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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818  |
You realize that the old FASA offices were in the Cermak building, right?
I feel like a genius! |
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Dec 4 2003, 07:08 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Actually, they were across the street. But nice try.
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Dec 4 2003, 07:09 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Curses. Foiled again.
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Dec 4 2003, 07:11 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
*Gives Moosegod the "almost a genius" hat*
~J |
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Dec 4 2003, 07:16 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
The building seen in these pictures -- right across the street from the old FASA offices [although they weren't the old FASA offices at the time the pictures were taken. . . ] was the actual blast site: http://www.talkinabout.com/gaming/shadowru...run/cermak.html
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Dec 4 2003, 08:06 PM
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Project Terminus: Soul Hunters Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 6-November 03 From: Casselberry, Florida U.S.A. Member No.: 5,798 |
What does it matter it was a nuke I'm sure ther was some damage to fasa's building. Unless of course your saying that the shield was so small so as to only enclose the building that was the target?
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Dec 4 2003, 08:09 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Actually, the description for the Cermak Blast means that FASA's building might still be there. Remember, the blast was really bizarre.
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Dec 4 2003, 08:35 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Once upon a time, someone asked Mike Mulvihill about the Cermak Blast. It went something like this:
:grinbig: BTW: Whatever happened to Mike Mulvihill, Tom Dowd and Paul Hume? |
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Dec 4 2003, 08:37 PM
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Project Terminus: Soul Hunters Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 6-November 03 From: Casselberry, Florida U.S.A. Member No.: 5,798 |
Mr Dowd left went to microsoft although I seem to recall that he has sence moved on from them as well.
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Dec 4 2003, 10:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 262 Joined: 26-February 02 From: A wreched hive of scum and villany. Member No.: 1,479 |
Dont be fooled, Satan dosent let you leave... |
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Dec 4 2003, 10:56 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Not really weird. It was normal nuke that went off inside a powerful containment vessel (a high-force barrier spell). |
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Dec 4 2003, 10:58 PM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
That must of been one hell of a chunky salsa effect. :D
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Dec 4 2003, 11:06 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Not so much "chunky" as "fine mist" I thinks.
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Dec 5 2003, 12:46 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
A nuke has a "fine mist" effect even when it goes off on a flat plain. Within a high-force barrier spell, even with a small nuke, everything would instantly reach at least a 6-digit temperature (Celsius) and get enough radiation to blast the individual cells to pieces. Or something like that.
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Dec 5 2003, 12:47 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Actually, directly under the nuke, you get a total vaporization of just about everything that's not solid steel (think the Peace Dome at Hiroshima.)
I was trying to come up with something funny, and failing. |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:07 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
It's a nuclear weapon going off. When is that not fun in and of itself?
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Dec 5 2003, 01:16 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
In real life?
In SR, Nukes certainly are Fun. I was contemplating making rules for them, but then I figured that the Blast rating would suck so bad that the nukes could never do what the do IRL, like immediately setting alight anything flammable (like forests, or clothing) within dozens of kilometers. |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:22 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
As a GM, I've used nukes twice (both in my Taiwan campaign). I said "screw the rules" and sank the supercarrier and ruined the section of the city that was targeted.
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Dec 5 2003, 01:29 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Screwing the rules is definitely what I'd do anyway. But it would be really cool to get to say "Resist 2,121,320 D+265,165, no Combat Pool, Impact armor applies". That's 500 megaton surface explosion ground zero, explosive effect only.
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Dec 5 2003, 01:31 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Awwww, be nice.
Let them use the combat pool. :vegm: |
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Dec 5 2003, 01:57 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 413 Joined: 20-November 03 Member No.: 5,835 |
Well, trouble with using combat pool is, how many successes does the nuke have? they might claim they can dodge it ;D As for the vaporization inside the barrier spell -- I imagine that the temperature could have gotten high enough to turn things to plasma, even. w00t! Subatomic destruction and rearrangement. I can just picture the shiny glass-like crater afterwards . . . ;) |
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Dec 5 2003, 02:04 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
All of them. ~J |
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Dec 5 2003, 06:07 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 328 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,353 |
On the subject of nukes, am I the only one with this opinion? Considering that nearly everything alive is more or less instantly killed by a nuke going off along with all the emotions (nearly all negative) involved, a nuke should create at temporary level 10 mana warp at ground zero that lowers off depending on the size of the nuke. Otherwise, astral projecting mages and spirits could hang around at ground zero when it's going off and only go "Why is it so dark?"
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Dec 5 2003, 06:39 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Considering Ancient History's section on the relationship between nuclear weapons and magic, I'd say you're not the only one.
~J |
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Dec 5 2003, 10:33 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
(roll - roll - roll) 'Took a light, kids these days...' |
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