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[hyzmarca]

Traditionally, in cartoons, high explosives such as dynamite and Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulators do not cause any damage to living targets other than a blacked face, even if they have enough explosive power to destroy entire planets, as is the case of the Illudium PU-36 ESM.

This is also true, to a lesser extent, in SR4.

Let us introduce Mr. Daffy, a plain old wageslave with 2s across the board. Mr. Daffy, however, is concerned with his safety so he owns and wears and armored jacket.

Mr. Daffy, on a dare from Mr. Bugs, duck tapes several sticks of dynamite, totaling 1 kilogram in mass, to his armored jacket. Mr. Daffy then lights those sticks and walks into work. They, of course, explode quite embarrassingly. The resulting 3DV damage is converted to stun by Mr. Daffy's jacket, leaving him with a terrible headache and a soot-blackened face. There is, likewise, blackening and slight damage to his office and its contents.

At this point, I will ask that interested parties try this at home. Duct tape a kilogram of dynamite to a kevlar vest with a Rating III ceramic insert and put it on. Set off the explosives and see if you survive. I'm pretty sure that it will be fatal, but I could be wrong. Do it in a crowded place with plenty of people and sensitive equipment around and make a record of the damage if you do survive
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Disclaimer: By reading this disclaimer dumbasses who are stupid enough to blow themselves to hell indemnify me from all civil liability.
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Obviously, the damage potential of commercial high explosives is extremely lacking, potential in the lethality of point-blank contact.


The next example, however, is a bit more extreme.

Meet Gary Swallows, troll; gay porn star. As a gay porn star, Gary lives up to his name. He swallows quite well. He is extremely adept at swallowing long hard sticks. So it is no problem for him to swallow several intact sticks of dynamite, even if they do have lit fuses.

Gary Swallows, having deep throated and then some several sticks of dynamite with lit fuses, is forced to resist 3P damage with body alone. He's a fucking hard-bodied troll (emphasis on fucking) so this is trivial for him. He suffers nothing but slight heartburn from the exploding dynamite and lets out a belch powerful enough to cause 3P damage to anyone within its path for the first meter, reduced by 1P every meter thereafter.

An I the only one who finds this just slightly ridiculous. There is some fun in playing a troll who uses a dynamite butt-plug as a last-ditch holdout weapon, certainly, but it is ever so slightly unrealistic.