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RE: IMMEW. a suggestion for ME Code (comments?)
Gurth -
> How about using Geek Code, erm, codes? Just drop the initial "G"
> and you've got most areas covered.
heh. OK, employment and the Weapons Extension (Geek Code Weapons Extensions
by Phil V. Stracchino (alaric@babcom.com)) are now covered...
EB Business
EC Classics
ECA Commercial Arts
ECM Computer Management
ECS Computer Science
ECC Communications
EE Engineering
EED Education
EFA Fine Arts
EG Government
EH Humanities
EIT Information Technology
EJ Jurisprudence (Law)
ELS Library Science
EL Literature
EMC Mass Communications
EM Math
EMD Medicine
EMIL Military (suffixes: A - Army; N - Navy; A - Air Force; M - Marines;
R - Regular; r - Reserves, for instance, EMILAr is an Army reservist)
OPTIONAL SUFFIX for US types - your MOS number, i.e. 11-B for light
infantry, etc.
EMU Music
EPA Performing Arts
EPOL Police Officer (Specialisation suffix: B - Beat or regular cop; D -
Detective; M - Mounted (horses!) cop; O - Other specialisation); P -
Political unit (For Instance, Sopecial Branch); T - Traffic Cop; S - SWAT,
or the local equivalent;
EP Philosophy
ES Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc.)
ESS Social Science (Psychology, Sociology, etc.)
ETW Technical Writing
EO Other. Some people deviate from the normal activities. This is
encouraged as not everyone is normal, and these come from all walks of life.
EU 'Undecided'. This is a popular vocation with incoming freshmen.
E! No qualifications. A rather miserable existence, you would think.
EJOAT Jack Of All Trades. For those that can do anything and everything.
JOAT usually precludes the use of other vocational descriptors.
House Weapons
Martial Arts weapons/training
ma+++ I'm Bruce Lee; I could arm and equip a small Shaolin temple.
ma++ I'm a black belt; I break concrete blocks; I have a few toys around.
ma+ I'm an upper belt; I break boards; I have a set of nunchaku.
ma I enrolled in Kung Fu 4 Everyone last week.
ma- I watch a lot of Chuck Norris movies.
ma-- I broke my hand once trying to break boards.
ma--- Don't hurt me, Mommy took my Nerf Nunchaku away.
!ma I've never tried martial arts, and probably never will.
ma? What are martial arts?
ma?? Marshal Arts? Is he the one who shot Billy the Kid?
Knives and other bladed weapons
k+++ I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod....
k++ I own a couple of really nice knives and a sword or two.
k+ I bought this really cool Conan sword at Worldcon!
k I own a Swiss Army knife.
k- I own a kitchen knife.
k-- I own a letter opener.
k--- I cut myself on letter openers.
!k I used to own a kitchen knife, but it rusted away.
Firearms
F+++ The National Guard comes to me when they run low on ammo.
F++ I collect guns, shoot them regularly, and load my own ammo.
F+ I own a gun, and shoot it a couple of times a year.
F I own a BB-gun.
F- I own a Super Soaker 5.
F-- Oh, yuck. Guns are *icky*....
F--- You own a gun? Help!!! Police!!! There's a maniac in here!!!
!F I don't own a gun, but it's a personal choice.
!!F I don't like guns, so you shouldn't be allowed to have one either.
F? I don't know one end of a gun from the other.
F?? What's a gun?
Optional skill modifiers:
F5 I can shoot the eye out of a gnat at 1000 yards, blindfolded.
F4 I usually keep everything in the X-ring.
F3 I usually keep everything in the black.
F2 I can usually hit the target.
F1 I can hit the broad side of a barn if I stand close enough.
F0 I'm more danger to people behind me than I am to the target.
(If your code is F+++?0, please advise what state you're living in so
that other folks in your state/county have forewarning to move elsewhere.)
High Explosives
X+++ I have a Thermonuclear Weapons rider on my Destructive Devices
permit.
X++ I mix plastique in my blender; my car has a concealed flamethrower.
X+ I make my own Class D pyrotechnics.
X I have a can of Thrust somewhere.
X- I buy firecrackers for (National Holiday).
X-- I burned my fingers with a firecracker once.
!X I don't like loud noises.
X? What are explosives?
And I'm still working on locational identifiers...
Best regards,
Roger Stenning,
Organiser,
the Impossible Scenarios Group
www.the-isg.co.uk
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