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Message no. 1
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Dashira
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 18:41:21 -0800
Okay. Hello all. I play Dashira (yes that annoying stupid brat) on
ShadowTK and I think that it's getting close for time for him to have an
awakening experience. I was thinking perhaps an encounter with a bug
spirit or some sort even though I'm not quite sure how to work it out. He
needs to get hurt badly enough that it'll take 3 weeks to heal (Christmas
break I don't have access) and he needs to be made a believer in the ever
present bug. So, if anyone has ideas, etc, please feel free to bounce
them this way. Oh, he's in the Seattle area right now . . . not
exactly bug area. For some background, he just recently joined the
shadows. Family are corp pawns and he got sick of it and fled to
the shadows (read, possible plot hook later). Young, inexperienced,
stupid, mouthy, but, he's quite smart, athletic, etc. In other
words, if he learns to control that mouth of his quickly and he
learns that life's not fun and games, he'll have a chance to
survive. Ideas are welcome! Thanks all!

Sam/Dashira
fortsa@********.wwc.edu
Message no. 2
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 02:21:03 +0000
In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961206183645.5692A-100000@********.wwc.edu>,
Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU> writes
>Okay. Hello all. I play Dashira (yes that annoying stupid brat) on
>ShadowTK and I think that it's getting close for time for him to have an
>awakening experience. I was thinking perhaps an encounter with a bug
>spirit or some sort even though I'm not quite sure how to work it out. He
>needs to get hurt badly enough that it'll take 3 weeks to heal (Christmas
>break I don't have access) and he needs to be made a believer in the ever
>present bug.

Yeah, sure, have him catch the next transport aircraft over to Chicago,
and he can jump out on a parachute, that way when Marathon and KitKat
catch him, it'll be too late <grin>

>So, if anyone has ideas, etc, please feel free to bounce
>them this way. Oh, he's in the Seattle area right now . . . not
>exactly bug area.

Seattle's not exactly a bug area, because of th elections, and a few
other things that fragged up the Brotherhood, but what makes you think
they don't exist in numbers, who's to say they haven't gone underground,
and now exist in the old storm drains and sewers..... FASA hinted
through a lot of modules about the intelligence of these creatures, and
how the Brotherhood had grown from teaching/taking down and outs, to
corp executives. Which seems to imply the bugs were capable of complex
planning and foresight. I would suggest that they are more extensively
integrated into society than some people believe.... He can have an
encounter, he just needs to be in the right place at the right time, and
after all, who's to say the bugs don't read Shadowtk, erm... Shadowland,
they have the ability and intelligence to cope, and if they themselves
can't, then hosts can... :)

There are a lot of different ways he can meet one of these strange
beasts, but unfortunately my mind is a temporary blank.... hmm. must be
a sign of not enough coffee, back later, I have to put the kettle on :)

>For some background, he just recently joined the
>shadows. Family are corp pawns and he got sick of it and fled to
>the shadows (read, possible plot hook later). Young, inexperienced,
>stupid, mouthy, but, he's quite smart, athletic, etc.

Corp backgrounds are very useful for plot hooks, but they need to be
dealt with delicately, otherwise things can very quickly get out of
hand. I had planned a corp hook into one of the characters in the team
I'm running at the moment, but it would have had too heavy an influence
on SR in general, so I ditched it for something a bit more exotic and
not so defined. I think 90% of the other people here are corp
affiliated, at least it seems that way. <grin> (Bloody intelligence
community, they get everywhere...) :)

>In other
>words, if he learns to control that mouth of his quickly and he
>learns that life's not fun and games, he'll have a chance to
>survive.

Yeah, that mouth of his, is likely to cause him some trouble, but then,
he's not alone :)

>Ideas are welcome! Thanks all!

Oh, ideas... damn, must have left my idea head somewhere else today,
sorry :)


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Message no. 3
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 02:46:02 +0000
|>Ideas are welcome! Thanks all!
|
|Oh, ideas... damn, must have left my idea head somewhere else today,
|sorry :)

Well.... He's in Seattle.....
And we're currently heading for Seattle (Probably with the bugs in hot
pursuit...)

All he has to do is bump into Inferno.....

