Death and Aid

[Grailknight]

Does the BODY gained from an AID increase the negative BODY threshold of death?

 

Example: Cyber takes a combat drug that raises his Body from 15 to 20 with effects lasting one hour or more. He then takes damage knocking him to negative 16 Body, Is he dead or can he be stabilized and healed before he bleeds to negative 21?

[Steve Long]

Good question!

 

I don’t currently have access to all of my books and materials, which have been packed up as part of my home renovation project, so I reserve the right to edit or change this answer at a future time.

 

The BODY gained or lost from an Adjustment Power alters the point at which a character dies from reaching negative BODY. So an Aid that increases a character’s BODY from 10 to 16 changes the point at which he dies from -10 BODY to -16 BODY. If the fading of the Aid changes his “death threshold” to a point where he would die (for example, the Aid fades to 11 BODY, and he’s already at -13 BODY), he immediately dies. Similarly, if a Drain BODY reduces a character’s BODY from 10 to 5, he dies at -5 BODY, but the return of Drained points gradually increases that back to -10.