From:	Fade <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	Re: New Cyberware "Chunk-Launcher"
Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 14:35:22 +0000

I've allready read a few responses to this one. It should be needless
to add further comment, but I do anyway.

> I've been reading in the grimoire and awakeneing about how living
> auras interact with astral bodies and I have a new idea for a
> character I'd like to share.
Okay.

> The character is a physical adept ninja with the regeneration power.
> He has a special piece of cyberware I call the "Chunk-Launcher"
> imbedded in his arm.

Run that by me again, please...

Regeneration power? Cyberware is automatically rejected if you
have regeneration. No go.

It's official enough - check SRC, shapeshifters. Regeneration works
only when in animal form, and in animal form, cyberware is rejected
forcefully. (With potentially very damaging results. It doesn't
explicitly state it's due to regneration, leaving a small loophole,
but it's fairly obviously intended.

BTW, just how did you *get* regeneration as a power anyway?

> What the chunk launcher does is scoop a chunk of his living meat/arm
> out, and load it into a launcher mechanism, then fires it at high
> speed, kind of like a very messy shotgun.
This part is okay enough. As long as it wasn't voluntarily installed.
I'd also require a hefty willpower test to fire it.

> When this splattery mess hits an astral body (he can targtet them
> because he has astral perception as a merit) it collides doing 9M
> damage.

Astral bodies doesn't take collision damage. They might be knocked
around a bit, but no damage. Same discussion as FAB or Orichalcum
bullets. (An astral mage can travel at speeds far faster than a
bullet without taking any damage, even if bumping into
things/people.). It is far more a willpower thing. I *might* let it
do willpower(M) damage, as it can represent an action intending
harm... the 'splattery mess' could then be considered an extension of
your arm. But probably not. (We'd see some interesting uses for a
detachable hand next, I'd wager.).

> What do you think?
It's not a good idea. It's very questionable wether it would work at
all... you'd be breaking quite a number of core rules better left
unbroken.

> My GM doesn't like this idea, but I think it should work(.)

And what would you have done next if the idea was endorsed? Ram it
down the GM's throat because 'the list said it's ok' ?. He's trying
to set the background for a story. The characters has to fit that
background. So if he says a character is out, then it's out. In any
local campaign, the GM has more authority than the list. We can
probably serve as 'negotiators' but the final word is the GM's..
as long as the GM is reasonable.

> Oh yeah, I forgot, I took pain resistance as a merit too, so the pain
> from the scoop wouldn't slow me down!

It wouldn't? Possibly not. But you might loose the use of the arm
until it's healed. And that might slow you down after all.

As for Jett's "HEY! I NEEDED THAT SPLEEN!"

I almost lost my lunch right there, I was laughing so hard!
Thanks, Jett, I needed that. ;)


--
Fade

And the Prince of Lies said:
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven."
-John Milton, Paradise Lost