<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=199515.msg9846304#msg9846304">Quote from: SGTDan on 14-04-2014, 02:23:19</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Well sadly if that's the reaction, Q will lay there on the side of the street drifting in and out of consciousness. Not much else I <em>can</em> write at that point so it will be Marc's ball after he settles his issue.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As I understand it, Q took 1 harm. He shouldn't be 'drifting in and out of consciousness' nor bleeding to death.<br/><br/>For a PC (important), this is the equivalent of a really bad, nasty cut (like from a weapon, not a papercut) that will be a mess if you don't clean it up and if you mess with it too much MIGHT bleed out, but on its own not that gawdawful. In the terms of how he got it, Rez dumped a load of buck into his chestplate and a few pellets glanced out and into neck/shoulders/upper arms/whatever, having already shed a lot of velocity in the initial impact. So he's probably got some buck in him here and there and looks messy, but it's<em>métal hurlant</em>, shrapnel, is significantly painful, but not stopping him from doing his job and not 'oh fuck I'm dying.'<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Nasty damn reality, no images but still not for the squeamish</div><div class="spoiler_body">For comparison's sake, one of the poor bastards who got stranded on foot in the Mog and had to run back had his thumb held on with 100-mile-an-hour-tape from an injury he received at the beginning of the fight which detached it except for a flap of flesh about 1/4 the thickness of the whole. <br/><br/>He was combat active for the entire day and night, if I'm remembering right, and was one of the people who had to walk out when the Paki armored came and made pickup with only seats and roof-space for about half of the force they were relieving.</div></div><br/>I'm not suggesting that Warner has to live up to that standard, but as a player character he probably shouldn't be dying from 1-harm worth of double-ought unless he tried to extract it himself with a bayonet and failed catastrophically. For PCs, 1-harm is almost 'for free' (p.167).<br/><br/>The half of Los Buitres currently with Rez took 1-harm also, and some of them were gruesome (Newt) which may explain the confusion. For an NPC, 2-harm is pretty heavy damage which is likely to be fatal, and in some cases may be immediately fatal.<br/><br/>Hope this helps explain the kinda confusing different scales a bit. At some point, you might want to have Warner really stop and look at his wounds and realize he's not dead yet and they're more shallow than he thought, or some damned thing.