Skill Levels

                  I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date Sent:17-Dec-1993 08:32am
                                        From:     Alistair Langsford
                                                  LANGSFORD ALISTAIR
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TO:  Remote Addressee                     ( _traveller@engrg.uwo.ca )


Subject: Skill Levels

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<    5         Mel Gibson's character in the Lethal Weapon films. Can strip
<               down any rifle (possibly even alien designs) and rebuild it
<               as any other rifle. Can improvise a Gauss rifle from two
<               magnets, 5 toilet roll inners and a selection of sewing
<               needles. Character can hit specific areas of moving targets
<               at medium range while hanging upside down from a helicopter.
<               Barns are required to retreat to other planets to remain
<               safe from this sharp-shooter. Spends spare time shooting down
<               gnats at 500 metres. Gnats attempt to form alliance with barns.

I would venture to suggest that any 'A-team' member (I'm talking the TV series
here) is somewhere in category 5. So is Agent Pirondello(sp?) from the movie
'Real Men': whose accuracy I would venture to suggest may be enough to qualify
him for level 6.

I would also like to modify the description for 6, in this light. Additions
marked by '|'.


<    6         No-one's ever this good (unless your characters are level 5
<               sharp-shooters, in which case the arch bad-guys will always
<               be level 6). Can teach others to make a Gauss rifle as per 5.
<               Can pick-off enemy eye-balls at 500 km with eyes closed.
<               Can ruin a gnat's prospects of a fulfilling sex-life at up to
|               500 metres. Barns give up and surrender en-masse. Can make
|               informed investment decisions in the middle of a firefight
|               with no loss of accuracy or ability to dodge incoming fire.



<Andy Lilly

Alistair,
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