| From: | Erik_Jameson@*****.COM |
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| Subject: | RE> Re: That sea-colon |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:12:53 -0800 |
To Net Enhancements for Roleplaying Shadowrun<NERPS@********.itribe.net>
Carp? HA! Haven't heard that one in a while. Yeah, if
someone insists on lame ideas for the ocean, then perhaps
they deserve to be THWAPPED! with a fully-automatic, clip
loaded, liquid-nitrogen cooled, gyro-mounted, smartlinked,
chrome and black finished carp cannon!
Seriously though, we need to seriously consider the
"intelligence" of marine creatures. About the only real
candidate I see are Awakened Dolphins; I really don't see
any other marine creature having the necessary level of
intelligence for advanced language. And the only real way I
can see communicating with them, aside from a special
magical telepathy, would be via mimicing their sounds. A
sort of vox box that would roughly translate human speech
(or thoughts for a cyber version) into the launguage of
clicks and squeeks and such. A companion dolphin-to-human
earpiece would also have to be invovled also (which could be
cyber).
Just my two pfennig.
Erik
The Great Big Giant Sharp Cheddar (arch-nemesis of The Big
Giant Head [which is why I always carry my own
fully-automatic, clip loaded, liquid-nitrogen cooled,
gyro-mounted, smartlinked chrome and black finished personal
carp cannon])
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Date: 10/17/96 10:43 PM
To: Jameson, Erik
From: Net Enhancements for Roleplayi
At 09:38 10/17/96 -0800, you wrote:
>That sea-colony babble
{SNIP}
>But you have some good ideas. However, that is a lot of
>work and a lot of material. My suggestion is as follows:
>go with it and see how large it gets. If it gets to big,
>then the best thing might be to spin it off as it's own
>book. But don't think about that yet. Just see what
>happens to it as it develops. BTW, I can send you my
>conversions of that Cyberpunk unofficial "Wavebook." I
axed
>a some things, changed all the names then converted them
>into SR. That should make your part of the project a
little
>easier.
I'd like to see it too. (Since I'd like to think I was
responsible for the
addition. Course I could be wrong.) :)
>Also, let's try not to get too goofy with the toys. A
>dolphin-shaped one-man sub? That seems to go at light
>speed? Packed with more gear than a whole modern sub?
>Sorry, don't think so. Stay as realistic as possible.
>Please. No SeaQuest DSV-type crap. And stay away from
>other sea-movies for the time being.
If any Seaquest stuff is used for ideas it would be pre-DSV,
before it got
weird. I kinda like the idea of cyber to allow minimal
communication with
marine mammals. As for using Ocean movies for input, I would
suggest using
ones, like leviathan and Abyss, without the aliens and
monsters. The
submersibles and stations are good jumping off points.
I'll be honest, I don't want to see it get out of hand. My
original idea was
just a general overview of the oceans: Sub types, stations,
corp
involvement, surface vessels, water cyber; ie gills, mammal
comm gear, water
drones, rigging gear for ocean vessels, etc., more ocean
critters,maybe even
sentient underwater life (maybe thats were the T'Skrang
went) :). You get
the idea. Bottom line I'd like to keep it from getting crazy
but still touch
on enough to give everyone an idea of what could be out
there. If it does
become a book of its own we can go into deeper detail, so
pump out the ideas
and we can decide, as a group, whether or not to include it
in NAGTW or make
a NERPS undersea book, but that's later. Though with all the
discussion
thats been going on I'm thinking it will be leaning to it's
own book, but
thats just my own ideal world talking. :)
Should i get my carp net? :)
Sasquatch
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