Message no. 1

From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Hahns Shin)
Subject:	Healthy Glow (was Re: Standard Spells)
Date:	Fri Apr 27 02:45:01 2001

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> description, I also have a problem with it. Healthy Glow "sloughs
off dead skin
> cells." Pardon me for being a wee bit pedantic, but IIRC the entire
epidermis (sp?)
> is dead skin. The layers which are "alive" (ie. still recieving
blood) are the INNER
> layers, and as they move towards the surface of your body they DIE.
So by "sloughing
> off dead skin cells" the spell is removing the epidermis. So now the
person the
> spell is cast on is a target for disease because the bacteria aren't
repulsed by the
> dead skin and the viruses multiply instead of, after infection, not
being able to
> reproduce.
>
> Now it's a combat spell. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Well, except for the fact that it also "promotes well-being" which
probably boosts immune responses. Also, we are sloughing off dead skin
cells all the time. I'm sure that the entire epidermis isn't shed,
just the outside few (and dirty, infected) layers. Otherwise, you'd be
the equivalent of a burn victim (ow ow ow). Reminds me of the Horror
power of Skin Shift from Earthdawn... perhaps some nefarious
shadowrunner will devise a "Skin Flay" health spell.

Hahns Shin, MS I
Budding cybersurgeon