit different (what with gravity
missing and all), so I applied a blanket +4 modifier to things. The Zero-G
Operations skill, uses the same karma cost as Ambidexterity, and defeats the
modifier.

Multi-G is something they are just barely getting into (crashing from orbit
while fighting the Elven Assassin did take some getting used to).
-Keith
Message no. 2
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Zero-G Combat
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 20:22:18 -0700
---"J. Keith Henry" wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-07-18 05:18:13 EDT, schuett@*****.IVCC.EDU
(Court
> Schuett) writes:
>
> > BTW, what is Zero-G fighting? Must have
> > missed that. Is that in the Missions adventures? Is that any
good?
>
> I apologize, as Zero-G and Blind Fighting (the skill) are stuff that
have
> been developed here in response by the characters wanting to
function better
> in every situation.

Possible spoilers for Harlequin (the original) below...

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OK, not that it may tie into waht you guys are talking about here. But
if you remember, there is a scene on a suborbital in the Harlequin
campaign that deals with a fight during Zero-G and the required tests
to deal with it. If you haven't seen it, you might want to check it
out.

Thought it might be of interest, anyways.

===
@>--,--'--- Loki <gamemstr@********.com>

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thanks to that fire elemental, and we've got the Baron running around
screaming assassins...assassins...oh eek, assassins!"
--> Caric to Ook during the Harlequin Campaign
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