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[Ruski]

yea, i like neo-techno as well.

although nothing is better to get you into a road rage mood than troll thrash.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Tell me about it. I've outrun go-gangs listening to that stuff. Yee-Haw!

Gabriel

[Ruski]

but you are in trouble if they are listening to it too.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[APOCALYPSE]

Any techno is good techno.

[Ruski]

so, what would you say the drive test modifiers are for driveing while listening to some good loud troll thrash?

-1 TN for speed increases
+1 TN for manuveres
-1 TN for crash tests

?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Actually, I would consider it a non-magical centering technique. Something along the lines of meditation. You get into a mind-set when listening to certain music. This, in turn, allows you to get into a very, very low level trance state where certain actions become easier and more natural-feeling. In this case, weeving in and out of traffic at high rates of speed would be enhanced by the high-speed, thrash rythmes. So I would just give an across the board -1TN, but no more than that.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

what would the penelty be? +1 for tests not related to the road... like noticeing the T-Bird that's starting to tail you?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

No penalty. Just a kind of Zen thing for the time you are listening to the music.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

well, i was just thinking of a drawback to ballance it out... perhaps you have to have at least $1K in a soundsystem installed to truely enjoy it or something like that?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Well if we want to get into a rules thing here, I would make it a skill. You roll against a TN of 8. One success is enough to get "inot the groove" and zen out. And you can only roll once per situation, which would be goverened by the GM's discretion.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

hmm... i don't know if i'd go so far as to make it a skill... but perhaps an intelegence test... to 'focus'... and you could modify the target number with additional speakers in your car. offset by dammage of course, road noise is killer on the groove.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

I see it as a skill since you get a free -1TN for it. That can make or break a game. So you should spend Karma for it.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

so would that be a 'grooveing' skill?

useable in dance studios, car driveing, and anywhere else you can boogie down?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Call it something like Audio-Meditation. Kind of like having theme music. Of course there are other examples of this kind of thing.

For example: when I used to work at Purple Hell (K&B Pharmacy) the lines would get so bad on mondays (people fill a lot of prescriptions on mondays) that I would get into "the groove" of checking peopel out. Since the bar code system was NEVER picked up by K&B, you had to manually enter every price on every item. I would end up going so fast that I could check out 3 people for every one that the girl beside me checked out. If someone had loaded all of their crap onto the counter and started writing the check out immediately, I would usually beat them and have to wait for them to finish. None of this had anything to do with music, as the above example did, but the principle is the same: a low level trance state where thought and action become more simultaneous than your normal state.

I just happen to think that used as a skill, it would be something that a character would actually try to cultivate. He would conciously try to block out what was happening around him and let his mind/body react on its own while conecntrating on the music.

Gabriel

[Ruski]

hmm... i suppose you could do it with anything... shooting, fixing computers, driveing...

should each have it's own skill, like B/R Car, Trance-Car

etc?

-RuskiFace the Pirate