From:	Sebastian Wiers m0ng005e@*****.com
Subject:	While we're on the topic of munchkins...
Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:23:13 -0500

>>> For some reason, I keep thinking that Mongoose (Seb Wiers) had something
in
> this range as well.

You know, I think you might be right... I don't remember much more than
that, though :/ >>>

Mongoose the PC was essentially a less extreme version of the elven speed
samurai, and an obvious case of parallel thinking. I would have been just
as happy with an ork, but the concept of a elf samurai apealed to me at the
time. Well, less extremely fast- his starting intiaitive was "only"
16+4d6- but still.... I mostly traded that last inch of speed for toughness
(body 5/6 plus platelet factory, plus that insane speed sam combat pool
under SR2 rules), some skillwires, and gear.
Thanks to the skillwires and a good amount of contacts, he was also not a
complete waste of oxegen once combat ended, but his primary job was still
mostly just making sure nobody in the groop got hurt to bad before they
could do the REAL job. His wired 3 got broken and were never fixed in game
play, but in his current (mostly theoretical) version, his initiative is
"only" 16+3d6. He may qualify as the slowest, cheapest cyberzombie in the
world, in fact.

-Mongoose / Sebastian Wiers