<Big Evil Grin>
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Message no. 4
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 20:19:09 -0800
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Spike wrote:

>
> Well.... He's in Seattle.....
> And we're currently heading for Seattle (Probably with the bugs in hot
> pursuit...)
>
> All he has to do is bump into Inferno.....
>
> <Big Evil Grin>
> --

Sounds good . . . can we get it set up and done in the next 4 days? I
start break on Tuesday afternoon.

Sam/Dashira
Message no. 5
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 03:06:21 +0000
|Sounds good . . . can we get it set up and done in the next 4 days? I
|start break on Tuesday afternoon.
|
|Sam/Dashira
|

That's a bit of a problem...
We have a lot of people involved in this plot...
(It took about a month to get most of the bugs ironed out of the two posts we
just made about the evacuation of the safehouse....)

Lets see what everyone else says.....
Bull? Speak to me Bull?....
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|Principal subjects in:- | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
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Message no. 6
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:42:53 -0500
>That's a bit of a problem...
>We have a lot of people involved in this plot...
>(It took about a month to get most of the bugs ironed out of the two posts we
>just made about the evacuation of the safehouse....)
>
>Lets see what everyone else says.....
>Bull? Speak to me Bull?....
>
I say sure, bring him in for a bit of the fun...:):):)

I remember real well the first time Bull met a bug... (Missing Blood:))

It can be a hell of a shock, and a good bit o' fun...:)

I ahve a few ideas to toss off the IF group, but hopefully we can arrange
something in the next day or two...

Steve (Bull)
Message no. 7
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:22:20 -0800
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Bull wrote:

> I say sure, bring him in for a bit of the fun...:):):)
>
> I remember real well the first time Bull met a bug... (Missing Blood:))
>
> It can be a hell of a shock, and a good bit o' fun...:)
>
> I ahve a few ideas to toss off the IF group, but hopefully we can arrange
> something in the next day or two...
>
> Steve (Bull)
>

As for Dashira, he's a magician who hasn't been trained, etc. The only
reason he "knows" he's magically active is because the corp his family is
part of classified him as one. He's got power, but doesn't know crap on
how to use it. Yes, he can do a couple little magic things, but nothing
big at all. Call him a stage magician skill wise. He can get beat up,
thrashed, smashed around, make him lose an eye or something and he'll get
it replaced with cyber. He's gotta stay down for about 3 weeks so . . .
while I'm home for Christmas break. Questions, etc, mail me.

Sam/Dashira
fortsa@********.wwc.edu
Message no. 8
From: Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 01:54:53 -0600
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Avenger wrote:

> Corp backgrounds are very useful for plot hooks, but they need to be
> dealt with delicately, otherwise things can very quickly get out of
> hand. I had planned a corp hook into one of the characters in the team
> I'm running at the moment, but it would have had too heavy an influence
> on SR in general, so I ditched it for something a bit more exotic and
> not so defined. I think 90% of the other people here are corp
> affiliated, at least it seems that way. <grin> (Bloody intelligence
> community, they get everywhere...) :)

I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know _any_ characters
thay have corp backing ;)

> Yeah, that mouth of his, is likely to cause him some trouble, but then,
> he's not alone :)

Again, I plead ignorance.

Chuck McKenzie kilroy@***.cs.wisc.edu
http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~kilroy/ charlesm@**.wisc.edu
-Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. --Unknown
Message no. 9
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 11:39:07 +0000
In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961207014953.20165A-100000@*****.cs.wisc.edu>,
Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU> writes
>On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Avenger wrote:

>> affiliated, at least it seems that way. <grin> (Bloody intelligence
>> community, they get everywhere...) :)
>
>I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know _any_ characters
>thay have corp backing ;)

<grin> Nah, neither do I... but my user does :)

>> Yeah, that mouth of his, is likely to cause him some trouble, but then,
>> he's not alone :)
>
>Again, I plead ignorance.

