| From: | "Steven A. Collins" <scollins@**.UML.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: [SR3] Toxin Rules |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:21:51 -0400 |
->Jonathan Hurley wrote:
->|
->[snip: toxin example]
->|
->| So what happens if he gets two successes against the toxin? Is he
->still "in contact" with it on the next round?
->
->Okay, it doesn't say in the book. But my ruling is that you're still
->in contact with it if it's entering your system on a continuous
->basis. For the guy that takes a bite out of the poisoned burger
->that's his only contact with it. If he were to get sprayed by a fair
->ammount, so that more of the stuff is seeping through his skin after
->the initiatal contact, then he would have to make another role.
->Ditto if he fell in a vat of it. Or if it was entering his system
->constantly through an IV tube.
->
->If he somehow ingested a lot of it (drank a whole glass of poison)
->then I'd rule that he'd have to make more than one resistance test.
->
actually i would think you would still be in contact with until either
gives some kind of antidote or your body is able to metabolize and ger
it out of your system. 24 hours at least so if the onset time is less
than that then you would probably have to make multiple damage
resistance rolls. With some toxins, most heavy metals for example once
they have entered into the blood streem you cannot get rid of them and
so they're fatal in a pretty short time (you have to keep making rolls
to resist damage until it eventually kills you) for an example of this
see the movie DOA with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan someone slips some
Mercury into a drink of his leaving him only about 24hours to live
with his condition steadily worsening. speaking of which that would
make a pretty good SR plot as well johnson has been poisoned with no
cure and has 24hours to live. he hires the runners to help him find
out who did it. the only problem is they don't get paid unless they
can do it before he dies.
