Responsible for countless John Doe's

It really is amusing that people think I do not actually know who John Browning is...
Quite Entertaining...

TJ, I had to educate people on who SAMUEL COLT was.

"They talk about him in Supernatural, was he famous or something?"

4171. I am not allowed to convince my GM that WAR! introduced the "Basilisk Mask" that allows you to turn people into stone.

Yes, but how many people, otherthen you, some other overenthusiastic gun nuts, and some history buffs really want to know?

(Yes, I know who he is, but I fall more on the history side. Just not a fan of guns.)

True, but when did I get "Google" tattooed on my forehead in a rainbow of colours?

I know the feeling... I'm "that guy" in every group I've had the (dis)pleasure of calling friends.

When was the last time you got drunk?

Back before the Internet became popular and available, I at least understood why.Never been that drunk. Also, I grew up in tattoo parlors. You don't get a tattoo while drunk, your blood is thinned, and the ink runs ruining the work.

"Here, Let Me Google That For You" might be better.

Actually, tattoos aren't the type of bod mods that would look good on me, so none of those.

4172: I am not to use my extensive knowledge of body modification to humiliate my enemies. Unless they've really, really deserved it.

4172a: In addition, I am forbidden from using the phrase, "penis reduction surgery" henceforth. We're running out of willing GMs.

4172b: "Blowing up breast reduction clinics" is not a hobby.

4173: No longer allowed to exceed great dragon initiative in meatspace with a mundane character. Well, it'll be forbidden soon anyway.

They've only got a 24. Beating that isn't that much of a challenge. Not that even does you any good.

Mundane, so pump reaction with enhanced attribute, metagenetic improvement, and gene optimization, then add wired reflexes III and reaction enhancers. If allowed, you can also get the same qualities and geneware for intuition, giving you 13 reaction and 9 intuition. That's a theoretical max that you'll never reach in game, and it's only 22. Not to mention your character has nothing left over (except maybe some nuyen) to invest in other aspects and make that 22 useful.
I'd say that's a bit of a challenge.

Hmm, I suppose so.

Edge: Go first, simple and done.

Not that it's likely to do a lot of good.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW!?

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW!?

Yes, but I want to make them spend edge two or three times. Once to negate my edge, once to make me reroll my hits, and once to go first since I rolled so many dice I would go first anyway. One of the issues with great dragons is that the GM can justify the hand of god use of edge. GD's have less edge than a lucky human, but so many enticing uses for it. The GD can run out of edge in a flash if you play your cards right.

Even Great Dragons are restricted to 1 edge per turn.

I am no longer allowed to spike my team member's drinks with hard drugs in our meeting with the fixer...

Crap, now I need to completely remake my character!! X(

*per test, not per turn, and since they can use edge on your tests, it can be over fast.

Heh... That, too, is entertaining. Ah, Youth...

You're forgetting to add in the Red Alert reality amplifier, and the TacNet bonus. You could have a 27 initiative.

If you absolutely, 100%, ALWAYS need to go first....

thats what Adrenaline Surge is for. Not sure if worth 15 points, but make room for it.

Ok, you got me. I was basically talking about using your matrix initiative in drones to turn it into meatspace initiative, and you got close enough with the tacnet.
10 response (WAR)
9 intuition (hard maxed with all the bonuses)
+1 (customized interface)
+1 (simsense accelerator or booster)
+1 (hot sim)
+6 (response enhancer)
+4 (tacnet)
=32 + whatever drugs you take.

This one goes to TJ:
4174: No longer allowed to make gun related puns

You wouldn't happen to know where I could get a datajack, would you? *gets hopes up*

4172c: it's a crusade.

And me?

Heh... *pouts*

You just scare us. Nothing we can really do about that, but cut ourselves and kill gnomes.

Well, gotta have some kind of defense against US Invasion...

4173: I am not a defense against US Invasion.
4173a: Not even if I get a muzzle-loaded cannon and point it south.

4174: A warm gun is not an acceptable substitute for happiness

The more crazy guys who can point a gun south, the better when they eventually come for our water.

I'm Canadian. The closest I can get to a warm firearm is a Beatle's song.Please, water? Electricity and oil. It's the rich folks that run factories that will facilitate the war, and they can afford all the bottled water they could ever want out of purification plants.

'Course, that could be one way to rally the mob.

In the case that you fail in your invasion, I'm willing to grant you clemency in exchange for national rights to Michael J Fox & several bands to be named at a later date, and a year's supply of Canadian bacon.

Not to mention that water is pretty easy to purify. Simply putting it through a sand filter increases its quality from "unsafe" to "at least you won't die from dysentery."

"You're fucked from the radiation, though."

If you've got radiation problems due to the world being in a "post nuclear apocalypse" state and you don't have any iodine, you're pretty much fucked anyway.
(i.e. radiation poisoning isn't a problem unless there's been a nuclear accident of some sort)

The mob would rally, after all, how long until the US population does outgrow it's sustainable water supply?


If it's so easy to purify, why are there millions of people all over the world dying from lack of clean water (or lack of any water)?

"Lack of water" is another issue entirely.
"Lack of clean water" has to do with the fact that small-scale cleaning (enough to keep yourself hydrated in the event of the apocalypse) isn't sufficient in the long term¹, materials may be hard to come by, and do require some level of education to construct. Large-scale cleaning is out of their ability as a larger economy.

¹The method I've mentioned is very basic and you should still boil your water. In order to get "even better" you need pressurized sand, which has to be back-washed daily in order to stay viable. Clean water at the level that we have it in the developed world is only 200 years old, or so (and the problem has only existed as a scientific one since the early 1600s).

Poor sanitation as well as socioeconomic issues are also responsible for the lack of clean water in many of the areas suffering as such. Regional power struggles and/or lack of regulations on certain resources or the processing of waste all result in the inability to construct, maintain, and benefit from large-scale water purification and aqueducts, not to mention the other resources (advanced education, medicine, etc.) that such problems limit in those areas.

Edit: There is one method for water purification that works on a daily basis, and requires only the technology to work with glass well enough to create a greenhouse. Construct a decently sealed glass Pyramid with water poured into a container in the middle. The sun will evaporate the water in the middle container, causing it to later condense on the outside walls and flow down to the outside of the pyramid. The water on the outside should be very pure, at the very least clean enough for personal use. However, this goes back to those problems listed earlier

IIRC, if you're able to get access to non-irradiated charcoal, and replace it frequently enough, it does absorb enough of the radiation to help with the issue. The major issue with be "Black Rain" and "Nuclear Winter" which will do a big number on trees.

And apparently Iodine only helps with certain types of radiation.

4175: I am not allowed to base a campaign around the Fallout world, no matter how much that would rock.

A lot of toxic chemicals, however, will also evaporate and end up in your condensate.
But otherwise, good idea.

I want all of you to know that you are invited to my military installation when I take it over. It's in a river with no running water or power. Come. Fort Carroll will be mine, oh yes. It will be mine.

I've already had a bunch of folks in Winnipeg outright state: "When the Apocalypse happens, I'm hiding behind you."

One of them even works for the Canadian Armed Forces (Admittedly as a civilian.).