| From: | Steve Huth <HUTH@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | R.I.P.--game lethality |
| Date: | Sun, 18 Apr 1993 14:52:32 -0700 |
up on the lethality of UPS games comment by Carter and Hahn (got met
shaking in my boots/I wasn't shaking, I was hiding in the bathroom), and,
some of the characters involved are also on Shadowtk and involved in story
lines there.
Well, the 7 members of the current B-Team got in the fight of their lives
last night against a Toxic initiate and a copy of my old character
Spectre (I've always wanted to see what would happen if he met his old
teammates). Results, bad guys dead. B-Team: Raven the Mage: permanent
organ damage, in hospital for two months; Jaez: hurt to within an inch
(literally) of her life (bod rating 1 point lower and it would have been
bye bye Jaez); Highlander and Whisper: 9 out of ten boxes filled; Lucky
and Blindside: relatively unscathed; Eclipse: dead.
Eclipse's death is more than a bit ironic: he was my own character. Ed
normally GM's, but I took over for this run, decided they needed the
firepower and skills of my burglar, and let them run him. No complaints, he
just got caught in a bad situation. At least no one will say I'm a biased
GM. Hell, I think I'm writing this just to say goodbye.
From a GM's point of view I can at least be pleased that this party, which
usually runs over the opposition pretty easily when it comes to a fight,
had their eyes opened to the fact that theya ren't the be all and end all of
SR. They took out both the bad guys with that bloody *&&^%&^% Yamaha Pulsar,
and killed them while they were incapacitated (note to the players: Ed and I
have downgraded the power of the Pulsar, effective immediately). Other than
that, Marta and Skyeagle were unhurt, despite the fact that the players
sprung an ambush! Anyway, combined hospital time for the party is about
6 months. No funeral for Eclipse--the party rather thoroughly destroyed
all evidence of their presence (they send 6 rockets onto the site, which
also was full of propane gas for ballooning--BOOM!)-they couldn't carry
a dead body with them on their escape, so what was left of Eclipse was
incinerated. R.I.P. friend.
Spectre
Steve Huth
