C-c-c-c-cold!

[andrewmeythaler]

C-c-c-c-cold!

I am planning on sending my players to Siberia, and I want a system to impress upon them how suicidal being out in the tundra unprepared is. The chrome books had a few implants for resisting hypothermia, but if there is a roll for hypothermia I missed it. Does anyone know the best way to handle death by freezing?

 

[eraser7278]

check out the environment rules in IU, page 64 in the latest iteration

Hypothermia Count Modifiers:
• Base chance of hypothermia is 10% for every 10 degrees
below 50 Fahrenheit. For every hour spent in this
environment, add 5%.
• Proper clothing will reduce chance by 10 percent in any
situation.
• Direct skin contact with water or snow adds 20% for
every limb thusly exposed, immersion in water doubles
chances.
• Piercings add 10%, 25% is mounted in the skull.
• Wind chill adds 10 to 20%.
• Resting outside without proper protection, such as a
survival dome, adds 10% to the count.
• Using snowmobiles, dog sleds, or other open vehicles
increases the wind chill. Add 10% to any passengers, and
5% to the driver. Proper clothing has no effect, but if
passengers are enclosed they are not affected.
• Soaked or wet clothing adds 15%.

 

[andrewmeythaler]

I guess I will be checking Russian forecasts for a while

 

[eraser7278]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia#Climate

pick a month, there's a handy little chart

 

[andrewmeythaler]

You saved me a month of work, thanks choombatta

 

[eraser7278]

don't mention it, always happy to help a party chill out :cheers2:

 

[andrewmeythaler]

Might as well prepare the death graphics now.

 

[eraser7278]

when you're cold and starving just remember to eat the solo first. all those hours in the gym mean you'll get a good cut of meat with no gristle or fat.

 

[andrewmeythaler]

Any Solo worth their salt is mostly metal, and would kick your ass first anyways

 

[eraser7278]

well who are you suppose to eat then? the Decker, those shut-ins hardly have any meat on them. you'll burn more calories strangling them than you'll get back from gnawing on their bones :crazy:

 

[andrewmeythaler]

Eat the corporate

 

[eraser7278]

those scum sucking bottom feeders? i guarantee you that years of brown nosing and ass kissing will leave them tasting like shit.

then again... maybe aerosmith had it right?
[video=youtube;o-0lAhnoDlU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU[/video]

 

[chriswebb2020.736]

In a cold environment you want fatty foods, extra energy. Protein is easy to waste. Just take an overweight decker.

 

[Sardukhar]

What a brilliant thread.

Eat the Techie. Unlike Runners who forget to eat and get way skinny, the shit-tasting Corp or the Chromed Beef, the Techie eats well with that extra money he has, isn't necessary like the MedTech, isn't drugged to hell like the Rocker or Fixer and doesn't taste bitter like the Cop.

Techie - It's What's For Dinner.

P.S. No, not the Nomad. Put that down, you don't know where it's been!

 

[blank_redge]

P.S. No, not the Nomad. Put that down, you don't know where it's been!

fwiw: I'm putting down the Nomad because I *do* have a pretty good idea where it's been.

 

[andrewmeythaler]

The nomad has been muckin around in shit, the techie has been usin carcinogenic oils.

The media is nice and tasty, and would probably just squeel if he lived.

 

[weregeld]

Are you kidding! eat the media a limb at a time, he could document it and sell it as the ultimate immersion story. even have a post script about all he gave to the party.

 

[andrewmeythaler]

I would rather not be branded a cannibal.

 

[Suhiira]

I would rather not be branded a cannibal.

Not that full borgs need to "eat" much but are they still human enough it's cannibalism?

 

[andrewmeythaler]

They would still contract prion diseases, so yes