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Message no. 1
From: Doug Lee <dlee@*******.COM>
Subject: New guy!
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:34:27 -0700
Hello

I've subscribed and have been "lurking" in PLOT-D and shadowTK
for a while now (haven't even created a charachter yet) and have dicided to
"test the waters". So here goes.

I was thinking of starting up a plot but with only myself as the "main"
charachters. I live in Calgary, Alberta which in SR is in
Alquinkian-Manitoo Council lands, and not far (if the map is correct
enough, about an hours drive) from the Athabaskan council lands and
Salish Shidhe. Not to mention the dragon Dunkelzhn living in Lake Louise.

I would like to ask some questions (and get input) first:

1) I gather shadowTK has been around for about 4 yrsand some plot devices
would become *real* boring. Is this true of the insect totems? Has it
been "flogged to death".

2) From my lurking here things seem to happen in Seattle most of the
time. Would people be receptive to a story happening in *my* neck of the
woods? Would there be any kind of limitations on what I could do
(understanding that the SR source books are *almost* law :>)?

3)I have more questions but I'll start with this for now.


Doug Lee
dlee@*******.com
Message no. 2
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:32:19 -0700
>1) I gather shadowTK has been around for about 4 yrsand some plot devices

2 years, and about 2-3 months. And I've been here for all of it :)

>would become *real* boring. Is this true of the insect totems? Has it
>been "flogged to death".

Try and hold off - there will be more insect info for plots once BUG CITY
comes out this next week. :)

>2) From my lurking here things seem to happen in Seattle most of the
>time. Would people be receptive to a story happening in *my* neck of the
>woods? Would there be any kind of limitations on what I could do
>(understanding that the SR source books are *almost* law :>)?

Canada - well, make it interesting - and people will get interested.

The Books - the books are a common basis - if you will be greatly contradicted,
don't bother with it. Otherwise - the books are a common law with lots of
leniency to new ideas if they are reasonable.

>3)I have more questions but I'll start with this for now.

Ok. And the best overall answer is to have for you to have fun while making
things fun for the other list members. Use both imagination and restraint when
making plotlines and ideas. Anyone can play a very powerful character, but it
is the characters who seem most alive that people like.

They also tend to like humor - like speaking Toasters who live to toast. :)


Nightfox
Message no. 3
From: MAGECK <JVXNSYA@*****.IUP.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:21:43 -0500
No not the toaster again. argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Run fer the hills
run away run away
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Message no. 4
From: Freddy Frypp <JAMES-CUENO@*********.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:47:54 CST
> No not the toaster again. argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Run fer the hills
> run away run away

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

In the kitchen, only it can hear you scream.
Message no. 5
From: Doug Lee <dlee@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 22:13:42 -0700
On Fri, 17 Feb 1995, MAGECK wrote:

> No not the toaster again. argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Run fer the hills
> run away run away

Toaster?

Doug Lee
dlee@*******.com
Message no. 6
From: THEY ONLY WIN IF WE LET THEM <MKNABUSCH@****.ALBION.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 04:12:06 -0500
Yes, the toaster (what did CRUSH ever do with the darn blasted
thing). Its best if not mentioned. The toaster is an AI that
wants to discus grain products and why your not eating enough
of them. (Ever read/watch Red Dwarf? Its Talky the Toaster...
ooooh >delete< I said its name...) If you mention its name
it usually haunts you for a while. It was great for gags...
but it hasn't been heard from in....oooooooh eight months at least.
For better or worse. *GRIN*

Harlequin
"No I DON'T WANT ANY TOAST!"
-Lister
Message no. 7
From: Hunter <hunter@******.STAT.COM>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 08:41:15 MST
You had to ask, didn't you, man?!! Now you've awakened the demons of
the past, man. Armageddon is coming! Armageddon is com-- SLAP!

Thanks. I needed that.

Hunter

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Message no. 8
From: Doctor Doom <jch8169@*******.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 18:05:20 -0600
> Yes, the toaster (what did CRUSH ever do with the darn blasted
> thing). Its best if not mentioned. The toaster is an AI that
> wants to discus grain products and why your not eating enough
> of them. (Ever read/watch Red Dwarf? Its ##### the Toaster...
> ooooh >delete< I said its name...) If you mention its name
> it usually haunts you for a while.

