What stats would you give depleted uranium lacing, Less strength but about 5 times denser,. |
What stats would you give depleted uranium lacing, Less strength but about 5 times denser,. |
May 19 2004, 05:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 162 Joined: 14-April 04 Member No.: 6,239 |
...then titanium. Probably no balistic and some impact, and a bigger thump when unarmed.
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May 19 2004, 06:21 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 |
Bad idea. Really bad. The method of inserting the stuff into your body might release quite a bit of radiation. If it breaks at all, which it probably does within a body even without getting shot, the tiny particles in your blood flow will continuously radiate you. I'm pretty sure it radiates tiny amounts regardless, which is quite likely to lead to serious health problems.
Plus it's a heavy metal. You could get uranium poisoning, like you can get lead or mercury poisoning. I'm not sure whether tungsten would work better. That might just be an overall "better" version of Titanium Bone Lacing, since it's harder and heavier than titanium. Should also have an increased Essence rating, though. And if tungsten in your body is a health risk, you can forget about that one as well. |
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May 19 2004, 06:31 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Yeah, I second that. This is just an awful idea. If the low levels of radiation don't get you, the heavy metal poisoning will. You might as well suggest arsenic bone lacing while you're at it. As for tungsten, I'd be concerned about potential blood poisoning and leukemia, though some research suggests it's either inert or fairly inert. Other research suggests that it can kill you. Nothing conclusive so far.
Me, I just want some molybdenum bone lacing. Oh yeah. |
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May 19 2004, 06:52 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 752 |
depleted uranium is not so strong as it is heavy. also when it comes to an impact there is a large incendiary effect. so imagine some bullet hitting your bone and causing you to burst into flame rather than just break your bone.
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May 19 2004, 07:01 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
It is incindiary with high friction, but I doubt small arms fire is enough to cause it to ignite, and moreso if it's had to travel through flesh to get there. Still, even if it doesn't burn you alive from the inside out, I'm pretty sure the cancer and blood poisoning and bone deformation are enough to make this one bad fucking idea.
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May 19 2004, 07:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 226 Joined: 4-June 03 Member No.: 4,685 |
You can turn into cyberzombie and then use depleted uranium lacing.
No worries about blood poisoning and stuff. Maybe just higher chance to die of cancer? Note - most probably no PC can play cyberzombie good enough. With all those collapsing memories, replay and other things. |
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May 19 2004, 08:00 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,685 Joined: 17-August 02 Member No.: 3,123 |
I think it's an awesome idea. There's already 'ware that turns you into a vegetable within a year or two, why not one that gives you heavy metal poisoning?
If you've already got Lead Bone Lacing, you may as well upgrade ;) |
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May 19 2004, 08:21 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 17-December 03 Member No.: 5,909 |
hey that would go great with the borrowed time edge. Although payingoff the edge would have to remove the lacing
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May 19 2004, 08:39 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 498 Joined: 31-May 02 From: All the way in the Back to the Left. Member No.: 2,800 |
Cutter I suggest you try it and get back to us. :please:
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May 19 2004, 10:07 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
The other posters have pretty much summed up the risks. DU is weakly radioactive (it's hard to find a less radioactive isotope than U-238, but in the body...) and it's about as toxic as lead. It's also not particularly strong or tough. It does have the advantage of density so, as you said, there wouldn't be much in the way of armor bonuses. What you might get is a really expensive form of a club built into your body with your now-heavier bones. I'd recommend just using a club or titanium bonelacing. |
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May 19 2004, 11:43 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 226 Joined: 4-June 03 Member No.: 4,685 |
On the other hand, bones from Orichalcum (not looking at cost)...
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May 19 2004, 01:17 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Now that would be interesting, just to make a "Level Boss" NPC opponent for one of the magically oriented nations, like the Tirs. |
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May 19 2004, 03:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 665 Joined: 20-November 03 Member No.: 5,834 |
Hmm, each bone as a seperate foci. Try and seperate this guy from his magic augmentation!
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May 19 2004, 04:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Do you think you could di-kote the orichalcum before it was implanted? :D
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May 19 2004, 05:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 216 Joined: 27-January 04 Member No.: 6,025 |
I say skip the time-consuming cancer and blood poisoning and just skip straight to the Francium lacing :noflame:
It's a pun, ask someone who knows their chemistry :proof: |
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May 19 2004, 05:24 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Or get it and have the troll or giant character use you as a club. Canon Companion has some stats for using metahuman bodies as a weapon.... ;) |
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May 19 2004, 05:40 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
Why? Cesium works well enough and actually retains it's element type long enough to react. Francium tends to decay before it can react with anything. |
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May 19 2004, 06:04 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 264 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Houston Member No.: 6,197 |
True, but isn't cesium liquid at room temperature? Is that suitable for lacing?
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May 19 2004, 06:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 942 Joined: 13-May 04 Member No.: 6,323 |
Pretty sure it's solid at room temp... until it hits water, of course.
DU bones would be only somewhat harmful do to radiation, but the poisoning effect would be a killer... literally. JaronK |
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May 19 2004, 06:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Kill Em All Member No.: 2,018 |
Well, back in my day we had Magnesium+Potassium bone lacing in our diving characters. We called them "newbies."
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May 19 2004, 07:14 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Eventually, after several years or more. How fast is lead poisoning? |
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May 19 2004, 07:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 320 Joined: 13-August 02 From: Austin, Republic of Texas (not CAS) Member No.: 3,094 |
it's not so much the dead part of lead poisoning that would take you out pretty fast, it's the Crazy :silly: part... then the dead part.
-Mike R. |
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May 19 2004, 07:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 260 Joined: 20-March 04 From: That really good state. Yeah, you know the one... Member No.: 6,177 |
*Idle Speculation*
Under normal circumstances (lead pipes, lead based paint etc.)I dont think that it would be an exceptionally quick death, but think of how much of your body would be in contact with the lead/DU bones. Im no doctor but I think virtually all of your major organs would be in contact with this stuff. That cant be healthy. |
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May 19 2004, 07:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 942 Joined: 13-May 04 Member No.: 6,323 |
The radiation would just cause cancer. That much lead in your system would cause almost instant shock... the person in question would be dead within a day I'd guess. If it were somehow made to leak slowly, instead, they might last up to a month or so. Meanwhile, they would become rapidly retarded, suffering massive brain damage. Also, DU is heavy, but not strong, so it would encumber the hell out of them for little benifit. If I were making game rules for it, I'd go with
-5 essence, +60kg weight, +1 Body, Same damage dealt as titanium, roll a d6 each day, on a 1 you're dead. JaronK |
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May 19 2004, 07:59 PM
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Jesus Freak Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,141 Joined: 23-April 04 From: Anaheim, CA Member No.: 6,274 |
Ok, so stuff like DU or Lead don't work, but are there any other materials that anyone has played around with for Bone Lacing?
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