RE: [HOE] infiltrator borgs

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

Anything that doesn't kill you...

I have undead that aren't killed still able to function, to the best of the
remains of their ability, if it seems to matter.  If I have a dozen walkin'
dead attack the posse, and they put down two or three by blowin' great big
holes in their gizzards, then generally the stumps are out.  If the Big Ugly
is still up and fightin', then the couple of stumpies might get involved
some more, otherwise I assume that the posse just avoids the parts that are
draggin themselves around and put lead in their brainpans during cleanup.

The dead generally need their heads, and can only really control the bits
that are still attached to their heads.  If you blow off the legs and one
arm, the arm and head left just don't have the mobility to be a threat.  If
the lungs are gone, then there's no capacity to push air past the dead vocal
cords, so no speech (if whatever it was actually spoke anyway).

So both as player and marshal, harrowed that are diced up pretty good wind
up with lots of penalties, but can still function as best they can.  It's
not the cyberware that makes the cyborg function after death, it just makes
'em more durable and dangerous.  Terminators are machines with a layer of
living flesh that lasts as long as it can.  Deadlands cyborgs are walkin'
dead (harrowed) flesh with machine bits stuffed in for as long as it lasts.

Them's my views at any rate. ;-)

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang

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> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net] On 
> Behalf Of Deadlander@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 2:29 PM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: [HOE] infiltrator borgs
> 
> 
> hi, do any of you think that if an infiltrator is blown in 
> half he can still move his arms, head talk shoot etc?? like 
> the terminator. i think not due to the fact he is a harrowed 
> "with" cyberware added, if he were a full drone with cyber 
> torso ,arms, etc then yes he could. the book of the dead says 
> if a harrowed takes 5 or more to the guts he is out as if 
> winded untill he heals. so the rest of you, 8 wounds to the 
> guts:- is he down and out or still fighting? 
>