| From: | plotd@*********.com (Pete) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Ratspeak |
| Date: | Thu Jun 21 06:35:00 2001 |
To: "plotd" <plotd@*********.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:05 AM
Subject: Ratspeak
> Hi --
>
> I'm still working on a way to cover the huge gap of time between parts of
> the story.
Good luck on that Mike, I have absolutely no idea at all on anything to
suggest to help you as I have stories of my own with nearly a two year gap
in them... irritating but, well, my own fault I guess.
>(As well as sorting through the dramatic change in my life in
> the past couple of weeks.)
Nothing adverse I hope?
> apart from communication off-list that I have had with Paul, there
probably
> isn't enough on shadowtk to really make suggestions on how to go about it.
I wish I could help, but being stuck in an identical situation myself and
having no real idea how to play catch-up with any of it, I'm as much at a
loss as you appear to be. :)
> 1) This is indeed the Ratspeak and not an imposter.
Aww, and there I was prepping a character to start laying accusations. <g>
> never been my intention to use Ratspeak as a vehicle for a personal attack
> on an author. I respect the amount of time and effort people put into
their
> characters, and the fact that they want to share these characters with
> others.
Funny, out of all the characters that I've started arguments with that is
one thing I have never suspected you or ratspeak of. Now I wonder why that
would be?
> 4) Ratspeak's commenting on things is not a good indication on how other
> characters might react to things.
Hehe, standard fare for the forum methinks. Having said that though,
there's nought wrong with making assumptions from a character POV, for the
simple reason that sometimes innocent comments can lead on to further plot
expansion. Some people just can't help adding two and two and making seven.
> in the rodent's latest response. (It was the whole time thing, in case
you
> missed it.) The rodents comments are merely a decker's musings with way
too
> much free time on its "paws".
Must confess I whinced at that, the "time thing" came a little too close to
the mark to be honest.
> Pete, it is good to see you actively posting again.
Thanks Mike, it's nice to finally have the time to devote to this list. I
feel rather guilty over having abandoned it for so long.
> PS. I forgot to mention one other thing. Despite the list's tendencies
to
> have heroes on it,
I have been guilty of this once or twice but mostly I try to steer clear of
it.
>my assumption has always been that most shadowrunners
> don't give a damn about doing the right thing. That is a large part of
what
> I think makes the players' characters in the SR universe tend to stand out
> from the run of the mill shadowrunners. Therefore, it is my assumption
that
> most of the average readers of the node do not care about the larger
social
> issues that exist in the SR universe but rather, how can they continue to
> exist.
Agreed totally. This very much mirrors my view on the whole thing. Not of
course that I object to heroes though I can get a little antsy when they
save the world regularly - that's Bond's domain after all. :) I won't
publish my opinions of Shadowrunners and their philosophies here, I think
I've started quite enough rows over the years with my views of this section
of society. :)
Anyway, nice to see you posting too Mike. Hopefully a few more people will
come out of the woodwork and we can get some life back into this list again.
--
Pete
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