Herr Harlequin, for Naming the Name which must Not Be Named, I Name you
Guilty of Naming the Name which Must Not Be Named, and hence you must be
Maimed for Naming the UnNamable Name:

"Oh Lord, Name this, Thy carp, that with it Thou mayest Name and THWAP Thine
UnNamable enemies into tiny Nameless bits, in Thy Named Mercy. . . ."

Carpe Cyprinum!

TTTTTTTTTT HH HH WW WW AA PPPPPPP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW AAAA PP PP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP PP || ||
TT HHHHHHHH WW WW WW AA AA PPPPPPP || ||
TT HH HH WW WW WW AAAAAAAA PP || ||
TT HH HH WWWWWWWW AA AA PP
TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP .. ..

[ wet carp noise, so named ]

"And thy foe, being naughty and Nameless in My sight, shall snuff it."

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"...and so, the Universe is completely devoid of inhabitants, and any people
you happen to meet merely the products of a deranged imagination...MINE!"
Message no. 9
From: Doug Lee <dlee@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 23:03:26 -0700
On Sat, 18 Feb 1995, Doctor Doom wrote:

>
> Herr Harlequin, for Naming the Name which must Not Be Named, I Name you
> Guilty of Naming the Name which Must Not Be Named, and hence you must be
> Maimed for Naming the UnNamable Name:
>
> "Oh Lord, Name this, Thy carp, that with it Thou mayest Name and THWAP Thine
> UnNamable enemies into tiny Nameless bits, in Thy Named Mercy. . . ."
>
> Carpe Cyprinum!
>
> TTTTTTTTTT HH HH WW WW AA PPPPPPP || ||
> TT HH HH WW WW AAAA PP PP || ||
> TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP PP || ||
> TT HHHHHHHH WW WW WW AA AA PPPPPPP || ||
> TT HH HH WW WW WW AAAAAAAA PP || ||
> TT HH HH WWWWWWWW AA AA PP
> TT HH HH WW WW AA AA PP .. ..
>
> [ wet carp noise, so named ]
>
> "And thy foe, being naughty and Nameless in My sight, shall snuff it."

Umm...Right.

Doug Lee
dlee@*******.com
Message no. 10
From: Freddy Frypp <JAMES-CUENO@*********.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 17:21:33 CST
> "And thy foe, being naughty and Nameless in My sight, shall snuff it."


"Those who have heard the Name have seldom lived to tell the tale."

....

"We are the keepers of the Sacred Words: Ni, Ping, Waroom and
<insert cheesy organ chords> TOASTIE!"
Message no. 11
From: THEY ONLY WIN IF WE LET THEM <MKNABUSCH@****.ALBION.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 22:18:24 -0500
Thanks Herr Dr. Doom, I needed that, and it was
nice to see that you even edited the name out of
my post (when you quoted) so that it isn't reciprocal.

Harlequin
(who really wants to see a toaster again, even if briefly and for the yucks.)
Message no. 12
From: Hunter <hunter@******.STAT.COM>
Subject: Re: new guy!!
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 08:20:43 MST
Ffelann...

ROTFLMAO!!!

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Message no. 13
From: Bona na Croin <MHILLIARD@****.ALBION.EDU>
Subject: Re: new guy!!
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:25:15 -0500
Uh, what are "ROTFLMAO" and "FLAMEEL"???

Ffelann
Message no. 14
From: "Thomas W. Craig" <Craigtw1@***.COM>
Subject: Re: new guy!!
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 15:26:07 -0500
ROTFLMAO: Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off.
Flameel: I have no idea.
Tom
Message no. 15
From: MAGECK <JVXNSYA@*****.IUP.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 15:36:25 -0500
Carp wars carp wars
Aoga aoga.
Anbd i don't want any bread products.
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Message no. 16
From: MAGECK <JVXNSYA@*****.IUP.EDU>
Subject: Re: new guy!!
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 15:45:44 -0500
the ROTFLMAO stands for
Roll
On
The
Floor
Laughing
My
Ass
Off

The other one I have no idea what it is.
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Message no. 17
From: THEY ONLY WIN IF WE LET THEM <MKNABUSCH@****.ALBION.EDU>
Subject: Re: New guy!
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 17:52:43 -0500
Carp wars? Isn't that a Steve Jackson games product?
Not to be confused with Bread Product. And that which
shall not be named.

Harlequin

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