[RPM] Learning the system

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by GarenLiLorian

Generous of your GM to let you save someone from Sarin gas with lesser effects!

My account was a bit compressed. What we saw was:

Two guys talking. One walks over to a small wooden building, unlocks the door and starts to open it. A humanoid figure springs out, bears him to the ground, and starts ripping his throat out. There's a small explosion in the building, and hissing and bubbling noises.

The other guy runs towards this, and falls over twitching and vomiting. By this time we were thinking of gas, and a PC advanced, holding his breath, but was affected anyway. Being quite tough, he was able to retreat, but was clearly in need of drastic help.

The magic was: Lesser Sense Matter with range to get some idea of what the gas was told me "semi-complex organic molecule, with phosphorus and fluorine." I used that for Lesser Destroy Matter with radius to turn it into some molecules that were much less poisonous, and avoid the other characters getting poisoned. The character is a high-school science teacher, feels that Greater effects should be required to transmute elements, and there didn't seem like time for a Greater working.

As a player, I'd recognised the symptoms of nerve gas poisoning, from a WWII CoC scenario run by the same GM, but the character hadn't had a chance to just yet. However, she then got to make a Diagnosis roll and catch up. That meant that after a quick energy refill, I could do the Lesser Strengthen Body to make the victim immune to that substance, after which we retreated a hundred yards or so to consider what to do next.