From:	Christopher Pratt valen@*******.com
Subject:	Ruger Thunderbolt (A correction)
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:50:27 -0400

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From: Manx <timburke@*******.com.au>
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Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Ruger Thunderbolt (A correction)


> At 21:50 22/08/99 -0400 Strago wrote
> >
> > What about one that took one from the body of a dead guard?
> >--
> >--Strago
>
> Firstly, as a GM I would be irresponsible to just give up
> a Ruger Thunderbolt to a player easily. IF and that's a
> big if, a player expressed an interest in obtaining a
> Thunderbolt the following things would happen in my game.
>
> 1) The character's fixer would laugh at him and say
> "You want me to get WHAT!"
>
> Remember that the Thunderbolt has an availability
> of 14/12days. This is nigh on impossible to get in a
> hurry without drama. The Barret 121 has an availability
> TN of 14 as well. When was the last time your fixer
> had one in stock?
>
> 2) If the player expressed such an obsessive desire
> to locate one and 'appropriate' it from it's owner it
> wouldn't be found in the hands of a mere security guard.
> My sec-guys will have a bog stock Predators. Cheap,
> easily purchased, easily serviced and dealer supported.
> No-one's going to want to kill them for the express purpose
> of obtaining their sidearm.
>
> 3) My player would have to target a cop to get one.
> If you was stupid enough to do that AND lucky enough
> to get away from the crime scene with the gun and
> your life then you would have every Lone Star FRT & SWAT
> grunt gunning for you and every available Lone Star mage
> busting out the ritual sorcery materials on that trail
> of blood that you left behind . With a citywide manhunt
> for a cop killer, and a 50,000Y reward for information leading
> to the apprehension of the killer offered by the Mayor's
> office, just how long do you think you'd last? Do you
> trust your level one contacts enough that they wont give
> you up for the reward ?
>
> Sure you may have gotten away from the scene, you
> may have even thought that there were no witnesses,
> who knows there may not have been. Turn up to your
> next meet packing a Thunderbolt and every tool that
> knows you knows for sure that you weren't packing
> that gun last week when we hit Shiawase. They know
> that the cops want the killer and his family dead and
> they're willing to do anything to get you. There's not
> only 50K for dropping a dime from the Mayor, but if
> you've got a good lawyer you may be even able
> to cut a deal with the D.A. for the info and walk with
> a clean slate and a new S.I.N.
>
> Apprehending cop killers make people feel safe, it
> restores the limited faith that Joe Q. Public has in
> his elected officials and the police that keep your
> neighbourhood gangers from placing that sign out
> the front of your apartment that says "Dead Ork
> Storage". It's a superficial sign that the decaying
> justice system still in it's own sick way works.
>
> So do you still want that gun so bad ??

No, I'll just take that .50cal beretta
I'm sure i'll have much more fun with that :)

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