From:	"Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject:	Re: New Cyberware "Chunk-Launcher"
Date:	Mon, 11 May 1998 15:50:31 -0400

Spike wrote:
>And verily, did Demosthenes Three hastily scribble thusly...
>|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.
>|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.
>|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.
>|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.
>
>1> He can't have cyber if he has the Regeneration power, because it'll all
>get expelled by the body, if the medics can even put it in in the first
>place.

He said regeneration *power*, not necessarily a *shapeshifter* - who
knows how many house rules are in effect?

>2> Physical matter can not cause astral damage, and as the hunk of meat is
>only that, a dying hunk of non-astrally active flesh, all that'll happen is
>the astral body gets displaces slightly.

Err - we're getting dangerously close to FAB here.

Me, I'd let him do it. Just don't forget that while regeneration
may *heal* the damage, it won't restore lost *mass*.

A gob of meat would probably have to mass at least a couple of hundred
grams - put that baby on full auto and a few rounds later you have
a dwarf (OK, so "dwarf" could be read "munchkin"... :-).

James Ojaste