[UA] Risking It

[Piotr Pogorzelski]

I always liked homeworks.

>Consider the following situations:
>1. A bodybag lies down on the median line of a 
>highway for one hour, when the highway has a 
>traffic rate of 2 cars per minute.

For one our... I say yes, he gets the charges. For no other 
reason than I'd love to see one of my player's char doing 
that.

>2. A bodybag takes six identical pistols, and 
>loads one of them. He puts them in a bag, mixes 
>them up, draws one, and fires it at his head.

Funny you talk about it, I just saw "Way of the gun" this 
week (very good film, and hellishly UAble - thought I 
doubt "hellishly" is realy an english word). For me, yes. 
Enough ritual and such. A very strange way of risking his 
head.

>3. A bodybag gets an assistant, and before leaving 
>for the day on buisness, tells him to roll a 
>six-sided die and load a pistol only if the die 
>comes up six. When he gets back, the bodybag takes 
>the pistol and fires it at his head.

Yes, for the same reason than N°1. A nice thing to do in a 
campaign, with the bodybag as NPC and the PC assistant, 
just to see the face of the player.

>4. A bodybag finds a pistol in the hands of someone 
>who committed suicide, and decides to test if he 
>committed suicide on purpose, or while playing russian
> roulette.

Wow. "by the books", I'd say no. Now, if the suicided had a 
reputation of a russian roulette player, and if the PC do 
some kind of "magickal stuff" around the idea of suicide, 
I'd say yes.

>5. A avatar of the Mad Statistician places a bomb 
>in a bodybag's apartment that will explode when he 
>opens the door 1 in 6 times. The other five times, 
>it will simply deliver a message. Unknowingly, 
>he opens the door.

I'd say no. The first time he opens the door, he's not 
aware of danger. Now, if the first time the device don't 
explode, he's now aware of the danger. He's free to leave 
the device here, and the next time he'll open the door, he 
will then gain a charge.

The Mad Statistician. Gosh. I don't want to know about his 
channels.

Greg Pogorzelski.

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