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Message no. 1
From: Egil Geir Brautaset <egilbra@***.UNIT.NO>
Subject: Uranium/Plutonium/Radium
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:55:59 +0100
There has been some discussion on this list about the
relative 'poisonousness' of uranium and plutonium.

Now, I may be wrong about this but I think I the most
poisonous of the basic elements is radium.

Does anyone have an authorative answer to this?

Egil
Message no. 2
From: The Powerhouse <P.C.Steele@*********.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Uranium/Plutonium/Radium
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 11:51:26 +0000
In reply to Egil Geir Brautaset .....

> There has been some discussion on this list about the
> relative 'poisonousness' of uranium and plutonium.
> Now, I may be wrong about this but I think I the most
> poisonous of the basic elements is radium.

Well this kind of reminds of a rolemaster game I played recently, I needed to
kill someone, that person beat the crap out of me in combat so I decided to
stab her in the back with posion. Well it turned out that I couldn't afford
the nerve posion, kills instantly stuff, but I got something that puts the
person in a coma for a couple of days. Once hit she passes out, I slit her
throat.

The moral of this story is that when looking for posion bullets you don't always
have to go for the most deadly to get the job done, all you need is something
that gets the job done. So why not use mercury, it's been in use as a posion
for a long time and you can put it in bullets.

Btw: Here's how I handle mercury bullets, feel free to comment.
Treat the attack as normal but subtract 1 from the power due to the fact that
the bullet is know not as well designed as before. Get the target to resist
normally.

Now, if the target has taken at least a moderate it can be assumed they are
bleeding. So now get a body test against a base of 4D, increase the power
for every bullet that hits, above 1. Ie a 3 round mercury filled burst does
6D.

Also I roll 1D3 to see how many turns pass before the character has to make the
body test. This represents the fact that the mercury has to get through to
the lungs <I think :) >.

Oh if you're wondering about that rolemaster game. Well the city guard caught
me on the way to kill her and shot me with a crossbow. Eventually I escaped
only to have her beat the crap out of me again, the city guard stopped her
from killing me but threw me back in the nick, then she killed me with a long
bow when a team member bribed the guards to release me.

Phill.
--
Phillip Steele - Email address P.C.Steele@***.ac.uk | Fighting against
Department Of Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Political Correctness !
University Of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England |
Land of the mad Geordies | The Powerhouse
Message no. 3
From: Warlok <EHULTGRE@******.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Uranium/Plutonium/Radium
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:30:05 EST
What the hell kind of Rolemaster game are you playing, Phill???
What setting??That system is way too slow for my group of players....

-Warlok

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