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From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Disposable People
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:09:59 -0400
> >> Thus, in our slang, any extra person or entity that is there only as a
> >> 'damage soak' is a Red Shirt
> >
> >In the later ST shows they've been replaced by the people who only nod
> >when spoken to by the show's stars :)
>
> In my games, I coined the phrase for people like that as H.E.T.s
> [Highly Expendable Thugs]. Just kill 'em all; we'll make more!!!

We always referred to them as "Extra Boxes" re. the boxes on the damage
tracker on the character sheet.

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://www.ncweb.com/users/bluewizard
"I just got to run SR again after a several month hiatus, and am I STOKED!"

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