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From: Duncan McNeill-Burton <dmcneill@************.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bullet Parry
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:55:34 -0500
Airwisp didst sayeth:
>In a message dated 97-09-03 15:14:33 EDT, you write:
>
>> Ok, I was reading Steel Rain (Nyx Smith) the other day and in the book
>> the main character, Machiko, is a PhysAd. She gets attacked by a
>> heavily cybered dude who unloads a full Ares Alpha on her...and she
>> parries all the bullets away, suffering no harm.
>>
>> Is there any "official" PhysAd power that lets you do this?
>
>What you are looking at is a much higher cost variant on Missile Parry,
>probably in the 3 to 4 points range.


I believe the Enhanced Missile Parry was in CorpSec, which I don't happen to
have handy at the moment. The cost was 1.5 points, though I'm not sure
exactly what was req'd to pluck incoming bullets.

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