They are covered in toxic sludge>???

[garhkal]

Ok. Say in game, whether from a trap, or a shootout near large storage tanks, our vaunted heroes get covered in toxic sludge. What effects would there be? How long would they have to get cleaned off before the effects 'kicked in'? Would bacta do anything?
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[KierlanVass]

I guess it would depend on the nature of its toxicity?

Is it thick and slimy or thin and watery?

Is it acidic, Alkaline or neutral and to what extent? would it melt armor and burn skin.

What lives inside of the goop? are there parasites, and if so do they attach to the skin or burrow?

Is it radioactive?

Does it smell?


Bacta from wookiepedia

[ifurin]

you might be able to modify the contaminated drinking water rules to fit here. give the sludge a damage rating, then use either the regular damage table or change up some of the damage effects in the contaminated drinking water section. (in the specforce handbook) the effects range from blurred vision, to hallucinations, to paralysis. but be careful, some of the effects can be more vicious than wounding. the increased aggression and paranoia effects could theoretically give the character a dsp if they fail a roll.

[hisham]

Here are some on-the-fly, half-assed random tables. Not very realistic, but what the hey.

Roll D6
1-2 Biological
3-4 Chemical
5-6 Radioactive

Initial action
Roll difficult survival skill or easy survival: NBC (Advanced skill) to effectively remove as much of the sludge from your body (or just vital parts of it, like your eyes) or quickly and safely administer potassium iodide in case of nuclear contamination.

Take note if you succeed or fail.

Immediate effects
Character is immediately wounded, and in pain.
Roll D6
1-3 Burning skin (Roll moderate stamina each round, else considered incapacitated for that round)
4 Burning eyes (Characters are considered blind)
5 Get into mouth, burning tongue (Character is unable to speak / eat)
6 Hair fall off (Character is considering buying a wig)

Without proper hospital / bacta treatment:
If the character failed the survival roll above, then they will be back to normal in 1D+20 hours.
If the character succeeds by +5 then they will be back to normal (lose the wounded status) in 1D hours.
If character succeeds between +6 to +10, then they will be back to normal in 2D minutes.
If the character succeeds by more than +11, then they will be back to normal in 2D rounds.

Long term effects
includes biological infection, explosive diarrhea, permanent blindness, really bad and icky skin problem, loss of appetite, loss of judgment ability, loss of reproductive ability and sudden transformation into Carrot Top.

OK, I'm just rambling in the last paragraph. Anyone willing to flesh out long term effects?
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[TrueGrit]

Toxic sludge is terrible - don't get it on you. Combine the worst poision affects with acid and corrosion affects and you get an idea.

Short term affects I think would be the character becomes (at minimum) incapacited in a couple rounds based on current would level. IE - if already severely wounded it would happen in a round, if not wounded then several rounds. Basically 1 would level/round of exposure.

Also, you can't just wipe it off, whether sticky or slick and watery. Once your skin, clothing, etc. is saturated then you'd have to get it all off of you (armour, equipment, everything) and get into some sort of shower - think of the emergency showers you see in university chemisty labs.

Mid-term effects would be burns to exposed areas of the body and violent sickness. If there was a radioactive component to the waste then you have that to deal with as well. Without serious medical attention / detoxification / bacta then death would most likely be the result within a few days or weeks at the most.

Long-term = you'd either be cured or dead already, nothing long term about it unless you're a particularly evil GM and decide to give them cancer or some other nasty illness down the road.

[jmanski]

Or like in the comic books you gain super powers!
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