From:	Katt Freyson <katt@******.NET>
Subject:	Re: New Cyberware "Chunk-Launcher"
Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 17:31:13 -0400

|> From: Demosthenes Three
|> Sent: May 10, 1998 12:20 AM
|> Subject: New Cyberware "Chunk-Launcher"

|> What do you think?
|> My GM doesn't like this idea, but I think it should work because the
|> meat is very fresh - just scooped from his arm, so the living aura
|> should still be there, right?

In a word, no-f*(&ing-way. This idea wrong on many fronts, these being:
1) Dead flesh is dead flesh, a second after leaving your body, such flesh
should be considered dead and not carrying any of your aura. Dead flesh is
like any inanimate matter, it will fly right through an astral being. It
won't even move one such being around, because only living matter and the
Earth itself [IIRC] stop astral beings.

2) As many have stated, no implanting of cyberwear in someone who has
regenerating power, nuff said.

3) The only way you could have done damage to the astral being with your
flesh, would be in melee combat [and of course flesh is not necessary].
Range combat cannot do damage to an astral being [though there might be a
few exceptions to this rule they don't matter here].

4) Pain resistance or not, you start taking chunks out of your arm, you will
be slowed down. For one thing you will take enough wounds to put you down
[how fast does Regenerate work anyways?] and you could lose the use of the
arm until said regeneration occurs.

5) Unless regeneration changes things, even with pain resistance, if you go
over D you are unconscious. No?

6) This is a totally sick idea that I cannot see anyone accepting on their
own. Perhaps were you to brainwash someone, but...yuck.

7) In my opinion, your game master is correct, the idea, though creative,
just does not work.

Katt Freyson
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Montreal, Canada
http://www.dsuper.net/~katt