It might be safer to take the fifth, that way you don't have to answer
anything, and you won't get trapped into mistaken comments :)


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A dark shadow in a dark world |___/
Message no. 10
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 11:37:03 +0000
In article <12278.199612070246@*****.teach.cs.keele.ac.uk>, Spike
<u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> writes
>|>Ideas are welcome! Thanks all!
>|
>|Oh, ideas... damn, must have left my idea head somewhere else today,
>|sorry :)
>
>Well.... He's in Seattle.....
>And we're currently heading for Seattle (Probably with the bugs in hot
>pursuit...)
>
>All he has to do is bump into Inferno.....
>
><Big Evil Grin>

Snigger... That shouldn't be too difficult. Inferno has a habit of
making his presence... felt. :)


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A dark shadow in a dark world |___/
Message no. 11
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:31:26 +0000
On 6 Dec 96 at 22:22, Samuel Fortiner wrote:
[snip]
> As for Dashira, he's a magician who hasn't been trained, etc. The only
> reason he "knows" he's magically active is because the corp his family is
> part of classified him as one. He's got power, but doesn't know crap on
> how to use it. Yes, he can do a couple little magic things, but nothing
> big at all. Call him a stage magician skill wise. He can get beat up,
> thrashed, smashed around, make him lose an eye or something and he'll get
> it replaced with cyber. He's gotta stay down for about 3 weeks so . . .
> while I'm home for Christmas break. Questions, etc, mail me.
What's about the HEIMDAL boys? Can't they do a thing? A "meeting by chance"
while hitting bugs? Or, more likely, BEING hit by bugs?

Sascha
Message no. 12
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:08:15 -0800
I need Marathon to post a message about searching Dashira's last know
location and not finding him. Instead, all he'll find is his ex-room.
Which is fairly clean. Then we can get on with this.


Sam/Dashira
Message no. 13
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 01:29:54 +0000
|What's about the HEIMDAL boys? Can't they do a thing? A "meeting by chance"
|while hitting bugs? Or, more likely, BEING hit by bugs?

It's an idea...
It might take the rest of us too long to get there....
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|Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
|Principal subjects in:- | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
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Message no. 14
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:43:38 -0500
At 07:31 PM 12/7/96 +0000, Sascha Pabst wrote:

>What's about the HEIMDAL boys? Can't they do a thing? A "meeting by chance"
>while hitting bugs? Or, more likely, BEING hit by bugs?
>
That's a good idea, Sascha... Is Olaf around??

Steve
Message no. 15
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 02:45:57 +0000
|
|At 07:31 PM 12/7/96 +0000, Sascha Pabst wrote:
|
|>What's about the HEIMDAL boys? Can't they do a thing? A "meeting by chance"
|>while hitting bugs? Or, more likely, BEING hit by bugs?
|>
|That's a good idea, Sascha... Is Olaf around??

I've decided it's time Running Horse made an appearance (see the shadowtk
posts) and have made him the babysitter for the time being (unless there are
any objections....)

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|Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
|Principal subjects in:- | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
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Message no. 16
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 20:40:09 -0800
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Spike wrote:

>
> I've decided it's time Running Horse made an appearance (see the shadowtk
> posts) and have made him the babysitter for the time being (unless there are
> any objections....)

Sounds good.

Sam/Dashira
Message no. 17
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@****.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Dashira
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:06:48 -0800
Can the person running Running Horse get ahold of me? We need to hash out
a few details on Dashira's education. Thanks

Sam/Dashira
Message no. 18
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:30:34 +0000
|
|Can the person running Running Horse get ahold of me? We need to hash out
|a few details on Dashira's education. Thanks

It's Inferno you have to worry about....

<Big Evil Grin>
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Message no. 19
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:37:42 -0800
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Spike wrote:
> It's Inferno you have to worry about....
>
> <Big Evil Grin>

Ahh, but first, we must see if Dashira survived his training under Running
Horse with less than 3 broken ribs and a minor concussion. Excuse my
spelling. :)

Sam/Dashira
Message no. 20
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Dashira
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:40:21 +0000
|
|On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Spike wrote:
|> It's Inferno you have to worry about....
|>
|> <Big Evil Grin>
|
|Ahh, but first, we must see if Dashira survived his training under Running
|Horse with less than 3 broken ribs and a minor concussion. Excuse my
|spelling. :)

Nahhh, if you started to get out of hand, he was just ordered to tie you to
a chair and gag you.....
You might have been tied to the chair for a few days though before Inferno
came along.....
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|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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