From: | "Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM> |
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Subject: | 2XS/Dirk Montgomery ['Vulnerability' of characters] |
Date: | Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:15:24 -0400 |
> Dirk is definately amusing. At least when he get's hit with a dumpster
>his reply is to fall to the ground and say Duh! That kind of vulneralility
>impresses me unlike characters like Striper or the group from Black Madonna,
>Geriant and his buddies.
>
>To which Victor sternly replys:
>
> DON'T EVEN GO THERE, Nightlife. Just because Geraint and his friends had
>more money than you're comfortable with, didn't make them any less
>'vulnerable'. When they got shot or beaten, they hurt just like many other
>characters. And, unlike many 'hardcore' Shadowrunners, they still had
>conscience enough to be horrified by certain 'circumstances' they
>encountered, as opposed to the 'average' well, it IS the cynical, 6th World,
>and I don't give a DAMN about anyone but myself', mentality.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>'Do not succumb to the way of thinking that has trapped so many in this time.
>Heroism has not vanished from the universe. It is hidden, certainly, more raw
>in form and subtler in manifestation. But heroes do walk the cynical streets
>of the Sixth World.'
> --A certain dragon...[Thanks, Jak]