Re: [HOE] Sykers and healing [Hopler]

[Abdullah Oblongota <toadpooka@juno.com>]

The Bleedin' part of the damage is far from negligible, especially after
the fight; you could die in less than two minutes.  I had a Syker try to
Fleshknit a maimed leg and a bad torso wound once.  He started, and I was
in the middle of calculating the Wind loss when we realized that he'd
have bled to death before he finished healing.  So he realized he was
feeling faint, and had to stop (completely blowing the great roll he
made) to make an obscene (23) Medicine roll to bandage himself up ( he
had nasty arm wounds too), and start the Fleshknit again.  I think we
managed to disturb him once more in the process.  That "hour of complete
concentration" is a bastard and a third, too.
I also had a character (also a syker, oddly enough) get shot to
unconciousness with an SA assault rifle once, after which the remaining
characters set to patching up the wounded.  Since I mandated that no one
could ever say what their skills were in such a situation (leaving them
having to roleplay "proving" that they're better field medics without
saying, "I've got 4d12 and you've only got 3d10"), the ensuing discussion
was quite intense (since they only wanted the best medic to help him). 
The whole time, the syker's player had calculated out how long it would
take him to die of Wind loss, and he sat there, quietly looking at his
watch.  by the time the discussion had finished, he was about 30 seconds
away from dead.  Once he woke, he used Fleshknit, but I felt such
painstaking detail in detriment to one's own character was worth a
chip...

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:38:41 -0500 "Steve Davidson, RN"
<goofazoid@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, but what happens if he fails? He wastes a couple hours 
> (maybe a big
> > deal, but not horrible) and gets to try again. Pretty good deal
> > considering it'll take the templar 5 days to heal the same wound, 
> minimum.
> > I thought templars were supposed to be the great healers?
> >
> 
> You forget that all thistime he is bleeding....

From Whom It May Concern,
Rich A Ranallo

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