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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: BioTricity
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 20:59:17 -0500
On Sun, 10 Apr 1994, Gian-Paolo Musumeci wrote:

> Metallic armor should make it either nastier (conductive) or less nasty
> (dispertion effect). Not sure which -- any ideas?

That or just ignore it and let impact armour take care of reducing the
effect.

> And you should have to touch skin in order to make it work, or at most through
> cloth. Ya shouldn't be able to shock someone through a Kevlar vest.

Don't over complicate it.

> Oh, yeah, and what happens if you use it underwater?

The electrical discharge rends the hydrogen atoms away from the oxygen
atoms and then slams the hydrogen atoms together to create helium and a
large amount of energy. You are vapourized for your munchkinism.

Or, make it ease and move the damage codes up one. Serious becomes
deadly, medium becomes serious.

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