Velthro wrote:The Lemon Meringe pie says: It does 4D6 mega-damage +2 points per lvl of exp. upon impact from acid that will burn through anything. This pie splatters its target with mega-acid Durration: Two melee rounds. When thrown on body armor of any kind, the first melee round damage is done to the armor the second round to the carachter underneath, unless the area of armor affected can be removed in 15 seconds.
This reads that it will melt throught armor even if it is stronger than 4D6 damage. Is this the case?
Will this melt throught force fields since it is a armor type?
The way I read it, the initial damage is enough to melt its way through armor in a limited area, basically burning a hole through the armor and affecting whatever is beneath that area without having to completely destroy the armor to get to what's inside. Kind of like punching a hole through a wall to get at the people inside. You don't have to bring down the entire wall to get them, you just need to make a hole. Under this assumption, one of these pies to the helmet of the victim has some pretty serious consequences if you don't remove it fast enough.
As for melting through a forcefield, my first instinct is to say no. Acids melt or burn through objects via cellular breakdown through chemical reaction. Forcefields are comprised of energy and thus would be impervious to acids as there's basically no chemical reaction between the acid and the energy a forcefield is composed of. In as best an example I can think of, it's like trying to use acid to melt the a laser beam. But then, one has to consider that hammering at a forcefield with bullets, explosives, melee weapons and other forms of physical attacks damages the energy field... so why shouldn't acid work? Best explanation I can offer is that a forcefield's molecular density, while comprised of energy, can still be disrupted through physical assault, the application of which is another form of energy at work... Kinetic energy. Acids work on the premise of a chemical reaction and pure energy, like that of a forcefield, simply has no chemical composition to react with. Final answer... GM's call... but I lean toward the former... no affect on forcefields with acid.
Good luck and great gaming!
