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Message no. 1
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Thud, the Unholy, Hose Screw from Hell Decker
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 05:43:04 CET
>The Magic Deck: We had one of our THREE mages (out of 6 people: 2 mages,
>1 shaman, 1 Physad, one decker, and me as rigger) cast ANAYLYZE device
>on the deck, burned several elementals, and wound up getting 19 success-
>es (BTW: this was *before* Grimoire even came out!). He spell locked it
>and Thud now had a hacking pool somewhere in the 40s to 50s, and his
>effective skill (and therefore the # of dice he used to download stuff)
>was a 25+ ! Red-12? So what? But I *might* have to burn a couple
>points of Karma for it. *sigh*

>Tell me, does THIS qualify as munchkin?

>>>>>[ Munchkin? No, it is not munchkin... it goes BEYOND that. That is
what
could be described as simply stepping OUTSIDE the rules, by which I mean
IGNORING them. As I stated before about the character that had enough Karma
to kill a dragon with a dull butter knife: That...is SICK. ]<<<<<
-- Doctor Doom <22:35:45/12-1-53>

And I am rather thankful you did not come up with that abomination, Brodie.

Oh, and to whomever the designer of Thud was (Austin, I believe),
to appropriate a popular American phrase: This *thwap*'s for you:

TTTTTTTTTT HH HH WW WW AA PPPPPPP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW AAAA PP PP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP PP || ||
TT HHHHHHHH WW WW WW AA AA PPPPPPP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW WW AAAAAAAA PP || ||
TT HH HH WWWWWWWW AA AA PP
TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP .. ..

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