Message no. 1

From:	Sebastian Wiers m0ng005e@*****.com
Subject:	A What??!!??
Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 1999 02:26:23 -0500

:I believe they're also called "shanks" and probably
:have myriad other names, depending on where in the
:world you find it (sticking out of you).

shiv, shank, pigsticker, tool, protection, silencer, iron. Basically, they
take two forms- "ice pick" style, and "dagger" style. Few are made
for
cutting.
Loompanics sells a book on prison weapons, but I'm basing my info on the
book "Concrete Mama", a photo essay on Washington State's Walla Walla
Penitentiary, and some good prison autobiographies ("Monster" and "In the
Belly of the Beast").
The terms above are probably out of date now; I bet by 2060, they would
be
totally different. OTOH, it might be impossible to make any thing like a
knife- I can see all the furniture being soft plastic, and the prisoners
being employed answering customer assistance hotlines. Heck, that's a
logical extension of the "supermax" prison (easy to do in SR) and today's
"prison for profit" concepts.

Mongoose






From strago@***.com Thu, 28 Oct 1999 02:52:25 -500
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 02:52:25 -500
From: strago@***.com strago@***.com
Subject: Starting skills

><delurk>
>
>Hi! I had always thought that during character creation, the
skills run
>into the same issue as when raising them (ie: when raising them
above the
>linked attribute, they cost more). One of my players points out
that this
>may only be true when raising skills during the game as opposed
to
>chargen.
>
While my SR3 is sitting at home, I believe it's 1 skill point
per point of skill up to the linked attribute, and 2 per point
up to the maximum of 6. But if I'm wrong, someone will correct
me. :^)
>Anyone know if it costs more skill points during chargen to
raise a skill
>above a linked attribute? If so, how much more? =) Or is my
player
>correct? Thanks!
>
>Ever lovable and always scrappy,
>kawa
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From gmcc@*********.ie Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:33:33 +0100
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:33:33