From:	Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject:	Q?: Mist form - Ghouls - Decking
Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:54:00 -0600

:> 1. Mist form:
:> Does a vampire using mist form keep his clothes ?
:> Does he take with him what he is holding ?
:
:A mist-formed vamp keeps his clothes and little else. If he/she has
:*any* cyberware in him/her/it, it will at that time fall out. Any
:gear carried with it will be dropped as it's hand's molecules become
:too loose to support anything. The clothes it gets to keep, and this
:includes (GM discretion) armoured clothing, but no other armour.

Realising that novels are not truely "cannon", heres the straight dope
from "Terminus Experiment", as I read it- I think Jak Koke is on this
list, so maybe he could comment:

1) Martin DeVries and other Vampire characters go in an out of mistform,
and rematralize fully clothed. Martin carries weapons and a focus when
doing so, even. No vampire in the story does so while wearing much armor
(they are all to cocky to wear combat armor), or while holding a large
object.

2) People who have cyberware before they are infected retain that cyber
(and its use / effects) and have no mentioned loss of vampiric powers (IE,
can still atain mistform). HOWEVER, if any of thier cyberwear is ever
damaged, they die, or at least automatically fail to regenerate. The
later makes some sense- there's no way to regenerate cyber, but it IS part
of the vampire...
People are intentionally given cyberware of various sorts in "TE"
before vampiric infection. I really shouldn't say why, to avoid ruining
it for others. No special genetic modification of HMHVV was needed to do
so, as far as I could tell, although this was often done as well.
Bioware is of no use to vampires- they are dead, or at least thier
biology no longer benefits from its effects.

3) Cyberware can not be succesfully implanted in already infected vapire
types. However, vampires can be put into torpor if they are deprived of
air. It might be possible to do (non-implant) surgery on a vampire if the
work was done in a vacuum (or underwater- vacuum seems the better choice),
if that torporous state prevents regenration.

Mongoose