Which you use to fight to you EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle.

A knife is a very dangerous weapon, and can be (in some ways) as dangerous as a gun. I am skilled with a pistol. In my hands it is a very dangerous precise weapon. Alas I can't always carry a pistol.

Knives (I feel) are more scarry than pistols, just because the cutting involved. Think Leon in "The Professional".

So after thinking about this for a bit, I came up with a possible Build.

Ork

Attributes:
Bod 6
Agi 5
Rea 4
Str 7
Cha 3
Int 3
Log 2
Wil 3
Edge 3
Magic 5
Init 7(

Adept Powers
Attribute Boost AGI 2
Attribute Boost STR 2
Improved Ability Blades 2
Improved Ability Throwing 2 (edited for typo)
Improved Reflexes 1

Skills
Blades (kinves) 5 (7)
Throwing (knives) 5 (7)
Athletics Group 3
Stealth Group 3
Perception 2
Ettiquette 2

Gear:
Knife Weapon Focus R-1
Low Lifesyle
Leather Jacket
Armor Clothing
Meta Link / Xim
Fake SIN R-2
Throwing Knives x5

Contact: Mafia Lieutenant 2/3

Basic concept is a street tough who has shown enough promise that a local mafioso has taken him under his wing for use as extra muscle in shakedowns and to do a little work on things the family needs to keep at arms length, like delivery of BTL consignments to local street gangs and return with the money.

Argghhh Typos! Second one should be Throwing not blades, sorry.

Well, if any of that fails then you use it.

~J

if someone just wants to give you a black eye, that's one thing. self-defense is another. then again, if he just wants to give you a black eye, he's probably going to back off when he sees the knife. if not, well, you're doing the gene pool a favor.

mfb made my point for me. There is a long list of things that I don't do, unarmed or armed, if I don't feel my life is potentially in danger. The knife just makes some of those things easier to do should I choose to do them.

~J

Anyway... on another note, I was involved in an interesting series of tests once. One trained fighter given a dummy knife with ink or chalk on it to mark a hit, and the other given a stick, (usually a basic 60cm dowel, but we tried rolled magazines, collapsing batons, plastic coke bottles and other stuff.)

We did dozens of trials and kept a record, and about 9 times out of 10, the guy got his knife knocked out of his hand before he could close to use it. (Well, not with some of the improvised stuff.) Let's hear it for reach bonus, I guess!

We'd also throw knives into grappling fights. Most of the time, the two guys fighting didn't notice. We also filed down some different knives so they had no edge, and tried pulling them out from different pockets, etc. once "attacked." Didn't keep stats on that, but I'll be damned if I could get one out while someone was pounding on me.

Interesting stuff, I thought.

yeah, getting your knife out when you're surprised is a slow process, especially if you don't keep it readily accessible.

That entire thread has destroyed my brain.

~J

I'm pretty sure it's my brain. That's the thing to the right of the stomach, isn't it?

~J

no that's your arm

Your brain is the thing that controls it and allows it to wank properly

And there we have it, proof that Kremlin KOA has studied Kagetenshi's wanking technique and deeming it "proper."

Welfare had cut me off

It was either that job or my family starves to death

I can understand how that must have been a hard choice to make, and hope you don't wind up regretting it later.

I may have nightmares for a few years

But at least I am alive

The bit that worried me is when a pair of Vietnam veterans (ex POWs) told me that they really felt how hard it was for me

But did anyone feel how hard it was for him?

you should all die horribly.

horribly.

All of us? It seems a bit harsh to kill everyone because of the transgressions of just a couple.

Holy crap man, are you just posting drivel to get your post count up?
If so ... post in Drop bears ... at least I don't read that one.

MFB: I deserve to die horribly, but not for this thread

Platinum: No, I just find a joke like James' to be like a scab, I just can't stop picking at it until it bleeds, lots.

Holy crap man, are you just replying to crap to get your post count up?

Nope, I'm posting crap because it's amusing, and because I come to this board to have fun. Most of that fun comes from discussing shadowrun, but sometimes someone will say something I find amusing and I'll comment on it.

It's kinda like you coming here to have fun. (Presumably) most of your fun comes from disccussing shadowrun. But sometimes someone will say something you find offensive (perhaps because it's off topic), and you'll comment on it.