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From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Shadowland (was Re: [SR] "The Iron Lung" [How to Use])
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 20:09:05 -0700
---Andrew Payne III wrote:
>
> I feel that the chance of getting 3 armor peircing damage would keep
> me from using this card at all unless I the game depended on me
> getting some card out in play.

Actually, it's only 2 armor piercing damage which isn't enough to kill
most runners and the damage can be healed. Also, Macabre gets a bonus
of +1 to die rolls at the Iron Lung (great combo for getting cards in
your hand.)

> I do not have the card Shadowland but
> from what the spoiler says below.
> "Matrix. Hermit Deckers may visit this location. Roll D6 for each
> visiting Runner. On 4-6, place an Info token on the Runner. This
token
> may be used during a shadowrun when this Runner is present. To use
the
> Info token, roll D6; on 4+, the shadowrunning player may look at the
> next Challenge before choosing whether or not to continue the run."

That's exactly how the card reads.

> Form what the rules (page 54. last part under USE CARDS before PLAY
> SPECIAL CARDS) say and what this card says you could abuse this card
> by having your deckers visit 30 times and gain, lets say 15 info
> tokens to use each. This is the card I would ask the Netrep's view
on.
> Maybe the spoiler missed something that is on the card, can anyone
> verify for me that the above text is on the card?

That would take 30 legwork phases for a single decker, 15 for two
deckers, 10 for three deckers, and so on. During this time your
deckers have not been able to do anything else like recon.

Now, it also says "This token may be used during a shadowrun when this
Runner is present. " Which means the decker(s) must actually be with
your team on a Shadworun. Not a good way to keep those deckers alive
as they're now able to fall victim to Challenges and suffer damage.
They're not the heartiest lot of runners in your deck.

You're not limited to only deckers visiting Shadowland (it's jsut that
hermit deckers may also visit), but anyone visiting the location isn't
able to do anything else that turn.

So far, I haven't found the card to be a game breaker.

-== Loki ==-
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