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Message no. 1
From: Rob Rubin <TYGER@****.WINONA.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Various things
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19:36:13 -0500
(If any of this was already covered, I'm sorry. The local has been doing
wonderous things and I've had a lot of reading to get done...) Sigh

Anyhow: ON skills: (I hear a collective sigh)

We once had a mage default from MAGICAL THEORY to STEALTH. He rolled upwards
of 37 on that one. It was a fun explanation:

"Remember when you stole your teachers spell book and hid in the dumpster for
an hour? You just remembered it all..."

He did it just to show that he could.

On Munchkining: (Something that was never formally brought up, but it's
always there...)

I had an idea, (Frightening, neh?) about the ultimate trick shooter...

Cybereye, optical mag 3, display link
Math SPU 4, Softlink 4 (With Geometry 6, Physics 6, Metalurgy 6, and firearms
B/R of 6)
And a Smartgun link.

Working in concert (With an encephalon, natch.) you could careen bullets off
of walls and HIT A GUY!

(The scene, a deserted street in Seattle. "Ok, yellerbelly. I'ma gonna shoot
a bullet offan that church bell, into the bar there, knock the cap off'n that
drink, then the bullet's gonna cut yer mohawk off'n that head of yours."
>BANG< [GONG] /crash\tink/ ker-pow! )

Or not.

What do you think, sirs?
-Tyger
Message no. 2
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Various things
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 21:49:36 -0700
>>We once had a mage default from MAGICAL THEORY to STEALTH. He rolled upwards
>>of 37 on that one. It was a fun explanation:
You can't default to Steath from Magical Theory! That's in direct violation
of the Skill Web. In case you didn't remember or never knew, you can not back-
track across the arrows in the skill web. That prevents such rediculous
defaults as this from happening.

>>I had an idea, (Frightening, neh?) about the ultimate trick shooter...

>>Cybereye, optical mag 3, display link
>>Math SPU 4, Softlink 4 (With Geometry 6, Physics 6, Metalurgy 6, and firearms
>> B/R of 6)
>>And a Smartgun link.

>>Working in concert (With an encephalon, natch.) you could careen bullets off
>>of walls and HIT A GUY!
I think this idea deserves the wet carp treatment.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker
Message no. 3
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Various things
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 23:57:06 -0500
On Thu, 22 Apr 1993, Jason Carter, Nightstalker wrote:

> >>Cybereye, optical mag 3, display link
> >>Math SPU 4, Softlink 4 (With Geometry 6, Physics 6, Metalurgy 6, and firearms
> >> B/R of 6)
> >>And a Smartgun link.
>
> >>Working in concert (With an encephalon, natch.) you could careen bullets off
> >>of walls and HIT A GUY!
> I think this idea deserves the wet carp treatment.

Nah, the Wet carp is for outright stupidity or for something that makes no
sense. The above actually MAKES sense and is suitable prohibitive to make
it non-munchkin.

I'll give it the . . . uh . . . rubber-chicken award.



[> Robert Hayden ____ <] Black Holes result from God
[> \ /__ <] dividing the universe by zero.
[> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu \/ / <]
[> aq650@****.INS.CWRU.Edu \/ <] # include std_disclaimer.h
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (aaron b chappell)
Subject: Various things
Date: Thu Sep 27 18:05:05 2001
Hey all,

Disengage lurker protocols.....Disengaged

My father is a carpenter so maybe I can think of a power or 2:

Adhesive Secretion(sp?)
Cost: .15 per level
This allows the adept to secrete an adhesive (elmer's glue type stuff for
the first few levels and maybe an epoxy like substance for higher ones).

Maybe other stuff like grease and things for various variations

Also I have one of the new FanPro Shadowrun Companions so they obviously
exist (I waited a whole F****ng year for someone to reprint the
companion)

Also for that cryogenics thing a book you might find interesting is
called Callahan's Place it's by spider robinson and it has a story in
there that might give you some ideas for playing a man who's been in
suspended animation


Gwylly, Elven Speed Adept and Wetworker (Reasonable Rates Flexible
Methods)
"One for all and all for one if he's out of arms reach than go for your
gun"
Words to live by
Death on the Wind (TM)

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