[BNW] Re: [BNW]Pulling Punches

["Caias Brian Ward" <talespinner@mindspring.com>]

I'm working.

And since Matt proclaimed the the word from on high, think about pulling
your own punch in a heat of battle.  I fight in the SCA and martial arts,
and when you are fighting full out, it takes some effort to slow yourself
down or aim for a let vital area.  Hence, the trick.

Caias Brian Ward

----- Original Message -----
From: Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>
To: Brave New World <bnw@gamerz.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [BNW] [Matt] Pulling Punches


>
> Do you really need to worry about successes and tricks and stuff. I
> picture it being a lot more simple than all that. I figure the use of
> their powers is pretty much a biological function of the deltas and just
> as I can slow my breathing and only exhale half a breath if I want to, I
> would figure the Hotshot could exhale only half a breath of fire too.
> Likewise a Screamer could scream at less than full volume, and it isn't a
> far leap to the Blaster's blasts being a similar biological function. In
> the comic at the beginning of BNW the blaster that Patriot faces off with
> has electricty looking blasting powers, so couldn't he just not shoot out
> max. voltage?
> P.S. I liked the fact that not all blasters are alike, it would be weird
> if EVERY blaster's attack looked/functioned exactly the same.
>
> Now this may seem incongruous, because afterall it takes a trick to up the
> damage, why not one to lower it? Well that's because you're pushing the
> limits instead of working beneath them...
>
> > Caias Brian Ward
> > "Up at 2:30 in the morning for how many cents a word???"
>
> Well at least I'm not the only one. Are you working or just an insomniac?
> (I am the former)