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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 146
Message ID: 9
#9, RE: Weapons and Duels
Posted by Laudre on Oct-09-01 at 10:01 PM
In response to message #8
>And who says weapons have to be edged to be usefull?

Nobody did. Mia's Minbari fighting pike is a retractable staff. No edge there, and I've got the sense to keep well away from six feet of whirling [insert material from which it's made here], and so does anyone else who knows anything about melee weapons. The quarterstaff was designed as a battlefield weapon, and it don't take a lot of effort to shatter bone with it. It's harder to accidentally hurt someone with a staff than with a sword, but that's about the only difference.

> For example, I
>point you in the direction of wazziz name... the guy from TMNT who
>wore the hocky mask and used sports equipment to great devistation...
>Granted, he was a wuss if you disarmed him, but while armed, he was
>quite formidable. Kinda like Ukyo + Spatula, for example.

Casey Jones. And he was dangerous mostly because he was completely loony. (In the movies, not nearly so much, but he was rather edgy in the cartoon and just plain demented in the comics, IIRC. Though it's been ages since I read the comics, and I haven't been able to locate any compilations or anything.)

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