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5290
“Ok you pigs form up”        A chorus of mutterings and not a few muffled laughs were buried under the sounds of shuffling feet and creaking...
Ray Zetler
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Feb 3, 2009
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5291
  At this point its probably good to open up on the direction I took the alien races (Dragoncrest and Spectrals) before some of what is in the fiction...
Ray Zetler
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Feb 4, 2009
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5293
No problem, Stephen. Most of the items listed are far and away from the core rules as we know them and completely of my own derivation (or expounding on...
janizarycorp
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Feb 6, 2009
10:05 pm
5296
Taking a break from the Columbia storyline for a minute. Below is what started as a background story for an Imperial character, who was later extracted,...
janizarycorp
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Feb 6, 2009
11:21 pm
5297
Well, in poking about the list today, I found the old archives from 97- 2K. Just finished 97 and noticed several of my stories Ray had already posted. Sorry...
janizarycorp
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Feb 6, 2009
11:41 pm
5298
  Had no choice. Was dealing with pre-PDF  dot matrix printouts both weather/age worn and heavily notated. Besides alot happened when I was absent and had...
Ray Zetler
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Feb 8, 2009
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5299
Anyway I think I was discussing their life path in terms of not really fully belonging to our ,humanity, perception of Time/space. As described they again have...
Ray Zetler
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5300
Hi All Back Again I have a question for anyone who may know. In at least two films I have seen this week someone who was underwater has fired a pistol and shot...
stephen_tulett
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Feb 8, 2009
6:29 am
5301
... Yes, although it's highly dangerous and generally ineffective. ... The cartridge is airtight and carries its own O2 supply. ... Many modern firearms,...
Robert J. Hansen
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Feb 8, 2009
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5302
According to stephen_tulett, on 08-02-2009 07:29 the word on the street was... ... As Rob also says, a cartridge carries its own oxygen supply. Military ...
Gurth
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Feb 8, 2009
11:11 am
5303
... I think all GM's change vary add to ( in one of our games revised D&D so much it was a new System) and vary game systems and in making scenarios & Game...
stephen_tulett
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Feb 8, 2009
11:47 am
5304
... I do not have the PF for water, but - calculated from a Finnish field manual which says that two meters of "beaten snow" will stop a rifle-caliber bullet -...
Eero Juhola
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Feb 8, 2009
4:56 pm
5305
Is this possible at all?I would have thought that the gun powder being underwater would notignite due to lack of oxygen.Even if it did ignite to fire the...
Brian McDonald
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Feb 8, 2009
6:28 pm
5306
yup, the oxidizer is in the powder as people have said, which is why you can throw a firecracker into water and still have it explode To:...
scott
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Feb 8, 2009
6:35 pm
5307
... Five meters of range I can believe; five meters of /effectiveness/ I can't....
Robert J. Hansen
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Feb 8, 2009
9:52 pm
5308
... Black powder, which is used in firecrackers, will not burn underwater. The firecracker detonates because there's enough oxygen in the firecracker, and the...
Robert J. Hansen
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Feb 8, 2009
9:58 pm
5309
... Correct; the explosion inside the cartridge occurs without the cartridge ever becoming open to surrounding air. The bullet blocks air from coming in...
Jesper Anderson
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Feb 8, 2009
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5310
... Particle beams are unlikely to work well even within atmosphere, and the difference when used in water will probably be slight. Laser would depend on the...
Jesper Anderson
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Feb 8, 2009
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5311
________________________________     With no word from the other squads ,2nd squad pushed on to its objective hoping and praying that its flanks were secure...
Ray Zetler
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Feb 8, 2009
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5312
According to Robert J. Hansen, on 08-02-2009 22:58 the word on the street was... ... Explosives like TNT or C4 are better examples, since these will work ...
Gurth
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Feb 9, 2009
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5313
According to Jesper Anderson, on 08-02-2009 23:18 the word on the street was... ... That is true -- it's sort of a "best case scenario", rather than one where...
Gurth
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Feb 9, 2009
12:22 pm
5314
... 5294/95 are almost certainly deletes for my last fiction post. For whatever reason when I copy into the text box it messes up the text sometimes, but you...
janizarycorp
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Feb 9, 2009
11:36 pm
5315
... weather/age worn and heavily notated. Eh? I was talking about 'nicing' up the language. My originals were a bit more 'explicit' in some passages ;-)...
janizarycorp
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Feb 9, 2009
11:39 pm
5316
... Yeah...I had to interpolate that the hard way before I had any of the expansions. :D ... Yes, through 'accelerated healing' is also an active skill,...
janizarycorp
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Feb 9, 2009
11:49 pm
5317
  Just force of habit when dealing with matter related to Chuck and Tim:-).      You will note a radically different tack on the Crests from that original...
Ray Zetler
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Feb 10, 2009
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5318
... Sounds like a Dave Snyder experiment, which must always be measurable by pennies on a football field....
janizarycorp
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Feb 10, 2009
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5319
  Ah yes   Snyderian  Physics  .              Unfortunately the magic marker on the helmets would wear away making the results have to be...
Ray Zetler
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Feb 10, 2009
10:33 pm
5321
... probably think I'm satirizing him...not ...be the wedge grasshopper ..be the wedge...visualize and be the wedge. ... Lol. Remembering the Kingman painball...
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Feb 10, 2009
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5322
  Well the snake was just annoyed by the VM-68 and it was in the way and making David wet himself. ________________________________ From: janizarycorp...
Ray Zetler
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Feb 10, 2009
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5323
            Senior  Technician Gaines had no idea how it had gotten so bad. One minute he and the crew were working on a balky Grav drive of a...
Ray Zetler
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