Re: [BNW] page move

[David Fryer <badsign_98@yahoo.com>]

Interesting stuff. Have you considered typing up the
rules for these and placing them on your website?

--- Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org> wrote:
> > What's a beta? I mean besides a fish.
> 
> It's a step between an alpha and a delta. In my
> pseudo-BNW campaign a
> corp. called Medtech (a front for Umbrella Corp.)
> has found a way to make
> a more powerful delta. Basically the theory goes
> that, er...
> 
> spoiler space
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> that everyone has the codes in their DNA to become a
> delta. But that they
> also have a "skip" code in the DNA sequence that
> tells the body to skip
> the next X bits of DNA (the ones that code for the
> delta gene). When the
> body has a near-death experience this CAN cause a
> stimulation of protien
> growth that bridges over the skip sequence, allowing
> the next sequence to
> be read (that delta gene sequence). This causes a
> person to "express" as a
> delta. 
> But when this happens the entire skip sequence isn't
> bridged, only part of
> it. If this happens again (another near death
> experience), this can cause
> the protien strand to grow again, therebye
> triggering the expression of an
> alpha. However the strand becomes so long that it
> tends to break apart.
> This causes massive genetic abnormalities and is why
> an alpha can't be
> grown in a lab.
> But by being more conservative you can stimulate a
> slight increase in
> protien length and make a beta.
> 
> Betas come in two varities: Primary (B1) and
> Secondary (B2). 
> B1's are betas who exhibit increased power in a
> single phenotype (power
> package). So a tougher tough, or a stronger goliath
> would be a B1.
> B2's are betas who exhibit a second phenotype
> totally seperate from the
> first (a speedster/blaster or scrapper/fortunate).
> 
> So far the group has-
> The main char. who is a scrapper/copycat B2
> A sneak/speedster B2
> A Charger B1 (this is the Gambit-style charger from
> The Encaffinated One's
> webpage, no the official one).
> The Charger has heightened damage (10d6 + (2x size
> of item charger with
> KE) and also the ability to absorb damage his armor
> stops and channel it
> into his attacks (so he can add up to +10 to his
> damage, but only up to
> the amount of damage his armor stops, and that
> dissipates over time).
> 
> There are also two beta villains:
> A B1 Goliath - the process has killed his mind and
> heightened his
> aggression to the point that he is a mindless
> killing machine. He has
> str+10 now and is no longer slow.
> 
> Wesker - a bouncer/telekinetic that just recently
> under-went the the beta
> procedure so he could kill Decker, the
> scrapper/copycat.
> 
> There's more to it (side-effects and such). But
> that's the basics.
> 
> Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab
> 
> 
> 	"That's Systems Administrator EXTRAORDINAIRE' to
> you."
> 
> 
> 
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"Is this the part where we bravely run away?"
Seamus Harper
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

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