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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Hostile Amish
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:17:17 +0100
Bull said on 0:40/ 7 Nov 96...

> and that got me thinking... What would Amish Country be like in 205X?
>
> Any Suggestions?? These may be included in my Cleveland posting to the next
> Nerps posting...:)

It would make a good addition to the NAGTTW, I think. As for what they're
like, how about "much the same as now"? They're wearing clothes today that
are 200 years out of fashion, so I think they can keep it up for another
60 years :) Although they'd have to find a way to live with magic and
metahumanity, which might cause great problems for them...

> BTW, for those of you who don't know what Amish are, they are a
> semi-religious group of people who don't believe in technology (hence my
> earlier comment). They farm most of there own food, drive horse and buggy's
> instead of cars, etc...

Watch that Harrison Ford movie with the little Amish boy who witnesses a
murder, and you should be able to recognize them on sight. Although I saw
something once that about a former Amish (would that make a good
shadowrunner?) who said the movie was a good depiction, except that the
woman (the boy's mother, who (naturally) falls in love with Ford's cop
character) would become an outcast.

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