| From: | chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich) |
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| Subject: | Re: Oh Dear, hate mail...:) |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:21:13 -0500 (EST) |
>damn you" glares at me. Eventually, thanks to a combination of good
>luck, and old wood, they were able to dig, burrow, crawl and blast their
>way off the dock, out of the rubble, and into Puget Sound. Climbing out
>of the sound, the team were somewhat unimpressed that they had had to
>ditch most of their larger items (assault rifles, body armour, long
>coats, etc) in order to be able to swim.
>
>All in all, the run netted them 12,000 each, and cost them in excess of
>75,000 - 100,000 each to replace vehicles and equipment. I was quite
>pleased with the result, but for some strange reason I've been getting
>hate mail ever since.
>
>Anyone got any ideas why????
>
Oh, you are an evil GM... Tinner's fond of doing the same thing. My
character had spent several months in game time and I personally spent
several hours in real time designing and buildinga heavily modified GMC
Bulldog combat vehicle. I also spent in exgggcess of 500,000 nuyen, money
that I'd been saving for a LONG time. Well, the first run we take it on, I
assume my character (intelligence 8) would be smart enough to automatically
set the security sustem on the vehicle (rating 8 at the time). I didn't
bother specifically saying I was arming trhe security system, though. I
really should know better.
Well, we get back from fighting a VERY nasty battle with cockroaches and
Dzoo Noo Qua (SP?) in Calamit Swamp in Chicago, and we find the tires have
been stripped! So our shaman, who is badly hurt, summons up a force 5 (I
think) air spirit to carry the vanback to Little Earth, one of the Enclaves
we'd been working out of. We get there, Johnny tell the spirit to put the
van down, and it does, from 10 feet off the ground doing about 15 miles per
hour... Needless to say, we took ANOTHER beating, ripped the entire
underside of thevan apart, AND took out the side of a building. Pleasent.
All that work and I got to drive it once. Well, instead of designing
another, I've simply kept rebuilding or replacing it. Over the course of 2
years, I've replaced the van 4 times, and currently need to rplace the roof
(and the gun turrets...)...
Also, my right arm has been replaced six times, once with a cyber (gee,
thanks Johnny...). I also think we've had three apartments destroyed now...
Steve just LOVES to make us replace things...
Some days, Bull doesn't even want to get out of bed...
"The kids are drinking what? Neuro stun? and they want more?"
"Daddy, look at this neat trick. It's Suburban Removal... <sound of wall
collapsing and Bull fainting>"
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# -Bull, aka Chaos, aka Rak, aka Steven Ratkovich #
# chaos@*****.com #
# Order is Illusion! Chaos is Bliss! Got any fours? #
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"You do more damage out of simple irritation than most
men can do in a towering rage."
-David Eddings, "Demon Lord of Karanda
