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Wounded Ronin
post Apr 25 2006, 10:14 PM
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This is an exerpt from a book on predictive psychology I found from 1997. It has many anecdotes and stories for an easy read. Just for your sick amusement and wonderment I'm typing up a paragraph in it about how a Judas Priest obsessed kid tried to kill himself with a sawn of shotgun but only blew his jaw off and lived for a while afterwards.

It just goes to show that even the almighty headshot is not necessarily an instapwn. Sniffle.

The way I see it the only way this could have happend was with hitpoints. I just don't see how an unarmored man could take a called shot at power 10+ at base damage S upgraded to D and not go and die. Oh no, D20 wins.

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In his less than enthusiastic positioning of that shotgun in his mouth, he failed to kill himself but succeeded at creating an unsettling irony: He became as frightening to behold as anything that ever appeared on the cover of a Judas Priest album.  In his hesitation to murder himself, James shot off the bottom of his face.  His chin, jaw, tongue, and teeth were all gone, blown around the churchyard.  I cannot describe how he looked and I also cannot forget it.  I've seen my share of alarming autopsy photos, of people so injured that death was the only possible result, people so injured that death was probably a relief, but something about James Vance living in a body damaged more than enough to be dead was profoundly disturbing.

Even lawyers who thought they'd seen it all were shaken when he arrived at depositions, a towel wrapped around his neck to catch saliva that ran freely from where the bottom of his face had been.


Source: De Becker, Gavin. "The Gift of Fear." Little, Brown, and Company 1998. ISBN 0440226198
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- Wounded Ronin   The existence of hitpoints proven   Apr 25 2006, 10:14 PM
- - Ancient History   Ah, the real-life version of Arseface. In Shadowr...   Apr 25 2006, 10:20 PM
- - Kanada Ten   Hand of God? Anyway, Bizarre magazine had a pictu...   Apr 25 2006, 10:20 PM
- - James McMurray   Sounds more like a critical glitch to me.   Apr 25 2006, 10:21 PM
- - hyzmarca   It didn't say how long he lived after being sh...   Apr 25 2006, 10:30 PM
- - FanGirl   I was going to post about how an article I read fo...   Apr 25 2006, 10:31 PM
- - Austere Emancipator   Have you seen "motorcycle.jpg" (which ha...   Apr 25 2006, 10:32 PM
- - FanGirl   QUOTE (Austere Emancipator @ Apr 25 2006, 05:...   Apr 25 2006, 11:17 PM
- - emo samurai   The kid may have been the inspiriation for Arsefac...   Apr 25 2006, 11:18 PM
- - hyzmarca   At this point I'd like to point out to all GMs...   Apr 25 2006, 11:32 PM
- - Shrike30   I was reading a book written by an NYPD robbery de...   Apr 25 2006, 11:58 PM
- - HMHVV Hunter   QUOTE (Shrike30) I was reading a book written by a...   Apr 26 2006, 12:20 AM
- - Shrike30   My understanding is that the NYPD switched from .3...   Apr 26 2006, 02:09 AM
- - Calvin Hobbes   Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Street...   Apr 26 2006, 05:35 AM
- - Voran   QUOTE (Austere Emancipator) Have you seen "mo...   Apr 26 2006, 07:28 AM
- - Austere Emancipator   QUOTE (Shrike30)9mm isn't really a significant...   Apr 26 2006, 10:56 AM
- - Kremlin KOA   QUOTE (Kanada Ten) Hand of God? Anyway, Bizarre m...   Apr 26 2006, 03:06 PM
- - The Other DSE   I think that the best description of damage I...   May 2 2006, 02:06 AM
- - Crusher Bob   That's the face + neck, not just the neck. Th...   May 2 2006, 09:09 AM
- - Austere Emancipator   This guy (WARNING: there's brains in this pict...   May 2 2006, 11:33 AM
- - Konsaki   That was with a 50Cal sniper rifle from a mile awa...   May 2 2006, 11:51 AM
- - Austere Emancipator   If it's a very long range shot, then it probab...   May 2 2006, 12:37 PM
- - Tanka   Can we please not link to Rotten.com? Sure, the d...   May 2 2006, 03:23 PM
- - The Other DSE   Thanks for the clarification Crusher Bob. I didn...   May 2 2006, 03:56 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (Shrike30) My understanding is that the NYPD...   May 2 2006, 11:09 PM

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