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Rules Clarification: drugs in guns

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Tue, 2015-07-14 11:16

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

Rules Clarification: drugs in guns

Capsule and Splash bullets, as well as the Freezer spray weapon all say that you can add drugs to the mix in order to double down on the hate, to speak colloquially. But how many doses are required? The ammo is sold in blocks of 100, but is a single dose of a drug sufficient for all 100 units of ammo? Or one dose per 'clip,' thus 20 for Freezers, 10, 12, or whatever it may be for the firearm with the capsule/splash bullets? Or does every shot need a single dose? With a small toolbox sized fabber that nanofabricates the drugs, I don't think it will be a huge issue for the specific circumstance that has come up in my games, but I wanted to know if anyone knew off-hand or could specify where it says exactly.

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Tue, 2015-07-14 12:14

Kojak

This has come up in my

This has come up in my campaign, because one of the players is a scum drug dealer who prefers freezers and shard pistols (and he likes to spritz the ammo with DDR if he's going up against synths, just because it's hilarious). I've gone with a rule of one dose per clip, and it seems to work so far.

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Tue, 2015-07-14 14:23

viorlashasui viorlashasui's picture

For capsule rounds, it reads

For capsule rounds, it reads as if one dose is sufficient for the entire batch of 100 bullets, given the cost is Trivial+Payload. I'd assume that the same principle applies where not specified otherwise.

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Wed, 2015-07-15 01:59

thebluespectre thebluespectre's picture

Kojak wrote:(and he likes to

Kojak wrote:
(and he likes to spritz the ammo with DDR if he's going up against synths, just because it's hilarious)

…How is he adding a computer virus to bullets? Are they modified Jammer rounds? Side note: The Sprayer fires one whole dose of chemical all at once… hitting multiple targets, of course.

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Wed, 2015-07-15 03:11

Kojak

thebluespectre wrote:Kojak

thebluespectre wrote:
Kojak wrote:
(and he likes to spritz the ammo with DDR if he's going up against synths, just because it's hilarious)
…How is he adding a computer virus to bullets? Are they modified Jammer rounds?

Look, if a player wants shoot robots with flechettes that also make them dance uncontrollably, that's hilarious and I'm not going to stand in his way. That being said, he's a drug dealer with connections to a collective that makes all kinds of wacky drugs, so I've just handwaved it as some sort of chemical variant they invented that has the same effect when applied to a synth or bot's chassis.

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Wed, 2015-07-15 09:28

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

Is there a nanobot delivery

Is there a nanobot delivery system that could be used to deliver Narcoalgorithms? A sort of narcoalgorith DMSO?

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Exhuman, and Humanitarian.

Wed, 2015-07-15 10:18

Kojak

uwtartarus wrote:A sort of

uwtartarus wrote:
A sort of narcoalgorithmic DMSO?

I strongly considered using this exact thing as an explanation; the fact that someone else came to the same conclusion independently means I'll be using this as my reasoning if any of the players ask questions about how the "dance darts" work.

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Wed, 2015-07-15 10:54

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

Kojak wrote:uwtartarus wrote

Kojak wrote:
uwtartarus wrote:
A sort of narcoalgorithmic DMSO?
I strongly considered using this exact thing as an explanation; the fact that someone else came to the same conclusion independently means I'll be using this as my reasoning if any of the players ask questions about how the "dance darts" work.

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Thu, 2015-07-16 05:17

choupa

Maybe you can hack the

Maybe you can hack the Subverbee swarm given in Firewall sourcebook (p175-176). It's a swarm that infiltrate the targeted system, can create a VPN with you so you can inoculate your narcoalgorithm, let's say DDR. Should work, right ?