I think I just found a flaw in the game. MJ told me that in a flatline body bias, it would be impossible to walk. The thing is that boxing is an @1 skill, and would still work in a flatline bias. Boxing involves walking. Are you saying that you could walk around, but only if you were shadowboxing the entire time? Perhaps a martial artist could do tumbles instead of walking? That could get really interesting.
Boxing involves standing, which is possible under a flatlined bias, but I wouldn't permit a boxer to travel while boxing under that bias. In that universe, the boxer's footwork would be limited to that which would otherwise be possible. Any penalties to his defensive sit-mods as a result are left up to the referee.
My rulebook is in another room at the moment, but I think Ground-Based Rolling is B4@1, which is technically tumbling.
Yeah, I want to get a copy of the rulebook. Mom said she would get it for me for my birthday in March.
Scott, I think you misunderstood what I meant when I said you could walk if you were shadowboxing. Sometimes boxing involves offensive stances. Sometime you step into an attack. Could you use that to walk? Step into an attack with your right foot, then step into another attack with your left foot. It might take a while, but would that work?
The way I imagine it, it would be kind of like cross-country skiing the way you would be moving. If that helps you any.
Or you land in a flatlined body, but extremely high tech world. They somehow managed to build bionic super suits that allowed them to walk around. Would that work? Then they give you one of these super suits, and there you go.
That could be a really cool world. If they deactivate the suit, you won't be able to walk. You would literally be at someone's mercy. That could make a good punishment world, if nothing else.
Or you have the @1 skills that they don't have (fighting styles) and you can fight far better than they can. You become the leader/dictator of the kingdom.
Or high psionics/magic with a flatline body bias? Use telekinetic flight or magical teleportation to get somewhere. You still have the @1 fighting style, where they do everything with psionics/magic? It might give you an edge.
It is possible to use what you know in a 7@1 boxing skill without actually walking; the bonuses to your ability to fight would be the same. Remember, your opponent cannot walk, either.
--M. J. Young