Yuri, The Face of Russia [Resubmission]

If we look at the human being the point of contact, you are sending the same amount of voltage through the conduit (the human). It is the same way as completing a circuit for a more efficient method of energy transfer. Also, when someone grabs a synthetic hand (which your shock hands are), they know right away. Also, in Shadowrun, an attack does not bypass the armor. They don't have that called shot anymore.

Assuming surprise, the attack automatically hits. On a contact attack (which electrical damage is), the attacker wins any tie. Because of this, no dice roll is needed to "attack" an unaware target with a contact attack- because you can tie them (0 successes vs. their roll of nothing), and still apply the effect of the contact. Thus, no attack from stealth is needed with a contact-only weapon, as the initiating character automatically wins.

The point of electricity as stun damage is to overload neuron connections to the CNS, and essentially temporarily fry those connections enough to force the body into the preventative state known as unconsciousness. 2 separate shocks coming from two separate locations on the body are capable of doing this far better than a single shock, as the current being induced is capable of locally overloading bodily systems much more readily than a single gargantuan shock. Physical shock damage is only different than stun in its application- physical uses low voltage and high amperage to disable the heart, (which is regulated by electrical pulses from an organic pacemaker called the SA node,) while stun is uses low amperage and high voltage to cause massive local neuron overloading and CNS shutdown. For physical damage, you want a huge shock (high amps) with low pressure (low voltage). For stun, you want low shock (low amps) with extreme pressure (high voltage). So how does that tie into shock hands? Simple. Swap the amperage and voltage around. And the best way to do this is for one shock hand be DC, and the second be AC.

And shock gloves/shock hands require only a "grazing hit" (page 173, core) which substantiates my claim that they auto-hit from stealth. Shock hands are also "a shock glove built into the palm of your hand", and shock gloves "have a wired mesh that discharges electric current with a punch or a simple touch" e.g., you wouldn't notice them when you shake someone's hand, as it's essentially thin wires surrounded by electrical insulation that's kitted out feel like skin, in the case of the shock hand, or a glove, in the case of shock gloves.

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