From:	Mike Loseke <mike@*******.COM>
Subject:	Re: New Cyberware "Chunk-Launcher"
Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 18:16:39 -0600

Thus spake Katt Freyson:
>
> |> 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.

Technically, this argument is not entirely correct. If flesh, once
removed from your body, is dead and not carrying any of a character's
aura then ritual magic wouldn't work as well as it does and the spell
Sterilize would be all but useless.

However, this doesn't make the lame idea of hurling parts of your body at
astral entities, or any other for that matter, to cause damage any more
feasible. If I were this guy's GM I'd just get the word "NO" tattooed
on my forehead and hook a couple dry-cell battery up under his chair.

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