| From: | Wafflemiesters <evamarie@**********.NET> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Cyberzombie (was Re: Milspec hardened armor) |
| Date: | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 06:47:04 -0600 |
>
> >Note that you will have a penalty to your TN for casting a spell at a
> >cyberzombie, equal to twice the absolute Essence value... As the shaman in
> >my campaign found out when he tried to heal one -- an Essence of -2.6
> >gives a Treat spell a very nice TN :)
Especially if he had bioware. Heck, 13 TN's can be seen on heal spells
for NORMAL samurai. A bit more bioware would get treat up there, too....
>
> Ayup, yup, I like them cyberzombies, yup, yup. :)
Gah, with all thier penalties on perception, rection, and (eventually)
karma, a zombie is lucky to fight his way out of a (big, thick) paper
bag before he dies a patheic death from drug loss, overflow damage, CDS,
or cancer. They have thier place, maybe, but are weak when unsupported
and no fun to be around.
>
> >OTOH, attacking the zombie from astral space shouldn't be too much of a
> >problem.
>
> Hold on a minute... CZ's are active enough to be attacked from the Astral?
> Did I miss something? (Probably, considering my tendancy as a GM to read only what I
want to see...)
>
Sure as shootin. It takes some mighty wishful thinking to make a deep
essence zombie a good soldier or runner. On the other hand, the TN
modifier affect ALL MAGIC TESTS- that would include critter powers and
astral combat. Quicken astral static on that badboy, and he's pretty
damn safe. Heck, you can cast area-effect spells thorugh him from
a-space and not even hurt him! (joke- I'm pretty sure that to ground,
you have to affect the target- but an area version of control actions
could work nicely)
IMO, the point of going to a delta clinic would be to get low impact
cyber so you DON'T become a zombie. But it MIGHT be worth it, if you
want to trade brains for brawn. I think I'd avoid the delta's
completely, and stick with the beta's- even they have a reputation I
don't like.
Mongoose
random big rock: "So, like, make a zombie-vampire. With its "essence
loss", would the cybermancy keep it alive without feeding? Major
negative essence posibility!"
