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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Well, it probably didn't hurt that throughout most of my gaming career, I've probably been one of the lowest budget people in my gaming group; if I could afford to buy the damned books, it wasn't going to make much sense for other people to balk.
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I know the feeling. One reason why I got ticked off at that group was the most of them were makeng two to three times what I was making at the time. And I was the only one with any sort of higher education.
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
True. Modern transportation is a bit more forgiving in that regard. Its probably not a coincidence that the second most common place I've seen this be a real issue is post-holocaust games.
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Like I said, "Alone in a hostile environment". Same with ammo or water, quantity isn't an issue until you could run out.
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Well, some of it was that. But in some cases (such as when I fell down a flight of steps and bruised the living hell out of my thigh when I was in my twenties) I was in all kinds of pain and at least some impairment; it just didn't immediately seem to fatigue me more.
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I think that the adrenaline kicking in. I had to take ephedrine (adrenaline) for astha, and can personally attest that even if I was sick and tired, once the shot went through my bloodstream, I didn't feel tired. In fact, I felt panicked, and it took an effort to lie still instead of running around the room.
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Had a really--amusing--version of one of those once. I got bit by a sidewinder while hiking, and just thought I'd poked myself with a sharp branch while working through some brush. Didn't realize the degree of the problem until I got home and noticed my bloody sock. I was also a little feverish, but just wrote that off to the heat (this was in Arizona). Good thing sidewinders don't carry a particularly big load of venom as pit vipers go, and that I seem to be a bit more tolerant to it than typical...
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Good thing that sidewinders don't carry neurotoxins instead of hemotoxins!
Also, with snakes they don't inject a constituent amount of venom. From what I've read, about one third of the time they inject a "normal dose", another third of the time they inject little to no venom at all, and the final (pun! pun!) third of the time they dump all they've got.
From what I've read, the mortality rate from snakes carrying hemotoxins is fairly low, generally less than 35% without treatment. Less than 1% with anti-venom.
Nerotoxins are worse. Not so much because the poison is more deadly, but because it is faster acting AND impairs the nervous system, giving you less time to react and causing less localized damage.
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