[TML] Personal Armor Noise was Re: Current USAF fleet

[Richard Aiken]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Kelly St.Clair <kellys at efn.org> wrote:

> A person walking in a chain
> hauberk and articulated-plate leg armor makes a very distinctive
> "shing-shing-shing" noise with each step, on top of the clatter of the leg
> pieces.

I'm wondering if something like a spray-on rubber coating (like that
stuff you can spray onto the undercarriage of cars to deaden road
noise) might reduce that?

Ob Trav: The effects of even very minor off-world aid can be decisive.

Native sepoy whispering to worried PC: "Dinna fret, sor!  We'll 'ear
the lawrd's men comin' right enough!  Nothin' makes noise like tha . .
."

Sudden screams from the darkness, as the lord's armored knights - in
their newly LSP-synth-coated chain mail - hit the right flank of the
position with complete surprise.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein