From:	JonSzeto@***.com JonSzeto@***.com
Subject:	Toxins
Date:	Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:07:20 EST

David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.carl.org> wrote,

> / Basically, the only factors in severity were
> / determined by concentration, exposure, and (to a small degree) body mass.
>
> What do you mean by exposure? Method of exposure?

"Exposure" means exactly what your dirty, filthy little mind in the gutter
thinks it means. :-) No, seriously, what I mean by exposure means how
vulnerable (or not) the victim is to contamination: whether or not he's
wearing a chemsuit, how effective the chemsuit is (a military MOPP suit may be
good against nerve gas, but it gets eaten up quite easily by sulfuric acid
faster than you can say "sh*t out of luck"), how long the poor brainer remains
in the area, and so on.

> For example a toxin might do straight damage, either 1 box of damage
> per success, or one damage level per success (1 Light, 2 Moderate, 3
> Serious, 4 Deadly, 5 "He's dead Jim.").
>
> Or you could easily apply other affects.
>
> 1 success: temporary disruption of nervous system, +1 to all success
> test for 12 hours.

<examples for 2+ successes snipped>

You could also do a combination of both; for every success the toxin scores,
it does 1 box of damage (Physical or Stun, your choice). Additionally, when
the toxin scores 2 boxes total of damage, the subject receives an additional
+1 modifier to all physical Success Tests (due to mild convulsions), and so
on. Depending on the type of toxin involved, any combination of symptoms can
occur.

-- Jon