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Message no. 1
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Car Wars (not anymore - try: How to take out a
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:16:01 EST
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 21:25:45 -0500 Shawn Baumgartner
<Breakdown@*****.NET> writes:
>The Gamma's a good call, but imagine if your Squirt gets spashed in a
>firefight: Packing Hyper, you're screwed, packing Gamma, EVERYBODY'S
>screwed! I agree that the mana's the way to go, since it don't care
>about the cyber (Of course if Modboy's portin' that much cyber, he's
>probably a 'Zombie, which means the wizboy's gonna have to sweat to get
>through to him; but then how many C-zomies are there really? <grin>)
>

Or just have have the mage use Magic-Fingers to slap a shaped charge to
his butt and run.

'Cause if it lifts you up by the throat, sticking your grenade launcher
into his mouth and pulling the trigger just might _not_ work.

[happened once in a fairly far fetched run ... ]

~Tim (who's pc IIRC was KOed, due to a failure to dodge a flying oak
desk, at the time)

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