From:	Christopher Bellovary <bellovar@***.WISC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Wake the Dead!!!
Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 1993 14:30:16 CDT

> To me, Dead Zones should be hard to define, leaving a good deal of
> discretion for the GM to decide which laws work. For instance, there
> may be one area where nothing but Gravity can be taken for granted, where
> inertia doesn't exist, greatly modifying armed and unarmed combat.

Maybe if you could explain how the heck you can HAVE combat without inertia...
And you can't HAVE gravity without inertia.... gravity affects mass, gravity
is a force of acceleration, providing a velocity. You now have all the
components for inertia..... To kill one of them kills off the effects of
gravity.

Now you could say that you will muck with the relationships between them,
but your body is a delicate mechanism that runs entirely on those basic
principles, muck with the relationships, the body fails....

> One could argue that since Essence was paid for cyberware, it will still
> function. But your smartlink won't do you a lot of good if your gun won't
> work. Bioware, since it's living, should be viable. Just because high tech
> was required to install it doesn't mean it'll stop working; it's there, it's
> in place, it'll keep functioning.

Ok, your motorbike has failed, but that encephalon stuck in your head is
running fine, and your c2 deck is ok - but your buddy's cyberdeck is out of
comission? That seems a bit fast and loose to me.

> I believe that when people think of cyberware, they think of wired first, and
> that's ahere we get hung up on whether or not cyber works. People say sams
> will die if it doesn't work period because it's your nervous system.

What about air filters? And blood filtration? It gets rather difficult to live
when you can't breathe well nor pump your blood efficiently. That encephalon
directly wired to your brain isn't doing your body any good by impeding
normal flow of neural activity - let alone the cranial computer. And that is
just the tip of the iceberg....

> So much of what we're talking about is hypothetical that I'm sure there's
> more than one way to define these zones and their effects logically.

Logically? That is my whole problem. You toss out the natural laws and then
you are tossing out the entire framework on which everything in life is built.
The interrelations touch nearly everything we know. Most importantly the act
of living itself.

=- CrossFire -