Re: Matrix Gems

[Kris Ames <kris@laf.cioe.com>]

Let me see if my memory is correct.  I had a character that kept a
matrix gem in her for a few game years (most GMs knew this).  Dan
realized this one game and started making her lose like a point of
health or x dp a day until it was removed.  Something about the field
that a matrix gem produces interfereing with the bioelectric energy of
life or something. ie the thing that makes the matrix gem able to add
50% to you X abiltiy interferes with your bodily functions.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else (Joe you were in on this since
it was your character who put the matrix gem in mine....  That at least
was the ruling then and something close to the reasoning.

-Kris


Steve Ames wrote:
> 
> No creativity. Obviously you encase it in a smooth glass sphere first. Sheesh.
> The body doesn't reject glass usually. You'd still have a lump somewhere
> or have to sacrifice a point of health to 'make room' :)
> 
> Then again... after all that, the power of the thing will give you an
> incurable bout of fast, malignant cancer that'll cause you to leak blood
> from every orfice until you die. *shrug* Some would willingly pay the
> price.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Foo wrote:
> > I would generally assume that a fist-sized, sharp-edged, pointy rock stuck
> > in someone's innards would cause some issues with his
> > kidneys/intestines/heart/lungs/etc.  It would really suck to bend over
> > some day to pick up a quarter and puncture your diaphragm.
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 KyleGath@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > In a message dated 00-01-24 17:42:00 EST, you write:
> > >
> > > << Hmmm, wait, does the documentation exist?  I don't have my book
> > >  with me to check the matrix gem write-up to confirm that there was
> > >  such an omission.  If it is there, then the acting GM was in error.
> > >
> > >  Lyle >>
> > >
> > > It said nothing about matrix gems not existing inside someone in the book.
> > > There is very little documentation, if any, about in game rulings, since most
> > > of them are just one timers.  I didn't know about that ruleing, and I am
> > > sorry about the mistake.  However, it was planned for my actor to have the
> > > gem, inside or outside of his body.
> > >
> > > Writing up a summery of pertinent rulings made in the past would be usefull
> > > however, so such mistakes do not happen again.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >